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Sissy

A Coming-of-Gender Story

By: Jacob Tobia

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review (A Paperback Row Pick) A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above. "A beautiful book . . . honest and funny."--Trevor Noah, The Daily Show "Sensational."--Tyler Oakley "Jacob Tobia is a force." --Good Morning America "A trans Nora Ephron . . . both honest and didactic." --OUT Magazine "A rallying cry for anyone who's ever felt like they don't belong." --Woman's Day As a young child in North Carolina, Jacob Tobia wasn't the wrong gender, they just had too much of the stuff. Barbies? Yes. Playing with bugs? Absolutely. Getting muddy? Please. Princess dresses? You betcha. Jacob wanted it all, but because they were "a boy," they were told they could only have the masculine half. Acting feminine labelled them "a sissy" and brought social isolation. It took Jacob years to discover that being "a sissy" isn't something to be ashamed of. It's a source of pride. Following Jacob through bullying and beauty contests, from Duke University to the United Nations to the podiums of the Methodist church--not to mention the parlors of the White House--this unforgettable memoir contains multitudes. A deeply personal story of trauma and healing, a powerful reflection on gender and self-acceptance, and a hilarious guidebook for wearing tacky clip-on earrings in today's world, Sissy guarantees you'll never think about gender--both other people's and your own--the same way again.

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0735218846

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Sissy

A Coming-of-Gender Story

By: Jacob Tobia

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A Coming-of-Gender Story

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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)

The Antique as Innovation

By: Dirk Jacob Jansen

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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)

The Antique as Innovation

By: Dirk Jacob Jansen

In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation, Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515–Vienna 1588). His manifold activities — also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic and scholarly advisor of powerful patrons such as Hans Jakob Fugger, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II — are examined in detail, and studied within the context of the cosmopolitan learned and courtly environments in which he moved. These volumes offer a substantial reassessment of Strada’s importance as an agent of change, transmitting the ideas and artistic language of the Italian Renaissance to the North.

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BRILL

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9004359494

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9789004359499

Chaldeans in Detroit

By: Jacob Bacall

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Chaldeans in Detroit

By: Jacob Bacall

In greater Detroit, Chaldeans from present-day Iraq have established a strong presence and a thriving community. Chaldeans (pronounced Kal-de'an) are a distinct ethnic group from present-day Iraq with roots stretching back to Abraham, the biblical patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam who was from the Ur of the Chaldees. Chaldeans are Catholic, with their own patriarch, and they speak a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ. Chaldeans began immigrating to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, when Iraq was known as Mesopotamia (the Greek word meaning land between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates). Lured by Henry Ford's promise of $5 per day, many Chaldeans went to work in Detroit's automotive factories. They soon followed their entrepreneurial instincts to open their own businesses, typically grocery markets and corner stores. Religious persecution has caused tens of thousands of Chaldeans to relocate to Michigan. Today, the Greater Detroit area has the largest concentration of Chaldeans outside of Iraq: 150,000 people.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467112550

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A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part V

Later Sasanian Times

By: Jacob Neusner

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A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part V

Later Sasanian Times

By: Jacob Neusner

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and rabbinical ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, ' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

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1606080784

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A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part II

The Early Sasanian Period

By: Jacob Neusner

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A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part II

The Early Sasanian Period

By: Jacob Neusner

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Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan

By: Jacob Bacall

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Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan

By: Jacob Bacall

The Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan, more commonly known as CIAAM, was not simply an association of just a group of early immigrants who escaped prosecution or were merely looking for better life for their family and loved ones. They were indeed good-hearted individuals who strived to build a solid foundation for a well-rounded community in this new land for the immigrants, the United States of America. The CIAAM exemplifies the success of immigrants that have migrated to Detroit from Iraq, providing a place for social gatherings, community discussions, family celebrations, and education to those yearning to learn more about the Chaldeans of Mesopotamia, their successful migration to America, and the contributions they are making in Michigan. Today, CIAAM has more than 900 active families as members, strengthening the recreational, social, and business bonds among the large "family" of Michigan Chaldeans.

