David Schwartz: 34 books
The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook
A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What is “Jewish Spirituality”? How do I make it part of my life?
Today’s foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.
Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich...
by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily...
Military Intervention
Cases in Context for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
Internal conflict continues to be the most common form of organized violence, most often occurring in a so-called 'arc of instability' comprised of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. The misery and death caused by these conflicts, with helpless civilians often victims, has...
Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas
How Jay Sarno Won a Casino Empire, Lost It, and Inspired Modern Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Grandissimo, which would have started the mega-resort era a decade before Steve Wynn built The Mirage. As mobsters and accountants battled for the soul of...
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of...
Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling
Casino Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This revised, updated, and extended new edition of the original, award-winning Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling traces the development of gaming from the first rolls of the bones in paleolithic time to the current growth of online poker.
Some of the topics covered include:...
by David M. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
How far could you hop? If you hopped like a frog...you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap! Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift an object 50 times its own weight? Read this book and find out what you could do -- if you had the...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
Creating Inclusion and Well-being for Marginalized Students
Whole-School Approaches to Supporting Children’s Grief, Loss, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
It is increasingly challenging for teachers to educate without a deeper understanding of the experience of their students. This is particularly the case in marginalised groups of young people who are subject to loss, grief, trauma and shame. Through a snapshot of the diverse student populous, this...
by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...
Chinese Models of Development
Global, Local, and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book approaches Chinese development from theoretical, historical, and comparative perspectives. Scholars in political science, sociology, economics, and history will find it useful for teaching and research purposes, and it is appropriate for courses in Chinese politics, comparative politics, foreign policy analysis, and political economy of East Asia.
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration
The Revival of the Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia...
Justice Reinvestment
Winding Back Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom...
Transformative Imagery
Cultivating the Imagination for Healing, Change, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Guided imagery is a transformative practice for reducing stress, healing mind and body, and improving performance. This definitive collection brings together leading pioneers in the field of guided imagery to share its theory, practice and history.
Readers are introduced to the extensive uses...