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Let's Get Criminal

By: Lev Raphael

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A Nick Hoffman / Academic Mystery, Book 1 - Nick Hoffman has everything he's ever wanted: a good teaching job, a beautiful house, and a solid relationship with his lover, Stefan Borowski, a brilliant novelist and writer-in-residence at the State University of Michigan. But when Perry Cross shows up, Nick's peace of mind is shattered. Not only does he have to share his office with the nefarious Perry, who managed to weasel his way into a tenured position without the right qualifications, he also discovers that Perry played a destructive role in Stefan's past. When Perry turns up dead, Nick wonders if Stefan might be involved, while the campus police force is wondering the same about Nick. Originally published in 1996, this first book in the Nick Hoffman Academic Mystery series is now back in print, with a 2019 foreword by the author. EDITORIAL REVIEWS: "Deliciously wicked... The perfect book to take away for a weekend in the country... a genuinely funny modern comedy of manners." - Washington Post Book World "The Borgias would not be bored at the State University of Michigan, that snake pit of academic politics." - New York Times Book Review "Clever and sharp social satire." - Los Angeles Times "Lev Raphael skewers academic pretensions with wicked glee [and] Dickensian flair." - Chicago Sun-Times Lev Raphael offers "a delightful take on death in academe." - San Francisco Chronicle A "witty and devastating backstage view of college life." - San Diego Union-Tribune "Some of the most pointed and funny put-downs of academics in my memory." - Detroit Free Press Raphael "elegantly skewers ivory-tower pretensions, petty politics, incompetencies and hypocrisies." - Booklist Lev Raphael combines "stylish literary mystery with an intimate look at the jungle of academia... witty, impeccably written." - The Mystery Review "Marvelous humor and satisfying mystery... wickedly fun." - Drood Review of Mystery "Bright, breezy, and laugh-aloud funny." - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

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Requeered Tales

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1951092074

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9781951092078

The Edith Wharton Murders

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

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The Edith Wharton Murders

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

Scandal and murder are on the agenda when English professor Nick Hoffman is dragooned into organising an Edith Wharton conference at the State University of Michigan. A witty, fast-paced gay thriller that is also a send-up of academia at its snarling worst.

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0312198639

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9780312198633

The Death of a Constant Lover

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

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The Death of a Constant Lover

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

Murder erupts in the cutthroat world of academia and Nick Hoffman wonders, with his review coming up, if it isn't more than his job that's on the line.

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0312264968

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Writing a Jewish Life

Memoirs

By: Lev Raphael

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Writing a Jewish Life

Memoirs

By: Lev Raphael

Writing a Jewish Life chronicles novelist Lev Raphael's struggle to claim both his religious and sexual identities, and the happiness he subsequently found. Until he reached his mid-20s, the author felt alienated from other Jews, ambivalent about his homosexuality; or as he puts it, "twice strange ... in each [community], different, lesser, ashamed." A son of Holocaust survivors, Raphael grew up in an unmistakably Jewish but nonreligious home. However, as an adult he initiated his own affiliations with Judaism: He had a bar mitzvah at age 30, went to Israel twice, and fell in love with a Jewish man. It was "coming out as a Jew,' he writes, that "ultimately made it possible for me to come out as a gay man and then work at uniting the two identities." Attesting to his journey is the contrast between his confused childhood and the joyful domestic life he now shares with his lover, Gersh, and their two sons.

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Da Capo Press

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0786716495

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Secret Anniversaries of the Heart

New & Selected Stories

By: Lev Raphael

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Secret Anniversaries of the Heart

New & Selected Stories

By: Lev Raphael

When Lev Raphael published the controversial story collection Dancing on Tisha B'Av, he broke new ground in contemporary literature. Never before in one collection had an American writer revealed the conflicts between homosexuality and traditional Judaism, linked the chilling mind diseases of anti-Semitism and homophobia, and offered testimony not only to the legacy of Holocaust survivors but the suffering and conflicts of their children. Winner of the prestigious Lambda Literary Award, Raphael widened the scope of American Jewish fiction for a new generation. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart unites the most compelling tales from Dancing on Tisha B'Av with twelve new stories appearing in book form for the first time and the title story, never before published. Emotionally complex, edgy, and daringly intimate, here is a collection of twenty five years of stories that wrestle with questions of religious and sexual identity while displaying the gifts of a visionary writer in mid-career. Book jacket.

