Stern: 685 books
by Robert Stern
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Hegel's holistic metaphysics challenges much recent ontology with its atomistic and reductionist assumptions; Stern offers us an original reading of Hegel and contrasts him with his predecessor, Kant.
The Pinch
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of Mischief
It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny...
by Gerald Stern
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence.
Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet’s past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side...
Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture
Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to - scientific...
by Melissa Stern
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Basic poker history, terms, and games you should know before you start playing.
When Holidays Hurt
Finding Hidden Hope Amid Pain and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Find fullness of joy during the holidays—especially for the brokenhearted.
Divorce. Financial stress. Chronic illness. Losing a loved one. Experiencing any of these situations during the year is already difficult. But the holiday season, once joyful and happy, can heighten this pain even...
by Chester Stern
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Throughout her public life the eyes of the world were on Diana, Princess of Wales. But who else was watching her more closely? What were their motives? What was their agenda? And what was their role in her death? On the night she died two secret operations – one connected to the British Establishment...
Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?
Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict...
Eugenic Nation
Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association
With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details demonstrating that...
by Simon Stern
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
A new collection of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals
Seeking to capitalize on the success of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Victorian newspapers and magazines frequently featured ghost stories at Christmas time, and reading them...
by Richard Stern
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 20, 2019
«A su feliz pequeña escala, Las hijas de otros hombres fue a la década de los sesenta lo que El gran Gatsby a los años veinte o Las uvas de la ira a los treinta. Hay mucho que admirar en ella: la precisión, el tacto, la humanidad del sentimiento, su tremendo encanto... Es como si Chéjov hubiese...
Rural Mailboxes
Rural Mailboxes from the side of the road
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Stop the car! What the hell is that on the road? Is it a cow or a dog or is it a John Deere tractor, maybe it’s Uncle Sam? Over there, not on the road but on the side of the road tilting to one side and stuck on a 4”x4” wooden post is a mailbox all gussied up to attract attention out here in the...
by Robert Stern
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it? How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements, such as those of prudence, law, and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of the work of the Danish philosopher...
Judaism and Health
A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.
"For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...