Authors:Meni Koslowsky, Avraham N. Kluger, Mordechai Reich,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: coping, stress, springer, series, effects, causes, commuting, methods
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1995-08-31
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 0306450372
ISBN-13: 9780306450372

This singular book describes various aspects of the commuting experience and delineates a process linking causes and consequences of commuting stress. The authors quote extensive survey data from metropolitan areas and examine literature on the known psychological, physiological, attitudinal, and behavioral consequences of commuting. They then provide a model integrating these variables. This comprehensive text features specific coping recommendations at the individual, governmental, and organizational levels.

Author: Mordechai Ben-Ari
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: checker, model, spin, principles
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-01-07
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1846287693
ISBN-13: 9781846287695

"Principles of Spin" is an introductory book, the only requirement is a background in programming. Spin models are written in the Promela language which is easily learned by students and programmers. Spin is easy to install and use. The Spin model checker is not only a widely used professional tool but it is also a superb tool for teaching important concepts of computer science such as verification, concurrency and nondeterminism. The book introduces Spin-based software that the author has developed for teaching: jSpin - an integrated development environment for Spin. SpinSpider - uses output

Author: Mordechai Ben-Ari
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: programming, distributed, concurrent, principles
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-03-06
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 032131283X
ISBN-13: 9780321312839

The latest edition of a classic text on concurrency and distributed programming – from a winner of the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.

Author: Mordechai Abir
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gulf, crisis, society, government, arabia, saudi
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1993-03-10
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0415093252
ISBN-13: 9780415093255

Mordechai Abir examines the social and political forces that have shaped Saudi Arabia, assessing the impact of Islam and Westernization. He draws heavily on Saudi sources to analyze regional security dilemmas and the future prospects for Saudi Arabia. This revised edition of Abir’s influential Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era includes coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and its aftermath.

Author: Mordechai Nisan
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: struggle, expression, history, east, middle, minorities
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 2002-09
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0786413751
ISBN-13: 9780786413751

The struggle for independence by minorities in the Middle East (those people who are non–Arab or non–Muslim) is affecting the political climate around the world. War and terrorism are threatening the safety of many minority communities and repression of minorities still remains standard state policy in some countries. This updated and revised edition of the 1991 original provides a wealth of historical and political detail for all the indigenous peoples of the Middle East. Pressed to persist in a threatening environment, these minorities (Kurds, Berbers, Baluchi, Druzes, ‘Alawites,

Authors:Mordechai Rotenberg, Mordechai Rotenberg,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: system, psychotherapeutic, jewish, irrationality, rationality
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2004-10-27
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0765805839
ISBN-13: 9780765805836

For Rotenberg, a person’s life becomes the “text,” subject to being read and interpreted. If that person wishes to change his or her behavior through psychotherapy, then a hermeneutic system must be employed to understand that person’s life. However, many systems interpret a person’s life according to the particular theory espoused by the therapist. Rotenberg, in contrast, introduces a balanced theory bridging the rational and the irrational. Between Rationality and Irrationality emphasizes that it is more important for a therapist to learn his client’s own “language” than to

Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: xxiii, volume, universities, history
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0199550328
ISBN-13: 9780199550326

Volume XXII/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.