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Leapfrog Press

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A Teacher's Guide to Stick Up for Yourself!

An 11-Session Course in Self-Esteem and Assertiveness for Kids

By: Gershen Kaufman,Lev Raphael

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A Teacher's Guide to Stick Up for Yourself!

An 11-Session Course in Self-Esteem and Assertiveness for Kids

By: Gershen Kaufman,Lev Raphael

This teacher’s companion to a classic book for kids provides tools for building self-esteem and personal power. Without self-esteem, kids doubt themselves and may turn to unhealthy habits as a way of coping. With self-esteem, kids feel secure, are willing to take positive risks, and are resilient in the face of challenges. This teacher’s guide expands the messages of Stick Up for Yourself!, teaching self-confidence and how to be assertive with easy-to-use sessions. Created for the classroom, these sessions can also be used in other group settings including counseling groups, out-of-school programs, community programs, and more. Digital content includes reproducible handouts.

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Free Spirit Publishing

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1631983261

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The Death of a Constant Lover

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

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The Death of a Constant Lover

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

Murder erupts in the cutthroat world of academia and Nick Hoffman wonders, with his review coming up, if it isn't more than his job that's on the line.

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State University of Murder

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

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State University of Murder

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

Still reeling from having escaped a mass shooting on campus, English professor Nick Hoffman finds himself on the receiving end of confessions by one colleague after another. All of them have good reason to hate the new department chair, Dr. Napoleon Padovani, who throws his weight around capriciously and cruelly. Resentment mounts on campus -- with an inevitably fatal result. Chaos and confusion reign among the faculty, which then turns on its own. Can Nick and his spouse Stefan restore order and save the day? Raphael has described the university as "a unique combination of the vanity of professional sports, the hypocrisy of politics, the cruelty of big business, with a touch of organized crime thrown in." “In Raphael’s entertaining ninth [Nick Hoffman] mystery... the distinctive characters and authenticity of the setting keep the story moving forward. Series fans will hope they won’t have to wait years to see Nick again.” —Publishers Weekly

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Let's Get Criminal

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

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Let's Get Criminal

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

Curiosity turns to obsession at the State University of Michigan. Professor Nick Hoffman can't understand how his supercilious new office mate Perry Cross beat out other candidates for a brand new position in the department. How did Cross get hired when he's under-qualified? But Nick's curiosity changes to a jealousy when he learns that his longtime lover, Stefan, shares a past with Cross. When Cross is found dead and the verdict is murder, Nick becomes a prime suspect since he was one of the last people to see Cross the evening he was killed. Nick has no choice but to investigate on his own. Only acclaimed author Lev Raphael can spin such a tale of twisted academia.

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Lethe Press

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Department of Death

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

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Department of Death

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

By: Lev Raphael

Raphael makes the most of the academic setting of his immensely enjoyable....Raphael’s witty prose enhances a crafty plot." Publishers Weekly starred review Years ago Nick Hoffman was given a position in the English Department at the State University of Michigan because SUM wanted to hire his partner as writer-in-residence, but now he's been unexpectedly installed by his dean as chairman of that department. It's a wildly unpopular choice, and he's suddenly the focus of more animosity from his colleagues than he's ever dealt with before. He can't seem to make anyone happy and can't get a handle on his myriad new responsibilities as an administrator, a position he never wanted. Then tragedy strikes again way too close to home: Someone seeking his help is murdered, and under the shadow of another recent murder, Nick is a prime suspect. Hounded by campus police, the local press, and social media, Nick wonders if this could finally be the end of his career—that is, if he manages to stay out of prison. In the spirit of David Lodge, Francine Prose, Richard Russo and Jane Smiley, Department of Death is Lev Raphael's most blistering satire yet of the current perversity of academic life.

