Mark R Cohen: 7 books
Maimonides and the Merchants
Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh...
by Mark R. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from...
History as Prelude
Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History...
Cities Transformed
Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked,...
Infantile Autism
The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by...