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In with the Devil

A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

By: James Keene,Hillel Levin

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In with the Devil

A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

By: James Keene,Hillel Levin

The basis for the Apple TV+ show Black Bird. In with the Devil presents the true story of a young man destined for greatness on the football field—until a few wrong turns led him to a ten-year prison sentence. He was offered an impossible mission: Coax a confession out of a fellow inmate, a serial killer, and walk free. Jimmy Keene grew up outside of Chicago. Although he was the son of a policeman and rubbed shoulders with the city's elite, he ended up on the wrong side of the law and was sentenced to ten years with no chance of parole. Just a few months into his sentence, Keene was approached by the prosecutor who put him behind bars. He had convicted a man named Larry Hall for abducting and killing a fifteen-year-old. Although Hall was suspected of killing nineteen other young women, there was a chance he could still be released on appeal. If Keene could get him to confess to two murders, there would be no doubt about Hall's guilt. In return, Keene would get an unconditional release from prison. But he could also get killed. A story that gained national notoriety, this is Keene's powerful tale of peril, violence, and redemption.

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Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret

By: Hillel Levin

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Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret

By: Hillel Levin

This bombshell investigation from the co-author of Black Bird reveals a cold case gone wrong that cleared a murderer and imprisoned an innocent man. In March 1993, sixteen-year-old Rayna Rison was abducted outside the La Porte, Indiana, veterinary hospital where she worked. A month later, her body was found submerged under tree limbs in a rural pond. Police targeted her brother-in-law, Ray McCarty, as the prime suspect. Although a grand jury indicted him for the murder in 1998, prosecutors later dropped the charges. Then in 2013, county officers arrested Jason Tibbs, Rayna’s middle-school boyfriend, convicted him, and sentenced him to forty years in prison. After a two-year investigation, drawing on dozens of interviews and more than a thousand pages of police files, author Hillel Levin completes the case against McCarty, following clues and leads that detectives overlooked. In the process, he reveals startling new information about the killer’s murder weapon and accomplices, and uncovers the politics and misconduct that enabled the prosecutor to convict Jason Tibbs. Although cold cases are celebrated in popular culture, Jason’s trial shows the perils they can pose for innocent defendants. At the heart of Submerged is the tragic story of Rayna Rison, an exceptional young woman with a promising future whose family and justice system failed to keep her from harm. Ironically, the person now held accountable for her murder is the friend she most saw as her protector.

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In with the Devil

A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

By: James Keene,Hillel Levin

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A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

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Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret

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Black Bird

One Man's Freedom Hides in Another Man's Darkness

By: James Keene,Hillel Levin

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Black Bird

One Man's Freedom Hides in Another Man's Darkness

By: James Keene,Hillel Levin

Featured on Dateline and CNN, Black Bird is the true story of a young man destined for greatness on the football field—until a few wrong turns led him to a ten-year prison sentence. He was offered an impossible mission: Coax a confession out of a fellow inmate, a serial killer, and walk free. James Keene grew up outside of Chicago. Although he was the son of a policeman and rubbed shoulders with the city's elite, he ended up on the wrong side of the law and was sentenced to ten years with no chance of parole. Just a few months into his sentence, Keene was approached by the prosecutor who put him behind bars. He had convicted a man named Larry Hall for abducting and killing a fifteen-year-old. Although Hall was suspected of killing nineteen other young women, there was a chance he could still be released on appeal. If Keene could get him to confess to two murders, there would be no doubt about Hall's guilt. In return, Keene would get an unconditional release from prison. But he could also get killed. A story that gained national notoriety, Black Bird is James Keene's powerful tale of peril, violence, and redemption.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1250879507

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The Metaphysics of Action

Trying, Doing, Causing

By: David-Hillel Ruben

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The Metaphysics of Action

Trying, Doing, Causing

By: David-Hillel Ruben

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person.

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Springer

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3319903470

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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

By: Hillel Cohen

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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

By: Hillel Cohen

A new and provocative reassessment of the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict

