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The Making of the Prefident 1789

The Unauthorized Campaign Biography of George Washington

By: Marvin Kitman

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The Making of the Prefident 1789

The Unauthorized Campaign Biography of George Washington

By: Marvin Kitman

A “witty, funny and hysterically silly” political parody that dares to take on the Mount Vernon Machine (The New York Times). Lampooning the modern “campaign insider” books, this book asks: “How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more battles than he wins and becomes a war hero? He has absolutely no political opinions in the most sophisticated intellectual period of our history? He has no ambitions, and he wins?” Through careful research, and with plenty of laughs—as well as a foreword by John Cleese—journalist Marvin Kitman exposes George Washington’s weaknesses for social climbing and high-stakes whist, not to mention his relationships with the Founding Girlfriends. “Hilarious . . . Will entertain and fascinate even those who think they hate history.” —Houston Chronicle

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802196608

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9780802196606

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Mourning & Weeping

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Mourning & Weeping

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship.Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration.Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation.Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices.Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).

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Hendrickson Publishers

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1619709481

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9781619709485

Theatre: A Very Short Introduction

By: Marvin Carlson

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Theatre: A Very Short Introduction

By: Marvin Carlson

From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this Very Short Introduction Marvin Carlson takes us through Ancient Greece and Rome, to Medieval Japan and Europe, to America and beyond, and looks at how the various forms of theatre have been interpreted and enjoyed. Exploring the role that theatre artists play — from the actor and director to the designer and puppet-master, as well as the audience — this is an engaging exploration of what theatre has meant, and still means, to people of all ages at all times. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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OUP Oxford

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0191648612

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9780191648618

Emotional Literacy in the Middle School

A 6-step Program to Promote Social, Emotional and Academic Learning

By: Marvin Maurer,Marc A. Brackett,Francesca Plain

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Emotional Literacy in the Middle School

A 6-step Program to Promote Social, Emotional and Academic Learning

By: Marvin Maurer,Marc A. Brackett,Francesca Plain

Salovery, Peter.

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National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing

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1887943749

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9781887943741

Book Row

An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

By: Marvin Mondlin,Roy Meador

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Book Row

An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

By: Marvin Mondlin,Roy Meador

The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960s New York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers’ Row, or Book Row. This richly anecdotal memoir features historical photographs and the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as a book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes (or sixteen miles of books) in twelve miles of space. It’s a story cast with characters as legendary and colorful as the horse-betting, poker-playing, go-getter of a book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer; the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; and gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his formidably shrewd wife, Jenny. Book Row remembers places that all lovers of books should never forget, like Biblo & Tamen, the shop that defied book-banning laws; the Green Book Shop, favored by John Dickson Carr; Ellenor Lowenstein’s world-renowned gastronomical Corner Book Shop (which was not on a corner); and the Abbey Bookshop, the last of the Fourth Avenue bookstores to close its doors. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, and television are many of the reasons for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens of the people who bought, sold, collected, and breathed in its rare, bibliodiferous air, it lives again.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510752560

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9781510752566

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Inheritance

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Inheritance

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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1619709201

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Printing the Talmud

A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750

By: Marvin Heller

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Printing the Talmud

A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750

By: Marvin Heller

The first study on the subject, this is a bibliographical work on individual tractates published in the first half of the eighteenth-century, and the circumstances of their publication. Included are numerous reproductions of title and representative pages.

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BRILL

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9004679235

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9789004679238

Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book

By: Marvin J. Heller

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Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book

By: Marvin J. Heller

Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book is a collection of twenty-four essays on various aspects of Hebrew book production in the 16th through 18th centuries. The subject matter encompasses little known printing-presses, makers of Hebrew books, and book arts. The print-shops were in such locations as Padua, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Verona, and the first presses in Livorno. Among the makers of Hebrew books are a peripatetic printer, a chief rabbi accused of plagiarism, a convert to Judaism, and a court Jew. Book arts address the titling of Hebrew books, dating by means of chronograms, printers’ pressmarks, mirror-image monograms, and the development of the Talmudic page. The book is completed with miscellaneous but related articles on early Hebrew book sale catalogues, worker to book production ratio in an eighteenth century press, and an attempt to circumvent the Inquisition’s ban on the printing of the Talmud in sixteenth Century Italy.

