Kazakhstan A Spy Guide

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Strategic and practical information on government, national security, army, foreign and domestic politics, conflicts, relations with the US, international activity, economy, technology, mineral resources, culture, traditions, govt

Kazakhstan Business Law Handbook (World Spy Guide Library)

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Kazakhstan Business Law Handbook (World Spy Guide Library)

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ASIN: 0739773887

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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking. (Updated annually)

Kazakhstan Investment and Business Guide (World Spy Guide Library)

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Kazakhstan Investment and Business Guide (World Spy Guide Library)

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ASIN: 0739769421

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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities and regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Kazakhstan: A "Spy" Guide (World "Spy" Guide Library)

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Kazakhstan: A "Spy" Guide (World "Spy" Guide Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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ASIN: 0739770853

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Everything a successful "spy" must know on the country. Strategic and practical information on government, national security, army, foreign relations, economy, technology, mineral resources, as well as culture, history, traditions, government and business contacts and more...

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In this integration of law and economic ideas, Herbert Hovenkamp charts the evolution of the legal framework that regulated American business enterprise from the time of Andrew Jackson through the first New Deal. He reveals the interdependent relationship between economic theory and law that existed in these decades of headlong growth and examines how this relationship shaped both the modern business corporation and substantive due process. Classical economic theory--the cluster of ideas about free markets--became the guiding model for the structure and function of both private and public law.

Hovenkamp explores the relationship of classical economic ideas to law in six broad areas related to enterprise in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He traces the development of the early business corporation and maps the rise of regulated industry from the first charterbased utilities to the railroads. He argues that free market political economy provided the intellectual background for constitutional theory and helped define the limits of state and federal regulation of business behavior. The book also illustrates the unique American perspective on political economy reflected in the famous doctrine of substantive due process. Finally, Hovenkamp demonstrates the influence of economic theory on labor law and gives us a reexamination of the antitrust movement, the most explicit intersection of law and economics before the New Deal.

Legal, economic, and intellectual historians and political scientists will welcome these trenchant insights on an influential period in American constitutional and corporate history.

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Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937
Herbert Hovenkamp
Manufacturer: Harvard Univ Pr 01/1//1991
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ASIN: B000N5UWH8

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This book introduces researchers and advanced students in biology and engineering to methods of optimizing biochemical systems of biotechnological relevance. It examines the development of strategies for manipulating metabolic pathways, demonstrates the need for effective systems models, and discusses their design and analysis, while placing special emphasis on optimization. The authors propose power-law models and methods of Biochemical Systems Theory toward these ends. All concepts are derived from first principles, and the text is richly illustrated with numerous graphs and examples throughout.

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Facility in the targeted manipulation of the genetic and metabolic composition of organisms, combined with unprecedented computational power, is forging a niche for a new subspecialty of biotechnology called metabolic engineering. This book introduces researchers and advanced students in biology and engineering to methods of optimizing biochemical systems of biotechnological relevance. It examines the development of strategies for manipulating metabolic pathways, demonstrates the need for effective systems models, and discusses their design and analysis, while placing special emphasis on optimization. The authors propose power-law models and methods of biochemical systems theory toward these ends. All concepts are derived from first principles, and the text is richly illustrated with numerous graphs and examples throughout. Special features include: é both nontechnical and technical introductions to models of biochemical systems é a review of basic methods of model design and analysis é concepts of optimization é detailed case studies Biotechnologists will find this introductory book a highly valuable reference, as will other scientists and engineers interested in biological systems.

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This book is designed to critically review experimental findings on ionic polymers and colloidal particles and to prove a theoretical framework based on the Poisson-Boltzmann approach. Structure formation in ionic polymer solutions has attracted attention since the days of H. Staudinger and J. D. Bernal. An independent study on ionic colloidal dispersions with microscopy provided a compelling evidence of structure formation. Recent technical developments have made it possible to accumulate relevant information for both ionic polymers and colloidal particles in dilute systems. The outstanding phenomenon experimentally found is microscopic inhomogeneity in the solute distribution in macroscopically homogeneous systems.To account for the observation, the present authors have invoked the existence of the counterion-mediated attraction between similarly charged solute species, in addition to the widely accepted electrostatic repulsion.

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Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young theorists learned to frame their research in terms of the diagrams—and how both the diagrams and their users were molded in the process.