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Brandeis University Press

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1611688116

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The Culture of the Copy

Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

By: Hillel Schwartz

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The Culture of the Copy

Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

By: Hillel Schwartz

A novel attempt to make sense of our preoccupation with copies of all kinds—from counterfeits to instant replay, from parrots to photocopies. The Culture of the Copy is a novel attempt to make sense of the Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. In a work that is breathtaking in its synthetic and critical achievements, Hillel Schwartz charts the repercussions of our entanglement with copies of all kinds, whose presence alternately sustains and overwhelms us. This updated edition takes notice of recent shifts in thought with regard to such issues as biological cloning, conjoined twins, copyright, digital reproduction, and multiple personality disorder. At once abbreviated and refined, it will be of interest to anyone concerned with problems of authenticity, identity, and originality. Through intriguing, and at times humorous, historical analysis and case studies in contemporary culture, Schwartz investigates a stunning array of simulacra: counterfeits, decoys, mannequins, and portraits; ditto marks, genetic cloning, war games, and camouflage; instant replays, digital imaging, parrots, and photocopies; wax museums, apes, and art forgeries—not to mention the very notion of the Real McCoy. Working through a range of theories on biological, mechanical, and electronic reproduction, Schwartz questions the modern esteem for authenticity and uniqueness. The Culture of the Copy shows how the ethical dilemmas central to so many fields of endeavor have become inseparable from our pursuit of copies—of the natural world, of our own creations, indeed of our very selves. The book is an innovative blend of microsociology, cultural history, and philosophical reflection, of interest to anyone concerned with problems of authenticity, identity, and originality. Praise for the first edition “[T]he author... brings his considerable synthetic powers to bear on our uneasy preoccupation with doubles, likenesses, facsimiles, replicas and re-enactments. I doubt that these cultural phenomena have ever been more comprehensively or more creatively chronicled.... [A] book that gets you to see the world anew, again.” —The New York Times “A sprightly and disconcerting piece of cultural history” —Terence Hawkes, London Review of Books “In The Culture of the Copy, [Schwartz] has written the perfect book: original and repetitive at once.” —Todd Gitlin, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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MIT Press

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193540850X

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Defiant Prophets

Jonah, Balaam, Jeremiah and Their Rebellion Against God

By: Hillel I. Millgram

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Defiant Prophets

Jonah, Balaam, Jeremiah and Their Rebellion Against God

By: Hillel I. Millgram

This book examines the tales of three remarkable figures of the biblical world: the tragic prophet Jeremiah, and the two atypical prophets Jonah and Balaam. Jeremiah was cursed from birth and condemned to a lifelong losing battle against national disaster. Jonah was notorious for his connection with a whale, whereas Balaam was best known as the owner of a talking donkey. Yet these prophets (servants of their deity) are portrayed as rebels against their god. This book contends that these tales, beyond their intrinsic appeal as stories, were written to serve as metaphors. Although set in ancient times and in the exotic Near East, the issues that underlie these gripping tales are not unfamiliar to modern times and Western lives. These prophets represent "everyman" and these unusual dramas explore the phenomenon of revolt against restrictive conditions and against authority.

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McFarland

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1476686777

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A Zionist Among Palestinians

By: Hillel Bardin

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A Zionist Among Palestinians

By: Hillel Bardin

A Zionist among Palestinians offers the perspective of an ordinary Israeli citizen who became concerned about the Israeli military's treatment of Palestinians and was moved to work for peace. Hillel Bardin, a confirmed Zionist, was a reservist in the Israeli army during the first intifada when he met Palestinians arrested by his unit. He learned that they supported peace with Israel and the then-taboo proposal for a two-state solution, and that they understood the intifada as a struggle to achieve these goals. Bardin began to organize dialogues between Arabs and Israelis in West Bank villages, towns, and refugee camps. In 1988, he was jailed for meeting with Palestinians while on active duty in Ramallah. Over the next two decades, he participated in a variety of peace organizations and actions, from arranging for Israelis to visit Palestinian communities and homes, to the joint jogging group "Runners for Peace," to marches, political organizing, and demonstrations supporting peace, security, and freedom. In this very personal account, Bardin tries to come to grips with the conflict in a way that takes account of both Israeli-Zionist and Palestinian aims.

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Indiana University Press

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0253002117

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9780253002112

The Natural History of the Bible

An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures

By: Daniel Hillel

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The Natural History of the Bible

An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures

By: Daniel Hillel

Combining his scientific work as an ecologist with a life-long study of the Bible, Daniel Hillel offers fresh perspectives on biblical views of the environment and the origin of ethical monotheism.

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Columbia University Press

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0231133626

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9780231133623

Yehuda Halevi

By: Hillel Halkin

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Yehuda Halevi

By: Hillel Halkin

A profile of the Zionist poet and philosopher offers insight into his representation of 11th- and 12th-century Andalusian Spain, analyzes the religious disciplines that informed his work and traces his fateful voyage to Palestine.

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Jewish Encounters

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0805242066

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9780805242065

Blood Inscriptions

Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

By: Hillel J. Kieval

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Blood Inscriptions

Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

By: Hillel J. Kieval

Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were surprisingly widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn to the twentieth century. Well over one hundred accusations were made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government officials in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia broke with long established precedent to bring six of these cases forward in sensational public trials. In Blood Inscriptions Hillel J. Kieval examines four cases—the prosecutions that took place at Tiszaeszlár in Hungary (1882-83), Xanten in Germany (1891-92), Polná in Austrian Bohemia (1899-1900), and Konitz, then Germany, now in Poland (1900-1902)—to consider the means by which discredited beliefs came to seem once again plausible. Kieval explores how educated elites took up the accusations of Jewish ritual murder and considers the roles played by government bureaucracies, the journalistic establishment, forensic medicine, and advanced legal practices in structuring the investigations and trials. The prosecutors, judges, forensic scientists, criminologists, and academic scholars of Judaism and other expert witnesses all worked hard to establish their epistemological authority as rationalists, Kieval contends. Far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, these ritual murder trials were in all respects a product of post-Enlightenment politics and culture. Harnessed to and disciplined by the rhetoric of modernity, they were able to proceed precisely because they were framed by the idioms of scientific discourse and rationality.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812298381

