Zvi: 73 books
Goy
Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They...
Taking Space Seriously
Law, Space and Society in Contemporary Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This perceptive study investigates the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space. By means of case studies involving three social groups within Israel's multicultural society - the Sephardim, the Bedouin-Arab minority and the ultra-Orthodox...
by Zvi Zaks
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Rodger Johnston had a goal, to head the National Department of Energy. As CEO of the power plant in Des Moines, he had solved the problems of high bills and frequent brownouts so his prospects of going to Washington were bright. But the plant utilized an unusual power source, and unexpected problems developed...
Matematica e mondo reale
Il ruolo decisivo dell’evoluzione nella costruzione matematica del mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2017
La matematica affascina, ma accende anche paure. È «ostica», si dice, ma anche «sublime», e in molti pensano che sia una disciplina completamente svincolata dal mondo reale: vive e si sviluppa in un universo tutto suo, inaccessibile ai profani: un Iperuranio lontanissimo privo di contatti con la...
The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance
The Jordanian Factor
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book demonstrates that the origins of the US-Israeli alliance lay in the former's concern over Egyptian influence in Jordan, contrasting with the widely-held view of the significance of the Six Day War.
The American-Israeli Alliance will be of great interest to students of Middle East studies, history, and politics.
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
In the Shadow of the Hawk
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel seeks to reconstruct and elucidate the processes behind the decisions made by the Johnson Administration during the years 1965-68 to sell Israel M-48 tanks, A-4 Skyhawk planes and F-4 Phantom planes. This examination is based on a distinction between three factions which competed for influe
by Zvi Lerman, David Sedik
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In 1995D96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements...
Locked in A Violent Embrace
Understanding and Intervening in Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with battered women and their batterers.
by Zvi Zaks
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Dahm Origin lives on Epsathree, a giant space station with tens of thousands of people. The inside of the station is as Earthlike as technology can make it, but it isn't Earth,and when the inhabitants have to go outside and see the real Earth, the view drives some of them mad.
by Zvi Zaks
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Rodger Johnston had a goal, to head the National Department of Energy. As CEO of the power plant in Des Moines, he had solved the problems of high bills and frequent brownouts so his prospects of going to Washington were bright. But the plant utilized an unusual power source, and unexpected problems developed...
Susan Glaspell
Her Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
"Venturesome feminist," historian Nancy Cott's term, perfectly describes Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), America's first important modern female playwright, winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and one of the most respected novelists and short story writers of her time. In her life she...
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...
Three Testaments
Torah, Gospel, and Quran
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
From disagreement over an Islamic Center in New York to clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, tension between the three Abrahamic faiths often runs high. Yet for all their differences, these three traditions—Judaism, Islam, and Christianity—share much in common. Three Testaments brings...
Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine
An Uncertain Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Before the USSR collapsed, ethnic identities were imposed by the state. This book analyzes how and why Jews decided what being Jewish meant to them after the state dissolved and describes the historical evolution of Jewish identities. Surveys of more than 6,000 Jews in the early and late 1990s reveal...