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The Teacher-Curriculum Encounter

Freeing Teachers from the Tyranny of Texts

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

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The Teacher-Curriculum Encounter

Freeing Teachers from the Tyranny of Texts

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

In this ground-breaking book the author analyzes the roles and functions of teachers as they use and construct curriculum materials. She presents a conceptual framework for interpreting different kinds of materials, for planning instructional settings based on these interpretations, and provides teachers with concepts and strategies that will enable them to use curriculum materials professionally and flexibly. The book addresses the need for more professional and creative use of curriculum materials, and heightened teacher involvement in the process. Implications of her proposed approach for teacher education and staff development are provided.

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State University of New York Press

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0791496341

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The American Musical

Evolution of an Art Form

By: Ben West

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The American Musical

Evolution of an Art Form

By: Ben West

The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musical’s artistic evolution over the course of seven distinct, newly defined eras, with a unique perspective gleaned from research at more than twenty different archives across the United States. Individual in both its approach and coverage, The American Musical traces the form’s creative journey from its 19th century beginnings, through its 20th century maturation, and to the turn of the 21st century, shedding new light on a myriad of authors, directors, and craftspeople who worked on Broadway and beyond. This book actively addresses the form’s often overlooked female and African-American artists, provides an in-depth accounting of such outside influences as minstrelsy, vaudeville, nightclubs, and burlesque, and explores the dynamic relationship between the form and the consciousness of its country. The American Musical is a fascinating and insightful read for students, artists, and afficionados of the American musical, and anyone with an interest in this singular form of entertainment.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040001181

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9781040001189

China Miéville

Critical Essays

By: Tony Venezia,Sherryl Vint,Raphael Zähringer,Dougal McNeill,Joe Sutliff Sanders,Paul March-Russell,Ben De Bruyn,Matthew Sangster,Anthony F. Lang, Jr.,Mark P. Williams,Roger Luckhurst

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China Miéville

Critical Essays

By: Tony Venezia,Sherryl Vint,Raphael Zähringer,Dougal McNeill,Joe Sutliff Sanders,Paul March-Russell,Ben De Bruyn,Matthew Sangster,Anthony F. Lang, Jr.,Mark P. Williams,Roger Luckhurst

The chapters in this collection respond to the range of interests that have shaped Miéville's fiction from his influential role in contemporary genre debates, to his ability to pose serious philosophical questions about state control, revolutionary struggle, regimes of apartheid, and the function of international law in a globalized world. This collection demonstrates how Miéville's fictions offer a striking example of contemporary literature's ability to imagine alternatives to neoliberal capitalism at a time of crisis for leftist ideas within the political realm.

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Gylphi Limited

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1780240295

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9781780240299

Entrepreneurship and Development

Realities and Future Prospects

By: Sonia Ben Slimane,Hatem M'henni

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Entrepreneurship and Development

Realities and Future Prospects

By: Sonia Ben Slimane,Hatem M'henni

In analyzing the complex link between entrepreneurship, innovation and development in the context of the emerging world, this book offers a holistic reading of this triptych based on a theoretical foundation that is itself subject to controversy: the national system of innovative entrepreneurship. The “emerging” nature of the studied countries provides specific insights, and allows the theoretical developments to be fine-tuned to the current issues. In a context that makes competitive advantages transient, emerging markets can provide a real test case for responding in a structural and innovative way to social and economic challenges, thus ensuring the sustainable performance of their innovative entrepreneurial system. Entrepreneurship and Development advocates for the integration of the social and cultural history of a given country within the framework of public policies, and proposes more targeted actions for innovative entrepreneurial activities. Moreover, the education system must integrate the entrepreneurial culture and foster multidisciplinarity to support the transfer of knowledge to markets.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1786303949

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Human Rights and Community-led Development

Lessons from Tostan

By: Ben Cislaghi

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Human Rights and Community-led Development

Lessons from Tostan

By: Ben Cislaghi

This book investigates work of the NGO Tostan as a working model of human development. The study is grounded in the ethnographic study of the actual change that happened in one West African village.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474419801

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9781474419802

Sustainable Investing

An ESG Starter Kit for Everyday Investors

By: Kylelane Purcell,Ben Vivari

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Sustainable Investing

An ESG Starter Kit for Everyday Investors

By: Kylelane Purcell,Ben Vivari

The Essential Starting Point for Values-Driven Investors You are passionate about the important issues facing our world: Climate change. Racial justice. Gender equality. And you do things to reflect those passions – volunteering, donating, voting, recycling. But there’s an even more powerful way to advocate for what matters to you: Changing your investments. This book is perfect for individuals looking to make their first investments in “ESG” funds, which consider the Environmental, Social, and Governance aspects of the companies they invest in, as well as their financials. It contains useful and practical guidance on how to understand your choices in the rapidly expanding world of sustainable investing, and it offers concrete steps to invest in funds and companies that reflect your values.

