Imagine orchestrating an elaborate sit-down dinner fgor twenty-five, serving an elegant, unforgettable, and genuinely healthy meal and enjoying the whole thing as much as your guests do. Now, in Entertaining Light, Martha Rose Shulman, award-winning author of Mediterranean Light, shows you how to make any get-together the kind of pleasurable, palate-pleasing experience you'll want to repeat again and again. With the know-how gleaned from years as a professional caterer and hostess, Ms. Schulman offers invaluable guidelines for composing a menu and getting organized - the two keys to easy and successful entertaining. And whether you prefer large cocktail parties, intimate dinners for two, festive holiday buffets, or last-minute unformal suppers, she provides more than three hundred low-fat, low-calorie recipes for dishes that are sumptuous, deeply satisfying, and always brimming with authentic flavor.

"Haggadah means "the telling." The escape from Egypt is the defining legend, the central drama of the Jews. Every nation coalesces around such an epic; its people project themselves into the story, aspire to the virtues of its heroes, and through periodic retelling or dramatization, transmit their values to the next generation. The traditional Haggadah offers a set of instructions for conducting the Passover service, interspersed with readings from the Bible, rabbinical commentaries, legends, prayers, hymns and children's songs. Written by men and addressing men, the traditional text has not historically offered much space for women to see themselves as fully involved in or spoken to by the powerful drama of human freedom articulated by the Haggadah. In Haggadah: A Celebration of Freedom, Martha Shelley brings a new vision to the traditional text."--Jacket.

"A breathtaking historical novel that recreates the intimate milieu around Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm from 1907 through the 1930s, a period of great human suffering and destruction and also of enormous freedom and creativity, a time when the remnants and artifices of the old word still mattered, and yet when art and the social sciences were pirouetting with successive revolutions in thought and style. Set in a time when many men in the upper classes in Europe were gay, but could not be so publicly, Jews Queers Germans revolves around three men: Prince Philipp von Eulenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II's closest friend, who becomes the subject of a notorious 1907 trial for homosexuality; Magnus Hirschfeld, a famed, Jewish sexologist who gives testimony at the trial; and Count Harry Kessler, a leading proponent of modernism, and the keeper of a famous set of diaries which lay out in intimate detail the major social, artistic and political events of the day and allude as well to his own homosexuality. The central theme here is the gay life of a very upper crust intellectual milieu that had a real impact on the major political upheavals that would shape the modern world forever after"--

Captures the beat era - from Kerouac's ambition-filled early years, criss-crossing the country with pals like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, to the later years of isolation and alcoholism.

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A fresh exploration of Paul's activities during the hidden years of his life, from his conversion in Damascus to his familiar ministry in the book of Acts. With an unparalled wealth of historical material and a reconsideration of Paul's own writings, a new picture of Paul's life emerges.

Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's multiple meanings—expressive, decentered, longitudinal, latitudinal, normative—or its implications for other theoretical and practical matters. By closely following the adventures of this troublesome but central concept, Marxism & Totality offers an unconventional account of the history of Western Marxism.

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely. Its unified framework illuminates many famous economic examples and models. This work also emphasizes the connection between optimal control theory and the classical themes of capital theory. It offers a fresh approach to fundamental questions such as: What is income? How should it be measured? What is its relation to wealth? The book will be valuable to students who want to formulate and solve dynamic allocation problems. It will also be of interest to any economist who wants to understand results of the latest research on the relationship between comprehensive income accounting and wealth or welfare.

This is a collection of important lecture and original articles and commentaries by Martin Perl, discoverer of the tau lepton and the third generation of elementary particles, and this year's Nobel Prize winner. This book contains a fascinating and realistic picture of experimental science based on the high energy physics research work carried out by him. Using reprints of his articles with his commentaries, the author presents the various aspects of experimental research in science: the pleasures and risks of experimental work; the pain and frustration with experiments that are useless or fail; the dreaming about experiments that were not carried out; the constant search for innovation and creativity in the work; and the special joy of discovery. The articles and commentaries range from the early days of bubble chambers and spark chambers in the 1950's to the author's present research, experiments at an electron-positron collider and a search for free quarks. The book is for the general reader as well as the scientist.

A collection of 75 black-and-white photographs by Hungarian-born Munkacsi (1896-1963). Includes examples of his art photography in Weimar Germany, and his later fashion photography in New York and California. Accompanied by a brief biographical essay.

Preface -- 1. Introduction / Helle Krunke and Martin Scheinin -- Part I Judges as guardians of the fundamental rights of the individual -- 2. On judging / Aharon Barak -- 3. The changing understanding of judicial legitimacy / Or Bassok -- 4. Courts as protectors of the people: constitutional identity, popular legitimacy and human rights / Helle Krunke -- Part II Judges and judging in times of terrorism and surveillance -- 5. Judges as guardians of constitutionalism and human rights: the judiciary and counter-terrorism in the United Kingdom / David Hope (The Lord Hope of Craighead) -- 6. The judiciary and the surveillance state: general trends and German experiences / Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem -- 7. Judicial oversight of surveillance: the case of Ireland in comparative perspective / TJ McIntyre -- 8. Procedural fairness and judicial review of counter-terrorism measures / David Jenkins -- 9. The judiciary in times of terrorism and surveillance: a global perspective / Martin Scheinin -- Part III The judiciary in times transition -- 10. The role of the judiciary in Egypt's failed transition to democracy / Antoni Abat i Ninet -- 11. The Russian constitutional court in international legal dialogues / Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov -- 12. Guides and guardians: judiciaries in times of transition / Ebrahim Afsah -- Part IV Judges as guardians beyond the nation state: regional and international perspectives -- 13. Constitutionalism and human rights at the International Criminal Court / Anita Ušacka -- 14. The judicial dialogue between international and national courts in the Inter-American human rights system / Carlos Ayala -- 15. The role of judges of the European Court of Human Rights as guardians of fundamental rights of the individual / David Thór Björgvinsson -- 16. The task of regional and international courts in guarding constitutionalism and human rights / Marina Aksenova and Geir Ulfstein.

Throughout history, revolutions have been a potent force of social, economic and political change. The Encyclopedia of Revolutions and Revolutionaries: From Anarchism to Zhou Enlai is the first single-volume encyclopedia devoted to this significant historical phenomenon. Written by a team of international scholars, the book's more than 500 entries cover periods of unrest and change from antiquity to the present, including the Spartacus RevoEncompassing history and the world, The Encyclopedia of Revolutions and Revolutionaries brings to life the forms of revolutions and resistance movements undertaken to effect fundamental societal change; the non-violent and passive demonstrations that have transformed the world; and the intellectual and economic upheavals that have shaped human thought and institutions.

Two Stars for Peace makes a compelling case for merging Israel and Palestine into the United States. Dozens of possible objections are addressed using clear logic, historical precedent, and current statistics. This bold new strategy is also shown to be essential to removing the kindling wood of terrorism from Middle East politics. Two Stars for Peace is the natural successor to The Jewish State, Theodore Herzl's hundred-year old booklet that created Zionism. Author Martine Rothblatt persuasively demonstrates that "two-state" solutions, such as the current Middle East Roadmap, are doomed to failure, as is unbridled Zionism. However, there is a "two-star" solution that is consistent with the true spirit of Zionism, as well as with complete satisfaction of Palestinian aspirations. America is asked to rise to one of its greatest challenges by welcoming Two Stars for Peace.

This landmark volume will be created to coincide with the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences which the University of New South Wales in Sydney will be hosting in 2005.