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Educational Oases in the Desert

The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915

By: Jonathan Sciarcon

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Educational Oases in the Desert

The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915

By: Jonathan Sciarcon

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational institutions for local Jewish children. In addition to providing secular education, the schools attempted to change local customs and "regenerate" or "uplift" communities. Educational Oases in the Desert explores the largely forgotten history of the AIU's schools for girls in Ottoman Iraq. Drawing on extensive archival research, Jonathan Sciarcon argues that teachers viewed female education through a gendered lens linked to their understanding of an ideal modern society. As the primary educators of children, women were seen as society's key agents of socialization. The AIU thus concluded that its boys' schools would never succeed in creating polished, westernized men so long as women remained uneducated, leading to the creation of schools for girls. Sciarcon shows how headmistresses acted not just as educators but also as models of modernity, trying to impart new moral and aesthetic norms onto students.

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State University of New York Press

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1438465866

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Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

By: Jonathan Soffer

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Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

By: Jonathan Soffer

In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure. Unlike many American cities, Koch's New York was growing, not shrinking. Gentrification brought new businesses to neglected corners and converted low-end rental housing to coops and condos. Nevertheless, not all the changes were positive--AIDS, crime, homelessness, and violent racial conflict increased, marking a time of great, if somewhat uneven, transition. For better or worse, Koch's efforts convinced many New Yorkers to embrace a new political order subsidizing business, particularly finance, insurance, and real estate, and privatizing public space. Each phase of the city's recovery required a difficult choice between moneyed interests and social services, forcing Koch to be both a moderate and a pragmatist as he tried to mitigate growing economic inequality. Throughout, Koch's rough rhetoric (attacking his opponents as "crazy," "wackos," and "radicals") prompted charges of being racially divisive. The first book to recast Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews, and oral histories, this volume plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied yet crucial decades: the bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s.

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Columbia University Press

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0231150334

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Farming the Red Land

Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941

By: Jonathan L. Dekel-Chen

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Farming the Red Land

Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941

By: Jonathan L. Dekel-Chen

This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the remarkable relations that developed among the American-Jewish sponsors of the ambitious project, the Soviet authorities, and the colonists themselves. Drawing on extensive and largely untouched archives and a wealth of previously unpublished oral histories, the book revises what has been understood about these agricultural settlements. Dekel-Chen offers new conclusions about integration and separation among Soviet Jews, the contours of international relations, and the balance of political forces within the Jewish world during this volatile period.

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Yale University Press

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0300133928

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When Prophets Preach

Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit

By: Jonathan C. Augustine

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When Prophets Preach

Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit

By: Jonathan C. Augustine

In When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit, Jay Augustine urges twenty-first-century preachers to speak openly against social injustice, establishing such preaching as a key component of prophetic leadership. Beginning with the premise that the church was birthed to address salvation in the "kingdom-to-come" and social justice in the "kingdom-at-hand," Augustine presents prophetic preaching as part of the ministry of reconciliation Jesus left to the church. Addressing topics such as abusive immigration policies and racial injustices, he urges the church to return to its foundation of prophetic leadership as exemplified not only by Jesus but by the Old Testament prophets and the New Testament apostles. When Prophets Preach demonstrates that faithfulness to this ministry requires preachers to break the pulpit silence. Then the church can lead in bridging social and ethnic gaps among its members. It can show society at large how to heal many of the social, economic, and political divisions in our world, the very rifts that underscore the need for social justice ministries and that necessitate prophetic preaching.

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Fortress Press

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1506479197

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9781506479194

Document Analysis Systems II

By: Jonathan J. Hull,S.L. Taylor

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Document Analysis Systems II

By: Jonathan J. Hull,S.L. Taylor

This book provides an overview of the state of the art in research and development of systems for document image analysis. Topics covered include a variety of systems and architectures for processing document images as well as methods for converting those images into formats that can be manipulated by a computer. The chapters are written by recognized experts in the field and describe Systems and Architectures, Recognition Techniques, Graphics Analysis, Document Image Retrieval, and World Wide Web Applications.