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Business Expert Press

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1637425112

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9781637425114

Turbulent Times

The British Jewish Community Today

By: Keith Kahn-Harris,Ben Gidley

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Turbulent Times

The British Jewish Community Today

By: Keith Kahn-Harris,Ben Gidley

The first book-length study of contemporary British Jewry , Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990. Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and threats Jews face individually and communally. This shift is part of a process of renewal in the community that has led to something of a 'Jewish renaissance' in Britain. Addressing key questions on the transitions in the history of Anglo-Jewish community and leadership, and tackling the concept of the 'new antisemitism', this important and timely study addresses the question: how has UK Jewry adapted from a shift from monoculturalism to multiculturalism?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441110402

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A War State All Over

Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause

By: Ben H. Severance

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A War State All Over

Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause

By: Ben H. Severance

An in-depth political study of Alabama’s government during the Civil War Alabama’s military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Confederate cause.In his study of Alabama during the Civil War, Ben H. Severance argues that Alabama’s electoral and political attitudes were, in their own way, just as unified in their support for the cause of southern independence. To be sure, the civilian populace often expressed unease about the conflict, as did a good many of Alabama’s legislators, but the majority of government officials and military personnel displayed pronounced Confederate loyalty and a consistent willingness to accept a total war approach in pursuit of their new nation’s aims. As Severance puts it, Alabama was a “war state all over.” In A War State All Over: Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause, Severance examines the state’s political leadership at multiple levels of governance—congressional, gubernatorial, and legislative—and orients much of his analysis around the state elections of 1863. Coming at the war’s midpoint, these elections provide an invaluable gauge of popular support for Alabama’s role in the Civil War, particularly at a time when the military situation for Confederate forces was looking bleak. The results do not necessarily reflect a society that was unreservedly prowar, but they clearly establish a polity that was committed to an unconditional Confederate victory, in spite of the probable costs. Severance’s innovative work focuses on the martial character of Alabama’s polity while simultaneously acknowledging the widespread angst of Alabama’s larger culture and society. In doing so, it puts a human face on the election returns by providing detailed character sketches of the principal candidates that illuminate both their outlook on the war and their role in shaping policy.

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University Alabama Press

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0817320598

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Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America...

Volume II: 1734-1735

By: Ben Marsh

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Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America...

Volume II: 1734-1735

By: Ben Marsh

The eighteen volumes of Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America (reproduced in sixteen discrete books) contain the diaries and letters of Lutheran pastors who ministered to the Salzburgers, German-speaking Protestant refugees, in Georgia. Samuel Urlsperger collected and edited these writings into the Urlsperger Reports printed at Orphanage Press, Halle, Germany, from 1735 to 1760. The original German publication, Ausführliche Nachricht von den saltzburgischen Emigranten, is available through the Internet Archive, but this English-language translation has not been available online until now. In the mid-eighteenth century, Samuel Urlsperger of the Lutheran Ministry in Augsburg edited the German edition of the Detailed Reports after having distributed the many reports to the faithful in Germany. He made major deletions for both diplomatic and economic reasons and suppressed proper names. His son, Johann August Urlsperger, succeeded him. He took even greater liberties with the text, deleting large sections and rearranging others. The English version, translated and edited by George Fenwick Jones, a German scholar, restores the deleted sections and the proper names and provides the original sequencing of the material. The Detailed Reports offer insight into daily life in colonial Georgia and provide precious details and vignettes on subjects that receive less attention in other sources, notably African Americans, women, silk production, and the cost of goods in a frontier colony. The Reports are an underutilized resource for the study of this period and an unparalleled source for the evolution of a rural community during the early years of the colony. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820361151

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Employee Experience

Develop a Happy, Productive and Supported Workforce for Exceptional Individual and Business Performance

