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Centered of Learning

Britain, France, Germany, United States

By: Joseph Ben-David

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Centered of Learning

Britain, France, Germany, United States

By: Joseph Ben-David

The universities of Britain, France, Germany, and the United States stem from a common European academic tradition and are today among the most influential and powerful in the world. Each has cultivated a high degree of scientific excellence and intellectual autonomy and has served as a model for world higher education. Yet these four systems are structurally distinct and show considerably different patterns of development. In Centers of Learning Joseph Ben-David explores these differences and provides insight into the role and scope of contemporary higher education. Although the movement toward modem systems grew out of shared convictions and practical needs, Ben-David's comparative analysis shows that educational reform had surprisingly different consequences in America, England, Germany, and France. In France, higher education became identified with the purposes and authority of the state through specialized training for various professionals. In contrast, the German reforms consolidated the scholarly disciplines under a highly centralized university system with no special status accorded to the professional faculties. In England, Oxford and Cambridge adopted the German model, but smaller specialized institutions established a tradition of academic diversity and community 'service. The modernization of the American system followed the European reforms in updating the scientific curriculum and following the university model, but with a special emphasis on extending higher educational status to a broad strata of the population. In assessing the development of these systems, Ben-David finds their greatest success in extending the prestige and benefits of higher learning to the professions. General education, while strong in America, has suffered in the European systems, especially through its slackening ties to research. Centers of Learning contains a forceful critique of the politicization of the academy. Ben-David sees the furthering of social justice and equality as a necessary, though controlled part of the university's mission. Uncontrolled, political criticism will have the potential for disrupting educational functions and undermining the relationship between the university and society. In undertaking a historical survey of national education endeavors, this volume clarifies the contexts of current problems and inadequacies. Its broad-ranging analyses and proposed solutions make it essential reading for educators, social historians, political scientists, and sociologists.

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1560006048

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Just Trade

A New Covenant Linking Trade and Human Rights

By: Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol,Stephen Joseph Powell

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Just Trade

A New Covenant Linking Trade and Human Rights

By: Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol,Stephen Joseph Powell

In the mid-1940s, once the full impact of World War II was assessed, the world witnessed major legal developments in both modern trade and human rights. Since then, volumes have been written about modern trade law, and human rights law has seen an equal amount of attention. While these topics constitute two of the most active spheres in international law, follow similar intellectual trajectories, and often feature the same key actors and arenas, neither field has actively engaged with the other. They co-exist in relative isolation at best, peppered by occasional hostile debates. It has come to be a given that pro-trade laws are not good for human rights, and legislation that protects human rights hampers vibrant international trade.In a bold departure from this canon, "Just Trade" makes a case for reaching a middle-ground between these two fields, acknowledging their co-existence and the significant points at which they overlap. Using actual examples from many of the thirty-five nations of the Western Hemisphere, the authors - one a human rights scholar and the other specializing in trade law - carefully combine their expertise to examine human rights policies involving conscripted child labor, sustainable development, promotion of health, equality of women, human trafficking, indigenous peoples, poverty, citizenship, and economic sanctions, never overlooking the very real human rights problems that arise from international trade.However, instead of viewing the two kinds of law as isolated, polar, and sometimes hostile opposites, Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol and Stephen J. Powell make powerful suggestions for how these intersections may be navigated to promote an international marketplace that embraces both liberal trade and liberal protection of human rights.

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0814785794

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Centers of Learning

Britain, France, Germany, United States

By: Joseph Ben-David

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Britain, France, Germany, United States

By: Joseph Ben-David

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1351529668

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Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History

By: Joseph Dan

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Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History

By: Joseph Dan

Annotation "An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism ... scholarly and complex."--Library Journal"An excellent work, clear and solidly documented by Joseph Dan on Gershom Scholem and on his work."--Notes Bibliographiques"An excellent guide to Scholem's work."--Christian Century.

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0814718124

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The Israeli Economy

A Story of Success and Costs

By: Joseph Zeira

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The Israeli Economy

A Story of Success and Costs

By: Joseph Zeira

An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the present In 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries in the world. The Israeli Economy tells the story of this remarkable transformation, shedding critical new light on Israel's rapid economic growth. Joseph Zeira takes readers from those early days to today, describing how Israel's economic development occurred amid intense fighting with the Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries. He reveals how the new state's astonishing growth continued into the early 1970s, and traces this growth to public investment in education and to large foreign transfers. Zeira analyzes the costs of the Arab-Israeli conflict, demonstrating how economic output could be vastly greater with a comprehensive peace. He discusses how Israel went through intensive neoliberal economic policies in recent decades, and shows how these policies not only failed to enhance economic performance, but led to significant social inequality. Based on more than two decades of groundbreaking research, The Israeli Economy is an in-depth survey of a modern economy that has experienced rapid growth, wars, immigration waves, and other significant shocks. It thus offers important lessons for nations around the world.

