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What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism

By: Robert Schoen

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What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism

By: Robert Schoen

From the Sabbath to circumcision, from Hanukkah to the Holocaust, from bar mitzvah to bagel, how do Jewish religion, history, holidays, lifestyles, and culture make Jews different, and why is that difference so distinctive that we carry it from birth to the grave?" This accessible introduction to Judaism and Jewish life is especially for Christian readers interested in the deep connections and distinct differences between their faith and Judaism, but it is also for Jews looking for ways to understand their religion--and explain it to others. First released in 2002 and now in an updated edition.

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What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism

By: Robert Schoen

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What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism

By: Robert Schoen

What is the significance of bar and bat mitzvahs? Is Hanukkah really the "Jewish Christmas"? What can you expect if you are invited to a Passover seder? Is a rabbi simply a Jewish priest? Author Robert Schoen addresses these questions and many more in this inviting introduction to Judaism and Jewish life. This concise and entertaining overview explains the differences and highlights the similarities between Judaism and Christianity. What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism covers everything from Jewish ceremonies, holidays, and festivals to religious texts, symbols, and kosher food. It is perfect for the millions of Christians who are curious about the faith of their friends, coworkers, and family members, or for those Jews who want a better understanding of their heritage.

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Loyola Press

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0829430911

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In a House of Dreams and Glass

Becoming a Psychiatrist

By: Robert Klitzman

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In a House of Dreams and Glass

Becoming a Psychiatrist

By: Robert Klitzman

A psychiatric resident's firsthand account reveals his struggles with the homeless, suicidal, and paranoid, and his frustrations with hospital politics and the limitations of an inexact science. Fresh from medical school, Robert Klitzman began his residency in psychiatry with excitement and a sense of mission. But he was not prepared for what he found inside the city psychiatric center where he was to spend three grueling years. In truth, as Dr. Klitzman's absorbing account of his apprenticeship reveals, he never ceased to be surprised—by his patients, by the senior psychiatrists' conflicting advice on how to help them, and by the unpredictable results of the therapies, both psychoanalytic and biologic, that he and his fellow residents practiced. Nights in the emergency room, professional controversy, the minefield of hospital politics, the stress of his own therapy--everything is here, in a passionate and illuminating analysis of a doctor's struggle against tremendous odds to banish his patients' demons.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451684592

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Steel Titan

The Life of Charles M. Schwab

By: Robert Hessen

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Steel Titan

The Life of Charles M. Schwab

By: Robert Hessen

Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency of Carnegie Steel. He later became the first president of U.S. Steel and then founder of Bethlehem Steel. His was one of the most spectacular and curious success stories in an era of great industrial giants. How did Schwab progress from day laborer to titan of industry? Why did Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan select him to manage their multmillion-dollar enterprises? And how did he forfeit their confidence and lose the preseidency of U.S. Steel? Drawing upon previously undiscovered sources, Robert hessen answers these questions in the first biography of Schwab.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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Why Whistle-Blowers Hesitate

What Do You Do When They Threaten To Kick The Wind Out Of You?

By: Robert Durrett Ed. D.

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Why Whistle-Blowers Hesitate

What Do You Do When They Threaten To Kick The Wind Out Of You?

By: Robert Durrett Ed. D.

As I entered the administration building early on the morning of August 10, 1999, the long narrow hallway was empty. I could hear the click of my heels on the red tile floor as I walked along. When I glanced down the hallway, I noticed a district security guard walking toward me. There was nothing unusual about the morning as we exchanged greetings. I had arrived around seven thirty that morning. As I was unlocking the outer door to my office, the security guard approached me and said something. As I recall it was basically, "I have a message for you from the superintendent." He then asked me to please remove all of my personal items from my office, give him my office keys, and leave the school district property immediately. Later that evening at my home, a district security guard hand-delivered a memo to me. It began by stating, "Effective immediately, you are suspended with pay, pending a determination by the Board of Trustees whether or not you should be given notice of termination for cause..." I did not need to read any further than the first line of the memo to know that my life was about to change. I cannot say I was surprised, but I did not expect the twists and turns of the journey I was about to begin.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1645695247

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A Survey of Minimal Surfaces

By: Robert Osserman

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A Survey of Minimal Surfaces

By: Robert Osserman

Newly updated accessible study covers parametric and non-parametric surfaces, isothermal parameters, Bernstein’s theorem, much more, including such recent developments as new work on Plateau’s problem and on isoperimetric inequalities. Clear, comprehensive examination provides profound insights into crucial area of pure mathematics. 1986 edition. Index.

