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Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, 1789-1995

By: Bernard S. Katz,C. Daniel Vencill

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Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, 1789-1995

By: Bernard S. Katz,C. Daniel Vencill

Describing the men who have led the U.S. Treasury since its creation in 1789, this book profiles those who have held the cabinet position of Secretary of the Treasury from Alexander Hamilton to Robert Rubin. Each profile provides the reader with an understanding of the man, the problems he faced, and the contributions he made. While focusing on the economic policy problems of an era and the solutions the secretary offered, each profile also includes a vignette illustrating the secretary's personality and background. Some represent backgrounds of money and power, others backgrounds of simplicity and anonymity. Some came to the office with greater stature than when they left, while others made a significant mark on our nation's financial history. Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, besides collecting and dispersing the public revenue, made the Treasury a prime agency for promoting the country's economic development and fiscal soundness. Since the Great Depression, the Treasury's regulatory functions have been articulated and elaborated. Working with the President's cabinet and with maximum statistical data, the secretaries have sought to analyze the economic outlook and to coordinate official actions, including policies to maintain a strong and stable U.S. dollar. The essays in this book, written by 24 authorities, illustrate how the Secretary of the Treasury is responsible for formulating and recommending domestic and international financial, economic, and tax policy, participating in the formulation of broad fiscal policies with general significance for the economy, and managing the public debt. The biographies illustrate continuing themes of fiscal management as our nation evolved over 200 stormy years of history. They also provide an intimate look at 69 individual secretaries, with stories and facts about their leadership, ideas, style, and administrative prowess, together with their personality and family lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1567508138

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9781567508130

The Jewish Law Annual

By: Bernard S. Jackson

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The Jewish Law Annual

By: Bernard S. Jackson

Published under the auspices of The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston U. School of Law. Part One, Parent and Child, contains an introduction followed by ten papers on topics including the law and the relationship between parents and children, the welfare of the child and religious considerations, and physical violence by parents against their children in Jewish history and Jewish law. Part Two, Chronicle, addresses Jewish law in the State of Israel and constricting religious freedom in the US. Part Three comprises a survey of recent literature. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Taylor & Francis

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3718605465

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On the Eve

The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

By: Bernard Wasserstein

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On the Eve

The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

By: Bernard Wasserstein

On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World War, the continent’s Jews faced an existential crisis. The harsh realities of the age—anti-Semitic persecution, economic discrimination, and an ominous climate of violence—devastated Jewish communities and shattered the lives of individuals. The Jewish crisis was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack. Demographic collapse, social disintegration, and cultural dissolution were all taking their toll. The problem was not just Nazism: In the summer of 1939 more Jews were behind barbed wire outside the Third Reich than within it, and not only in police states but even in the liberal democracies of the West. The greater part of Europe was being transformed into a giant concentration camp for Jews. Unlike most previous accounts, On the Eve focuses not on the anti-Semites but on the Jews. Wasserstein refutes the common misconception that they were unaware of the gathering forces of their enemies. He demonstrates that there was a growing and widespread recognition among Jews that they stood on the edge of an abyss. On the Eve recaptures the agonizing sorrows and the effervescent cultural glories of this last phase in the history of the European Jews. It explores their hopes, anxieties, and ambitions, their family ties, social relations, and intellectual creativity—everything that made life meaningful and bearable for them. Wasserstein introduces a diverse array of characters: holy men and hucksters, beggars and bankers, politicians and poets, housewives and harlots, and, in an especially poignant chapter, children without a future. The geographical range also is vast: from Vilna (the “Jerusalem of the North”) to Amsterdam, Vienna, Warsaw, and Paris, from the Judeo-Espagnol-speaking stevedores of Salonica to the Yiddish-language collective farms of Soviet Ukraine and Crimea. Wasserstein’s aim is to “breathe life into dry bones.” Based on comprehensive research, rendered with compassion and empathy, and brought alive by telling anecdotes and dry wit, On the Eve offers a vivid and enlightening picture of the European Jews in their final hour.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439101698

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Debating Orientalism

By: Anna Bernard,David Attwell

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Debating Orientalism

By: Anna Bernard,David Attwell

Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.

