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  • Lost Secrets of Master Musicians

    A Window Into Genius

    by David Jacobson ...
    What were the “secret” techniques and musical insights that enabled performers such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, and Glenn Gould to achieve such unsurpassed levels of musical expression and technical skill? And, if we could rediscover this knowledge, how might this impact musical education and our understanding, creation and performance of classical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Place and Belonging in America

    by David Jacobson ...
    How did the American people come to develop a moral association with this land, such that their very experience of nationhood was rooted in, and their republican virtues depended upon, that land? And what is happening now as the exclusivity of that moral linkage between people and land becomes ever more attenuated? In Place and Belonging in America, David Jacobson addresses the evolving ... Read more

    $48.39 USD

  • Of Virgins and Martyrs

    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

    by David Jacobson ...
    Series series Themes in Global Social Change
    Explores the role of women’s status, bodies, and sexuality in global conflicts.Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world, people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and "SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human rights and individuality, heats up these arguments. In Of Virgins and ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Agrippa II

    The Last of the Herods

    by David Jacobson ...
    Series series Routledge Ancient Biographies
    Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its destruction in the Judaean-Roman War.This study documents his life from a childhood spent at the Imperial court in Rome and rise to the position of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Old Nations, New World

    Conceptions Of World Order

    by David Jacobson ...
    This volume explores key states and their changing conceptions of the international order in the post-Cold War era. Taken collectively, the contributors' analyses of the United States, the Soviet Union and its successor states, Japan, the People's Republic of China, the East Asian Little Dragons and Germany and the European Community paint a detailed portrait of the emerging world order. This ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Citizenship

    The Third Revolution

    by David Jacobson, Manlio Cinalli ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship
    The emergence of citizenship, some 4,000 years ago, was a hinge moment in human history. Instead of the reign of blood descent, questions regarding who rules and who belongs were opened up. Yet purportedly primordial categories, such as sex and race, have constrained the emergence of a truly civic polity ever since. Untying this paradox is essential to overcoming the crisis afflicting contemporary ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Dialogues on Migration Policy

    by Marco Giugni, Adrian Favell, Gary Freeman, James Hollifield, Valerie F. Hunt, Patrick Ireland, David Jacobson, Hanspeter Kriesi, Etienne Piguet0, John Rex1, Galya Benarieh Ruffer2, Saskia Sassen3, Paul Statham4, Daniel J. Tichenor5, Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos6, Andrej Zaslove7 ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a number of informed "dialogues" addressing three main theoretical concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, and the role of ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • New Directions in Anthropological Kinship

    by Lynn Åkesson, Lisa M. Anderson-Levy, Caroline B. Brettell, Rosa De Jorio, Allen S. Ehrlich, Kathy-Lee Galvin, Ilana Gershon, Barry S. Hewlett, David Jacobson, William Jankowiak, Louise Lamphere, Joan H. Liem, Susanne Lundin, Richard E. Maddy, Judith S. Modell, Cynthia Robin, Joan B. Silk, Karen Sinclair, Robert S. Weiss ...
    Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Lobster Therapy and Moose Pick-Up Lines

    by Jeff Pert, David Jacobson, Bill Woodman, Mike Lynch ...
    Poking fun at everyone from the locals, to folks from away, and even to the wildlife, LobsterTherapy collects more than 100 cartoons from five of Maine’s best artists working in the field.It’ll leave you in stitches and just might help lower your blood pressure the next time you’restuck on Route 1 or I-95. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Rabbi’s Wife, The Bishop’s Wife

    by David Jacobson, Chayuta Deutsch ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Gibel ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    The moving story of Joana Halevi—one brave woman who was willing to give up the most precious things in her life to maintain her faith.Spain, 1391. Joana, wife of Shlomo Halevi, the Rabbi of Burgos, mother of five, and daughter of a wealthy and respectable family, is living a comfortable, carefree life. Until her world is shattered without warning one summer day.While her husband Shlomo, now Pablo ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Putting The Pieces Together

    by David Edwin Jacobson ...
    Putting the Pieces Together is a powerful autobiography that traces David E. Jacobson's extraordinary journey from a childhood marked by trauma, instability, and parental alcoholism to a life rebuilt on resilience, love, service, and personal achievement. With unflinching honesty and emotional clarity, David reflects on eight decades of triumphs and hardships from polio and juvenile institutions ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Hellenistic Paintings of Marisa

    by David M. Jacobson ...
    Series series The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual
    In early June 1902, John Peters, an American theologian, and Hermann Thiersch, a German classical scholar, were alerted to the discovery of two painted burial caves at Marisa/Beit Jibrin, less than 40 miles (62 km) by road southwest from Jerusalem. Tomb robbers had, a short time previously, forced their way into the burial chambers and caused damage to their fabric. Realising that these splendid ... Read more

    $61.99 USD