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Courier Corporation

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0486167690

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Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System

Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed

By: Robert Arthur Levine M.D.

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Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System

Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed

By: Robert Arthur Levine M.D.

Shock Therapy For the American Health Care System describes the problems of the health care system and offers a program of comprehensive reform that is more far-reaching than anything currently being proposed. From a veteran physician comes this remarkably clear-eyed look at what's wrong with how we adminster and pay for health care and what can be done to fix it. In Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System: Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed, Dr. Robert Levine offers an easily understandable diagnosis of the problems plaguing our current health care infrastructure, with discussions that include the roles of various stakeholders—insurance companies, "big pharma," hospitals, health care providers, and patients. He also dispels a number of myths designed to make voters leery of any reform efforts. Levine's comprehensive plan addresses everything from bloated bureaucracies to unnecessary procedures to the handling of negligence and malpractice lawsuits/claims. Throughout, Levine backs his proposals with facts and comparisons to systems in various countries, and concludes that even now, with disaster looming, the ultimate goal of providing health insurance for every American is achievable and affordable.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313380694

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Taking Things Hard

The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Robert Garnett

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Taking Things Hard

The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Robert Garnett

F. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the next (and last) fifteen years of his life, ending as a mostly unemployed Hollywood screenwriter. Taking Things Hard reveals the story behind the now-iconic Gatsby, along with Fitzgerald’s struggle to write anything that matched its brilliance. Robert R. Garnett’s new biographical study of Fitzgerald’s life and work begins by constructing a portrait of the young man who would wholly and uniquely pour himself into writing Gatsby. In the years following its publication, Fitzgerald continued penning stories, some of them among his finest, yet it took him nine years to complete another novel. The downward trajectory of his career had interweaving causes, among them arrogance, irresponsibility, his troubled marriage to Zelda Sayre, financial improvidence, and a destructive alcoholism. At the root of it all, though, lingered the simple fact that Fitzgerald’s most intense and profound experiences had come early, during his truncated undergraduate years at Princeton and the months following his February 1919 discharge from the army. Taking Things Hard provides a fresh look at the imaginative sources of Fitzgerald’s fiction and considers the elements, drawn from the keen impressions and salient emotions of its author’s youth, that make Gatsby a book that still speaks powerfully to readers.

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LSU Press

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080718022X

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Talent Abounds

Profiles of Master Teachers and Peak Performers

By: Robert F. Arnove

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Talent Abounds

Profiles of Master Teachers and Peak Performers

By: Robert F. Arnove

How can youthful talent become world-class talent? Talent Abounds tells the stories of master teachers and their students who raise performance to peak levels in classical music and conducting, jazz, opera, modern dance, chess, mathematics, swimming and diving, and the culinary arts. The book is unique in its scope and depth of exploration of different fields of endeavor and the individuals who have shaped them. Readers hear the voices of famous performers, from Leonard Bernstein to Joshua Bell and Mark Spitz, as they describe their early family experiences and formative years, the progression of teachers and coaches they had, their performance careers, educational philosophy and teaching practices, and their legacies. Important questions are explored throughout: Is exceptional talent an innate quality? Even so, does its fulfillment depend on the intervention of expert teachers? How do social class, gender, and ethnicity influence access to instructional and performance opportunities? Can lessons learned in one particular national and cultural context or in one performance field be extended to other societies and fields? How does public policy shape the recognition and development of talent? The concluding chapter offers insights into how public education can nurture the talent of all individuals.

