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Josephus Geographicus

The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus

By: Yuval Shahar

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Josephus Geographicus

The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus

By: Yuval Shahar

Why did ancient historians include geographical descriptions in their historical works? How does the spatial description fulfill its goal? In this book, Yuval Shahar discusses these two questions, showing that the answers depend on the particular historian and the genre in which he is writing. He analyzes and compares the presentation of geographical space in the writings of Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius and Strabo, with selected illustrations from early Latin historiography. It is clear from this that Flavius Josephus consciously and definitively follows the generic approach of Polybius and Strabo. Moreover, Josephus' descriptions of parts of the Land of Israel are structured in the same way as the descriptions in Strabo's Geography, and reflect a hidden dialogue between Josephus and Strabo.Awareness of these generic characteristics enables a new reading of some of Josephus' most famous descriptions, such as Jotapata, Gamala and Masada, and establishes his credibility.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161482565

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Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

By: Carlo Combi,Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou,Yuval Shahar

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Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

By: Carlo Combi,Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou,Yuval Shahar

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine introduces the engineering of information systems for medically-related problems and applications. The chapters are organized into four parts; fundamentals, temporal reasoning & maintenance in medicine, time in clinical tasks, and the display of time-oriented clinical information. The chapters are self-contained with pointers to other relevant chapters or sections in this book when necessary. Time is of central importance and is a key component of the engineering process for information systems. This book is designed as a secondary text or reference book for upper -undergraduate level students and graduate level students concentrating on computer science, biomedicine and engineering. Industry professionals and researchers working in health care management, information systems in medicine, medical informatics, database management and AI will also find this book a valuable asset.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441965432

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The Law of Good People

Challenging States' Ability to Regulate Human Behavior

By: Yuval Feldman

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The Law of Good People

Challenging States' Ability to Regulate Human Behavior

By: Yuval Feldman

Currently, the dominant enforcement paradigm is based on the idea that states deal with 'bad people' - or those pursuing their own self-interests - with laws that exact a price for misbehavior through sanctions and punishment. At the same time, by contrast, behavioral ethics posits that 'good people' are guided by cognitive processes and biases that enable them to bend the laws within the confines of their conscience. In this illuminating book, Yuval Feldman analyzes these paradigms and provides a broad theoretical and empirical comparison of traditional and non-traditional enforcement mechanisms to advance our understanding of how states can better deal with misdeeds committed by normative citizens blinded by cognitive biases regarding their own ethicality. By bridging the gap between new findings of behavioral ethics and traditional methods used to modify behavior, Feldman proposes a 'law of good people' that should be read by scholars and policymakers around the world.

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258

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Cambridge University Press

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1108682669

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9781108682664

Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory

Law, Religion, Economics, and Morality

By: Yuval Sinai,Benjamin Shmueli

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Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory

Law, Religion, Economics, and Morality

By: Yuval Sinai,Benjamin Shmueli

Presents Maimonides' complete tort theory, and how it compares with other tort theories both in the Jewish world and beyond.

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429

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Cambridge University Press

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1107179297

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The War Within

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox

By: Yuval Elizur,Lawrence Malkin

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The War Within

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox

By: Yuval Elizur,Lawrence Malkin

For many Israelis, it is the internecine conflict with the ultra-orthodox Haredim that impacts their lives the most. The majority of Haredim -- raised with an intense focus on religion at the expense of all else -- are unemployable in a modern economy. Many choose to pursue religious studies, which the government subsidizes up to the age of 40. The first book on a conflict that is fast crystallizing into a national debate, The War Within is a lively and trenchant exploration of a battle between church and state as it plays out before our eyes in Israel today. As acclaimed journalists Yuval Elizur and Lawrence Malkin expose, the situation today has reached a critical point that threatens the state of Israel from within and must certainly affect its future.

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163

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Abrams

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1468310011

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9781468310016

Women of the Wall

Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites

By: Yuval Jobani,Nahshon Perez

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Women of the Wall

Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites

By: Yuval Jobani,Nahshon Perez

In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the Women of the Wall, one of whom had smuggled the scroll into the plaza, Sasha became the first woman to read from the Torah at the site. For more than twenty five years, the Women of the Wall have been waging a campaign to gain the Israeli government's permission to pray at the Western Wall. Despite widespread media coverage, this is the first comprehensive study of their struggle. Yuval Jobani and Nahshon Perez offer an in-depth analysis of the Women of the Wall's attempts to modify Jewish-orthodox mainstream religious practice from within and invest it with a new, egalitarian content. They present a comprehensive survey of the numerous legal rulings about the case and consider the broader political and social significance of the Women of the Wall's activism. In this way, Jobani and Perez are able to address broader issues of religion-state relations: How should governments manage religious plurality within their borders? How should governments respond to the requests of minorities that conflict with ostensibly mainstream interpretations of a given tradition? How should governments manage disputed sacred sites and spaces located in the public sphere? Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites offers a critical new look at theories of religion-state relations and a fresh examination of religious conflicts over sacred sites and public spaces.

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Oxford University Press

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0190689978

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Equality for Same-Sex Couples

The Legal Recognition of Gay Partnerships in Europe and the United States

By: Yuval Merin

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Equality for Same-Sex Couples

The Legal Recognition of Gay Partnerships in Europe and the United States

By: Yuval Merin

During the past three decades, nations all over the world have been debating whether to allow same-sex couples to marry, or at least grant these couples various rights associated with marriage. In Equality for Same-Sex Couples, Yuval Merin presents the first comparative study of the legal regulation of same-sex partnerships worldwide, as well as a unique survey of the status of same-sex couples in Europe. Merin begins by providing a historical overview of the transformation of marriage from antiquity to the present. He then identifies and critically compares four principal models for the legal regulation and recognition of same-sex partnerships: civil marriage, registered partnership, domestic partnership, and cohabitation. Merin concludes that all of the models except civil marriage discriminate against gays and lesbians just as the "separate but equal" doctrine discriminated against African Americans; thus, so-called alternatives to marriage, even if they provide the same rights and benefits as marriage, are inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226520331

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9780226520339

Josephus Geographicus

The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus

By: Yuval Shahar

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The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus

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Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

By: Carlo Combi,Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou,Yuval Shahar

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Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

By: Carlo Combi,Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou,Yuval Shahar

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1441965432

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2009, Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009, Proceedings

By: Carlo Combi,Yuval Shahar,Ameen Abu-Hanna

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2009, Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009, Proceedings

By: Carlo Combi,Yuval Shahar,Ameen Abu-Hanna

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2009, held in Verona, Italy in July 2009. The 24 revised long papers and 36 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-based systems, temporal data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery, text mining, natural language processing and generation, ontologies, decision support systems, applications of AI-based image processing techniques, protocols and guidelines, as well as workflow systems.

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3642029760

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Book's by Yuval Shahar

Josephus Geographicus

Josephus Geographicus

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

The Law of Good People

The Law of Good People

Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory

Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory

The War Within

The War Within

Women of the Wall

Women of the Wall

Equality for Same-Sex Couples

Equality for Same-Sex Couples

Josephus Geographicus

Josephus Geographicus

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

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