32 results for '"Moshe Halbertal'

"In the gorgeous and rugged terrain of Jewish thought, there is no higher mountain to climb than Maimonides, and no more slippery or exhilarating ascent. Halbertal has made it all the way to the top,...

The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly...

Introduction: The regimes and their dictators: perspectives of comparison / Ian Kershaw, Moshe Lewin -- Stalin and his Stalinism: power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930-53 / Ronald Grigor Suny...

Invitation to the Sociology of International Law aims to cast light on the under-explored sociological dimension of international law. The book emphasizes that international legal rules are...

Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian statesman, politician and general who served as Prime Minister of Syria between 1970 and 1971 and then President between 1971 and 2000. Politically a Ba'athist, Assad...

Ever since the "axis of evil" label was first applied by President Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address, the hawks in his administration have left little doubt as to where they intend to turn...

Auteur d’une oeuvre immense où le travail savant fait toujours écho aux “questions contemporaines”, Scholem est reconnu comme l’un des penseurs les plus importants du XX e siècle, au double sens du...

Focusing on five key vegetables to the region -- cabbage, beetroot, potato, carrot and mushrooms -- it honors a philosophy of cooking that has affordability, seasonality, sustainability and, above...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a...

Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory...

Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a...