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See ya later, Ovulator!: Mastering Menopause with Nutrition, Hormones, and Self-Advocacy

By: Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS

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See ya later, Ovulator!: Mastering Menopause with Nutrition, Hormones, and Self-Advocacy

By: Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS

See ya later, Ovulator! delivers the great news that, yes, you can master your menopause with nutrition, hormones, gut health, and self-advocacy. Esther Blum, an Integrative Dietitian and Menopause Expert, guides you through menopause with her empowering and strategic roadmap. Esther reveals the practice tools she uses with her own clients to help you balance your hormones, fix your gut, and feel confident in your body again. You’ll discover the importance of: ● Targeted testing for hormones and gut health ● An approachable eating plan ● Supplement recommendations ● Hormone replacement therapy ● Self-advocacy through menopause In easy-to-understand language, Esther will provide you with the tools you’ll need to eliminate hot flashes, insomnia, vaginal dryness, uncomfortable bloating, and more. It’s time to make menopause your b*tch and Esther is here to show you how to do it right! Packed with cutting-edge research and the answers to all your questions, this informative and enlightening book is your key to moving through menopause with confidence, agency, and direction!

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Secrets of Gorgeous

Hundreds of Ways to Live Well While Living It Up

By: Esther Blum

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Secrets of Gorgeous

Hundreds of Ways to Live Well While Living It Up

By: Esther Blum

From the author of Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous comes the must-have little Pink Bible for on-the-spot advice on how to be healthy while having fun. Offering up over 200 quick tips, Secrets of Gorgeous shows women how to eat and drink what they love yet maintain their youthful beauty. No diets, no gimmicks, just real solutions for gorgeous girls on the go. Esther reveals secrets she shares with her A-list clients at Dr. Perricone’s flagship Manhattan store—how to nip a hangover in the bud, choose the best dish on a date, dine out without packing on the pounds, rev up the sex drive, and much, much more. Secrets of Gorgeous proves that it’s possible to have that cosmopolitan and drink it, too. Praise for Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous “Blum’s complete guide to women’s health is an encouraging, smart and sisterly volume that deserves a place alongside other trusted go-to resources.” —Publishers Weekly “Filled with sound nutritional advice on what to eat and drink and how to repair the damage when our good intentions slip. A delightful book, as entertaining as it is educational.” —Nicholas Perricone, MD “A lusty, sensual ‘diet book’ for real people . . . filled with great information and user-friendly advice for people who really appreciate food; best of all, it’s written with a twinkle in the eye and a sense of glamour.” —Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, national bestselling coauthor of The Great Cholesterol Myth

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0811871746

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Cavewomen Don't Get Fat

The Paleo Chic Diet for Rapid Results

By: Esther Blum

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Cavewomen Don't Get Fat

The Paleo Chic Diet for Rapid Results

By: Esther Blum

Offers a high-protein, hormone-balancing, and detoxifying program that will help readers lose weight, get healthy, and feel good from the inside out.

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1476707707

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Cave Women Don't Get Fat

The Paleo Girl's Diet for Rapid Results

By: Esther Blum

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Cave Women Don't Get Fat

The Paleo Girl's Diet for Rapid Results

By: Esther Blum

Millions of years of evolution can't be wrong. So maybe you're not flaunting the latest in sabre-tooth style. Or beating your dinner to death with a club hours before you eat it. You're a twenty-first-century woman. Life has changed drastically since your ancestors discovered fire. What hasn't changed is how your body works. You're still sporting the same metabolic tendencies as your lean, toned Palaeolithic sisters. Which means that achieving a strong, healthy physique is simpler than you think. What's a modern woman with ancient needs to do? Return to her roots with a back-to-basics approach to eating that is tailored specifically to her nutritional, hormonal, and real-world needs. The Paleo Diet isn't just for hard-core CrossFitters and meat-loving men. Today's cavewoman can enjoy protein rich, hormone-balancing, detoxifying, and satisfying foods that will help her lost those annoying extra pounds, build lean muscle mass, and feel like the gorgeous goddess she is meant to be. The ultra-feminine Paleo Chic Diet will help you hit your metabolic reset button, lost weight and maintain your physique with a balanced, clean way of eating that won't put your body through the same metabolic trauma that makes traditional diets so ineffective. Ready to achieve the svelte, sexy, healthy body you're designed to have? What are you waiting for? Go wild!