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9047423925

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9789047423928

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Kisses & Embraces

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Kisses & Embraces

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship. Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration. Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation. Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices. Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).

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1619709244

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Food Production

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Food Production

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Aphrodisiacs & Erotic Spells

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Aphrodisiacs & Erotic Spells

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship. Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration. Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation. Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices. Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).

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1619703742

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Bones of Contention

A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils

By: Marvin L. Lubenow

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Bones of Contention

A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils

By: Marvin L. Lubenow

While evolutionists point to every new discovery of humanlike fossils as further evidence to support the theory that people evolved from apelike creatures, Marvin L. Lubenow contends that the fossils do more to disprove evolutionary theory than otherwise. In Bones of Contention, Lubenow offers readers of all backgrounds a readable argument for the creationist view of the origins of humankind that addresses all angles of the issue.In this new edition, Lubenow has thoroughly updated and revised his original material to reflect a dozen years of evolutionist theory and modern paleoanthropology. Scholars and laypeople alike will find solid answers, grounded in research, to all of their tough questions.

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Baker Books

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0801065232

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9780801065231

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Cities

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Cities

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Beggars & Alms

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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1619703912

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Handbook of Lasers

By: Marvin J. Weber

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Handbook of Lasers

By: Marvin J. Weber

Lasers continue to be an amazingly robust field of activity. Anyone seeking a photon source is now confronted with an enormous number of possible lasers and laser wavelengths to choose from, but no single, comprehensive source to help them make that choice. The Handbook of Lasers provides an authoritative compilation of lasers, their properties, and original references in a readily accessible form. Organized by lasing media-solids, liquids, and gases-each section is subdivided into distinct laser types. Each type carries a brief description, followed by tables listing the lasing element or medium, host, lasing transition and wavelength, operating properties, primary literature citations, and, for broadband lasers, reported tuning ranges. The importance and value of the Handbook of Lasers cannot be overstated. Serving as both an archive and as an indicator of emerging trends, it reflects the state of knowledge and development in the field, provides a rapid means of obtaining reference data, and offers a pathway to the literature. It contains data useful for comparison with predictions and for developing models of processes, and may reveal fundamental inconsistencies or conflicts in the data.

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CRC Press

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1351835513

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9781351835510

Moral Vision

Leadership from George Washington to Joe Biden

By: Marvin Olasky

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Moral Vision

Leadership from George Washington to Joe Biden

By: Marvin Olasky

What makes a leader truly great? Is it simply a matter of management style or personality? Or does character matter and, if so, how much? Most Americans believe a president's private activities bear little relation to his public-policy decisions, yet we also believe that moral vision plays a role in strong leadership. Where does the truth lie? In the first modern systematic examination of the bond between morals and politics, Marvin Olasky examines the lives and careers of thirteen noted American leaders, including the great, the good, and the deeply flawed, from George Washington, Henry Clay, and Booker T. Washington to Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton. Olasky looks closely at the connections between religion, sexual practices, and political decisions, examining the repeated connections between private character and public action. He explains how so-called "compartmentalization" proved to be as impossible for Lincoln as for Woodrow Wilson. A man's character shows its stamp repeatedly during a career. In The American Leadership Tradition Olasky has many lessons to offer. For the cynical, he reminds us that it is not true that "they all do it," as the lives of Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland can attest. For the nostalgic, he reminds us that there have been principled men, like George Washington, alongside unprincipled ones, like Henry Clay, from the beginning. After reading this book it will be impossible to argue that John Kennedy's womanizing reflected a side of him that had absolutely nothing to do with his presidency, or that Abraham Lincoln's rectitude was unconnected with his greatness. Olasky shows that faithfulness in marriage may be no guarantee of faithfulness to the country, but faithlessness is a leading indicator of trouble. Leaders who break a large vow to one person find it easy to break relatively small vows to millions. He finishes with a chapter on Bill Clinton and what his recent controversies mean for 21st-century America, a question that may haunt American politics for a long time to come"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1668047896