By: Ben Whitter

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Employee Experience

Develop a Happy, Productive and Supported Workforce for Exceptional Individual and Business Performance

By: Ben Whitter

For organizations to maintain their competitive advantage, their people need to be performing to the best of their abilities. But in a world of increasing stress and pressure, rapid technological change and digital overload, supporting and developing employees has never been more difficult. Employee Experience is a practical guide to achieving this. To develop top-performing employees, HR professionals need to move beyond ad hoc engagement initiatives and instead to design and embed employee experience throughout an organization's processes and culture - from the moment an employee sees a job advert to the moment they leave the company. Employee Experience is full of tools, tips and advice to help HR professionals and business leaders motivate, support and develop their staff to achieve exceptional individual and organizational performance. It includes guidance on how to build experience capabilities in an HR team and on communicating, sustaining and evolving the employee experience, as well as on using networks, nudges and technology. Containing a foreword by Global Industry Analyst Josh Bersin and case studies from companies including Airbnb, Starbucks and Sky, the book shows how focusing on the employee experience improves performance, productivity and profits and how organizations of any size can achieve this success.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749491787

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Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life

Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning

By: Ben Stein

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Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life

Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning

By: Ben Stein

Life is not lived all at once - it's lived in moments, days, months, years, and decades. This means that the financial plans and actions we all have to take to meet our responsibilities sensibly must be organized by years and decades. Ben Stein wrote the original guide to this subject almost a quarter century ago. Now, Ben, along with Phil DeMuth, the eminent financial planner and writer, have gotten together to update the book, incorporating the massive changes that have occurred in the economy in the past 25 years. This book tells you what and when to save, how much to save, what to save it in, when to spend, and when to say no to your present and yes to your future. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life! is a time-traveling guidebook on how to organize the money side of your life for all of the decades of your life.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458770311

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9781458770318

Leonardo's Laptop

Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

By: Ben Shneiderman

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Leonardo's Laptop

Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

By: Ben Shneiderman

Using the inspiration of Leonardo da Vinci to build a new, humanistic computing that focuses on users' needs and goals.

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MIT Press

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0262692996

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9780262692991

Asia and the Future of Football

The Role of the Asian Football Confederation

By: Ben Weinberg

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Asia and the Future of Football

The Role of the Asian Football Confederation

By: Ben Weinberg

Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game, however, have created new conflicts and challenges. This book explores the role of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) within the rising significance of football in Asia, drawing on three key theoretical perspectives: globalisation, neo-institutionalism and governance, as well as comprehensive data from interviews and archive material. It explores the organisational structure of AFC, its decision-making processes, relations with other actors, and policies put forward. To understand the specificities AFC has faced in its 60-year history, the broader historical, political, economic, socio-cultural and geographic contexts of football in Asia are taken into account.

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Routledge

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1317576322

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Eager

The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

By: Ben Goldfarb

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Eager

The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

By: Ben Goldfarb

WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Author of the New York Times 2023 "Notable Book" Crossings Washington Post “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction” Science News “Favorite Science Books of 2018” Booklist “Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018” "A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents.... A masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world.”—The Washington Post In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of “Beaver Believers”—including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens—recognizes that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those without them. From the Nevada deserts to the Scottish highlands, Believers are now hard at work restoring these industrious rodents to their former haunts. Eager is a powerful story about one of the world’s most influential species, how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. Ultimately, it’s about how we can learn to coexist, harmoniously and even beneficially, with our fellow travelers on this planet.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603587403

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Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare

Norms and Practices During the World Wars

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda

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Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare

Norms and Practices During the World Wars

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda

In an era of changing ethics, the submarine has inaugurated a new type of unrestricted naval warfare

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118897

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9780472118892

Make Your Money Work for You

How to Grow Your Investment Dollars

By: Keon Chee,Ben Fok

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Make Your Money Work for You

How to Grow Your Investment Dollars

By: Keon Chee,Ben Fok

Learn how to invest your money in the simplest possible way! Whether you are an investment veteran or wondering how to get started, you will find sensible advice about where you should invest your money in this comprehensive book.