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Nero

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1863956360

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See ya later, Ovulator!: Mastering Menopause with Nutrition, Hormones, and Self-Advocacy

By: Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS

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Wilderness Therapy for Women

The Power of Adventure

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Eve M Tallman

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Wilderness Therapy for Women

The Power of Adventure

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Eve M Tallman

Wilderness Therapy for Women offers women risktaking adventure activities in the outdoors as an alternative to traditional therapy. The contributing authors illustrate the empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem women can derive from adventure and experiential activities. This is the first book of its kind devoted to the symbolic value of wilderness accomplishments to women’s mental health. Wilderness Therapy for Women unites women with nature and each other by lifting the social constraints surrounding women in adventure pursuits. It offers women a new method of healing while developing an appreciation for the uniqueness of the environment. Daring experiences in the outdoors rekindles a sense of strength and a respect for the provider of that strength. A therapeutic experience from the outdoors provides women with an awareness of their capabilities to strengthen and preserve themselves and their surroundings. This book is divided into four parts: Theoretical Perspectives, Wilderness Therapy in Action, Special Populations, and Personal Narratives. Readers will find many topics of interest including: Body image and wilderness therapy The therapeutic value of the wilderness Ethical considerations of experiential therapy Ropes courses for women All-women’s river trips Special populations: rape and incest survivors, welfare mothers, and mid-life women. Intended as a guide book, Wilderness Therapy for Women is ideal for mental health professionals who are either practicing wilderness therapy or merely inquisitive about it. Outfitters and professional outdoor leaders will benefit from chapters on theory, applications, and special populations. Outdoor program administrators and educators who must remain on the cutting edge of their industry will also profit from this book.

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1317764625

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Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines

By: Michele Paludi,Gertrude A Steuernagel,Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum

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Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines

By: Michele Paludi,Gertrude A Steuernagel,Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum

Here is a useful and illustrative guide for those interested in the impact of feminist scholarship on traditional academic disciplines. This important book explores the changes that have taken place in the academic world as a result of feminist approaches to scholarship, including issues of staffing, organization, administration, recruitment, stude

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Teaching and Learning about Family Literacy and Family Literacy Programs

By: Jacqueline Lynch,Esther Prins

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Teaching and Learning about Family Literacy and Family Literacy Programs

By: Jacqueline Lynch,Esther Prins

This book provides a systematic exploration of family literacy, including its historic origins, theoretical expansion, practical applications within the field, and focused topics within family literacy. Grounded in sociocultural approaches to learning and literacy, the book covers research on how families use literacy in their daily lives as well as different models of family literacy programs and interventions that provide opportunities for parent-child literacy interactions and that support the needs of children and parents as adult learners. Chapters discuss key topics, including the roles of race, ethnicity, culture, and social class in family literacy; digital family literacies; family-school relationships and parental engagement in schools; fathers’ involvement in family literacy; accountability and employment; and more. Throughout the book, Lynch and Prins share evidence-based literacy practices and highlight examples of successful family literacy programs. Acknowledging lingering concerns, challenges, and critiques of family literacy, the book also offers recommendations for research, policy, and practice. Accessible and thorough, this book comprehensively addresses family literacies and is relevant for researchers, scholars, graduate students, and instructors and practitioners in language and literacy programs.

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100046735X

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The Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous Project

Three Months to a New You

By: Esther Blum

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The Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous Project

Three Months to a New You

By: Esther Blum

Women will lose twice the weight when they track what they eat with this helpful food diary. Expert nutritionist Esther Blum provides a healthy dose of motivation plus all the necessary tools to make it happen: delicious meal plans (the gluten-free one is surprisingly savory), easy recipes (McSteamy Veggies, Low-Carb Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars), strategies for curbing mindless eating, exercises that maximize fat-burning potential, and three months' worth of food log pages. This easy, effective path to personal accountability helps women fix diet imbalances that prevent them from losing weight. All wrapped up in a pretty purse-worthy package, it's everything a woman needs to perfect her most important project ever: herself.