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The Ancient Unconscious

Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text

By: Vered Lev Kenaan

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The Ancient Unconscious

Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text

By: Vered Lev Kenaan

In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept. Commonly understood as a modern conceptual invention rather than the discovery of a psychic reality, the notion of the unconscious is often criticized as an anachronistic lens, one that ineluctably subjects ancient experience to modern patterns of thought. The Ancient Unconscious seeks to challenge this ambivalent theoretical disposition toward the psychoanalytic concept and reclaim the value of the unconscious as a methodological tool for the study of ancient texts by transforming our understanding of what the unconscious means, the way it operates, and how it relates to textual hermeneutics. It considers the debate over whether the ancients had an unconscious as an invitation to rethink the relationship between antiquity and modernity, investigating the meaning of textuality through contact between historical moments that have no priority under the law of chronology: associations and connections between the past and its future - including the present - belong to the sphere of the unconscious, which is primarily employed here in order to study the inherent, often hidden, links that bind modernity to classical antiquity and modern to ancient experiences. Drawing on an incisive examination of the complicated, often conflicted, relationship between classical studies and psychoanalytic theory, the volume aims to explain why the concept of the unconscious is in fact inseparable from, and crucial for, the study of the ancient text and, more generally, the methodology of classical philology.

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Oxford University Press

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0192562797

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Provability, Computability and Reflection

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

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Provability, Computability and Reflection

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

Provability, Computability and Reflection

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0080957331

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The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky

Volume 1: Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and Speech

By: Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ

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The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky

Volume 1: Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and Speech

By: Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ

Vol. 2 translated and with an introduction by Jane E. Knox and Carol B. Stevens.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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030642441X

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Secret Anniversaries of the Heart

New & Selected Stories

By: Lev Raphael

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Secret Anniversaries of the Heart

New & Selected Stories

By: Lev Raphael

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The German Money

A Novel

By: Lev Raphael

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The German Money

A Novel

By: Lev Raphael

Part mystery, part family saga, three siblings discover their past in the secrets of Holocaust survivors.

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096795200X

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9780967952000

The Effects of Higher Bank Capital Requirements on Credit in Peru

By: Xiang Fang,David Jutrsa,Mr.Maria Soledad Martinez Peria,Andrea Presbitero,Mr.Lev Ratnovski,Mr.Felix J Vardy

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The Effects of Higher Bank Capital Requirements on Credit in Peru

By: Xiang Fang,David Jutrsa,Mr.Maria Soledad Martinez Peria,Andrea Presbitero,Mr.Lev Ratnovski,Mr.Felix J Vardy

This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes statistically insignificant in about half a year. This finding is robust to estimating different specifications to address concerns about the exogeneity of capital requirements. The fact that the reform was gradual and pre-announced and that banks were highly profitable at the time could explain the short-lived effects on credit.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484378830

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The Foundations of Intuitionistic Mathematics

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

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The Foundations of Intuitionistic Mathematics

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

The Foundations of Intuitionistic Mathematics

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0080957595

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Granular Patterns

By: Igor Aranson,Lev Tsimring

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Granular Patterns

By: Igor Aranson,Lev Tsimring

This book presents a comprehensive review of experiments and novel theoretical concepts needed to understand the mechanisms of pattern formation in granular materials. An effort is made to connect concepts and ideas developed in granular physics with new emergent fields, especially in biology, such as cytoskeleton dynamics.

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Oxford University Press

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0199534411

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Portraits without Frames

By: Lev Ozerov

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Portraits without Frames

By: Lev Ozerov

Isaac Babel, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Anna Akhmatova star in this series of portraits of some of the greatest writers, artists, and composers of the twentieth century. "We stopped and Shklovsky told me / quietly, but clearly, / 'Remember, we are on our way out. / On our way out.' And I recalled / ... the wall of books, / all written by a man / who lived / in times that were hard to bear." Lev Ozerov’s Portraits Without Frames offers fifty shrewd and moving glimpses into the lives of Soviet writers, composers, and artists caught between the demands of art and politics. Some of the subjects—like Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Babel, Andrey Platonov, and Dmitry Shostakovich—are well-known, others less so. All are evoked with great subtlety and vividness, as is the fraught and dangerous time in which they lived. Composed in free verse of deceptively artless simplicity, Ozerov’s portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry.

