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Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in ...

Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in ...

Shaden M. Tageldin

Jeffrey Sacks, however, argues that Arab-Islamic thought entertained the separation of words from things—the arbitrariness of the sign— as early as the tenth century. See Jeffrey Sacks, “Latinity,” CR: The New Centennial Review 9, no.
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Mahmoud Darwish

by Mahmoud Darwish; translated from Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks.—1sted. p. cm. ISBN 9781935744689 (alk. paper) I. Sacks, Jeffrey. II. Title. PJ7820.A7L513 2006 892.7'16 —dc22 2005035484 Distributed by Consortium Book Salesand ...
Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization: Contemporary ...

Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization: Contemporary ...

Opoku Agyeman

Jeffrey Sacks, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, The Penguin Press, NY, 2005, p. 43. 32. Cited in Jeffrey Sacks, The End of Poverty, p. 187. 33. Felix Green, “How It Began,” in Paula S. Rosenberg, Ed., Beyond Borders: ...
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Bronwen Dickey

Jeffrey Sacks likened dog bite research: Jeffrey Sacks, interview with author, June 2012. CHAPTER 12: “DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE” Interview sources for this chapter include Dave Wilson, Deanna Smith, “Don't Believe the Hype”
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Oliver Sacks

In this collection of interviews, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work. Any reader of Oliver Sacks will find in this book an entirely new way of looking at a brilliant writer.
Rusty Nails & Ration Books: Great Depression & WWII ...

Rusty Nails & Ration Books: Great Depression & WWII ...

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Of course, the flour and sugar sacks were used for clothing, tea towels, and curtains! Mother knew how to take the lettering out of the sacks by working it out with elbow grease and fat before boiling the sacks. Marion McNair knew that other ...
Southiere Dit Lagiroflee - Jeffrey: From Generation to ...

Southiere Dit Lagiroflee - Jeffrey: From Generation to ...

Roy W. Jeffrey

1174 M iii. Connor James FAIRBANK-323 was born on 10 Oct 1998. 847. Peter Guest JEFFREY JR-94 (Peter Guest JEFFREY, Merle JEFFREY, George William JEFFREY, Lewis Joseph JEFFREY, Lewis JEFFREY, Eusebe (Uzeb) JEFFREY, ...
Sociology: A Global Perspective

Sociology: A Global Perspective

Joan Ferrante

Jeffrey D. Sacks, the UN Millennium Project director and the author of The End ofPoverty, argues that the biggest myth held by most Americans is that the United States already gives a large amount of money and that much, if not all, is wasted.
Yeltsin's Russia and the West

Yeltsin's Russia and the West

Andrew Felkay

He was inclined to listen to the advice of knowledgeable American, Western European and IMF economists, such as Jeffrey Sacks of Harvard University and Anders Aslund of Sweden. Unfortunately, those advisors had little or no real ...
A Leg to Stand On

A Leg to Stand On

Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks’ ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.
Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern ...

Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern ...

John Pedro Schwartz

Jeffrey Sacks observes that 'the new and the old require the always ruined domestication of repetition into the unity of an undivided point of origin'.27 The notion of the possibility of language being 'lost' is an invention itself that has become ...
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks

This book is filled with wonders’ Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks’ compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.
Hallucinations

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

In Hallucinations, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and ...
Consumed: Why Americans Hate, Love, and Fear Food

Consumed: Why Americans Hate, Love, and Fear Food

Michelle Stacey

And the only thing he could think of was that two-year-old Harvard study by Frank Sacks—Frank Sacks who several years before had unsuccessfully petitioned Quaker itself for grant money. It can't be that study, Ink told himself. That's too old  ...
The Mind's Eye

The Mind's Eye

Oliver Sacks

In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the ...
The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations

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30 Translation by Jeffrey Sacks (New York: Archipelago Books, 2006). 31 Translated into English from the Arabic by Munir Akash and Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010). Translated into French from ...
Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, ...

Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, ...

