Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2 [Historic court memoirs] by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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XARES: Final Countdown (Alien Alliance) by Chris Turner (15 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Somebody shafted Regers. Nobody shafts Regers. Now he is on a mission to hunt down his crewmate... who abandoned him on an alien world during a mission collecting plant samples. A gritty walk through far future worlds... Contains badass aliens, badass humans, space battles, creepy creatures, coarse language and violence. Other books in the Alien Alliance series: FRONTIER THE DIM ZONE THE TIMELOST AUDRA Alien Alliance Box Set: innersky.ca/alliance

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Drum Taps in Dixie Memories of a Drummer Boy, 1861-1865 by Delavan S. Miller (4 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War (Central European Studies) by Mate Nikola Tokić (3 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted and successful assassinations, two guerilla incursions into socialist Yugoslavia, and two airplane hijackings during the height of the Cold War. In Australia alone, Croatian separatists carried out no less than sixty-five significant acts of violence in one ten-year period. Diaspora Croats developed one of the most far-reaching terrorist networks of the Cold War and, in total, committed on average one act of terror every five weeks worldwide between 1962 and 1980. Toki? focuses on the social and political factors that radicalized certain segments of the Croatian diaspora population during the ...

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Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical by Achilles Rose (61 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series by William Morison (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp by Katherine Stokes (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (11 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Mates at Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce (56 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Crimson (MASTER Book 1) by R. N. Jayne (3 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

The frenzy consumed him. By day, Japanese rock star Raiden is an adored idol; by night, a vicious vampire. While preparing for his band's summer tour in Detroit, Raiden stalks the streets for fresh blood -- and tries to obliterate haunting memories of his fiancée's murder. Meanwhile, famous TV actor Gabriel Colin is hatching an elaborate plot to recruit Raiden for the starring role in his first film. The two celebrities become fatally intertwined after an unforeseen encounter results in bloodshed, death, and rebirth. Crimson is the winner of Best eBook in the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival Awards. *** Genres: LGBTQ/Horror/Dark Fantasy/Urban Fantasy/Paranormal/Undead Warning: MASTER is intended for adults only. It contains graphic violence and gore, explicit sexual situations, including rape and sexual assault, psychological abuse, substance abuse, strong language, and other material readers may find objectionable. Reader discretion is advised. Editor: Donald Weise Cover artist: ...

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Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets (IMISCOE Research Series) by Elif Keskiner (Springer) Price verified 17 hours ago

This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and 'strong ties'. This open access book addresses key questions about the role of networks in migration contexts, particularly in relation to how migrants and their descendants, access the labour market and develop their employment trajectories over time. Rather than adopting a narrow essentializing ethnic lens, the research presented in this book explores intersectional identities of class, generation and gender. By focusing on the kinds of capital circulating between ties, including the dark side of social capital, the book offers insights into power dynamics and the potentially exclusionary dimension of networks. Taking a long term view, across generations, the ...

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Three Days In Undead Shoes: Book one of a slow burn zombie romance trilogy (The Pandora Strain: Zombie Road 1) by Dee J. Holmes (Bad Unicorn Press) (382 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

One woman One Great Dane And a zombie above the rest. Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. But when she and her beloved Great Dane, Schrodinger, emerge from a locked room they discover a city changed for the undead. Zombies are everywhere. Some are endlessly cycling through their last actions, others have turned feral -- and hungry. Jane and Schroddie's best chance for survival? Reaching her parents' bunker on the city's north shore. Not an easy commute on foot -- when surrounded by zombies. Dodging stray bullets and feral zombies is one thing. But soon Jane realizes one of the zombies is following her. Built like a tank, silent as the grave, his attention never waivers. Wherever she goes, he's there. If she hides, he finds her. There's no fighting him, no escape. He's not like the others -- and he might be Jane's only hope for survival.

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Early Britain-Roman Britain by Edward Conybeare (8 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Why we should read by S. P. B. Mais (3 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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To Your Dog and To My Dog by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Reichenbach’s Paradise: Constructing the Realm of Probabilstic Common “Causes” by Leszek Wronski (De Gruyter Open Poland) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea - known as the common cause principle - that any surprising correlation between any two factors that do not directly influence one another is due to some common cause. For example, falsity of the principle is frequently inferred from falsifiability of Bell's inequalities. The author demonstrates, however, that the situation is not so straightforward. There is more than one version of the principle formulated with the use of different variants of Reichenbach-inspired notions; their falsity still remains an open question. The book traces different formulations of the principle and provides proofs of a few pertinent theorems, settling the relevant questions in various probability spaces. In exploring mathematical and philosophical issues surrounding the principle, the book offers both philosophical insight and mathematical rigor.

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The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer by Isambard Brunel (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson (2 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

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Chasing Columbus to the Mother of All Worlds : A Standalone Bloodline Novel by Anthony Vincent Bruno (4 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Was Christopher Columbus a hero, or a nonchalant fantasist who inadvertently delivered genocide to the shores of a naïve continent? Genoese born Marcus Tychon Triarius regards the 'Boss' as a man of enormous vison and courage. The youngster stows away aboard the Pinta, fleeing a European blood feud, but the New World is not distant enough for the man who murdered Marcus' father and who now seeks to kill Marcus, stranded somewhere beneath the canopy of the unforgiving Hispaniola wilderness. Marcus survives attacks by a demon in many guises and eventually marries a beautiful new arrival from Spain, unaware that his wife was sent his way by his father's aging murderer. Marcus happens across a cave of unblemished gold deep in the jungle interior and is determined to put it to good use, but the Conquistadors have other ideas. Sickness forces the Triarius family across the sea to Mexico where the Mother of all Worlds lays waiting in Guadalupe. When tragedy strikes anew, a man comes forward ...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Digital Health Care in Taiwan: Innovations of National Health Insurance by Po-Chang Lee (Springer) Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to construct an information system that facilitates medical information exchange, collects data for planning and research, refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, launched in 1995, is a single-payer system funded primarily through payroll-based premiums. It covers all citizens and foreign residents with the same comprehensive benefits without the long waiting times seen in other single-payer systems. Though premium rate adjustment and various reforms were carried out in 2010, the NHI finds itself at a crossroads over its financial stability. With the advancement of technologies and an aging population, it faces ...

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The Cowboy Way by Tory Richards (15 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Arson, murder, an escaped convict intent on revenge, and a scorned ex-lover complicate the lives of a rancher's daughter, and the arrogant, sexy foreman who wants her for his own. Excerpt - "I can take care of myself." Lacey finally tugged away from him. "And you owe me for that bottle of perfume." So much for their truce. She turned abruptly to leave. "You little hellcat." His tone was low; the words ground out between his teeth. Chase's hand encircled her arm, and he jerked her back to him. "You almost blind me with that stuff, and now you expect me to replace it?" He pulled Lacey even closer, until her breasts were crushed against his unyielding, naked chest. His hands were like steel bands around the flesh of her upper arms. She caught her breath, her heart slamming in her chest. The heat from Chase's body seeped into hers, drawing an immediate response. Lacey felt her nipples harden and tingle with excitement. Something hot flowed through her aroused body, pooling between ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction

A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhäuser (Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies) by Leah Garrett (Purdue University Press) Price verified 8 hours ago

A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to attack anti-Semitism. In the original medieval myth, a Christian knight lives in sin with the seductive pagan goddess Venus in the Venusberg. He escapes her clutches and makes his way to Rome to seek absolution from the Pope. The Pope does not pardon Tannhäuser and he returns to the Venusberg. During the course of A Knight at the Opera, readers will see how Tannhäuser evolves from a medieval knight, to Heine's German scoundrel in early modern Europe, to Wagner's idealized German male, and finally to Peretz's pious Jewish scholar in the Land of Israel. Venus herself also undergoes major changes from ...

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Bamboo Tales by Ira L. (Ira Louis) Reeves (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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State of the Union Address by William Jefferson Clinton (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson (7 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals by Henny Kindermann (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane (11 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Biomineralization: From Molecular and Nano-structural Analyses to Environmental Science by Kazuyoshi Endo (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveiled details of the characteristics of the nano-structure of various biominerals; the formation mechanism of this nano-structure, including the initial stage of crystallization; and the function of organic matrices in biominerals, and this knowledge has been applied to dental, medical, pharmaceutical, materials, agricultural and environmental sciences and paleontology. As such, biomineralization is an important interdisciplinary research area, and further advances are expected in both fundamental and applied research.

