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  • Yiddish Transformed

    Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

    by Nathan Cohen ...
    As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began to gain recognition as a central part of the Jewish cultural stage. Yiddish Transformed examines the secular reading habits of East-European Jews as the Jewish community began shifting to a modern ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Yiddish Transformed

    Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

    by Nathan Cohen ...
    As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began to gain recognition as a central part of the Jewish cultural stage. Yiddish Transformed examines the secular reading habits of East-European Jews as the Jewish community began shifting to a modern ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Benoit Mandelbrot: A Life In Many Dimensions

    by Michael Frame, Nathan Cohen ...
    Series Book 1 - Fractals And Dynamics In Mathematics, Science, And The Arts: Theory And Applications
    This is a collection of articles, many written by people who worked with Mandelbrot, memorializing the remarkable breadth and depth of his work in science and the arts. Contributors include mathematicians, physicists, biologists, economists, and engineers, as expected; and also artists, musicians, teachers, an historian, an architect, a filmmaker, and a comic. Some articles are quite technical, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Financial Crisis in American Households

    The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class

    by Joseph Nathan Cohen ...
    More than one-third of Americans could not sustain a basic livelihood without government assistance. Almost 60 percent of seniors are dependent on the government. Why is this? This book examines how the U.S. economy's failure to deliver high-quality, universally accessible basic necessities is creating acute financial insecurity among the American middle class.Over the past 30 years, America's ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Darwin and the Bible

    The Cultural Confrontation

    by Richard H. Robbins, Mark Nathan Cohen ...
    For courses in evolution, creationism or as a supplemental item in biology and/or biological anthropology courses.Darwin and the Bible helps readers to understand the nature, history and passions behind the debate over scientific and religious versions of creation and human origins.Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation is about the history and nature of the disputes over human origins ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Yiddish

    The Biography of a Language

    by Miriam Weinstein ...
    This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)For a thousand years Yiddish, was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The God Delusion

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this seminal text on atheism and the contentious debate over science and religion, renowned scientist Richard Dawkins examines the irrationality of believing in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society.From the sex-obsessed tyrant in the Old Testament to the more benign Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Faith Versus Fact

    Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

    by Jerry A. Coyne ...
    The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail.What we read in the news today is full of subjectivity, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods; and thus it is more necessary now than ever to safeguard the truth with facts. In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne aims to do exactly that in the arena of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Book Smugglers

    Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

    by David E. Fishman ...
    The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion—including the readiness to risk one’s life ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • The Only Game in Town

    Central Banks, Instability, and Recovering from Another Collapse

    by Mohamed A. El-Erian ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • Updated, with a new chapter and author’s note“The one economic book you must read now . . . If you want to understand [our] bifurcated world and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto

    by Samuel D. Kassow ...
    In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • On the Eve

    The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

    by Bernard Wasserstein ...
    On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World War, the continent’s Jews faced an existential crisis. The harsh realities of the age—anti-Semitic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD