Author: Leslie Alan Horvitz
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: world, changed, breakthroughs, scientific, eureka
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-01-04
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0471402761
ISBN-13: 9780471402763

The common language of genius: Eureka!While the roads that lead to breakthrough scientific discovery can be as varied and complex as the human mind, the moment of insight for all scientists is remarkably similar. The word "eureka!", attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, has come to express that universal moment of joy, wonder-and even shock-at discovering something entirely new. In this collection of twelve scientific stories, Leslie Alan Horvitz describes the drama of sudden insight as experienced by a dozen distinct personalities, detailing discoveries both well known and

Authors:Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz,
Publisher: S.P.I. Books
Keywords: baseball, jewish, book
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1561719730
ISBN-13: 9781561719730

From the beginning, Jews have played a prominent role in our national pastime, the game of baseball, but have often been ignored. This is the first baseball encyclopedia dedicated to naming and honoring every Jewish contributor. These often remarkable stories ensure they will no longer be forgotten. The Big Book of Jewish Baseball covers everything, from tragic moments such as Herb Gorman dying on the ball field, and Erskine Meyer quitting the sport after finding out about his teammates (on the 1919 White Sox) taking bribes, to happier occasions such as Koufax’s perfect game as

Author: Leslie Alan Glick
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: customs, law, modernization, trade, guide, states, united
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $257.00
ISBN-10: 9041127046
ISBN-13: 9789041127044

With the intensified focus on antiterrorism in US trade policy-and the transfer of the Customs Service from the US Treasury Department to the Department of Homeland Security as the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection-traditional ways of thinking about customs and trade law are now out of date. In light of the war on terrorism and the emphasis on border security, businesses engaged in the crossborder exchange of goods face a multitude of new laws and initiatives-in addition to the traditional array of responsibilities required by the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and Immigrati

Author: Peter S. Horvitz
Publisher: S.P.I. Book
Keywords: sports, jewish, stars, judaica, library, greatest, collectibles, compendium, heros, illustrated, book, history
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1561719072
ISBN-13: 9781561719075

Meet the most accomplished and interesting Jewish athletes in the history of sports in this entertaining new title by the author of The Big Book Of Jewish Baseball. Its heroes range from the pioneering boxing displays of Daniel Mendoza to the baseball triumphs of Sandy Koufax & today’s Shawn Green. Here you’ll learn about the little-known Sphas, Philadelphia’s all-Jewish, world champion basketball team, as well as the well-known football triumphs of Sid Luckman and Jay Fiedler. They’re all featured in this mini-encyclopedia: yesterday’s legends & today’s ris

Author: Deborah M. Horvitz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: suny, fiction, series, psychoanalysis, culture, women, american, sadism, trauma, memory, sexual, violence, literary
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2000-12
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 079144712X
ISBN-13: 9780791447123

Examines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women. This book examines portrayals of political and psychological trauma, particularly sexual trauma, in the work of seven American women writers. Concentrating on novels by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, Gayl Jones, Leslie Marmon Silko, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Atwood, Horvitz investigates whether memories of violent and oppressive trauma can be preserved, even transformed into art, without reproducing that violence. The book encompasses a wide range o

Author: Leslie Brubaker and Kallirroe LinardouLeslie Brub
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: society, promotion, byzantine, studies, byzantium, wine, merry, luke, food, drink
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754661199
ISBN-13: 9780754661191

This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products.The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise, ranging from its rhetorical uses - food as a metaphor for redemption; food as politics; eating as a vice, abstinence as a virtue - to more practical applications such as the preparation of food, processing it, preserving it, and selling it abroad. We learn how the Byzantines viewed their diet, and how

Authors:Leslie Bulion,  Leslie Eva,
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Keywords: stink, hey
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 158089304X
ISBN-13: 9781580893046

Witty poems describe how insects capture prey, trick predators, attract mates, and have survived for 400 million years. Includes information about bug behavior. Discussion guide available at charlesbridge.com.