This book sheds light on fundamentalism in Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The terrorist attack on the United States on September 11th brought this issue to our shore. An historical and religious analysis is needed to better understand and deal with out now changed world.

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(LKM Music). An opera in two acts by David Schiff based on the story "GIMPEL THE FOOL" by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day who was recognized, in the phrase "from Moses unto Moses there was none like Moses," as the legitimate successor to the medieval Moses Maimonides. At the same time, Mendelssohn was one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet "the Socrates of Berlin." Because of his eminence in both spheres, Mendelssohn has been treated as a symbol of the modern Jewish predicament: the conflict between Jewish tradition and secular culture. Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment presents a new interpretation of Mendelssohn's work. David Sorkin offers a close study of Mendelssohn's complete writings, treating the German and the often neglected Hebrew writings as a single corpus. By showing that Mendelssohn's well-known German pronouncements on Judaism and religion take on a different meaning when they are read in the context of his entire body of work, Sorkin argues that Mendelssohn's two spheres of endeavor were entirely consistent

Winning at poker is not just analysis, clever tactics, nor even inspired bluff--although "Total Poker" examines all these in depth. Ultimately, luck works out the same for everyone--there really is no such thing as "good cards" or "bad cards." As the author maintains, winning is a "psychological decision" made by each player. Packed with stories about the application of poker to life in general, "Total Poker" looks at the game's history, culture, techniques, strategies, rules, and probabilities. David Spanier is a former journalist for "The Times" and author of "Easy Money, Little Book of Poker, The Hand I Played," and "Welcome to the Pleasuredome."

Contemporary library managers face the need to make difficult choices regarding resource allocation in the modern business environment. How Libraries Make Tough Choices in Difficult Times is a practical guide for library managers, offering techniques to analyze existing and potential services, implement best practices for maximizing existing resources, and utilize pressing financial scenarios in order to justify making difficult reallocation decisions. The book begins by asking the fundamental questions of why, what, and how, moving on to look at how to manage expectations and report to both administration and faculty. The book then considers the four 'D's of Do, Delegate, Delay and Drop, before covering project management, and how to understand the mission and objectives of your organisation. The book then focuses on: service quality improvement analyses; identifying underlying issues; reviewing resources; identifying best practice; managing feedback and expectations; and looking at decision making skills and implications. Introduces both philosophies and techniques for decision-making that will help inexperienced library managersProvides resources for a practical orientation to new Service Quality Improvement and Project Management approaches as library managers address a wide range of resource allocation considerationsWritten by a highly experienced practitioner in the field.

the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 quickly ushered in a popular and political movement toward nuclear disarmament. Across the globe, heads of state, high-ranking ministers, and bureaucrats led intense efforts to achieve effective disarmament agreements. Ultimately these efforts failed. In The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, David Tal offers a detailed analysis of U.S. policy from 1945 to the summer of 1963, exploring the reasons for failure and revealing the complex motivations that eventually led to the Limited Test Ban Treaty. While previous books have focused on the policies of specific administrations, Tal’s is the first to consider negotiations as an evolving phenomenon that preoccupied three presidents, from Truman to Kennedy. Drawing on extensive archival research, the author examines the profound dilemma faced by leaders on all sides—forced by political pressure to engage in negotiations whose success they saw as injurious to national interests. Far from believing that the nuclear arms race would inevitably lead to war, the United States regarded nuclear weapons as the greatest guarantee that war would not happen.

Using the medium of prose, the contemporary poet expresses her thoughts on the poet's craft and other writers.

"Raft Baby is a tale of fact and fiction, handed down from the 1870's, about a trapper who finds a baby floating down the Peace River in British Columbia. Raft Baby was first performed at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver, B.C. in 1978 and was on school tour in Greater Vancouver and the West Kootenays during that year. "A lively family entertainment.....The story's optimistic emphasis on plain-folks decency does much to make this play the pleasure it is"-Publisher

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In this unprecedented collection, Donald N. Levine rejuvenates the field of social theory in the face of lagging institutional support. The work canvasses the universe of types of theory work in sociology and offers probing examples from his array of scholarly investigations. Social Theory as a Vocation throws fresh light on the texts of classic authors (Comte, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Park, Parsons, and Merton). Ranging widely, its substantive chapters deal with the sociology of strangers and the somatic dimensions of social conflict; the social functions of ambiguity and the use of metaphors in science; contemporary dilemmas of Ethiopian society; logical tensions in the ideas of freedom and reason; and the meaning of nationhood in our global era. The book includes Levine's transformative analysis of the field of Ethiopian studies, and his acclaimed interpretation of the discontents of modernity. It makes the bold move to merge philosophically informed analyses with empirical work. Finally, Levine focuses on what he views as the contemporary crisis of liberal education, and offers suggestions for ways to stimulate new efforts in teaching and learning to do social theory. This book is an integral contribution to social science collections and should be read by all interested in the future of the social sciences.

Takes readers behind the scenes of a radio station's operations and details the challenges involved in the essential station function of music directing.