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Routledge

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1317251016

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Differential Geometry: Partial Differential Equations on Manifolds

By: Robert Everist Greene,Shing-Tung Yau

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Differential Geometry: Partial Differential Equations on Manifolds

By: Robert Everist Greene,Shing-Tung Yau

The first of three parts comprising Volume 54, the proceedings of the Summer Research Institute on Differential Geometry, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, July 1990 (ISBN for the set is 0-8218-1493-1). Part 1 begins with a problem list by S.T. Yau, successor to his 1980 list ( Sem

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American Mathematical Soc.

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082181494X

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An F. Scott Fitzgerald Encyclopedia

By: Robert L. Gale

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An F. Scott Fitzgerald Encyclopedia

By: Robert L. Gale

F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most challenging authors of American literature. He is known internationally as the author of The Great Gatsby (1925), a twentieth-century literary classic studied by high school students and scholars alike. But Fitzgerald was an amazingly productive writer despite numerous personal and professional difficulties. From the beginning of his literary career with the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920 to his death in 1940, he wrote 5 novels, roughly 180 short stories, numerous essays and reviews, much poetry, several plays, and some film scripts. Even when he wrote hastily and perhaps bleary-eyed, his works almost always exhibit the flashes of his genius. He is celebrated as a symbol of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, but beneath all the glitter for which his prose is famous, he warns of the dangers of personal recklessness and praises the redemptive power of love. Through hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries, this reference book provides complete coverage of Fitzgerald's life and writings. The volume begins with a chronology that traces his rise from obscurity to fame, his struggles with alcoholism, and his eventual financial downfall. The entries that follow give a full and detailed picture of Fitzgerald and his work. They present the essential action in Fitzgerald's novels, short stories, plays, and poems; identify all named fictional characters and indicate their significance; and give brief biographical information for Fitzgerald's family members, friends, and professional associates. Many of the entries include bibliographies which emphasize criticism published after 1990, and the volume closes with a general bibliography of the most important broad studies of Fitzgerald and his works. A thorough index and extensive cross references provide additional access to the wealth of information in this reference book and help make it a useful tool for a wide range of users.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313001766

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The Salome Ensemble

Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal

By: Alan Robert Ginsberg

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The Salome Ensemble

Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal

By: Alan Robert Ginsberg

The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome like the women who conceived her. Rose Pastor Stokes was the role model. Anzia Yezierska wrote the novel. Sonya Levien wrote the screenplay. Jetta Goudal played her on the silver screen. Ginsberg considers the women individually and collectively, exploring how they shaped and reflected their cultural landscape. These European Jewish immigrants pursued their own versions of the American dream, escaped the squalor of sweatshops, knew romance and heartache, and achieved prominence in politics, fashion, journalism, literature, and film.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653654

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The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century

By: Ian Robert Dowbiggin

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The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century

By: Ian Robert Dowbiggin

Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States. Sterilization has been variously advocated as a medical procedure for defusing the "population bomb," expanding individual rights, liberating women from the fear of pregnancy, strengthening marriage, improving the quality of life of the mentally disabled, or reducing the incidence of hereditary disorders. From an historical standpoint, support for free and unfettered access to sterilization services has aroused opposition in some circles, and was considered a "liberal cause" in post-World War II America. This story demonstrates how a small group of reformers helped to alter traditional notions of gender and sexuality.

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Oxford University Press

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0195188586

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Nonlinear partial differential equations in differential geometry

By: Robert Hardt

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Nonlinear partial differential equations in differential geometry

By: Robert Hardt

This book contains lecture notes of minicourses at the Regional Geometry Institute at Park City, Utah, in July 1992. Presented here are surveys of breaking developments in a number of areas of nonlinear partial differential equations in differential geometry. The authors of the articles are not only excellent expositors, but are also leaders in this field of research. All of the articles provide in-depth treatment of the topics and require few prerequisites and less background than current research articles.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821804316

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A Comprehensive Guide to Factorial Two-Level Experimentation