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280

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Springer

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1137341114

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The Languages of Diaspora and Return

By: Bernard Spolsky

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The Languages of Diaspora and Return

By: Bernard Spolsky

Until quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities distant from their homeland, such as Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Romani, Armenians, Syrian and Palestinian Arabs. To explore the effect of exile of language repertoires, the article traces the sociolinguistic development of the many Jewish Diasporas, starting with the community exiled to Babylon, and following through exiles in Muslim and Christian countries in the Middle Ages and later. It presents the changes that occurred linguistically after Jews were granted full citizenship. It then goes into details about the phenomenon and problem of the Jewish return to the homeland, the revitalization and revernacularization of the Hebrew that had been a sacred and literary language, and the rediasporization that accounts for the cases of maintenance of Diaspora varieties.

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BRILL

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9004340246

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9789004340244

Augustine and Modern Law

By: James Bernard Murphy

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Augustine and Modern Law

By: James Bernard Murphy

St. Augustine and Roman law are the two bridges from Athens and Jerusalem to the world of modern law. Augustine's almost eerily modern political realism was based upon his deep appreciation of human evil, arising from his insights into the human personality, the product of his reflections on his own life and the history of his times. These insights have traveled well through the ages and are mirrored in the pages of Aquinas, Luther and Calvin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah Arendt. The articles in this volume describe the life and world of Augustine and the ways in which he conceived both justice and law. They also discuss the little recognized Augustinian contributions to the field of modern hermeneutics - the discipline which informs the art of legal interpretation. Finally, they include Augustine's valuable discussion of church/state relations, the law of just wars, and proper role and limits of coercion, and the procreative dimensions of marriage. The volume also includes an extremely useful, definitive bibliography of Augustine and the law, and will leave readers with an increased appreciation of the contributions which Augustine has made to the history of jurisprudence. No one can read Augustine and these articles on his view of the law without taking away a new view of the law itself.

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Routledge

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135157499X

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The Foundations of Mysticism

By: Bernard McGinn

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The Foundations of Mysticism

By: Bernard McGinn

The foundations of mysticism series.

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The Crossroad Publishing Co.

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0824514041

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9780824514044

ABC of One to Seven

By: Bernard Valman

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ABC of One to Seven

By: Bernard Valman

The ABC of One to Seven is a practical guide to themanagement of common physical and emotional problems of earlychildhood. New chapters include the prevention and management ofobesity, behavioural and emotional problems, ADHD, autism, thechild with fever, and changes in access to medical and socialservices. Including the latest NICE guidelines and advice on when to referand how to manage the problem afterwards, each chapter providesrelevant websites and resources for health workers. The ABC of One to Seven and the companion book, ABC ofthe First Year, have become standard guides for generalpractitioners, trainee doctors, medical students, midwives, nursesand health visitors. They are indispensible reference books forfamily doctor surgeries, emergency and outpatient departments,wards and libraries.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444316869

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High Risk Pregnancy E-Book

Management Options - Expert Consult

By: David K. James,Philip J. Steer,Carl P. Weiner,Bernard Gonik

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High Risk Pregnancy E-Book

Management Options - Expert Consult

By: David K. James,Philip J. Steer,Carl P. Weiner,Bernard Gonik

High Risk Pregnancy examines the full range of challenges in general obstetrics, medical complications of pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, fetal disease, and management of labor and delivery. Drs. David James, Philip J. Steer, Carl P. Weiner, Bernard Gonik, Caroline Crowther, and Stephen Robson present an evidence-based approach to the available management options, equipping you with the most appropriate strategy for each patient. This comprehensive reference features the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, as well as more than 100 videos of imaging and monitoring. giving you easy access to the resources you need to manage high risk pregnancies. Prepare for clinical challenges and save time in addressing them thanks to expert advice on treatment options from international contributors. Find and apply the information you need quickly and easily through a consistent organization and at-a-glance summary boxes that discuss evidence-based management options. Access the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, along with links to Medline. View over 140 videos of detailed fetal imaging and monitoring that aid in diagnoses. Tap into recent developments in treatment and management in four new chapters—Global Maternal & Perinatal Health Issues; Recurrent Pregnancy Loss; Surveillance of the Fetus and its Indications; and Training for Obstetric Emergencies. Apply new evidence-based management options to treat genetic and constitutional factors leading to a high-risk pregnancy (such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and cardiac disease) through new and expanded coverage of these increasingly common presentations. Reference pregnancy-relevant laboratory values with an updated and comprehensive appendix on "Normal Values in Pregnancy." Effectively manage patients newly diagnosed with hematologic and immunologic malignancies, and explore the available drug options. Confirm your diagnoses with greater confidence thanks to full-color images throughout the text.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455700002

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9781455700004

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

By: Bernard S. Bachrach

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Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

