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Fits, Passions and Paroxysms

Physics, Method and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection

By: Alan Elihu Shapiro

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Fits, Passions and Paroxysms

Physics, Method and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection

By: Alan Elihu Shapiro

Shapiro reviews the formulation and reception of Newton's theories on the structure of matter and on fits.

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422

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Cambridge University Press

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ISBN 10

0521405076

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9780521405072

The Jewish State

A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface

By: Alan Dowty

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The Jewish State

A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface

By: Alan Dowty

The one intelligent overview of Israeli politics that addresses the paradox at the heart of Israeli statehood: How can Israel be both a Jewish state and a democratic state?

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360

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Univ of California Press

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0520229118

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9780520229112

The Vanishing American Jew

In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

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The Vanishing American Jew

In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism. Now, however, in late-twentieth-century America, the danger has shifted. Jews today are more secure, more accepted, more assimilated, and more successful than ever before. They've dived into the melting pot - and they've achieved the American Dream. And that, according to Dershowitz, is precisely the problem. More than 50 percent of Jews will marry non-Jews, and their children will most often be raised as non-Jews. Which means, in the view of Dershowitz, that American Jews will vanish as a distinct cultural group sometime in the next century - unless they act now. Speaking to concerned Jews everywhere, Dershowitz calls for a new Jewish identity that focuses on the positive - the 3,500-year-old legacy of Jewish culture, values, and traditions. Dershowitz shows how this new Jewish identity can compete in America's open environment of opportunity and choice - and offers concrete proposals on how to instill it in the younger generation.

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414

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Little, Brown

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0446930504

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9780446930505

From Outlaw to Classic

Canons in American Poetry

By: Alan Golding

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From Outlaw to Classic

Canons in American Poetry

By: Alan Golding

From Outlaw to Classic presents a sweeping history of the forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the American poetry canon. Students, scholars, critics, and poets will welcome this enlightening and impressively documented book. Recent writings by critics and theorists on literary canons have dealt almost exclusively with prose; Alan Golding shows that, like all canons, those of American poetry are characterized by conflict. Choosing a series of varied but representative instances, he analyzes battles and contentions among poets, anthologists, poetry magazine editors, and schools of thought in university English departments. The chapters: • present a history of American poetry anthologies • compare competing models of canon-formation, the aesthetic (poet-centered) and the institutional (critic-centered) • discuss the influence of the New Critics, emphasizing their status as practicing poets, their anti-nationalist reading of American poetry, and the landmark textbook, Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren • examine the canonizing effects of an experimental “little magazine,” Origin • trace how the Language poets address, in both their theory and their method, the canonizing institutions and canonical assumptions of the age.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299146030

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9780299146030

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Fits, Passions and Paroxysms

Fits, Passions and Paroxysms

The Jewish State

The Jewish State

The Vanishing American Jew

The Vanishing American Jew

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From Outlaw to Classic

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