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A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part IV

The Age of Shapur II

By: Jacob Neusner

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A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part IV

The Age of Shapur II

By: Jacob Neusner

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1606080776

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The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar

By: Jacob A. Lollar

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The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar

By: Jacob A. Lollar

The Doctrine of Addai tells the story of how Christianity came to the Syrian city of Edessa. It incorporates and adapts a correspondence between Jesus and the Syrian king Abgar, who wrote to Jesus requesting healing from a long-term illness. In his response, Jesus promises to send him an apostle, Addai (sometimes called Thaddaeus), who will heal Abgar’s disease and establish Christianity in his kingdom. The exchange between Jesus and Abgar and Edessa’s subsequent evangelization by Addai functions as a founding myth for Christianity in the region, which likely did become Christian under a later King Abgar in the early third century. But the activities and interactions of Addai in Edessa reflect a later time: the fifth century, when Christians in the East were embroiled in a conflict over reforms enacted by the Bishop Rabbula. These complexities of Syrian Christian history are all made clear in the introduction and rich commentary that accompanies this updated English translation of the Doctrine of Addai and related texts—including early witnesses to the Abgar/Jesus Correspondence in papyri and inscriptions, and selections from the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, the Acts of Thaddaeus, and the Acts of Mar Mari.

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1666752088

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The Literature of Formative Judaism

The Midrash Compilations

By: Jacob Neusner

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The Literature of Formative Judaism

The Midrash Compilations

By: Jacob Neusner

First published in 1991. This is Volume XI, Part II of a set of twenty volumes of essays and articles on the religion, history and literature on the origins of Judaism. This text looks at to the canon, or holy literature, of Judaism. That literature covers what is called “the Oral Torah.” To understand the concept of the Oral Torah, we have to return to the generative myth of the Judaism that has predominated. For that Judaism appeals to a theory of revelation in two media of formulation and transmission, written and oral, in books and in memory. The written Torah is the Pentateuch and encompasses the whole of the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel (the “Old Testament”). The Oral Torah is ultimately contained in and written down as the Mishnah, expanded and amplified by Tosefta, and the two Talmuds, on the one side, and the Midrash-compilations that serve to explain the written Torah, on the other.

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1136546952

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Prognosis Disaster

The Environment, Climate Change, Human Influences, Vectors, Disease and the Possible End of Humanity?

By: David Arieti,Jacob Nieva,Randolph Swiller MD,Randolph Swiller

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Prognosis Disaster

The Environment, Climate Change, Human Influences, Vectors, Disease and the Possible End of Humanity?

By: David Arieti,Jacob Nieva,Randolph Swiller MD,Randolph Swiller

PROGNOSIS DISASTER is a book about human induced environmental change and disease. Climate change, global warming and deforestation threaten human, animal and plant populations with disease more virulent than previously known. The majority of this book deals with how human influence the creation and spread of diseases old and new. This book will be useful as a reference on disease and environmental science, and as a call to action. Unless we take active measures now to stem pollution and greed, all life on the planet is doomed. The choice is yours.

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The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

By: M. Jacob,C. Secretan

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The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

By: M. Jacob,C. Secretan

A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.

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0230613802

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Ambivalent Childhoods

Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child

By: Jacob Breslow

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Ambivalent Childhoods

Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child

By: Jacob Breslow

Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible The concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent meanings that have extraordinary implications, particularly for those staking their claim for belonging and justice on the wish for inclusion within it. In Ambivalent Childhoods, Jacob Breslow examines contemporary U.S. social justice movements (including Black Lives Matter, transfeminism, queer youth activism, and antideportation movements) to discover and reveal how childhood operates within and against them. Ambivalent Childhoods brings together critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories to explore the role of childhood in shaping and challenging the disposability of young black life, the steadfastness of the gender binary, the queer life of children’s desires, and the precarious status of migrants. Through an engagement with“the psychic life of the child” that combines theoretical discussions of childhood, blackness, transfeminism, and deportability with critical readings of films, narrative, images, and social justice movements, Breslow demonstrates how childhood requires sustained attention as a complex and ambivalent site for contesting the workings of power, not only for the young. Ambivalent Childhoods is a forward-thinking and intersectional analysis of how childhood affects activism, national belonging, and the violence directed against queer, trans, and racialized people.

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1452962022

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Sissy

Sissy

Sissy

Sissy

Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)

Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)

Chaldeans in Detroit

Chaldeans in Detroit

A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part V

A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part V

A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part II

A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part II

Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan

Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan

A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part IV

A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part IV

The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar

The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar

The Literature of Formative Judaism

The Literature of Formative Judaism

Prognosis Disaster

Prognosis Disaster

The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

Ambivalent Childhoods

Ambivalent Childhoods

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