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Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past
Susan Jacoby

Scribner, 2000

An uniquely impressive, engaging, poignant biography.
Half-Jew is Susan Jacoby's impressive, highly recommended family history in which she shares a meticulous historical research into the suppressed Judaic roots of her personal genealogy. In these pages, Susan writes with compassion, emotional insight, and candor ...
  
  











  



  
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Susan Jacoby

Holt Paperbacks, 2005

The history of America is the history of American secularism.
In FREETHINKERS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SECULARISM, author Susan Jacoby traces the origins and development of freethought in America - and demonstrates how the history of America is intimately intertwined with the history of American secularism. Starting with the ...
  
  











  



  
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992
Yelena Khanga, Susan Jacoby

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994

Great multi-racial family history
I read this book as a book club selection a few years ago. I had doubts about it -- but after I read it--I loved it. Ms. Yelena Khanga is a Black Russian women who discovers her heritage and her love of jounalism. Khanga has such a rich family history, American (Black ...
  
  











  



  
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots
Yelena Khanga, Susan Jacoby

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994

A story that would have much interest to anyone.
Really learned a lot about a subject that I knew nothing about. All history is family history. A fascinating story that puts you inside a Russia we never hear about.
  
  











  



  
Geotrivia World (Rand Mcnally for Kids)
Juliette Underwood

Rand McNally & Company, 1995
  
  











  



  
The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby

Pantheon, 2008

Food for thought, but not junk thought
It's not often that a book delivers more than expected, but that's what this book did for me. For a long time, I've shared the author's concerns about the struggle between intellectualism and anti-intellectualism in the U.S., and her recent article in the Washington ...
  
  











  



  
Antiquitatum Romanarum Quae Supersunt (Dionysii Halicarnasei)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus

B. G. Teubner Gmbh, 1997

Written primarily in Greek, 1885/1995 edition
  
  











  



  
Geotrivia Body (Geotrivia)
Juliette Underwood, Merrill Gillaspy

Rand McNally & Company, 1996

A Wonderful Learning Experience For Kids...
This book demonstrates a fresh new approach in learning! The illustrations by Susan Jacoby and the content written by Juliette Underwood and Merrill Gillaspy emphasis the subject matter in a fun-like receptive manner. The body trivia questions appear on the left side ...
  
  











  



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freethinkers


Some Reasons Why I Am a Freethinker
The God Delusion
Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes
Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of a Freethinker
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism



antiquitatum


Les antiquites bibliques (Sources chretiennes ; nos 229-230)
The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
Pseudo-Philo: Rewriting the Bible
Metaphor and Ideology: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and Literary ...



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