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9780812298383

Environmental Soil Physics

Fundamentals, Applications, and Environmental Considerations

By: Daniel Hillel

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Environmental Soil Physics

Fundamentals, Applications, and Environmental Considerations

By: Daniel Hillel

Environmental Soil Physics is a completely updated and modified edition of the Daniel Hillels previous, successful books, Introduction to Soil Physics and Fundamentals of Soil Physics. Hillel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, one of the true leaders in the field of environmental sciences. The new version includes a chapter and problems on computational techniques, addresses current environmental concerns and trends. - Updates and expands the scope of Hillel's prior works, Fundamentals of Soil Physics (1980)and Applications of Soil Physics (1980) - Explores the wide range of interactions among the phases in the soil and the dynamic interconnections of the soil with the subterranean and atmospheric domains - Draws attention to historical and contemporary issues concerning the human management of soil and water resources - Directs readers toward solution of practical problems in terrestrial ecology, field-scale hydrology, agronomy, and civil engineering - Incorporates contributions by leading scientists in the areas of spatial variability, soil remediation, and the inclusion of land-surface processes in global climate models

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Elsevier

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0080544150

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9780080544151

Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics

By: Daniel Hillel

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Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics

By: Daniel Hillel

An abridged, student-oriented edition of Hillel's earlier published Environmental Soil Physics, Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics is a more succinct elucidation of the physical principles and processes governing the behavior of soil and the vital role it plays in both natural and managed ecosystems. The textbook is self-contained and self-explanatory, with numerous illustrations and sample problems. Based on sound fundamental theory, the textbook leads to a practical consideration of soil as a living system in nature and illustrates the influences of human activity upon soil structure and function. Students, as well as other readers, will better understand the importance of soils and the pivotal possition they occupy with respect to careful and knowledgeable conservation. - Written in an engaging and clear style, posing and resolving issues relevant to the terrestrial environment - Explores the gamut of the interactions among the phases in the soil and the dynamic interconnection of the soil with the subterranean and atmospheric domains - Reveals the salient ideas, approaches, and methods of environmental soil physics - Includes numerous illustrative exercises, which are explicitly solved - Designed to serve for classroom and laboratory instruction, for self-study, and for reference - Oriented toward practical problems in ecology, field-scale hydrology, agronomy, and civil engineering - Differs from earlier texts in its wider scope and holistic environmental conception

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008049577X

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Luck and Chutzpah

Against All Odds

By: Hans G. Kahn,Hillel Halkin

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Luck and Chutzpah

Against All Odds

By: Hans G. Kahn,Hillel Halkin

The story takes us up to the present day.

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Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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9652291595

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9789652291592

Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus

1996 Edition

By: Princeton Review,Hillel

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Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus

1996 Edition

By: Princeton Review,Hillel

The Princeton Review, the nation's leading test preparation company, and Hillel, the largest and most experienced Jewish campus organization in the world, have combined their expertise to create a unique guide to college for Jewish students. Includes about 500 colleges in the U.S. and abroad.

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Princeton Review

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0679769145

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9780679769149

Black Bird

By: James Keene,Hillel Levin

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Black Bird

By: James Keene,Hillel Levin

Infiltré auprès d'un tueur en série : quand la réalité dépasse toutes les fictions ! James Keene avait tout pour réussir. Fils d'une famille influente de la banlieue de Chicago, star de l'équipe de football, fêtard invétéré aux revenus confortables, sa trajectoire semble auréolée de succès. Mais en 1996, ce joli mensonge s'écroule : James est jugé pour trafic de drogue et condamné à dix ans de prison. Le FBI lui propose alors un deal complètement fou : sa peine sera annulée s'il aide les fédéraux à piéger un serial killer, Larry Hall. Soupçonné d'une vingtaine d'assassinats, le tueur a été inculpé pour un seul d'entre eux lors d'un procès qui risque fort d'être révisé en appel. Et son intelligence est redoutable. La mission de James ? Amener Larry Hall à se confesser pour le faire tomber, définitivement. Keene hésite, puis accepte de relever le défi. Quelques jours plus tard, il est transféré dans l'unité psychiatrique de la prison de haute sécurité dévolue aux criminels les plus dangereux, où Hall est détenu. Seuls le directeur et le psychiatre en chef sont au courant de sa mission. Là, au milieu des psychopathes, il va devoir gagner la confiance du plus inquiétant d'entre eux pour lui faire avouer où il a caché le corps de ses victimes. Cet incroyable scénario n'a rien d'une fiction. Avec un sens de l'intrigue et du suspense digne des plus grands romanciers, le journaliste Hillel Levin, en collaboration avec James Keene, nous livre un document incroyable, qui va ravir tous les amateurs de true crime... et dont on n'a pas fini d'entendre parler, puisque l'adaptation en série, portée par le grand Dennis Lehane, est déjà disponible sur Apple TV+ avec Ray Liotta (Les Affranchis) et Taron Egerton (Kingsman) dans les rôles principaux.

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Sonatine

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238399071X

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