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Avi

Avi

Jill C. Wheeler

Traces Avi's childhood, education, and career, what inspired him to write, and how he comes up with story ideas.
Avi

Avi

EPUB 2-3

Avi's backer encouraged him to get a literary agent, a person who would representhim to publishers andwho would try tosell his works. Having a literaryagent was one thing that separated professional writers frompeoplewho wrote as a hobby ...
Avi

Avi

Lois Markham

A biography of the prize-winning author of novels for young people.
Bright Shadow

Bright Shadow

Avi

Having used four of the five wishes she is granted to make on behalf of the hapless citizens of her country, Morwenna flees the kingdom to decide what to do with the last wish.
Poppy

Poppy

Avi

King of the Night At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting.
Midnight Magic

Midnight Magic

Avi

In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost. Reissue.
Avi

Avi

Michael A. Sommers

Discusses the life and work of this popular author, including his writing process and methods, inspirations, a critical discussion of his books, biographical timeline, and awards.
Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using Old Testament ...

Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using Old Testament ...

David M. Howard (Jr.)

In addition to those already noted, see the responses of nonevangelicals Dever, 85 A. F. Rainey,86 Avi Hurwitz,87 and others,88 as well as evangelicals such as Long,89 Iain W. provan,90 James K. Hoffmeier,91 Richard S. Hess,92 and K.
The Christmas Rat

The Christmas Rat

Avi

Alone in his apartment during Christmas vacation, 11-year-old Eric finds himself caught in a battle between a strange exterminator and the rat he wants to kill.
Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Avi

After being accused of a crime, thirteen-year-old Crispin becomes a wanted man and so must use a new identity and keep on the run in order to stay alive, in a suspenseful middle reader set in fourteenth-century England.
City of Orphans

City of Orphans

Avi

In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Practical Soldiers: Israel’s Military Thought and Its ...

Practical Soldiers: Israel’s Military Thought and Its ...

Avi Kober

Although Israeli officials like former Defense Minister Ehud Barak and former Chief of AMAN Amos Yadlin have stressed cyber warfare's defensive value, it can also be applied in an offensive manner, as happened in the case of the destruction ...
Best Shorts: Favorite Short Stories for Sharing

Best Shorts: Favorite Short Stories for Sharing

Avi

Presents a collection of short stories featuring loyal pets, rogue waves, ghosts who use cell phones, and young people caught up in events beyond their control.
Something Upstairs

Something Upstairs

Avi

After moving to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
Mba Admissions Strategy: From Profile Building To Essay ...

Mba Admissions Strategy: From Profile Building To Essay ...

Gordon, Avi

This book focuses on the essay writing process and includes a writing toolbox which has been adapted to meet the specific needs of MBA applicants.
The Evolution of Operational Art: From Napoleon to the Present

The Evolution of Operational Art: From Napoleon to the Present

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Avi Kober, 'The IDF in the Second Lebanon War: Why the Poor Performance?' Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 31, no. 1 (February 2008). Itay Bron, 'Where Has Maneuver Gone?' Maarachot, 420–1 (September 2008), 13. Van Creveld, The ...
Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli ...

Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli ...

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Menachem Mautner, Avi Sagi, and Ronen Shamir, 107–131. Tel Aviv: Ramot Publishers. [Hebrew] Dalal, Marwan. 2000. “A Reading in the Unread in the Qa' dan Decision: The Guest, the House, and the Judge.” Adalah's Review 2:44–49.
Israel's Wars of Attrition: Attrition Challenges to ...

Israel's Wars of Attrition: Attrition Challenges to ...

Avi Kober

4 M. Golani, There Will Be War Next Summer. ..: The Road to the Sinai War, 1955 –1956, p. 41. ... 20 M. Gat, ®On the Use of Air Power and Its Effect on the Outbreak of the Six Day War, ̄ p. 1208. 21 Ibid., pp. 123¥4. 22J. Wallach (ed.), Not on a ...
On Flexibility: Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal ...

On Flexibility: Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal ...

