Jennifer Rosner: 6 books

Book cover of If a Tree Falls

If a Tree Falls

A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard

by Jennifer Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

A revealing memoir of a family and a “wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew” (Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language).   When her daughters were born deaf, Jennifer Rosner was stunned. Then she discovered...
Book cover of The Mitten String
by Jennifer Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

An original Jewish folktale about a girl who knits, a deaf woman, and a piece of blue yarn. When her family invites a deaf woman and her baby to stay, Ruthie, a talented knitter of mittens, wonders how the mother will know if her child wakes in the night. The surprising answer inspires Ruthie...
Book cover of Messy Self
by Jennifer Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

The Messy Self challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self. Taken together, the essays illustrate how a flourishing self is inevitably divided, ambivalent, fractured, messy -- and how the self triumphs through disorder. Written in accessible language by award-winning writers...
Book cover of DIY Citizenship

DIY Citizenship

Critical Making and Social Media

by Steve Mann, Kate Milberry, Henry Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
Book cover of Healing the Schism

Healing the Schism

Barth, Rosenzweig, and the New Jewish-Christian Encounter

by Jennifer M. Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

Two paradigm shifts hallmark Jewish-Christian relations in the twentieth century: the collapse of “Christendom” and the Holocaust. From within these shifts, reassessment of the Jewish-Christian relationship emerged. Over the second half of the twentieth century, a new theological account of that...
Book cover of The Psychology of Twilight
by David A. Frederick, Erica Berg, Susan Carnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

You’ve read the books. You’ve seen the films. Now get inside the heads of your favorite Twilight characters (just like Edward can!) in The Psychology of Twilight.Explore the minds and motives of Bella, Edward, Jacob, and more with a deeper look at the series that’s captured the hearts—and psyches—of...
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