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The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

By: Steven Ozment

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The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

By: Steven Ozment

Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. With a new foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittgers, this modern classic is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of students and scholars.

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0300256183

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Mystics of the Christian Tradition

By: Steven Fanning

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Mystics of the Christian Tradition

By: Steven Fanning

From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition as we know it. Full of colourful detail, Mystics of the Christian Tradition examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity over two thousand years, and reveals the often sexual nature of these encounters with the divine. In this fascinating account, Fanning reveals how God's direct revelation to St Francis of Assisi led to his living with lepers and kissing their sores, and describes the mystical life of Margery Kempe who 'took weeping to new decibel levels'. Through presenting the lives of almost a hundred mystics, this broad survey invites us to consider what it means to be a mystic and to explore how people such as Joan of Arc had their lives determined by divine visions. Mystics of the Christian Tradition is a comprehensive guide to discovering what mysticism means and who the mystics of the Christian tradition actually were.

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1134590970

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The Scribings Omnibus

By: Jamie Alan Belanger,Cynthia Ravinski,Lee Patterson,Richard Veysey,Timothy Lynch,Steven Inman,D.L. Harvey,Shelli-Jo Pelletier,Matthew Stephen D.,Robin Hansen

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The Scribings Omnibus

By: Jamie Alan Belanger,Cynthia Ravinski,Lee Patterson,Richard Veysey,Timothy Lynch,Steven Inman,D.L. Harvey,Shelli-Jo Pelletier,Matthew Stephen D.,Robin Hansen

For the past five years, the Greater Portland Scribists writing group has been independently publishing their fiction in annual anthologies. This Omnibus edition combines almost every story we've published. Ten of our current and previous members have contributed a total of 44 stories to this collection. From our inaugural volume to this year's volume, Inversions, the stories contained in this Omnibus Edition span nearly every speculative fiction subgenre there is--fantasy, horror, science fiction, paranormal, and more. The Scribings Omnibus contains stories from the following volumes: - Scribings, Vol 1 - Scribings, Vol 2: Lost Civilizations * - Scribings, Vol 3: Metamorphosis - Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations - Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions * Christopher L. Weston's story from Lost Civilizations, Ordovicia, will remain exclusive to the original ebook

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1936489244

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Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations

By: Steven Inman,Richard Veysey,D.L. Harvey,Shelli-Jo Pelletier,Timothy Lynch

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Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations

By: Steven Inman,Richard Veysey,D.L. Harvey,Shelli-Jo Pelletier,Timothy Lynch

Miscreations are things that should not exist, but do. An event happens that transforms an entity into something so amazingly good or so horribly evil that you can't help but be fascinated by its existence. Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations contains twelve stories from the Greater Portland Scribists that explore these oddities. Errors in evolution. Discoveries in supposedly clean rooms. Extreme memory loss. Appliances that are a little too smart. Mythical beasts reborn. And one joke that went way too far.

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Analytic Philosophy of Religion: Its History Since 1955

By: Steven Duncan

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Analytic Philosophy of Religion: Its History Since 1955

By: Steven Duncan

This book is a reconstruction and interpretation of the development of analytic philosophy of religion in Britain and the United States, with special reference to the debate over the existence of God and the problem of evil, during the last fifty years. It discusses Theism and Atheism; Neo-Thomism; The Problem of Religious Language; The Argument from Evil and the Origins of Inductivism; The Inductivist Paradigm; The Ontological, Cosmological Argument and Teleological Arguments; Post-Deductivism; and The Philosophy of Religion Today. Steven M. Duncan's other publications include A Primer of Modern Virtue Ethics (UPA, 1995) and The Proof of the External World (Wipf and Stock, 2008). "A concise yet rigorous and substantive review of most of the important work that has been done in analytic philosophy of religion during the past half century. It should prove valuable both to the professional philosopher and the student of philosophy. This is a wonderful book!"--Professor Paul Herrick