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World Scientific

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9810231032

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Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

The Fundamentals

By: Adam Haycock,Jonathan Cohen,Brian P. Saunders,Peter B. Cotton,Christopher B. Williams

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Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

The Fundamentals

By: Adam Haycock,Jonathan Cohen,Brian P. Saunders,Peter B. Cotton,Christopher B. Williams

Translated into seven languages, Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has for the last 25 years been the basic primer for endoscopy around the world, providing clear, clinical and practical guidance on the fundamentals of endoscopy practice, from patient positioning and safety, how to perform different endoscopic procedures, and the latest in therapeutic techniques and advances in technology. It's key strength and reason for its popularity is its step-by-step, practical approach, especially with the use of outstanding colour artwork to illustrate the right and wrong ways to perform endoscopy. Add to this the weight and expertise of its author team, led by Peter Cotton and Christopher Williams, and the final result is an essential tool for all gastroenterologists and endoscopists, particularly trainees looking to improve their endoscopic technique. Joining Peter Cotton, Christopher Williams and Brian Saunders in the seventh edition are two exciting stars in UK and US endoscopy, Adam Haycock and Jonathan Cohen. New to this edition are: Approximately 35 high-quality videos illustrating optimum endoscopy practice, all referenced via “video eyes” in the text Self-assessment MCQs to test main learning points An online clinical photo imagebank to complement the line illustrations, perfect for downloading into scientific presentations Key learning points in every chapter Much more information on mucosal resection techniques and small bowel endoscopy—for capsule and “deep” enteroscopy The latest recommendations and guidelines from the ASGE, ASG, UEGW and BSG. Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, seventh edition is fully modernised, masterful as ever, and once again, the number one endoscopy manual for a whole new generation of gastroenterologists and endoscopists.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111840646X

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9781118406465

The Metabolic Ghetto

An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease

By: Jonathan C. K. Wells

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The Metabolic Ghetto

An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease

By: Jonathan C. K. Wells

Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are especially susceptible. In this book, Wells adopts a multidisciplinary approach to human nutrition, emphasising how power relations shape the physiological pathways to obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Part I reviews the physiological basis of chronic diseases, presenting a 'capacity-load' model that integrates the nutritional contributions of developmental experience and adult lifestyle. Part II presents an evolutionary perspective on the sensitivity of human metabolism to ecological stresses, highlighting how social hierarchy impacts metabolism on an intergenerational timescale. Part III reviews how nutrition has changed over time, as societies evolved and coalesced towards a single global economic system. Part IV integrates these physiological, evolutionary and politico-economic perspectives in a unifying framework, to deepen our understanding of the societal basis of metabolic ill-health.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316679365

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The Met

A History of a Museum and Its People

By: Jonathan Conlin

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The Met

A History of a Museum and Its People

By: Jonathan Conlin

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who bought, restored, catalogued, visited, and watched over these works tell us about the museum? This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings. Jonathan Conlin tells the stories of the people who have shaped the museum—from curators and artists to museumgoers and security guards—and the communities that have made it their own. Highlighting inequalities of wealth, race, and gender, he exposes the hidden costs of the museum’s reliance on “robber barons” and oligarchs, the exclusionary immigration policies that influenced the foundation of the American Wing, and the obstacles faced by women curators. Drawing on extensive interviews with past and current staff, Conlin brings the story up to the present, including the museum’s troubled 150th anniversary in 2020. As the Met faces continued controversy, this book offers a timely account of the people behind an iconic institution and a compelling case for the museum’s vision of shared human creativity.

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Columbia University Press

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0231556179

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9780231556170

Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?

By: Jonathan Fox,Lev Topor

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Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?

By: Jonathan Fox,Lev Topor

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Patterns of discrimination -- Chapter 3: Religious anti-semitism -- Chapter 4: Anti-Zionism and anti-Israel behavior and sentiment -- Chapter 5: Conspiracy theories -- Chapter 6: The British example -- Chapter 7: Conclusions -- Appendix A: Multivariate analyses and technical details.