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Marshall Cavendish

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9814346691

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9789814346696

Natural Law

Morality and Obedience

By: Ben Wood Johnson

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Natural Law

Morality and Obedience

By: Ben Wood Johnson

Natural Law: Morality and Obedience This short opus is part of a collection of a larger body of work, which are dedicated to the subject of law or legal obligation. This installment focuses on natural law. The goal here is to elucidate the essentiality of citizen obedience. Another goal here is to make the case that, while in theory the notion of natural law seems to contradict the concept known as positive law, when it comes to legal obligation (in practice of course), any distinction, if it were to exist at all, is negligible. This text examines the degree to which natural law (as presently understood) could explicate the reason people may feel obligated to obey laws. The book further explores the rationale for legal obedience in terms of morality and reason. It examines popular legal precepts, notably positive law and other doctrines related to natural law. The arguments echoed throughout the text are unique. But it is important to point out that a full appreciation of the notion of Natural Law may require some anterior understanding about the concept of Legal Theory. I encourage you to keep a positive outlook as you navigate the manuscript.

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Eduka Solutions

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0997902884

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Broadband Microwave Amplifiers

By: Bal S. Virdee,Avtar S. Virdee,Ben Y. Banyamin

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Broadband Microwave Amplifiers

By: Bal S. Virdee,Avtar S. Virdee,Ben Y. Banyamin

This authoritative resource offers a complete understanding of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge techniques for designing and fabricating broadband microwave amplifiers. The book covers the complete design cycle, detailing each stage in a practical, hands-on manner." "This comprehensive reference illustrates the formulation of small- and large-signal device models to help professionals accurately simulate amplifier performance, and covers all the practical aspects and circuit components used in fabrication. Engineers find design examples of various types of amplifiers that are applicable in broadband systems such as optical communications, satellite communications, spread-spectrum communications, wireless local area networks, electronic warfare, instrumentation, and phased array radar. The book also provides an in-depth treatment of ultra-broadband microwave amplifiers." --Book Jacket.

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Artech House

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1580538932

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A Wealth of Common Sense

Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan

By: Ben Carlson

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A Wealth of Common Sense

Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan

By: Ben Carlson

A simple guide to a smarter strategy for the individualinvestor A Wealth of Common Sense sheds a refreshing light oninvesting, and shows you how a simplicity-based framework can leadto better investment decisions. The financial market is a complexsystem, but that doesn't mean it requires a complex strategy; infact, this false premise is the driving force behind manyinvestors' market "mistakes." Information is important, butunderstanding and perspective are the keys to betterdecision-making. This book describes the proper way to view themarkets and your portfolio, and show you the simple strategies thatmake investing more profitable, less confusing, and lesstime-consuming. Without the burden of short-term performancebenchmarks, individual investors have the advantage of focusing onthe long view, and the freedom to construct the kind of portfoliothat will serve their investment goals best. This book proves howcomplex strategies essentially waste these advantages, and providesan alternative game plan for those ready to simplify. Complexity is often used as a mechanism for talking investorsinto unnecessary purchases, when all most need is a deeperunderstanding of conventional options. This book explains whichissues you actually should pay attention to, and which ones aresimply used for an illusion of intelligence and control. Keep up with—or beat—professional moneymanagers Exploit stock market volatility to your utmost advantage Learn where advisors and consultants fit into smartstrategy Build a portfolio that makes sense for your particularsituation You don't have to outsmart the market if you can simplyoutperform it. Cut through the confusion and noise and focus onwhat actually matters. A Wealth of Common Sense clears theair, and gives you the insight you need to become a smarter, moresuccessful investor.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119024897

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The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child's Confidence and Love of Learning

By: Ben Foss

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The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child's Confidence and Love of Learning