By: Bernard S. Bachrach

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first study of early medieval Jewish policy in the West which examines the nature of this policy from the perspective and aims of its formulators. As the author points out, most specialists in Jewish history have been dominated by what the historian Salo Baron has called the "lachrymose conception,' a view which emphasized persecution and suffering as a fundamental theme of Jewish history. Professor Bachrach challenges this view and attacks what he calls the myth of Christian church domination of the early medieval world.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452909776

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Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West

By: Bernard S. Bachrach

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Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West

By: Bernard S. Bachrach

In these articles Professor Bachrach starts by looking at aspects of the ’barbarian’ occupation of the land of the Roman Empire, from Britain to the Alan settlements in southern Gaul. His particular interest, however, is in the political and, above all, in the military structures that grew out of the Early Middle Ages. He has sought to demonstrate that there was a fundamental continuity in military organisation and tactics from the Merovingian through the Carolingian period. As he shows, there is no reason to connect the origins of ’feudalism’ with Charles Martel’s wish to create a force of cavalry, and it is a fallacy that he grasped the potential of the stirrup for enabling mounted shock combat. On the contrary, its use in the West progressed only slowly, and it had nothing to do with the origins or growth of feudalism. Le professeur Bachrach débute par l’analyse de certains aspects de l’occupation barbare des terres de l’empire romain, de la Grande-Bretagne aux campements alans en Gaule méridionale. Il s’attache en suite aux structures politiques et, surtout, militaires qui furent issues du Haut Moyen Age. Selon lui, et il tente d’en faire ici la démonstration, l’organisation et les tactiques militaires ont fait preuve d’une continuité fondamentale de l’époque mérovingienne à celle des Carolingiens. Comme il le demontre, il n’y a pas lieu d’établir de liens entre l’origine du féodalisme et le désir qu’avait Charles Martel de créer une cavalerie; il est également tout à fait erroné de dire que ce dernier s’était rendu compte du potentiel de l’étrier en tant que facteur de mener des combats à cheval de choc. Bien contraire, l’utilisation de l’étrier à l’Ouest ne fit que progresser lentement et aucun rapport n’existe entre cet instrument et l’origine ou la croissance de la féodalité.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040248462

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9781040248461

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 10)

By: Bernard S Jackson

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Jewish Law Annual (Vol 10)

By: Bernard S Jackson

First Published in 1992. This collection of papers is Volume ten from The Jewish Law Institute. Split onto three parts, it covers the area of Parent and Child, including amongst others, offences punishable by death, child custody, Parents and Children under Moslem Law, Physical Violence and Herod’s Domestic Court. . Part two entitled Chronicle, has examples of cases and Part three includes a survey of recent literature.

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Routledge

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1134336098

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Year Book of Orthopedics 2012

By: Bernard F. Morrey,Paul M. Huddleston III.,Peter S. Rose,Marc F. Swiontkowski,Stephen D. Trigg

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Year Book of Orthopedics 2012

By: Bernard F. Morrey,Paul M. Huddleston III.,Peter S. Rose,Marc F. Swiontkowski,Stephen D. Trigg

The Year Book of Orthopedics brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in orthopedics, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Topics covered include trauma and amputation surgery, hip and knee replacement, sports medicine, and orthopedic oncology.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323089712

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9780323089715

Software Reuse

By: Bernard Coulange

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Software Reuse

By: Bernard Coulange

Software Reuse is a state of the art book concerning all aspects of software reuse. It does away with the hype and shows the reality. Different techniques are presented which enable software reuse and the author demonstrates why object-oriented methods are better for reuse than other approaches. The book details the different factors to take into account when managing reusable components: characterisation, identification, building, verification, storage, search, adaptation, maintenance and evolution. Comparisons and description of various types of companies that could benefit from applying reuse techniques are included outlining, amongst other things, increased profitability and likely problems that might arise from the purchase and selling of reuse tools and components. Based on a real experience of software reuse in a company with a bibliography of more than 200 references provided, this book is a 'must have' for all those working in the software reuse field.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447115112

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Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, 1789-1995

Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, 1789-1995

The Jewish Law Annual

The Jewish Law Annual

On the Eve

On the Eve

Debating Orientalism

Debating Orientalism

The Languages of Diaspora and Return

The Languages of Diaspora and Return

Augustine and Modern Law

Augustine and Modern Law

The Foundations of Mysticism

The Foundations of Mysticism

ABC of One to Seven

ABC of One to Seven

High Risk Pregnancy E-Book

High Risk Pregnancy E-Book

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West

Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 10)

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 10)

Year Book of Orthopedics 2012

Year Book of Orthopedics 2012

Software Reuse

Software Reuse

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