Answering a question with a question (vol ii)

Inquiry, questioning, and wonder are defining features of both psychoanalysis and the Jewish tradition. The question invites inquiry, analysis, discussion, debate, multiple meanings, and interpretation that continues across the generations. If questions and inquiry are the mainstay of Jewish scho...

New ways in teaching grammar, second edition

Unsure of how to include creativity and project-based learning in grammar lessons? The second edition of this best-selling book includes updated activities and new contributions that cover a wide range of teaching techniques—from introducing a specific grammar point to providing meaningful, conte...

Straight white men / untitled feminist show

An edgy new work on class and privilege from one of our most adventurous playwrights.

Khmer-english/ english-khmer (cambodian) practical dictionary

Core data in objective-c

Python brain teasers

Language implementation patterns

A brief history of thailand

Thailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there's much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize.A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at the country's last 250 years—from coups and violent massacres to the invention of Pad Thai in the 19...

Effective testing with rspec 3

Biography and memory

Biography and Memory discusses the return of Jews to their places of birth in Poland. A biographical urge to come full circle often leads to symbolic journeys to one’s roots, but in the case of Shoah survivors, such journeys are unexpected, defying the generational definition of their biography, ...

The pillar of volozhin

The work of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Neziv, ranks amongst the most often read rabbinic literature of the nineteenth century. His breadth of learning, unabashed creativity, and penchant for walking against the stream of the rabbinic commentarial establishment has made his commentaries ...

The dual truth, volumes i & ii

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands.

Intermediate chinese with audio cd, second edition

This companion course to the bestselling Beginner’s Chinese with 2 Audio CDs is now revised and updated for today’s students. The continuation of the lessons from Beginner’s Chinese expands the user’s knowledge of the language through dialogues and new vocabulary that illustrate common grammatica...

The russian twentieth century short story

The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectivel...

Transforming practices for the middle school classroom

Discover ways in which teachers interpret research findings and find innovative ways to incorporate them into actual classroom practice to create positive classroom transformations. Like the middle grades themselves, the chapters in this volume are organized by academic content area, including l...

Opium and other stories

A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I Géza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer, playwright, musician, psy...

The best japanese short stories

An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke ...

Brave deeds

A powerful second novel from the author of Fobbit, Brave Deeds is a portrait of the modern American military, following one squad of soldiers who go AWOL and make a perilous journey in order to attend their sergeant’s funeral

Centuries encircle me with fire

The introduction and translated poems of Mandelstam within are the gold-standard for critics and readers who don’t know Russian. They expertly illuminate other Mandelstam translations, not replacing them, but rather allowing for a better understanding of what they specifically contribute.

Do not provoke providence

Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah, and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the establishment of the State of Israel. The book examines the dynamics of those rela...

Sagebrush empire

Award–winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson delves into the spectacular land, rich history, and twisted politics of a remote Utah county.

Oblivion

This masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to examine a very troubled Russia.

Homeless youth and the search for stability

Youth are one of the fastest growing segments of the homeless population. Through qualitative and quantitative research and a comic book narrative , this book explores the often asked question: What happens when these young people leave the streets?

Paper concert

In her opening, Amy Wright explains: “This essay anchors a central thread of dialogue over a dizzying divide. It weaves a decades-plus-worth of questions and answers from a range of discussions I’ve had with artists, activists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, priests, musicians, and other r...

Inspired by bakhtin

The revisionist approach in this book, based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s work, traces the search for common and specific grounds of the humanities, beginning with psychologism through hermeneutics and semiotics up to the present state of self-annihilation. As an alternative, the book seeks to define hum...

Those who leave and those who stay

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into ...

A common-sense guide to data structures and algorithms, second edition

A survivor’s duty

Gabriel Laufer shares the gripping stories of his father’s survival in the Holocaust and his service in four Israeli wars, leading the reader through his family's personal history and its place in some of the momentous events of the 20th century.

The lucifer principle

The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a sweeping na...

The genius of japanese carpentry

The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time, fire and warfare.Although the monastery's reconstructi...

My heart hemmed in

"Marie NDiaye is a master of creating menacing, off-kilter worlds that speak to the truth of human experience."—Ayşegül Savaş, author of White on WhiteThere is something very wrong with Nadia and her husband Ange, middle-aged provincial schoolteachers who slowly realize that they are despised by...

The first to be destroyed

The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September...

Action in the orchards

A debut collection of playfully irreverent ekphrastic poems inspired by the author’s engagement with art, architecture and music

New ways in teaching adults, revised

This revised volume brings together the best of the past with suggestions for the future and proves that teachers' imaginations continue to produce an interesting and varied range of ways to learn English within the broad guidelines of communicative language learning. New Ways in Teaching Adults,...

How i learned to drive (stand-alone tcg edition)

The first stand-alone edition of Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

A noble radiance

Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with po...

Boomerangs in the living room

Rex Wilder’s second collection introduces the world to a new form: the boomerang, a four-line nouveau haiku, an anti-Tweet that aims for permanence in an evanescent world. These \u201cadmirable throwaways\u201d (so nicknamed by Richard Wilbur, who advised the author on their shape) must rhyme the...

All the young men

A gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America's fight against AIDS.In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits...

The practice of adaptive leadership

The guide to approaching leadership in a rapidly changing world.When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But ...

Before they were titans

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literar...

Encounters in modern jewish thought

The first of a three-volume series, this book contains Eva Jospe’s previously unpublished study, “The Concept of Encounter in the Philosophy of Martin Buber,” together with several of her published articles on Buber and on modern Jewish thought, as well as a moving sermon she delivered in 1988, o...

Anti-shechita prosecutions in the anglo-american world, 1855–1913

The book examines historical attempts by animal welfare groups, in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). For the first time, the book studies these prosecutions, brought in the name of “humanity”, that reveal, an underlying,...

Dialectic of separation

Drawing on both published and on unpublished sources, this volume offers the first-ever comprehensive reconstruction of Salomon Munk’s life and work, competently restores Munk to the pantheon of Wissenschaft scholars, and sheds fresh light on the emergence of the academic field of Jewish philosophy.

Room temperature

Without permission

A young Jewish veteran of the United States Merchant Marine gets caught up in efforts to assist the new state of Israel, undergoes a challenging and dangerous sea voyage and is imprisoned for that effort, and is released and returns to build a bazooka plant in Haifa during the Israeli War for In...

From fashion to politics

Not only fashion and politics, but scholarship, gender, religion, discrimination – every hot button issue is examined in the story of the triumphant rise of Hadassah. A fascinating and important book. —Rabbi David Wolpe. Sinai Temple, Los AngelesHadassah, the Women’s Zionist organization of Ameri...

Beautiful aliens

The first retrospective collection of writing, illustrations, and comics by a hero of the Gay Liberation movement and Bay Area underground writing.

Making market systems work for the poor

‘The M4P approach fosters understanding of the functions and players within market systems and how these can be strengthened in order to better serve the needs of the poor.' Alan Gibson. This collection, all inspired in some way by Gibson’s teachings, is essential reading for practitioners, funde...