By: Ben Foss

Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing—and what you can do so that he or she will thrive More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic—a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a “learning disability” or “learning difference,” that makes interpreting text and reading difficult. Yet even though children with dyslexia may have trouble reading, they don’t have any problems learning; dyslexia has nothing to do with a lack of intellect. While other books tell you what dyslexia is, this book tells you what to do. Dyslexics’ innate skills, which may include verbal, social, spatial, kinesthetic, visual, mathematical, or musical abilities, are their unique key to acquiring knowledge. Figuring out where their individual strengths lie, and then harnessing these skills, offers an entrée into learning and excelling. And by keeping the focus on learning, not on standard reading the same way everyone else does, a child with dyslexia can and will develop the self-confidence to flourish in the classroom and beyond. After years of battling with a school system that did not understand his dyslexia and the shame that accompanied it, renowned activist and entrepreneur Ben Foss is not only open about his dyslexia, he is proud of it. In The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan he shares his personal triumphs and failures so that you can learn from his experiences, and provides a three-step approach for success: • Identify your child’s profile: By mapping your child’s strengths and weaknesses and assisting her to better understand who she is, you can help your child move away from shame and feelings of inadequacy and move toward creating a powerful program for learning. • Help your child help himself: Coach your child to become his own best advocate by developing resiliency, confidence, and self-awareness, and focusing on achievable goals in areas that matter most to him. • Create community: Dyslexic children are not broken, but too often the system designed to educate them is. Dare to change your school so that your child has the resources to thrive. Understanding your rights and finding allies will make you and your child feel connected and no longer alone. Packed with practical ideas and strategies dyslexic children need for excelling in school and in life, this empowering guide provides the framework for charting a future for your child that is bright with hope and unlimited potential. Praise for The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan “A passionate and well-articulated guide . . . This extremely practical and motivational book will be welcomed by parents of dyslexic children.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Accessible and reassuring.”—Library Journal “This step-by-step guide will become a go-to resource for parents.”—James H. Wendorf, executive director, National Center for Learning Disabilities “I study dyslexia in the lab and am a parent of a wonderful daughter who fits this profile. Ben Foss’s book should be considered essential to any collection on the subject. It was extremely useful, especially for a mom.”—Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology, UCSF, Memory and Aging Center “As someone with a learning profile that made school tough, and as a parent, I know kids need the right support. Ben Foss knows how to get access to education because he’s been through it. I was thrilled to read this book. It offers a wise collection of insights that are both practical and touching.”—James Gandolfini, actor, The Sopranos

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Ballantine Books

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0345541251

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Filming the Unfilmable

Casper Wrede's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: Ben Hellmann

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Filming the Unfilmable

Casper Wrede's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: Ben Hellmann

This volume shares the fascinating story of the cinematic adaptation of one of the world’s most influential novels. An all-encompassing account of the film’s production and reception, the account is filled with little-known facts and valuable insight into Solzhenitsyn’s complex relationship with filmmaking.

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Columbia University Press

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3838205944

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No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs

The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity

By: Dan S. Kennedy,Ben Glass

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No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs

The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity

By: Dan S. Kennedy,Ben Glass

Time Is Money and You Are Running Out of It! Dan S. Kennedy, joined by co-author Ben Glass, delivers a fresh take on preserving your most underappreciated and valuable asset, time! With new material addressing social media addiction and time consumption, you’ll learn to redefine the saying, "time is money". Learn how to: CALCULATE THE VALUE OF YOUR TIME—and put a meter on those consuming it SLAY TIME VAMPIRES—like Mr. Have-You-Got-A-Minute, Mr. Meeting, and all the other bloodsuckers KICK YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION—and combat time consumption STOP 'PRODUCTIVUS INTERRUPTUS'—master the 5 time-defense tactics ACHIEVE MAXIMUM PRODUCTIVITY with Psycho-Cybernetics THE 8 NO B.S. TIME TRUTHS never to violate despite the conspiracy against them Become successful beyond your wildest dreams—APPLY THE #1 MOST POWERFUL PERSONAL DISCIPLINE THE 10 TIME MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES worth using. Only 10! FIRE YOURSELF! Replace yourself. Make MORE money from LESS time, and have MORE freedom to do BIG things! WARNING: This book is not for the faint of heart, fawningly polite, or desperate to be liked. This book is expressly for entrepreneurs and business owners who wear many hats—those who can't resist piling more responsibility onto his own shoulders, who have more great ideas than time and resources to take advantage of them, who run (not walk) through each day. Your time is incredibly valuable to you, and you are constantly "running out of it.

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Entrepreneur Press

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1613084811

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Will Rogers

A Biography

By: Ben Yagoda

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Will Rogers

A Biography

By: Ben Yagoda

Biography of American humorist and entertainer Will Rogers discussing his career and personal life.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806132388

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The Crazy Brilliant Philosophical Lectures and Political Speeches of Conservative Activist and Guitar Legend Ted Nugent

Is the Nuge Crazy, Brilliant, or Both? You Decide!

By: Liam Ben Blackmore

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The Crazy Brilliant Philosophical Lectures and Political Speeches of Conservative Activist and Guitar Legend Ted Nugent

Is the Nuge Crazy, Brilliant, or Both? You Decide!

