Facing surgery to remove a brain tumor, former Sacramento City Councilman Steve Cohn wrote this memoir chronicling his life's story, from his grandfather's daring escape from the Russian Army in Ukraine during World War I and Cohn's childhood growing up in mid-century Missouri, to his adult life in Northern California, where he raised a family and began a long career as an attorney for the nation's most progressive electric utility and a civic leader for "America's Most Livable City." Cohn was one of the longest serving City Council members in the history of Sacramento, dating back to the California Capital's founding during the Gold Rush in 1849. Cohn's memoir shines a light on how local politics was played, for better or worse, during some of the Capital's most controversial battles over the last 25 years, including the saga of the Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team and the building of a new Downtown arena. Cohn's memoir also tells the inside story of some of the Council's toughest decisions to change the City's development pattern from its post-war suburban, automobile-oriented past to a more sustainable vision of Sacramento as "America's Most Livable City."

In a trilogy of connected stories that revolve around an unfinished manuscript and a fallen angel's relationship with his half-mortal son in 1900 New York, three ordinary people are thrown into a series of extraordinary adventures.

Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the Greco-Roman period. It presents new perspectives regarding the development of the synagogue and its significance of this institution for understanding religion and society under the Roman Empire.

Over four decades ago, radical scholars began to suggest a new way of looking at South African society - one that blamed the economic power of those who owned property for the racial bondage of the black majority. Their work, and the debates it triggered, are mostly forgotten, but they and their critics have much to say that sheds lights on today's South African realities. Harold Wolpe was arguably the most influential theorist of this generation. His writings played a major role in a revolution in thought, and his celebrated escape from prison in the 1960s made him a symbol of alternative action. Race, Class and Power clearly and insightfully examines Wolpe's work in the political, intellectual, and social contexts in which it was developed and to which it gave form. Drawing on interviews with those who Wolpe worked with, disagreed with, and inspired, the book also maps his influence on ideas and the culture that emerged in anti-apartheid circles in the 1970s. Harold Wolpe's writings are a prism through which South African society can be viewed, and this book is an intellectual biography both of Wolpe and of South Africa's left. It also assesses and engages with the ongoing impact of Wolpe's ideas into the post-apartheid present. Moreover, it suggests how Wolpe's work can move us towards a way of thinking about and acting upon South Africa's realities differently.

This guide to the ins and outs of today's dynamic illustration business tells budding illustrators everything that their teacher didn't know or their art director didn't tell them. Using an entertaining, running narrative format to look at key concerns every illustrator must face today, this book covers finding one's unique style and establishing a balance between art and commerce; tackling issues of authorship and promotion; and more. In-depth perspectives are offered by illustrators, art directors, and art buyers from various industries and professional levels on such issues as quality, price negotiation, and illustrator-client relationships. • Includes an afterword by Milton Glaser, well-known designer/illustrator • From the authors of The Education of an Illustrator (1-58115-075-x) Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

This book deals with the origin and functions of money and banking, emphasizing the role both play in the promotion of economic order. Developing the insights of Hayek and others of the Austrian tradition, Professor Horwitz argues that an appreciation of the spontaneous evolutionary processes that produce and maintain our monetary institutions shou

A (posthumous) collection of prose from the nearly legendary writer, junkie, wordsmith, sometime Sub-Pop recording artist, a and inspiration to Kurt Cobain and countless others. "The work is deeply felt...Bernstein has been there and brought it back. Bernstein is a writer." [William S. Burroughs]

Three general accounts of causation stand out in early modern philosophy: Cartesian interactionism, occasionalism, and Leibniz's preestablished harmony. The contributors to this volume examine these theories in their philosophical and historical context. They address them both as a means for answering specific questions regarding causal relations and in their relation to one another, in particular, comparing occasionalism and the preestablished harmony as responses to Descartes's metaphysics and physics and the Cartesian account of causation. Philosophers discussed include Descartes, Gassendi, Malebranche, Arnauld, Leibniz, Bayle, La Forge, and other, less well-known figures.

