Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance

Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance
Yaron Peleg | 2008-12-01 00:00:00 | University of Texas Press | 170 | Middle East
Over the past two decades, profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result, the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned, prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled, however, by the Palestinian uprising in 2000, which spurred at least a partial return to more traditional perceptions of homeland. Looking at Israeli literature of the late twentieth century, Yaron Peleg shows how a young, urban class of Israelis felt alienated from the Zionist values of their forebears, and how they adopted a form of escapist romanticism as a defiant response that replaced traditional nationalism.One of the first books in English to identify the end of the post-Zionist era through inspired readings of Hebrew literature and popular media, "Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas" examines Israel's ambivalent relationship with Jewish nationalism at the end of the twentieth century.
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"Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Peleg's book interview ran here as cover feature on April 21, 2009.

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The Social Play Record: A Toolkit for Assessing And Developing Social Play from Infancy to Adolescence (Jkp Resource Materials)

The Social Play Record: A Toolkit for Assessing And Developing Social Play from Infancy to Adolescence (Jkp Resource Materials)
Chris White | 2006-08-30 00:00:00 | Jessica Kingsley Publishers | 143 | Mental Health
Social play is about relating to others, playing and making friends - all of which are key elements for social inclusion, adjustment and well-being. "The Social Play Record" is a practical resource for assessing and developing social play in children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) or difficulties with social interaction. This toolkit is designed to be used collaboratively with children, parents, carers and practitioners. It is suitable for assessing children of all learning abilities and stages of development, from early infancy to adolescence, and includes photocopiable assessment and intervention materials. The toolkit is divided into user-friendly sections, including: a guidance section, which also gives information on what constitutes social play, its significance, development and how to address social interaction difficulties; an assessment section for recording stages of social play and key abilities, such as independent and peer play, friendship and advanced group skills; an intervention section, which gives step-by-step directions for developing key social play skills. Parents, teachers and professionals working with or caring for a child with social interaction difficulties will find this toolkit an essential assessment resource.

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Practical Text Mining with Perl (Wiley Series on Methods and Applications in Data Mining)

Practical Text Mining with Perl (Wiley Series on Methods and Applications in Data Mining)
| 2008-08-18 00:00:00 | | 0 | Perl


Provides readers with the methods, algorithms, and means to perform text mining tasks

This book is devoted to the fundamentals of text mining using Perl, an open-source programming tool that is freely available via the Internet (www.perl.org). It covers mining ideas from several perspectives--statistics, data mining, linguistics, and information retrieval--and provides readers with the means to successfully complete text mining tasks on their own.

The book begins with an introduction to regular expressions, a text pattern methodology, and quantitative text summaries, all of which are fundamental tools of analyzing text. Then, it builds upon this foundation to explore: Probability and texts, including the bag-of-words model Information retrieval techniques such as the TF-IDF similarity measure Concordance lines and corpus linguistics Multivariate techniques such as correlation, principal components analysis, and clustering Perl modules, German, and permutation tests

Each chapter is devoted to a single key topic, and the author carefully and thoughtfully introduces mathematical concepts as they arise, allowing readers to learn as they go without having to refer to additional books. The inclusion of numerous exercises and worked-out examples further complements the book's student-friendly format.

Practical Text Mining with Perl is ideal as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in text mining and as a reference for a variety of professionals who are interested in extracting information from text documents.

Macroeconomics: Principles and Applications, Reprint

Macroeconomics: Principles and Applications, Reprint
Robert E. Hall,Marc Lieberman | 2009-02-10 00:00:00 | South-Western College Pub | 528 | Economics
Because issues of policy and real applications are critical to the principles of economics course, acclaimed economists Hall and Lieberman have made the fourth edition of MACROECONOMICS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS as current as today's headlines, giving students a real-world, up-to-the-minute overview that presents economics as a unified discipline. Taking a no-nonsense, policy approach to economic theory and application, this comprehensive text is very accessible, equipping readers with a solid foundation in economics that they can build upon wherever their career paths may lead. A wealth of interactive online exercises, graphing applications, and research opportunities give students hands-on experience working with current economic issues. Hall and Lieberman's careful focus on core theoretical ideas and systematic application of theoretical tools to timely, practical questions conveys the message that economics is an integrated, powerful body of knowledge that can effectively address domestic and global issues.
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This book was supposed to have been received by the end of January. It was ordered approx Jan 4. As of Feb 7, it has not been received. It has been requested the book be returned. There has been no communication with this seller.
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This seller is a nice person. He shipped a wrong book to me at beginning. After I told him, I received another correct one without charge, and he told me that I didn't have to mail the wrong one back. Books' qualities are good.

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Presentation Skills For Managers

Presentation Skills For Managers
Jennifer Rotondo, Mike Rotondo Jr. | 2001-01-01 00:00:00 | McGraw-Hill | 180 | Management
Jennifer Rotondo, Mike Rotondo Jr., "Presentation Skills For Managers"
McGraw-Hill | 2001 | ISBN: 0071379304 | 180 pages | PDF | 4 MB

This reader-friendly series is must read for all levels of managers
ll managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little brushing-up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books Series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations.
The ability to give a great presentation can be a tremendous career booster, while the opposite can keep a manager on a dead-end path. Presentation Skills for Managers is a practical, advice-filled book on how to create and make compelling and persuasive presentations. Besides reviewing material on preparing and delivering effective presentations, it includes new special coverage of the development and use of Powerpoint slides, something not found in most books on presentations.
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Atlantic Salmon in Maine

Atlantic Salmon in Maine
Committee on Atlantic Salmon in Maine,National Research Council | 2004-09-09 00:00:00 | National Academies Press | 304 | Conservation

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Banana Games Vol. 3 (v. 3)

Banana Games Vol. 3 (v. 3)
Christian Zanier | 2007-01-03 00:00:00 | Amerotica | 48 | Fantasy
After the orgy of violence that has befallen she-boy Alex and the amazingly buxom Simone, Alex, in a stupor, or possibly even coma, dreams back to her past from grimy sex for sale to a sublime encounter with Simone??? Not quite as violent as the previous volumes, this one breathes with the heat and surrender of sweet sex, as we get to know Alex better.
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After two blood-and-gore fests, Mr. Zanier pulled back on those and ramped up the sex in a flashback by the shemale. All I can say is, "It's about time!" The first two made me very leery about getting this one, but now I'm glad I did. I hope this trend continues in Volume 4.
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after being on the run, and having hualed-up in mexico for 10 years(!!!), our heroines are cornered by a swat team,, where some serious lead-exchange goes down....i wont give-out the spoilers....but the story's 80% flashback , 20% actual events....

and dare i say....

ITS QUITE TRAGIC.....CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT ITERATION(if theres ever going to be one)

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