Jeffrey S : 196 books
Fictions of Conversion
Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the...
Olivia's Story
The Conspiracy of Heroes behind Shelley v. Kraemer
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The story behind the landmark 1948 Supreme Court decision, Shelley v. Kraemer, which struck down racially-based housing restrictions and opened the door to fair housing regulations in the United States, told through the voice of an African-American teacher, one of the participants. Many battles have...
51 Imperfect Solutions
States and the Making of American Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitutional law is not made at the federal level. In 51 Imperfect Solutions, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues that American Constitutional...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
by Jeffrey S. Doty
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In late Elizabethan England, political appeals to the people were considered dangerously democratic, even seditious: the commons were supposed to have neither political voice nor will. Yet such appeals happened so often that the regime coined the word 'popularity' to condemn the pursuit of popular...
Knock on Wood
Luck, Chance, and the Meaning of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, author of the bestseller Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, was born on Friday the thirteenth, a fact that he discovered long after he had become one of the world’s pre-eminent statisticians. Had he been living ignorantly and innocently under an unlucky...
Arms and Influence
U.S. Technology Innovations and the Evolution of International Security Norms
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations such as the atomic bomb, armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and advanced reconnaissance satellites have fostered debates about the boundaries of international...
Liquid Scripture
The Bible in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The electronic Bible is here to stay‒‒packaged in software on personal computers, available as apps on tablets and cell phones. Increasingly, students look at glowing screens to consult the Bible in class, and congregants do the same in Bible study and worship. Jeffrey S. Siker asks, what difference...
Body Shaping, Skin Fat and Cellulite
Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Improve your technique, treat patients with confidence, and obtain optimal results using today’s most advanced body shaping treatments with guidance from Body Shaping: Skin, Fat and Cellulite, a volume in the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series. Renowned cosmetic dermatologists—Drs. Orringer,...
The Facilitating Partnership
A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
A young mother suspected of abusing her toddler, a severely behavior-disordered teenager who faces expulsion from his community residence, a depressed and illiterate homeless man who fears psychiatric evaluation. These clients populate the caseloads of most mental health professionals, who often view...
by Jeffrey S. Froshman
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
The Complete Financial Handbook for the Newly Divorced is a useful, handy, easy-to-read guidebook, full of interesting and meaningful information that most newly separated or divorced individuals should be thinking about and, hopefully, implementing.
This book will address and help to solve the Question of "What do I do next?"
Jews in Gotham
New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments...
by Jeffrey S. Rusten
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic...
Reading Green
Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Reading Green: Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically operates on the premise that the Bible itself does not directly address the current ecological crisis and that expecting it to do so is anachronistic, for there was no ecological crisis on the agendas of biblical authors as...