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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

By: Michael Craig

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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

By: Michael Craig

The Players: the best poker professionals in the world The Challenger: a wealthy banker from Dallas The Game: the richest poker stakes of all time... In 2001, a rich stranger from Texas descended upon the high-stakes poker room in the opulent Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. A self-made billionaire by the name of Andy Beal, the stranger challenged some of the world's greatest poker players-including Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Howard Lederer, and Jennifer Harman-to heads-up matches in the richest poker game ever played This is that story... Beginning the scintillating contest that would shock the world of poker, Andy and each opponent had $1 million, betting $10,000 and $20,000 per round. As the games intensified over the coming months and Andy developed into a great player, he realized how he could take his adversaries out of their comfort zone-he raised the stakes to put everything they had on the line. By the time the battle of wits ended, there was more than $20 million on the table. For the first time ever, here is the detailed, true account of the Big Game that has already achieved legendary status in poker lore. Putting you railside to observe the pulse-pounding action, where you can almost hear the distinct sound of clay chips on felt, Michael Craig takes you inside the iron-nerved mind and pathological psyche of the professional gambler. Filled with vivid characters, sensational tales, and riveting human drama, The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King is a unique, suspenseful journey into the world of people who live on the razor's edge of fortune-where incredible wealth, or utter ruin, turns on the flip of a card.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446539635

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Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and Traditions

By: Michael Anthony Knibb

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Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and Traditions

By: Michael Anthony Knibb

This volume brings together twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and on other Early Jewish texts and traditions, which were originally published in a wide range of journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings and thematic collections. A number of the essays are concerned with the issues raised by the complex textual history and literary genesis of 1 Enoch, but the majority are concerned with the interpretation of specific texts or with themes such as messianism. The essays illustrate some of the dominant concerns of Michael Knibb's work, particularly the importance of the idea of exile; the way in which older texts regarded as authoritative were reinterpreted in later writings; and the connections between the apocalyptic writings and the sapiential literature.

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469

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BRILL

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9004167250

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Maimonides' Hidden Torah Commentary -- Volume 1 - Genesis

By: Michael Leo Samuel

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Maimonides' Hidden Torah Commentary -- Volume 1 - Genesis

By: Michael Leo Samuel

The epitaph on Maimonides's tombstone reads, "From Moses (the prophet) to Moses, there was none like Moses (Maimonides)." The name, "Moses Maimonides" (1138-1204) is an acronym for his Hebraic name Moses ben Maimon). For centuries, yeshiva scholars and students alike affectionately refer to him by the epithet, "the Rambam." Just as the original Moses became the founder of the religion of ancient Israel, Moses Maimonides redefined Judaism for the future generations-more so than any other Judaic thinker or Halakhic scholar who came before or after him. Modern Judaism owes its conceptual and legal foundations to this remarkable thinker. This remarkable person occupies a rare position in the annals of Jewish history and is widely considered as one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and philosophers who ever lived, Maimonides stature reached almost mythic proportions. Jews of all modern religious persuasions-from the ultra-liberal to the Haredi branches of Orthodoxy each claim Maimonides as their patron hero. Both Christian and Islamic thinkers held Maimonides (who refer to him as Musa ibn Maymun in Arabic writings) in high regard. __ I have been impressed with the writings of Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel ever since I read his first book on Philo. I enjoyed the comprehensive nature of his writings and the many insights in his books. I liked that he described Philo's views in an easy to read manner and compared Philo views with those of many ancient and modern writers. Since that time, I wrote six reviews of his Philo books and praised them all. There is much in them that will interest and teach both scholars and readers who had no idea beforehand about this first century philosopher, or just a little information about him. Reading Rabbi Samuel's books will introduce readers to a large number of Philo ideas, those of other thinkers on the ideas, including the Talmuds and Midrashim, and about philosophy and Judaism generally. Thus, when Rabbi Samuel asked me to write the Foreword to his first book on Maimonides, I was very pleased to accept his offer, both out of respect for his scholarship and because I wrote many books and articles on Maimonides myself. - Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin __ Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel is the son of a Holocaust survivor. He holds two rabbinic ordinations from the Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshiva of 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn and holds a D. Min degree from the San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is an avid student of the Greek classics, Biblical and Talmudic scholarship, Jungian Psychology, Western Medieval Theology, Modern Philosophy, and 20th century psychology. He is the author of The Lord Is My Shepherd: The Theology of the Caring God (1996), Birth and Rebirth Through Genesis (2010), A Shepherd's Song: Psalm 23 and the Shepherd Metaphor In Jewish Thought (2014), and Rediscovering Philo of Alexandria: A First Century Jewish Commentator (Volumes, 1-5), (2014-2018).