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9781668047897

Sentimental Journey

Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs, 1920-1945

By: Marvin E. Paymer,Don E. Post

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Sentimental Journey

Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs, 1920-1945

By: Marvin E. Paymer,Don E. Post

Sentimental Journey is a cornucopia of 546 rang portraits that tell the story of America's very own great music, from its beginnings on Tin Pan Alley through its flourishing in step with the rise of the Broadway musical, radio, recordings, the big bands, and the film musical. The book spans 25 years, broken up into three decades entitled The Roaring Twenties, The Depression Years, and The War Years, each of which begins with a prologue giving a general description of the decade. Each year within the decades gives further historical background against which the individual songs were written -- including the political, social and artistic events. Within each year thc songs are portrayed individually, telling what made the song special and gives its vital statistics along with composer, lyricist, publisher, and when, where and by whom it was introduced.The twenty-six chapters of Sentimental Journey is finalized with a set of Appendices containing glossary, bibliography, index of composers and lyricists and an index of songs. No matter from what generation the reader is part of, the music from this book is being constantly rediscovered, and has become part of the American heritage.

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Noble House Publishers

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1881907090

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9781881907091

Pioneering in Penology

The Amsterdam Houses of Correction in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Marvin E. Wolfgang,Thorsten Sellin

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Pioneering in Penology

The Amsterdam Houses of Correction in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Marvin E. Wolfgang,Thorsten Sellin

From the Preface In the story of punishment, the institutions described in this monograph hold a significant place, yet their role in shaping the history of prisons has not hitherto been explored by any American or English historian of institutions. In vain do we look for even a mention of them in works like George Ives' A History of Penal Methods or in the older pioneer writings of E. C. and F. H. Wines. With one or two exceptions, even the many textbooks of criminology published in the United States in the last two decades ignore them. This is understandable when we consider that except for brief and cursory references in rather inaccessible Continental works of the eighteenth century, the "rediscovery" of the Amsterdam houses of correction did not occur until 1898, when Robert von Hippel published his splendid article about them in the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft. Hippel established once for all the contribution of the Dutch municipalities of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the rise of correctional imprisonment. It is largely to Hippel's study, which came to the author's notice nearly twenty years ago, that he owes an abiding interest in the history of punishment. Many scholars abroad were equally inspired by it, and a number of monographic studies of local German penal institutions by Hippel's own students at Göttingen resulted from it. Hallema's excellent researches into the history of the Dutch houses of correction might never have been made without the stimulus of Hippel's investigations. Were it not for the wealth of new data uncovered in the last forty years and the absence of any adequate description of the Amsterdam houses of correction in the English language, this monograph might appear to be a mere threshing of old straw. The reasons just offered are believed sufficient justification, however, for writing their story anew. It has been a pleasant PREFACE task even though the author has been unable to do full justice to it. Perhaps everyone who attempts to seize a portion of the pulsating life of a past era feels the same disappointment. Nevertheless, this monograph is presented in the hope that it will prove of interest to penologists at least and will demonstrate that the history of punishment is well worth exploration. T.S. Philadelphia, April 1944

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512806390

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Games & Gambling

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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1619707985

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Agriculture

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Agriculture

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship. Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration. Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation. Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices. Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Abortion

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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161970367X

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Ancient Christian Magic

Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

By: Marvin W. Meyer

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Ancient Christian Magic

Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

By: Marvin W. Meyer

This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even recipes from a magical "cookbook." Virtually all the texts are by Coptic Christians, and they date from about the 1st-12th centuries of the common era, with the majority from late antiquity. By placing these rarely seen texts in historical context and discussing their significance, the authors explore the place of healing, prayer, miracles, and magic in the early Christian experience, and expand our understanding of Christianity and Gnosticism as a vital folk religion.

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Princeton University Press

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0691004587

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Wealth & Poverty

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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1683070100

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The Villainous Stage

Crime Plays on Broadway and in the West End

By: Marvin Lachman

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The Villainous Stage

Crime Plays on Broadway and in the West End

By: Marvin Lachman

Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.

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McFarland

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1476618755

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9781476618753

Crumbs Along the Trail

By: Marvin Crumb,Glenn Crumb

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Crumbs Along the Trail

By: Marvin Crumb,Glenn Crumb

The Daniel Crumb family settled in Westerly, Rhode Island in 1669. For their service in the Indian war and the one for colonial freedom they were awarded land grants in central New York state. They then moved further west to establish a mill near De Ruyter forming a community known as Crumb Hill. During the War of 1812, family members became acquainted with an old sea captain who had political connections in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and the state capital of New York. These people were seeking to further develop settlements which might support routes to the Northwest Territory. The captain encouraged the Crumbs to travel further west to the area beyond of the Finger Lakes. They did so using early features of the Erie Canal. The Crumb built mills formed new communities in the Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties of New York. Culver Crumb moved to Pennline, Pa. but stayed only ten years. With urgings from the American Settlement Company in early spring of 1857 after passing through the Midwest by train from Pennline to St. Louis, via Chicago, the Crumbs arrived by riverboat in Westport near Kansas City; the final leg of their journey on the Santa Fe Trail was by covered wagon to Council City, Kansas Territory. The dates of these journeys are established fact so the creative aspect of the writing deals with daily happenings in the lives of these people during these journeys and after their arrival in Kansas. G. Crumb

