K K Goldberg: 4 books
The Doctor and the Stork
A Memoir of Modern Medical Babymaking
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
More than 150,000 twin births occur in the United States every year, and over five million IVF babies have been born worldwide since the technology’s inception. In The Doctor and the Stork, K.K. Goldberg offers a firsthand, week-by-week reflection upon the unique fears and joys surrounding a high-tech...
Sonidos Negros
On the Blackness of Flamenco
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized...
We Have Sinned
Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 1
Safety and quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
World egg consumption is increasing, particularly in developing countries. This creates new challenges, particularly for more intensive systems which have played a major role in increasing production and productivity. Intensive systems face a continuing threat from zoonoses. At the same time, consumer...