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First Edition Design Pub.

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150690811X

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An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea

By: Michael E. Q. Pilson

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An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea

By: Michael E. Q. Pilson

An engaging introduction to marine chemistry and the ocean's geochemical interactions with the solid earth and atmosphere, for students of oceanography.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521887070

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9780521887076

Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections

By: Cambridge University Library,Michael L. Klein

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Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections

By: Cambridge University Library,Michael L. Klein

This catalogue will serve as an essential research tool for scholars studying early manuscriptal evidence of targumic literature. It provides a descriptive entry for every targum fragment in the Cambridge Genizah Collections. 1600 fragments - spanning a period of almost a thousand years - have been identified among the 140,000 items in Cambridge. The freshly identified manuscripts will provide the basis for topical research in the fields of Semitic languages, targumic studies, and the history of rabbinic Bible translation.

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182

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Cambridge University Press

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0521420768

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9780521420761

Nitric Oxide and the Kidney

Physiology and Pathophysiology

By: Michael S. Goligorsky,Steven S. Gross

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Nitric Oxide and the Kidney

Physiology and Pathophysiology

By: Michael S. Goligorsky,Steven S. Gross

A number of remarkable recent breakthroughs have made the study of nitric oxide one of the most exciting fields in physiology and pathophysiology. This authoritative edited volume reviews the progress to date and opens perspectives to novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. The contributors are leading authorites, in most cases the investigators who have pioneered the ideas explored in the book.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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146156039X

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The Book of Jubilees

Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology

By: Michael Segal

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The Book of Jubilees

Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology

By: Michael Segal

Almost all scholars have viewed the book of Jubilees as the work of a single author, applying to the book methods of analysis determined primarily by its literary genre, Rewritten Bible. This study suggests a new approach, in light of numerous contradictions between the rewritten stories on the one hand, and the juxtaposed legal passages and chronological framework on the other. It is suggested here that the editor of Jubilees adopted extant reworked sources, and added his own legal and chronological framework. This proposed literary-critical method is highly significant for the study of the book’s worldview, as is demonstrated by the analysis of passages in Jubilees that relate to the origins of evil and of law in the world.

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BRILL

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9047419480

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9789047419488

The Journal of a German Officer

By: Michael Busch

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The Journal of a German Officer

By: Michael Busch

Following more than ten years in England, the Busch family, with the exception of Mary, who was already at university, returned in 1958 to live in Germany, where Wilhelm had a job with Massey Ferguson, the Canadian manufacturer of agricultural machinery. Michael and his younger brother Nicholas entered the German school system and, in due course, became fluent in both English and German. Sadly, Patricia died in 1994, leaving Wilhelm living alone in his little wooden house near the town of Kassel. Whereas his brother Nicholas remains to this day a resident of Germany, Michael immigrated in 1967 to Canada. He married Elizabeth in 1968 and has two Canadian-born sons, one of whom became a professional ice hockey player in Germany, where, over the course of his career, he electronically scanned his grandfathers diaries, returning with a flash drive for his father, Michael, to translate into English. Having translated the turbulent years leading up to 1948 for the benefit of immediate family in Canada, Michael became convinced that his fathers journal has significant historical value for those who might be interested in the lives of ordinary Germans, citizens and soldiers, during the first half of the twentieth century. Notably, as an officer in the Wehrmacht, Wilhelm challenged the rigid army system by going all the way to the very top in order to obtain permission to marry an English woman immediately following the outbreak of World War II.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514476797

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9781514476796

The Oxford Dictionary of Music

By: Michael Kennedy,Joyce Kennedy

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The Oxford Dictionary of Music

