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  • av Guy Miron
    755,-

  • av Harry M. Benshoff
    369,-

  • av David P. Pierson
    369,-

    A social, cultural, historical, and institutional analysis of the classic original series, The Fugitive.

  • - The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik
     
    495

    Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this memoir offers a panoramic description of the author's experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. It also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.

  • av Robert R. Shandley
    375,-

  • - Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
     
    605

    Offers a collection of essays that highlight the diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. This book is introduced by an overview of Jewish historiography, drawing on Meyer's work in that field, delineating important connections between the writing of history and the environment in which it is written.

  • av Eva M. Simms
    479,-

  • - A Chicago Culinary Memoir
    av Ellen FitzSimmons Steinberg
    359,-

    A collection of nostalgic recipes. This title focuses on the efforts Irma Rosenthal took to educate herself about cooking, nutrition, health, and household management as a young, American-born, middle class Chicago bride of Jewish heritage. It analyzes primary material found in Irma's ""First Cook Book"" and memoirs.

  • - Letters Between Chester Himes and John A. Williams
    av Wayne State University Press
    445

    Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves.

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    525,-

    The year 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Journal of Developmental Psychology, providing an occasion to celebrate the journal's heritage and its long history of scholarly contributions to its field. This volume celebrates this milestone by bringing together twenty-three distinguished essays that showcase past accomplishments, current progress, and future challenges in the human developmental sciences.The essays presented in this volume offer perspectives on many of the research domains and specialty areas that have been prominent in MPQ's history. Accordingly, chapters are organized around ten conceptual themes, including methodological and interpretive considerations, cognitive development and learning, temperament and emotional development, children's social development and peer relations, family relations, moral development, the nature-nurture debate and behavioral genetics, cultural psychology, early child care and school-readiness, and evidence-based programming and public policy. In addition, an introductory chapter provides a historical overview of MPQ, examining the events, persons, institutional forces, and publication trends that brought the journal into existence and have contributed to its success and longevity.These commentaries are accessible and of interest to all who work with infants, children, adolescents, and families. As a result, this volume will appeal to researchers and professionals alike.

  • av Kay Stone
    469

    Contains nearly thirty years of work by a noted writer and folklore scholar. This book includes writings from her scholarly articles and books spanning 1975-2004, which contain reflections on the value of fairy tales as adult literature. It offers a look at both the evolution of a career and the recent history of fairy-tale scholarship.

  • - Political Perspectives on Images and Culture
    av Charlotte Schoell-Glass
    849

    Looks at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. This work argues, based on archival research, that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship.

  • av Vershawn Ashanti Young
    389

  • av Charles K. Hyde
    649,-

  • av Mark Jonathan Harris
    399,-

    Thestory of the Gibsons, a working-class family from El Paso, Texas, that is struggling to survive the desertion of their father. It is an account of a young man forced to measure memory and love against reason and reality. It is also an illuminating look at the surreal lives of America's homeless and a tribute to the strength of faith and family.

  • - Writing the Nineteenth-century Nation
    av Brent O. Peterson
    819

    This study chronicles how German nationalism developed simultaneously with the historical novel and the field of history, both at universities and in middlebrow reading material. The book examines Germany's emerging national narrative as 19th-century writers adapted it to their own visions and to changing circumstances.

  • av J.C. Long
    389,-

    This biography is devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin - one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's independent automotive industry.

  • av Joel Hecker
    449 - 1 289,-

  • - German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz
    av Richard T. Gray
    799,-

    The art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline.

  • - Holocaust Childhoods Remembered
     
    495

    Contains twenty first-person narrative essays from Holocaust survivors who were children at the time of the atrocity. This book also focuses on what these children became - teachers, engineers, physicians, entrepreneurs, librarians, parents, and grandparents, and explores the impact of the Holocaust on their later lives.

  • - Tales from the Sephardic Tradition
     
    755,-

    Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuries. This is a selection of 54 folktales from Matilda Koen-Sarano's collection of stories recorded in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and translated by Reginetta Haboucha into fluent and idiomatic English that preserves the flavour and oral nuances of each text.

  • av Jean Lamarre
    419

  • - New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles
     
    449,-

    Filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture. This collection offers coverage of Sayles's craft and content, with a variety of critical methods to explore the scope of his work. The essays give an understanding of his individual films and of his place in American cinema.

  • - The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing
    av Wendy Zierler
    755,-

    Pointing to an early instance in Hebrew literary history, this work takes its title from a biblical episode in which a daughter seizes control of a paternal spiritual legacy and makes it her own.

  • - Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution Under Michigan Law
    av David G. Chardavoyne
    405,-

    In ""A Hanging in Detroit"" David G. Chardavoyne evokes not only the crime, trial, and execution of Simmons, but also the setting and players of the drama, social and legal customs of the times, and the controversy that arose because of the affair.

  • av Ilana Rosen
    449,-

  • av Elizabeth B. Sherman
    479,-

  • av Christopher Sharrett
    375,-

  • av Royce Hanson
    679,-

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