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The Road Taken

An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible

By: Seymour (Sy) Gitin

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The Road Taken

An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible

By: Seymour (Sy) Gitin

In this fascinating book, Seymour (Sy) Gitin recounts his life’s journey, from his childhood in 1940s Buffalo, New York, to a storied career as an archaeologist working and living in Israel. Over the course of his life, Sy served as a rabbi in Los Angeles and as US Air Force Chaplain, starred in an Israeli movie, trained as an archaeologist, and eventually became the Director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, an institution he led for thirty-four years. As an archaeologist, Sy encouraged American participation in the archaeology of ancient Israel, fostered the development of the Palestinian archaeological community, and conducted valuable field work at Tell Gezer and Tel Miqne-Ekron. His tale is full of entertaining vignettes involving the people that he encountered along the way, including many of the pioneers in the field—W. F. Albright, Nelson Glueck, Yigael Yadin, Benjamin Mazar, and Trude Dothan, as well as current protagonists William G. Dever, Israel Finkelstein, and Amihai Mazar. Readers will enjoy Sy’s humorous and engaging stories: rationing out seder wine on a military base following the great Alaskan earthquake only to learn that soldiers were threatening to use it to brush their teeth, encounters with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and US Ambassador Thomas Pickering, and the many colorful experiences he had with fellow scholars through the years. An engaging and entertaining recounting of a remarkably lived life, The Road Taken is a revealing look at being Jewish in America and Israel from the 1940s through today and an eye-opening look at the often controversial development of biblical archaeology.

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Penn State Press

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164602155X

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9781646021550

Masters Speak

An American Businessman Encounters Ashish and Gurdjieff

By: Seymour B. Ginsburg

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Masters Speak

An American Businessman Encounters Ashish and Gurdjieff

By: Seymour B. Ginsburg

If you want to pursue in a Western way the path that we follow here at Mirtola, you need to study and work with the Gurdjieffian teaching." Thus did the guru Madhava Ashish, at their first meeting, invite American businessman Sy Ginsburg on a spiritual journey that would last 19 years (until the guru's death) and include both annual visits to Sri Madhava Ashish's Mirtola ashram, near Almora, in India's Himalayan foothills, and a lengthy correspondence. Along the way, the entrepreneur/author would not only be caught up in the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, but also in the search for the elusive unitive vision — the world viewed from the perspective of the greater Self and not the personality. In this remarkable spiritual document, the reader shares the search, increasingly catching glimpses of the unitive vision as the book draws toward a close that is also an opening out, into the vaster dimensions of the human mind.

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322

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Quest Books

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0835631117

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9780835631112

L.A. Teacher Stays, Becomes Multi-Millionaire

Author Exposes Big Lie - ''Those Who Can Do'' - ''Those Who Can't Teach''. Public-School Teaching Is a Noble Calling Held Captive by Bureaucracy as a Result Each Year in America Hundreds of Thousands of Able and Experienced Public School Teachers Are

By: Seymour Shiell

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L.A. Teacher Stays, Becomes Multi-Millionaire

By: Seymour Shiell

Reader beware! This book and author may appear to be incongruities. But is it so strange that the same person should assume the role as both real estate investor and a public school teacher? To escape retirement on welfare and starting with nothing I describe how I was able to build equity of well over several million dollars while continuing to teach public school. Happily I was rewarded with the privilege of teaching children for 30 years and my classroom adventures are included within these pages. Then it is wrong to praise freedom in our free enterprise system while deploring the status of so many teachers whose classroom lives and ability to teach are ground out by the dictatorial policies of the educational bureaucracy? On the contrary I believe it is imperative that the truth be told for the good of us all. These are my memoirs.

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372

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462823408

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9781462823406

The Complete Seymour

Colville Storyteller

By: Peter J. Seymour

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The Complete Seymour

Colville Storyteller

By: Peter J. Seymour

Peter J. Seymour was a Salish storyteller. He carried forward earlier tales of elders along with his own experiences as fewer and fewer native speakers were sharing the Colville-Okanagan language and oral literature. To thwart the demise of this language, over the course of a decade he passed along Salish stories not only to his family but also to linguist Anthony Mattina. The Complete Seymour: Colville Storyteller includes Seymour’s tales collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before his death. It documents Seymour’s rich storytelling and includes detailed morphological analyses and translations of this endangered language. This collection is an important addition to the canon of Native American narratives and literature and an essential volume for anyone studying Salish languages and linguistics.

