Tells the story of the hopes and struggles of one high school basketball team. This book offers a portrait of the players' hopes and aspirations and the difficulties they face in living in a poor and urban area - namely, the temptations of drugs and alcohol, violence in their communities, run-ins with the police, and unstable family lives.

There are over two million Shi'is, who differ from Sunni Muslims in their understandings of the early line of succession after Muhammad, in the United States. This title provides a general overview of the Shi'i community in America, tracing its history, its composition, and how Shi'a have negotiated their identity in the American context.

Includes The Mission of the Goose , Appayya's Self-Surrender , and Peace .

What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis arguably the brains behind US fascism was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? This book illuminates the fascinating life of this complex and enigmatic man.

Describes the events from the beginning of the fifth day till the end of the tenth of the great battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas.

A collection of fourteen stories that depict Buddha's quest for enlightenment in his former lives. It shows how Buddha suffers mutilations from the wicked and sacrifices himself for those he seeks to save.

Reveals the experiences of black sailors and their contribution to the struggle for labour and civil rights, the history of the Communist Party and its black members, and the significant dimensions of Jamaican labour and political radicalism.

Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, this book provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come.

Offers a comparative account of the organized violence in the Caucusus region, looking at four key areas: Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan. This book provides a brief history of the region, particularly the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting changes that took place in the wake of this toppling.

Reveals the personal experiences of those who adopted the Rastafari religion in the 1950s to 1970s. This title explores the identity development of the religion, demonstrating how shifts in the movement's identity have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and blackness as central to their concept of self.

Analyzes the figure of the babysitter in the popular imagination. This book shows that in addition to the obvious fears involved in leaving one's children in another's care, babysitters have often been targets for social, cultural, generational, and sexual anxieties, and thus present a fascinating mirror for American society.

From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn't called 'the city that never sleeps' for nothing. This book reveals several of the remaining hidden gems of Manhattan's nineteenth- and twentieth-century entertainment industry.

Examines how the LGBT movement's engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society. This book contains essays that highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community.

Presents a primer on the state of same-sex marriage debate. This book shows how allowing gay couples to marry does not destroy the institution of marriage and that many gay couples do benefit, in expected as well as surprising ways, from the legal, social, and political rights that the institution offers.

From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, this book offers a contemporary account of the lives of rural queer youth. It maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders.

A practical guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behaviour. It provides diagnostic categories and protocols for use with various types of adolescents, as well as guidance, tips and case studies.

Exposes the weaknesses in the system, examining how and why one of the world's richest and most advanced countries has allowed its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized by the very system designed to help them. This title includes statistics and life stories.

Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years, this title charts the history of Greece's religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present, post-independence Greece.

Traces the spread of American constitutionalism - from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean region, to Asia and Africa - beginning chronologically with the American Revolution and the fateful 'shot heard round the world' and ending with the conclusion of the Cold War in 1989.

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. This title contains Darwin's published books, featuring definitive texts recording original pagination with Darwin's indexes retained.