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Oxford University Press

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0197580343

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Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

The Fundamentals

By: Catharine M. Walsh,Ahmir Ahmad,Brian P. Saunders,Jonathan Cohen,Peter B. Cotton,Christopher B. Williams

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Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

The Fundamentals

By: Catharine M. Walsh,Ahmir Ahmad,Brian P. Saunders,Jonathan Cohen,Peter B. Cotton,Christopher B. Williams

PRACTICAL GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY The fundamental guide to gastrointestinal endoscopy returns in a fully updated new edition For over forty years, Cotton and Williams’ Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has offered a clear, accessible introduction to the fundamentals of endoscopy, from patient positioning to the range of available procedures. Now updated by a new authorial team to reflect the latest advances in endoscopic procedures, this text promises to serve a new generation of trainees and specialists as the essential introduction to upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. Readers of the eighth edition of Cotton and Williams’ Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy will also find: Updated online resources including a downloadable bank of clinical images High-quality videos illustrating endoscopic practices and procedures, linked to specific points in the text Cotton and Williams’ Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy remains a must-own for all trainee and specialist gastroenterologists and endoscopists.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119525209

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A Lasting Peace

A Historical, Biblical, and Prophetic Lens on the Crisis in the Middle East

By: Jonathan Bernis

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A Lasting Peace

A Historical, Biblical, and Prophetic Lens on the Crisis in the Middle East

By: Jonathan Bernis

The crisis in the Middle East is not a political issue. It's a spiritual issue. Rapidly unfolding events in the Middle East will shape the future, not just of Israel but of our entire world. This insightful commentary by Rabbi Jonathan Bernis combines historical, biblical, and prophetic teaching to help you understand what's happening and how Believers should respond to these events. Drawing from the perspective of a Jewish Believer in Jesus, this book provides a biblical understanding of the complex issues continuing to unfold in the Middle East today and how they relate to key prophecy in Scripture. Discover why there is constant upheaval in the Middle East, what to watch for in the days ahead, and whether peace is really possible. Other books by Rabbi Jonathan Bernis include: Unlocking the Prophetic Mysteries of Israel A Hope and A Future

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162999586X

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Lowly Origin

Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up

By: Jonathan Kingdon

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Lowly Origin

Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up

By: Jonathan Kingdon

Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do many of the things that apes cannot do: cross wide open spaces, manipulate complex tools, communicate with new signal systems, and light fires. Titled after the last two words of Darwin's Descent of Man and written by a leading scholar of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the first book to explain the sources and consequences of bipedalism to a broad audience. Along the way, it accounts for recent fossil discoveries that show us a still incomplete but much bushier family tree than most of us learned about in school. Jonathan Kingdon uses the very latest findings from ecology, biogeography, and paleontology to build a new and up-to-date account of how four-legged apes became two-legged hominins. He describes what it took to get up onto two legs as well as the protracted consequences of that step--some of which led straight to modern humans and others to very different bipeds. This allows him to make sense of recently unearthed evidence suggesting that no fewer than twenty species of humans and hominins have lived and become extinct. Following the evolution of two-legged creatures from our earliest lowly forebears to the present, Kingdon concludes with future options for the last surviving biped. A major new narrative of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the best available account of what it meant--and what it means--to walk on two feet.

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Princeton University Press

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0691223440

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Rush University Medical Center Review of Surgery E-Book

By: Jonathan A. Myers,Minh B. Luu,Keith W. Millikan,Bruce A. Orkin,Steven D. Bines,Edie Y. Chan,Edward F. Hollinger

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Rush University Medical Center Review of Surgery E-Book

By: Jonathan A. Myers,Minh B. Luu,Keith W. Millikan,Bruce A. Orkin,Steven D. Bines,Edie Y. Chan,Edward F. Hollinger

Study efficiently and effectively for high-stakes surgery exams with this superb review tool. Rush University Medical Center Review of Surgery, 6th Edition, has been thoroughly updated with new questions and answers in all chapters, and content has been revised to reflect what is most important on today's exams. A broad range of surgical topics provide a complete review of the information you need to know. - Comprehensive coverage of both general surgery and surgical subspecialties in a user-friendly question-and-answer format that mimics actual exams. - More than 1,500 peer-reviewed questions mirror standardized test blueprints. - Single best answer format provides a realistic exam simulation. - Questions are followed by answers and explanations, with rationales backed up by references to leading texts and references. - Ideal for residents in training, surgeons preparing for certification or recertification exams, and experienced clinicians who need to stay up to date with current practices and recent advances. - Written by one of the premier general surgery departments in the U.S., with a new editorial team led by Dr. Jonathan A. Myers. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323549594