By: Liam Ben Blackmore

Is Ted Nugent an absolute genius or batsh!t crazy? Imagine a spectrum where on one side is pure genius, and the other side is utter lunacy. Where would you place Ted Nugent on this genius-lunatic spectrum? In this book, the guitar legend and conservative activist explores: * Violent crime, gun violence, recidivism, and prisons. * The right to bear arms. * The spoiled brats of Hollywood. * Systemic racism in America. * Censorship by Big Tech. * The First Amendment. * The January 6 capitol attack. * The gender control of government, media, and academia. * Turning over Roe V Wade abortion ruling. * Democrats, Marxists, and communists. * Gun control. * Mass shootings at schools. * The toxic hypocrisy of liberals. * Donald Trump. * Joe Biden. * MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. * Dr. Anthony Fauci. * Kyle Rittenhouse. Is Ted Nugent crazy, brilliant, or both? Read this book, and figure it out!

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Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

By: Ben Brucato

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Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

By: Ben Brucato

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institution of racialized chattel slavery originated along with a novel, binary conception of race. On one side, for the first time Europeans from various nationalities were united in a single racial category. Inclusion in this category was necessary for citizenship. On the other, Blacks were branded as slaves, cast as social enemies, and assumed to be threats to the social order. The state determined not only that it would administer slavery, but that it would regulate slaves, authorizing the use of violence by agents of the state and white citizens to secure the social order. In doing so, slavery, citizenship, and police mutually informed one another, and together they produced racial capitalism, a working class defined and separated by the color line, and a racial social order. Race and Police corrects the Eurocentrism in the orthodox history of American police and in predominating critical theories of police. That orthodoxy rests on an origin story that begins with Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police Service. Predating the Met by more than a century, America’s first police, often called slave patrols, did more than maintain order—it fabricated a racial order. Prior to their creation, all white citizens were conscripted to police all Blacks. Their participation in the coercive control of Blacks gave definition to their whiteness. Targeted as threats to the security of the economy and white society, being policed defined Blacks who, for the first time, were treated as a single racial group. The boundaries of whiteness were first established on the basis of who was required to regulate slaves, given a specific mandate to prevent Black insurrection, a mandate that remains core to the police role to this day.

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Willin'

The Story of Little Feat

By: Ben Fong-Torres

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Willin'

The Story of Little Feat

By: Ben Fong-Torres

The saga of the legendary Los Angeles band Little Feat is one of rock 'n' roll's great stories. Formed in 1969 by ex-members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Little Feat created groove-heavy music that was an irresistible mix of rock, blues, R&B, country, jazz, soul, and funk. Fronted by the charismatic but doomed vocalist and brilliant slide guitarist Lowell George, the band recorded such classic studio albums as Sailin' Shoes and Dixie Chicken, as well as Waiting for Columbus, which many consider to be one of the best live albums of all time. Acclaimed journalist Ben Fong-Torres -- working with Little Feat's surviving members, their friends, and associates -- wrote Willin' based on hours of brand new interviews with the key players. The result? The first definitive biography of this beloved rock 'n' roll institution.

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The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing

Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life

By: Ben Stein,Phil DeMuth

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The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing

Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life

By: Ben Stein,Phil DeMuth

Investing do's and don'ts from some of the most recognizable voices in personal finance It's been a tough year for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what they have and make back some of what they've lost. That's why the bestselling author team of Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth have created The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life. When you invest, there are essential things you should do and many things you shouldn't. The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life addresses this issue and shows you how to utilize the fundamentals of finance to achieve success in today's market. This practical guide contains proven advice on navigating today's treacherous financial landscape and will put you in a better position to make more informed investment decisions. Includes street-smart advice for the individual investor uncertain about their investment and retirement portfolios Written by a experienced team of bestselling authors whose investment advice is accessible to everyone Outlines the steps you must take to protect yourself from the financial calamities of modern life The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life offers quick, easy-to-follow, and entertaining advice for anyone looking to get back on the right investment track.

