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From David Hackett Fisher's book, Albion's Seed the writer describes the populating of the eastern part of our country by four substantially different cultural groups from England: the Puritans in New England, the Anglicans in Virginia; the, Midland Quakers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, and the Borderers in the Back Country. She then describes the differences in attitudes toward education in the four groups.

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Fiction: Tells the life of a young girl living in Cairo whose mother is an English born Christian Protestant and whose father is an Egyptian born Sunni Muslim. From the beginning, the story moves on into the 21st century describing the world of Islam, its history, its religion, the Mullahs, Madrassas, Muessins, Minarets, Mecca, and Medina; and most importantly, trying to understand the direction of future Muslim interaction with the West.

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Science and religion were originally partners until the Enlightenment. In recent years heated confrontations between proponents of Intelligent Design Theory and evolutionary science divide people in the U.S.

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Starting with the Everleigh sisters and ending with the Mitfords, the writer, one of the "weird sisters", writes a beguiling account of sisters through the ages.

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Paper description Novels of the first half of the 20th century reflected the scientific determinism that dominated American thinking in the late 19th century. Steven Crane, Frank Norris, Edith Warton, and Sinclair Lewis were authors who expressed the view that man is a victim who cannot control life/circumstances. By mid-century the influence of Freud and Jung, Einstein, and chaos theory challenged ideas about what was real. Authors like William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, John Hawkes, Flannery...

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The author's well researched introduction to the life, family, and work of Winnetka artist, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, an example of the lively intellectual life of mid 20th century Winnetka. Examples of artwork included.