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  • A Jewish Life on Three Continents

    The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States, and, finally, his settlement in Palestine in 1921. The memoir appears here translated from its ... Read more

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  • Klara's Truth

    A Novel

    It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years, and about whom she has long ... Read more

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  • Integrated Pollution Control

    Translated by A. Weissbach, H. Boeddicker ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Sustainable development and pollution control are the key factors in the development of strategies for the solution of environmental problems. This book offers an integrated treatment of all aspects of environmental protection and remediation. The presentation encompasses physical and chemical fundamentals, technological approaches as well as ecological, economic, and ethical aspects. The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Waste Management

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this volume the authors offer a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of waste disposal and management. They illustrate these aspects using numerous practical examples. They have included a comparison of regulations in the United States, Canada and Japan, as well as a review of United States environmental legislation - both Federal and State - and a variety of case studies such as Recycling ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • A German General and the Armenian Genocide

    Otto Liman von Sanders Between Honor and State

    The legacy of the German general, Otto Liman von Sanders, remains highly contested in the history of twentieth-century Europe and the Middle East. Noted for leading the 5th Ottoman army’s successful defence of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, his role in opposing the Young Turks’ genocide policy and safeguarding Greeks, Armenians, and Jews is overshadowed by his imprisonment for war crimes ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Synagogues of Kentucky

    Architecture and History

    Series series Perspectives on Kentucky's Past: Architecture, Archaeology, and Landscape
    Lee Shai Weissbach's innovative study sheds light on the functioning of smaller Jewish communities in a state representative of many in the Midwest and South. The synagogue buildings of Kentucky tell much about the experience of Kentucky Jewry. Synagogues, especially in smaller towns, have often served as the only setting available for a wide variety of communal activities. Weissbach outlines the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Madmen at the Helm

    Pathology and Politics in the Arab Spring

    The Arab Spring was a watershed in Arab history, which gave young protesters the impetus to challenge established and entrenched dictatorial regimes for the first time, and to demand democracy. In this unique book, Muriel Mirak-Weissbach reviews specialist literature and provides a profile of the personality disorder of narcissism displayed by five leaders (Mubarak, Qaddafi, Ben Ali, Saleh and ... Read more

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  • Through the Wall of Fire

    Armenia - Iraq - Palestine: from Wrath to Reconciliation

    Can peoples and nations who have been pitted against each other in geopolitically manipulated conflict overcome the adversary relationship and achieve reconciliation? Through the Wall of Fire attempts to answer this question, examining the Armenian genocide of 1915, the two Iraq wars and embargo regime, as well as the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians beginning in 1948. Muriel Mirak-Weissbach ... Read more

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  • Jewish Life in Small-Town America

    A History

    In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across the United States and reveals that smaller Jewish centers were not simply miniature versions ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • The House on an Irish Hillside

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    "A lovely writer, far superior to the average memoirist. . . . A curious mind, a perceptive observer with an artist's eye, a seeker of truth and beauty." — Irish IndependentFrom the moment I crossed the mountain, I fell in love with the place, which was more beautiful than any I'd ever seen. And with a way of looking at life that was deeper, richer and wiser than any I'd known before. . . . From ... Read more

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  • The Foyles Bookshop Girls' Promise

    Elaine Roberts' emotional wartime saga series

    Series Book 2 - The Foyles Bookshop Girls
    The BRAND NEW instalment in Elaine Roberts' emotional wartime saga seriesLondon, 1918: war rages on, but the girls of London’s Foyles bookshop always have a place to feel safe.Rosie Burrows loves being part of the Foyles team, and outwardly, she’s a happy young woman, engaged to the love of her life. But inside, Rosie faces a horrible dilemma. When Alfie enlisted, she promised to wait for him to ... Read more

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