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Sparse Polynomial Approximation of High-Dimensional Functions

By: Ben Adcock ,Simone Brugiapaglia,Clayton G. Webster

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Sparse Polynomial Approximation of High-Dimensional Functions

By: Ben Adcock ,Simone Brugiapaglia,Clayton G. Webster

Over seventy years ago, Richard Bellman coined the term “the curse of dimensionality” to describe phenomena and computational challenges that arise in high dimensions. These challenges, in tandem with the ubiquity of high-dimensional functions in real-world applications, have led to a lengthy, focused research effort on high-dimensional approximation—that is, the development of methods for approximating functions of many variables accurately and efficiently from data. This book provides an in-depth treatment of one of the latest installments in this long and ongoing story: sparse polynomial approximation methods. These methods have emerged as useful tools for various high-dimensional approximation tasks arising in a range of applications in computational science and engineering. It begins with a comprehensive overview of best s-term polynomial approximation theory for holomorphic, high-dimensional functions, as well as a detailed survey of applications to parametric differential equations. It then describes methods for computing sparse polynomial approximations, focusing on least squares and compressed sensing techniques. Sparse Polynomial Approximation of High-Dimensional Functions presents the first comprehensive and unified treatment of polynomial approximation techniques that can mitigate the curse of dimensionality in high-dimensional approximation, including least squares and compressed sensing. It develops main concepts in a mathematically rigorous manner, with full proofs given wherever possible, and it contains many numerical examples, each accompanied by downloadable code. The authors provide an extensive bibliography of over 350 relevant references, with an additional annotated bibliography available on the book’s companion website (www.sparse-hd-book.com). This text is aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in mathematics, computer science, and engineering who are interested in high-dimensional polynomial approximation techniques.

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The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

By: Ram Ben-Shalom

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The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

By: Ram Ben-Shalom

This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence over some 1,500 years of cultural florescence with far-reaching consequences. A seminal examination of the crucial role of the Jews of Provence in shaping medieval Jewish culture in the Mediterranean basin.

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The Wisdom of the Talmud

A Thousand Years of Jewish Thought

By: Ben Zion Bokser

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The Wisdom of the Talmud

A Thousand Years of Jewish Thought

By: Ben Zion Bokser

A fascinating and revelatory introduction to the Talmud discusses the Talmudic mind, its conceptions of God, and its thoughts on social ethics, personal morality, law, and general human wisdom. Original.

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Citadel Press

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0806522550

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Yes, You Can Be a Successful Income Investor!

Reaching for Yield in Today's Market

By: Ben Stein,Phil Demuth

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Yes, You Can Be a Successful Income Investor!

Reaching for Yield in Today's Market

By: Ben Stein,Phil Demuth

With the bursting of the stock market bubble, and after 13 rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, yields on CDs and money market funds tread at historic lows - a negative return after inflation. Gone are the days when investors could earn 5 percent interest, risk-free. With smaller savings coupled with lower returns on what savings remain, retirees and others living on fixed-income investments watch in horror as their income checks shrink with each passing month. However, there are investments that still earn a significant rate of return - and do so reliably and consistently. These fixed-income securities include bonds, real estate investment trusts, preferred stock, emerging market debt, and annuities, among others. They earn the kind of returns that baby boomers and the retirement community need in the same way they need to draw breath, yet hardly anyone knows anything about them. As 70 million Americans reach retirement age in the next 15 years, fixed-income investing will become a sociologically inevitable mega trend. Yes, You Can Be a Successful Income Investor! shows you how you can safely secure the highest possible yield from your savings, even in a treacherous investment environment.

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Catching Up to Crypto

Your Guide to Bitcoin and the New Digital Economy

By: Ben Armstrong

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Catching Up to Crypto

Your Guide to Bitcoin and the New Digital Economy

By: Ben Armstrong

A fun and authoritative guide to bitcoin and the future of money In Catching Up to Crypto: Your Guide to Bitcoin and the New Digital Economy, celebrated crypto and Bitcoin expert Ben Armstrong delivers an exciting and fresh new exploration of Bitcoin and digital currencies. He explains what Bitcoin is, how it works, and how and why we’re all transitioning to a digital economy as we speak. He discusses the deficiencies of traditional fiat currency, how it’s commonly manipulated, and how we can all benefit from the adoption of new, digital assets. In the book, you’ll discover how Bitcoin operates in the real-world and how the underlying technology—known as the blockchain—operates. You’ll also learn about: The importance of decentralization, trust-less commerce and cryptographic consensus. The humble origins of Bitcoin, as well as how it nearly died out, and how it went on to take over the world How monetary and financial policy is being revolutionized by the introduction of Bitcoin and other crypto-assets. An essential and engaging review of Bitcoin, digital assets, and the new digital economy, Catching Up to Crypto is the hands-on and comprehensive introduction to crypto that investors, enthusiasts, the crypto-curious, and finance professionals have been waiting for.

