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Luminal darkness: imaginal gleanings from Zoharic literature

Wolfson, Elliot R.
Renowned as one of the world’s most astute interpreters of Kabbalistic texts, Elliot Wolfson offers an illuminating and original presentation of Kabbalah. Combining its wisdom with Western philosophical heritage from Plato to Heidegger and beyond, synergy guides his elucidation of the fundamentals of Jewish mysticism and shapes his taxonomy of Kabbalistic thought.
Oneworld 2007 309 pages

IrRational music

Sharp, Elliott
"For over five decades, Elliott Sharp has been on a quest to take the music he hears in his inner ear and bring it to life in the real world. In this vivid memoir and manifesto, we share the adrenalin rush of New York's Downtown scene of the '80s and beyond, where--against a backdrop of junkies frozen 'in a perpetual fall' and escaped tarantulas skittering across club floors--Sharp becomes a pivotal figure at the junction of rock and the avant-garde. Moving deftly between the abstractions of Spinoza and fractal geometry and the gritty physicality of guitars, saxophones, silicon hardware, and offbeat instruments of his own devising, Sharp makes music solo and in a dizzying range of aggregations and collaborations with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Nusrat Fateh Ali-Khan, Sonny Sharrock, Hilary Hahn and blues legend Hubert Sumlin. We watch as he dodges fake cowboys' real bullets by the side of a highway near Colby, Kansas; segues from Zen tea to single malt with an elfin John Cage; trades licks with Bedouin sumsumiya players in a goat's-hair tent in the Negev; and looks up from his teenage strumming of 'Gloria' in Manny's Music on 48th Street to find Jimi Hendrix smiling benignly upon him. A mix of tales from the road and sky with thoughts on music, art, politics, technology, and the process of thinking itself, IrRational Music is a glimpse inside the smooth cranium of one of our most exacting, exciting creative artists"--Back cover.
Terra Nova Press 2019-02-12 241 pages

A Middle Eastern affair

Douek, Ellis
When Ellis Douek was nine, his mother insisted that he take up embroidery, in case he became a surgeon when he grew up. Of course she was right, for he became Consultant ENT Surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London. The Douek parents had the unerring quality of belonging in whichever country they lived - Egypt, the Sudan, Columbia and, finally, England. Ellis Douek's memoirs describe the hedonism of life in Egypt, the Suez Crisis which uprooted them, 1950s Bradford, and Paris. He began his medical training in Paris where he, his sister Claudia (Claudia Roden, the cookery writer), and brother Zaki lived free of adult supervision. His training continued in London during a time of smog, digs and landladies. Ellis's days as an army medic provide hilarious accounts of whisky-sodden soldiers, circumcisions and bureaucratic procedures.
Peter Halban 2004 270 pages

To hear again, to sing again: memoir by Ellis Douek, ENT surgeon and hearing implant pioneer

Douek, Ellis
"This is an autobiography of one of the pioneers of hearing implants, Dr. Ellis Douek, who was the first to monitor the hearing of a baby at birth, and who participated in the development of a middle ear device for the restoration of hearing that now bears his name: Douek-MED. The book sheds light on the life of a surgeon from the early days of the UK National Health Service, and covers the highlights of Douek's medical career"--
World Scientific 2022 171 pages

The Jewish Dilemma

Berger, Elmer
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Kessinger Publishing, LLC 2010-09-10 270 pages

On Trial: A Dramatic Composition In Four Acts...

Rice, Elmer
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Nabu Press 2012 106 pages

How to Learn the Pianoforte

Emanuel Aguilar
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Creative Media Partners, LLC 2019-02-22 66 pages

Elements of Histology

Edward Klein
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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Creative Media Partners, LLC 2019-02-22 380 pages

The Face of Terror

Litvinoff, Emanuel.
Peter is still a senior intelligence officer in the Cheka, now renamed the NKVD, and had just been awarded the Order of Lenin for his years of successful service. He still believes that the execution of former comrades for their Trotskyist connections is justified. Lydia, though still a communist, is sickened by all the killing, by the lies and by the stifling atmosphere of Stalinism. After having worked for the Cheka in the previous volume, she has resigned from intelligence work, for which she had been awarded the Order of the Red Banner. She is now working in Glavlit, the state censorship office (there is some improbability here, I think) and is temperamentally more indulgent and less rigorous in that role than her colleagues. And she is too sensitive in her understanding of literature to pass a grotesque Soviet interpretation of Macbeth. The Party, having liquidated its external enemies in the Soviet Union, is now combing through its own members, however exalted, to detect - or invent - the slightest sign of deviation. It is the time of the great purges after the murder of Kirov. Peter and Lydia have a malevolent enemy in the party, Boris Spichalsky, who had felt slighted by them in the previous volume, and he is relishes it when he is told to keep them under observation. Peter, on one of his missions to Germany, found himself under a chance arrest by the Gestapo who suspected he was spying for the Swiss. They had just started to torture him when a Soviet plant in the SS secured his release, and he returned to Moscow. But there he was now under suspicion of what he might have given away during his interrogation.
William Morrow 1978-08 283 pages