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Princeton University Press

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0691229708

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Galilean Spaces of Identity

Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee

By: Joseph Scales

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Galilean Spaces of Identity

Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee

By: Joseph Scales

We understand the world around us in terms of built spaces. Such spaces are shaped by human activity, and in turn, affect how people live. Through an analysis of archaeological and textual evidence from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the First Jewish War against Rome, this book explores how Judaism was socially expressed: bodily, communally, and regionally. Within each expression, certain aspects of Jewish identity operate, these being purity conceptions, communal gatherings, and Galilee's relationship with the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem, and the Temple in its final days.

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900469255X

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Science and Society

Studies in the Sociology of Science

By: Joseph Agassi

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Science and Society

Studies in the Sociology of Science

By: Joseph Agassi

If a science has to be supported by fraudulent means, let it perish. " With these words of Kepler, Agassi plunges into the actual troubles and glories of science (321). The SOciology of science is no foreign intruder upon scientific knowledge in these essays, for we see clearly how Agassi transforms the tired internalistJexternalist debate about the causal influences in the history of science. The social character of the entire intertwined epistemological and practical natures of the sciences is intrinsic to science and itself split: the internal sociology within science, the external sociology of the social setting without. Agassi sees these social matters in the small as well as the large: from the details of scientific communication, changing publishing as he thinks to 'on-demand' centralism with less waste (Ch. 12), to the colossal tension of romanticism and rationality in the sweep of historical cultures. Agassi is a moral and political philosopher of science, defending, dis turbing, comprehending, criticizing. For him, science in a society requires confrontation, again and again, with issues of autonomy vs. legitimation as the central problem of democracy. And furthermore, devotion to science, pace Popper, Polanyi, and Weber, carries preoccupational dangers: Popper's elitist rooting out of 'pseudo-science', Weber's hard-working obsessive . com mitment to science. See Agassi's Weberian gloss on the social psychology of science in his provocative 'picture of the scientist as maniac' (437).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401164568

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9789401164566

Being Useful

Policy Relevance and International Relations Theory

By: Miroslav Nincic,Joseph Lepgold

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Being Useful

Policy Relevance and International Relations Theory

By: Miroslav Nincic,Joseph Lepgold

How can scholarship in international relations reach policy makers?

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University of Michigan Press

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0472086561

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The Protestant Settlers of Israel

Missionaries, Millenarians, and the African Hebrew Israelites

By: Joseph B. Yudin

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The Protestant Settlers of Israel

Missionaries, Millenarians, and the African Hebrew Israelites

By: Joseph B. Yudin

The Protestant Settlers of Israel tells the tale of Protestants settling in the Holy Land and staking their own claim, including a discussion of the present-day whereabouts of some 100,000 Protestant individuals living in the State of Israel, with a steady rate of expansion and growth in some circles"--

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666922358

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The New Hagaddah

By: Joseph Rosin

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The New Hagaddah

By: Joseph Rosin

A family friendly Haggadah. Emphasizing the theme of freedom. Filled with colorful prints and images from classic and modern Hagaddahs. Sidebar discussions and quotes to stimulate discussion of the freedom theme. Service is in English with transliterations. Hebrew is used to emphasize Jewish cultural origins.

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Lulu.com

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1365030997

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Joseph and Benjamin: Letters on the Controversy Between Jews and Christians

Vol. II

By: Joseph Frey

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Joseph and Benjamin: Letters on the Controversy Between Jews and Christians

Vol. II

By: Joseph Frey

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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338561063X

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The Light of the World

Astronomy in Al-Andalus

By: Joseph ibn Nahmias,Robert G. Morrison

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The Light of the World

Astronomy in Al-Andalus

By: Joseph ibn Nahmias,Robert G. Morrison

This book contains an editionÑwith an extensive introduction, translation and commentaryÑof The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The textÕs most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy.

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0520287991

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Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine

By: Ben-Zion Rosenfeld,Joseph Menirav

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Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine

By: Ben-Zion Rosenfeld,Joseph Menirav

The book describes commercial activity in the Jewish community in Roman Palestine and the interactions between these different components of a controlled system. The book also discusses methods for determining prices and price enforcement, the views of the different marketors, and the status of the synagogue as center of commercial activity.

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9047416511

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Communicating Science

The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present

By: Alan G. Gross,Joseph E. Harmon,Michael S. Reidy

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Communicating Science

The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present

By: Alan G. Gross,Joseph E. Harmon,Michael S. Reidy

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. The authors focus on changes in the style, organization, and argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. This outstanding resource is the definitive study on the rhetoric of science.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195134540

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Judaism and the Gentile Faiths

Comparative Studies in Religion

By: Joseph P. Schultz

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Judaism and the Gentile Faiths

Comparative Studies in Religion

By: Joseph P. Schultz

Examines the historic development of Jewish religions thought in the cross-cultural context of the world's major faiths. The law, ethics, and mysticism of Judaism are compared with their counterparts in Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and the secular formulations of religion in modern times.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838617077

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Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi

By: Joseph Davis

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Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi

By: Joseph Davis

Here is a major rabbinic figure, author of the famed Tosafot yom tov, whose life spanned several countries and an important transitional period in the history of European Jewry—a time of social and economic development, intellectual ferment, wars and pogroms. Davis narrates Heller's life in its individuality and detail, places him in the context of his time, and shows his vision of Judaism, of the world around him, and of the events he lived through.