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1847600824

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The Legal Case for Palestine

A Critical Assessment

By: Steven E. Zipperstein

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The Legal Case for Palestine

A Critical Assessment

By: Steven E. Zipperstein

This book critically analyzes the Palestinian legal arguments against Israeli occupation and in favor of Palestinian statehood. For the past two decades, Palestinians have chosen to pursue their claims against the Israeli occupation through litigation at the international courts. It is therefore appropriate, the author contends, to analyze the merits of the Palestinian legal claims separately from their political claims. To do so, the book comprises five parts: Part I addresses the role of international law in the conflict as well as Palestinian legal framing and lawfare. Part II recounts the relevant legal history, including the crucial legal implications of the Oslo Accords. Part III analyzes Palestinian legal claims regarding the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Part IV assesses the Palestinian legal case for statehood. Part V analyzes Palestinian legal claims regarding Jerusalem. Ultimately, it is argued that the Palestinian legal case is weak even though the two-state solution continues to represent the most viable long-term political outcome to the conflict. Moreover, the author suggests that Palestinian leaders have repeatedly opted for conflict perpetuation through lawfare and violence, rather than conflict resolution through negotiation. Providing fresh insights into the claims and counterclaims of Palestinian legal arguments, the book will appeal broadly to anyone interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and international law.

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The Age of Evangelicalism

America's Born-Again Years

By: Steven P. Miller

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The Age of Evangelicalism

America's Born-Again Years

By: Steven P. Miller

At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so powerful and pervasive that political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote of "a sense in which we are all evangelicals now." Steven P. Miller offers a dramatically different perspective: the Bush years, he argues, did not mark the pinnacle of evangelical influence, but rather the beginning of its decline. The Age of Evangelicalism chronicles the place and meaning of evangelical Christianity in America since 1970, a period Miller defines as America's "born-again years." This was a time of evangelical scares, born-again spectacles, and battles over faith in the public square. From the Jesus chic of the 1970s to the satanism panic of the 1980s, the culture wars of the 1990s, and the faith-based vogue of the early 2000s, evangelicalism expanded beyond churches and entered the mainstream in ways both subtly and obviously influential. Born-again Christianity permeated nearly every area of American life. It was broad enough to encompass Hal Lindsey's doomsday prophecies and Marabel Morgan's sex advice, Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Carter. It made an unlikely convert of Bob Dylan and an unlikely president of a divorced Hollywood actor. As Miller shows, evangelicalism influenced not only its devotees but its many detractors: religious conservatives, secular liberals, and just about everyone in between. The Age of Evangelicalism contained multitudes: it was the age of Christian hippies and the "silent majority," of Footloose and The Passion of the Christ, of Tammy Faye Bakker the disgraced televangelist and Tammy Faye Messner the gay icon. Barack Obama was as much a part of it as Billy Graham. The Age of Evangelicalism tells the captivating story of how born-again Christianity shaped the cultural and political climate in which millions of Americans came to terms with their times.

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0199380996

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Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.

Living on the Edge

By: Steven H. Werlin

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Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.

Living on the Edge

By: Steven H. Werlin

Following the failure of the Bar-Kokhba revolt in the second century, the majority of the Jewish population of Palestine migrated northward away from Jerusalem to join the communities of Jews in Galilee and the Golan Heights. Although rabbinic sources indicate that from the second century onward the demographic center of Jewish Palestine was in Galilee, archaeological evidence of Jewish communities is found in the southern part of the country as well. In The Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E., Steve Werlin considers ten synagogues uncovered in southern Palestine. Through an in-depth analysis of the art, architecture, epigraphy, and stratigraphy, the author demonstrates how monumental, religious structures provide critical insight into the lives of those who were strangers among Christians and Muslims in their ancestral homeland.