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1452102589

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"When Gods Were Men"

The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature

By: Esther J. Hamori

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"When Gods Were Men"

The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature

By: Esther J. Hamori

In the texts of Genesis 18 and 32, God appears to a patriarch in person and is referred to by the narrator as a man, both times by the Hebrew word īsh. In both texts, God as īsh is described in graphically human terms. This type of divine appearance is identified here as the "īsh theophany". The phenomenon of God appearing in concrete human form is first distinguished from several other types of anthropomorphism, such as divine appearance in dreams. The īsh theophany is viewed in relation to appearances of angels and other divine beings in the Bible, and in relation to anthropomorphic appearances of deities in Near Eastern literature. The īsh theophany has implications for our understanding of Israelite concepts of divine-human contact and communication, and for the relationship to Ugaritic literature in particular. The book also includes discussion of philosophical approaches to anthropomorphism. The development of philosophical opposition to anthropomorphism can be traced from Greek philosophy and early Jewish and Christian writings through Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas, and into the work of later philosophers such as Hume and Kant. However, the work of others can be applied fruitfully to the problem of divine anthropomorphism, such as Wittgenstein's language games.

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3110206714

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Modeling Methods for Medical Systems Biology

Regulatory Dynamics Underlying the Emergence of Disease Processes

By: María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces,Juan Carlos Martínez-García,José Dávila-Velderrain,Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger,Mariana Esther Martínez-Sánchez

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Modeling Methods for Medical Systems Biology

Regulatory Dynamics Underlying the Emergence of Disease Processes

By: María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces,Juan Carlos Martínez-García,José Dávila-Velderrain,Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger,Mariana Esther Martínez-Sánchez

This book contributes to better understand how lifestyle modulations can effectively halt the emergence and progression of human diseases. The book will allow the reader to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms by which the environment interferes with the bio-molecular regulatory processes underlying the emergence and progression of complex diseases, such as cancer. Focusing on key and early cellular bio-molecular events giving rise to the emergence of degenerative chronic disease, it builds on previous experience on the development of multi-cellular organisms, to propose a mathematical and computer based framework that allows the reader to analyze the complex interplay between bio-molecular processes and the (micro)-environment from an integrative, mechanistic, quantitative and dynamical perspective. Taking the wealth of empirical evidence that exists it will show how to build and analyze models of core regulatory networks involved in the emergence and progression of chronic degenerative diseases, using a bottom-up approach.

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Springer

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3319893548

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Statewide Exit Exams, Governance, and School Development

An International Comparison

By: Esther Dominique Klein

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Statewide Exit Exams, Governance, and School Development

An International Comparison

By: Esther Dominique Klein

In the context of outcomes-based school governance, statewide exit exams are often expected to have a positive effect on student achievements if schools and teachers use the performance feedback from the exams for school, instructional, and professional development. However, very little is known about whether the exams are used for development at all and how this is affected by factors in the exam system and organizational aspects of schools. In a comparison of Finland, Ireland, and the Netherlands, the study therefore investigates how different exam systems and their functions, the conditions at school level, and the use of the exams for school and classroom development are associated. The study uses expert interviews and a questionnaire survey with principals and teachers. The role statewide exit exams can play in education systems is analyzed from a governance perspective and a school development perspective and discussed with an international comparative view. Esther Dominique Klein, born in 1982, Dr. phil., is research assistant at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her main research interests lie in the areas of school system and school development research and international comparative education.

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Waxmann Verlag

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3830979002

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Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory

By: Esther Fine

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Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory

By: Esther Fine

Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory provides a description of a psychoanalytic approach to a wide range of mental disorders affecting both adults and children. Clinical examples are provided.

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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0765709503

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The Balance Within

The Science Connecting Health and Emotions

By: Esther M. Sternberg

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The Balance Within

The Science Connecting Health and Emotions

By: Esther M. Sternberg

“A dazzling tour of a most promising area of neuroscience—the interface between the immune system and the nervous system.” —Elliot S. Gershon, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago Since ancient times humans have felt intuitively that emotions and health are linked, and recently there has been much popular speculation about this notion. But until now, without compelling evidence, it has been impossible to say for sure that such a connection really exists and especially how it works. Now, that evidence has been discovered. In this beautifully written book, Dr. Esther Sternberg, whose discoveries were pivotal in helping to solve this mystery, provides firsthand accounts of the breakthrough experiments that revealed the physical mechanisms—the nerves, cells, and hormones—used by the brain and immune system to communicate with each other. She describes just how stress can make us more susceptible to all types of illnesses, and how the immune system can alter our moods. Finally, she explains how our understanding of these connections in scientific terms is helping to answer such crucial questions as “Does stress make you sick?” “Is a positive outlook the key to better health?” and “How do our personal relationships, work, and other aspects of our lives affect our health?” A fascinating, elegantly written portrait of this rapidly emerging field with enormous potential for finding new ways to treat disease and cope with stress, The Balance Within is essential reading for anyone interested in making their body and mind whole again. “Dr. Sternberg weaves historical perspective, recent lab results, academic rigor and popular appeal into an engrossing book.” —The Dallas Morning News

