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Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel

Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel

Daphne Barak-Erez

These issues are comprehensively discussed in Menachem Mautner's writings. See Menachem Mautner, The Decline of Formalism and the Rise of Values in Israeli Law (Tel- Aviv: Ma'gele da'at, 1993), 127— 28 (reference to "the renewed  ...
Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti: Sacred Drama and ...

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti: Sacred Drama and ...

Deborah W. Rooke

The main actors in the libretto, as in the biblical story, are Deborah, Barak, and Jael, and so they will be discussed in turn, beginning with Barak. a. Barak The libretto's presentation of Barak is perhaps its most important difference from the ...
The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains

The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains

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(1) Barak: I finish work early today. Sagit: So, do you want to go to the movies? Barak: I don't really feel like seeing a movie. Sagit: So maybe we could go dancing? Barak: No, at the end of the night my feet will hurt and I'll be tired. Sagit: You're ...
Culture, Self-Identity, and Work

Culture, Self-Identity, and Work

Miriam Erez

In this work, Erez and Earley show how this is insufficient to develop a global theory of work behavior--it necessitates the inclusion of a cultural perspective.
Israeli Peacemaking Since 1967: Factors Behind the ...

Israeli Peacemaking Since 1967: Factors Behind the ...

Galia Golan

149 Yet Barak was not known to be indecisive but, rather, calculating if impulsive; he presumably calculated that he could not overcome the domestic obstacles in the face of a referendum. Clinton, however, attributed this to Barak«s relatively ...
Eve's Garden

Eve's Garden

J. Hannah Orden

Diana laid her hand on Barak to calm him, desperate to be of use somehow. She imagined the scene that had taken place in the orchard, pictured Benny scrambling to his feet while Simon went after Barak. Then, as if she too had been  ...
Deborah and Barak: If God Be with Us

Deborah and Barak: If God Be with Us

Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

After two years of raids and ambushes, Barak's band had grown to about 120 men. Everyone — Hebrews and Canaanites — now recognized him as more than a bandit chief. The word was out that the king of Hazor had put a price on the head ...
The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: ...

The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: ...

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Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife Barak Kushner, Sherzod Muminov ... search for postwar legitimacy BARAK KUSHNER 4 The collapse of the Japanese empire and the great migrations: repatriation, assimilation, ...
I Sleep at Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets

I Sleep at Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets

Bruce Stockler

Barak will yell. Barak is still exploring his feminine side. He loves to play with Barbies and requested a Barbie cake at his fourth birthday. He owns a pair of plastic high-heeled shoes—after screaming in jealousy over Hannah's pair— which he ...
Work Motivation in the Context of A Globalizing Economy

Work Motivation in the Context of A Globalizing Economy

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1 I 2 3 4 5 Contents Preface—Miriam Erez, Uwe Kleinbeck, and Henk Thierry Introduction: Trends Reflected in Work Motivation Miriam Erez and Dov Eden WORK MOTIVATION—THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL Introduction—UweKleinbeck and ...
Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's ...

Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's ...

Barak Kushner

Barak Kushner explores the history of ramen and Japan's noodle culture over the last 1000 years.
Decolonization: A Short History

Decolonization: A Short History

Jan C. Jansen

Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela, “The Great War as a Global War: Imperial Conflict and the Reconfiguration of World Order, 1911–1923,” Diplomatic History 38 (2014): 786–800; Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela (eds.), Empires at War ...
The Way We Wore

The Way We Wore

Daphne Selfe

Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.
Gendered Spaces

Gendered Spaces

Daphne Spain

'A work of vaulting ambition and synthesis. Daphne Spain is asked about the relations among gender, power, and space, our dwellings and domains.
Rule Britannia

Rule Britannia

Daphne Du Maurier

In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.
Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

The story is as gripping as Rebecca, as full of surprises as My Cousin Rachel ... affectionate, honest, unsentimental and perceptive' Daily Mail 'Convincing throughout .
Best American Magazine Writing 2013

Best American Magazine Writing 2013

The American Society of Magazine Editors

Copyright © 2012 by Charles Graeber. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. “Portrait of a Lady,” by Daphne Merkin, originally published in Elle. Copyright © 2012 by Daphne Merkin. Reprinted by permission of Daphne Merkin . “Social ...
The Brother of Daphne

The Brother of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is 'well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright'. In this, Yates' earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Brother Of Daphne

The Brother Of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne Du Maurier

My godfather, Nick Kendall, came over the following day, bringing Louise with him. As there were no close relatives to summon, and only bequests to Seecombe and the other servants, with the customary donations to the poor in the parish, the ...
The Immortal Throne

The Immortal Throne

Bree Despain

Only Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Tatiana de Rosnay

I’m sure my mother would have loved this book.” — Tessa Montgomery d’Alamein, daughter of Daphné du Maurier, as told to Pauline Sommelet in Point de Vue As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne Du Maurier

This omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to a wide array of subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside ...
Daphne

Daphne

Tatiana De Rosnay

Con una prosa impeccabile, Tatiana de Rosnay ci restituisce il romanzo della vita di una delle più complesse e tormentate figure di donna del Novecento, la scrittrice inglese Daphne du Maurier, autrice di romanzi come Rebecca, la prima ...
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

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DAPHNE MERKIN (1954- ) Carolyn Ariella Sofia BIOGRAPHY "Perfect sex is like some Platonic essence," notes Daphne Merkin in "The Woman in the Balcony," her reading of the biblical Song of Songs, because it takes ' 'place only in our ...
Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Daphne Spain

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.
The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation

The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation

Brad Hooper

Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 60. 5. Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 62. 6. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson/Gale, 2006, 22, p. 129. 7. Coral Ann Howells, Alice Munro, New York: St. Martin's ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne Du Maurier

Includes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories.

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