Biography

The story behind the landmark 1948 Supreme Court decision, Shelley v. Kraemer, which struck down racially-based housing restrictions and opened the door to fair housing regulations in the United States, told through the voice of an African-American teacher, one of the participants.

Many battles have been fought through the years to gain dignity, justice and equality for all in America. Few of those battles have had the lasting significance and impact of the one described in the telling of Olivia’s Story. Olivia Merriweather Perkins joined a brave group of people in St. Louis, Missouri who came together, without regard to their personal safety and well-being, to fight for rights that had been denied to people of color, the right to property. Their sacrifices eventually led to "Shelley vs Kraemer," one of the most important legal battles of modern times, the impact of which was felt in every corner of America. This legal case changed the face of a nation, not only in housing but also in other area taken for granted today. The story behind the case shows the power of dreams and how these dreams can come true if people are willing to fight for them.

Finalist in the Jewish Book Council 2002-2003 National Jewish Book Awards!
Winner of the Mark Twain Award from the Connecticut Press Club for 2003!

“...Doña Gracia’s character leaps out of the archival material–she is headstrong and intelligent, as charismatic as any fictional protagonist.

"The underlying theme of this book is The War, and this is a marvelous look at one small, vital facet of it all. For all school and public libraries."
--KLIATT, Raymond Puffer, Ph.D., Historian, Edwards AFB, Lancaster, CA

"Inman's War offers an intensely personal look at individual valor and suffering, and allows lay readers and historians alike to appreciate the contribution of 'colored battalions" not only to the war effort, but to the improved egalitarianism of American culture.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an artist of extraordinary literary talent who tried to synthesize the ideas and events around him and give them personal expression. And, he was more than that. He and Zelda were personal participants who defined and helped to shape much of what is American.

"The definitive biography"--Mary
Deeley, Booklist

"It's a book that provides not only a superb
introduction to Buber's life and work but almost a short course of instruction
in the practice of 'I and Thou' as a philosophical method.

A vast compendium of knowledge about existence
“A vast compendium of knowledge about existence, each chapter by itself a justification for appreciating the unity and comprehensiveness of Martinus' messages.

Comprehensive, Balanced
"... the most comprehensive study of the Pollard case to date. …a considered and balanced account that doesn't pull any punches.

“Beyond the Human Species contains many pages that send one’s heart soaring with inspiration. It provided me with one of the richest reading experiences I have ever had on divine transformation of the species in general, and the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in particular.

“An absorbing and illuminating read for persons with a philosophical
and literary turn of mind.”–Small Press Book Review
“One of the most original and unsettling of those thinkers who,
in the wake of Sade and Nietzsche, have confronted the possibility
of thought in a world that has lost its myth of transcendence.

"One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s genocidal attempt to destroy the Jewish people. Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated is the result of a one-of-a-kind interaction between Agi Rubin, an eloquent survivor of that catastrophe, and Henry Greenspan, a Holocaust scholar whose in-depth probing of survivor testimony has been pioneering and penetrating in ways that are unsurpassed.

Finally in paperback, in this major and comprehensive work, hailed by Le Monde as a "monumental study," Hermann Langbein shatters the myth that all prisoners of concentration camps, during World War II, passively let themselves be slaughtered.

Intelligent and forceful!
“Written by a prison inmate, this collection of short essays on prisons and the larger society argues that the soaring rates of crime and incarceration have less to do with individual choice than with an American culture that in fact exerts great pressure to create crime–and the resulting punishment.