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1493189743

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-biblical Antiquity

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-biblical Antiquity

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 4000 BC to approximately AD 600. Also available as a 4-volume set (ISBN 9781619708617), this complete one-volume edition covers topics from A-Z. This dictionary casts light on the culture, technology, history, and politics of the periods of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, with contributions by many others, this unique reference work explains details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, and religious practices, with extensive bibliographic material for further exploration. There are 115 articles ranging from 5-20 pages long. Scholars, pastors, and students (and their teachers) will find this to be a useful resource for biblical study, exegesis, and sermon preparation. "This is not your standard Bible dictionary, but one that focuses on aspects of daily life in Bible times, addressing interesting and sometimes puzzling topics that are often overlooked in other encyclopedias. I highly recommend the Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity and will be giving it 'shout-outs' in my classes in the years to come." --James K. Hoffmeier, Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School "This wonderful resource is much more than a dictionary. It is a compendium of substantive essays on numerous facets of daily life in the ancient world. I am frequently asked by pastors and students for recommendations on books that illuminate the manners, customs, and cultural practices of the biblical world. Now I have the ideal set of books to recommend." --Clinton E. Arnold, Dean and Professor of New Testament, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Mining

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Cosmetics

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Dwellings

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Dwellings

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship. Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration. Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation. Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices. Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Tools & Utensils

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Trees

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Lifelong Learning in Later Life

By: Brian Findsen,Marvin Formosa

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Lifelong Learning in Later Life

By: Brian Findsen,Marvin Formosa

This first truly comprehensive interdisciplinary, international critique of theory and practice in lifelong learning as it relates to later life is an absolute tour de force. Alexandra Withnall, Universities of Warwick and Leicester, UK. This is a book that needed to be written: it provides a most thorough and skilful analysis of a comprehensive range of contemporary literature about learning in later life from many localities and countries of the world. Peter Jarvis, Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey Impressive in its scope this handbook seeks to describe older learning critically within the lifelong learning literature at the same time that it makes a strong and persuasive case for taking older learning seriously in our postmodern world. Kenneth Wain, University of Malta Lifelong learning in later life is an essential handbook for a wide range of people who work alongside older adults in varied contexts. This handbook brings together both orthodox approaches to educational gerontology and fresh perspectives on important emerging issues faced by seniors around the globe. Issues discussed include the social construction of ageing, the importance of lifelong learning policy and practice, participation in later life learning, education of marginalised groups within older communities, inter-generational learning, volunteering and ‘active ageing’, the political economy of older adulthood, learning for better health and well-being, and the place of seniors in a learning society. Brian Findsen is a professor of adult education, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His writings are usually constructed within a social justice framework such as The Fourth Sector: Adult and Community Education in Aotearoa New Zealand (edited with John Benseman and Miriama Scott in 1996) and Learning later (2005). Marvin Formosa is a lecturer in the European Centre for Gerontology, University of Malta, Msida, Malta. In addition to various articles focusing on critical educational gerontology, recent and forthcoming books include Social Class Dynamics in Later Life (2009) and Social Class in Later Life: Power, Identity and Lifestyle (with Paul Higgs, 2012).

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Bottles & Glass

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Fish & Fishing

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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The Lost Battalion

By: Thomas Marvin Johnson,Fletcher Pratt

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The Lost Battalion

By: Thomas Marvin Johnson,Fletcher Pratt

Originaly publishied: 1st edition Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1938.

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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Aqueducts & Water Supply

By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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By: Edwin M. Yamauchi,Marvin R. Wilson

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The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 Vols)

By: Marvin J. Heller

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The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 Vols)

By: Marvin J. Heller

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book covers the gamut of Hebrew literature in that century. Each entry has a descriptive text page and an accompaning reproduction. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century.

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