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  • Ghetto

    The History of a Word

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Just as European Jews were being emancipated and ghettos in their original form—compulsory, enclosed spaces designed to segregate—were being dismantled, use of the word ghetto surged in Europe and spread around the globe. Tracing the curious path of this loaded word from its first use in sixteenth-century Venice to the present turns out to be more than an adventure in linguistics.Few words are as ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The First Modern Jew

    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Practical Psychopharmacology

    Basic to Advanced Principles

    by Nevena V. Radonjić, Jeffrey S. MacDaniels, Thomas L. Schwartz ...
    Series series Clinical Topics in Psychology and Psychiatry
    Practical Psychopharmacology, 2nd ed, takes the novel approach of writing at three different levels—beginning, intermediate, and advanced—to give the practicing psychopharmacologist a tailored experience.Each chapter focuses on a specific DSM-5TR disorder and outlines abbreviated treatment guidelines to help the reader understand where their knowledge base and clinical practice currently reside. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • 1 Maccabees

    A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

    by Daniel R. Schwartz, John Collins ...
    Series series The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries
    A new translation and commentary on I Maccabees that offers a fresh interpretation of the author’s values and purposeFirst Maccabees, composed in the second century BCE, chronicles four decades of clashes between Hellenistic Syria and Judea, from Antiochus Epiphanes’s ascent to the throne in 175 BCE to the Hasmoneans’ establishment of an independent Judean state, ruled by Simon and his sons.In ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • The ABCs of How We Learn

    26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them

    by Daniel L. Schwartz, Jessica M. Tsang, Kristen P. Blair ...
    Selected as one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, this book offers superior learning tools for teachers and students, from A to Z.An explosive growth in research on how people learn has revealed many ways to improve teaching and catalyze learning at all ages. The purpose of this book is to present this new science of learning so that educators can creatively translate the science into exceptional ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Conducting Research

    A Practical Approach to Solving Problems and Making Improvements

    by John Schwartz, Daniel R. Tomal ...
    Series series The Concordia University Leadership Series
    This book will be a practical, hands-on book for all undergraduate and graduate students who wish to learn how to conduct research. This book has several resources, examples, outlines, and case situations illustrating how to design a study and conduct research, especially educational research. This book is a no-nonsense approach that can be used by any educator – early childhood, elementary and ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Private and Public Corruption

    by Arlene W. Saxonhouse, J Peter Euben, Shelley Burtt, Daniel Lowenstein, Adina Schwartz, He Qinglian, Michael Johnston, Frank Anechiarico, Paul Cantor, John T. Noonan Jr. ...
    The various essays in this volume explore the development of ideas of corruption, employing a range of disciplinary approaches. Although we are accustomed to think of corruption as the misuse of public office for private gain, corruption has its deeper roots in the idea of a standard that has been eroded. That standard, however, need not be construed idealistically: much of what is asserted to be ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond

    Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010

    by Arietta Papaconstantinou, Daniel L. Schwartz ...
    The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to investigate side by side the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: to Christianity at its start, and to Islam at the other end. Challenging the opposition between the two stereotypes of Islamic conversion as an intrinsically violent process, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • City Symphonies

    Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913–1931

    by Daniel Schwartz ...
    Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in visual terms, the city symphony organizes the visible elements of urban experience according to musical principles such as rhythm and counterpoint.In City Symphonies Daniel Schwartz explores the unheard sonic dimensions of these ostensibly silent films. The book turns its ear to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Judeans and Jews

    Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History

    by Daniel R. Schwartz ...
    In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to “Jews” or to “Judeans”? What difference does it make? Today, many scholars consider “Judeans” the more authentic term, and “Jews” and “Judaism” merely anachronisms.In Judeans and Jews, Daniel R. Schwartz argues that we need both terms in order to reflect the dichotomy between the tendencies of those, whether in Judea ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Spinoza’s Challenge to Jewish Thought

    Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy

    Edited by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Series series Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought
    Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632–77), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in many circles as the patron saint of secular Jewishness, he has also been branded as the worst traitor to the Jewish people in modern times. Jewish ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Finding Joy

    A Practical Spiritual Guide to Happiness

    by Daniel I. Schwartz ...
    Searching for happiness in our modern world of stress and struggle is common; finding it is more unusual. This guide explores and explains how to find joy through a time-honored, creative—and surprisingly practical—approach based on Kabbalah and the teachings of Jewish mystics.The very core of the Jewish mystical tradition is centered on the belief that if our focus is spiritual, then true ... Read more

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