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My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Jesus of Detroit by Maysam Yabandeh (10 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

In a modern world plagued by hatred and violence, Jesus, a compassionate Black man, rises to ignite peace and spread the healing power of forgiveness and compassion. His growing popularity pits him against established religious institutions that will stop at nothing short of crucifixion to silence him. As he grapples with defending the authenticity of his mission, complications from a haunting romance challenge his beliefs.

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Unfazed: A Cozy Fantasy Novel (Midlife Mage Book 1) by L.A. Boruff (269 Reviews)    Price verified 24 minutes ago

Teacher and hidden witch, Ceri, has already had a rough day when she's summoned to a party packed with psychic vampires. She was supposed to be on a boring date with safe and sturdy Nick, not dragging him along so the vampires could stare at him like... well, lunch. Oh, but it gets worse. She returns home to see her teenage son's girlfriend has been replaced by a fetch. Welcome to a day in the life of Ceri Gault, witch extraordinaire. After staying as far away as possible from the supernatural, Ceri finds herself unable to escape any longer when a death omen brings trouble to her door. Now, she and her children are exposed to magical beings who live disguised among humanity Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Except everyone else is going to burn. Ceri's just going to light the fire, sit back, and enjoy the show. A Paranormal Women's Fiction book for anyone who feels like age is just a number and midlife can be magic!

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The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy (3 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest by Hulbert Footner (13 Reviews)    Price verified 24 minutes ago

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Rosa's Quest The Way to the Beautiful Land by Anna Potter Wright (2 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Some Problems for Parents Concerning Punishment, Reasoning, Lies, Ideals and Ambitions, Fear, Work and Play, ... by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Margaret Vincent A Novel by Sophia Lucy Clifford (4 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs (2 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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The Smart Set Correspondence & Conversations by Clyde Fitch (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings (38 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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The Isles of Scilly Their Story their Folk & their Flowers by Jessie Mothersole (10 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

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Hot On His Trail (Sinclair Undercover Book 1) by Linda Winstead Jones (59 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Reporting on the guilty verdict of Nick Taggert's murder trial is Shea Sinclair's big break, she just knows it. Making a name for herself will save her from personal interest stories and reporting the weekend weather. Being kidnapped on camera as the convicted murderer makes his escape is going to make her more famous than she'd planned. Nick is desperate. He's innocent, but someone did a great job of setting him up for the murder of his neighbor. Wounded, panicked, seeing no other way out, he hits the road with a blasted reporter as his hostage. It's not long before he tries to let her go. She refuses to leave. In Nick, Shea sees injustice, as well as a really great story. No way is she walking away from either! All she has to do is prove his innocence and do her best not to fall in love...

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Mother West Wind's Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess (90 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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In Far Bolivia A Story of a Strange Wild Land by Gordon Stables (6 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

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Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox (2 Reviews)    Price verified 40 minutes ago

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The Song of the Blood-Red Flower by Johannes Linnankoski (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Madge Morton's Secret by Amy D. V. Chalmers (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 23) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified one hour ago

For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in-and thinking about-sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range of athletes covered is equally broad: from participants in Roman-style games to wrestlers, boxers, fencers, baseball players, and basketball stars. The authors of these essays, many of whom actively participate in athletics themselves, raise a number of intriguing questions, such as: What differing attitudes toward sports have Jews exhibited across periods and cultures? Is it possible to be a "good Jew" and a "great athlete"? In what sports have Jews excelled, and why? How have Jews overcome prejudices on the part of the general populace against a Jewish presence on the field or in the ...

Genre: Sports & Outdoors

Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 27) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the light of ancient literary traditions, archaeological discoveries, and rabbinic exegesis. Rabbinic literature also is filled with discussions about interactions, rancorous as well as amicable, between parents and among siblings. Sometimes harmony characterizes relations between the parent and the child; as often, alas, there is conflict. The rabbis, always aware of the realities of life, chide and advise as best they can. For the modern period, the changing ...

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Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (2 Reviews)    Price verified 40 minutes ago

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The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhar Hauptmann (2 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 28) by Leonard J. Greenspoon Price verified one hour ago

Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. Some authorities portrayed the afterlife as an endless round of feasting and drinking of chazerie that would put the fanciest Las Vegas buffets to shame. There were visionaries who mapped out otherworldly climes populated by monstrous creatures. Others, decidedly more staid, saw the world to come as a location where neither food nor wine would be consumed; instead, it would offer the opportunity to bring moral certitude to questionable practices that could not be eradicated in this world. More down to earth are comparisons between Rabbi Akiva and Socrates, and analyses of influential thinkers like Moses Mendelssohn and Emmanuel Levinas. And more practical are discussions of how concepts of the afterlife serve to ...