Meir Finkel

In Quantity and Quality in Force Planning [Hebrew], edited by Zvi Ofer and Avi Kober, 433–446. Tel Aviv: Ma'arachot, 1985. Dror,Yehezkel. “The Quality of the Decision-Making Process as a Critical Factor in Force Design and Development.
Israel's Wars of Attrition: Attrition Challenges to ...

Israel's Wars of Attrition: Attrition Challenges to ...

Avi Kober

This book analyzes the way Israel has coped with nine wars of attrition from the 1950s to the recent Second Lebanon War (2006), questioning the belief that Western democracy cannot sustain prolonged wars of attrition.
Colonial Copyright: Intellectual Property in Mandate Palestine

Colonial Copyright: Intellectual Property in Mandate Palestine

Michael D. Birnhack

For a contemporary analysis see Ronen Shamir, 'Lex Moriendi: On the Death of Israeli Law' in Menachem Mautner, Avi Sagi, Ronen Shamir (eds), Multiculturalism in a Democratic and Jewish State: The Ariel Rosen-Zvi Memorial Book (Ramot, ...
Biglotton, sive Dictionarium, Teuto-Latinum novum ... Editio ...

Biglotton, sive Dictionarium, Teuto-Latinum novum ... Editio ...

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HOW WE SEE GOD AND WHY IT MATTERS: A Multicultural View ...

HOW WE SEE GOD AND WHY IT MATTERS: A Multicultural View ...

Robert J. Landy

... Alistair Martin-Smith, Aliki Romano, Galila Oren, Avi Hadari, Noga Kaplan Zvi, Rina Itzhaki, Ali Goughti, Avivit Deby, Daphna Eyal, Shevy Rahat Medzini, Anat Tanamy, Craig Haen, Nic Billy, Milan Valenta, Graciela Rojas-Bermudez, Manuel  ...
Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe

Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe

Lisa Alcalay Klug

... Aaron Kenin, Aron Korney, Gwen Korney, Esther Kustanowitz, Sophie Miriam Lagnier, Wayne Lampert, Sarah Lefton, Craig Leinoff, Hillel Lester, Avi Levine, Avraham Lowenthal, Lori and Alan Lurie, Lois and Gary Marcus, Judy Massarano , ...
Law and the Culture of Israel

Law and the Culture of Israel

Menachem Mautner

1 Ronen Shamir, The Colonies Of Law—Colonialism, Zionism And Law In Early Mandate Palestine (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000); Ronen Shamir, 'Lex Moriandi: On the Death of Israeli Law', in Menachem Mautner, Avi Sagi ...
Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic ...

Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic ...

Avi Y. Decter

Benjamin Filene, “Power in Limits: Narrow Frames Open Up African American Public History,” in Max van Balgooey, ed., Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, ...
We call this place home: Jewish life in Maryland''s small towns

We call this place home: Jewish life in Maryland''s small towns

Jewish Museum of Maryland

Shabbat and festival services were held on a regular basis; the congregation hired Hebrew teachers from Baltimore or Washington (or occasionally recruited them from the community); a reading and discussion group met at the shul and in private homes. Life-cycle events were held at the synagogue with the whole community invited and almost everyone in attendance. Occasionally, cultural enrichment was imported from Baltimore or, less frequently,. Introduction Avi Y Decter, Jewish ...
Lives lost, lives found: Baltimore''s German Jewish Refugees, ...

Lives lost, lives found: Baltimore''s German Jewish Refugees, ...

Anita Kassof

Table of Contents Introduction by Avi Y. Decter, Jewish Museum of Maryland The Third Wave: German Jewish Refugees Come to Baltimore -*~-*~ by Deborab R. Weiner, Ph.D., Jewish Museum of Maryland a~) r\ To Leave a World Behind? German Jews Confront the Onset of Nazism ^ S by Sonat Hart, Ph.D., Baltimore Hebrew University A ^ Knocking at the Door: The German Jewish Refugees and U.S. Immigration Policy -*, ^--'' bv Anita Kassof lewish Museum nf Manlnnd 59 77 99 by ...

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