A celebration of Jewish men''s voices in prayer--to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men--diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions--have convened in this collection to offer contemporary, compelling and personal prayers. The words published here are not the recitation of established liturgies, but the direct address of today''s Jewish men to ha-Shomea Tefilla, the Ancient One who has always heard, and who remains eager to receive, the prayers of our hearts." --from the Foreword by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL This collection of prayers celebrates the variety of ways Jewish men engage in personal dialogue with God--with words of praise, petition, joy, gratitude, wonder and even anger--from the ancient world up to our own day. Drawn from mystical, traditional, biblical, Talmudic, Hasidic and modern sources, these prayers will help you deepen your relationship with God and help guide your journey of self-discovery, healing and spiritual awareness. Together they provide a powerful and creative expression of Jewish men''s inner lives, and the always revealing, sometimes painful, sometimes joyous--and often even practical--practice that prayer can be. Jewish Men Pray will challenge your preconceived ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of prayerful expression, new paths for finding the sacred in the ordinary and new possibilities for understanding the Jewish relationship with the Divine. This is a book to treasure and to share. Contributors: Israel Abrahams * Aharon of Karlin * Daniel S. Alexander * Alexandri (third century CE) * Bezalel Aloni * Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL * Rabbi Samuel Barth * Hillel Bavli (1893-1961) * Shye Ben-Tzur * Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) * Sheldon H. Blank (1896-1989) * Ben Zion Bokser (1907-1984) * Harold Braunstein * Daniel S. Brenner * Eliezer Bugatin * Shlomo Carlebach * (1925-1994) * Avraham Chalfi (1904-1980) * Rabbi Howard Cooper * Rabbi Menachem Creditor * Abraham Danziger (1748-1820) * Harry K. Danziger * Elazar (end of first century CE) * Elimelech of Lizhensk (1717-1787) * Dov Peretz Elkins * Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) * Morley T. Feinstein * Edward Feld * Adam D. Fisher * Ira Flax * Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) * Elihu Gevirtz * Jeffrey Goldwasser * James Stone Goodman * Rabbi Arthur Green * Sidney Greenberg (1917-2003) * Judah HaLevi (1075-1141) * Rabbi Jules Harlow * Rabbi Shai Held * Rabbi Hayim Herring * Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) * Lawrence A. Hoffman * Rabbi David A. Ingber * Rabbi Ben Kamin * Yehuda Karni (1884-1949) * Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes * Eliahu J. Klein * Cantor Jeffrey Klepper * Rabbi Michael Knopf * Harold Kohn * Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) * Rabbi Andy Koren * Rabbi Cary Kozberg * Rabbi Elliot Kukla * Rabbi Irwin Kula * Harold S. Kushner * Rabbi Lawrence Kushner * Rabbi Robert N. Levine * Rabbi Stan Levy * Immanuel Lubliner (1923-1997) * Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) * Mar the son of Rabina (fourth century) * Rabbi Craig Marantz * Danny Maseng * Daniel C. Matt * Hershel Jonah Matt (1922-1987) * Rabbi Ralph D. Mecklenburger * Andrew Meit * Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler * Jay Michaelson * Rabbi James L. Mirel * Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) * Louis Newman * Dan Nichols * Reb Noson (1780-1844) * Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky * Rabbi Jesse Olitzky * Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky * Natan Ophir (Offenbacher) * Bachya ibn Pakuda (eleventh century) * Daniel F. Polish * Andrew Ramer * Avrom Reyzen (1876-1953) * Haim O. Rechnitzer * Rabbi Jack Riemer * Rabbi Albert Ringer * Rabbi Brant Rosen * James B. Rosenberg * Joel Rosenberg * Robert Saks * Jeffrey Salkin * Rabbi Neil Sandler * Zalman Schachter-Shalomi * Rabbi Robert Scheinberg * Harold M. Schulweis * Rabbi Arthur Segal * Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro * Rabbi Rick Sherwin * Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812) * Yaakov David Shulman * Danny Siegel * Rifat Sonsino * Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz * Chaim Stern (1930-2001) * Rabbi Arnold Stiebel * Rabbi Warren Stone * Rabbi Neil A. Tow * Roy A. Walter * Simkha Y. Weintraub * Rabbi David Wolpe * Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740-1809) * Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942) * Rabbi Reuben Zellman * Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel * Rabbi Shawn Zevit * Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman * Rabbi Mishael Zion * Rabbi Raymond A. Zwerin

Goblin, Ghost, and Witch look for buried treasure, go swimming, play a game, hear a story, and get lost in a snowstorm.

Susan Doran describes and analyses the process of the Elizabethan Reformation, placing it in an English and a European context. She examines the religious views and policies of the Queen, the making of the 1559 settlement and the resulting reforms. The changing beliefs of the English people are discussed, and the author charts the fortunes of both Puritanism and Catholicism. Finally she looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Elizabeth I as royal governor, and of the Church of England as a whole.

A move to the country introduces Steven and June Hood to the kitten Foudini and the largest dog anybody has ever seen, two talking animals who are preparing a return visit to the world from which they originally came and decide to take the children with them.

Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.

This is one of the first collections exploring the range of cultural practices associated with the design and use of computing. Against the background of the "information revolution", the volume shows how people come to computers as learners, artists, teachers, designers, gatekeepers, or scientists. The contributors cover a range of topics, from the military to gender in cyberspace, from education to multi-national corporate IT use.

Scrutinizing the Israeli military, medical, and religious establishments, Susan Sered discloses the myths, policies, and pressures that encumber and endanger Israeli women in their roles as soldiers, brides, and mothers. Framed by the question of why the life expectancy and health status of Israeli women is poor in comparison to women in other developed countries, What Makes Women Sick? conjoins medical anthropology, gender studies, and women's health to show how female bodies in Israel are controlled through public policy, symbolic discourses, and ritual performances. Looking at issues such as disputes over women serving in combat, the rape of a former "Miss Israel," and government incentives for bearing children, Sered develops a passionate ethnography of Israeli society that resonates universal truths about women, power, and authority.

Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. Official documents, reports, and censuses have largely omitted any references to the country's non-European inhabitants, mirroring official policies that once included the extermination of indigenous peoples and continued to encourage Europeanization well into the twentieth century. In Captive Women, Susana Rotker exposes this concerted act of forgetting by looking at a historical phenomenon that has been expunged from the national record: the widespread kidnapping of white women by Argentine Indians in the nineteenth century.Captivity narratives form a major part of the early colonial literature of the United States, but Argentina has no such tradition. These narratives contradict Argentina's carefully shaped self-image, one historically based on the absence of aboriginal peoples and the impossibility of miscegenation. Captive Women uses close and imaginative readings of military documents, government treaties, travel journals, essays, and memoirs to explore the foundations of Argentina's strategies of silence and its negation of uncomfortable historical realities.