First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ruth Westheimer, known to millions as Dr. Ruth, has been counselling Americans on how to foster and maintain their most intimate relationships for years. Now she turns her attention to the role of the grandparent in this guide that aims to help men and women of all ages and backgrounds develop a more rewarding bond with their children's children. In this age of non-traditional families, day-care challenges and decreasing sexual stereotypes, the role of the grandparent has never been more critical. Dr. Westheimer shows grandparents how to take advantage of their unique position to help enrich...

...balanced and well informed...a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha.
-Foreign Affairs

Kaplan's definitive treatment will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish history, African history, and comparative religion, as well as anyone interested in Jewish affairs and the modern Middle East.

The Midwest Book Review

Kaplan's conceptualizations are judicious and clearly expressed...incisive and well documented... and provides essential background for the process of assimilation now taking lace in Israel.
-The...

In this unique volume, James Hackney invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today. True to the title of the book, Hackney spent hours in conversation with legal intellectuals, interviewing them about their early lives as thinkers and scholars, their contributions to American legal theory, and their thoughts regarding some fundamental theoretical questions in legal academe, particularly the law/politics debate. Legal Intellectuals in Conversation is a veritable -Who's Who- of legal...