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9004298401

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Prison Break

Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration

By: David Dagan,Steven Michael Teles

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Prison Break

Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration

By: David Dagan,Steven Michael Teles

Over the last few years, conservatives in Washington, D.C. and in bright-red states like Georgia and Texas, have abandoned their tough-on-crime rhetoric, and are now leading the charge to curb prison growth. In Prison Break, Steven Teles and David Dagan will explain how this striking turn of events occurred, how it will affect mass incarceration, and what it teaches us about achieving policy breakthroughs in our polarized age. Combining insights from law, sociology, and political science, Teles and Dagan will offer the first comprehensive account of this major political shift.

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The Reformation in the Cities

The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland

By: Steven E. Ozment

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The Reformation in the Cities

The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland

By: Steven E. Ozment

A bold synthesis of intellectual and social history which explains the appeal of Protestantism to the German and Swiss cities, the media of its communication, and the means of its establishment."--Religious Studies Review "This book is a stimulating addition to the recent work in urban history, and it offers a new and thought-provoking perspective on the teachings and appeal of early Protestantism."--History "Ozment very masterfully combines the history of ideas and social history in a work of exacting scholarship and persuasive argumentation. It will no doubt become a seminal work in its field."--The Annals "This fine study is a pleasure to read, shows an excellent understanding of the late medieval scene, and presents convincing evidence that magistrates and city council leaders were not the 'motors of reform' in the cities of Germany and Switzerland.... There is nothing in print in English that is comparable."--Choice "A work of unusual interest and value. . . . Essential reading for all students of the Reformation."--New Review of Books and Religion

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0300024967

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This Holy Place

On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period

By: Steven Fine

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This Holy Place

On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period

By: Steven Fine

Steven Fine's This Holy Place is a comprehensive treatment of the synagogue as a place of sanctity in Late Antiquity. This book is essential for an understanding of how the synagogue became the central Jewish communal institution and how it served as a substitute for the destroyed Jerusalem Temple during the long period of Jewish exile from the Land of Israel. Fine's mastery of both archaeological evidence and a wide variety of literary sources makes this a major contribution to the field."" --Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University ""Fine has mastered an unusually wide range of disciplines--rabbinical sources, archaeology, art and epigraphy. . . . His book is thoroughly researched, well written, and engagingly presented. It should be required reading for anyone interested in how this most central institution of Jewish life was perceived and presented."" --Lee I. Levine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ""I read [This Holy Place] with the greatest profit and enjoyment. It is an important contribution to the entire nature of late antique civilization and not only to Jewish studies."" --Peter Brown, Princeton University Steven Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University.

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1532609264

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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

Volume 3

By: Burt Hopkins,Steven Crowell

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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

Volume 3

By: Burt Hopkins,Steven Crowell

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.

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1317401476

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The Almost Mystic

John Wesley’s Editing of the Spanish Mystics, Juan de Ávila and Miguel de Molinos, in His Christian Library

By: Steven P. Tungate

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The Almost Mystic

John Wesley’s Editing of the Spanish Mystics, Juan de Ávila and Miguel de Molinos, in His Christian Library

By: Steven P. Tungate

John Wesley, eighteenth century Church of England priest and founder of Methodism, was strongly influenced by the works of Roman Catholic mystics early in his ministry. These writings shaped his widely known doctrine of Christian perfection or entire sanctification. The mystics inspired Wesley to advocate for a lofty spiritual goal that he believed to be attainable in this life. In time, however, he developed many contentions with extremes as well as some particulars found in the mystical tradition. Beginning in 1749, Wesley began to publish his Christian Library--a fifty-volume compilation of abridged works that he believed to be among the best writings on practical divinity that had been published in English. Among this vast collection, he incorporated two works originally written in Spanish including a sampling of Letters by Juan de Avila and the Spiritual Guide by Miguel de Molinos. This book examines Wesley's editing of these works as a way of evaluating Wesley's theology in comparison and contrast with Spanish mysticism. In particular, this book serves as a comparative study among these authors on matters of theological authority, self-knowledge and epistemology, soteriology, spiritual growth, suffering and divine withdrawal, prayer, meditation, contemplation, and the spiritual goal.

