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The New American Judaism: The Way Forward on Challenging Issues from Intermarriage to Jewish Identity
Popular Washington, D.C. rabbi and psychotherapist Arthur Blecher believes that the American Jewish community is actually flourishing amidst fears of dying out. He shows us that intermarriage strengthens Judaism--a concept that many Jews continue to debate. In straightforward and engaging chapters, he provides a progressive and positive outline of how this religion has changed over the years, and why American Jewish culture must be embraced and discussed in depth in Jewish families. This is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which social and psychological forces created a new and quite different form of Judaism in America more than one hundred years ago. .
Price: $12.25
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Weaving In the Arts: Widening the Learning Circle
Weaving In the Arts: Widening the Learning Circle offers new ways for classroom teachers to broaden the definition of literacy to include music, dance, poetry, and the visual arts. The authors share what they have learned from incorporating the fine arts into the daily curriculum: how teachers can help students use the fine arts as a bridge to reading and writing, and as valid ways of interpreting the world around them. Drawing on the work of Howard Gardner, Elliot Eisner, and others, this book offers an inspired look at a curriculum where the fine arts are viewed as a "methodology" for helping students interpret what they know and understand. The authors begin by describing their own program: how they set up a learning environment conducive to the fine arts, how they reclaimed poetry as a natural response to learning, how they focused upon drawing for understanding. Then they explain how, through immersion "workshops," students "get inside the skin" of creative artists and think about the unique ways these people approach learning. Readers will discover how students: - use music, dance, and the visual arts to develop multiple perspectives on their learning of science, math, and the language arts
- experiment with movement to interpret thinking
- create student operas as a response to story
- live and work in workshop environments to view learning from the inside out.
The book also includes extensive annotated bibliographies of books, CDs, audiotapes, and videotapes that teachers can use in curriculum planning. Although Blecher and Jaffee describe their work in a primary classroom, preservice and inservice teachers at all levels, particularly elementary and middle school, have much to gain from reading this book. It offers a different perspective on the learning process and encourages readers to look at the curriculum in new ways. .
Price: $18.95
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Scarred Hearts
Emmanuel, a young man with spinal tuberculosis and confined to a sanatorium outside Paris, narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly atrophy and die. Blending dark humor and pathos, Scarred Hearts was hailed as a masterpiece on publication in Romanian in 1939, and was more recently compared to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and the fiction of Franz Kafka. Like Emmanuel, Max Blecher suffered from tuberculosis of the spine, and spent the last year of his life in a full body cast and wheelchair, before dying at age twenty-nine with two novels completed. .
Price: $10.17
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Swedish Folktales and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
Sirens, trolls, giants, household spirits, and ghosts come to life in this unique collection of voices from Sweden's folkloric past. Swedish Folktales and Legends is a diverse and representative sampling of stories from Sweden's centuries-old folklore tradition. Ranging from the ribald to the romantic, from the rustic to the mystical, from farmers' jokes to epiphanies, these are lively new translations of 150 tales drawn from unique sources including the Swedish National Folklore Archives and numerous private collections. Illustrated with woodcuts and drawings throughout.
Price: $13.99
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The Thirty Years' War (Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation) (Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation)
By turns ironic and uproarious, The Thirty Years' War is about a soldier who carried on World War II by himself, years after it officially ended. In satirizing war and the making of a war hero, the controversial Finland-Swedish writer Henrik Tikkanen gives many a nod to American culture and the American military. His comic novel, reminiscent of the best writing of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., is now available in English, ten years after its original publication in Finland. The twenty drawings are by Tikkanen, a noted artist and caricaturist as well as author. The Thirty Years' War was translated into English by George and Lone Thygesen Blecher, who were named Translators of the Year in 1984 by the American Library Association. The afterword is by George C. Schoolfield, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages at Yale University, and an authority on Scandinavian literature. .
Price: $4.25
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Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs
With nearly six million healthcare workers handling hazardous drugs every year, and reports of contamination in the workplace rising since the early 1990s, the need for nurses to focus on safe handling education has become even more paramount. Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs, now available in a new, third edition, provides you with the guidelines and techniques you need to safely handle these medications. Updated with new tables, figures, and format which allows for a more thorough discussion of the content, Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs helps to translate the recommended procedures into safe practice for nurses who administer hazardous drugs in the care of patients. The book features important information on drug administration and preparation, risks of occupational exposure, disposal of hazardous materials, management of spills, safety measures, and staff education and training..
Price: $28.15
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