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  • From Exile to Washington

    A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century

    by W. Michael Blumenthal ...
    "The former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadership" (Henry Kissinger, author of On China).In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him around the world and back, W. Michael Blumenthal has borne witness to the world's convulsions and transformations during the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weinstock Among the Dying

    by Michael Blumenthal ...
    Weinstock Among the Dying is a tragi-comic study of one man's attempt to recover from the griefs of his childhood and to enter into a life-giving adulthood of fatherhood and mature love. In it, Michael Blumenthal creates a moving portrait of the human struggle for psychological growth, as well as a witty satire of life at the top of the academic world. The book won the 1994 Harold U. Ribalow Prize ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Just Three Minutes, Please

    Thinking Out Loud on Public Radio

    by Michael Blumenthal ...
    What’s wrong with the contemporary American medical system? What does it mean when a state’s democratic presidential primary casts 40% of its votes for a felon incarcerated in another state? What’s so bad about teaching by PowerPoint? What is truly the dirtiest word in America?These are just a few of the engaging and controversial issues that Michael Blumenthal, poet, novelist, essayist, and law ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • All My Mothers and Fathers

    A Memoir

    by Michael Blumenthal ...
    Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents.As fate would have it, his adoptive father, a German-Jewish refugee raised by a loveless and embittered stepmother after his own mother died in ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Greatest Jewish-American Lover in Hungarian History

    by Michael Blumenthal ...
    Etan Yogev had had no experience in bed-and hardly any outside of it-and it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewhat ambivalent member into her own body, and his lips against her lips. She enjoyed it-this teacherly role-it had been a very long time since she had been able to practice the art of sexual instruction, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Weinstock Among the Dying

    by Michael Blumenthal ...
    Narrated by Jack Estes ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    Martin Weinstock is a Harvard Lecturer in Poetry who has lost his way. He doesn't feel that he belongs on the esteemed Faculty ("the best in the world"). He sees his position to be a type of death sentence. Meanwhile, is love life is dying and his parents redying. He feels as though he's surrounded by death wherever he turns. This is his story, (Winner of Hadassah Magazine's 1994 Harold U. Ribalow ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • And

    by Michael Blumenthal ...
    Series series
    Through Michael Blumenthal’s eyes we gain a renewed, childlike wonder at everything from plants, trees, and relationships to the most fundamental word in our vocabulary: AND. Blumenthal uses the conjunction to unify this collection and create a chanting, sonorous rhythm to his work. The result is a book of poems-as-hymns-and-praises.Michael Blumenthal holds the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Marriage, Sex and Family in Judaism

    by Michael S. Berger, David Blumenthal, Elliot Dorff, David Novak, Angela Riccett, Jack Wertheimer ...
    Marriage, Sex and Family in Judaism explores Jewish marriage from historical and contemporary perspectives, focusing on the religious and legal concepts of marriage, and the social impact of family in the Jewish community. The book does not advocate one perspective or another; instead, the essays range from conservative to liberal viewpoints, offering readers a well-balanced mixture of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Tragedy Of Global Warming - A Short Term Solution Using Electrostatic Precipitators

    by Michael B. Blumenthal ...
    1.0 Introduction – A Solution Since 1907The complete (technical) solution to the Climate Change crisis exists now!It has in fact existed since 1907 — i.e., it is possible to run coal-fired power stations and other air-borne effluent-producing industries without shutting them down — i.e., with zero pollution coming out of their chimney stacks.It is an inexplicable anomaly — that for over a century, ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa

    by Rita Miljo, Michael Blumenthal ...
    Literary Nonfiction. Nature. Travel. In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure- filled as Beryl Markham's in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Is God a Moral Monster?

    Making Sense of the Old Testament God

    by Paul Copan ...
    A recent string of popular-level books written by the New Atheists have leveled the accusation that the God of the Old Testament is nothing but a bully, a murderer, and a cosmic child abuser. This viewpoint is even making inroads into the church. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are we to reconcile the seemingly disconnected natures of God portrayed in the two testaments ... Read more

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