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New York Review of Books

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1681372681

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Foundational Studies

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

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Foundational Studies

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

Foundational Studies

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0080955010

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PET/MR Imaging

A Case-Based Approach

By: Rajesh Gupta,Robert Matthews,Lev Bangiyev,Dinko Franceschi,Mark Schweitzer

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PET/MR Imaging

A Case-Based Approach

By: Rajesh Gupta,Robert Matthews,Lev Bangiyev,Dinko Franceschi,Mark Schweitzer

This book offers an overview of the clinical applications of PET/MR imaging through a case-based format. Hybrid PET/MRI provides functional and anatomical information via one setting offering superior imaging quality with lower radiation dose being administered to the patient. The cases in this book focus on the use of this technique in the diagnosis of oncologic, neurologic, cardiovascular, infectious and inflammatory, and pediatric diseases. Each case is presented with the patient history, protocols, interpretation of findings, and pearls and pitfalls accompanied by high quality PET/MR images. The major strength of this book is the discussion of both MRI and PET findings pertinent to each particular case. It expands the discussion of oncologic applications of this modality through a variety of cases that highlight staging, treatment response, and follow up. Illustrating a spectrum of PET/MRI clinical applications, PET/MR Imaging: A Case-Based Approach is a valuable resource for radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and residents.

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Springer

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3319651064

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American Films of the 70s

Conflicting Visions

By: Peter Lev

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American Films of the 70s

Conflicting Visions

By: Peter Lev

While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation, and disco musicals to a loving look at General George S. Patton. Indeed, as Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book, the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be—open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change. Examining forty films thematically, Lev explores the conflicting visions presented in films with the following kinds of subject matter: Hippies (Easy Rider, Alice's Restaurant) Cops (The French Connection, Dirty Harry) Disasters and conspiracies (Jaws, Chinatown) End of the Sixties (Nashville, The Big Chill) Art, Sex, and Hollywood (Last Tango in Paris) Teens (American Graffiti, Animal House) War (Patton, Apocalypse Now) African-Americans (Shaft, Superfly) Feminisms (An Unmarried Woman, The China Syndrome) Future visions (Star Wars, Blade Runner) As accessible to ordinary moviegoers as to film scholars, Lev's book is an essential companion to these familiar, well-loved movies.

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University of Texas Press

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0292778090

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A Collection of Problems on Complex Analysis

By: Lev Izrailevich Volkovyski?,Grigori? L?vovich Lunt?s?,Isaak Genrikhovich Aramanovich,J. Berry,T. Kovari

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A Collection of Problems on Complex Analysis

By: Lev Izrailevich Volkovyski?,Grigori? L?vovich Lunt?s?,Isaak Genrikhovich Aramanovich,J. Berry,T. Kovari

Over 1500 problems on theory of functions of the complex variable; coverage of nearly every branch of classical function theory. Topics include conformal mappings, integrals and power series, Laurent series, parametric integrals, integrals of the Cauchy type, analytic continuation, Riemann surfaces, much more. Answers and solutions at end of text. Bibliographical references. 1965 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486669130

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9780486669137

Anna Karenina - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

By: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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Anna Karenina - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

By: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions. Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.

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Lumbreras Classics Books

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3985512183

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How Catholic Art Saved the Faith

The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art

By: Elizabeth Lev

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How Catholic Art Saved the Faith

The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art

By: Elizabeth Lev

Not long after Martin Luther’s defiance of the Church in 1517, dialogue between Protestants and Catholics broke down, brother turned against brother, and devastating religious wars erupted across Europe. Desperate to restore the peace and recover the unity of Faith, Catholic theologians clarified and reaffirmed Catholic doctrines, but turned as well to another form of evangelization: the Arts. Convinced that to win over the unlettered, the best place to fight heresy was not in the streets but in stone and on canvas, they enlisted the century’s best artists to create a glorious wave of beautiful works of sacred art — Catholic works of sacred art — to draw people together instead of driving them apart. How Catholic Art Saved the Faith tells the story of the creation and successes of this vibrant, visual-arts SWAT team whose war cry could have been “art for Faith’s sake!” Over the years, it included Michelangelo, of course, and, among other great artists, the edgy Caravaggio, the graceful Guido Reni, the technically perfect Annibale Carracci, the colorful Barocci, the theatrical Bernini, and the passionate Artemisia Gentileschi. Each of these creative souls, despite their own interior struggles, was a key player in this magnificent, generations-long project: the affirmation through beauty of the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church. Here you will meet the fascinating artists who formed this cadre’s core. You will revel in scores of their full-color paintings. And you will profit from the lucid explanations of their lovely creations: works that over the centuries have touched the hearts and deepened the faith of millions of pilgrims who have made their way to the Eternal City to gaze upon them. Join those pilgrims now in an encounter with the magnificent artworks of the Catholic Restoration — artworks which from their conception were intended to delight, teach, and inspire. As they have done for the faith of so many, so will they do for you.

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Sophia Institute Press

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1622826124

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The Tigress of Forlì

Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza De' Medici

By: Elizabeth Lev

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The Tigress of Forlì

Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza De' Medici

By: Elizabeth Lev

A Rome-based American historian tells the extraordinary story of Caterina Sforza, perhaps the most prominent woman of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, a mother, a leader, and a warrior with the courage to battle a Borgia pope, the charm to beguile a Medici husband, and the fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0151012997

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9780151012992

Sets and Classes on The Work by Paul Bernays

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

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Sets and Classes on The Work by Paul Bernays

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

Sets and Classes on The Work by Paul Bernays

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0080954944

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And the Sages Did Not Know

Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex

By: Sarra Lev

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And the Sages Did Not Know

Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex

By: Sarra Lev

This book explores the question: How did the rabbis of the first two centuries CE approach bodies that are born with variant genitals—bodies that they could not identify as definitely male or female? The rabbis had constructed a system in which every behavior was governed by one’s sex/gender, posing a conundrum both for people who did not fit into that model and for the rabbinic enterprise itself. Despite this, their texts contain dozens of references to intersex. And the Sages Did Not Know examines the rabbis’ legal texts and concludes that they had multiple approaches to intersex people. Sarra Lev analyzes seven different rabbinic responses to this conflict of their own making. Through their rulings on how intersex people should conduct themselves in multiple circumstances, the early rabbis treat intersex people as unidentifiable males or females, as indeterminate, as male, as non-gendered, as sui generis, as part-male/part-female, as a sustainable paradox, and, finally, as a way for them to think about gender, having nothing to do with intersex people themselves. This is the first such work that concentrates primarily on the potential effects of these rabbinic texts on intersex persons themselves rather than focusing on what the texts offer readers whose interest is rabbinic approaches to sex and gender or gender diversity. Although the rabbinic texts do not include the voices of known intersex people, these materials do offer us a window into how one small group of people approached intersex bodies, and how those approaches were both similar to and different from those we recognize today.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512825182

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Pandora's Senses

The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text

By: Vered Lev Kenaan

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Pandora's Senses

The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text

By: Vered Lev Kenaan

The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology: a woman created as punishment for the crimes of man, she is the bearer of hope yet also responsible for the Earth’s desolation. She binds together perpetuating dichotomies that underlie the most fundamental aspects of the Western canon: beauty and evil, body and soul, depth and superficiality, truth and lie. Speaking in multiplicity, Pandora emerges as the first sign of female complexity. In this compelling study, Vered Lev Kenaan offers a radical revision of the Greek myth of the first woman. She argues that Pandora leaves a decisive mark on ancient poetics and shows that we can unravel the profound impact of Pandora’s image once we recognize that Pandora embodies the very idea of the ancient literary text. Locating the myth of the first woman right at the heart of feminist interrogation of gender and textuality, Pandora’s Senses moves beyond a feminist critique of masculine hegemony by challenging the reading of Pandora as a one-dimensional embodiment of the misogynist vision of the feminine. Uncovering Pandora as a textual principle operating outside of the feminine, Lev Kenaan shows the centrality of this iconic figure among the poetics of such central genres as the cosmological and didactic epic, the Platonic dialogue, the love elegy, and the ancient novel. Pandora’s Senses innovates our understanding of gender as a critical lens through which to view ancient literature.

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Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Proceeding of the 1960 International Congress

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

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Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Proceeding of the 1960 International Congress

By: Lev D. Beklemishev

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Proceeding of the 1960 International Congress

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0080954715

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54 Days of Prayers with Saint Andrew

By: Lev Bar Freyadan

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54 Days of Prayers with Saint Andrew

By: Lev Bar Freyadan

The New Testament states that Andrew was probably the brother of Simon Peter, [4] by which it is inferred that he was likewise a son of John, or Jonah. He was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee. Both he and his brother Peter were fishermen by trade, hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that he will make them “fishers of men” This book, “54 DAYS OF PRAYERS WITH SAINT ANDREW” is powerful, in that it opens new possibilities and doors that one thinks impossible. From darkness to light it makes the light inside the Knight Kadosh shine in its glory so he can be thankful of the Great Architect Of The Universe.

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1945960442

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