A systematic chronological study by one of the world's leading Jewish theologians. A masterly guide to the major currents of Jewish thought.

This is a Comprehensive"how-To"and"know All"guide to Jewish faith and values, written by great Jewish Theologian. It contains answers to questions about God, Torah, mitzvot, holidays, festivals, rituals, Jewish symbols, philosophy, mysticism, and more.

Printed sheet music to the work Souvenir de Porto Rico by Louis Moreau Gottschalk. This work is cataloged as Op. 31. This work is scored for Piano. This is a Performer's Reprint, which is a digital reprint of historical editions. Documents are cleaned, cropped, and straightened before printing on modern, acid-free paper. A portion of each sale supports both the International Music Score Library Project and small performing arts organizations to provide performance opportunities for both professional and amateur musicians.

A chronologically arranged anthology and history of poetry is supplemented with biographies of the poets

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Retold by Louis Untermeyer. Ages 10 and up.

"Louise Nevelson, now in her eightieth year, is one of our greatest contemporary American sculptors. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition in her honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a tribute to her spirit, her work, and her ongoing achievements. Nevelson, who worked with little recognition for the first fifty years of her life, became known to the general public in the mid-fifties with an exhibition of wood sculptures called MOON GARDEN + ONE. Accumulations of painted wood fragments, boxed, stacked, hanging, dramatically lit, they inspired wonder, reverence, and awe. A prominent New York critic called the show "shocking, overwhelming...appalling, marvelous." MOON GARDEN + ONE, with its tremendous vitality and power, is presented here along with four other major environments: the all-white exhibition shown at The Museum of Modern Art, DAWN'S WEDDING FEAST; the all-gold environment, THE ROYAL TIDES; and an earlier exhibition, THE ROYAL VOYAGE, whose carved pieces and found objects, painted black and arranged together, led to the idea of sculptural walls. In contrast, the last work, MRS. N's PALACE, is a three-dimensional piece -- a house on a mirrored floor that the viewer can walk around and enter -- made up of myriad small works. The original environment-installations are pictured here, as are many of the individual sculptures that comprised them, introduced by art historian Laurie Wilson, with quotes by Mrs. Nevelson herself. Edward Albee, playwright and friend of Mrs. Nevelson, has written a fascinating introduction discussing the artist's life and her art in the context of the history of sculpture over the past fifty years. Photographer Pedro E. Guerrero takes the reader on a privileged tour of Mrs. Nevelson's home and studio." --

Published posthumously, this last completed work of Lucien Goldmann is rich with insight and understanding into the problems that still confront the social sciences and humanities today. Cultural Creation exhibits, in condensed form, all the major theoretical achievements of Goldmann's career.

Pages 327-339, reproduces a Jewish chronicle of the first crusade. Although the translation is made from a rather bold reconstruction of a German translation of the original Hebrew chronicle, it is still close enough to the original to give a good picture of some aspects of the crusade as it affected the Jews.

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises dropped a bombshell on the European economic world with his article called "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." It argued that socialism was impossible as an economic system. It set off two decades of debate, so by the time the essays appeared in English, in this very book here, in 1935, the debate was still raging. This volume edited by F.A. Hayek dug the knife into socialism's heart unlike any book to ever appear. It contains essays by Mises along with a foreword and afterword by Hayek. It also contains more commentary by N.G. Pierson, George Halm, and Enrico Barone. It is exceptionally well edited and beautifully argued, and has not been in print for many years. The contents are nothing short of prophetic. The so-called "Calculation Argument" has never been answered. It shows that without private property in capital goods, there can be no prices and hence no data available for cost accounting. Production becomes random at best, and completely irrational. Mises had convinced his generation and this book completely devastates the whole socialist apparatus from a theoretical point of view. No one interested in this debate can afford not to be well-versed in the contents of this book.

Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations emerge accounts of the great fear, angst, and sense of danger that come of leaving a highly bounded enclave community. Many of those interviewed spoke of feeling marginal in their own communities; of strain in their homes due to death, divorce, or their parents' profound religious differences; experienced sexual, physical, or verbal abuse; or expressed an acute awareness of gender inequality, the dissimilar lives of their secular relatives, and forbidden television shows, movies, websites, and books. Becoming Un-Orthodox draws much-needed attention to the vital role of the body and bodily behavior in religious practices. It is through physical rituals and routines that the members of a religion, particularly a highly conservative one, constantly create, perform, and reinforce the culture of the religion. Because of the many observances and daily rituals required by their faith, Hasidic defectors are an exemplary case study for exploring the centrality of the body in shaping, maintaining, and shedding religions. This book provides both a moving narrative of the struggles of Hasidic defectors and a compelling call for greater collective understanding of the complex significance of the body in society.

Breaking up was never so much fun. Whether the reader is the dumper or the dumpee, Harris knows what they're going through--loneliness, guilt, resentment, second thoughts, and at least a few glimmers of relief and freedom. The perfect pick-me-up for the jilted everywhere, He Loved Me, He Loves Me Not shows readers that when it comes to breakups, there's nothing wrong with wallowing in one's own misery, seeking a little revenge, or eating onself into oblivion.

The author challenges many feminist orthodoxies - on female sexuality, pornography, war and peace, psychanalysis and sociobiology. She argues against the exponents - such as Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin and Dale Spender - of apocalyptic feminism, which says that men wield power over women through terror, greed and violence and that only women, because of their essentially greater humanity can save the world from social, ecological and nuclear disaster. Segal urges that to base the politics of feminism on innate and essential differences between men and women is mistaken, dangerous, and basically a counsel of despair, since its logical conclusion is that nothing can change. Things emphatically have changed for women, she asserts, and we must build on these changes, combining autonomy with alliances to alter power relations and forge a new future for both women and men.

All men have mothers . . . It's a truth that the newly unhyphenated Maisie Grey has learned the hard way. After getting rid of her mama's-boy husband, she happily settles down with her teenage son, Tommy. But she's still stuck with the hovering presence of her impossible mother-in-law, Tommy's grandmother, who refuses to exit the family stage gracefully. Trying to keep it together with her own business and a new relationship with a man who still lives in— where else but? —his mother's house, Maisie struggles to learn from the MIL-from-hell. She vows that when Tommy brings someone home, she'll be loving, empathetic, and supportive. But then along comes completely unsuitable September Silva—with her too-short skirts, black nail polish, and stay-out-all-night attitude—who is forcing Maisie to take a flinty, clear-eyed new look at what it means to be a mother.

"Since pioneer filmmakers arrived on its shoreline in the early 20th century, the Santa Monica beach has been a popular location for the making of movies and television productions. Its enchanting beauty led studio moguls, producers, and celebrities to build beach houses there, creating what became known as "Hollywood's Playground." The sand and shore of the Santa Monica beach became a favored site for the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, and Cary Grant. It was on this beach that the Academy Awards were conceived, the movie The Wizard of Oz sprang forth, and a young Pres. John F. Kennedy stunned beachgoers with a surprise ocean swim without the protection of Secret Service agents. In 1962, the beach became the center of the universe as the site of President Kennedy's "Western White House," where the visitors included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, and--famously--"anyone who was anyone."--