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Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v.          Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a        crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations        rather than lawsuits the hallmark of the civil rights movement. What role,...

Europeanism offers a major new examination of the political, economic, and social norms, and values associated with Europe and Europeans....

The authors present a theory of the role which subject-verb agreement and case morphology play in syntax, based mainly on a detailed comparison of the syntactic and inflectional properties of the Scandinavian languages....

Stephen Cohen's innovative approach to multinational corporations and foreign direct investment is to highlight the heterogeneity of, and examine with unprecedented thoroughness, these two functions. Until now, they have all too frequently been written off through overly simplified advocacy as either "e;good"e; or "e;bad."e; This...

This is the first full-length study of siblings in the Hebrew Bible, which develops some of its most memorable plots around sibling interaction. Greenspahn seeks an explanation for the Bible's preference for younger siblings, who tend to emerge triumphant in tales of sibling conflict. He concludes that ancient Israelite fathers were free to give...