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Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in Jewish History (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 30) by Leonard J. Greenspoon Price verified 17 hours ago

Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE), and the years after the Crusaders (tenth century CE). Events of return include the aftermath of the Babylonian Exile (fifth century BCE), the centuries after the Temple's destruction (first and second CE), and the years of the establishment of the modern State of Israel (1948 CE). In each instance authors pay close attention to the historical settings, the literature created by Jews and others, and the theological explanations offered (typically, this was seen as divine punishment or reward for Israel's behavior). The entire volume is written ...

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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 26) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 3 minutes ago

Economic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, it is not surprising that Judaism has developed many perspectives, theoretical and practical, to explain and ameliorate the circumstances that produce serious economic disparity. This volume offers an accessible collection of articles that deal comprehensively with this phenomenon from a variety of approaches and perspectives. Within this framework, the fourteen authors who contributed to Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition bring a formidable array of experience and insight to uncover interconnected threads of conversation and activities that characterize Jewish thought and action. Among the questions raised, for which there are frequently multiple responses: Is the giving of tzedakah (generally, although imprecisely, translated as charity) a command or an impulse? Does the Jewish tradition give ...

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Is Judaism Democratic?: Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 29) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 18 minutes ago

As government by the people, democracy has always had its proponents as well as opponents. What forms of government have Jewish leaders, both with and without actual political power, favored? Not surprisingly, many options have been offered theoretically and in practice. Perhaps more surprisingly, democracy has been at the heart of most systems of governance. Biblical Israel was largely a monarchy, but many writers of the Bible were critical of the excesses that almost always arise when human kings take charge: the general populace loses its freedom. In rabbinic Judaism, the majority ruled, and many principles that support modern democratic institutions have their basis in interpretations offered by the classical rabbis. This is true even though rabbinic Jews did not govern democratically. When Jews did have some degree of self-governance, democratic principles and institutions were often upheld. At the same time, so most communal leaders insisted, God-the ultimate judge-ultimately ...

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Who Is A Jew?: Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 25) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?" This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide range of academic and theological disciplines. Some of the authors directly address the issue of Jewish identity as it is being played out today in Israel and Diaspora communities. Others look to earlier time periods or societies as invaluable resources for enhanced and deepened analysis of contemporary matters. All authors in this collection make a concerted effort to present their evidence and their conclusions in a way that is accessible to the general ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. Fullerton (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Time After Time: A young adult 1980s time travel novel by Sara Crawford Price verified one hour ago

Megan Gallagher has only ever seen her mother as neurotic and overworked. When a Whitney Houston song at the 80s dance sends Megan back to 1987, she discovers her teenage mom dressed in all black and sneaking liquor in the bathroom. After preventing her mom's drunk car accident, Megan realizes she has one month to get her teenage parents to stop partying and learn enough about her family's secret to get back home. Too bad the much cuter teenage version of her history teacher is such a distraction. With time running out and her future at stake, Megan must learn that, when it comes to family, you can't always get what you want but you might just get what you need. "A fast-paced novel about love and family and the 1980s that manages to be both totally tubular and amazingly poignant. Crawford is one to watch." - Carrie Jones, NYT Bestselling Author of Need

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (Central European Studies) by Scott O. Moore (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Teaching the Empireexplores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic level, this civic education taught children about their state while also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. There has been an assumption that the multinational Habsburg Monarchy did not, or could not, use their public schools for this purpose. Teaching the Empire proves this was not the case. Through a robust examination of the civic education curriculum used in the schools of Habsburg from 1867-1914, Moore demonstrates that Austrian authorities attempted to forge a layered identity rooted in loyalties to an individual's home province, ...

Genre: History

Jews and Humor (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 22) by Leonard J. Greenspoon Price verified 6 hours ago

Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this volume. And, thankfully, their observations, always apt and often witty, are expressed with a lightness of style and a depth of analysis that are appropriate to the many topics they cover. The scholars who contributed to this collection allow readers both to discern the common features that make up "Jewish humor" and to delight in the individualism and eccentricities of the many figures whose lives and accomplishments are narrated here. Because these essays are written in a clear, jargon-free style, they will appeal to everyone -- even those who don't usually crack a smile!

