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Ryan Jacobson
Become a bald eagle in this interactive picture book that encourages movement, creativity, and decision-making.
Have you ever dreamed of flying like a bald eagle? In this interactive picture book…
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Patrick Landman
Since ADHD was first classified as a disorder in the 1980s we have seen a startling increase in diagnoses for children, adolescents and, most recently, even adults across all demographic…
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David Jacobson
This text presents a revisionist interpretation of Emerson’s philosophical discourse placing him at the juncture of modernism and postmodernism in the Western philosophical tradition.
This volume explores key states and their changing conceptions of the international order in the post-Cold War era.
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This text argues that transnational migrations have affected ideas of citizenship since World War II. The author shows how citizenship has been devalued as governments extend rights to foreign populations…
This book presents a model for analyzing and evaluating ethnographic arguments. It examines the relationship between the claims anthropologists make about human behavior and the data they use to warrant…
Women’s bodies have become a battleground. This title illuminates why women’s sexuality, dress, and image so compel militant Muslim outrage and sometimes violent action, reveals a human story of how…
This book recounts the heroic story of the Maccabees and explains how they successfully took on the might of the Seleucid realm, illustrated by the coins issued by the main…
This volume offers a multidisciplinary perspective on immigration to the United States. In this comprehensive selection of readings by scholars working on immigration studies, the history, contemporary issues, economy, comparative…
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Multidisciplinary social science perspective. Covers history, contemporary issues, the economy, and comparative studies on immigration to the US. Selections by the most important figures in this field.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
In this analysis, David Jacobson addresses how changing ideals of the landscape have moulded American nationhood and political culture. Covering the sweep of US history, from the Puritans to contemporary…
David Jacobson (Arizona State University)
Can talent be explained? The secret techniques and musical insights of classical music’s greatest performers are revealed by David Jacobson, founder/director of the San Francisco Institute of Music and graduate…
David Brauner
This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a…
David C. Jacobson
Exploring the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry, this work features close readings of 50 poems from poets such as…
Nineteen studies illuminating Herod’s role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable achievements, as expressed in his extensive building programme. Josephus’ record is examined here in the light of…
Felicity Cobbing,David Jacobson
This book offers a selection of over 350 early photographs, paintings, and drawings of the length and breadth of the Holy Land from the rich repository of images in the…
David Jacobson,Charles A. Ziegler
They shed new light on questions raised in earlier interpretations of the early Cold War years and reveal the origins of a surveillance activity that is implied, but not explained…
David Jacobson, Manlio Cinalli
The emergence of citizenship, some 4,000 years ago, was a hinge moment in human history. Instead of the reign of blood descent, questions regarding who rules and who belongs were…
David P Jacobson
Enjoy this collection of true, larger-than-life hunting stories and thrilling wilderness experiences throughout North America, including the vast wildernesses of Montana, Alaska, and Canada.
While growing up, the young David…
Presents an anthology that examines the search for God in the work of six prominent Israeli poets - Yehuda Amichai, Admiel Kosman, Rivka Miriam, Zelda Mishkovsky, Hava Pinhas-Cohen, and Asher…
This book explores a central phenomenon in the development of modern Jewish literature: the retelling of tradtional Jewish narratives by twentieth-century writers. It shows how and toward what ends Biblical…
David M. Jacobson
In early June 1902, John Peters and Hermann Thiersch were alerted to the discovery of two painted burial caves at Marisa, less than 40 miles southwest from Jerusalem. This new…
Explores the resurgence of interest in Talmudic stories in Israel and presents some of the most popular Talmudic stories in contemporary Israeli culture, as well as creative interpretations of those…
A group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers. This title tells the story…
David Jacobson,David F. Graf
Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume…
David M Jacobson Lcsw
This guide makes a serious and compelling case for exploring different ways to measure depression and how a sense of humor can and should be used to enhancement treatments of…
Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely…
Toxicological Testing Handbook
These essay cover a wide diversity of subjects in Hume’s work. This includes his theory of knowledge; his conception of human inquiry and the human mind; his views on our…
This book provides an overview of the nonclinical testing strategies that are used to asses and de-risk the genotoxicity and carcinogenicity properties of human pharmaceuticals.
David Jacobson, (Au (Arizona State University)
The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) houses half a million publications that are a valuable means of information to researchers, teachers, students, and the general public. These documents are all…
Paolo Mantegazza
The first English translation of Mantegazza’s futurist and utopian book, which uses the story of Paolo and Maria, a pair of lovers who travel to the capital city of the…
This edited collection goes beyond the limited definition of borders as simply dividing lines across states, to uncover another, yet related, type of division: one that separates policies and institutions…
Chris Bocking,Allan Rennie,David Jacobson
Offers a comprehensive insight into the developments in advanced manufacturing technologies. This text includes contents such as: design and manufacture of drilling guides for osseointegrated implants using rapid prototyping techniques…
Efforts to extend the scope of application of three dimensional printing processes is an important milestone in rapid manufacture. This book includes analysis of the application of the Z corps…
Shimon Gibson,David M Jacobson
One of the splendours of the Augustan age, the great temple at Jerusalem occupied an area four times larger than the Acropolis. Even before this period the site had already…
