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For the love of dogs, authors Jack and Emilie Cohen share their fondness to their dogs and the obvious joy the dogs bring to them. To them, dogs are not just pets, they are family too. Explore the unique dog traits and behaviors manifested through their body parts in colorful pictures. Witness a couple's selfless love toward their canine pack. How will a dog react when their vibrissae are touched? Why do they curl their tongue? The Cohens have...

How can religion speak to the millions of men and women who have irretrievably lost their belief in a supernatural God? This is the fundamental challenge that all of the great religions of mankind face in the twentieth century.Rabbi Cohen responds to the challenge with a carefully reasoned analysis. Cohen also lays to rest some popularly held misconceptions about the nature of religion and treats the concept of God with a clarity altogether la...

For the love of dogs, authors Jack and Emilie Cohen share their fondness to their dogs and the obvious joy the dogs bring to them. To them, dogs are not just pets, they are family too. Explore the unique dog traits and behaviors manifested through their body parts in colorful pictures. Witness a couple's selfless love toward their canine pack. How will a dog react when their vibrissae are touched? Why do they curl their tongue? The Cohens have...

How can religion speak to the millions of men and women who have irretrievably lost their belief in a supernatural God? This is the fundamental challenge that all of the great religions of mankind face in the twentieth century. Rabbi Cohen responds to the challenge with a carefully reasoned analysis. Cohen also lays to rest some popularly held misconceptions about the nature of religion and treats the concept of God with a clarity altogether l...

Ricky Hawthorne (Fred Astaire), Dr. John Jaffrey (Melvyn Douglas), Edward Charles Wanderley (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) und Sears James (John Houseman) bilden die Chowder-Society. Der einzige Zweck: Die vier altehrwürdigen Herren erzählen sich Gruselgeschichten und Schauermärchen. Allerdings eint sie ein Geheimnis. Ein dunkles Geheimnis, das tief in ihnen schlummert, ein Geheimnis, das sie seit über 50 Jahren hüten. In diesem Winter aber holt es s...

Two cousins relate their experiences with Bielskis partisan brigade in war-torn Russia during the Second World War. Natives of Novogrodek, part of present-day Belarus, they describe Jewish life before the Holocaust and furnish a most moving account of ho

With the spectacular developments in technology accompanying and aiding scientific research over the past few decades, postgraduate students are often encouraged to focus more on generating data than to utilize their most sophisticated piece of equipment: their mind.Stop Working & Start Thinking, Second Edition aims to encourage young researchers to think more clearly about their experiments, from experimental design to data interpretation. Th...

Guides for an Age of Confusion compares and contrasts the views of the two great Jewish philosophers Avraham Y. Kook and Mordecai M. Kaplan. Although these two thinkers stand at opposite ends of the spectrum of Jewish thought, they are united in their love for the Jewish people and in their belief in the need for Jewish unity.Following an introduction to both men, the author explores their views regarding some of the most important issues conf...

Democratizing Judaism" is a two-part examination of the Reconstructionist philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Part I is largely devoted to a defense of Kaplan against several serious critics. It also provides new insight into Kaplan's theology through reference to as-yet unknown passages in his Diaries. Part II provides a critical analysis of the contemporary Reconstructionist movement and explores how a Kaplan disciple treats problems of democr...

All'Università Invisibile un esperimento è appena andato storto e ora i maghi si ritrovano a spiare un cosmo con un pianeta sferico al centro (che chiamano Mondo Tondo perché lì la materia sembra accumularsi in sfere anziché in dischi piatti retti da tartarughe): un posto straordinario dove bizzarramente né la magia né il comune buon senso sembrano avere una sola possibilità contro la logica. Quel pianeta, ovviamente, è il nostro. E Mondo Tond...

A fascinating and useful handbook to both the science and science fiction of extraterrestrial life. Cohen and Stewart are amusing, opinionated, and expert guides. I found it a terrific and informative piece of work-nothing else like it!"-Greg Bear"I loved it."-Larry Niven "Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities....

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Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age" tackles the following questions: 1. What is Halakhah and what role has it played in the creative survival of the Jewish people for two millennia? 2. Why is Halakhah no longer capable of functioning as it has until now? 3. What sort of polity and religious culture can be recommended to replace the Halakhic tradition in an era of freedom, democracy, scientific research and religious pluralism? The author, however,...

These ten essays constitute "a distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of a comparative history. (The book) succeeds because it is written by qualified scholars who address a delimited, manageable subject" ("American Historical Review").

Major Philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the Twentieth Century addresses the troubling questions posed by the modern Jewish worshiper, including such obstacles to prayer as the inability to concentrate on the words and meanings of formal liturgy, the paucity of emotional involvement, the lack of theological conviction, the anthropomorphic and particularly the masculine emphasis of prayer nomenclature, and other matters. In assessing these diffic...

Major Philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the Twentieth Century addresses the troubling questions posed by the modern Jewish worshiper, including such obstacles to prayer as the inability to concentrate on the words and meanings of formal liturgy, the paucity of emotional involvement, the lack of theological conviction, the anthropomorphic and particularly the masculine emphasis of prayer nomenclature, and other matters. In assessing these diffic...

Guides for an Age of Confusion compares and contrasts the views of the two great Jewish philosophers Avraham Y. Kook and Mordecai M. Kaplan. Although these two thinkers stand at opposite ends of the spectrum of Jewish thought, they are united in their love for the Jewish people and in their belief in the need for Jewish unity.Following an introduction to both men, the author, a disciple of Kaplan's, explores their views regarding some of the m...