Author: Edna Amir Coffin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: level, hebrew, modern, encounters
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1992-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472082213
ISBN-13: 9780472082216

A new text for the teaching of modern Hebrew

Author: Edna Amir Coffin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: level, hebrew, modern, encounters
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472065408
ISBN-13: 9780472065400

Encounters in Modern Hebrew is designed to fulfill the needs of English-speaking students of Hebrew who seek oral and written communication and reading comprehension. Extensively classroom-tested at the University of Michigan, the text provides the means to acquire a meaningful command of the Hebrew language with an emphasis on an expansive vocabulary and a variety of language domains. Employing interesting exercises and activities, Encounters in Modern Hebrew, Level 3 incorporates many current communicative and culturally-based approaches to mastering a foreign language. Encounters in Modern

Author: Edna Amir Coffin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: level, hebrew, modern, encounters
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1993-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472064908
ISBN-13: 9780472064908

An innovative approach to the teaching of modern Hebrew

Authors:Edna Amir Coffin, Shmuel Bolozky,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reference, grammars, hebrew, modern, grammar
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2005-04-04
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521527333
ISBN-13: 9780521527330

This organized, accessible guide to all aspects of contemporary Hebrew grammar presents the basic structures of the language. It uses a minimum of specialized linguistic terminology to analyze grammatical categories, phrases, expressions, and the construction of clauses and sentences. Verb and noun tables are provided as well as a comprehensive index in this useful teaching resource and easy-to-use reference tool.

Author: Jaed Coffin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: elephants, wild, soothe, chant
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0306815265
ISBN-13: 9780306815263

A simple story of a rain season in Thailand and a young man at the intersection of two cultures. Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England’s privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants chronicles his time at the temple that rain season--receiving alms in the streets in saffron robes; bathing in

Author: Stewart T. Coffin
Publisher: AK Peters
Keywords: design, puzzle, geometric
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 1568813120
ISBN-13: 9781568813127

This book discusses how to design good geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical design and woodworking tips to encourage the reader to build his own puzzles and experiment with his own designs. Aesthetics, phychology, and mathematical considerations all factor into the definition of the quality of a puzzle.

Author: Michael J. Coffin
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: hvac, systems, building, control, digital, direct
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1998-12
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 0412145316
ISBN-13: 9780412145315

Since the publication of the first edition in 1992, the HVAC industry has gone through enormous changes. As simple digital systems have given way to more complex systems, demand for information on how these systems operate, how they are best applied and how they communicate with other building control systems has grown rapidly. Direct Digital Control for Building Systems, Second Edition is thoroughly updated and expanded to include coverage of the architecture of modern digital control systems, distributed intelligence networked systems, communication protocols, the technologies and i