Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time immemorial, have written down their values and ideologies, this study effectively demonstrates how these writings record the principles and values that motivated a community.
From making fire to building the gadgets of the 21st century, uncover the stories behind the remarkable ideas and devices that have shaped our world in 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries. This revised and updated edition brings this comprehensive review of humanity's greatest ideas up to date. Innovations in science, space, technology, transportation, medicine, mathematics, and language are cove…
Yet Brown’s family lived in Kirkhale, in Northumberland, a fairly typical small rural community, over 300 miles to the north, far from the glittering metropolitan world. His father, who died in 1720 when Brown was only four, was a farmer and land agent to the local lord, Sir William Loraine, yet the young Brown was educated at the local school in Cambo – possibly through the good offices of…
Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor and thought leader on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.
The study is intended to inform developing EU-level waste policy, in terms of climate change impacts only. Climate change impacts are only one of a number of environmental impacts that derive from solid waste management options. Other impacts include health effects attributable to air pollutants such as NOx , SO2 , dioxins and fine particles, emissions of ozonedepleting substances, contaminatio…
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and structures of ‘modern life’, understood in industrial, social, commercial, and technological te…
There is a well-known productivity gap between the Northern Powerhouse and the rest of England of £4 perperson-per-hour. There is also a substantial health gap between the Northern Powerhouse and the rest of England, with average life expectancy 2 years lower in the North. Given that both health and productivity are lower in the Northern Powerhouse, the NHSA commissioned this report from six …
Alexander von Humboldt starts his “Critical Inquiries” in 1852 withthe observation that the miscalculation of one authority has triggeredmany forms of human action in exploring the planet. It is for him theact of travelling that generates knowledge and ultimately drives forwardhuman intellectual progress, even if the travellers themselves might bemisguided. Human triggers and reasons for tr…
In 1864, when he was in his early 40s, the sceptical John Tyndall, physicist and emerging public intellectual, attended a séance. He wrote an amusing account of the episode in The Reader magazine, in which he reported that the spirits had dubbed him ‘The Poet of Science’.1 In this guise he preceded his friend Alfred Tennyson, who was not so described until after h…
Grape production in the United States is expanding rapidly as new growers are starting vineyards in all regions of the country. Commercial wine grape production in the Midwest, along with production in California, Oregon, and New York, has increased with the demand for high-quality wine. Commercial wine-grape production has a long history in the Midwestern states. Some of the earliest work with…
f you choose not to read this and move straight on to In Homage to Darwin, we will not be offended. The story, however, of how two scientific dinosaurs came to cooperate in writing about their shared world view, gleaned from a combined total of more than 150 years of independent study of biology, needs, we feel, some explanation.Any two biologists can b…
With the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man who sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother stands, a slave, behind his chair. In nearly all the cities and towns of the Slave States, the real negro, or clear black, does not amount to more than one in four of the slave population. T…
We who are Tiverton born, though false ambition may have ridden us to market, or the world's voice incited us to kindred clamoring, have a way of shutting our eyes, now and then, to present changes, and seeing things as they were once, as they are still, in a certain sleepy yet altogether individual corner of country life. And especially do we delight in one bit of fine mental tracery, etc…
Robert Langdon, profesor simbologi dan ikonologi agama Universitas Harvard, tiba di Museum Guggenheim yang supermodern untuk menghadiri pengumuman besar tentang penemuan yang “akan mengubah dunia sains.” Tuan rumah acara malam hari itu adalah Edmond Kirsch, seorang miliuner dan Futuris berusia empat puluh tahun. Kirsch adalah sosok yang terkenal di seluruh dunia, berkat penemuan-penemuan te…
Tempat tergelap di neraka dicadangkan bagi mereka yang tetap bersikap neteral di saat krisis moral. Tengah malam, Robert Langdon terbangun di rumah sakit dan syok saat mendapati dirinya ada di Florence, Italia. Padahal, ingatan terakhirnya adalah berjalan pulang setelah memberi kuliah di Harvard. Belum sempat Langdon memahami keganjilan ini, dunianya meledak dalam kekacauan. Di depan mata, dok…
Prinsip Pembelajaran dan Pengajaran Bahasa adalah buku teks klasih pemerolehan bahasa kedua yang digunakan oleh program pendidikan guru di seluruh dunia. prinsip memperkenalkan konsep-konsep penting melalui denifisi istilah,pertanyaan yang menggelitik, tabel, dan bagan "Koneksi Kelas" yang baru mendorong murid mempertimbangkan implikasi penelitian untuk pedagogi ruang kelas. Daftar pustaka muta…