By: Robert Mee

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A Comprehensive Guide to Factorial Two-Level Experimentation

By: Robert Mee

This book contains the most comprehensive coverage available anywhere for two-level factorial designs. The re-analysis of 50 published examples serves as a how-to guide for analysis of the many types of full factorial and fractional factorial designs. By focusing on two-level designs, this book is accessible to a wide audience of practitioners who use planned experiments.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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038789103X

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Moss & Adams' Heart Disease in infants, Children, and Adolescents

By: Robert E. Shaddy

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Moss & Adams' Heart Disease in infants, Children, and Adolescents

By: Robert E. Shaddy

Widely recognized as the definitive text in pediatric cardiology, Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents provides the authoritative, state-of-the-art information you need when caring for young patients with heart disease. The editorial team, led by Dr. Robert Shaddy, from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California, ensures that you are kept fully up to date with recent advances in this complex and fast-changing field. This award-winning title, now in its Tenth Edition, continues to be the reference of choice for today’s cardiology fellows, pediatric cardiologists, and cardiology practitioners worldwide.

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1975116623

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From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes

The Autobiography of Robert Clary

By: Robert Clary

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From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes

The Autobiography of Robert Clary

By: Robert Clary

Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman in Paris in 1926) is best known for his portrayal of the spirited Corporal Louis Lebeau on the popular television series Hogan's Heroes (on the air from 1965 to 1971 and widely syndicated around the globe). But it is Clary's experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust that infuse his compelling memoir with an honest recognition of life's often horrific reality, a recognition that counters his glittering five-decade career as an actor, singer, and artist and distinguishes this book from those by other entertainers. Clary describes his childhood in Paris, the German occupation in 1940, and his deportation in 1942 at the age of sixteen to the infamous transit camp Drancy. He recounts his nightmarish, two-and-a-half-year incarceration in Nazi concentration camps like Ottmuth, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. In April 1945, the Allies liberated Clary and other inmates. But the news that his parents, two sisters, two half-sisters, and two nephews had not survived the Nazis' genocidal campaign against the Jews reduced his joy to grief. After the war, Clary made his way to the United States and, against great odds, achieved fame on Broadway and in Hollywood. From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes is Robert Clary's extraordinary account of his remarkable life both as a survivor and as an entertainer. Once read, it will not be forgotten.

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Taylor Trade Publishing

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1461661935

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Texas Search and Seizure - Fifth Edition

By: Robert R. Barton

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Texas Search and Seizure - Fifth Edition

By: Robert R. Barton

Texas Search and Seizure provides an integrated, comprehensive treatise on the Texas law of arrest and search. It offers both quick answers and in-depth analysis. A convenient and authoritative research tool for preparation of motions to suppress, as well as trial and appellate briefs, Texas Search and Seizure serves as a courtroom reference for trial attorneys as well as a bench book for judges. Readers can rely on the expertise of Judge Barton for practical solutions to complicated issues. Judge Barton integrates federal, state, and constitutional case law in an understandable and intuitive way that attorneys and judges throughout Texas have come to depend on. Texas Search and Seizure is organized in a precise, coherent format with a table of contents, a synopsis of each major section and a subject index. Major sections contain suggested forms for motions to suppress evidence, objections, and the trial court’s charge, as well as cross-references to related sections

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Juris Publishing, Inc.

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1578232627

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Taking a Stand

Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy

By: Robert Higgs,Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

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Taking a Stand

Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy

By: Robert Higgs,Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

In his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government's shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Administrative State. For several decades he has unstintingly chronicled the federal, state, and local governments' malfeasance in these many areas of life that all levels of government have intruded upon without Constitutional mandate. In this book, however, are essays that show a whimsical, introspective, and personal side of this world renowned scholar. From the myth that the government has derived its powers from the consent of the governed to the role of independent experts in formulating monetary and fiscal policy; from the government's duplicity in announcing the unemployment rate in a given month to how the state entraps us, if you want to see a true polymath at work, these lofty, serious, sad, and illuminating essays will educate you beyond what you had thought possible about life, liberty, and the economy.

