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Sovereignty and Religious Freedom

A Jewish History

By: Simon Rabinovitch

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Sovereignty and Religious Freedom

A Jewish History

By: Simon Rabinovitch

A comparative legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom, illuminating the surprising ways that collective and individual rights have evolved over the past two centuries It is a common assumption that in Israel, Jews have sovereignty, and in most other places where Jews live today, they have religious freedom instead. As Simon Rabinovitch shows in this original work, the situation is much more complicated. Jews today possess different kinds of legal rights in states around the world; some stem from religious freedom protections, and others evolved from a longer history of Jewish autonomy. By comparing conflicts between Jewish collective and individual rights in courts and laws across the globe, from the French Revolution to today, this book provides a nuanced legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom. Rabinovitch weaves key themes in Jewish legal history with the individual stories of litigants, exploring ideas about citizenship and belonging; who is a Jew; what makes a Jewish family; and how to define Jewish space. He uses recent court cases to explore problems of conflicting rights, and then situates each case in a wider historical context. This unique comparative history creates a global picture of modern legal development in which Jews continue to use the law to carve out surprising forms of sovereignty.

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Yale University Press

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0300280629

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Jewish Rights, National Rites

Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia

By: Simon Rabinovitch

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Jewish Rights, National Rites

Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia

By: Simon Rabinovitch

In its full-color poster for elections to the All-Russian Jewish Congress in 1917, the Jewish People's Party depicted a variety of Jews in seeking to enlist the support of the broadest possible segment of Russia's Jewish population. It forsook neither traditional religious and economic life like the Jewish socialist parties, nor life in Europe like the Zionists. It embraced Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian as fulfilling different roles in Jewish life. It sought the democratization of Jewish communal self-government and the creation of new Russian Jewish national-cultural and governmental institutions. Most importantly, the self-named "folkists" believed that Jewish national aspirations could be fulfilled through Jewish autonomy in Russia and Eastern Europe more broadly. Ideologically and organizationally, this party's leadership would profoundly influence the course of Russian Jewish politics. Jewish Rights, National Rights provides a completely new interpretation of the origins of Jewish nationalism in Russia. It argues that Jewish nationalism, and Jewish politics generally, developed in a changing legal environment where the idea that nations had rights was beginning to take hold, and centered on the demand for Jewish autonomy in Eastern Europe. Drawing on numerous archives and libraries in the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and Israel, Simon Rabinovitch carefully reconstructs the political movement for Jewish autonomy, its personalities, institutions, and cultural projects. He explains how Jewish autonomy was realized following the February Revolution of 1917, and for the first time assesses voting patterns in November 1917 to determine the extent of public support for Jewish nationalism at the height of the Russian revolutionary period.

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Stanford University Press

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0804793034

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Failure's Opposite

Listening to A.M. Klein

By: Norman Ravvin,Sherry Simon

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Failure's Opposite

Listening to A.M. Klein

By: Norman Ravvin,Sherry Simon

Failure's Opposite presents a fresh perspective on Klein's reception and legacy, exploring why he has remained a compelling figure for critics and readers. His experimentalism drew upon strong traditions and fluency in several languages - English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew - allowing him to develop a multilingual, modernist Jewish voice that is a touchstone for understanding Canada's multicultural identity. His struggle with the emotional and historical dimensions of diaspora is of considerable importance throughout his work and is investigated through the lenses of translation, voice, and his relationship to other Jewish writers. Contributors also re-evaluate Klein's connection to Montreal and the original ways in which he captured the atmosphere of his "jargoning city." Failure's Opposite reflects the many ways A.M. Klein is being remade in the twenty-first century, both as a bridge to the past and a model for contemporary critical and creative work in Canadian literature.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773586644

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9780773586642

In Translation

Honouring Sheila Fischman

By: Sherry Simon

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In Translation

Honouring Sheila Fischman

By: Sherry Simon

Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Québécois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, François Gravel, Anne Hébert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais most likely know these works only through Fischman's subtly and faithfully crafted translations. In Translation celebrates Fischman's more than 150 book-length translations from French to English. It combines essays on the friendships created through translation with essays on the art of translation and on the changing context of literary translation in Canada. Distinguished contributors include Alberto Manguel, Commissioner of Official Languages Graham Fraser, authors Gaétan Soucy, Lise Bissonnette, and Louise Desjardins, and fellow-translators Lori Saint Martin, Michael Henry Heim, Luise von Flotow, and Kathy Mezei. The volume also includes interviews with Fischman and a selection of her prose. A fitting tribute to an outstanding career, In Translation illuminates the artistry behind a difficult craft by considering the work of one of its finest practitioners.

