Rosen: 528 books
by Michael Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Destiny of common Jewish girl in which we can see reflection of all tragical and heroical destiny of all the Jewish people.
What Else But Home
Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Michael Rosen's seven-year-old son Ripton one day decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park. At the end of the game Ripton asked his new friends if they wanted to come back to his house for snacks and Nintendo. Over time, five of the boys-all black and Hispanic, from...
Revolutions in the Desert
The Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the Southern Levant
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left few remains appropriate for analytic study. Few prior studies have approached the deeper past of desert nomadic societies,...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Islam and the Rule of Justice
Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice...
The New US Security Agenda
Trends and Emerging Threats
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions. This book considers new, 'non-traditional' security issues such as: transnational...
by Charley Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Elliot Hersch is given a basketball on his tenth birthday and cuts a deal with his disapproving father: if he makes straight As, he is allowed to play. Modeling his game on the basketball heroes of his time--Clyde Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, and especially Larry Bird--Elliot becomes one...
Julius Chambers
A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936–2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance...
by Michael Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Laugh Out Loud Joke Book is jam-packed with over 300 hilarious jokes written and selected by bestselling children's author Michael Rosen. In association with the new Laugh Out Loud Book Prize - a new series of awards for funny children's books in the UK.
by Myriam Rosen-Ayalon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity recognized for its incredible dynamism. Its unique contribution to the Islamic “macrocosm,” however, never became the subject of extensive study. Numerous archeological excavations...
The South Side
The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
The South Side is a quietly powerful story of how a white, middle-class, and largely Jewish neighborhood, built from prairie on Chicago's far South Side in the optimistic years after World War II, rapidly and dramatically changed to a middle-class black community in the 1960s. It is a tale of two...
Original Yoga
Rediscovering Traditional Practices of Hatha Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Widely respected yoga teacher and author Richard Rosen draws on ancient yoga encyclopedias to explain how yoga was practiced before it became popular in the West. He compares the three main existing sources known to yoga scholars to describe how complex and rich the practice of yoga once was. It included...
Panzer Ace
The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs are richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of World War II.
After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a Company...
Revival: Forty Years of Diplomacy (1922)
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Baron Rosen recounts his experiences as a diplomat.