Description:International Law offers a rigorous yet accessible introduction to public international law for students. Presenting a clearly structured conceptual framework, the text is designed to support understanding by providing a concise, coherent perspective of international law principles and systems at domestic, regional and international levels.by constitutional and customary law, and land and resource reform.
Description:The Business Reference Guide series is designed to provide a solid foundation for the research of various business topics.
Description:Wouldn’t it be great if all school teachers (from kindergarten through high school) would share the joy of mathematics with their students, rather than focus only on the prescribed curriculum that will subsequently be tested? This book reveals some of the wonders of mathematics that are often missing from classrooms. Here’s your chance to catch up with the math gems you may have missed. Using jargon-free language and many illustrations, the authors–all veteran math educators–explore five areas–arithmetic, algebra, geometry, probability, and the ways in which mathematics can reinforce common sense. Among other things, you’ll learn’the rule of 72,’which enables you to quickly determine how long it will take your bank account to double its value at a specific interest rate. Other handy techniques include an automatic algorithm for multiplying numbers mentally and a clever application that will allow you to convert from miles to kilometers (or the reverse) mentally. A delightful presentation of geometric novelties reveals relationships that could have made your study of geometry more fun and enlightening. In the area of probability there is a host of interesting examples: from the famous Monty-Hall problem to the counterintuitive probability of two people having the same birthday in a crowded room. Finally, the authors demonstrate how math will make you a better thinker by improving your organizing abilities and providing useful and surprising solutions to common mathematics problems. You’ll come away with an appreciation for math you never thought possible and a true appreciation for this’queen of the sciences.’
Description:The year’s finest mathematics writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year’s finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today’s hottest mathematical debates.Here Burkard Polster shows how to invent your own variants of the Spot It! card game, Steven Strogatz presents young Albert Einstein’s proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, Joseph Dauben and Marjorie Senechal find a treasure trove of math in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Andrew Gelman explains why much scientific research based on statistical testing is spurious. In other essays, Brian Greene discusses the evolving assumptions of the physicists who developed the mathematical underpinnings of string theory, Jorge Almeida examines the misperceptions of people who attempt to predict lottery results, and Ian Stewart offers advice to authors who aspire to write successful math books for general readers. And there’s much, much more.In addition to presenting the year’s most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a bibliography of other notable writings and an introduction by the editor, Mircea Pitici. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us—and where it is headed.
Description:The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of thinking about that phenomenon. By examining urban centers in tandem with advertiser-supported newspapers, New Queer Cinema and B-movies, queer-targeted television, and mobile apps, Griffin illustrates how new forms of LGBT media are less’new’than we often believe. He connects cities and LGBT media through the experiences they can make available to people, which Griffin articulates as feelings, emotions, and affects. He illuminates how the limitations of these experiences—while not universally accessible, nor necessarily empowering—are often the very reasons why people find them compelling and desirable.
Description:Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere – from the architecture of our brains to global transportation systems. And networks are especially ubiquitous in the social world: they provide us with social support, account for the emergence of new trends and markets, and foster social protest, among other functions. Besides, who among us is not familiar with Facebook, Twitter, or, for that matter, World of Warcraft, among the myriad emerging forms of network-based virtual social interaction? It is common to think of networks simply in structural terms – the architecture of connections among objects, or the circuitry of a system. But social networks in particular are thoroughly interwoven with cultural things, in the form of tastes, norms, cultural products, styles of communication, and much more. What exactly flows through the circuitry of social networks? How are people’s identities and cultural practices shaped by network structures? And, conversely, how do people’s identities, their beliefs about the social world, and the kinds of messages they send affect the network structures they create? This book is designed to help readers think about how and when culture and social networks systematically penetrate one another, helping to shape each other in significant ways.
Description:The Everyday Mathematics (EM) program was developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) and is now used in more than 185,000 classrooms by almost three million students. Its research-based learning delivers the kinds of results that all school districts aspire to. Yet despite that tremendous success, EMoften leaves parents perplexed. Learning is accomplished not through rote memorization, but by actually engaging in real-life math tasks. The curriculum isn’t linear, but rather spirals back and forth, weaving concepts in and out of lessons that build overall understanding and long-term retention. It’s no wonder that many parents have difficulty navigating this innovative mathematical and pedagogic terrain. Now help is here. Inspired by UCSMP’s firsthand experiences with parents and teachers, Everyday Mathematics for Parents will equip parents with an understanding of EM and enable them to help their children with homework—the heart of the great parental adventure of ensuring that children become mathematically proficient. Featuring accessible explanations of the research-based philosophy and design of the program, and insights into the strengths of EM, this little book provides the big-picture information that parents need. Clear descriptions of how and why this approach is different are paired with illustrative tables that underscore the unique attributes of EM. Detailed guidance for assisting students with homework includes explanations of the key EM concepts that underlie each assignment. Resources for helping students practice math more at home also provide an understanding of the long-term utility of EM. Easy to use, yet jam-packed with knowledge and helpful tips, Everyday Mathematics for Parents will become a pocket mentor to parents and teachers new to EM who are ready to step up and help children succeed. With this book in hand, you’ll finally understand that while this may not be the way that you learned math, it’s actually much better.
Description:This book takes up where L. S. Vygotsky has left off during the last few months of his life, when he renounced much of what he had done before. A month before Vygotsky died, he wrote in his notebook that he felt like Moses who had seen the promised land but was never allowed to set foot on it. The vision Vygotsky laid out during his final days had been influenced by his readings of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and a book by Karl Marx published for the first time a year before Vygotsky died. In the present book, the author lays out a view of mathematics based on a monist view of knowing, learning, and development. Just as the essence of what is specifically human, the mathematics of mathematics exists in the ensemble of societal relations. For the individual, this means that mathematical thinking and reasoning was a society-typical relation with another person first, often the teacher. Using data from a variety of situations, including school students as well as scientists, the book develops some fundamental concepts and categories for mathematics education research, including the thinking body, sociogenesis, the intra-intersubjective field, pereživanie (experience), obučenie (teaching | learning), and drama.
Description:Questo testo si rivolge a studenti che approcciano per la prima volta il tema del marketing e delle relazioni tra attori socio-economici. L’impostazione dell’opera è originale poiché comprende i tradizionali fondamenti di marketing, ma include altresì spunti orientati alle nuove logiche di relazione tra attori frutto di recenti ricerche sul tema, supportate dalle nuove tecnologie. In queste prospettive il volume presenta una nuova concettualizzazione degli scambi di servizio alla base di qualsiasi processo di co-creazione di valore, mostrando quanto il valore e le relazioni siano alla base di un costruttivo dialogo tra soggetti socio-economici. Assecondando spunti derivanti dalla ‘Service Dominant Logic’e dalla ‘Service Science’, infatti, il volume descrive uno scenario in cui gli attori dovrebbero ispirarsi a cultura, approcci filosofici e paradigmi sociali oramai maturi quali il many-to-many marketing, i network e l’Approccio Sistemico Vitale.L’abilità degli attori di ben interpretare questa nuova visione relazionale determina la relativa capacità competitiva creando i presupposti affinché i diversi attori sociali siano parte attiva di proposizioni di valore ap-prezzate nell’ambito di mercati complessi e dinamici, nella ricerca di interazioni positive e di scambi di co-creazione di valore vitali e sostenibili.A ben vedere, pertanto, il presente volume introduce allo studio del Marketing non tanto fornendo elementi pratici utili alla gestione di una funzione aziendale, bensì stimolando l’acquisizione di un approccio culturale e di una filosofia che possano rivelarsi determinanti per individui ed attori socio-economici.