By: Michael Kennedy,Joyce Kennedy

Now available in paperback and with over 10,000 entries, the Oxford Dictionary of Music (previously the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music) offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history. The Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionaryof musical terms available and an essential point of reference for music students, teachers, lecturers, professional musicians, as well as music enthusiasts.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199578540

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9780199578542

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

By: Hans-Peter Blume,Gerhard W. Brümmer,Heiner Fleige,Rainer Horn,Ellen Kandeler,Ingrid Kögel-Knabner,Ruben Kretzschmar,Karl Stahr,B.-Michael Wilke

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Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

By: Hans-Peter Blume,Gerhard W. Brümmer,Heiner Fleige,Rainer Horn,Ellen Kandeler,Ingrid Kögel-Knabner,Ruben Kretzschmar,Karl Stahr,B.-Michael Wilke

The soils are fundamental to our existence, delivering water and nutrients to plants, that feed us. But they are in many ways in danger and their conservation is therefore a most important focus for science, governments and society as a whole. A team of world recognised researchers have prepared this first English edition based on the 16th European edition. • The precursors and the processes of soil development • The physical, biological and chemical properties of soils • Nutrients and Pollutants • The various soil classifications with the main focus on the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) • The most important soils and soil landscapes of the world • Soil Evaluation Techniques • Basic Principles of Soil Conservation Whoever works with soils needs this book.

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Springer

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3642309429

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9783642309427

שרח מגלת אחשורוש

ל[ל]שיך אלפאצל אלמעלם אבו עלי ...

By: Japheth ben Ali (ha-Levi),Michael G. Wechsler

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שרח מגלת אחשורוש

ל[ל]שיך אלפאצל אלמעלם אבו עלי ...

By: Japheth ben Ali (ha-Levi),Michael G. Wechsler

In this volume is presented an edition, with translation and introduction, of the commentary on Esthera "the first completely extant representative of this medieval Jewish genrea "by Yefet ben a ~Eli ha-Levi, one of the preeminent litterateurs of the Karaite a oeGolden Agea (10tha "11th centuries).

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9004163883

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9789004163881

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

By: Michael Kennedy,Joyce Bourne

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

By: Michael Kennedy,Joyce Bourne

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of music available in paperback. Coverage includes musical terms from allegro to zingaro, and musical works from Aida to Zauberflote, as well as composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras. It provides a mine of information for all lovers of music." "The book includes musical instruments and their history; and covers living composers and performers, with over 150 added for this edition."--BOOK JACKET.

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OUP Oxford

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0198608845

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The Ultimate Casino Guide

1000 Great Casinos from America, Canada and Around the World

By: Michael Wiesenberg,Emilie Breeze Nangle

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The Ultimate Casino Guide

1000 Great Casinos from America, Canada and Around the World

By: Michael Wiesenberg,Emilie Breeze Nangle

The Ultimate Casino Guide is a complete directory of the finest casinos from the United States and around the world. Not only does it list the most famous and fabulous destinations in Las Vegas, but also the most exciting and elegant from Western & Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Scandinavia, and more, giving travelers all of the information they need about any casino, in almost any travel destination. The most comprehensive book of its kind, The Ultimate Casino Guide identifies 1,000 of the world's premiere casinos, including price ranges, accommodations, family amenities, even etiquette and dress codes; top ten ranking lists make specific searches even easier. Travelers, professional gamers and first-time visitors alike can benefit from the most specific, usable and up-to-date casino information available. Cruise ships, river boats and online casinos are also profiled. Whether someone is working on a large or small budget, The Guide makes both casual outings and exotic vacations easier to plan than ever before.

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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

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Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and Traditions

Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and Traditions

Maimonides' Hidden Torah Commentary -- Volume 1 - Genesis

Maimonides' Hidden Torah Commentary -- Volume 1 - Genesis

An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea

An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea

Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections

Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections

Nitric Oxide and the Kidney

Nitric Oxide and the Kidney

The Book of Jubilees

The Book of Jubilees

The Journal of a German Officer

The Journal of a German Officer

The Oxford Dictionary of Music

The Oxford Dictionary of Music

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

שרח מגלת אחשורוש

שרח מגלת אחשורוש

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

The Ultimate Casino Guide

The Ultimate Casino Guide

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