Genre: Literature & Fiction

President Trump’s First Term: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 5 by Robert X. Browning (Purdue University Press) Price verified 8 minutes ago

C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided--without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view. The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library. The Archives has recorded all of C-SPAN's television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and other enhanced online features provide researchers, policy analysts, students, teachers, and public officials with an unparalleled chronological and internally cross-referenced record for deeper study. Books in this series present the finest interdisciplinary research utilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Each volume highlights recent scholarship and comprises leading experts and emerging voices in political science, journalism, psychology, ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler by Tom Pfister (Purdue University Press) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans -- Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic -- who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as ...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences) by Suzanne M. Ward (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 22 minutes ago

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use ...

Letters of George Ade (The Founders Series) by Terence Tobin (Purdue University Press) Price verified 16 hours ago

George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. Ade's keen observation, compact and straightforward style, and understated humor mark his correspondence, as well as his immensely popular newspaper columns, books, and plays. His friendships were so diversified that his letters forms a patchwork of popular history, literature, politics, and entertainment. Ade's interchange of ideas about people and events shaping the twentieth century as well as his own life will provide insights for students of varied aspects of American culture. This volume presents 182 of the most interesting and informative letters from the thousands of extant pieces of his correspondence in scores of collections scattered throughout the ...

Genre: History

The String Bean And The Firefly (The Year Of The Firefly Book 1) by GeAnn Powers (2 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

Ariel is a fairy princess from a colony of scavengers. Her life has been one of hunger, emptiness, and fear. In a year's time, she will have to choose one of her ruthless barbarian kin to marry, and be condemned to a life of servitude and hopelessness. Basil is a well-educated young elf, used to a life of books, warmth and friendship. With his pack full of vials and potions, he was just wanting to get home. But after one chance encounter in a spider's web, their lives entangle, and their worlds will never be the same again.

Genre: Literature & Fiction

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda (The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research) by Robert X. Browning Price verified 5 hours ago

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation of the first ladies, stem research, and innovative ways to analyze video. The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 consists of an overview of and common scholarship using the C-SPAN Archives and how this research advances the conversation after previously published studies. Featured are the ways in which the collection is indexed and tips on how individuals can find particular materials. This section is essential for increased scholarship and pragmatic applications. Part 2 contains applied research using the video collection. Topics in this section include a look at oral histories of minority members of Congress, an analysis of presidential debates, and the presentation style of ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Leaders of the Pack: Women and the Future of Veterinary Medicine (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond) by Julie Kumble (Purdue University Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Veterinary medicine has undergone sweeping changes in the last few decades. Women now account for 55 percent of the active veterinarians in the field, and nearly 80 percent of veterinary students are women. However, average salaries have dropped as this shift has occurred, and even with women in the vast majority, only 25 percent of leadership roles are held by women. These trends point to gender-based inequality that veterinary medicine, a profession that tilts so heavily toward women, is struggling to address. How will the profession respond? What will this mean for our students and schools? What will it mean for our pets entrusted to veterinarian care? Who has succeeded in these situations? Who is taking action to lead change? What can we learn from them to lead the pack in our lives? Leaders of the Pack, by Julie Kumble and Dr. Donald Smith, explores key themes in leadership and highlights women in veterinary medicine whose stories embody those themes. In it, Kumble and Smith cull ...

Genre: Business & Money

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos (4 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Genre: History

Shift (Fuel Series Book 1) by Ginger Scott (Little Miss Write, LLC) (304 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Dustin Bridges has always had two things he could count on -- his fearless instincts behind the wheel and the support of his two best friends, Tommy and Hannah Judge. Dustin brought the speed. Tommy, the brains. And Hannah... she was the glue that held everyone together. Together, they were unstoppable. From the dirt tracks of their youth to the late-night drag races under a desert moon as teens, the Judge siblings pushed and watched in awe as their friend edged closer to his dream. Always racing, always running. That was Dustin's gift and curse. And while his life at home was unbearable, his world with the Judges always seemed perfect. Growing up with people makes for a special bond. But sometimes life has a way of testing just how strong a relationship is. And falling in love with one of your best friends, not to mention your other best friend's sister? Well, that can be the toughest test of all. Heartbreak doesn't know what it's up against, though, because when there is a ...

Genre: Teen & Young Adult