Description:Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one another. These are some of our most cherished ideas about democracy. But Jason Brennan says they are all wrong.In this trenchant book, Brennan argues that democracy should be judged by its results—and the results are not good enough. Just as defendants have a right to a fair trial, citizens have a right to competent government. But democracy is the rule of the ignorant and the irrational, and it all too often falls short. Furthermore, no one has a fundamental right to any share of political power, and exercising political power does most of us little good. On the contrary, a wide range of social science research shows that political participation and democratic deliberation actually tend to make people worse—more irrational, biased, and mean. Given this grim picture, Brennan argues that a new system of government—epistocracy, the rule of the knowledgeable—may be better than democracy, and that it’s time to experiment and find out.A challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable, Against Democracy is essential reading for scholars and students of politics across the disciplines. Featuring a new preface that situates the book within the current political climate and discusses other alternatives beyond epistocracy, Against Democracy is a challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable.Computer Science Teacher : Insight Into the Computing Classroom
Description:Increased focus on computer science has recently brought about the new national curriculum in computing. This book explores the role of Computer Science Teacher in a secondary school environment. An overview of secondary school computing is covered, along with what the role encompasses, the attributes, knowledge and skills required to be a success and useful standards, tools, methods and techniques you can employ. Case studies and quotes from schools and current teachers are also included.
Description:The year’s finest mathematics writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year’s finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today’s hottest mathematical debates.Here Evelyn Lamb describes the excitement of searching for incomprehensibly large prime numbers, Jeremy Gray speculates about who would have won math’s highest prize—the Fields Medal—in the nineteenth century, and Philip Davis looks at mathematical results and artifacts from a business and marketing viewpoint. In other essays, Noson Yanofsky explores the inherent limits of knowledge in mathematical thinking, Jo Boaler and Lang Chen reveal why finger-counting enhances children’s receptivity to mathematical ideas, and Carlo Séquin and Raymond Shiau attempt to discover how the Renaissance painter Fra Luca Pacioli managed to convincingly depict his famous rhombicuboctahedron, a twenty-six-sided Archimedean solid. And there’s much, much more.In addition to presenting the year’s most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a bibliography of other notable writings and an introduction by the editor, Mircea Pitici. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us—and where it is headed.
Description:This book provides a self-contained introduction to algebraic coding theory over finite Frobenius rings. It is the first to offer a comprehensive account on the subject.Coding theory has its origins in the engineering problem of effective electronic communication where the alphabet is generally the binary field. Since its inception, it has grown as a branch of mathematics, and has since been expanded to consider any finite field, and later also Frobenius rings, as its alphabet. This book presents a broad view of the subject as a branch of pure mathematics and relates major results to other fields, including combinatorics, number theory and ring theory.Suitable for graduate students, the book will be of interest to anyone working in the field of coding theory, as well as algebraists and number theorists looking to apply coding theory to their own work.
Description:The aim of this book is to survey the relations between the various kinds of chaos and related notions for continuous interval maps from a topological point of view. The papers on this topic are numerous and widely scattered in the literature; some of them are little known, difficult to find, or originally published in Russian, Ukrainian, or Chinese. Dynamical systems given by the iteration of a continuous map on an interval have been broadly studied because they are simple but nevertheless exhibit complex behaviors. They also allow numerical simulations, which enabled the discovery of some chaotic phenomena. Moreover, the “most interesting” part of some higher-dimensional systems can be of lower dimension, which allows, in some cases, boiling it down to systems in dimension one. Some of the more recent developments such as distributional chaos, the relation between entropy and Li-Yorke chaos, sequence entropy, and maps with infinitely many branches are presented in book form for the first time. The author gives complete proofs and addresses both graduate students and researchers.
Description:Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you’ll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message—that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that: There is no such thing as a math person – anyone can learn mathematics to high levels. Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth. Speed is unimportant in mathematics. Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.
Description:An OCR endorsed textbookHelp students to develop their knowledge and apply their reasoning to mathematical problems with textbooks that draw on the well-known MEI (Mathematics in Education and Industry) series, updated and tailored to the 2017 OCR (MEI) specification and developed by subject experts and MEI.- Ensure targeted development of reasoning and problem-solving skills with plenty of practice questions and structured exercises that build mathematical skills and techniques.- Build connections between topics, using real-world contexts to help develop mathematical modelling skills, thus providing a fuller and more coherent understanding of mathematical concepts.- Address the new statistics requirements with five dedicated statistics chapters and questions around the use of large data sets. – Help students to overcome misconceptions and develop insight into problem solving with annotated worked examples.- Develop understanding and measure progress with graduated exercises that support students at every stage of their learning.- Provide clear paths of progression that combine pure and applied maths into a coherent whole.
Description:Can the citizens of a democracy be trusted to run it properly? Modern political science has concentrated on cataloguing voters’failings—their lack of knowledge, tolerance, or consistency in political thinking. While it would be a mistake to think this portrait of citizens is simply wrong, it is a deeper mistake to accept it as a satisfactory likeness. In this book, Paul Sniderman demonstrates that a concentration on the pathologies of citizens’political thinking has obscured the intense clash of opposing belief systems in the electorate. He shows how a concentration on racism has distorted understanding of the politics of race by keeping out of sight those who think well of black Americans. And he exposes the fallacy of spotlighting the dangers of mass politics while ignoring those of elite politics.
Description:Marx’s Capital is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic information to produce a new interpretation of history. Marx’s belief that he had arrived at a scientific way of describing the present and predicting the future may not be shared by many of his modern interpreters. But his ability to connect things together in new ways is not in doubt – and nor is the influence of the new hypotheses that he generated as a result of so much careful analysis.
Description:Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which can be considered one of the foundational books of the western political tradition, the focus is on problem-solving, and particularly on the generation and evaluation of alternative possibilities. Aristotle’s aim, in Politics, is to determine how best to organize a society. He looks in turn at several different type of organization – kingship, oligarchy and the polity, or rule in the hands of many – and evaluates the arguments for each in turn. But he takes the exercise further than his predecessors had done. Having concluded that rule by the aristocracy would be preferable, since it would mean rule by citizens capable of taking decisions on behalf of the society as a whole, Aristotle subjects his solution to a further checking process, asking productive questions in order to make a sound decision between alternatives. Politics was ground-breaking in its approach. Unlike previous thinkers, Aristotle based all his ideas on a practical assessment of how they would play out in the real world. Ultimately, Aristotle argues, the problem of self-interest means that the adoption of a mixed constitution – one based on carefully considered laws which aims at a balance of power between the people and the elite – is most likely to bring eudaemonia (happiness). It’s a conclusion firmly based on careful evaluation (not least the process of judging the adequacy of arguments) and the product of outstanding problem-solving skills.
Description:This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective. It outlines why honey is a special and unique food, being produced by bees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants. Although glucose and fructose are the main constituents of honey, its overall composition is far from being simple or uniform: other substances such as organic acids, enzymes, or minerals are found in varying amounts. In this Brief, the author addresses the factors that influence the composition of the honey as well as the consequences that the composition has on properties such as color, crystallization, density, viscosity, or the refractive index. This Brief also introduces some of the most commonly used quality parameters for the determination of ageing and/or overheating: 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and diastase. Other recently proposed constituents for quality parameters are also mentioned, e.g. 1,2 dicarbonyl compounds (3 deoxyglucosone, methylglyoxal, glyoxal) and furosine, also named 2-furoylmethyl lysine.Mayor : The Best Job in Politics
Description:In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he left office in 2016, there were triumphs and challenges, from the mundane to the unexpected, from snow removal, trash collection, and drinkable water, to the Phillies’World Series win, Hurricane Irene, Occupy Philadelphia, and the Papal visit. By the end of Nutter’s tenure, homicides were at an almost fifty-year low, high-school graduation and college-degree attainment rates increased significantly, and Philadelphia’s population had grown every year. Nutter also recruited businesses to open in Philadelphia, motivating them through tax reforms, improved services, and international trade missions.Mayor begins with Nutter’s early days in politics and ultimate run for mayor, when he formed a coalition from a base of support that set the stage for a successful term. Transitioning from campaigning to governing, Nutter shares his vast store of examples to depict the skills that enable a city politician to lead effectively and illustrates how problem-solving pragmatism is essential for success. With a proven track record of making things work, Nutter asserts that mayoring promises more satisfaction and more potential achievements—for not only the mayor but also the governed—than our fractious political system would have us believe.Detailing the important tasks that mayoral administrations do, Nutter tells the compelling story of a dedicated staff working together to affect positively the lives of the people of Philadelphia every day. His anecdotes, advice, and insights will excite and interest anyone with a desire to understand municipal government.