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166678155X

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Revolution and Dictatorship

The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

By: Steven Levitsky,Lucan Way

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Revolution and Dictatorship

The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

By: Steven Levitsky,Lucan Way

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism. Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, monarchies, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest—three principal sources of authoritarian breakdown. Looking at a range of revolutionary and nonrevolutionary regimes from across the globe, Revolution and Dictatorship shows why governments that emerge from violent conflict endure.

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Princeton University Press

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0691223580

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Dear Mller-Hartmann: Letters from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert Mller-Hartmann

By: Steven K. White

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Dear Mller-Hartmann: Letters from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert Mller-Hartmann

By: Steven K. White

Letters written by Ralph Vaughan Williams to fellow composer Robert Mller-Hartmann between 1938-1950. Mller-Hartmann was a Jewish German composer exiled in England. Vaughan Williams, Imogen Holst and Genia Hornstein helped him find work and establish a new life in a foreign land. Robert Mller-Hartmann was a significant composer in his own right and he also collaborated with Vaughan Williams to help translate some of RVW's works into German.

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0578035847

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The Tragedy of Optimism

Writings on Hermann Cohen

By: Steven S. Schwarzschild

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The Tragedy of Optimism

Writings on Hermann Cohen

By: Steven S. Schwarzschild

Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen's thought into contemporary philosophical discourse. In The Tragedy of Optimism, George Y. Kohler brings together all of Schwarzschild's work on Cohen for the first time. Schwarzschild's readings of Cohen are unique and profound; he was conversant with both worlds that shaped Cohen's thought, neo-Kantian German idealism and Jewish theology. The collection covers a wide range of subjects, from ethics, socialism, the concept of human selfhood, and the mathematics of the infinite to more explicitly Jewish themes. This volume includes two of Schwarzschild's previously unpublished manuscripts and a scholarly introduction by Kohler. Schwarzschild shows that despite its seeming defeat by events of the twentieth century, Cohen's optimism about human progress is a rational, indeed necessary, path to peace.

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State University of New York Press

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1438468377

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"Neither the Spirit without the Flesh"

John Calvin's Doctrine of the Beatific Vision

By: Steven W. Tyra

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"Neither the Spirit without the Flesh"

John Calvin's Doctrine of the Beatific Vision

By: Steven W. Tyra

This book claims that John Calvin developed Greek doctrines of the interim state of souls, resurrection, and beatific vision through his reading of ancient Christian sources like Irenaeus of Lyons. Greek had been a technical term in Western theology since at least the 12th century to denote heterodox eschatology. Thomas Aquinas had employed it in that sense, and early modern Catholics like Robert Bellarmine and Pierre Coton in turn applied it to Calvin. The book demonstrates that, in this respect at least, Calvin's opponents were correct: he was a Greek. However, it questions whether that fact should lead modern theologians to dismiss him as a resource for contemporary reflection. Calvin's deep respect for and continuity with early Christian voices may serve as a positive model for theologians today, particularly in the Reformed tradition. By the same token, Reformed thinkers who seek inspiration from medieval scholasticism may find their relationship to Calvin complicated by the case presented here.

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0567714500

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Shu

By: David R. Hall,Steven A. Hall

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Shu

By: David R. Hall,Steven A. Hall

BOOK 2 OF THE CONTINUUM (the Osirians return to our universe) Am-mit, has seized the Busiris throne and made himself the absolute ruler of an entire universe. Foremost among Am-mit's evil host is, Isis, a power hungry Admiral - every inch as cruel as Am-mit. Isis has pursued the insurgent leader, Neter, into this universe. Isis has been here before and her technology is millennia ahead of ours. The Armageddon which has just completed repairs inadvertently intercepts Isis and incurs her wrath. It will take a miracle to save Dagon Kepler and his crew.