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Macmillan

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1466823666

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Basics of Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions in Complex Intermetallics

By: Esther Belin-Ferre

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Basics of Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions in Complex Intermetallics

By: Esther Belin-Ferre

Complex metal alloys (CMAs) comprise a huge group of largely unknown alloys and compounds, where many phases are formed with crystal structures based on giant unit cells containing atom clusters, ranging from tens of to more than thousand atoms per unit cell. In these phases, for many phenomena, the physical length scales are substantially smaller than the unit-cell dimension. Hence, these materials offer unique combinations of properties which are mutually exclusive in conventional materials, such as metallic electric conductivity combined with low thermal conductivity, good light absorption with high-temperature stability, high metallic hardness with reduced wetting by liquids, etc.This book is the first of a series of books issued yearly as a deliverable to the European Community of the School established within the European Network of Excellence CMA. Written by reputed experts in the fields of metal physics, surface physics, surface chemistry, metallurgy, and process engineering, this book brings together expertise found inside as well as outside the network to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in CMAs.

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World Scientific

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9812790594

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In Search of the True West

Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development

By: Esther Kingston-Mann

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In Search of the True West

Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development

By: Esther Kingston-Mann

This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. Esther Kingston-Mann describes Russian Westernization--which emphasized German as well as Anglo-U.S. economics--while she raises important questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined. This is the first historical account of the significant role played by Russian social scientists in nineteenth-century Western economic and social thought. In an era of rapid Western colonial expansion, the Russian quest for the "right" Western economic model became more urgent: Was Russia condemned to the fate of India if it did not become an England? In the 1900s, Russian liberal economists emphasized cultural difference and historical context, while Marxists and prerevolutionary government reformers declared that inexorable economic laws doomed peasants and their "medieval" communities. On the eve of 1917, both the tsarist regime and its leading critics agreed that Russia must choose between Western-style progress or "feudal" stagnation. And when peasants and communes survived until Stalin's time, he mercilessly destroyed them in the name of progress. Today Russia's painful modernizing traditions shape the policies of contemporary reformers, who seem as certain as their predecessors that economic progress requires wholesale obliteration of the past.

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Princeton University Press

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1400822564

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Our Lives are But Stories

Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women

By: Esther Schely-Newman

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Our Lives are But Stories

Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women

By: Esther Schely-Newman

A rich analysis of how four Tunisian-Israeli women tell the stories of their lives, and a look at the implications for our own understanding of stories and the behavior of communication.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814328768

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The Crossroads of Justice

Law and Culture in Late Medieval France

By: Esther Cohen

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The Crossroads of Justice

Law and Culture in Late Medieval France

By: Esther Cohen

An analysis of the cultural and social functions of law, legal processes and legal rituals in late medieval northern France. It interprets the various influences upon the shaping of law as a cultural manifestation and its application as an actual system of justice.

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BRILL

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9004095691

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9789004095694

Non-literary Fiction

Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism

By: Esther Gabara

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Non-literary Fiction

Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism

By: Esther Gabara

Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas. With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures and emerge in the new mediums and practices that have revolutionized contemporary art. Each chapter details how fiction is created through visual art forms—in performance and body art, posters, mail art, found objects, and installations. For Gabara, these fictions comprise a type of art that asks viewers to collaborate in the creation of the work and helps them to withstand the brutal restrictions imposed by dominant neoliberal regimes. During repressive regimes of the 1960s and 1970s and free trade agreements of the 1990s, artists and critics consistently said no to economic privatization, political deregulation, and reactionary social logic as they rejected inherited notions of visual, literary, and political representation. Through close analyses of artworks and writings by leading figures of these two generations, including Indigenous thinkers, Gabara shows how negation allows for the creation of fiction outside textual forms of literature.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226822370

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9780226822372

Human Rights in the Israeli-occupied Territories, 1967-1982

By: Esther Rosalind Cohen

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Human Rights in the Israeli-occupied Territories, 1967-1982

By: Esther Rosalind Cohen

Social, cultural, civil and political measures. Part VI:

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Manchester University Press

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0719017262

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The Jews of France

A History from Antiquity to the Present

By: Esther Benbassa

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The Jews of France

A History from Antiquity to the Present

By: Esther Benbassa

In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa tells the intriguing tale of the social, economic, and cultural vicissitudes of a people in diaspora. With verve and insight, she reveals the diversity of Jewish life throughout France's regions, while showing how Jewish identity has constantly redefined itself in a country known for both the Rights of Man and the Dreyfus affair. Beginning with late antiquity, she charts the migrations of Jews into France and traces their fortunes through the making of the French kingdom, the Revolution, the rise of modern anti-Semitism, and the current renewal of interest in Judaism. As early as the fourth century, Jews inhabited Roman Gaul, and by the reign of Charlemagne, some figured prominently at court. The perception of Jewish influence on France's rulers contributed to a clash between church and monarchy that would culminate in the mass expulsion of Jews in the fourteenth century. The book examines the re-entry of small numbers of Jews as New Christians in the Southwest and the emergence of a new French Jewish population with the country's acquisition of Alsace and Lorraine. The saga of modernity comes next, beginning with the French Revolution and the granting of citizenship to French Jews. Detailed yet quick-paced discussions of key episodes follow: progress made toward social and political integration, the shifting social and demographic profiles of Jews in the 1800s, Jewish participation in the economy and the arts, the mass migrations from Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, the Dreyfus affair, persecution under Vichy, the Holocaust, and the postwar arrival of North African Jews. Reinterpreting such themes as assimilation, acculturation, and pluralism, Benbassa finds that French Jews have integrated successfully without always risking loss of identity. Published to great acclaim in France, this book brings important current issues to bear on the study of Judaism in general, while making for dramatic reading.

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Princeton University Press

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1400823145

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Civil Society and the Family

By: Muddiman, Esther,Power, Sally,Chris Taylor

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Civil Society and the Family

By: Muddiman, Esther,Power, Sally,Chris Taylor

This enlightening book challenges conventional distinctions between the family and civil society as it uncovers how civic values and practices are inherited and fostered within the home.

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Policy Press

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1447355539

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Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds

By: Esther Urdang

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Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds

By: Esther Urdang

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds is an essential human behavior textbook for social work students. The third edition emphasizes the biopsychosocial framework within a psychodynamic, developmental and life-course perspective and includes a brand new chapter on the psychosocial complexities of technological advances. Written by an experienced classroom teacher, faculty advisor and clinician, the text approaches development through the life cycle, discussing the challenges, tasks, and problems of each stage. Presenting complex concepts in a clear and understandable way, Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Includes 16 chapters which cover the diverse nature of the circumstances that practicing social workers will be exposed to, including cultural differences, mental health issues, and disability; Analyses several different theories, including psychoanalytic, ego psychology, cognitive-behavioral, and postmodern theories in a manner that enables students to engage critically with the subject matter; Includes case vignettes and material from literary works, biographies and newspapers, intertwined with learning exercises and suggestions for additional readings, forming an engaging and practical volume. Written specifically for social work students undertaking courses and modules on human behavior in the social environment, this book is also a valuable resource for beginning and advanced readers in human services, including nursing, medicine, public health, clinical psychology and counseling.

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Routledge

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1317699459

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9781317699453

Walter Benjamin

Overpowering Conformism

By: Esther Leslie

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Walter Benjamin

Overpowering Conformism

By: Esther Leslie

Powerful new insights into a key twentieth-century political thinker

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Pluto Press

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0745315682

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Hidden in Thunder

Perspectives on Faith, Halachah and Leadership During the Holocaust

By: Esther Farbstein

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Hidden in Thunder

Perspectives on Faith, Halachah and Leadership During the Holocaust

By: Esther Farbstein

Based on documentation from various archives, discusses religious and halakhic issues which affected the lives of observant Jews during the Holocaust. Includes chapters on the reactions of rabbis in various towns to reports on the extermination of Jews; the persecution and suffering of rabbis and the rescue of some hasidic rabbis; halakhic rulings in ghettos and camps, e.g. concerning the desire of individual Jews to sacrifice themselves for others; rulings on problems involved in posing as a non-Jew; marriage, prayers, and the sanctification of God's name during the Holocaust; responsa of Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aronzon, a rabbi in Sanniki, Poland, who survived Nazi camps; sermons delivered by Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapira in the Warsaw ghetto; diaries, memoirs, and letters of survivors.

