Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines hars...

The book is a dedicated to those whose death lifted my consciousness, especially Fred Hampton and Nana Aba, my beloved grandmother Maude Best de Copeland, my mother; Joyce Beverly Best-Copeland, my...

　　New York Times best-selling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits - breaking, making, understanding, and sticking with them like you've never stuck before. 　　Badass Habit...

If your plans to quit smoking haven't been working, try this proven seven-step plan. You can really quit smoking and be free This seven-step manual costs less than most cigarette packs. Even if yo...

"Open the pages and take part in a special journey based on a true story, recounting one man's experience during the last year of his life while battling acute myelogenous leukemia. In doing so, yo...

One of the greatest frustrations of the Christian life is having to wait for God to act. We wait, sometimes for years, for our prayers to be answered, for our deepest longings to be fulfilled.Some ...

Our world yearns for how-to guides and the secret to a fulfilled life. However, no truth is man-made. The wisdom that God granted to King Solomon is the same wisdom that would benefit us today--if ...

Parameterized complexity is currently a thriving field in complexity theory and algorithm design. A significant part of the success of the field can be attributed to Michael R. Fellows. This Festsc...

It can seem as though today's culture encourages weakness, not strength. And this attitude has crept into the church: Don't take a strong position of faith. Don't take a strong view of evangelism. ...

Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Midd...

This Festschrift celebrates the 70th birthday of Arto Kustaa Salomaa (born in Turku, Finland on June 6, 1934), one of the most in?uential researchers in theoretical computer science. Most ofhis res...

Inequalities arise as an essential component in various mathematical areas. Besides forming a highly important collection of tools, e.g. for proving analytic or stochastic theorems or for deriving ...

This reader is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Frederic McClintock who was to be a co-editor. Dr. McClintock passed away in May 1994. In part one of this book, acknowledged experts from Finland, H...

Why would Santa Claus dedicate his life to serving children all over the world? The Toymaker's new Job is a children's story that tells of how meeting the baby Jesus inspires a humble toy maker to ...

Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. The sixtieth birthday (on December 14, 1996) of C.T.C. Wall, a leading member of the subject's fo...