Straddling Worlds. The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold, Paperback - Steven J. Harper

Steven Harper pays tribute to a respected teacher with this biography of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern U...

Reducere. On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis. At 70 miles per hour, w...

The Psychological Significance of the Blush - Professor W. Ray Crozier, Professor Peter J. de Jong

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven VogelIllustrator: Kathryn K. DavisNature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them...

Seeds reads like the best of a roundtable discussion amongst John Muir, Bill Bryson, and David Sedaris. From the fields of Gettysburg to the home o...

Reducere. In this personal, multifaceted memoir, Hala Buck, a professional artist and integrative therapist, reflects on her mixed Muslim and Christian famil...

For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experi...

Reducere. This completely revised and updated classic resource serves as an introduction to the Jewish life cycle. The first part of the book uses a question...

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Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial points in its linguistic his...

Reducere. Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of A...

Reducere. Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change--from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life."Jewish Megatrends offers a v...

Reducere. Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context.

A book about new ways of breeding garden varietiesIllustrations: 6 black and white figures; 9 colour plates

Reducere. Can people die, or have near-death experiences, and come back to life again?Is it possible to experience the afterlife in advance or are such impre...

Reducere. DescriptionDonald Trump is the 45th president of the United States. Unlike other elected leaders of this nation, Trump has had zero experience in p...

Reducere. "DON'T believe the naysayers. The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you'll make it--is alive and well."--N...

Reducere. This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the le...

This fascinating title details the history of America's secretive advanced guided weapons projects of World War II, the combat they saw, and how th...

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and ...

Reducere. " Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." --Susan Sontag From one of America's most brilliant crit...

Despite the importance of historical and contemporary migration to the American Jewish community, popular awareness of the diversity and complexity...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

This book highlights, scrutinizes, and deploys Bernstein's philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosop...

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Reducere. "Wonderfully evocative... Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read." -- Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-wi...

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...

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At the outset of pregnancy, most parents expect a roughly 40-week journey punctuated by the birth of a healthy baby. When a preterm birth upends th...

Reducere. "A story of epic proportions and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."--The Boston GlobeA classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is th...