Description:Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them. Operating within a political climate of competing demands, regulators need a lodestar to help them define and evaluate success. Achieving Regulatory Excellence provides that direction by offering new insights from law, public administration, political science, sociology, and policy sciences on what regulators need to do to improve their performance. Achieving Regulatory Excellence offers guidance from leading international experts about how regulators can set appropriate priorities and make sound, evidence-based decisions through processes that are transparent and participatory. With increasing demands for smarter but leaner government, the need for sound regulatory capacityfor regulatory excellencehas never been stronger. In addition to chapters by editor Cary Coglianese, and a foreword by Jim Ellis, president and chief executive officer of the Alberta Energy Regulator, contributors include Robert Baldwin (London School of Economics and Political Science), John Braithwaite (Australian National University), Angus Corbett (University of Pennsylvania), Daniel Esty (Yale University), Adam Finkel (University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan), Ted Gayer (Brookings Institution), John Graham (Indiana University), Neil Gunningham (Australian National University), Kathryn Harrison (University of British Columbia), Bridget Hutter (London School of Economics and Political Science), Howard Kunreuther (Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania), David Levi-Faur (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Shelley H. Metzenbaum (Volcker Alliance), Donald P. Moynihan (University of WisconsinMadison), Paul R. Noe (American Forest and Paper Association), Gaurav Vasisht (Volcker Alliance), David Vogel (University of CaliforniaBerkeley), and Wendy Wagner (University of Texas School of Law).


***I went on a blogging spree, there are lots of posts below. Check them out.
Today I had library and we were helping the librarian inventory some of the books. My class was helping with the picture books and were lined up in a big "train" passing books from one end of the library to the other.
One of the rules was to only hold 1 book at a time.
The students were passing fast. The librarian would scan the book and send it down the line. Then the 2 at the end would put them on the shelf.
Almost at the end of the line, opposite of where I was helping *Tom was going fast and was pressured by *Ben who had a stack of books. Tom quickly gave the book to *Anna. Tom said Anna's face ran into the book, but for the amount of blood gushing out her nose, I would say it was a good toss to the face.
Now the students were in a train, and they were doing their job right. So instead of getting out of line, they passed word of the bloody nose back up the train one by one until it reached me.
After a lot of toilet paper, an ice pack, and a rest in the nurses room- Anna was all better.


About the book...
Shear Savvy is a valuable business tool that provides detailed instruction on how to start and maintain an apprenticeship program. It is an easy to follow, how-to guide that takes salon industry professionals through an apprenticeship in six simple steps.
A comprehensive CD that contains contracts, meeting agendas, weekly assignments, tracking spreadsheets, schedules, a quarterly review, list of equipment, letters, mailing labels, adjustable salon diagram, step-by-step instructions and more, accompanies the book. (These documents can also be used to apply for a School of Cosmetology license if a state does not have cosmetology apprenticeship guidelines.)
Open, edit and print these ready-to-use documents to help you get approval from the state, identify your salon culture, select your director of education, hold meetings, identify responsibilities, track homework and lesson plans and more.
Shear Savvy is energizing and inspiring, a trustworthy guide to success. The salon industry no longer has to rely on traditional cosmetology schools to produce licensed cosmetologists, nail technicians or estheticians. Now with the help of this book, salon owners can start their own apprenticeship program in their salon and produce qualified vested team members.
Salons all around the United States are using Shear Savvy to guide them through their apprenticeship with ease. Each step of the program was created, tested and perfected to ensure its efficiency, ease of use and success for the apprentice, the owner and the salon.


(b. 1962 in Sigulda) – (real name Edvīns Struka) studied at the Riga Polytechnics Institute and at the English Language and Literature Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Latvia. He also worked for the weekly “Kultūras Forums”. He’s a poet and translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He has greatly contributed to introducing into Latvian literature Latin american writers, such as Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz. His poetry collections Vēja nav (No Wind, 1991) and Dzīvo damies (Live-ing, 1995) earned him one of the most original poetry debuts of his time, full of surprising metaphors and based on broad knowledge about various international literary traditions. The year 1997 saw the publication of Raups’ collection “33 mīklaini dzīves gadi un dzejoļi” (33 Mysterious Years and Poems). His fourth poetry collection “uzvāri man kaut ko pārejošu” was published in 2002. Putn’ (Bird’) was published in 2008. After writing on social and political themes, Raups moved towards personal introspection and subjective, often intimate experiences of creation. Raups is considered one of the greatest innovators in Latvian poetry of the 1990s. When describing his poetry, critics often use the term surrealism. Raups is the recipient of several important Latvian literary awards, including Ojars Vacietis Award (2009) and the annual Latvian Literary Award. His poetry has been translated into English, Czech, Finnish, German, Russian and Turkish. 2003 saw the publication of Raups’ poems in Sweden and in 2010 the Canadian publisher Guernica Editions published a volume of his selected poems under the title “Then Touch Me Here”.


research & Helpful links
I have been collecting data on our family for over 10 years now. Until the internet, I only had scant records, and a few stories. I have been able to find records, and meet family members I never knew I had thru some of the message boards online, and other excellent sites. Here are the sites that were most helpful to me during my research and the creation of this site:
The Ellis Island Records Searchable site
The best tool I’ve found yet for finding relatives who emigrated through Ellis Island.
Church of Latter Day Saint’s website. Thousands of records available online. An excellent resource.
Rootsweb’s Meta Search
Excellent tool for searching surnames. Searches multiple sites at once, including Ancestry.com
Frank Arduini’s Genealogy site
At his Web site, Frank Arduini shows examples of Italian vital records with step-by-step instructions as to how to read and extract the data.
Donna Guiffre’s Ita-Sicily Homepage
Great site including links to maps, ships, photos, places, ect. Also has a surname search and link to subscribe to the ITA-Sicily mailing list.
Surnames in Italy and Sicily
Type in your surname and see where in Italy or Sicily those surnames are located today!
University of S. Florida’s Special Collections Dept.
If you have ancestors that lived in Ybor City, Tampa, FL, you absolutely must view this site! Contains photos galore; some of Sicilians living in Ybor City circa 1933 in the Centro Asturiano files.
Contessa Entellina by Leita Spoto
A MUST for researchers of Contessa. Contains a database of birth, marriage, and death records from Contessa for the years 1820-1865.
Best of Sicily – Genealogy
A guide to Sicilian travel, records, and more.


Hello, everyone! This week I’m publishing something that I don’t usually, but am planning to more often. A book review!
For those curious, there will not be spoilers in this review. I’m a believer in the power of an initial read – there really is nothing like reading a wonderful book for the first time without knowing the ending.
The book I’m reviewing today is “Coral” by Sara Ella. Written by an on-the-rise, imaginative author, this YA fantasy book tugs at the heartstrings. Published by Thomas Nelson in 2019, it is still pretty new, as well.
“Coral” is inspired by the original telling of “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen. However, it takes the themes and story elements of “The Little Mermaid” and runs with them off the beaten path, into completely different territory.
Those who are familiar with Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” will know that it has a tragic ending. “Coral” leans towards this darker storyline, and definitely isn’t Disney, but that is part of what adds to its overall appeal.