Drawing on rich archival materials, interviews, and more than five hundred scientific articles from the period, Drawing Theories Apart uses the Feynman diagrams as a means to explore the development of American postwar physics. By focusing on the ways young physicists learned new calculational skills, David Kaiser frames his story around the crafting and stabilizing of the basic tools in the physicist's kit—thus offering the first book to follow the diagrams once they left Feynman's hands and entered the physics vernacular.

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how a compelling idea spread amongst physicists.......2007-07-05

For physicists, this book makes engaging reading. Feynman diagrams are now well established, and have been so for decades. They give crucial understanding to some very intricate equations in high energy physics.

Kaiser has performed some indepth historical research on the early postwar years. When Feynman had his seminal insights into how these graphical techniques could simplify a tangle of equations. Today, with a pervasive web and instantaneous email between researchers across the globe, it is a very different environment. Then, a compelling idea still primarily had to be transmitted by the traditional method of inperson presentations, like seminars and conferences and actual letters.

The book is as much about the sociology of science as it is about the physics devised by Feynman. Granted, key sections may be intelligible only to physicists. These delve into the physics and equations of propagators and Hamiltonians in quantum mechanics. But most of the book can be gainfully read by non-physicists, who might want more details about Richard Feynman's life.

Storied names of 20th century physicists are also generously scattered throughout the book. Bethe [Feynman's PhD advisor], Dyson, Gell-Mann, Salam and others.

Interesting for historians, valuable for physicists.......2006-07-31

This is a very engaging book on at least two different levels: as a book about history, and as a book about physics.

The book is an early adopter of a couple of new and intriguing techniques in history of science. Instead of trying to identify theories or paradigms, it focuses on physicists' "paper tools" --the techniques they used for calculations. Also, it emphasizes the importance of pedagogy -- a subject's transmission through textbooks, clusters of professors/postdocs/grad students and, importantly in this case, informal contact.

Feynman introduced his diagrams at a small, private conference in spring 1948. He didn't publish about them until September 1949; but by then they were already widely used in studying quantum electrodynamics, albeit not well-understood. Kaiser traces the roles of Freeman Dyson and a cadre of postdocs from Princeton's IAS in spreading the diagrams on both sides of the Atlantic. As each researcher pieced together his (or occasionally her) own understanding of the diagrams, he transmitted it -- together with many idiosyncrasies -- to his students. A neat figure in the book compares the styles of diagram used by professors and students at major universities. Students tended to follow their teachers, but no two institutions had the same style. (Kaiser also traces the spread of the diagrams in Japan and Russia, two physics communities that were largely isolated from Western researchers.)

The result was a Balkanization of styles and interpretations of the diagrams. This had already begun with Dyson's first articles in February 1949. Feynman had viewed the diagrams as intuitively depicting the behavior of particles in spacetime. Kaiser connects the diagrams' enduring appeal to their similarity to particle tracks in bubble-chamber photos, which makes a viewer feel that the diagrams are a realistic picture of what's going on. Dyson, on the other hand, regarded them as a geometric algorithm for keeping track of terms in a perturbative expansion in QED; he was also the first to promote viewing them in an abstract, topological way.

These centrifugal tendencies became elaborated and diversified in the 1950s and 1960s. All sorts of new diagrams sprung up, with different kinds of lines, arrows, geometries and "blobs" -- but eventually all were called "Feynman diagrams". The uses of the diagrams also diverged, from being a tool of quantum field theory to being a tool for its (attempted) overthrow. Among many other fascinating stories, Kaiser describes the UC Berkeley "particle democracy" movement, which used geometrical permutations of the diagrams to make a case that the distinction between "elementary" and "composite" particles is false. (By similar means, the school of Lev Landau came to regard diagrams as more fundamental than field theory.)

Kaiser does a great job of providing the historical context of what problems each group was trying to address, including adapting the diagrams to studying QED in condensed matter as well as other QFTs, such as the strong interaction. Along the way, you'll learn a little about Regge theory, pomerons, the Mandelstam representation, the analytical S-matrix, and other approaches to QFT that still surface today in corners of the arXiv. You won't find these developments described in other histories of the period, such as Schweber's "QED" or Pais's ultra-terse "Inward Bound". Kaiser's book is indispensible for understanding diagrams in the physics literature from the 1950s and 1960s and perhaps later. (And since it's much shorter than Schweber and less oracular than Schwinger, it's a good introduction to the second half of the Dover collection of QED papers, which Schwinger edited and introduced.)