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1430321768

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Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity (paperback)

By: Steven Fine

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Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity (paperback)

By: Steven Fine

Art, History, and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity explores the complex interplay between visual culture, texts, and their interpretations, arguing for an open-ended and self-aware approach to understanding Jewish culture from the first century CE through the rise of Islam. The essays assembled here range from the “thick description” of Josephus’s portrayal of Bezalel son of Uri as a Roman architect through the inscriptions of the Dura Europos synagogue, Jewish reflections on Caligula in color, the polychromy of the Jerusalem temple, new-old approaches to the zodiac, and to the Christian destruction of ancient synagogues. Taken together, these essays suggest a humane approach to the history of the Jews in an age of deep and long-lasting transitions—both in antiquity, and in our own time. "Taken as a whole, Fine’s book exhibits the value of bridging disciplines. The historiographical segments integrated throughout this volume offer essential insights that will inform any student of Roman and late antiquity." Yael Wilfand, Hebrew University, Review of Biblical Literature, 2014.

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9004238174

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IMF-Supported Programs in Indonesia, Korea and Thailand

By: Mr.Atish R. Ghosh,Mr.A. Javier Hamann,Mr.Timothy D. Lane,Mr.Steven Phillips,Mrs.Marianne Schulze-Gattas,Mr.Tsidi M. Tsikata

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IMF-Supported Programs in Indonesia, Korea and Thailand

By: Mr.Atish R. Ghosh,Mr.A. Javier Hamann,Mr.Timothy D. Lane,Mr.Steven Phillips,Mrs.Marianne Schulze-Gattas,Mr.Tsidi M. Tsikata

This paper is a preliminary review of the design of and early experience with IMF-supported programs in Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand during 1997-98. The review takes into account developments as of October 1998, and was the basis for a discussion of the programs by the IMF's Executive Board in December 1998.

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1557757836

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From Tradition to Commentary

Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy

By: Steven D. Fraade

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From Tradition to Commentary

Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy

By: Steven D. Fraade

This book examines Torah and its interpretation both as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic commentary and as the very practice of the commentary. It studies the phenomenon of ancient rabbinic scriptural commentary in relation to the perspectives of literary and historical criticisms and their complex intersection. The author discusses extensively the nature of ancient commentary, comparing and contrasting it with the antecedents in the pesharim of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the allegorical commentaries of Philo of Alexandria. He develops a model for a dynamic understanding of the literary structure and sociohistorical function of early rabbinic commentary, and then applies this model to the Sifre — to the oldest extant running commentary to Deuteronomy and one of the oldest rabbinic collections of exegesis. Fraade examines the commentary's representation of revelation and its reception at Mt. Sinai, with particular attention to its fractured refiguration and interrelation of Scripture, tradition, and history. He discusses the commentary's discursive empowering of the class of sages in their collective self-understanding as Israel's authorized teachers, leaders, legislators, and judges. The author also probes the tension between Torah and nature as witnesses to Israel's covenant with God.

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1438403143

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Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View

By: Steven E. Barkan,George J. Bryjak

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Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View

By: Steven E. Barkan,George J. Bryjak

The criminal justice system is a key social institution pertinent to the lives of citizens everywhere. Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View, Second Edition provides a unique social context to explore and explain the nature, impact, and significance of the criminal justice system in everyday life. This introductory text examines important sociological issues including class, race, and gender inequality, social control, and organizational structure and function.