Following its three main protagonists, Brooke, Merrick, and Coral (a mermaid), Ella skillfully interweaves three different situations into a story with deep relevance. Brooke, a girl struggling with depression and anxiety, is in a group therapy home. Merrick, growing up in the shadow of his father’s control, is struggling to help his younger sister, who is spiraling out of control. Coral, though seemingly unrelated at first, ties these two together in ways I could only guess when I began reading.
So, if you can surmise from this description, “Coral” is much heavier than Disney’s rendition of “The Little Mermaid”. Coral explores heavy topics such as suicide, self-harm, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
At times, “Coral” can get very dark. I know it would be triggering for many who have struggled with, are struggling with, or have watched someone else struggle with any of the issues mentioned above. Yet at the same time, Ella handles these issues with grace and sensitivity alongside incredible honesty. As someone who walked alongside my sister as she lived in a group therapy home, Ella’s depiction of Brooke’s experience is authentic. I also can understand Merrick’s journey as a “bystander”, so to speak; of powerlessness over the mental illnesses devastating his family.
Also, while there is incredible heaviness throughout the novel, the end is hopeful and profound. “Coral” isn’t all darkness, in other words. You’ll just have to read it to find out exactly what I mean 😉
The fantasy/fairy tale aspect of “Coral” is a smaller, but no less important, element throughout the story. The allegorical, almost dissociative sense written into Coral and her life under the sea closely aligns with the true purpose of the book: to educate on the real human experience of mental illness through reflecting on how emotion and grit play into it as both a concept and deeply personal trial. Coral’s portion of the book also sheds light on the power of fictional stories to tell truths other forms of writing can’t, and to offer healing and understanding when trying to face personal wounds – a truth I myself have found true and applicable.
As separate as the three main storylines may seem at the beginning of the book, that had me hooked. I was so curious about how the author would tie the three stories together. And, without giving too much away, the ending satisfies.
I must express, on top of all of this, Ella’s clear writing skill. Her prose is beautiful and almost melodic, while also clear, concise, and well-paced. All of her words have a purpose, and all contribute to suck the reader into the story and create a narrative that resonates in the reader’s soul long after the book is re-shelved.
Because it will be re-shelved. For sure. This one’s a keeper.
I must reiterate, at the risk of sounding repetitive, the book’s depictions of mental health issues, while honest, could be triggering for those struggling or having struggled with various mental health issues. But for those who haven’t, or who are at a place where certain depictions may not be triggering, “Coral” is an enlightening book that puts a human face on issues that people often misunderstand or that are simply taught as by-the-book, easily solved dilemmas rather than examined with nuance.
Ultimately, if you couldn’t tell yet, I recommend “Coral”. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and just confused enough to want to keep reading while not too confused, and the prose breathes of skill, empathy, and truth. An enlightening, heart-wrenching, bittersweet, yet hopeful work that will find a place on my bookshelf (and I hope yours!) for years to come.
If you’ve never heard of Sara Ella and are interested in checking out not only Coral but the rest of her books, here’s the link to her website: https://saraella.com/ She’s definitely one of my favorite authors now!
And with that I say, thanks for reading! Have a blessed Thursday 🙂


“The importance of this project is to make a contribution to the history of Mexico, to represent our Chol culture through photographs.”
Refugia Guzmán Pérez
CPP Photographer on her personal project, From the Rural Community to the City
Beginning in 1996 CPP helped establish and manage the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena/AFI, located at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology-Southeast (CIESAS), an academic research center in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. AFI served as a place to store, catalogue, and provide access to images from the collection generated by AFI training programs. At the end of 2012, at the photographers' initiative it was decided that their original materials in the collection would be returned to them, and they were. With that result the AFI project concluded successfully.


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In my efforts to still have a blog posted on the B&N Book Blog, I re-wrote the requested submission, but was told it still doesn’t meet their standards. No worries.
But, as to not lose the efforts involved and to provide you with the benefit, I’m posting the submission here.
What I learned from reading 50 books in 50 weeks and blogging about it, by Jeff Price (in short “twitter” form).
Beyond what my parents, friends and life’s hard knocks have taught me, almost everything I ever needed to know, I have found in books. So, one day after surveying my home office and seeing all of the books I’d bought and still had not read, I committed to reading 50 of them in 50 weeks. Then the idea came to me to blog about what I would learn during that process. The long version of the blogs are still online at achievementprice.com, but here’s the short form.
- I learned that what makes our brain happy isn’t what we need to expand and become more (I can expand and become more on movie theater popcorn but I don’t think that’s what they meant). What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should do the Opposite, by David DiSalvo.
- I learned that happiness isn’t what you get at the end of a journey, its what makes the journey worthwhile. Happier, learn the secrets to daily joy and lasting fulfillment, by Tal Ben-Shahar.
- I learned that the educational system is doing a good job of eliminating what our kids need, specifically creativity and the ability to understand consequences and how failure feels. Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success, by Madeline Levine.
- I learned that we will get out of life just about what we expect to get, so to get more, we need to change our expectations. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck.
- I learned that the people with influence, knowledge and personal authority can make things happen and are our true leaders – and that they are damn few. Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior, Rorke Denver and Ellis Henican.
- I learned that like most pilots, we are all trying to figure out where we’re going in life and constantly making course corrections. Flight Plan: How to Achieve More, Faster than You Ever Dreamed Possible, By Brian Tracy.
- I learned that my home security system isn’t as effective as I thought it was (so I changed that – note to douche bags out there who may be reading this and know where I live). How to Be Safe: Protect Yourself, Your Home, Your Family, and Your Business from Crime, by Ira Lipman.
- I learned that the key to success in any endeavor in life is relationships. Of course I already knew that so try to have as many relations as you can (or something like that). Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, by Ferrazzi, Keith, and Tahl Raz.
- I learned that technology didn’t make our lives easier, just busier, and that we all feel like we can get ahead if “I can just get organized.” This is such a strong motivator that there are thousands of books on getting organized . . . maybe I should write one too (as soon as I get around to it). Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life: Train Your Brain to Get More Done in Less Time, by Paul Hammerness, Margaret Moore, and John Hanc.
- I learned that Marilu Henner knows how to recall every second of her life and that with effort I too can relieve wonderful embarrassing moments in my own life. Thanks for reminding me I didn’t have a prom date Marilu. Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future, by Marilu Henner and Lorin Henner.
- I learned that imagination is more powerful than willpower (especially when its a chocolate chip cookie with frosting on top). Mind over Business: How to Unleash Your Business and Sales Success by Rewiring the Mind/body Connection, by Kenneth Baum and Bob Andelman.
- I learned that we are a nation of liars, and we usually know when we’re getting bullshitted, but we play along anyway like its some sort of game we’ve mutually agreed to play. You Can’t Lie to Me: The Revolutionary Program to Supercharge Your Inner Lie Detector and Get to the Truth, Janine Driver and Mariska Van. Aalst.
- I learned that not every diet program works for everyone, which is why there are 10,000 diet and exercise books out there and always room for one more. Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss, by Jillian Michaels.
- I learned that our kids don’t want us solving their problems and their friends are more important to them than we will ever know. Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson, Catherine O’Neill Grace, and Lawrence J. Cohen.
- I learned that if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice (no, wait, I learned that from the band Rush). What I learned is that when we’re “in the zone,” we don’t actually think, we just act . . . OMAHA! How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer.
- I learned that going the extra mile means traveling only a few feet, but covers lots of ground. The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary, by Mark Sanborn.
- I learned that golf is more about the mental game, than the physical – no kidding, golf has made me “mental” many times over. The Mental Game of Golf: A Guide to Peak Performance, by Patrick Cohn.
- I learned that when you’re facing a significant problem, go do something else. Let your subconscious solve it while you go play. I always knew all my procrastination was really paying off! Imagine: How Creativity Works, by Jonah Lehrer.
