Fundamentals of Intermediate Accounting 2006 FASB Update, with TakeAction! CD
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    Fundamentals of Intermediate Accounting 2006 FASB Update, with TakeAction! CD
    Donald E. Kieso , Jerry J. Weygandt , and Terry D., PhD Warfield
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    Now readers can get all the accuracy and authority of the best-selling intermediate accounting book in the new second edition of this brief, streamlined version! Fundamentals of Intermediate Accounting presents a balanced discussion of concepts and applications, explaining the rationale behind business transactions before addressing the accounting and reporting for those activities. Readers will gain a solid foundation in such areas as the standard-setting process, the three major financial statements, revenue recognition, income taxes, reporting disclosure issues, and much more.

    Asian Economic Cooperation In The New Millennium: China's Economic Presence (Advanced Research in Asian Economic Studies)
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      This volume is the outgrowth of a conference held at Peking University in May 2002, jointly sponsored by the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies, the Peking University School of Economics, and the China Reform Forum. The contributors include leading scholars from Asia as well as specialists on Asia from the US, Europe, and Australia. The book delves into issues of trade and investment, exchange rates and macroeconomic policy, and preferential trade agreements and other forms of economic cooperation. The overall message is one of regional dynamism animated by concerted efforts to build a favorable institutional environment. China is a great motivating force in this dynamism and a key player in the development of regional agreements.
      Asian economic cooperation in the new Millennium: China's economic presence [A book review from: Journal of Asian Economics]
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        Asian economic cooperation in the new Millennium: China's economic presence [A book review from: Journal of Asian Economics]
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        This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Asian Economics, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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        The Lifetime Legal Guide
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        Steven Mitchell Sack
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        THE NEW LIFETIME LEGAL GUIDE
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                  The New Lifetime Legal Guide, like the original edition of this valuable work, was created to address the potential legal concerns of a typical family. Unlike other cumbersome and expensive legal guides assembled by committees of experts, The New Lifetime Legal Guide functions as a kind of first-aid manual for legal issues; organized alphabetically for easy access, it provides readers with the equivalent of a visit to a lawyer's office before they actually see a lawyer. Many of the articles included are on subjects that relate to everyone at some time or other, including commercial transactions, insurance, real estate, social security, taxes, and wills. Others cover situations you hope will never occur, but for which you need to be prepared: accidents, arrest, bankruptcy, discrimination, divorce, driving under the influence, litigations, spouse abuse, and workers' compensation. And now, included with this new, enlarged edition of The Lifetime Legal Guide, is a computer disk containing all of the book's letter and forms, each of which can be customized to suit the reader's particular circumstances when composing demand letters, checklists, and memos. The New Lifetime Legal Guide offers useful strategies and expert advice on handling virtually any legal decision most people will ever have to make.
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                      Steven Mitchell Sack
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                      Plant Hormones, Volume 72 (Vitamins and Hormones)
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                        Volume 72 is wholly dedicated to the topic of plant hormones. Although Vitamins and Hormones is normally dedicated to mammalian hormone action, this volume is unique to plants and their actions through receptors. The genetic aspects and the receptorology are reminiscent of the mammlian systems. The well-known hormones are reviewed including cytokinins, abscicic acid, gibberellin and auxin.

                        In addition there are reviews on nitric oxide, brassinosteroids, jasmonate, ethylene, and pheromones. Other topics included are genes that are regulated by abscicic acid and gibberellin, functional differentiation and transition of peroxisomes, plant antioxidants, gravitropic bending and the actions of plant hormones on glutathione transferase.

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                        Evolution and Escalation
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                          Evolution and Escalation
                          Geerat J. Vermeij
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                          This book is written for those who, like me, are fascinated with evolution, but I hope it will also be read by historians of human affairs. There are some obvious parallels between the history of life and the cultural history of man--the episodic pace of change the effects of crises, and the role of population growth, for example--and the fossil record teaches some sobering lessons about the futility of the seemingly unstoppable arms race between nations.
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                            Geerat J. Vermeij
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                            Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future
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                              Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future

                              Manufacturer: Wiley
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                              Made to fill the major gap in the literature on public administration applied in development. This title provides a review of the state-of-the-art which is both historically-grounded and forward-looking, and which will appeal to a broad readership: policy-makers, managers, advisers, scholars and others operating at all levels of government from local community through international levels. The studies offer a practical approach, consistently linking theory with practice and experience, providing a forum for new and exciting ideas.