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Independent Institute

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1598132059

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Leon Kirchner

Composer, Performer, and Teacher

By: Robert Riggs

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Leon Kirchner

Composer, Performer, and Teacher

By: Robert Riggs

In addition to Riggs's extensive interviews with the composer, the biography is documented with Kirchner's colorful correspondence from a roster of luminaries: Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Cone, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Isaac Stern, Roger Sessions, and many others. Excerpts from Kirchner's own elegantly written essays and speeches complete the portrait and reveal his highly personal, romantic view of music as powerful art capable of endowing humanity with an "aesthetic sensibility and protective wisdom, without which we cannot survive." --Book Jacket.

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University Rochester Press

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1580463436

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Living Positive with Imperfection

A Memoir

By: Robert D. Patton

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Living Positive with Imperfection

A Memoir

By: Robert D. Patton

Robert Bob Pattons book, a memoir, the personal story of his fifty-nine-year career as an educator, a state representative, and a public servant, contains details of three generations of a family that worked the soil, built community, and took responsibility for their own welfare, like many similar families, and made this country one of the greatest in the world. Bobs personal progression from a high school teacher to professor in a state university, state representative, and a public servant is evidence of a highly competent, and well-motivated individual who achieved significant accomplishments. He is to be particularly admired for his lack of bitterness, despite divorces, life as a single parent, political defeat, and job loss. His only complaint is against politicians who will do anything to remain in power no matter whether it is morally right or wrong or good for society or not. Although well past retirement age, he continues to work for the Tennessee legislature despite being displaced in one position when the opposing party gained control of the legislature. Mervin Perry, PhD, professor emeritus, East Tennessee State University

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1514423812

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Dreadnought

Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

By: Robert K. Massie

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Dreadnought

Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

By: Robert K. Massie

A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century’s first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie With the biographer’s rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow; Britain’s greatest twentieth-century foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British navy and brought forth the first true battleship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, Dreadnought is history at its most riveting. Praise for Dreadnought “Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events.”—Time “A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era . . . engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.”—Chicago Sun-Times “[Told] on a grand scale . . . Massie [is] a master of historical portraiture and anecdotage.”—The Wall Street Journal “Brilliant on everything he writes about ships and the sea. It is Massie’s eye for detail that makes his nautical set pieces so marvelously evocative.”—Los Angeles Times

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0307819930

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9780307819932

Comparative Health Policy

By: Robert H. Blank,Viola Burau,Ellen Kuhlmann

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Comparative Health Policy

By: Robert H. Blank,Viola Burau,Ellen Kuhlmann

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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113754497X

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9781137544971

Silent Films, 1877-1996

A Critical Guide to 646 Movies

By: Robert K. Klepper

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Silent Films, 1877-1996

A Critical Guide to 646 Movies

By: Robert K. Klepper

This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge's initial motion photography experiments in 1877 and even including The Taxi Dancer (1996). Among the genres included are classics, dramas, Westerns, light comedies, documentaries and even poorly produced early pornography. Masterpieces such as Joan the Woman (1916), Intolerance (1916) and Faust (1926) can be found, as well as rare titles that have not received critical attention since their original releases. Each entry provides the most complete credits possible, a full description, critical commentary, and an evaluation of the film's unique place in motion picture history. Birth dates, death dates, and other facts are provided for the directors and players where available, with a selection of photographs of those individuals. The work is thoroughly indexed.

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McFarland

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1476604843

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General Relativity

By: Robert M. Wald

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General Relativity

By: Robert M. Wald

Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and understanding."—S. Chandrasekhar "A tour de force: lucid, straightforward, mathematically rigorous, exacting in the analysis of the theory in its physical aspect."—L. P. Hughston, Times Higher Education Supplement "Truly excellent. . . . A sophisticated text of manageable size that will probably be read by every student of relativity, astrophysics, and field theory for years to come."—James W. York, Physics Today

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University of Chicago Press

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0226870375

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9780226870373

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