- I learned that if you’re going through a difficult time, you should journal about it. It’s like stopping to read a map – it allows you to see the big picture. Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic, by Donald, Mark L., and Scott Mactavish.
- I learned that you have to create a safe zone for your kids; don’t abandon them – ever! It’s okay to be disappointed in them but when you shun them or let them just anguish on their own they will seek that support elsewhere. The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go out and Play, and Much More, by Bruce Feiler.
- I learned that people still lie – particularly when telling the truth isn’t to their advantage (and that the FBI and CIA disagree on how to spot liars). Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Show You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero and Don Tennant.
- I learned that you can take your kids to Disney World and avoid the pleading, crying and tantrum-throwing over buying stuff (honey stop, you’re scaring the children). The First National Bank of Dad: A Foolproof Method for Teaching Your Kids the Value of Money, by David Owen.
- I learned that you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Facts of Life . . . and I learned that if we’re in a valley, we step back and plot for the next time we’re on a peak. Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad times Work for You–at Work and in Life, by Spencer Johnson.
- I learned that old advice isn’t always bad advice (and sometimes it is). Bringing up Boys, James Dobson.
- I learned how to speak the love language of my wife (and no, you don’t get to know what that is – that’s between me, her and the NSA agent who watches my house with his micro-drone). The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman.
- I learned that those who better understand how our subconscious mind works are more powerful (unfortunately, I’m still trying to figure out how my conscious mind works – I can’t wait to graduate to the next level yet). The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, by Joseph Murray.
- I learned that we can’t control the waves, but we can influence the ride. Up, Down or Sideways: How to Succeed when times are Good, Bad and in Between, by Mark Sanborn.
- I learned that we have the ability to sculpt out what we want our lives to look like, by trimming away everything that we don’t want our lives to be. Kiss That Frog: 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work, by Brian and Christina Tracy.
- I learned that daughters are always trying to impress their fathers and if their father is absent, either physically or emotionally, they will eventually seek that approval elsewhere – like with some “dude” who has a tattoo that says “No Ragrats” across his chest (stole that one from the movie: We’re the Millers). Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know, by Margaret Meeker.
- I learned that we bring our own baggage to the office and dump it on everyone else just as much as they dump theirs on us. HeadTrash!: Cleaning out the Junk That Stands between You and Success, by Tish Squillaro and Timothy I. Thomas.
- I learned that most of what we do is a result of our habits, our decisions in the moment that we don’t even think about, we just do (or do not – Yoda). The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg.
- I learned that professional surfers can be pretty brilliant, I mean who else can figure out how to take an activity that people have been doing for decades and turn it into a money-making business. Yes, you too can get paid to surf. Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul, And, of Course, Surfing, by Laird Hamilton.
- I learned that in the digital age, friendship and relationships still come down to pressing the flesh. Cole, Brent. How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age
- I learned that the best way to win a fight is to not fight (pretty sure Sun-Tzu figured that one out as well). This theory isn’t just about physical fights either – you can apply this principle in all aspects including work and relationships. Survive the Unthinkable: A Total Guide to Women’s Self-protection, by Tim Larkin.
- I learned that if you don’t understand the power and influence of social media, you’re on your way to cultural extinction. Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success by Dan Schawbel.
- I learned that a checklist shouldn’t have everything on it – just the stuff you usually forget. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande.
- I learned that most of what we don’t get in life is because we are held back by fear; when we do get something its because we’ve overcome that fear. Feel the Fear — and Do It Anyway Dynamic Techniques for Turning Fear, Indecision, and Anger into Power, Action, and Love by Susan Jeffers.
- I learned that we should focus on what our kids want to become, rather than focusing on their weaknesses. Advice works for adults too. Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath.
- I learned that by narrowing our scope, we actually get more done (now I just need to figure out how to narrow my scope and still bill my clients). The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan.
- I learned that generations still don’t “get” each other, but that these damn millennials may be a whole lot smarter than we think. The Year without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work, by Scott Berkun.
- I learned that Martha Quinn is still awesome because she responded to my tweets (and she’s still hot). VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave, by Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, and Gavin Edwards.
- I learned that you have to take control of what you pay attention to. Happily Ever After: The Life-changing Power of a Grateful Heart, by Trista Sutter.
- I learned that for whatever you want to do, you must also enjoy the process, not just the reward. An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, by Chris Hadfield.
- I learned that the world owes you nothing – you have to go get it. Gunny’s Rules: How to Get Squared Away like a Marine by R. Lee Ermey and Lamar Underwood.
- I learned that the most important decision in your life is selecting your mate. The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader, by Jason Redman and John R. Bruning.
- I learned that Facebook has killed the high school reunion. Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, by Randi Zuckerberg.
- I learned that even though we’re living at the most amazing time in the history of mankind, we’re still unhappy – and it’s our fault. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living, by Russ Harris.
- I learned that going beyond what’s expected gives us just as much as it gives others, if not more. Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results, by Mark Sanborn.
- I learned that friends are the benefit. Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, by Tom Rath and James K. Harter.
- I learned that resiliency can lead to a lifetime of cherished memories for generations to come. Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas.
That’s what I learned by reading 50 books in 50 weeks and blogging about it. And I still have 50 unread books on my shelf.


Author Tanisha D. Mackin Books & Friends
Open Your G.I.F.T.S - 22 amazing women including Tanisha Mackin and actress/comedian Kim Coles share stories on how they overcame certain issues in their lives. #1 Bestseller
Still Standing - This book talks about the tragedies that Tanisha Mackin faced in her life and how she continues to Still Stand. Losing her husband, battling colon cancer, single mother and etc. Bestseller
My Testimony - 5 years after Tanisha Mackin released Still Standing, she released My Testimony to talk about new loves, life after loosing her husband, mending relationships and etc. Bestseller
Fatherless Son - Written by Tanisha Mackin's 11 year old son Danyell Mackin Jr. Fatherless Son was written to help other children who've lost a parent to death, prison or any other circumstances. This book includes a journal in the back for children to write their own stories.


CULTURE: FINALISTS OF RADUGA AWARD 2015 ANNOUNCED.
ANTONIO FALLICO (CONOSCERE EURASIA ASSOCIATION): “UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO REVEAL YOUNG AND CREATIVE PEOPLE IN THE CULTURAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN ITALY AND RUSSIA”.
20 March 2015. Today have been announced the finalists of the sixth edition of the Raduga Award, the literary contest for young Italian and Russian writers under 35 realized by Conoscere Eurasia Association, Headquarters in Verona and the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 2010. The talent and literary maturity are the main factors for selecting a winner for the Italian jury headed by Inge Feltrinelli (President of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore) and for the Russian jury headed by Boris Tarasov (Docent of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute). The award was born with the purpose to stimulate and strengthen the cultural relations between Italy and Russia, and this year the contest celebrates record of 469 participants, translators and narrators from 27 provinces of Italy and 16 regions of the Russian Federation.
The President of Conoscere Eurasia Association and Banca Intesa Russia Antonio Fallico says: “It’s surprising to state the quality of presented works. Numerous young voices that are talking about the difficulties and uneasiness of modern society, demonstrating at the same time notable linguistic talent and gifts of interpreting the reality. This Italian-Russian project represents a unique opportunity to value and support our young generation and bring some contribution to the Italian- Russian cultural dialogue”.