Readers more interested in QFT than in history might be put off by Kaiser's at times dry style, and especially by the critical theory-tinged first chapter (influenced by the science studies ramblings of Bruno Latour et al.) But don't be put off. While much of the history Kaiser describes has been forgotten, it survives in the eclectic style of "Feynman diagrams" you'll find in many textbooks today -- e.g., Itzykson & Zuber, Ryder, Mattuck, and A. Zee's recent "Nutshell", which mixes diagrammatic styles with an especially breezy abandon. In all of these, turn a few pages past the dutiful description of the 1949 Feynman-Dyson rules and you'll start seeing diagrams about QCD, or diagrams with blobs or double-arrows or other innovations, most of which won't be explained systematically. Kaiser's book will help you to decipher some of these diagrammatic puzzles. Even better, it may make you sensitive to some of the uses, interpretations, and ambiguities of diagrams that you might never have considered otherwise.

Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics.

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Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics.
David Kaiser
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics
David Kaiser
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The fully-lived, yet tragically ended life of Ernest Hemingway has attracted nearly as much attention as his extensive canon of writings. This critical study introduces students to both the man and his fiction, exploring how Hemingway confronted in his own life the same moral issues that would later create thematic conflicts for the characters in his novels. In addition to the biographical chapter which focuses on the pivotal events in Hemingway's personal life, a literary heritage chapter overviews his professional developments, relating his distinctive style to his early years as a journalist. With clear concise analysis, students are guided through all of Hemingway's major works including The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Full chapters are also devoted to examining his collections of short fiction, the African Stories, and the posthumous works. Each chapter carefully examines the major literary components of Hemingway's fiction with plot synopsis, analysis of character development, themes, settings, historical context, and stylistic features. Alternate critical readings are also given for each of the full length works. An extensive bibliography citing all of Hemingway's writings as well as biographical sources, general criticism, and contemporary reviews will help students understand the scope of Hemingway's contributions to American Literature.

Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway. (book review): An article from: The Hemingway Review

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Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway. (book review): An article from: The Hemingway Review
Frederic Svoboda
Manufacturer: Ernest Hemingway Foundation
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This digital document is an article from The Hemingway Review, published by Ernest Hemingway Foundation on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1201 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway. (book review)
Author: Frederic Svoboda
Publication: The Hemingway Review (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Ernest Hemingway Foundation
Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Page: 152(3)

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Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway: (Student Companions to Classic Writers)

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Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway: (Student Companions to Classic Writers)
Lisa Tyler
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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ASIN: B000OTZMY6

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Good second volume.......2003-11-04

Egyptologist David Rohl challenged long held beliefs about ancient Egyptian history and its timeline in his first book, A Test of Time (a.k.a. Pharaohs and Kings in its American incarnation). In so doing, he backed into demonstrating that early Hebrew tradition and history correlates with the records of Egypt and other regional nations of the time, from the Patriarch Joseph to the initial Israelite kings. This book continues that re-evaluation of history by adding a fresh look at the earlier Biblical legends to see if he can make historical sense out of them. He mostly succeeds.

This book delves into an examination of people and events from Genesis that many exegetes regard as legendary at best. Among those covered include Adam and Eve along with identification of the probable physical location of a real Garden of Eden, and their descendents as the early leaders of what became the Sumerian civilization. He explains the linguistic correlation between Scriptural names and Sumerian ones to make his case. He then adds an intriguing explanation for the long mysterious origin of the Egyptian ruling class of their Dynasties Zero and One to tie together a solid thesis about the origins and migrations of many of the peoples of the Near East, such as the Canaanites and the Phoenicians.

His conclusions are not without minor errors, which accounts for a rating of four stars instead of five. He mistranslates Elohim, as do many modern scholars, to mean 'Lords of the mountain,' when it actually means 'Lord of the mountains.' He also backs into an estimation of a date for the occurrence of the Great Flood by using literary sources exclusively, ignoring the physical evidence that places it about 8,000 years earlier. To recognize this would necessitate a further reworking of his timeline but he has already demonstrated thoroughly the openness to follow the evidence to wherever it leads.

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This exhaustive exploration of the Hebrew myths and the book of Genesis resulted from a remarkable collaboration between one scholar raised as a strict Protestant and one raised as a strict Jew. It goes beyond Christian biblical and Judaic myth and incorporates midrashes, folk tales, apocryphal texts, and other obscure sources to extend and complete the stories. An intriguing view of the suppressed and censored pre-biblical accounts is the result, along with a rich sense of a culture consisting of oral and literary traditions, where the spiritual is deeply rooted in landscape and history.