                              Impurity scattering in superfluid helium-3:  A new phase : (Dissertation)
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                                Impurity scattering in superfluid helium-3: A new phase : (Dissertation)
                                James Edward, II Baumgardner
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                                The Superfluid Phases Of Helium 3
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                                  Dieter Vollhardt , and Peter Woelfle
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                                  A ground-breaking look at one of the most fascinating condensed matter systems so far discovered - superfluid helium 3He
                                  Superfluid Phases of Helium 3
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                                    Vollhardt
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                                    The Unprofessionals: A Novel
                                    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
                                    • Why Won't This Woman Quit Whining?
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                                    • The Professionals: (Is it) A Novel (?)
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                                    The Unprofessionals: A Novel
                                    Julie Hecht
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                                    ASIN: 1400061741
                                    Release Date: 2003-09-02

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                                    There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose nameless narrator also told the stories in the author’s bestselling collection, Do the Windows Open?, is a mordant triumph. It follows the friendship between the narrator—a photographer in her late forties—and a young man whom she has known since his childhood and who has always shared the narrator’s dismay about the way Americans live now: our discount chain stores, our incomprehensible architecture, our preoccupation with pets, our lack of manners. As the narrator takes us through the various stages of this friendship, she also tells the story of the young man’s incongruous predicament on his path to heroin addiction and the absurdities of his attempted recovery. The Unprofessionals is in part a masterpiece of comic despair, in part an illumination of the customs and mores of a new and bewildering century, in part a hilarious and sad story of two outsiders who see the world with painful clarity—and, as a whole, a novel of unexampled originality.

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                                    2 out of 5 stars Why Won't This Woman Quit Whining?.......2006-04-04

                                    I really enjoyed the quality of the writing, but the more I read the more aggravated by "the boy" and the narrator I became. My sympathy for their respective psychological plights dissipated as their snobbism, materialism, and self absorbtion took over what I was reading. Taking vegetables out of a lower refrigerator drawer makes her feel like a scullery maid? She calls herself a child of the 60's not into money, yet judges her shrink by her non designer clothes. Others have praised the humor of this novel. I guess I missed it.

                                    4 out of 5 stars Struggles.......2004-06-10

                                    I have to admit, this book grabs you. You're thrown into this 49 year olds battles with herself and those around her. The plot development was slow, but only being 14 myself, it was a satisfying read. Her struggles are expressed through a series of events throughout her relationship with this "boy" which tests her sanity as she matures into middle age.

                                    3 out of 5 stars The Professionals: (Is it) A Novel (?).......2004-04-12

                                    I have enjoyed many of Julie Hecht's stories in the New Yorker, but I don't feel that her style can sustain a reader's interest for 227 pages. I read the whole thing, but was puzzled by it. The first 20 or so pages never mention "the boy," then all of a sudden, his life is the whole focus.

                                    I suppose the main character is revealed by her reactions to events in the boy's life, but not much. She is the same character who appears in the stories and much of this is a continuation of the stories which in themselves were somewhat chronological in the character's life. If a reader comes to this without having read any of the stories, he or she is bound to be lost.

                                    I found the boy totally unsympathetic and not a believable character. I was much more interested in the main character's observations on modern life and her trips to various stores. I would have liked to learn more about her relationship with her husband. It's amazing that she has one. Who could live with her?

                                    Anyhow, if she writes another book, I won't be reading it. Enough is enough.

                                    1 out of 5 stars Excited at first, then lost interest completely.......2004-02-26

                                    Having grown up on Long Island and Nantucket, I was excited to see a first novel set in such familiar surroundings. I am interested in the topic of drugs, both legal and illegal, and my expectations were very high as the novel began.

                                    After twenty pages I started to wonder where this novel was going, and then I found myself speed-reading to see if there was any developing story, and then I lost interest altogether. I almost never completely lose interest in a novel, especially one that is so promising to begin with, but this novel was dreadful. The protagonist is overbearingly anal and whiny and the story goes absolutely nowhere...it is though we are reading a diary, and a diary of a life that is simply rather boring and full of anxiety about anxiety. Five yawns to this one.....