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Toleration within Judaism

By: Martin Goodman,Joseph E. David,Corinna R. Kaiser,Simon Levis Sullam

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Toleration within Judaism

By: Martin Goodman,Joseph E. David,Corinna R. Kaiser,Simon Levis Sullam

Although Jews sometimes attempt to impose constraints on those with whom they disagree on religious matters, or relate to them as if they were not Jews at all, at other times they have recognized differences of practice and belief and developed ways of handling them. The evidence presented in this book of such toleration over the centuries has important implications for writing both the history of Judaism and the history of religions more generally.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837649464

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The Yom Kippur War 1973 (1)

The Golan Heights

By: Simon Dunstan

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The Yom Kippur War 1973 (1)

The Golan Heights

By: Simon Dunstan

A compact, illustrated account of the first phase of the Yom Kippur, or Ramadan, War. At 1345hrs on 6 October 1973, Israeli spotters in the observation post atop Mount Hermon saw Syrian gunners below them removing the camouflage nets from their guns. Ten minutes later shells began to rain down on Israeli positions all along the Golan Heights – The Yom Kippur War had begun. The shock Syrian attack caught the Israelis by surprise and by the afternoon of 7 October a Syrian brigade was less than 10km from the Sea of Galilee. Simon Dunstan describes in detail how amid desperate and bitter fighting the Israeli forces managed to turn the tide on the Golan Heights.

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1846035732

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Jewish Cultural Studies

By: Simon J. Bronner

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Jewish Cultural Studies

By: Simon J. Bronner

Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches. Jewish Cultural Studiescharts the contours and boundaries of Jewish cultural studies and the issues of Jewish culture that make it so intriguing—and necessary—not only for Jews but also for students of identity, ethnicity, and diversity generally. In addition to framing the distinguishing features of Jewish culture and the ways it has been studied, and often misrepresented and maligned, Simon J. Bronner presents several case studies using ethnography, folkloristic interpretation, and rhetorical analysis. Bronner, building on many years of global cultural exploration, locates patterns, processes, frames, and themes of events and actions identified as Jewish to discern what makes them appear Jewish and why. Jewish Cultural Studiesis divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with the conceptualization of how Jews in complex, heterogenous societies identify themselves as a cultural group to non-Jews and vice versa—such as how the Jewish home is socially and materially constructed. Part 2 delves into ritualization as a strategic Jewish practice for perpetuating peoplehood and the values that it suggests—for example, the rising popularity of naming ceremonies for newborn girls, simhat bat or zeved habat, in the twenty-first century. Part 3 explores narration, including the global transformation of Jewish joking in online settings and the role of Jews in American political culture. Bronner reflects that a reason to separate Jewish cultural studies from the fields of Jewish studies and cultural studies is the distinctiveness of Jewish culture among other ethnic experiences. As a diasporic group with religious ties and varying local customs, Jews present difficulties of categorization. He encourages a multiperspectival approach that considers the Jewish double consciousness as being aware of both insider and outsider perspectives, participation in ancient tradition and recent modernization, and the great variety and stigmatization of Jewish experience and cultural expression. Students and scholars in Jewish studies, cultural studies, ethnic-religious studies, folklore, sociology, psychology, and ethnology are the intended audience for this book.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814338763

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Ramism and the Reformation of Method

The Franciscan Legacy in Early Modernity

By: Simon J. G. Burton

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Ramism and the Reformation of Method

The Franciscan Legacy in Early Modernity

By: Simon J. G. Burton

Ramism and the Reformation of Method explores the popular early modern movement of Ramism and its ambitious attempt to transform Church and society. It considers the relation of Ramism to Reformed Christianity and its development as a divine logic attuned to understanding both Scripture and the world. In doing so, it reveals how Ramists rejected the notion of a philosophy or worldview independent of God and sought to encompass everything under an overarching Christian philosophy indebted to Franciscan ideals. The supreme goal of the Ramists was the remaking of the world in the image of the Triune God.

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Oxford University Press

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0197516351

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Translating Montreal

Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

By: Sherry Simon

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Translating Montreal

Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

By: Sherry Simon

The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary passages from the then of the colonial city to the now of the cosmopolitan Montreal, she traces a history of crossings and intersections around the familiar sites and symbols of the city - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent, Mile End, the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Mont-Royal.

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0773577025

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Horrid Henry Robs the Bank

By: Francesca Simon

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Horrid Henry Robs the Bank

By: Francesca Simon

Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry helps himself to all the money he needs to win his favorite board game, comes up with another spectacular money-making scheme for launching a newspaper with all the school gossip, vows vengeance on Perfect Peter when Peter steals his birthday party theme and has his own Pirate Party—and gets his revenge by taking over as head teacher when Peter plays school with his goody-goody friends.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402279965

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America and Other Fictions

On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

By: Ed Simon

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America and Other Fictions

On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

By: Ed Simon

At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects considered: the need for an Augustinian left, legacies of American violence, speaking in tongues, the humanities facing climate change, the maturity of realizing that you will die, how to sail towards Utopia, and witches.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1785358464

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Critical theory and feeling

The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School

By: Simon Mussell

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Critical theory and feeling

The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School

By: Simon Mussell

This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent ‘affective turn’ within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory actively cultivates a powerful connection between thinking and feeling, and rediscovers a range of often neglected concepts that were of vital importance to the first generation of critical theorists, including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects and mimesis. In doing so, it brings the dynamic work of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer into conversation with more recent debates around politics and affect. An important intervention in the fields of affect studies and social and political thought, Critical theory and feeling shows that sensuous experience is at the heart of the Frankfurt School’s affective politics.

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Manchester University Press

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1526105713

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Israeli Fortifications of the October War 1973

By: Simon Dunstan

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Israeli Fortifications of the October War 1973

By: Simon Dunstan

The Bar Lev Line along the Suez Canal was born out of the overwhelming victory of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in the Six Day War of 1967. Devastated by their defeat, the Egyptian army bombarded Israeli positions, causing many casualties. Accordingly, the IDF Chief of Staff, General Haim Bar-Lev, ordered the construction of a series of fortified positions named the Bar Lev Line. Each position was surrounded by barbed wire and minefields and virtually immune to strikes by artillery shells and even 500kg bombs. On 6 October 1973, Yom Kippur, the positions were manned by just 436 reservists when the Egyptian Second and Third Armies launched a massive offensive along the Suez Canal. The positions were quickly cut off from the supporting elements, and the Israeli defenders paid a high price with a casualty rate of almost 50 per cent. Despite these losses, it was not the Bar Lev Line that failed but Israel's military and political establishment, which realised Arab intentions too late.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1846038154

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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Pocketbook

By: Simon Stewart

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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Pocketbook

By: Simon Stewart

This pocketbook is a concise summary of latest evidence-based information on the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Dr Simon Stewart is one of the world's leading nursing experts on cardiac disease, especially heart failure. Highly illustrated, clearly and succinctly written, the book provides an introduction to pulmonary arterial hypertension. It contains clear guidelines for the effective treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and emphasizes the need for screening of high-risk patients and outlines the range and effectiveness of treatment options once PAH has been diagnosed.

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Permeability and Stability of Lipid Bilayers

By: E. Anibal Disalvo,Sidney A. Simon

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Permeability and Stability of Lipid Bilayers

By: E. Anibal Disalvo,Sidney A. Simon

This book presents a comprehensive and coherent picture of how molecules diffuse across a liquid that is, on average, only two molecules thick. It begins by characterizing bilayers structurally, using X-ray diffraction, and then mechanically by measuring elastic moduli and mechanisms of failure. Emphasis is placed on the stability and mechanical properties of plant membranes that are subject to very large osmotic and thermal stresses. Using this information, the transport of molecules of increasing complexity across bilayers is analyzed.

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1351425382

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A Clinician's Guide to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

By: Simon Stewart

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A Clinician's Guide to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

By: Simon Stewart

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a relatively rare but potentially life-threatening disease. In most forms, the disease is likely to be diagnosed late and is associated with progressive clinical deterioration and premature death. A Clinician's Guide to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Second Edition enhances the overall PAH awareness of the

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How to Unlock Your Genius Using Black History

By: David Simon

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How to Unlock Your Genius Using Black History

By: David Simon

This unique book uses fiction and non-fiction to tell the story of 150,000 years of Black history. It is about a disgraced Black politician named Percy who runs to a Nigerian therapist to help him save his marriage. The therapist, Dr. Eze gets hold of Black history notes from a local teacher and uses these notes to show Percy how to explore his mind and his people's history in order to find solutions to his problems.

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Lulu.com

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0244125597

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9780244125592

Negotiating Ageing

Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life

By: Simon Biggs

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Negotiating Ageing

Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life

By: Simon Biggs

The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments and international organisations requires an act of cultural adaptation. Two key questions arise: What is the purpose of a long life? and How do we adapt to societies where generations are of approximately the same size? A number of pre-existing narratives can be identified; however, it is argued that contemporary policies have produced a premature answer which may eclipse the potential arising from lifecourse change. In this book Simon Biggs discusses ways of interrogating these questions and the adaptations we make to them. Four major areas, all of which have been suggested as solutions to population ageing, are critically assessed, including work as an answer, the relationship between work, ageing and health, narratives of spirit, belief and wisdom, the body and the natural, anti-ageing medicine, critical approaches to dementia, plus family and intergenerational relations. This book is particiularly useful for those trying to make sense of population ageing and negotiate solutions. It describes a number of concepts that can be used to assess what we are told about a long life and how generations can adapt together. With the cultural landscape moving away from traditional interpretations of old age, the question of adult ageing is of growing interest to a number of groups. This book is essential reading for social and health-care workers, other helping professionals, policy makers, social scientists and all who encounter the prospect of a long life.

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Routledge

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131736550X

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Basic Science of Spinal Diseases

By: Alok D Sharan,Simon Y Tang,Alexander R Vaccaro

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Basic Science of Spinal Diseases

By: Alok D Sharan,Simon Y Tang,Alexander R Vaccaro

This book is a comprehensive guide to the basic science of spinal diseases for trainees and clinicians. Divided into four sections, the authors begin with detailed discussion on the anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of the intervertebral disc. The following sections examine the science of spinal instrumentation and spinal interventions. Clinical chapters are structured in a uniform format, beginning with the presentation of a clinical case, followed by detailed discussion and supporting evidence. Each case ends with challenging questions to direct further investigation. This book is a highly useful compilation of research work from recognised surgeons from the USA and The Netherlands, specialising in the fields of physiology, biology, biomechanics and mechanobiology. Key points Comprehensive guide to the basic science of spinal diseases Based on research work of specialists in physiology, biology, biomechanics and mechanobiology US and Dutch author and editor team Includes nearly 240 full colour images and illustrations

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JP Medical Ltd

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9350904691

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9789350904695

Sovereignty and Religious Freedom

A Jewish History

By: Ann Schmiesing

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Sovereignty and Religious Freedom

A Jewish History

By: Ann Schmiesing

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Yale University Press

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0300246838

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Jewish Rights, National Rites

Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia

By: Simon Rabinovitch

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Jewish Rights, National Rites

Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia

By: Simon Rabinovitch

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Stanford University Press

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The Legitimacy of Cross-border Pharmacy from Canada to the United States [microform]

By: Simon Reuben Rabinovitch

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The Legitimacy of Cross-border Pharmacy from Canada to the United States [microform]

By: Simon Reuben Rabinovitch

Sanctioning cross-border pharmacy---the dispensing of prescription drugs by Canadian pharmacies to U.S. patients---is a legitimate option for U.S. and Canadian policymakers. Safety concerns have been exaggerated. Patient interests are better served by a regime of regulated imports than by prohibition. Similarly, opposition by Canadian provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and Colleges of Pharmacists to member participation in cross-border pharmacy is unjustified. Economic considerations do not compel prohibition of cross-border pharmacy but rather raise political questions of priority and values. Canadian interests in preserving domestic supplies can be protected through legal, political, and practical measures. Canada is better situated to resist price increases firms might seek in response to cross-border pharmacy than has been acknowledged.

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Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

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0612954447

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The Showman

Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

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The Showman

Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky’s transformation from a clean-cut funnyman into a war hero out of central casting." --New York Times Book Review; Editors' Choice Selection “The Showman surpasses all similar efforts to date and is set to be the standard by which all other works on Mr. Zelensky and Ukraine’s wartime politics will be judged." —Wall Street Journal A monumental account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the forging of a leader, The Showman provides an insider’s perspective on the war reshaping our world, based on unprecedented access to Volodymyr Zelensky and the high command in Kyiv. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety shows to the muddy trenches of Ukraine’s war with Russia. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, Shuster tells the intimate and revealing story of the president’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience. In their most candid accounts of the war so far, members of Zelensky’s inner circle show how the president’s character changed under the strains of leadership and the horrors he witnessed each day. His wife, First Lady Olena Zelenska, describes her escape from Kyiv with their children, her life on the run, and the tensions that emerged in her marriage as she struggled to return to a meaningful role in the administration. Ukraine’s top military commander, General Valery Zaluzhny, shares the untold story of his fraught relationship with the president and the subsequent consequences. Reflecting on their own regrets and critical decisions, Zelensky and his senior aides open up about the causes of the Russian invasion and how it may have been avoided. They describe with astonishing frankness how their peace talks with Vladimir Putin fell apart and how their faith in the U.S. faltered, both under Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The Showman provides the first inside account of Zelensky’s life amid the invasion, offering a clear-eyed view of his failures to prepare for it and his willingness to silence dissent under martial law. What emerges is a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age, resulting in a riveting, vivid portrait of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero.

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0063307464

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The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

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The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

‘This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’ CATHERINE BELTON 'An elegant account of the invasion’s first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm' DAILY TELEGRAPH

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