Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath. However, rabbinic authorities deemed carrying permissible within a physical enclosure called an eruv. This book explores the rabbinic debates surrounding the creation of such enclosures in North American cities and examines the evolution of American Orthodox communities from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. The earliest debates reflect a community with low religious observance and weak ties to local government that relied on European rabbis for authority. By the mid-twentieth century, these rabbinic disputes reveal an established, religiously observant community forming its own traditions.
A comprehensive study guide for the math section of the SAT II college entrance examination. Includes a full-length practice test, study and test-taking techniques.
We Know the SAT II: History 1. The experts at The Princeton Review take the SAT II: History and other standardized tests several times a year to make sure you get the most up-to-date, thoroughly researched books possible. 2. Each year we help more than two million students score high with our courses, bestselling books, and award-winning software. We Get Results 3. Students who take our courses for the SAT, ACT, and many other tests see score improvements that have been verified by independent accounting firms. The proven techniques we teach in our courses are in this book. And If It's on the SAT II: History Exam, It's in This Book 4. We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about history -- only what you need to know to score high on the SAT II exam. There's a big difference. In Cracking the SAT II: History, 1998-99 Edition, you will learn to think like the test-makers and: Eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool you Earn more points by knowing in advance what American and world history topics are tested Score higher by using the "era" approach to remembering historical facts Employ specific techniques for cracking both the American and world history tests Practice your skills on the three full-length sample tests inside (two for American history and one for world history). The questions are exactly like the ones you'll see on the actual SAT II: History exam, and we fully explain every solution.
In the beginning...there was paradise. Meet God, Adam and Eve and, of course, the Serpent as they live in the legendary place known as The Garden of Eden. Apples abound as Adam and Eve try to avoid being cursed and thrown out of the garden forever. Theres also Cain and Abel and the fight for supremacy. Watch as Eve tries to save her sisters of the human race from being cursed for centuries. Its all in there just as you remember and yet, a little different. Come back to the beginning when man and woman were peaceful and content. Before human nature took hold and the Fall began. See as human history begins and the folly of the human race unfolds. Youll have so much fun, you wont want to leave the Garden of Eden ever again!
ABOUT THE BOOK While experts have roundly debunked the popular notion that we feeble humans only utilize 10 percent of our brains, most of us still find ourselves secretly believing (or wishing) that there is uncharted territory upstairs to explore. As we get older, our brains – well, I don’t want to speak for you, so I’ll say my brain – increasingly fills with useless detritus; I will thus forget to buy a necessary item at the store, but will be able to sing along lyric-for-lyric with some old Def Leppard song during the drive home. Self-help books that promise to unlock your secret brainpower will mostly peddle you the same old platitudes. Where to turn when you want to take a serious tour through your own thought process? Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow hit the bulls-eye for me. While not a self-help book by any traditional definition, Kahneman’s work offers actionable insights about decision-making and gut reactions that did indeed help me to help myself. By breaking the brain into two separate – and sometimes competing – components (“System 1” and “System 2”), the author helps the reader recognize some very common pratfalls. MEET THE AUTHOR Adam McKibbin's work has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and websites, including The Nation, the Chicago Tribune, AlterNet, Paste and Punk Planet. He studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin and received the Award for Academic Excellence for his collected fiction. Adam lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and can be found on Twitter at @TheRedAlert. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK In one example, the reader is asked to picture a passenger on the New York subway reading the Times, and to guess whether the person has a PhD or didn’t go to college at all. The common gut reaction is to pick the PhD, even though there are far fewer PhDs on the subway at a given time than passengers without college degrees. Not just taking a situation at its face value, even statistically speaking, runs counter to how System 1 is programmed to operate. Kahneman sprinkles some academic autobiography through the book as well. Part 2 includes a section on what he calls “the best-known and most controversial” of his experiments with Amos Tversky: a seemingly simple question about a young woman named Linda. Linda is introduced to the crowd as a young woman who majored in philosophy and kept active with various social causes. Kahneman’s audience then had to choose the most likely outcome for Linda. Was she a bank teller or a bank teller who was active in the feminist movement? Although the former is the smarter choice, an overwhelming number of undergraduates chose the latter due to the associations they were making about “Linda.” Even renowned scientist Stephen Jay Gould fell into the trap... Buy a copy to keep reading!
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