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    Series series Images of America
    The first known Jewish resident of the Mexican Pueblo de Los Ángeles arrived in 1841. When California entered the Union in 1850, the census listed just eight Jews living in Los Angeles. By 1855, the fledgling city had a Hebrew Benevolent Society and a Jewish cemetery. The first Jewish congregation and kosher market were established in 1862. Meanwhile, Jewish merchants and business owners founded ... Read more

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  • Social Functions of Synagogue Song

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    Social Functions of Synagogue Song: A Durkheimian Approach by Jonathan L. Friedmann paints a detailed picture of the important role sacred music plays in Jewish religious communities. This study explores one possible way to approach the subject of music’s intimate connection with public worship: applying sociologist Émile Durkeim’s understanding of ceremonial ritual to synagogue music. Durkheim ... Read more

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  • Things That Helped

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    Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression in a wide-ranging collection of personal essaysThings That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object—from pho red lips to the musician Anohni—to tell a story that is both deeply personal and ... Read more

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  • New Orleans Noir

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    This original anthology of noir fiction set across the Big Easy includes new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Maureen Tan, and more.New Orleans has always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, and the heartless con artist. And in post-Katrina times, it's the same old story—only with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. In other words, it's fertile ground ... Read more

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  • Goliath as Gentle Giant

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    Series series Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
    In the Hebrew Bible and stories loyal to it, Goliath is the stereotypical giant of folklore: big, brash, violent, and dimwitted. Goliath as Gentle Giant sets out to rehabilitate the giant’s image by exploring the origins of the biblical behemoth, the limitations of the “underdog” metaphor, and the few sympathetic treatments of Goliath in popular media. What insights emerge when we imagine things ... Read more

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  • Running a Great Meeting In a Day For Dummies

    Series series In A Day For Dummies
    Get the know-how to run a productive meeting—in a day!Running a Great Meeting In a Day For Dummies helps you put together a successful meeting by explaining how to define objectives, craft an agenda, invite the right people, keep the meeting moving, and following up afterwards.Put together a productive meeting in a timely fashionTips on running a virtual meetingThe best ways to follow up after a ... Read more

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  • Anne Boleyn

    A Chapter of English History 1527-1536 Volume 1 of 2

    Friedmann's "Anne Boleyn" is a classic biography of the wife of Henry VIII. Originally published in 1884, Friedmann's work is still considered an authoritative source as is one of the most cited pieces on Boleyn. ... Read more

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  • Mastering React Native

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    Leverage frontend development skills to build impressive iOS and Android applications with React NativeKey Features\[\*\] Apply flexbox to get layout and build rich animations that bring your React Native application to life\[\*\] Integrate third-party libraries and develop customized components that run natively on iOS and Android platforms\[\*\] Combine React Native with Redux, Redux middleware, ... Read more

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  • Planning in the Public Domain

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    John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice. Three of these--social reform, policy analysis, and social learning--are primarily concerned ... Read more

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  • Anne Boleyn

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    Friedmann's "Anne Boleyn" is a classic biography of the wife of Henry VIII. Originally published in 1884, Friedmann's work is still considered an authoritative source as is one of the most cited pieces on Boleyn. ... Read more

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  • Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration

    Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration examines the complicated social ethics of migration in today’s world. Editors Elizabeth W. Collier and Charles R. Strain bring the perspectives of an international group of scholars toward a theory of justice and ethical understanding for the nearly two hundred million migrants who have left their homes seeking asylum from political ... Read more

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