Authors:Rachel Brodie, Rachel Brodie, Vicky Kelman,
Publisher: Alef Design Group
Keywords: first, century, twenty, casebook, family, education, jewish
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1891662171
ISBN-13: 9781891662171

A project of the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, Jewish Family Education offers cases and commentaries that highlight issues of working with families in educational settings. This collection of cases, all of which document dilemmas in family education, can play a role in the education of both experienced and novice family educators. Included are case studies with commentaries, matched text studies, analysis and facilitators notes to running study sessions. Also available:I Have Some Questions About God - ISBN 1891662155Journeys Through the Siddur: Shabbat Morning - ISBN 189166241

Author: Nic Kelman
Publisher: Assouline
Keywords: art, game, video
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2006-01-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 2843237297
ISBN-13: 9782843237294

By 2008 most analysts predict that the video game industry will be larger than the film and music industries combined. Games today already command Hollywood budgets and teams of dozens of artists, writers, musicians, and designers...and yet almost nothing has been written about their art and design from a non-technical viewpoint.Video Game Art is a first look from an art history and post-modern cultural perspective at the influences behind, and achievements of today s genre-defining video games. Examining themes such as character, environment, and the growing place of video games among more tr

Author: Nic Kelman
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: paean, girls
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0316155969
ISBN-13: 9780316155960

Author: Ari Kelman
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: series, goren, american, jewish, history, goldstein, reader, system, milt, gross, comic, diss
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-12-09
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0814748236
ISBN-13: 9780814748237

Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H. L. Mencken and Constance Roarke, even while some of his Jewish colleagues found Gross’ extreme renderings of Jewish accents to be more crass than comical.Working during the decline of vaudeville and the rise of the newspaper cartoon strip, Gross captured American hu

Author: Steven Kelman
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: renewal, government, organizational, study, change, unleashing
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2005-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 081574899X
ISBN-13: 9780815748991

This is a hopeful account of the potential for organizational change and improvement within government. Despite the mantra that “people resist change,” it is possible to effect meaningful reform in a large bureaucracy. In Unleashing Change, public management expert Steven Kelman presents a blueprint for accomplishing such improvements, based on his experience orchestrating procurement reform in the 1990s. Kelman’s focuses on making change happen on the front lines, not just getting it announced by senior policymakers. He argues that frequently there will be a constituency for chan

Author: John Kelman
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: books, famous, among
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0554331756
ISBN-13: 9780554331751

The object of the following lectures is twofold. They were delivered in the first place for the purpose of directing the attention of readers to books whose literary charm and spiritual value have made them conspicuous in the vast literature of England.

Author: James Kelman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Keywords: stories, selected, scotch, busted
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393317773
ISBN-13: 9780393317770

Busted Scotch is a selection by James Kelman of 35 short stories--most of them published in this country for the first time--from over two decades of his work. They reveal the author as a tough-minded master of the short form, which he infuses with his unique brand of bleak comedy and his absolute belief in the primacy of his character’s language and culture.