The finalists in the category “The best narrator of the year” are:
- Jennifer Bertasini (Verona)
- Chiara Paraggio (Montecorvino Pugliano – Savona)
- Eleonora Recalcati (Cernusco sul Naviglio – Milan)
- Ambra Simeone (Brugherio)
- Noemi Turino (Acicatena – Catania)
- Irina Sergeevna Bogatyreva (Lubertsy – Moscow)
- Dmitriy Sergeevich Fillipov (Fornosovo – Leningradskaya oblast)
- Tatiana Nikonorovna Ildimirova (Gavrilova)
- Amaliya Anatolevna Mokrushina (Pavlovo – Leningradskaya oblast)
- Galina Aleksandrovna Uzryutova (Ulianovsk)
The finalists in the category “The best translator of the year” are:
- Donatella Caristina (Milano)
- Maria De Caro (Catanzaro)
- Niccolò Galmarini (Roma)
- Francesca Mastruzzo (Milano)
- Ilaria Sicari (Taurianova)
- Maria Vadimovna Goihman (San Pietroburgo)
- Natalia Leonidovna Gorbacheva (Moscow)
- Marina Alekseevna Kulichihina (Saratov)
- Anna Andreevna Petrova (Moscow)
- Zabava Borisovna Puzitskaya (Moscow)
The winners will be announced at the awarding ceremony on June 25, 2015, in Milan during the EXPO Exhibition.
Ten best stories which were sent to the Raduga Award (five from Italy, five from Russia) will be published in the 6th edition of the Literary anthology released by Conoscere Eurasia Association.This Literary anthology will be distributed in Italy and Russia in order to introduce the young authors and translators to different publishing houses and a wide range of readers. Every published composition is followed by its translation, the biography of the author and a critical article.
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The comparison and borrowing of national policies is a widespread phenomenon in all major policy areas. In education, the PISA study has resulted in a renewed interest in cross-national comparison and reception of policies. In particular, the unexpectedly low results of Germany in the PISA study have sparked increased interest in educational policies and practice elsewhere. The chapters cover a wide variety of educational sectors: vocational education and training, preparation for career choice, citizenship education, secondary and higher education, teacher training and language learning policy. These chapters are framed by more general accounts of the influence of foreign educational reform on national reform agendas and the German reaction to the results of the PISA study. This book provides insights into educational policy formation and implementation of policies into educational practice in England and Germany from a comparative perspective, and is aimed at academics, students, policy makers and the wider public with an interest in the latest developments in the long-standing mutual interest in educational matters in the two countries.


“Friendships, Relationships, and Companionship's” promises to take you to the different levels of friendships and aptly explains how each one of those is important to building and maintaining healthy relationships. In fact, Slym’s voice is one of wisdom, experience, and love with a deep message that we are all bound together as friends and companions no matter our differences.
Slym writes, in her own sarcastic way, 'this is not your average book, and I am not your average chick, here's a book where we all fit'. Laying testimony to unconditional love being the panacea to heal all, the book gently reminds you what it feels like to experience romance and that you are not alone in your seemingly impossible quest to find love.
Who Said Your Relationships Have to Model Everyone Else's?


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E-book reader is an electronic device that is used for reading books, magazines and other periodicals. Owing to its long battery life and light weight electronic reader makes an excellent portable device for bookworms and all those keen on reading. It has been generated to store thousands of books and to customize sizes and font styles. Additionally, you can look up any word in a built-in dictionary if you read a book in a foreign language. Since most of modern smartphones and tablets have special e-reader applications, you may wonder why you need an additional device to read books. The answer lies in different types of displays. Backlit screen of traditional devices makes your eyes strain and you get tired of reading very quickly. In contrast, electronic book readers use e-ink screen which makes you feel as if you were reading a paper book or magazine. E-ink is a unique technology that significantly improves contrast and reduces glare, which makes readability qualities much better. The other obvious advantage of eReader is a huge storage space where you can keep all your favorite books without a need to get rid of them. Some e-book readers feature additional built-in light so that you can easily read books in dark environment. When you choose a suitable model, also check touchscreen capabilities and screen resolution.


The Last Days of the Afghan Republic: A Doomed Evacuation 20 Years in the Making
From the publisher:
It is difficult to overstate the chaos of August 2021 for many of those in Afghanistan, particularly those who had worked closely with the international community there. In a matter of days, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and an insurgency threw out a government the international community had spent 20 years and billions of dollars supporting. A government that claimed to stand for women’s rights, freedom of the press, education and a litany of other ideals was replaced by one that did not allow girls to attend secondary school. The world watched for two weeks as crowds rushed the airport, bodies fell from planes, a suicide bomber killed civilians and soldiers, and a baby was handed to a Marine over a barbed-wire wall. The agony of lives so clearly destroyed, as people tried to flee their homeland with little to nothing, felt like images seen in the wake of natural disasters. But this was not a natural disaster. It was completely avoidable.
Part memoir and part history, The Last Days of the Afghan Republic tells this story through the experiences of Arsalan, Fatima, Zeinab and Najeeb: a scholar, a doctor, a student and a translator. These young men and women had bought into the promise of the international intervention—that if they studied, worked hard and believed in democracy and human rights, Afghanistan could become a new country. Their lives also tell the story of Afghanistan over the past 30 years. They recount, from the ground up, the political decisions on the American side that led to the “forever war,” the way that Afghan political partners squandered opportunities and the ways in which the U.S. presence unevenly reshaped Afghan society.


- Storyline: The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
- Size: 850MB
- Source: 1080p.BluRay.x264-DRONES
- Video: MKV | 1280×536
- Audio: English
- Runtime: 1h 35mn
- Subtitles: English (Selectable)


AHF-Information Nr. 21 vom 21.3.2001
This international conference, organized by the Leopold-Zunz-Zentrum zur Erforschung des europäischen Judentums (Giuseppe Veltri, Halle) and the Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreis für Renaissanceforschung (Heribert Smolinsky, Freiburg; Friedrich Niewöhner, Wolfenbüttel), focussed on a topic to date largely neglected in European Jewish and Renaissance studies. The venue, a bibliotheca illustris, offered a stimulating background. With its huge collection of early modern printed books, the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel reflects the encyclopaedic scholarship of theRenaissance and Baroque periods. The mix of participants from Europe, Israel and the United States, consisting of both younger scholars and internationally outstanding experts in the Jewish cultural history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, provided a rare opportunity for lively and natural interchange and discussion.
In his welcome address, Giuseppe Veltri stated that the aim of the conference was to present biblio-graphical and intellectual portraits of Jewish scholars, with an aim to examining their perceptions of their own identity and delineating their influence on Judaism and Christianity. As Veltri put it, the main purpose was “to trace out a map of Jewish scholarly self-perception and the adoption of Jewish scholarly thought in the Christian Renaissance, where the vir doctus was the microcosm of the templum mundi, the mirror of divine knowledge”.
David B. Ruderman (Philadelphia): “Reflections on the Social and Cultural Role of the Jewish Intellectual in the Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (1450–1700)”
Introducing his lecture with the personal remark that this was his first trip to Germany, Ruderman noted the special meaning of speaking about Jewish intellectual tradition in one of Europe’s historic intellectual centres. He then highlighted several characteristics of the Jewish intellectual in the Renaissance era: first of all, the mobility of the scholar of this period, whose encounter with different surroundings deeply influenced the fluidity and reformulation of his thought. Underlining the special role of rabbis as cultural producers, Ruderman emphasized that the frequently drawn opposition between a traditional versus an external mindset is a false dichotomy and the wrong way to assess the shaping of cultural identity in this period. As an impact of the print revolution, the Jewish intellectual of that time developed a new awareness of multiple sources of knowledge, both within Judaism and beyond. The hakham kolel, as defined by Judah Messer Leon, had to find ways to master different kinds of sources and truths and to integrate them to the extent he was able.
Ruderman referred especially to the emergence of Christian Hebraists claiming expertise in Kabbalah. To an unprecedented degree, Christians were now able to master Jewish traditions without any recourse to Jews. Ruderman stressed the fact that since the Renaissance, Jewish learning has not been the sole possession of Jews alone. With a certain hint to the situation of post-Shoah Jewish Studies in Europe, he acknowledged that this “might appear to be a natural consequence of the ambience created by the secular university, yet from the perspective of traditional Jewish culture, it might appear abnormal and bizarre”.
During the two subsequent conference days, the lectures were grouped into thematical sessions.