Jeffrey Sacks

Stephen Sheehi, Foundations of Modern Arab Identity, 15. 26. Consider also the brilliant reading of Khutba fi adab al-'arab Sheehi offers in relation to the paradoxes it sustains. “Consequently, Bustani's nahdah discourse articulates an Arab ...
Heroes In Hard Times

Heroes In Hard Times

Neal King

Written by Frank Sacks and Robert Bons. Directed by Mark L, Lester. Produced by Frank Sacks. HBO/Vidmark, 1993. Extreme Prejudice. Written by Deric Washburn and Harry Kleiner. Directed by Walter Hill. Produced by Buzz Feitshans.
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

New York (State). Court of Appeals.

That your deponent has known Frank Sacks, also known as Frank McCarthy, for about twenty years. That Frank Sacks together with your deponent's brother, John Smith, was brought up in the St. Agatha Home, Spring Valley, New York. That is ...
Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and ...

Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and ...

Risa Sacks

The Interviewing and Hands-on Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--online, on the Phone, and in Person Risa Sacks Reva Basch. Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and Hands-On Information Strategies of ...
Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art

Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art

Jeffrey Jones

Over the past 40 years, there have been few artists who have received asmuch acclaim and garned as much attention as Jeffrey Jones.
Visual Culture and the Holocaust

Visual Culture and the Holocaust

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... Jeffrey Shandler. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. Jeffrey Shandler the first extended public contention over the significance The Man in the Glass Box: Watching the Eichmann Trial on American Television Jeffrey Shandler.
Probability and the Art of Judgment

Probability and the Art of Judgment

Richard Jeffrey

Richard Jeffrey. Preference among preferences In The Logic of Decision,x preference is represented as a relation between propositions. To the same effect, ... Richard C. Jeffrey (McGraw-Hill, 1965; University of Chicago Press, 1983, 1990). 2.
Made to Be Broken: A Ross Malone Thriller

Made to Be Broken: A Ross Malone Thriller

Jeffrey McGraw

Ross Malone Thrillers By Jeffrey McGraw Shooting Starr Settling Accounts Killer Smile Made To Be Broken Breeder (Fall 2006) Eric Geiger Novels By Jeffrey McGraw J oggernaut Forlorn (Spring 2006) Other books by Jeffrey McGraw The ...
Breathe in the Beauty: A Contemplative Photography Journey

Breathe in the Beauty: A Contemplative Photography Journey

Jeffrey Ringer

A contemplative photographic journey by Jeffrey Ringer. During his 30 years as a commercial photographer and creative director, Jeffrey has photographed and compiled numerous beautiful photos.
Killersmile: A Ross Malone Thriller

Killersmile: A Ross Malone Thriller

Jeffrey McGraw

A Ross Malone Thriller Ross Malone Thrillers by Jeffrey McGraw Shooting Starr Settling Accounts KillerSmile Other books by Jeffrey McGraw The Corpse Hits Cleanup Audiobooks by Jeffrey McGraw Rules of Engagement (American Audio  ...
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1998, Winter. “Bush, Hussein, and the Cultural Preparation for War: Toward a More Symbolic Theory of Political Legitimation.” Epoche 21 (1): 1–14. Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2000a. “Theorizing the Good Society: Hermeneutic, ...
Imaging in Spine Surgery

Imaging in Spine Surgery

Jeffrey S. Ross

Jeffrey S. Ross, Bernard R. Bendock, Jamal McClendon, Jr. 334 Spinal Cord Infarction ... Ross, MD 355 Vascular Injury R. Brooke Jeffrey, MD 386 Pseudomembranous Colitis (Clostridium difficile) Bryson Borg, MD and JeffreyS. Ross, MD 356 ...
Basic Wills, Trusts, and Estates for Paralegals

Basic Wills, Trusts, and Estates for Paralegals

Jeffrey A. Helewitz

Jeffrey A. Helewitz ... or mail correspondence to: Wolters Kluwer Attn: Order Department P.O. Box 990 Frederick, MD 21705 eISBN 978-1-4548-8028-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Helewitz, Jeffrey A., author.
Laura Meets Jeffrey

Laura Meets Jeffrey

Jeffrey Michelson

A Real Life BDSM Memoir: Laura, 27, lingerie model whoring in a fancy bordello to pay off her husband's gambling debt meets Jeffrey, 33, Apple Records media wizard and creator of the celebrated sex magazine, Puritan, and so begins this true ...

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