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When Preston Downs, Jr., alias Prez, slides down the emergency
chute onto the frozen tarmac at the Montreal airport, little does
he know that returning home to Washington D.C. or to his adopted
city, Chicago, would now be impossible. Events had sped by after a
dust-up with the Chicago police. With a new name and papers, he
finds himself in a foreign city where people speak French and life
is douce compared to the one he fled.Son of a World War II vet,
Prez grows up in the 50s in D.C., a segregated Southern city, and
learns early that black lives don't much matter. As a leader in the
streets, his journey from boyhood to manhood means acquiring
fighting skills to lead and unify long before losing his virginity.
Smart and skeptical, but with a code of ethics, he, like every
black kid, wants to be Malcolm, Martin or at least a "soul
brother," which inspires fear among the powers that be.Spotted
while an A student at Howard University in 1964, Prez is invited to
do an interdisciplinary course with field work on Civil Rights in
Chicago, a city as divided as Gettysburg was a hundred years
earlier. Faced with police-state conditions, dubious armed gangs,
spies and provocateurs, Prez and the young women and men he works
with are propelled into a head-on fight with police. James Baldwin
wrote that the blues began "on the auction block," others say it
started with their kidnapping from Africa. Prez was born in exile,
with the blues. Only someone who has lived through that period can
write an enthralling and passionate story like Exile Blues. Gary
Freeman has done so with insight and sensitivity.
Repair and regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues is generating
substantial interest within the biomedical community. Consequently,
these are the most researched tissues from the regeneration point
of view. Regenerative Engineering of Musculoskeletal Tissues and
Interfaces presents information on the fundamentals, progress and
recent developments related to the repair and regeneration of
musculoskeletal tissues and interfaces. This comprehensive review
looks at individual tissues as well as tissue interfaces. Early
chapters cover various fundamentals of biomaterials and scaffolds,
types of cells, growth factors, and mechanical forces, moving on to
discuss tissue-engineering strategies for bone, tendon, ligament,
cartilage, meniscus, and muscle, as well as progress and advances
in tissue vascularization and nerve innervation of the individual
tissues. Final chapters present information on musculoskeletal
tissue interfaces.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
An examination of socialism in the USA, originally published in the
1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back
to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork. Contents Include - A Vanished Village - The Golden
Realm - Guides for the Perplexed - Apocalypse - Saviours in Cap and
Gown - The Triumph of Life - Time and Eternity - Dialogues Across
the Sea - Against the Stream - The Happy Island - The Party -
Idealists - The Strange Twenties - The New Masses - Greta -
Expedition - New Found Land - Hedda - Eisenstein's Holy Grail -
Turning Points
In each of the chapters of this book Freeman carefully opens up the
text with an introductory statement. He then shares the historical
background and the theological theme of the text and continues with
commentary that amplifies and illustrates the passage for
contemporary preaching. Chapters include: The Marvelous Style Of
Jesus: Truth And Love -- Matthew 22:1-14 Spiritual Armchairs vs.
Mature Discipleship -- Matthew 22:34-36 Authenticity vs.
Showmanship -- Matthew 23:1-12 Terminally Distracted Or Decisively
Prepared? -- Matthew 25:1-13 Commitment One Way Or The Other --
John 8:31-36 Joseph M. Freeman graduated from Wittenberg
University, Springfield, Ohio, with a B.A. degree. He earned his
M.Div. degree from Yale Divinity School and spent two and half
years in a Clinical Pastoral Education program at St. Elizabeth's
Hospital in Washington, D.C. After serving as assistant and
associate pastor for churches in Ohio and Colorado, he established
Christ The Savior Lutheran Church in Fishers, Indiana. Under his
energetic leadership the church has grown to 1,600 baptized
members. CSS Publishing Company
We like to think that government is there when we want it. Voters -
if they vote - have the power. Elected officials, especially in
local government, are there to carry out the details and to take
care of the humdrum ""nuts-and-bolts"" running of things. Having
been a council member and mayor for a small Southern manufacturing
town ""Hill City"", the author of this book has experienced what it
is like to try and make local government work. This book takes
readers inside the system to show the politics as its most human
level by challenging the presumption of many political scientists
that an understanding of governments is necessarily technical,
addressing such abstractions as memory, symbol, context and power
as they work in the practice of governing. r
Through his writing and his appearances nationwide, Joseph Freeman
has shared his story of survival during the Holocaust. Here in
Kingdom of Night, Joseph Freeman tells the story of his wife
Helen's survival in labor and concentration camps in Nazi-occupied
Poland during WWII. As Michael Berenbaum writes in the book's
Foreword, "Surely we who read her story must be grateful for all
that she shared and grateful again to her husband Joseph...who
brings Chaiale's [Helen's] story to the printed page where it will
long endure. By telling the "before" and "during," she has enriched
the "after" and deepened the meaning of survival." Kingdom of Night
is a touching memoir of innocence lost, the enduring power of
faith, and a call to a new generation to bear witness to the
atrocities of the past so that they may be empowered to respond to
injustice.
With spare prose and in stark images, Joseph Freeman recounts
his suffering during the Holocaust from the German invasion of
Poland to the liberation of Europe by the Allies. Freeman's
narrative includes sober accounts of Nazi atrocities, aching
portraits of the noble spirits and unsung heroes who were counted
among the walking dead of the concentration camps, and the
profoundly moving story of the unexpected reunion of Freeman and
the American G.I. who had lifted Freeman's dying body from the mire
of a battlefield 40 years earlier.
Both poignant and exquisite in its simplicity, Joseph Freeman's
autobiography is at once a shibboleth for those who also endured
the unspeakable and a haunting warning for those of us living in
these latter days, when the voices of deniers and revisionists of
the Holocaust wait to take the place of the aging witnesses who
grow weary of their vigil.
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