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Liverpool University Press

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1909821284

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Origins of Hebrew Liturgical Rhetoric and Poetics

Magic, Midrash and Merkavah Mysticism

By: Joseph Yahalom

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Origins of Hebrew Liturgical Rhetoric and Poetics

Magic, Midrash and Merkavah Mysticism

By: Joseph Yahalom

This book follows the origins of the Kedushta, a sequence of poems that leads up to the epitome of Jewish prayer, the Kedusha or Sanctus. It tracks back the earliest forms of prayer in late antiquity and by doing so defines the main characteristics of this genre, both from the standpoint of Rhetoric and poetics. This genre draws from Midrash and Mysticism- adjacent literary forms that influence liturgical poetry. How has such an enigmatic and complex liturgical genre survived the twists and turns of history and is recited to this day, for over 1500 years? The answer to this question pertains to both form and content. When analyzing form, we address rhyme, alphabetical acrostics, and different poetic forms. Those all have a specific rhetorical function in determining the structure of the poem, pushing it forward, and musically aligning the different segments. The form cannot be detached from narratology, referencing early midrash and mysticism. In addition, the emotional approach of the private prayer can express one's existential pain as part of an oppressed community. We can follow the composition of the prayer book for each community over the ages, through the first millennium, starting with Geniza fragments to the European prayer books. Finally, these poems use of sophisticated etymology, correlation by sound, leads to innovative Medieval interpretation of the Torah. It seems that the combination of a public recitation, simulating a divine choir, the musicality of the text and emotional depth all contributed to this eternal poetic genre to penetrate cross cutting traditions of prayer throughout the ages.

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3111449610

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9783111449616

Sea Snails

A natural history

By: Joseph Heller

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Sea Snails

A natural history

By: Joseph Heller

This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups. By integrating aspects of morphology, ecology, evolution and behaviour, it describes how each group copes with problems of defence, locomotion, nutrition, reproduction and embryonic development. First come general characteristics of the Mollusca, to which snails belong; and next, characteristics by which snails (Gastropoda) differ from other molluscs. Then a broad, panoramic view of all major sea snail groups, from the primitive to the more advanced, is presented, including both the more abundant and some remote ones of special interest. In detailing primitive sea snails, first limpets (Patellogastropoda) are described, followed by brush snails (Vetigastropoda: top-shells, turbans and allies) and nerites (Neritimorpha), a small group with remarkably high variation in shell colour and in habitats. In looking at advanced-snails (Caenogastropoda), it details the herbivorous grazers and filter-feeders and the many voracious predators, some which use venomous darts. The book also covers sea slugs (Opisthobranchia), which have shifted from mechanical to chemical defence; some are herbivores, some use their food to harness solar energy, others are predators that gain stinging cells and poisonous compounds from their food. In addition, readers will learn about aspects of sea snails in human culture, including use as sacred artefacts and objects of magic and money, as a source of the royal and sacred dyes of purple and blue and as holy ceremonial trumpets. The text, in which scientific terms are accompanied by parallel common ones, is accompanied by over 200 illustrations (mostly in colour). This comprehensive, insightful portrait of sea snails will appeal to marine biologists, zoology lecturers and students, biology teachers, field-school instructors, nature reserve wardens, amateur naturalists, as well as to lecturers and learners of human culture.

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3319154524

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Lives in Science

How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

By: Joseph C. Hermanowicz

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Lives in Science

How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

By: Joseph C. Hermanowicz

What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. He explores these scientists’ shifting perceptions of their jobs to uncover the meanings they invest in their work, when and where they find satisfaction, how they succeed and fail, and how the rhythms of their work change as they age. His candid interviews with his subjects, meanwhile, shed light on the ways career goals are and are not met, on the frustrations of the academic profession, and on how one deals with the boredom and stagnation that can set in once one is established. An in-depth study of American higher education professionals eloquently told through their own words, Hermanowicz’s keen analysis of how institutions shape careers will appeal to anyone interested in life in academia.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226327760

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Beyond the Ivory Tower

International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance

By: Joseph Lepgold,Miroslav Nincic

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Beyond the Ivory Tower

International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance

By: Joseph Lepgold,Miroslav Nincic

The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Globalization, ethnic conflict, and ecological threats have created a new set of issues that challenge policymakers, and cutting-edge scholarship can contribute a great deal to the diagnosis and handling of potentially explosive situations.

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0231116594

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