                                    5 out of 5 stars Perfect Second Act.......2003-12-31

                                    The Unprofessionals is a perfect second act to Hecht's collection of short stories, "Do the Windows Open?" She paints her characters with a very fine brush and her language is equally immaculate: there is never a word out of place or a vulgar shortcut when it comes to portraying emotion. Hecht is a consummate professional when it comes to writing. Anyone who winces when they read something badly written should treat themselves to both books.

                                    I look forward to re-reading this novel and reading what ever will come next.

                                    German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916
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                                    • the german army on the somme 1914-1916
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                                    • A review of the German Army on the Somme by Jack Sheldon
                                    German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916
                                    Jack Sheldon
                                    Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
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                                    ASIN: 1844152693

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                                    By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in the trenches, the author demonstrates that the dreadful losses of 1st July were a direct consequence of meticulous German planning and preparation.

                                    Although the Battle of the Somme was frequently a close-run affair, poor Allied co-ordination and persistence in attacking weakly on narrow fronts played into the hands of the German commanders, who were able to rush forward reserves, maintain the overall integrity of their defenses and so continue a successful delaying battle until the onset of winter ultimately neutralized the considerable Allied superiority in men and material.

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                                    5 out of 5 stars the german army on the somme 1914-1916.......2006-10-07

                                    This book is a must for anyone interested in the Great War, I have read much on the Allied side but very little from the German army viewpoint. This is a wonderful book my only disappointment would be Sheldon's lack of maps. His maps were lacking, it would have been helpful to have some detail maps of the battle region.

                                    4 out of 5 stars Superb Research but organization could be better.......2006-07-03

                                    Jack Sheldon, a retired British infantry officer, provides an original and ground-breaking look into the other side of First World War trench combat in The German Army on the Somme 1914-1916. Although the Somme Campaign has been described many times before - memorably by Martin Middlebrook - it has usually been from a British perspective. However, the author was able to make use of a wide variety of German-language materials, ranging from after-action reports, contemporary diaries and post-war memoirs to develop a composite view of how the German Army experienced combat on the Somme. Furthermore, this book is not only about the well-covered battles in July 1916 but ranges back to the early actions in this area against the French in 1914-15 and extends to the final actions of November-December 1916. This book is a must for any serious student of the First World War. Unfortunately, poor organization and inadequate maps have hindered the author's ability to deliver this treasure trove of information to the reader and make this book virtually unfathomable for the general reader.

                                    The German Army on the Somme 1914-1916 is organized into nine chapters, two of which deal with the fighting in this sector in 1914-1915, then one that deals with activity in this area during January-June 1916, one chapter for 1 July 1916 alone, and then each succeeding chapter covers one month of 1916. Overall, this chronological organization works well for a campaign narrative of this length. The author also provides two short appendices on the German Army and sources used, as well as a detailed order of battle for all German divisions that fought on the Somme. This work rests on eyewitness accounts, most of which come from junior officers although there are a fair number of NCOs and common soldiers represented. Most of the accounts are from infantry soldiers, but there are a few from artillerymen and aviators. Many of these accounts are vivid and gripping, depicting trench warfare in all its facets. Some of the more interesting accounts cover night trench raids, escape and evasion from behind enemy lines, several desperate last-ditch stands and capture/escape. From the German point of view, we see the effects of Allied superiority in artillery and airpower that limit the German ability to move troops and supplies up to the front that sounds much like 1944. The German troops were also more impressed with French troops at this stage of the war than British, who were generally regarded as inexperienced amateurs. Throughout the book, the omni-presence of Allied artillery fire and the weakness of German artillery to respond is driven home again and again. It is also clear that the German infantryman had become a bomber rather than a rifleman by this point in the war; in one counterattack each soldier in a company is given ten hand grenades. The translations are generally very good and the author is to be applauded for assembling this vast assortment of accounts into a cogent format.