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Feldheim Publishers

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9657265053

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Nest

By: Esther Ehrlich

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Nest

By: Esther Ehrlich

On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.

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Wendy Lamb Books

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0385386079

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The Modest Genius

Reb Aisel Harif

By: Esther Rafaeli

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The Modest Genius

Reb Aisel Harif

By: Esther Rafaeli

Rabbi Yehoshua Aisek Shapira lived in the 19th century and was the great-grandson of Rabbi Luria, the famed Kabbalist of Safed. Rabbi Aisel Slonimer, as he was known, spent most of his rabbinic life in Slonim, in the Grodno district of Byelorussia, He was called Harif (Sharp) because of his prodigious memory and his sharp tongue. His witticisms and clever retorts are legendary. Rabbi Aisel wrote many of his major works in Slonim, including Emek Yehoshua and Nahlat Yehoshua which encompass his responsa (questions and answers to problems of his day); Noam Yerushalmi, his commentary and glosses on the Jerusalem Talmud; and Sefat HaNahal and Ibbei HaNahal which contain many of his sermons.

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Devora Publishing

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1932687041

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A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe

The Autobiography and Journals of Gabriel Arié, 1863-1939

By: Esther Benbassa,Aron Rodrigue

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A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe

The Autobiography and Journals of Gabriel Arié, 1863-1939

By: Esther Benbassa,Aron Rodrigue

Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardi world. Gabriel Arié’s writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. His history is a fascinating memoir of the Sephardi and Levantine bourgeoisie of the time. For his entire life, Arié—teacher, historian, community leader, and businessman—was caught between East and West. Born in a small provincial town in Ottoman Bulgaria in 1863, he witnessed the disappearance of a social and political order that had lasted for centuries and its replacement by new ideas and new ways of life, which would irreversibly transform Jewish existence. A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe publishes in full the autobiography (covering the years 1863-1906) and journal (1906-39) of Gabriel Arié, along with selections from his letters to the Alliance Israélite Universelle. An introduction by Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue analyzes his life and examines the general and the Jewish contexts of the Levant at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

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University of Washington Press

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0295998571

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Dining with John

Communal Meals and Identity Formation in the Fourth Gospel and its Historical and Cultural Context

By: Esther Kobel

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Dining with John

Communal Meals and Identity Formation in the Fourth Gospel and its Historical and Cultural Context

By: Esther Kobel

This book explores the accounts of communal meals and the metaphorical use of food and drink language in the narrative world of the Gospel of John. It argues that the Johannine community regularly gathered for communal meals in which the food and drink on the menu would have taken on a spiritual significance far exceeding the physical sustenance. The study employs a socio-rhetorical methodology and consequently moves from text to context. It tentatively describes the texts’ influence on the formation of early Christian identity and suggests that the Johannine meal accounts provide a way to imagine the demographic composition of the community and its historical context.

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BRILL

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9004223827

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Quakers in the British Atlantic World, C.1660-1800

By: Esther Sahle

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Quakers in the British Atlantic World, C.1660-1800

By: Esther Sahle

Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ethics they followed.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783275863

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To Storm Heaven

By: Esther M. Friesner

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To Storm Heaven

By: Esther M. Friesner

Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise must save a dying world!

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Simon and Schuster

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0671568388

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9780671568382

Envy, Poison, and Death

Women on Trial in Classical Athens

By: Esther Eidinow

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Envy, Poison, and Death

Women on Trial in Classical Athens

By: Esther Eidinow

This volume explores three trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE; the defendants were all women charged with undertaking ritual activities, but much of the evidence remains a mystery. The author reveals how these trials provide a vivid glimpse of the socio-political environment of Athens during the early-mid fourth century BCE.

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Oxford University Press

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0199562601

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Parenting with Reason

Evidence-Based Approaches to Parenting Dilemmas

By: Esther Yoder Strahan,Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.,J. Burton Banks

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Parenting with Reason

Evidence-Based Approaches to Parenting Dilemmas

By: Esther Yoder Strahan,Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.,J. Burton Banks

This is a rich common-sense manual on "evidence-based parenting." Grounded in the best research available, it provides parents with the evidence to help them make the "tough parenting decisions" that they face.

