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Amsterdam's People of the Book

Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century

By: Benjamin E. Fisher

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Amsterdam's People of the Book

Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century

By: Benjamin E. Fisher

The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adults met in confraternities to study Scripture; and families listened to Scripture-based sermons in synagogue, and to help pass the long, cold winter nights of northwest Europe. The community's rabbis produced creative, and often unprecedented scholarship on the Jewish Bible as well as the New Testament. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centered culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live. Studying Amsterdam's Jews offers an early window into the prioritization of the Bible over rabbinic literature -- a trend that continues through modernity in western Europe. It allows us to see how Amsterdam's rabbis experimented with new historical methods for understanding the Bible, and how they grappled with doubts about the authority and truth of the Bible that were growing in the world around them. Amsterdam's People of the Book allows us to appreciate how Benedict Spinoza's ideas were in fact shaped by the approaches to reading the Bible in the community where he was born, raised, and educated. After all, as Spinoza himself remarked, before becoming Amsterdam's most famous heretic and one of Europe's leading philosophers and biblical critics, he was "steeped in the common beliefs about the Bible from childhood on.

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331

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Hebrew Union College Press

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0878201890

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9780878201891

Pediatric Cardiology Board Review

By: Benjamin W. Eidem,Bryan C. Cannon,Jonathan N. Johnson,Anthony C. Chang,Frank Cetta

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Pediatric Cardiology Board Review

By: Benjamin W. Eidem,Bryan C. Cannon,Jonathan N. Johnson,Anthony C. Chang,Frank Cetta

More than 900 board-style questions prepare you for certification and recertification! Based on the popular Mayo Clinic Pediatric Cardiology Review course, this highly regarded testing resource provides easy access to more than 900 questions and answers on every aspect of pediatric cardiology. Full explanations are provided for every question, helping you focus your areas for review and make the most of your study time.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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149635124X

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9781496351241

Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

By: Benjamin Arbel

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Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

By: Benjamin Arbel

These essays by medievalists touch upon many aspects of intercultural links in the medieval Mediterranean, covering not only strictly cultural and religious contacts, but also political, military, ethnic, social institutional, scientific and technological relationships.

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353

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Routledge

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1135781885

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9781135781880

Before Environmental Law

A History of a Vanishing Continent

By: Benjamin J Richardson

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Before Environmental Law

A History of a Vanishing Continent

By: Benjamin J Richardson

This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia's natural environment and examines the subject's legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today's environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century. This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers' greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature's backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia's environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations. Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law.

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436

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509969039

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9781509969036

Animal Tool Behavior

The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

By: Robert W. Shumaker,Kristina R. Walkup,Benjamin B. Beck

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Animal Tool Behavior

The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

By: Robert W. Shumaker,Kristina R. Walkup,Benjamin B. Beck

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck’s Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Beck showed that animals—from insects to primates—employed different types of tools to solve numerous problems. His work inspired and energized legions of researchers to study the use of tools by a wide variety of species. In this revised and updated edition of the landmark publication, Robert W. Shumaker and Kristina R. Walkup join Beck to reveal the current state of knowledge regarding animal tool behavior. Through a comprehensive synthesis of the studies produced through 2010, the authors provide an updated and exact definition of tool use, identify new modes of use that have emerged in the literature, examine all forms of tool manufacture, and address common myths about non-human tool use. Specific examples involving invertebrates, birds, fish, and mammals describe the differing levels of sophistication of tool use exhibited by animals.

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302

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JHU Press

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1421401282

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9781421401287

Consciousness and Behavior

By: Benjamin Wallace,Leslie E. Fisher

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Consciousness and Behavior

By: Benjamin Wallace,Leslie E. Fisher

New edition of a textbook for a course on consciousness or a related topic. Covers the physiology of consciousness, consciousness-altering drugs, meditation, biofeedback, sleep and dreams, sensory deprivation, and parapsychology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205277012

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9780205277018

Environmental Regulation Through Financial Organisations:Comparative Perspectives on the Industrialised Nations

By: Benjamin Richardson

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Environmental Regulation Through Financial Organisations:Comparative Perspectives on the Industrialised Nations

By: Benjamin Richardson

This book takes a comparative perspective of practice in the European Union, North America, Japan and Australasia, arguing that existing legal reforms to promote sustainable development are unlikely to be successful unless environmental policy can be diffused and embedded in the financial services sector. This sector plays a crucial role in creating the financial conditions that allow much economic development to proceed. Financial markets are already highly regulated in pursuance of various public policy objectives, and there is scope to adapt existing regulation to incorporate environmental aspects into the financial services sector. In terms of specific reforms, the book focuses on the role of corporate environmental reporting, economic instruments and liability rules to provide a proper context for engaging financial organisations with the environment, as well as reforms to the system of prudential regulation that currently governs this sector. Beyond the focus on the financial services sector, the book raises complex questions regarding the relationship between the state and market institutions in environmental policy, and will appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in problems of environmental governance.

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418

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041117350

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9789041117359

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence

An Integrated Social Control-Opportunity Perspective

By: Benjamin Steiner,John Wooldredge

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Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence

An Integrated Social Control-Opportunity Perspective

By: Benjamin Steiner,John Wooldredge

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff. Prison violence is not a random process; rates of violence vary across prisons and the odds of perpetrating violence or experiencing violent victimization vary across inmates and staff. A comprehensive understanding of the causes of prison violence therefore requires consideration of both individual and prison characteristics. Building on large dataset comprising 5,500 inmates and 1,800 officers across 45 prisons located across two of the United States (Ohio and Kentucky), this book showcases one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of prisons carried out to date. It considers both the implications of the study for theories of prison violence and the implications of the study for preventing violence in prisons. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike.

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125

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Routledge

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1351374079

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9781351374071

The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)

Study Aids to the Tradition of The Tale of Terror

By: Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV

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The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)

Study Aids to the Tradition of The Tale of Terror

By: Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV

First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature. It gathers together much material that had not been cited in previous works of this kind and secondary works relevant to literary Gothicism — biographies, memoirs and graphic arts. Part one cites items pertaining to significant authors of Gothic works and part two consists of subject headings, offering information about broad topics that evolve from or that have been linked with Gothicism. Three indexes are also provided to expedite searches for the contents of the entries. This book will be of interest to students of literature.

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402

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Routledge

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1317206584

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9781317206583

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

Vol. II

By: Benjamin Dwight

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The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

Vol. II

By: Benjamin Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368833626

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9783368833626

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Amsterdam's People of the Book

Amsterdam's People of the Book

Pediatric Cardiology Board Review

Pediatric Cardiology Board Review

Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean

Before Environmental Law

Before Environmental Law

Animal Tool Behavior

Animal Tool Behavior

Consciousness and Behavior

Consciousness and Behavior

Environmental Regulation Through Financial Organisations:Comparative Perspectives on the Industrialised Nations

Environmental Regulation Through Financial Organisations:Comparative Perspectives on the Industrialised Nations

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence

The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)

The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight

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