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The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon Compiled by George Matsell, former Chief of Police of New York City |
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Here is a comprehensive dictionary of 19th century criminal slang. It was compiled in 1859 by the former Chief of Police of New York City and is the book to which novelists and historians turn to make the streets of 19th century America come alive. More than 2500 words and phrases are defined in its 204 pages. "The rogue fraternity," he says in his preface, "have a language peculiarly their own, which is understood and spoken by them no matter what their dialect, or the nation where they were reared . . . It is not, however, to policemen alone that this book will be of service, as these words and phrases are being interwoven with our language and many of them are becoming recognized Anglicisms. It is not unusual to see them in the messages of presidents and governors -- to hear them enunciated at the bar and from the pulpit, so that while they are in common use among the footpads that infest the land, the elite of Fifth Avenue pay homage to their worth by frequently using them . . . The vocabulary of the rogue is not of recent date. It is a language of great antiquity and may be dated back to the earliest days of the roving gipsy bands and adapted to the use of modern rogues in all parts of the world, a language in which the etymologist will find words drawn from every known language." ISBN 0-87243-228-9 204pages $12.95 |
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Meditations by Dorothy Day |
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These are among the earliest of Dorothy Day's reflections on her life as co-founder (with Peter Maurin) of The Catholic Worker, a newspaper and a settlement house which grew eventually into a world-wide -- well, disorganization. She could hardly have known that she was starting a movement which would result in revitalizing and re-energizing the social conscience of thousands of followers in a pioneering work of putting the Second Great Commandment into practice in city streets. Ken Woodward of Newsweek says that "she did for her era what St. Francis of Assisi did for his: recall a complacent Christianity to its radical roots." And Professor David O'Brien of Holy Cross College called her "the most significant, interesting and influential person in the history of American Catholicism." ISBN 0-87243-227-0 140 pages $9.95 |
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And He Taught Them With Pictures: The Parables In Practice Today by Josef Imbach |
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In this brilliant examination of forty of Jesus' parables Josef Imbach traces their origins to prototypes in early Jewish folklore. He also finds in a wide-ranging review of world literature similar themes in the work of Dostoievski, Kafka, Tolstoy, Alberto Moravia, Isaac Bashevis Singer and others. He relates these themes not only to the concerns of the earliest Christian communities but also to the modern crisis of belief and contemporary religious problems. As we have come to expect from the work of Josef Imbach, the message is luminously presented and previously obscure passages are brought vividly to life. Josef Imbach, a native of Switzerland, was born in 1945. He studied philosophy and theology in Rome and was later a member of the theological faculty in Lucerne. Since 1975 he has been professor of fundamental theology at St. Bonaventure Pontifical University in Rome. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Three Faces of Jesus: How Jews, Christians and Muslims See Him. ISBN 0-87243-226-2 256 pages $12.95 |
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