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1449636012

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The Social Dimensions of Fiction

On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas

By: Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

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The Social Dimensions of Fiction

On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas

By: Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

This work is a comparative study of nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French Canadian novel prefaces, a previously unexplored literary topic. As a study in Comparative Literature - with the application of a specific literary framework and methodology - the study conforms to theoretical and methodological postulates formulated in and prescribed by this framework when applied. This a priori postulate necessitates that the research on and the presentation of the Canadian novel preface be carried out in a specific manner, as follows. First, the study will establish the hypothesis that the preface to nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French-Canadian novels is a genre in its own right. This hypothesis will rest on the following: 1) a taxonomical survey of related terms meaning "preface"; 2) a survey of secondary Iiterature of works dealing with the preface; 3) a discussion of the theoretical framework and methodology of the Empirical Theory of Literature and its appropriateness for the study of the preface; and 4) a discussion of the process of the compilation of the corpus of nineteenth-century Canadian novel prefaces (Chapter one). In a second step, the theoretical postulate outlined in the hypothesis will be put into practice by the development and production of a preface typology (Chapter two). In a third step, further tenets of the Empirical Theory of Literature will be tested on the corpus of the prefaces (Chapter three). In a fourth step, the prefaces will be analysed following the tenets formulated in and prescribed by the systemic framework applied (Chapter four).

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3663139093

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Our Separate Ways

The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.–Israel Alliance

By: Dana H Allin,Steven N Simon

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Our Separate Ways

The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.–Israel Alliance

By: Dana H Allin,Steven N Simon

Anger and distrust have strained the U.S.-Israeli alliance as the Obama administration and Netanyahu government have clashed over Israeli settlements, convulsions in the Arab world, and negotiating with Iran. Our Separate Ways is an urgent examination of why the alliance has deteriorated and the dangers of its neglect. Powerful demographic, cultural, and strategic currents in Israel and the United States are driving the two countries apart. In America, the once-solid pro-Israel consensus is being corroded by partisan rancor, which also pits conservative Jews against the more liberal Jewish majority. In Israel, surveys of young Jewish citizens reveal a disdain for democracy, and, in some cases, a readiness to curb the civil liberties of non-Jews. Prospects for preserving a liberal Zionism against the pressures for "Greater Israel" are dimming as hopes for a two-state solution fade. The acrimony between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a symptom, not cause, of the deeper crisis. If the alliance becomes just a transactional arrangement, then the moral, emotional, and largely intangible bonds that have long tied the two countries together will continue to weaken. Going separate ways at a time of Middle East chaos, and despite profound historical commitment, would be an immense tragedy. The partnership must restore the shared vision that created it.

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How Democracies Die

By: Steven Levitsky,Daniel Ziblatt

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How Democracies Die

By: Steven Levitsky,Daniel Ziblatt

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved. Praise for How Democracies Die “What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that.”—The Washington Post “Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”—Ezra Klein, Vox “If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.”—Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter) “A smart and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world, and in ways that are perfectly legal.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN

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Legal Fictions

Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages

By: Steven Fraade

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Legal Fictions

Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages

By: Steven Fraade

Drawing on the ancient writings of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early rabbinic Judaism, this book comprises studies that explore the intersections of scriptural interpretation, narrative fiction, and legal rhetoric. It proposes and models methods of a non-reductive historiography for each of these communities and for both of them in comparison.

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Pediatric Gastroenterology, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America

By: Steven J. Czinn,Samra S. Blanchard

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Pediatric Gastroenterology, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America

By: Steven J. Czinn,Samra S. Blanchard

The Guest Editors have tapped top key opinion leaders to provide current reviews on the clinical diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal disease in children. They have focused on topics related to GERD; Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity; IBD; Motility Disorders; GI Bleeding and Management; Pancreatic Disorders; Hepatitis B and C; Liver Transplant; Abdominal Pain; Complications from Obesity; and Neonatal Cholestasis.These articles will provide a state-of-the-art overview of diagnosis and treatment of GI diseases that are impactful for the general pediatrician.

