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Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods - both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists - all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched. Jews in Suits uses a rich range of written and visual sources, including liter...

Jonathan Kaplan is a travelling journalist, documentary film-maker and medical vagabond. His first book The Dressing Station introduced his work as an air ambulance doctor, battlefield surgeon and ship's medical officer. He continues to take periodic assignments as a volunteer surgeon in war zones amidst part-time hospital posts, film-making, acadamic teaching, working as a photographer and advisor on medical TV dramas.

Covenant and the People of God gathers twenty-four essays from friends and colleagues of Messianic Jewish theologian and New Testament scholar Mark S. Kinzer, in honor of his seventieth birthday. The essays are organized around two central themes that have animated Kinzer's work: the nature of the covenant and what it means to be the people of God. The volume includes fascinating discussions of some of the most sensitive areas related to Jewis...

Covenant and the People of God gathers twenty-four essays from friends and colleagues of Messianic Jewish theologian and New Testament scholar Mark S. Kinzer, in honor of his seventieth birthday. The essays are organized around two central themes that have animated Kinzer's work: the nature of the covenant and what it means to be the people of God. The volume includes fascinating discussions of some of the most sensitive areas related to Jewis...

Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods - both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists - all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under researched. Jews in Suits uses a rich range of written and visual sources, including lite...

Aus Opfern werden Schuldige - ist Gerechtigkeit Interpretationssache? Angeklagt beleuchtet auf ergreifende Weise das individuelle moralische Bewusstsein in einem Gerichtsprozess, in dem die Kriterien der Gerechtigkeit reine Verhandlungssache sind. In ihrer Oscar®-prämierten Rolle der Sarah Tobias spielt Jodie Foster eine selbstbewusste junge Frau, die vor Zeugen Opfer einer mehrfachen Vergewaltigung wird. Doch dies ist nur der Anfang ihrer Qua...

Part how-to-draw instructional guide, part thrilling airship adventure book!At the end of the 19th century, a brilliant inventor, Professor Jonathan T. Buck, crafted a beautiful steam-powered airship for an expedition to South America's Amazon River Basin in search of a magnificent lost city - hidden from terrestrial explorers for centuries by its surrounding dense forests. But something mysterious happened in the heart of the jungle - Buck, h...

Die Spannungen zwischen der Abgrenzung von der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit und der durchgehenden Beschäftigung der DDR-Führung mit den politischen Folgen des "Dritten Reiches" formulierten eine andere Art von "NS-Vergangenheitsbewältigung" im Vergleich zur Bundesrepublik. Diese wurden von den ideologischen Vorbedingungen dieses Staates geprägt und hatten eine entscheidende Rolle in der Arbeit des Ministeriums für Auswärtige Angelegen...

Pflanzenreich ist nicht nur ein Ratgeber, wie Sie Ihre Pflanzen am Leben erhalten und glücklich machen (obwohl das auch beschrieben wird). Es geht auch darum, die perfekte Pflanze für sich zu finden und sich mit ihr zu verbinden. Diese Karten präsentieren 50 Zimmerpflanzen, die Ihnen in einer symbiotischen Beziehung, in der Sie beide aufblühen, auch etwas zurückgeben können. Mit passenden Angaben dazu, welche Pflanzen für welche Räume geeignet...

Packend und subtil erzähltes Frauenschicksal in einem südostasiatischen Knast.

Packend und subtil erzähltes Frauenschicksal in einem südostasiatischen Knast.

Ex-Soldat Carrol Jo Hummer heiratet seine Jugendliebe Jerri und steckt das mühsam Ersparte in den Kauf eines Trucks, um als freier Lastwagenfahrer in die Fußstapfen seines verstorbenen Vaters zu treten. Ziemlich schnell muss er herausfinden, dass das Gewerbe von mafiösen Strukturen geprägt ist und man von ihm erwartet, gestohlene und illegale Ware zu transportieren. Als Carrol Jo sich damit nicht anfreunden kann, bleiben zunächst die Aufträge ...

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In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.

By any account, Walter Brueggemann stands as one of the foremost interpreters of the Hebrew Bible of the past half-century. Yet the question remains of what his influence will be on the next generation of biblical scholars, who have learned from Brueggemann and taken his work in new and often surprising directions. This volume engages that question by presenting the work of fourteen of Brueggemann's former students at Columbia Theological Semi...

Growing up in Durban, South Africa, in the heat of social change, Jonathan Kaplan became a doctor who fled apartheid, taking charge of a combat-zone hospital in Angola where he was the only surgeon for 160, 000 civilians. This is his stirring testament of adventure, discovery, survival, and a career devoted to saving people caught in the crossfire of war.

The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities focuses on the shifting boundaries between inner-directed and outer-directed Jewish concerns, behaviors and attitudes in France over the course of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

The Dressing Station" is a searing portrait of devastation on the battlefield--a haunting and elucidating look into the nature of human violence, the shattering contradictions of war, and the complicated role of medicine in this modern world.