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A new interpretive biography of the life and work of Jane Addams explores the intellectual movements that influenced her career, her creation of Hull House as a cultural and intellectual center, and her cultural, social, and political impact on her era. 25,000 first printing.

"An unnamed man travels to Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, but finds himself increasingly unmoored from his life and identity. Caught in a jet-lag reality, he stumbles from adventure to adventure, allowing himself to be led not by sense or instinct but by the onrush of experience, until a call from home jars him back into his life, with all of its own confusions." "In Running Away, the Chaplinesque slapstick of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's acclaimed early works The Bathroom and Camera is replaced by an ever-unfolding fabric of coincidences and misapprehensions, both particularly modern and utterly real. The mature Toussaint shows himself to be no less ingenious an inventor of existential dilemmas, but with a new, surprising tenderness, and a deepened concern for the inexpressible immediacy and sensuality of human experience." --Book Jacket.

An evaluation of the work of contemporary French authors through the lens of the fuzzy set theory of mathematics.

This impressive genealogical work contains a remarkable amount of research, listing over 7000 individuals and 1700 surnames. Names are formatted in easy-to-read Outline Descendant Charts (fully indexed) with over 900 sources. Many biographies are included. S2246HB - $70.00

Toby wants to know how far it is to the end of the universe. His father likes astronomy and he is showing Toby and his friends the moon and the stars. When Toby finds out that there is only infinity, he wants to find the answer to the question that his parents cannot answer. And to do this he must get to infinity, by counting. But he needs help along the way -- his friends, his parents and his teachers. This new story about Toby shows how everyone in school and home has a different approach to questions that have no definite answer.