587pp.
Augustus M. Kelley, 1970, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Good. Facsimile Reprint. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0678077630

Inventory #19110

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

This superb collection chronicles the most important Supreme Court cases on church-state relations over the past three decades. It includes extensive coverage of the Court's major decisions concerning prayer in state legislatures, the pledge of allegiance, display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, religious displays on public property, school prayer, vouchers for religious schools, religion in science class, and much more. Beginning with a carefully prepared historical overview, which places the first amendment in the context of 18th-century debates over religious freedom, Robert Alley offers a fresh analysis of the amendment's origins. He then presents fifty recent and historical cases without editorial comment, permitting readers to arrive at their own individual interpretations. In addition to the text of the majority decision, each case is followed by the vote of the justices as well as selected dissenting opinions. Unlike news accounts and other texts, this unique volume is the only objective presentation of the justices' decisions, in the Court's own words, and it includes the entire canon of subjects that bear the label "church and state". This clearly written, accessible book will be valuable for classroom use, as a library resource, and as an excellent introductory reader for anyone interested in what the Supreme Court has decided on religion in public places and schools. 545pp.
Prometheus Books, 1999, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 157392704x

Inventory #17107

Price: £ 30.00 GBP ($ 47.40 approx. - € 36.24 approx.)

The challenge of this book has been to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the rabbinic period in Israel. New insights were made possible by using anthropological theories and tools. The book explores the rich and complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. It demonstrates that this struggle was not a simple case of displacement of the priestly elite by a new scholarly elite.In the process of constituting a counter-hegemony of the sages, there was a complex push-pull process: attraction-rejection, imitation-denial, and co-operation-confrontation. They undermined the old order by using the old hegemonic priestly discourse. Whereas the sages proposed a new order based on intellectual achievement, they nevertheless created on top of the earlier hegemonic order a new order of group nepotism, endogamy, ritual purity, and secret knowledge and education provided only to the proper social classes. Ben-Zion concludes that even in the process of resistance and disengagement from the priestly hegemony, the sages could not free themselves from the bondage of the priestly discourse and praxis. 349pp.
Academic Studies Press, 2009, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9781934843147

Inventory #21484

Price: £ 35.00 GBP ($ 55.30 approx. - € 42.28 approx.)

Edges and corners slightly creased. Covers and spine slightly faded and rubbed. Reading crease to the spine. Content Very Good. 140pp.
HMSO, 1974, Paperback, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0112901743

Inventory #22843

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

High on Garth Fells in the county of Lancashire, life was ruled by the bitter cold winds in the winter of 1760. By candlenight, Ned Howarth of Kit's Hill farm pens a humble proposal of marriage to Miss Dorcas Wilde. Dorcas is hesitant, should she marry him or remain single? N.B. Inscribed by author on title page. Foxing to foredge of pages. Covers slightly faded. 286pp.
Pan Books, 1980, Paperback, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Signed Copy. . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

ISBN: 0330259555

Inventory #23145

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)