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815

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803277059

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9780803277052

Reporter

By: Seymour M. Hersh

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Reporter

By: Seymour M. Hersh

Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." —John le Carré From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time—a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East. Seymour Hersh's fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every major newspaper in the free world, honors galore, and no small amount of controversy. Now in this memoir he describes what drove him and how he worked as an independent outsider, even at the nation's most prestigious publications. He tells the stories behind the stories—riveting in their own right—as he chases leads, cultivates sources, and grapples with the weight of what he uncovers, daring to challenge official narratives handed down from the powers that be. In telling these stories, Hersh divulges previously unreported information about some of his biggest scoops, including the My Lai massacre and the horrors at Abu Ghraib. There are also illuminating recollections of some of the giants of American politics and journalism: Ben Bradlee, A. M. Rosenthal, David Remnick, and Henry Kissinger among them. This is essential reading on the power of the printed word at a time when good journalism is under fire as never before.

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425

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Vintage

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0525521585

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9780525521587

A History of Travel in America [vol. 1]

By: Seymour Dunbar

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A History of Travel in America [vol. 1]

By: Seymour Dunbar

Volume 1 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System.

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Lulu.com

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1435756223

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9781435756229

Lansing at the Crossroads

A Partisan History of the Village of Lansing, New York

By: Seymour Smidt

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Lansing at the Crossroads

A Partisan History of the Village of Lansing, New York

By: Seymour Smidt

The construction of a new four-lane highway on the outskirts of Ithaca, NY created a rapidly growing commercial center in the previously rural Town of Lansing. The clash between the newcomers and the old-timers over the direction and pace of this change led to the formation of a new local government and the incorporation of the Village of Lansing. This is the story of that village, how and why it was formed, the problems it faced in its early years, and the victories its people won in gaining control of their own communal future. It is also a story that mirrors, on a small scale, significant national trends: urban sprawl, spreading sub urbanization, the popular reaction against the disappearance of America's open lands and the mounting costs of extending the urban infrastructure, and the turning away from centralization to local control as the preferred means of solving public problems.

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240

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iUniverse

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1462092349

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9781462092345

Schaum's Outline of Probability, Third Edition

By: Seymour Lipschutz,Marc Lipson

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Schaum's Outline of Probability, Third Edition

By: Seymour Lipschutz,Marc Lipson

Study smarter and stay on top of your probability course with the bestselling Schaum’s Outline—now with the NEW Schaum's app and website! Schaum’s Outline of Probability, Third Edition is the go-to study guide for help in probability courses. It's ideal for undergrads, graduate students and professionals needing a tool for review. With an outline format that facilitates quick and easy review and mirrors the course in scope and sequence, this book helps you understand basic concepts and get the extra practice you need to excel in the course. Schaum's Outline of Probability, Third Edition supports the bestselling textbooks and is useful for a variety of classes, including Elementary Probability and Statistics, Data Analysis, Finite Mathematics, and many other courses. You’ll find coverage on finite and countable sets, binomial coefficients, axioms of probability, conditional probability, expectation of a finite random variable, Poisson distribution, and probability of vectors and Stochastic matrices. Also included: finite Stochastic and tree diagrams, Chebyshev’s inequality and the law of large numbers, calculations of binomial probabilities using normal approximation, and regular Markov processes and stationary state distributions. Features NEW to this edition: the new Schaum's app and website! NEW to this edition: 25 NEW problem-solving videos online 430 solved problems Outline format to provide a concise guide to the standard college course in probability Clear, concise explanations of probability concepts Supports these major texts: Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach (Bluman), Mathematics with Applications (Hungerford), and Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (Rosen) Appropriate for the following courses: Elementary Probability and Statistics, Data Analysis, Finite Mathematics, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, Mathematics for Biological Sciences, Introductory Statistics, Discrete Mathematics, Probability for Applied Science, and Introduction to Probability Theory

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1264258852

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9781264258857

The Road Taken

An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible

By: Seymour (Sy) Gitin

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The Road Taken

An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible

By: Seymour (Sy) Gitin

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1646021541

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