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  • The ABCs of How We Learn

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

    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

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    March 1917

    The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1

    Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

    Unabridged

    33 hours 18 min

    The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus about the Russian Revolution. Solzhenitsyn tells this story in the form of a meticulously researched historical novel, supplemented by newspaper headlines of the day, fragments of street action, cinematic screenplay, and historical overview. The first two nodes—August 1914 and November 1916—focus on Russia's crises and recovery, on revolutionary ... Read more

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    Last Tailored Suit, The

    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

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  • Practical Psychopharmacology

    Basic to Advanced Principles

    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

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

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

    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

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  • The First Modern Jew

    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    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

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  • Finding Joy

    A Practical Spiritual Guide to Happiness

    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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  • Aquinas on Friendship

    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

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  • Ghetto

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    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

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  • The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics

    Civic Life, War and Conscience

    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

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  • Judeans and Jews

    Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History

    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

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  • 1 Maccabees

    A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

    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

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