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1394158769

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Conditions in Occupational Therapy

Effect on Occupational Performance

By: Ben Atchison,Diane Dirette

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Conditions in Occupational Therapy

Effect on Occupational Performance

By: Ben Atchison,Diane Dirette

Lippincott® Connect Featured Title The only text covering the pathophysiology of common diseases specifically relative to Occupational Therapy practice, Conditions in Occupational Therapy: Effect on Occupational Performance, 6th Edition, combines the most up-to-date insights and an engaging approach to ready students for success from the classroom to clinical settings. This updated 6th Edition is fully aligned with the most current DSM-5 and Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 4th Edition, and adds new chapters reflecting recent advances in the management of infectious diseases, general deconditioning, musculoskeletal pain, amputations, and sickle cell anemia. Each chapter follows a consistent format, presenting an opening case followed by descriptions and definitions, etiology, incidence and prevalence, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, course and prognosis, medical/surgical management, impact on occupational performance, and two case illustrations. Rounded out with robust instructor resources and new full-color imagery, this bestselling resource is an essential tool for today’s occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students.

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1975153863

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Figures of Time

Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry

By: David Ben-Merre

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Figures of Time

Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry

By: David Ben-Merre

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time. Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poetsWallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. EliotDavid Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.

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SUNY Press

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1438468334

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The Dumb Money

The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees (Previously Published as The Antisocial Network)

By: Ben Mezrich

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The Dumb Money

The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees (Previously Published as The Antisocial Network)

By: Ben Mezrich

Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Post! From one of our most innovative and celebrated authors, the definitive take on the wildest story of the year— the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever. Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet trolls on a subreddit called WallStreetBets took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the establishment. It’s the story of financial titans like Gabe Plotkin of hedge fund Melvin Capital, one of the most respected and staid funds on the Street, billionaires like Elon Musk, Steve Cohen, Mark Cuban, Robinhood co-CEOs Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, and Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities. Over the course of four incredible days, each in their own way must reckon with a formidable force they barely understand, let alone saw coming: everyday men and women on WallStreetBets like nurse Kim Campbell, college student Jeremy Poe, and the enigmatic Keith “RoaringKitty” Gill, whose unfiltered livestream videos captivated a new generation of stock market enthusiasts. The unlikely focus of the battle: GameStop, a flailing brick-and-mortar dinosaur catering to teenagers and outsiders that had somehow held on as the world rapidly moved online. At first, WallStreetBets was a joke—a meme-filled, freewheeling place to share shoot-the-moon investment tips, laugh about big losses, and post diamond hand emojis. Until some members noticed an opportunity in GameStop—and rode a rocket ship to tens of millions of dollars in earnings overnight. In thrilling, pulse-pounding prose, THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK offers a fascinating, never-before-seen glimpse at the outsize personalities, dizzying swings, corporate drama, and underestimated American heroes and heroines who captivated the nation during one of the most volatile weeks in financial history. It’s the amazing story of what just happened—and where we go from here.

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1538707586

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Righteous Transgressions

Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right

By: Lihi Ben Shitrit

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Righteous Transgressions

Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right

By: Lihi Ben Shitrit

A comparative look at female political activism in today's most influential Israeli and Palestinian religious movements How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Righteous Transgressions examines these questions by comparatively studying four groups: the Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the ultra-Orthodox Shas, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and the Palestinian Hamas. Lihi Ben Shitrit demonstrates that women's prioritization of a nationalist agenda over a proselytizing one shapes their activist involvement. Ben Shitrit shows how women construct "frames of exception" that temporarily suspend, rather than challenge, some of the limiting aspects of their movements' gender ideology. Viewing women as agents in such movements, she analyzes the ways in which activists use nationalism to astutely reframe gender role transgressions from inappropriate to righteous. The author engages the literature on women's agency in Muslim and Jewish religious contexts, and sheds light on the centrality of women's activism to the promotion of the spiritual, social, cultural, and political agendas of both the Israeli and Palestinian religious right. Looking at the four most influential political movements of the Israeli and Palestinian religious right, Righteous Transgressions reveals how the bounds of gender expectations can be crossed for the political good.

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