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Louis I. Kahn's Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the ...

Louis I. Kahn's Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the ...

Susan G. Solomon

Peter Eisenstadt, interview with author in Rochester, April 26, 2007, indicated that Rochester probably had the largest Jewish population in upstate New York in the 1950s. 47. Eisenstadt, Affirming the Covenant, 201–2. 48. Ibid., 202. 49.
Black Conservatism: Essays in Intellectual and Political History

Black Conservatism: Essays in Intellectual and Political History

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Copyright © 1999 by Peter Eisenstadt All rights reserved Library of Congress Catatoging-in-Publication Data Black conservatism : essays in intellectual and political history / edited by Peter Eisenstadt. p. cm. — (Garland reference library of the ...
New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities: A Concise ...

New York State: Peoples, Places, and Priorities: A Concise ...

Joanne Reitano

“Cooperstown,” in The Encyclopedia of New York State, Peter Eisenstadt, ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003, 394. The New Immigration Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation. Philip Kasinitz, John ...
William Almon Wheeler: Political Star of the North Country

William Almon Wheeler: Political Star of the North Country

Herbert C. Hallas

In The Encyclopedia of New York State, edited by Peter Eisenstadt, 151. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005. Smalley, Eugene V. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. Smith, J. Gregory.
Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the ...

Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the ...

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... housing in the city adjacent to some desperate pockets of poverty.4 However, at least 80 percent of the original families in Rochdale were 77 Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City Peter Eisenstadt.
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York ...

Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York ...

Peter Eisenstadt

Caro's charges that he refused to heat the pools in white neighborhoods to keep blacks away have been effectively countered by Marta Gutman. See Marta Gutman, “Equipping the Public Realm: Rethinking Robert Moses and Recreation, ” and ...
Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to ...

Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to ...

Quinton Dixie

Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence Quinton Dixie, Peter Eisenstadt. Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org Beacon Press books are ...
Town and Gown: The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, ...

Town and Gown: The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, ...

Robert D. Parmet

The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, and Higher Education Robert D. Parmet. 33. Peter Eisenstadt, “Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 1 July ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

Theda Skocpol

The core essays of this book focus on the careers and contributions of nine of these scholars: Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Barrington ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net

The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net

Eisenstadt, Marc

Sir John Daniel Group teaching in front of remote TV screens? This is not only an awful way to undertake distance learning, but flies in the face of everything that we have learned while conducting successful open and supported learning on a  ...
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

Adam Kahane

They include, in Reos Partners, Sarah Babb, Jeff Barnum, Marianne Mille Bøjer, Mia Eisenstadt, LeAnne Grillo, Zaid Hassan, Marianne Knuth, Colleen Magner, Joe McCarron, Vanessa Sayers, and Mustafa Suleyman; and in Generon ...
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

Jeff Barnum

They include, in Reos Partners, Sarah Babb, Jeff Barnum, Marianne Mille Bøjer, Mia Eisenstadt, LeAnne Grillo, Zaid Hassan, Marianne Knuth, Colleen Magner, Joe McCarron, Vanessa Sayers, and Mustafa Suleyman; and in Generon ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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w l- I k - 'Take-r. 4. u ' Peter Strauss Ranch Guest House 59936 B Peter Strauss Ranch Main House 59926 B Peter Strauss Ranch Storage Shed 59937 B Peter Strauss Ranch Stone and Concrete Terracing 59927 B Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe

Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe

Marc Stein

Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
South Asia: An Environmental History

South Asia: An Environmental History

Christopher V. Hill

... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...

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