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43) The historian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
44) Maya
Author
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It is 1975 and India is in turmoil. American Stanley Harrington arrives to study Sanskrit philosophy and escape his failing marriage. When he finds himself witness to a violent accident, he begins to question his grip on reality. Maya introduces us to an entertaining cast of hippies, expats, and Indians of all walks of life. From a hermit hiding in the Himalayan jungle since the days of the British Raj, to an accountant at the Bank of India with a...
46) Sa'adyah Gaon
Author
Publisher
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Rogues to riches novel volume 2
Publisher
Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A widowed duchess falls in love with a bookish gentleman, but the enemies that drove her from London threaten her new romance.
Series
Biblical scholarship in North America volume Number 29
Publisher
SBL Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A long-awaited memoir by the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspired the Tiananmen Square protests describes how in spite of his scientific contributions he was sentenced to hard labor for decades and eventually sought asylum from the U.S.,"--NoveList.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber. An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments-such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three-Mendes-Flohr shows how this foundational...
Author
Publisher
Policy Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What opportunities do digital technologies present? How do developments in digital media support scholarship and teaching yet further social justice? Written by two experts in the field, this accessible book is the first to look at scholarly practice in the digital era and consider how it can connect academics, journalists and activists in ways that foster transformation on issues of social justice. The terra firma of scholarly practice is changing....
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Eileen Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and 70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale, where, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate, summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university's first two women to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence,...