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9780323549592

Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery

Gynecology

By: Tommaso Falcone,M. Jean Uy-Kroh,Linda Bradley,Jonathan S. Berek

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Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery

Gynecology

By: Tommaso Falcone,M. Jean Uy-Kroh,Linda Bradley,Jonathan S. Berek

The first in a new four-volume series, Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery: Gynecology provides superbly illustrated, authoritative guidance on operative techniques along with a thorough understanding of how to select the best procedure, how to avoid complications, and what outcomes to expect. Easy to follow, up to date, and highly visual, this step-by-step reference covers the most common operations in gynecology and is ideal for residents and physicians in daily practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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149636774X

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9781496367747

Growing Business Innovation

Developing, Promoting and Protecting IP

By: Jonathan Reuvid

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Growing Business Innovation

Developing, Promoting and Protecting IP

By: Jonathan Reuvid

Innovation is fundamental to business, which in turn contributes to economies and societies moving forward. Traditionally it means ‘a new idea, device, technique or method’ but increasingly it now refers to ideas that provide better solutions, meet the needs or even provide the answers to something not yet a problem.Growing Business Innovation addresses areas such as collaboration, challenges for large and small organisations, measuring innovation and getting a return on your investment. It provides answers to questions such as:•How do innovation and AI interact•Can the innovation gap between corporates and SMEs be filled?•What are the options for brand protection and dispute resolution?•How can you claim R&D tax credits?•How can business growth be achieved through industry-academia interactions?•What is the impact of GDPR on IP work?•How can you manage IP in your start-up business?•How can business growth be achieved industry-academia interactions?No matter what stage, innovation needs nurturing and this book will act as an invaluable guide with support and advice from authors who are themselves innovators.

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Legend Press

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1789550270

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9781789550276

Evolution

The Origins and Mechanisms of Diversity

By: Jonathan Bard

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Evolution

The Origins and Mechanisms of Diversity

By: Jonathan Bard

Evolution is the single unifying principle of biology and core to everything in the life sciences. More than a century of work by scientists from across the biological spectrum has produced a detailed history of life across the phyla and explained the mechanisms by which new species form. This textbook covers both this history and the mechanisms of speciation; it also aims to provide students with the background needed to read the research literature on evolution. Students will therefore learn about cladistics, molecular phylogenies, the molecular-genetical basis of evolutionary change including the important role of protein networks, symbionts and holobionts, together with the core principles of developmental biology. The book also includes introductory appendices that provide background knowledge on, for example, the diversity of life today, fossils, the geology of Earth and the history of evolutionary thought. Key Features Summarizes the origins of life and the evolution of the eukaryotic cell and of Urbilateria, the last common ancestor of invertebrates and vertebrates. Reviews the history of life across the phyla based on the fossil record and computational phylogenetics. Explains evo-devo and the generation of anatomical novelties. Illustrates the roles of small populations, genetic drift, mutation and selection in speciation. Documents human evolution using the fossil record and evidence of dispersal across the world leading to the emergence of modern humans.

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CRC Press

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1000483215

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The Damascus Affair

'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840

By: Jonathan Frankel

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The Damascus Affair

'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840

By: Jonathan Frankel

A Jewish delegation led by Sir Moses Montefiore and Adolphe Cremieux was sent to the Middle East in the hope of discovering the real murderers.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521483964

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9780521483964

Self-Made Man

Human Evolution From Eden to Extinction

By: Jonathan Kingdon

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Self-Made Man

Human Evolution From Eden to Extinction

By: Jonathan Kingdon

One of the most original and illuminating of books on human evolution." — Alison Jolly Princeton University Human Evolution from Eden to Extinction? "A major achievement . . . rich and bursting at the seams." — Elspeth Huxley "A deeply personal, challenging, and important book." — Roger Lewin The New Scientist "With the eyes of an artist and the mind of a scientist, Kingdon gazes into the past." — Times Literary Supplement "A provocative and lively saga of human origins." — Publishers Weekly "Thought-provoking, information-packed fare for general readers as well as paleoanthropology buffs. — Kirkus Reviews

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