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Rare resources on mythology.......2007-09-17

Hard to find resource on Hebrew/Jewish mythology connecting to Classic Greek mythology and history. Very readable.

Graves on Genesis.......2006-06-21

Basically, Robert Graves does for the 61 stories he finds in the Book of Genesis what he did for The Greek Myths. This time he employs the aid of an eminent Jewish anthropologist and Biblical scholar, Raphael Patai (not Pata). It appears that this is a little difficult to find right now in 2006, but the search is worth the effort.

Genesis' pre-biblical origins .......2005-11-19

The authors do not reverently approach Genesis as a God-inspired Holy Text. From a "Secular Humanist" or Anthropological point of view, they attempt to identify Genesis' _pre-biblical_ origins in motifs identified with earlier myths of the Sumerians and Mesopotamians. This line of reasoning understands that the Hebrews at some later point in time transformed and reinterpreted earlier Mesopotamian concepts about Man's origins and his relationship with God from myths and literature (one case being the Epic of Gilgamesh). In addition to this investigation of pre-biblical myths (or pre-biblical literature), the authors also investigate later Jewish and Christian traditions, folklore, commentary on Genesis' themes.

Where did the Bible come from?.......2000-11-09

The religiously correct belief is that Genesis was inspired by, even dictated by, the supreme being. But if you're interested in the Bible as part of our cultural heritage, you end up asking some very secular questions. These stories must have had some kind of existence before they were incorporated into the Judeo-Christian canon. Where did they come from?

Barring some extreme archeological breakthrough, the original sources for the Genesis myths are lost forever. But the authors make quite a serious attempt to reconstruct them from surviving literature, especially the Talmud. Robert Graves was particularly well qualified to attempt this, given his unorthodox take on mythology and his poetic approach to literary interpolation. By the same token, anything Graves did in this area is bound to be controversial -- is it literature, or scholarship?

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Jim Lee's classic art.......2006-08-11

This recopilation shows the gold age of x-men (the 90's) beacuse thanks to Chis Claremont stories and Jim Lee's Strong art, the X-men are the most famous comic book in the world, you can read the first apperance of omega red, and Dr. Cornelius comeback, you must read this if you think you are a x-men fan.

Another excellent chapter in the annals of Marvel's Mutant Verse.......2006-06-30

This was a classic when it 1st hit the stands so many years ago so it's awesome to have it now collected in a nifty tpb. Longtime Mutant scribe Chris Claremont & fan favorite Jim Lee executed another great tale full of action, drama, romance, & mystery. These tales along with the *Uncanny X-men* & *X-Factor* series' layed the ground work for the successful film franchise. A+ all the way. Also, check out Wild C.A.T.S. from Jim Lee's Wildstorm imprint. It's just as creative & addicting.

X-Men: Muntant Genesis is a great graphic novel!.......2006-05-18

X-Men:Mutant Genesis is a great graphic novel! You have first seven issues of the acclaimed 2nd seris of X-Men! X-Men is written by Chris Claremont with artwork by superstar Jim Lee! Chris Claremont writes first three issues of X-Men and Jim Lee draws all seven issues! Also the birth for the acolytes and the X-Men's Blue team with a final showdown with Magneto on Asteriod M! The first apperance of Omega Red and Marverick is here in these issues! These issues are great and if you bought the orginal comics back in 1991, this will bring back the memories on how Jim Lee rose to fame starting a new X-Men Title with Marvel comics! Great! A+

The beginning of the 90's era X-Men craze.......2006-01-06

In 1991, Marvel made history by launching a new ongoing X-Men series (the first issue of which was available in many different covers) with legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont at the helm, and the talent of superstar in the making Jim Lee providing the pencils. Collecting the first seven issues of X-Men, Mutant Genesis finds Professor Xavier dividing the team up into two groups: the Blue team (which this X-title would feature) and the Gold team (which would be featured in Uncanny X-Men). During this, Magneto and his followers, the Acolytes, are planning to wreak havoc on mankind, and it appears that Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, and Psylocke may be on his side whether they want to be or not. Later on, characters such as Maverick and Omega Red make their debuts as well. The story is typical X-Men/Claremont fare, but it works for what it's worth, whether the dialogue is dated or not. Jim Lee's art is still great fifteen years later, and his character models and costumes would set the standard of the X-Men's look until the end of the decade. All in all, Mutant Genesis isn't the best X-Men TPB you'll read, but you can certainly do far, far worse.

