Riskin: 13 books
Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself.
It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (host of the Animal Planet’s TV show Monsters Inside Me)...
Listening to God
Inspirational Stories for my Grandchildren
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
See the divine in every human encounter. Be receptive to God’s voice. Act out of faith. These are just a few of the life lessons Rabbi Shlomo Riskin imparts in this collection of personal stories. Rabbi Riskin takes us from his grandmother’s Brooklyn Shabbat table to the vibrant community of Efrat,...
Torah Lights: BeMidbar
Trials & Tribulations in Times of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Vayikra
Sacrifice, Sanctity & Silence
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Bereshit
Confronting Life, Love & Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Shemot
Defining A Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Devarim
Moses Bequeaths Legacy, History & Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the Torah is the essential guidebook to human life. In this highly acclaimed fivevolume collection of essays, Rabbi Riskin explores the weekly Torah readings, mining the text for lessons both timeless and contemporary, fundamentally Jewish and deeply personal.
The Living Tree
Studies in Modern Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The Living Tree comprises a collection of thought-provoking articles that fearlessly confront the most pressing issues facing Orthodox Judaism today. Rabbi Riskin does not flinch from such controversial questions as the possibility of trading land for peace, dialogue with Christians, and finding new...
The Restless Clock
A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants...
by Robert Boris Riskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Jake Wanderman is not your average retired teacher and Shakespeare maven. He has tangled with the Russian Mafia in Moscow and assassins in Jerusalem and always come out on top. Now his childhood friend’s long-lost daughter is a suspect in a murder investigation and Jake’s help is needed. The daughter...
China's Retreat from Equality
Income Distribution and Economic Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
A collection of 13 essays based on two national surveys of household income in China - in 1985 and 1995 - and prepared and carried out by the research team. These essays explore a wide range of aspects of the rapidly changing income distribution during this period.
Electrocorrosion and Protection of Metals
General Approach with Particular Consideration to Electrochemical Plants
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Electrocorrosion, the corrosion of metallic constructions by external currents, is the most significant factor in conductive aggressive environments. Corrosion of underground and underwater metal constructions by stray currents has been comprehensively studied in the past decades and is considered...
by Joseph Riskin, Alexander Khentov
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Electrocorrosion and Protection of Metals, Second Edition, compiles theoretical and practical information, outlines the specific problem, and presents the available solutions related to corrosion by external currents. Basic data on the behavior of different metals under the attack of anodic, cathodic,...