                                    4 out of 5 stars A review of the German Army on the Somme by Jack Sheldon.......2005-11-12

                                    The book describes the Somme campaign up to the end of 1916 through the eyes of German officers and soldiers. Much of the text is apportioned to translations of German firsthand accounts that the author has sifted into a structure framed by his own commentary which provides the background information and supplementary knowledge to complete the picture. The first hand accounts are impressive in themselves for they have lost none of the vitality in translation by the author, himself a product of the German Staff College, and very much retain the expression and idiom that their German authors would have used. The eye witnesses record their experiences and events in factual terms which combine humanity with humour in even the darkest moments such as the medical party covering the dead in No Man's Land with quicklime and being sworn at when they accidentally start to cover the men of one of their own patrol parties too.

                                    The chapters lead the reader chronologically through the campaign capturing the mood of the German defenders. The eye witness accounts record the artillery dominance and initial allied air superiority making all movement extremely hazardous and forcing the defenders to live deep underground with the inherent dangers of being buried alive by British delayed fuse 380 mm (15") heavy artillery shells. The German soldiers frustration at being pinned down is expressed in their longing for `Tommy' to attack and the opportunity to return the favour in kind. Despite this underlying tension the accounts reveal that when the two sides did come face to face in capture or injury the prevailing attitude by both sides was one of fair play.

                                    The author sets the eyewitness accounts in the wider context of the strategy of General von Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff, and the changes that were effected after his removal in August 1916. His policy of not giving up ground was unsustainable and with his replacement, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, came a concept albeit not immediately recognisable as such, of mobile defence. The text is well supported with footnotes and the Appendices contain further useful backgound information including a detailed description of the composition and structure of the German Army in 1914.

                                    This book provides a fascinating insight into the German Army during this fiercely contested campaign and many of the characteristics and qualities of the German Army today are evident in the accounts of the servicemen of that time. The reader is whisked around the battlefield and installed in a German front row seat at the centre of the action. Whether historian or current observer, this vivid account is a study of Germans as much as a tribute to the soldiers of the Somme.
                                    The German Army on the Somme 1914 - 1916
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                                      Jack Sheldon
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                                      A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait
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                                        A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait
                                        Y. Michal Bodemann , and Y. Michal Bodemann
                                        Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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                                        Immediately after the Holocaust, it seemed inconceivable that a Jewish community would rebuild in Germany. What was once unimaginable has now come to pass: Germany is home to one of Europe’s most vibrant Jewish communities, and it has the fastest growing Jewish immigrant population of any country in the world outside Israel. By sharing the life stories of members of one Jewish family—the Kalmans—Y. Michal Bodemann provides an intimate look at what it is like to live as a Jew in Germany today. Having survived concentration camps in Poland, four Kalman siblings—three brothers and a sister—were left stranded in Germany after the war. They built new lives and a major enterprise; they each married and had children. Over the past fifteen years Bodemann conducted extensive interviews with the Kalmans, mostly with the survivors’ ten children, who were born between 1948 and 1964. In these oral histories, he shares their thoughts on Judaism, work, family, and community. Staying in Germany is not a given; four of the ten cousins live in Israel and the United States.

                                        Among the Kalman cousins are an art gallery owner, a body builder, a radio personality, a former chief financial officer of a prominent U.S. bank, and a sculptor. They discuss Zionism, anti-Semitism, what it means to root for the German soccer team, Schindler’s List, money, success, marriage and intermarriage, and family history. They reveal their different levels of engagement with Judaism and involvement with local Jewish communities. Kalman is a pseudonym, and their anonymity allows the family members to talk with passion and candor about their relationships and their lives as Jews.
                                        Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time
                                        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                                        • Illuminating the Myth of Rothschild
                                        • Model biography.
                                        • Interesting history lesson about dynasty's founding father
                                        • Enlightening and vividly dimensional portrait!
                                        Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time
                                        Amos Elon
                                        Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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                                        Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), patriarch of the Rothschild clan, fathered five illustrious sons who made the family name a by-word for banking, fabulous wealth, and Jewish philanthropy. Israeli historian Elon has pieced together the story of the dynasty's founding father, largely unrecorded heretofore. Mayer Amschel spent his life traveling between the humble Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt and the mansions of the prosperous Gentiles whom he served, particularly that of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse. Jews were severely restricted in most areas of their lives, and Rothschild had to conduct himself with appropriate servility in the presence of his masters. However, the displacements of the Napoleonic Wars gave the discreet Rothschild his chance to act as Wilhelm's agent, and his monopoly on the disbursement of the prince's loans was his entry into banking. It was all the start he needed.