Claremont and Lee together equal one fine X-Men story.......2004-11-25

This TPB contains the first seven issues of the X-Men during Marvel shake up in the early '90s. These seven issues can easily be two of the best story arcs to bare the X in years. Together Claremont and Lee have won the covetous Eagle Award for outstanding work in comics not once but twice, and the first of the two story arcs contain within this TPB should have been their third. Although Claremont left the X-men and Marvel for reason we need not get into, he left the title on one of it's highest notes. Ladies and Gents please don't let this title past you by, this dream team put some of their finest work to print in this one.

Bible Legends: An Introduction to Midrash (Bible Legends) (Bible Legends)

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Bible Legends: An Introduction to Midrash (Bible Legends) (Bible Legends)
Lillian S. Freehof
Manufacturer: Urj Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0807403571
Release Date: 1987-06-01

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The bible greats for kids.......2000-07-11

This is a nice collection of old testament bible stories for elementary school aged kids, written by a well known story teller of Jewish folk stories. Personnally, I found his adult oriented books more compelling and unusual. This is a more traditional set of bible ledgends, including all the old testament biggies like Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Joseph (of coat fame). It is pleasant enough, but not great. I would definitely say that it was suitable for children younger than the 9 to 12 age range indicated.

Bible Legends an Introduction to Midrash Exodus (Bible Legends) (Bible Legends)

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Bible Legends an Introduction to Midrash Exodus (Bible Legends) (Bible Legends)
Lillian S. Freehof
Manufacturer: Urj Press
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Release Date: 1988-08-01

Clouds of Glory: Legends and Stories About Bible Times

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the most brilliant artwork !

Clouds of Glory: Legends and Stories About Bible Times
Miriam Chaikin
Manufacturer: Clarion Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 039574654X

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Where is God? What are angels? Who made them? Such questions have arisen over the ages and are answered with a type of story Jews call Midrash-Midrashim in the plural. The Hebrew word means "search and explain." The search takes place in the pages of the Bible. The explanation, the Midrash, is based on an answer found in those pages. New stories led to others, and eventually to a vast library of Midrashim. A selection of these have been woven into the stories in this book, retellings from the Book of Genesis: from Creation to the world of angels, the fall of Satan, Cain and Abel, the Emerald Book of Secrets, good King Methuselah, Noah and Naamah, and the binding of Isaac. Stunning woodcut illustrations accompany these graceful, witty stories in a book that will illuminate familiar texts in a thought-provoking and entertaining way.

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the most brilliant artwork !.......2006-01-07

The woodcuts that illustrate this book are brilliant ! This book could become a collector's item in the future- based on the artwork alone- these glossy exquistent , almost medieval pictures- are of frameable size and on high quality paper. This book is worth buying for this reason alone-

The Legends of Genesis: The Biblical Saga and History

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The Legends of Genesis: The Biblical Saga and History
Hermann Gunkel
Manufacturer: Wipf & Stock Publishers
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American Indian Genesis: The Story of Creation

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American Indian Genesis: The Story of Creation
Percy Bullchild
Manufacturer: Treasure Chest Books
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Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Antoinette Burton
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Lieutenant Nun

ASIN: 0822334674

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From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the “body as contact zone” as a powerful analytic rubric for interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace visible as sites of imperial ideologies.

Bodies in Contact brings together important scholarship on colonial gender studies gathered from journals around the world. Breaking with approaches to world history as the history of “the West and the rest,” the contributors offer a panoramic perspective. They examine aspects of imperial regimes including the Ottoman, Mughal, Soviet, British, Han, and Spanish, over a span of six hundred years—from the fifteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Discussing subjects as diverse as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football, immigration and temperance, Bodies in Contact puts women, gender, and sexuality at the center of the “master narratives” of imperialism and world history.

Contributors. Joseph S. Alter, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Elisa Camiscioli, Mary Ann Fay, Carter Vaughn Findley, Heidi Gengenbach, Shoshana Keller, Hyun Sook Kim, Mire Koikari, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Melani McAlister, Patrick McDevitt, Jennifer L. Morgan, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Rosalind O’Hanlon, Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Sean Quinlan, Mrinalini Sinha, Emma Jinhua Teng, Julia C. Wells

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