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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

    $31.99 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

    $18.99 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

  • 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

  • I Can Taste the Blood

    by Josh Malerman, John FD Taff, J. Daniel Stone, Erik T. Johnson, Joe Schwartz, Grey Matter Press ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman, the newly minted master of modern horror, and Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff, the "King of Pain;" to the mind-bending surrealism of Erik T. Johnson; the darkly poetic prose of J. Daniel Stone and the transgressive mania of Joe Schwartz, I Can Taste the Blood offers up five horror novellas from five unique authors whose work ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aquinas on Friendship

    by Daniel Schwartz ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Monographs
    Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main features of Aristotle's paradigmatic account of friendship so as to accommodate the case of friendship between radically unequal beings: ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics

    Civic Life, War and Conscience

    by Daniel Schwartz ...
    The Late Scholastics, writing in Europe in the Baroque and Early Modern periods, discussed a wide variety of moral questions relating to political life in times of both peace and war. Is it ever permissible to bribe voters? Can tax evasion be morally justified? What are the moral duties of artists? Is it acceptable to fight in a war one believes to be unjust? May we surrender innocents to the ... Read more

    $38.99 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

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $45.99 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

    $76.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Last Tailored Suit, The

    by Nicolette Pierce ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Nichalia Schwartz E, Digital Voice Daniel E, Digital Voice Jack E, Digital Voice Theodore E, Digital Voice Pilar E ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Nadia Wolf

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Greyson Miller has been through the emotional ringer and needs a change. So, he quits his exorbitantly high-paying CEO position to turn his mansion into a bed and breakfast and transform the yard into a paradise. Never wanting to sit at a desk again, Greyson recruits a manager to oversee the bed and breakfast.Jenna Newman needs to prove herself to a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus