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Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion

Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion

David Hillel Gelernter

Why do we speak of our country as having a higher purpose? Author Gelernter traces the emergence of America as the embodiment of a powerful religious idea. Americanism begins with the Puritan settlers in New Engl
Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology

Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology

David Hillel Gelernter

Argues that simplicity and power in the design of computer hardware and software lead to a technological beauty that parallels the thought processes of the computer user
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

David Gelernter

In the great introspective tradition of Wilhelm Wundt and René Descartes, David Gelernter promises to not only revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human but also to help answer many of our most fundamental questions ...
America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture ...

America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture ...

David Gelernter

In this refreshingly judgmental book, David Gelernter connects the historical dots to reveal a stealth revolution carried out by post-religious globalist intellectuals who, by and large, “can’t run their own universities or scholarly ...
Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a ...

Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a ...

David Gelernter

We gain control over our world, plus a huge new measure of insight and vision. In this fascinating book--part speculation, part explanation--Gelernter takes us on a tour of the computer technology of the near future.
Jabotinsky: A Life

Jabotinsky: A Life

Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkin sets aside the stereotypes Jabotinsky has been reduced to, and reveals the public figure and private man who inspired both deep devotion and furious protest.
Jabotinsky: A Life

Jabotinsky: A Life

Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkin sets aside the stereotypes to which Jabotinsky has been reduced by his would-be followers and detractors alike.
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, ...

After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, ...

Hillel Halkin

After One-Hundred-and-Twenty is also Hillel Halkin's eloquent and disarmingly candid reflection on his own mortality, the deaths of those he has known and loved, and the comfort he has and has not derived from Jewish tradition.
A Strange Death

A Strange Death

Hillel Halkin

When Halkin read this story of the village that he lived in, it inspired him to begin a journey into the past.
The Joseph Paradox: A Radical Reading of Genesis 37–50

The Joseph Paradox: A Radical Reading of Genesis 37–50

Hillel I. Millgram

This book is a reader-friendly treatment of the Joseph story—one of the most popular tales in the Bible.
Melisande!: What Are Dreams?

Melisande!: What Are Dreams?

Hillel Halkin

The narrator is a man in his forties, a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy known as Hoo. He has been given the nickname by Mellie, the woman he addresses in this book while exploring his memories of their years together and apart.
A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their ...

A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their ...

Mark Gelernter

Presents a history of American architecture, from the first civilizations in America to the present.
Painted into a Corner

Painted into a Corner

Faysal Mikdadi

Michelle Cohen Corasanti quotes Rabbi Hillel as asserting this overriding moral principle at the heart of Judaism. It is also at the heart of Christianity – although listening to those Christians who support Israel would lead one to believe that ...
Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals About Parental ...

Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals About Parental ...

Nicole Letourneau

Kaufman, Joan, Bao-Zhu Yang, Heather Douglas-Palumberi, Shadi Houshyar, Deborah Lipschitz, John H. Krystal, and Joel Gelernter. “Social Supports and Serotonin Transporter Gene Moderate Depression in Maltreated Children.
Schaut hin!: Missbrauchsprävention in Seelsorge, Beratung ...

Schaut hin!: Missbrauchsprävention in Seelsorge, Beratung ...

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15 Bao-Zhu Yang/Huiping Zhang/Wenjing Ge/Natalie Weder/Heather Douglas- Palumberi/Francheska Perepletchikova/Joel Gelernter/Joan Kaufman, Child Abuse and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Disease Risk, Am J Prev Med 2013,44(2),  ...
A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their ...

A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their ...

Mark Gelernter

This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Yehuda Halevi

Yehuda Halevi

Hillel Halkin

Part of the Jewish Encounter series A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry.
Yearbook of Surgery

Yearbook of Surgery

Seymour I. Schwartz

14 Congenital Heart Disease Myocardial Protection in the Neonatal Heart: A Comparison of Topical Hypothermia and Crystalloid and Blood Cardioplegic Solutions Antonio F. Corno, Daniel M. Bethencourt, Hillel Laks, Gary S. Haas, Sunita ...
Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation from Second ...

Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation from Second ...

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... Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 22–24 February, 2011 Menahem Kister, Hillel Newman, Michael Segal, Ruth Clements.
Deutschland (k)ein Erfinderland

Deutschland (k)ein Erfinderland

Bernd Sternal

Was ihr Geist grubelnd entdeckte, nutzen wir; aber belohnt Ehre sie auch?" Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (um 1760) Der Autor Bernd Sternal, Jahrgang 1956, ist gelernter Werkzeugmacher und Flugzeugmechaniker sowie Dipl.
Foreign Features in Jewish Law: How Christian and Secular ...

Foreign Features in Jewish Law: How Christian and Secular ...

Hillel Charles Gray

3° Sanctity of life language is not used in major Catholic medical ethics works, including Alphonsus Bonnar, The Catholic Doctor, 5th ed. (London: Bums Oates & Washbourne, 1951), Charles Coppens and Hemy Stanislaus Spalding, Moral ...
Die Wochenschau im Dritten Reich: Entwicklung und Funktion ...

Die Wochenschau im Dritten Reich: Entwicklung und Funktion ...

Ulrike Bartels

225Der am 30.10.1895 in Anklam geborene Carl-Martin Köhn war von Beruf gelernter Ex- portkaufmann, bis er sich ab 1925 bei verschiedenen Tageszeitungen als "politischer Schriftsteller" betätigte. Im April 1933 wurde er bei der Ufa als ...
Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western ...

Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western ...

Mark Gelernter

"Sources of architectural form is a comprehensive and critical history of Western architectural theory from the ancient world to the present day .
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 , ...
Calkins family in America

Calkins family in America

Kenneth Wayne Calkins

... 355 Darrel Earl: 277 Darrel I Lorraine: 306 Darwin: 369 Darwin J.: 294 Daryl Lewis: 399 David: 120 David: 26 David: 7, ... 352 David Farrington: 226 David Hiram: 225 David Hugh Atkins: 146 David Ingalls: 246 David Ingalls: 246,345 David ...
Ohio State University 2012

Ohio State University 2012

Gilburt L. Chiang

... Christian Dental Association College Republicans at The Ohio State University Columbus Fellowship of Christ Crops ... at the Ohio State University Hillel Student Board of Trustees Hip Hop at The Ohio State University Hunger ELimination ...
Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses

Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses

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Correspondence What Makes Terrorists Tick Erica Chenoweth, Nicholas Miller, and Elizabeth McClellan Hillel Frisch Paul Staniland Max Abrahms To the Editors (Erica Chenoweth, Nicholas Miller, and Elizabeth McClellan write): Max ...
It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers

It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers

Francesco Borseti

Genre: Fantasy/Comedy; Director: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Writers: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver” (Screenplay) and Phil Groves (Screenplay “ Primal Urge”); Cinematographer: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Editor: Robert ...

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