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The Diva Incident

By: Steven A. Hall,David R. Hall

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The Diva Incident

By: Steven A. Hall,David R. Hall

PROLOGUE TO THE CONTINUUM (The beginning of the Hykonian wars) The year is 6700 A.D. and a disarmed and disillusioned human race is lost in stagnation. Yet, there are a few humans in whom the primitive flame still burns. The ISMU miners sail the uncharted waters of their time. They are a rough crude lot governed only by the dictates of their union. The Diva is an ISMU superminer and her captain is Raef Maclear. Somewhere near the M31 galaxy, Raef Maclear will meet the Hykonians and find himself the last hope of the human race.

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America's Future: Biden And The Progressives

By: Daniel Quinn Mills,Steven Rosefielde

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America's Future: Biden And The Progressives

By: Daniel Quinn Mills,Steven Rosefielde

This book is about a choice President Biden must make that will determine the future of America. His choice is between being a partisan politician or a non-partisan statesman. However, to be a statesman, he must contend with the progressive wing of his party. Today's progressives have become revolutionaries whose purpose is to remake America by canceling their opponents. Biden has a tiger by the tail. As in all such situations, the problem is how to let go. In this book, we suggest how Biden can free himself from the danger posed by the progressives and simultaneously benefit America dramatically.

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Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments

Essays and Addresses

By: Steven Bayme

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Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments

Essays and Addresses

By: Steven Bayme

Steven Bayme examines the challenges facing American Jewry, the Contemprary significance of Israel and Jewish peoplehood, and the claims of Jewish tradition in the modern world.

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Feminism with Men

Bridging the Gender Gap

By: Steven P. Schacht,Doris W. Ewing

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Feminism with Men

Bridging the Gender Gap

By: Steven P. Schacht,Doris W. Ewing

How can men participate in feminism as a full and equal partner, respecting gender differences yet sharing a common vision with women for an oppression-free future? This book provides both male and female perspectives, academic insights and practical suggestions for (pro)feminist men seeking new ways to increase mutual understanding and to create cooperative efforts with feminist women.

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The Seven Tools of Healing

Unlock Your Inner Wisdom and Live the Life Your Soul Desires

By: Steven M. Hall MD

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The Seven Tools of Healing

Unlock Your Inner Wisdom and Live the Life Your Soul Desires

By: Steven M. Hall MD

If you want to find and treat the real causes of the problems youre facing and take your healing to a higher level, then you need to do some work. That means not only striving to change the conditions you currently face but taking steps to change what brought problems or issues into your life in the first place. In other words, treating both the symptoms and the causes will help you get better results than focusing on one or the other. Steven M. Hall, M.D., gives you a blueprint to do both in this guide to healing. The tools he shares will help you: recognize when something in your life is not working; identify foundational beliefs that contribute to problems; change beliefs when necessary; and focus on solutions instead of problems. Hall doesnt tell you how to eat or exercise, and he doesnt preach about visualizing or saying positive affirmations. Rather, he concentrates on getting to the root causes of your issues and mastering seven straightforward tools to live a longer, healthier, and happier life.

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Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law

1939-1948

By: Steven E. Zipperstein

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Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law

1939-1948

By: Steven E. Zipperstein

During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939–1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to gain leverage against each other and to influence international opinion. The parties invoked "transformational legal framing" to portray the essentially political-religious conflict as a legal dispute involving claims of justice, injustice, and victimisation, and giving rise to legal/equitable remedies. Employing this form of narrative and framing in multiple "trials" during the first 15 years of the Mandate, the parties continued the practice during the last and most crucial decade of the Mandate. The term "trial" provides an appropriate typology for understanding the adversarial proceedings during those years in which judges, lawyers, witnesses, cross-examination, and legal argumentation played a key role in the conflict. The four trials between 1939 and 1947 produced three different outcomes: the one-state solution in favour of the Palestinian Arabs, the no-state solution, and the two-state solution embodied in the United Nations November 1947 partition resolution, culminating in Israel's independence in May 1948. This study analyses the role of the law during the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine, making an essential contribution to the literature on lawfare, framing and narrative, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

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Endolumenal Therapy, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

By: Steven A. Edmundowicz

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Endolumenal Therapy, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

By: Steven A. Edmundowicz

Today a number of gastrointestinal disorders that once required open surgical or percutaneous management are being managed with endolumenal therapies. This has led to an evolution of minimally invasive endolumenal approaches to many disorders. This issue reviews the progress made in the application of endolumenal therapies and not only discuss current applications but future efforts and directions for clinical investigation. Articles will focus on the scope of the problem, past management options, new endolumenal options, investigations with endolumenal therapy, current status (clinical trial results if available), and future directions.