Adam Shear (Arlington): “Judah Moscato: A Jewish Humanist?”
The presentation offered a fresh reading of Judah Moscato’s (c.1530–c.1593) commentary on Judah Halevi’s Sefer ha-kuzari. As Adam Shear outlined, Moscato integrated a number of elements into the preface of his Kol Yehuda that may be seen as typical of humanist practice. For example, Moscato discussed the dating of Halevi’s work as well as the historicity of the frame story of the Kuzari. Moreover, Moscato considered different readings of the text, comparing several manuscripts and printed editions. As in the case of Judah Messer Leon’s Sefer nofet tsufim, Moscato’s orientation towards the Renaissance is most significantly documented by his intense interest in rhetoric, using the Kuzari as a model of good rhetorical form. Bringing the classical rhetorical concepts of Cicero and Quintilian to bear on Jewish texts, Moscato aimed to prove the compatibility between the two traditions. By describing Moscato’s commentary as an “encyclopaedization” of the Kuzari, Shear pointed to another Renaissance tendency of the Kol Yehuda. Nevertheless, Shear concluded, he would not characterize Moscato as “overwhelmed by Renaissance culture”.
Joanna Weinberg (London): “Azariah de’ Rossi: Father of Scholars”
In her lecture, Weinberg delineated an intellectual portrait of Azariah de’ Rossi (c.1511–c.1578) who was called by later maskilim a „father of scholars“. Quoting from his epitaph, whose inscription reflects Greek pagan epigrams and does not hint at the religion of the deceased at all, Weinberg pointed to the exceptional openness Rossi showed to the world around him. Nonetheless committed to his Judaism, he was conscious of living in two intellectual worlds and intentionally addressed different kinds of audiences. Weinberg exemplified this with Azariah’s assessment of the Syriac version of the Gospels: against the background of the proclamation of the Vulgate as the official text (1546), he aspires to the highest level of truth by using the Syriac text to correct the Latin one. Criticizing in this context both Talmudic authorities and Augustine, Rossi enables different kinds of readers to identify with his remarks. When he discusses how the original Aramaic inscription of the INRI at the site of Jesus’ crucifixion might have read, he even refers to images of the titulus in church paintings of the time, e.g., to Bellini. In this way we can see him entering churches and looking at paintings with a professional eye. As Weinberg stressed, Rossi’s discussion of the Gospels extends beyond mere apologetics and is a proof of his outstanding role as a “seeker after truth”.
Fabrizio Lelli (Florence): “The Reappraisal of Biography and Autobiography in Johanan Alemanno’s Writings”
According to Lelli, Johanan Alemanno was the first Jewish scholar to adopt the humanist revival of biographies and literary portraits of ancient historical figures in his own work. His commentary on the Song of the Songs, entitled Heshek Shelomo and dedicated to Pico della Mirandola, is shaped as a biography of the „classical“ Jewish King Solomon, the alleged author of the biblical book. In the manner typical of fifteenth-century life-writers, Alemanno made simultaneous use of motifs drawn from real (biblical) history and imaginary elements. History and praise were combined in a way similar to the ancient literary sub-genre of the effigies, which also inspired Renaissance artistic iconographies of real or legend-ary figures of the past. Thus, the biographic character poetically portrayed became an exemplum of virtue:as Lelli showed, Johanan described Solomon as a man who attained the ultimate human goal, attachment to God (devekut). In depicting the ancient Jewish king as the paradigm for any Jew wishing to become a universal wise man, a hakham kolel, Alemanno even revealed his autobiographic self-perception.
Martin Jacobs (Berlin): “Joseph ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio and Sixteenth-Century Historiography”
Against the background of the scholarly debate over the degree to which Renaissance historiography influenced Jewish historical writing, the lecture focussed on Joseph ha-Kohen and his Franco-Turkish chronicle. Comparing the Divre ha-yamim (1554) to its Italian sources for Ottoman history, e.g., Paolo Giovio, Jacobs showed how Joseph ha-Kohen adopted some of the rhetorical patterns of sixteenth-century Christian historiography. He followed his sources in numerical data and other details, but denied their secular tendencies, reintroducing into the material a religious factor which was intentionally ignored by humanist historians. As Jacobs stressed, ha-Kohen was not the only Italian chronicler who rejected the humanist concept of history. So did the writers of the universal chronicles newly emerging in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In the case of ha-Kohen, Jacobs explained the ambiguities in his historical writings as an expression of the ambivalent situation of a Jewish intellectual who, thanks to the invention of the printing press, had access to new sources of information, but lived under social conditions quite different from those of the famous humanist historians. His special problem of integrating Jewish and general history mirrors the fact that even in Renaissance Italy, Jews were not integrated within Christian society.
Harvey Hames (Beer-Sheva): “Elijah del Medigo: An Archetype of the Halakhic Man?”
Elijah del Medigo is frequently portrayed as an extreme rational Averroist, a proponent of the double-truth doctrine and an anti-kabbalist. According to Hames, however, a careful reading of Elijah’s Behinat ha-dat (1496) suggests that the book does not endorse even one of these concepts. For Elijah, philosophy functioned as a key to the intellectual world of his time, but could never be the criterion for examining faith. Although Behinat ha-dat was written after the author’s return to Crete (1490), the work should be interpreted in the light of Elijah’s Italian years and his contacts with leading Christian intellectuals. The use made by Marcilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola of the Kabbalah in the service of Christianity led Elijah to re-examine his own religious beliefs. For Elijah, the affinity between Kabbalah and Neoplatonism clearly demonstrates its lack of potential for revealing the truth, and consequently cannot be used to prove the veracity of Christianity. At the end of his lecture, Hames drew intriguing parallels between Elijah’s identification of the true person of faith and Joseph Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man (written in 1944). Soloveitchik, like Elijah, deals with problems posed by philosophy and recalling challenges of Christianity, and finds the true answers within the realms of Halakhah.
Eleazar Gutwirth (Tel Aviv): “Amatus Lusitanus and Converso Culture”
Emphasizing Iberian and Converso aspects in Amatus Lusitanus’s (1511–1568) writings, Gutwirth pointed to how this scholar of Portuguese origin had perceived himself and shaped his identity. Amatus had studied in Salamanca, served as a physician in Ferrara, treated Pope Julius III several times and finally, as many other neophytes, escaped from Ancona to Salonika. His literary fame is due to his commentary on Dioscorides(1553) and his Centuriae (written between 1549 and 1561),in which Amatus collected 700 medical case studies and described their treatment and results. As Gutwirth made plausible, Amatus’s work should be characterized as an amalgam of history, geography and medicine. Following the scholarly practice of his time, Amatus was concerned with the reliability of classical medical texts and distinguished between text, translation and commentaries. He does not care whether a text comes “from the Romans, Arabs or the Christians”; what matters to him is its quality. National characteristics are explained by Amatus as products of natural causes: in describing the treatment of Azariah de’ Rossi, he attributes the so-called Jewish melancholy to a bad diet. His medical ethics and his adherence to Judaism are demonstrated in a special oath in the name of the Ten Commandments.
Sina Rauschenbach (Berlin): “Joseph Albo: Between Science and Belief”
The presentation dealt with Joseph Albo’s Sefer ha-ikkarim, written a few decades before the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula. It described how Albo (c.1360 – still active in 1433) combined two apparently contradictory conceptions of Judaism, one scientific and the other dogmatic. Rauschenbach stressed the fact that the Sefer ha-ikkarim was targeted at a special audience, Jews who had become uncertain in their religious belief due to Christian repression, missionary activities and forced disputations. Against this background, the “scientific approach” proves to be not only an apology for Judaism, but a polemic against Christianity as well. While Judaism is depicted by Albo as the only logical conclusion from the premises required by any divine law, Christians and Muslims are obliged to question the divine character of their laws. As Rauschenbach showed, Albo’s “scientific approach” is subordinated to the dogmatic one and finally turns out to be no more than a substitute for belief should that fail.