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                                        4 out of 5 stars Illuminating the Myth of Rothschild.......2003-10-03

                                        Captivating either in spite of or because of it's extremely short length.

                                        Most important thing to note about this book, other then the observation that it is a very good book, is that author really does "paint" a portrait that includes both the Man AND his time.

                                        I felt the attention to the society of Rothschild really paid off at the end of the book. Rothschild is important not merely because he generated a truly epic amount of wealth for his family, but because he serves as a symbol of the manner in which capitalism changed the lives of those who practiced it.

                                        Certainly, the Rothschild clan has been the focus of much anti-semitism and conspiracy theory. As a Jew, I always felt such talk was ridiculous, but I was interested to find the so-called "grain of truth" which, coupled with a long standing, virulent history of anti-semitism served to transform the Rothschilds into a focus for so much bile.

                                        For example, the Rothschild's lent signifigant amounts of capital to the family which held the postal monopoly for the Holy Roman Empire ("Thurn and Taxis" Post). This relationship enabled the Rothschild's to take advantage of the "intelligence gathering" capabilities of the Postal system to their benefit.

                                        This was a theme at the heart of Thomas Pynchon's excellent novel "The Crying of Lot 49". Which I recommend to those who enjoyed in this book.

                                        Like Niall Ferguson's two part saga of the family history, this book was written in cooperation with the Rothschild family.

                                        I recommend this book both for the portrait of the man as well as the portrait of the place and time.

                                        5 out of 5 stars Model biography........2002-09-03

                                        Model biography about the life of the founder of the Rotschild dynasty.
                                        Out of the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt Meyer Rotschild became Court_factor (business manager) of the richest man in the world in late 18th/early 19th century: the landgrave of Hessen.
                                        The starting point of his fortune were gold coin transactions with the landgrave.
                                        After establishing his financial house in Frankfurt, he sent his sons to France and England, where his son Nathan made a fortune during the continental blockade decreed by Napoleon; he succeeded in continuing to trade illegally in English goods with a margin of 50 per cent.
                                        Excellent picture of the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt and of the social position of the Jews at the beginning of the 19th century. This book throws also a bleak light on the social condition of the poor, where soldiers were ruthlessly pressed into service and afterwards sold (a common business practice!) and where children were summarily hanged for stealing a loaf of bread.
                                        A model biography: all mentioned facts are based on legal and other documents.
                                        This book gives short shrift to all myths surrounding the origin of the Rotschild fortune.

                                        4 out of 5 stars Interesting history lesson about dynasty's founding father.......2002-04-22

                                        Heard the taped version of FOUNDER: A PORTRAIT OF THE
                                        FIRST ROTHSCHILD AND HIS TIME by Amos Elon . . . Meyer
                                        Amschel Rotschild (1744-1812), the patriarch of the clan,
                                        fathered five illustrious sons who made the family name a
                                        byword for banking, fabulous wealth and Jewish philanthropy . . .yet prior to this book, I had known nothing about the dynasty's founding father . . . Jews had been severely restricted in most areas of their lives in the ghetto of Frankfurt . . .how one man was able to get beyond that impediment and succeed made for an interesting history lesson . . . I also enjoyed getting a sense
                                        of how it was to live in the eighteenth-century.

                                        5 out of 5 stars Enlightening and vividly dimensional portrait!.......1998-01-18

                                        Mr. Elon writes a rich, enlightening, and engrossing portrait of a pivotal figure in European history. The context of 17th-18th century Frankfurt and Europe adds dimension that has to be read. A wonderful read and a wonderful gift. Bravo!
                                        The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait
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                                          The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait
                                          Ruth Gay
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                                          This magnificent book weaves a rich tapestry of the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Ruth Gay`s text, interwoven with contemporary accounts, memoirs, letters, and lavish illustrations, follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II. The book tells a story-moving, terrifying, and exhilarating-that must be remembered.
                                          The Jews of Germany. A historical portrait.
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                                            GAY Ruth.
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                                                Motivations, Tools and Theories of Pre-Modern Science. By Mark Graubard.
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                                                  Mark. GRAUBARD
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                                                  Motivations, tools, and theories of pre-modern science,
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