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Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing

A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process

By: Steven Stern

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Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing

A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process

By: Steven Stern

Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing is both a personal analytic credo and a multidimensional approach to thinking about clinical interaction. The book’s central theme is that of analytic needed relationships—the science and art of co-creating unique, evolving relational experiences fitted to each patient’s implicit therapeutic aims and needs. Steven Stern argues that, while we need psychoanalytic theories to "grow the receptors and processors" necessary to sense, understand, and connect with our patients, these often tend to frame the therapist’s participation in terms of theoretical and technical categories rather than offering a more holistic view of the relationship in all of its human complexity. Stern believes that a new set of higher order constructs is needed to counteract this tendency. In addition to his own concept of needed relationships, he invokes principles from the work of renowned developmental researcher and theorist, Louis Sander: especially his concept of relational fittedness. Stern draws on the work of Freud, Bion, Winnicott, Kohut, and a broad spectrum of contemporary psychoanalytic authors, in fleshing out the therapeutic implications of Sander’s (and Stern’s own) vision. The result is a rich, humane, and accessible narrative. Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing offers diverse clinical examples in which you will find Stern engaging with each of his patients in idiomatic, spontaneous ways as he attempts to contour interventions to the evolving analytic situation. This case material will inspire therapist-readers to feel freer to find their own creative voices and idioms of participation, as they seek to meet each patient within the psychoanalytic space. The book is intended for psychoanalysts and psychodynamic therapists at all levels of experience, including those in training.

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Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine

An Encyclopedia

By: Thomas F. Glick,Steven John Livesey,Faith Wallis

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Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine

An Encyclopedia

By: Thomas F. Glick,Steven John Livesey,Faith Wallis

Demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the flowering of the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. This reference work will be useful to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields of study, including medieval studies and world history.

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Last Ships from Hamburg The

Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I

By: Steven Ujifusa

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Last Ships from Hamburg The

Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I

By: Steven Ujifusa

“A captivating group portrait of three ‘titans’ of industry who facilitated the steamship routes by which around 2 million Jewish refugees, fleeing pogroms and discrimination, immigrated from Europe to America between 1890 and 1921. . . . Ujifusa ties this intricate business history into a broader economic and diplomatic context and relates the experiences of regular people who made the crossings, including the families who perished aboard the Titanic. This innovative account provides a complex new perspective on the turn of the 20th century.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age.”—Wall Street Journal A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible. Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P. Morgan, mastermind of the International Mercantile Marine (I.M.M.) trust, who tried to monopolize the lucrative steamship business. Though their goals were often contradictory, together they made possible a migration that spared millions from persecution. Descendants of these immigrants included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Estée Lauder, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Lauren Bacall, the Marx Brothers, David Sarnoff, Al Jolson, Sam Goldwyn, Ben Shahn, Hank Greenberg, Moses Annenberg, and many more—including Ujifusa’s great grandparents. That is their legacy. Moving from the shtetls of Russia and the ports of Hamburg to the mansions of New York’s Upper East Side and the picket lines outside of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, The Last Ships from Hamburg is a history that unfolds on both an intimate and epic scale. Meticulously researched, masterfully told, Ujifusa’s story offers original insight into the American experience, connecting banking, shipping, politics, immigration, nativism, and war—and delivers crucial insight into the burgeoning refugee crisis of our own time.

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