Alessandro Guetta (Paris): “Abraham Portaleone’s Aspiration to be a Teacher”
Based on a comparison between two works by Abraham Portaleone (1542–1612), De auro dialoghi tres (1582) and Shiltei ha-gibborim (1612),Guetta’s lecture reconstructed Portaleone’s intellectual development. The earlier Latin dialogue dealt with the possible medicinal uses of gold and reflected in this context on good scientific method and the limitations of knowledge. Towards the end of his life, Portaleone harnessed his secular scholarship to the service of religious erudition and practice. In Shiltei ha-gibborim, he later describedthe architecture, furniture and rites of the Jerusalem Temple. The main question posed by Guetta was whether certain aspects of the younger Portaleone’s scientific thinking found their way into his late work. According to Guetta, Portaleone’s earlier experimentalist vision was then incorporated into an altogether different conceptual framework: in Shiltei ha-gibborim,Portaleone envisaged secular science as ancillary to sacred science. The result was “no harmonious integration of science and religion, nor was it a negation of modernity”.
Giuseppe Veltri (Halle): “Leone Ebreo’s Concept of a Jewish Philosophy”
Was Judah Leone ben Isaac Sommo (1527–1592), also known as Leone Ebreo, “the only real Jewish Renaissance philosopher”, or was his Dialoghi d’ amore (1541) “a book of philosophy written by a Jew”? Proceeding from these quotations taken from the history of scholarship, Veltri opened his lecture on Leone’s dialogues which celebrate the cosmic love between God, the universe and man. In contrast to previous scholarship, Veltri pointed out that the problem of Leone’s position among Renaissance intellectuals is not the Jewishness of his speculations, but the literary and philosophical value of his writing. Leone’s use of the symbolic images of the sun, the mirror, and the light in explaining the process of knowledge, starting from God down to the level of man, is deeply influenced by Marsilio Ficino. Leone’s novelty consists in the claim that the doctrines of the triune nature of God as lover, beloved and love and the divine wisdom as a unique divinity, known in triune form, are originally Jewish. The exceptional echo enjoyed by Leone’s work was due to its popular appeal, namely as a non-academic attempt to harmonize Plato with Aristotle, coupled with its entertaining character. According to Veltri, the Dialoghi should not be considered a tractate of philosophy but a “vulgarization of philosophical ideas” circulating at the time throughout the Renaissance world.
Gianfranco Miletto (Halle): “David ben Abraham Provenzale et son fils Abraham: Un projet pédagogique dans son contexte historique”
The presentation (in French) described the pedagogical concepts of Abraham Provenzale and his father David as preserved in the programme for the foundation of a Jewish “academy” in Mantua in 1564. The project aimed at the education of Jewish youth in both the Torah and secular sciences, so as to enable them to limit the period of time needed for their later studies at Christian universities. That would assist them in resisting accommodation to Christian habits. Provenzale’s curriculum, paying special attention to the ethical, religious and cultural formation of the disciples, included studies in the written and oral law, Jewish philosophy, grammar, rhetoric and calligraphy, as well as in Latin, arithmetic, geometry, geography and astrology. As Miletto explained, this studium generale resembled contemporary educational concepts of the Counter-Reformation, especially the pedagogical system of the Jesuits. In the Jewish context, the need to reform the traditional yeshiva, its didactics and cultural contents, had already been voiced a few years prior to Provenzale by the Maharal of Prague. But it remained a desideratum; similar concepts were again formulated by Leopold Zunz in 1840 upon the opening of the Jewish Seminar in Berlin.
Daniel Abrams (Tel Aviv): “Hypostatic Wisdom and Imitatio Dei: Kabbalistic Interpretations of Attaining Wisdom Through the Renaissance”
Reviewing the history of traditions from biblical texts through late antique Jewish works until the Middle Ages, Abrams showed how wisdom (hokhma) was identified with the Torah; attaining its wisdom was defined as an erotic pursuit by men of the feminine. Nevertheless, early kabbalistic texts transformed the feminized wisdom of the Bible into the masculine second Sefirah which couples with the femine third Sefirah, i.e., binah (“understanding”). As Abrams put it, the (male) kabbalist realizes the Bible’s image of feminized wisdom through the theosophic symbol of the masculine Sefirah of hokhma,which in turn is known to him through its actualization in the feminine binah. Of course, the Jewish concepts of wisdom during the Renaissance were to some extent only an expansion of earlier conceptions. At the same time, a transformation of the concept of hakham took place, from someone who attaches himself to divine wisdom to a person who learns various disciplines of knowl-edge derivative of greater wisdom and the divine intellect. Moreover, it was not until the Renaissance, and the works of Johanan Alemanno in particular, that the kabbalist was identified as the human extension of divine wisdom.
Johann Maier (Weilheim): “The Significance of Philosophy for the Kabbalah of Moses Cordovero”
Due to its didactic style and systematic character, Moses Cordovero’s Sefer pardes rimmonim (completed 1548), in which Cordovero (1522–1570) interpreted passages from Zoharic literature, became a widespread manual of kabbalistic theology. While the subject of Cordovero’s handbook was mainly the kabbalistic literature of the Middle Ages, it preserved to a remarkable extent Jewish philosophical tradition during a period when secular learning was often looked upon as detrimental within Jewish intellectual life. According to Maier, it was only against the background of Lurianic symbolism that Cordovero appeared as an exceptionally lucid and rational kabbalistic writer. Cordovero acquired his philosophical terminology by his study of the classical Jewish theological and kabbalistic authors of the Middle Ages. Due to their influence, he absorbed certain concepts of the Aristotelian line as represented by Maimonides. According to Maier’s interpretation of Cordovero, philosophy is nevertheless one of the “short” sciences, belonging to a realm ontologically below that of kabbalistic studies. For Cordovero, philosophers will conclude that there must be a first cause or mover, but they are unable to deal with the Sefirot and with the Eyn-Sof.
Moshe Idel (Jerusalem): “Safed in Italy. On Interpretations of Tsimtsum in Italian Kabbalah”
Describing the adaption of the earlier Safedian Kabbalah by Italian kabbalists of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the philosophical modes of thinking during the Renaissance, Idel traced the conceptional changes caused by the transition of a corpus from one cultural area to another. In this context, he stressed “the assimilation of one type of thought, the mythical visions of Luria, into an ambience impregnated by a Neoplatonic mode of thinking”. Idel exemplified this thesis using the concept of tsimtsum („contraction“), which was understood in Luria’s circle as a “real” event taking place within the highest divine realm, but interpreted in an allegorical manner by Italian kabbalists in keeping with the philosophical grids familiar to them. According to Idel, the awareness of the appropriation of Kabbalah by Christians caused a strong reaction in Lurianism, now emphasizing the particularistic and esoteric aspects of Kabbalah. It could be seen as a historical irony that Lurianic Kabbalah had such an impact on Christian Kabbalah, because the mythical material was reduced by Italian Jewish thinkers to unhistorical speculative truths.
In his final remarks, Idel addressed the longstanding debate concerning whether there was indeed a Jewish Renaissance at all. Idel distinguished between Jewish kabbalists writing between 1470 and 1550 and later ones. The former certainly contributed to the emergence of the speculative aspects of Italian Renaissance, while the late sixteenth-century Italian Jewish kabbalists were less original thinkers. Their contribution mainly consisted in bringing together divergent forms of knowledge. Nevertheless, this aspect is a characteristic of the Renaissance. Although Idel restricted this remark to kabbalistic writers, this differentiation certainly could also be applied to other Jewish scholars whose work was discussed during the conference.
Freie Universität Berlin
(Zuerst veröffentlicht in: Newsletter of the European Association for Jewish Studies 10 (März 2001), S. 20–24.
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