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Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City
	Haslip-Viera, Gabriel, Angelo Falcón and Félix V. Matos-Rodríguez, editors Subject: Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. History	This new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York’s Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings of the great migration in the 1940s to the present time. The collection also honors … More Information

The Bork Hearings: Highlights From the Most Controversial Judicial Confirmation Battle in U.S. History
	Shaffer, Ralph E., editor Subject: U.S. History	The Bork hearings marked the beginning of a trend toward ideological evaluation of Supreme Court judicial nominees. These were the first and last hearings to feature such extensive discussion of legal and constitutional issues, as presidents quickly discovered that a … More Information

Born at the Battlefield of Gettysburg: An African-American Family Saga
	Rinaldi, Harriette C. Subject: African American History, Women's History, History of Slavery	“Tremendous! Part history, part detective story, and wholly good.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The lives of Victor Chambers—who was born on the battlefield at Gettysburg to a runaway slave and later became an artist in Providence—and … More Information

Brown v. Board of Education: A Documentary History
	Whitman, Mark Subject: U.S. History	Fiftieth Anniversary Edition This critical contribution marks the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. The book lets the reader come to grips with the fascinating record of a case in which facts have made a more thrilling … More Information

By the Waters of Manhattan
	Reznikoff, Charles (introduction by Milton Hindus) Subject: Europe, U.S. History, World Literature	This is the first novel of Charles Reznikoff, one of the outstanding American poets of this century. It tells the story of a courageous woman in Russia who immigrates to America and starts a family and business in New York’s … More Information

CAPEX: A Knowledge-Based Expert System for Substantive Audit Planning
	Boritz, J. Efrim and Anthony K. P. Wensley Subject: Accounting and Artificial Intelligence	CAPEX (Canadian Audit Planning Expert System) is a knowledge-based system designed to generate substantive audit program plans using an assertion-based risk-oriented approach to structuring audit objectives and the assessment of audit evidence. This type of approach is advocated by major … More Information

Capoeira & Candomblé: Conformity and Resistance Through Afro-Brazilian Experience
	Merrell, Floyd Subject: Africa, South America, Religion	Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candomblé is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and African beliefs and practices. The two are closely interconnected. Capoeira and Candomblé have for centuries made up a coherent … More Information

Caribbean: Sea of the New World
	Arciniegas, Germán Subject: Caribbean	This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Commonweal wrote of the 1946 edition, “Arciniegas has written a most informative and entertaining book…the student of … More Information

The Challenges of Public Higher Education in the Hispanic Caribbean
	Canino, Maria J. and Silvio Torres-Saillant, editors Subject: Caribbean	This book examines state policy and higher educational reform in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The dearth of attention to the postsecondary experience of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean makes this a very special contribution to the literature in the … More Information

Challenges to Democracy in the Middle East
	Arat, Yesim et al. Subject: Middle East	This book provides in five essays background information of some of the most current problems affecting the modern Middle East. Ahmad Ashraf analyzes the appeal of modern conspiracy theories to Iranians, including the social, cultural, political and psychological factors contributing … More Information