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Routledge

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1136989498

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9781136989490

Well at Work

Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace

By: Esther M. Sternberg, MD

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Well at Work

Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace

By: Esther M. Sternberg, MD

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 OWL AWARDS Full of science-backed tips on how to design any workspace for physical and emotional wellbeing, “Well at Work helps us thrive wherever we work.” (Arianna Huffington) Whether you work in a traditional office or a corner of your bedroom, staying well at work need not be a luxury. But wellness at work isn’t just about staying physically healthy; it’s also about reducing stress and improving mood, focus, energy, and productivity. Well at Work reveals how to optimize our workspaces for wellbeing across the seven domains of integrative health: stress and resilience, movement, sleep, relationships, environment, nutrition, and spirituality, and even the air we breathe. You’ll learn: How the environment you work in all day can affect your sleep at night Optimal lighting and noise levels for reducing stress and improving focus How to adjust temperature and humidity to stay alert and protect against infection Why open-plan offices can keep you more active The myriad benefits of access to nature (and how to bring nature indoors) Office layouts that foster social interactions but not distraction Foods to enhance cognitive performance And more Along the way, you’ll meet the scientists and doctors, designers and architects, and building science professionals who are striving to make workplaces more conducive to wellbeing. And you’ll glimpse into the future of the workplace, where artificial intelligence and the metaverse will help us create environments that respond to our individual needs. Above all, you’ll come away with a menu of simple, “innovative, and often overlooked” (Dr. Richard Carmona) steps anyone can take to be—and stay—well at work.

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Little, Brown Spark

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0316543055

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9780316543057

Multilevel Analysis of the PISA Data

Insights for Policy and Practice

By: Esther Sui Chu Ho

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Multilevel Analysis of the PISA Data

Insights for Policy and Practice

By: Esther Sui Chu Ho

Multilevel analysis can help to get deeper insights into factors that may have impact on schooling outcomes assessed in PISA. In this book, multilevel analysis is applied by linking student performance to the structure and processes of both the family and the school, the two major social contexts that exert powerful influence on young people. Essential/important policy issues including parental involvement, school decentralization, and medium of instruction are examined, and the possible relationship between these policies and student's achievement in light of the evidence collected in the first three cycles of the PISA study is explored. Besides, appreciating how researchers have used multilevel analysis in a variety of ways would be an effective path to learn it. The analysis in this book will add significantly to the storehouse of knowledge about the application of multilevel analysis in assessing the quality and equality of education in East Asian societies. The findings thereof would also serve as useful references for researchers, policymakers, school administrators, and teachers.

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9628908448

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9789628908448

Hollywood Flatlands

Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde

By: Esther Leslie

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Hollywood Flatlands

Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde

By: Esther Leslie

With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism. Focusing on the work of aesthetic and political revolutionaries of the inter-war period, Esther Leslie reveals how the animation of commodities can be studied as a journey into modernity in cinema. She looks afresh at the links between the Soviet Constructivists and the Bauhaus, for instance, and those between Walter Benjamin and cinematic abstraction. She also provides new interpretations of the writings of Siegfried Kracauer on animation, shows how Theodor Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's film viewing affected their intellectual development, and reconsiders Sergei Eisenstein's famous handshake with Mickey Mouse at Disney's Hyperion Studios in 1930.

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Verso Books

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1789609534

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9781789609530

The Limit of Responsibility

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics for a Globalizing Era

By: Esther D. Reed

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The Limit of Responsibility

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics for a Globalizing Era

By: Esther D. Reed

This volume frames the question of responsibility as a problem of agency in relation to the systems and structures of globalization. According to Ricoeur responsibility is a “shattered concept” when considered too narrowly as a problem of act, agency and individual freedom. To examine this Esther Reed develops a short genealogy of modern liberal and post-liberal concepts of responsibility in order to understand better the relationship dominant modern framings of the meanings of responsibility. Reed engages with writings by major modern (Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Weber) and post-liberal (Buber, Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, Butler, Young, Critchley) theorists to illustrate the shift from an ethnic responsibility built on notions of accountability and attributions to an ethic responsibility that starts variously from the 'other'. Reed sees Dietrich Bonhoeffer as the most promising partner of this theological dialogue, as his learning of responsibility from the risen Christ present now in the (global) church is a welcome provocation to new thinking about the meaning of responsibility learned from land, distant neighbour, (global) church and the bible. Bonhoeffer's reflections on the centre, boundaries and limits of responsibility remain helpful to Christian people struggling with an increasingly exhausted concept of accountability.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567679381

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9780567679383

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