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The purpose of this book is to show how mathematics can be applied to improve cancer chemotherapy. Unfortunately, most drugs used in treating cancer kill both normal and abnormal cells. However, more cancer cells than normal cells can be destroyed by the drug because tumor cells usually exhibit different growth kinetics than normal cells. To capitalize on this last fact, cell kinetics must be studied by formulating mathematical models of norma...

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1: Founding Theories of Modernity and the Critique of Jewish Practice 2: Twentieth-Century Theories of Modernity and the Study of Jewish Practice 3: The Distinctiveness of Modern Jewish Practice 4: The Politics of Jewish Ritual Observance 5: New Reasons for Old Commandments: The Strategy of Symbolic Explanation 6: Nostalgia as Modern Jewish Mitzvah 7: Buber, Rosenzweig, and the Authority of the ...

Eisen analyzes the attempts of American Jewish thinkers to adapt the notion of closeness to the context of the new country. He traces the reinterpretations of "second-generation" American Jews and examines the "third generation" (1955 to the present).

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Ongoing processes in the European Union and the South American Mercosur enforce political and institutional reforms. Economists and politicians must be able to understand these processes to formulate strategic scenarios, to design and implement interventions which contribute favorably to the future. Under four headings the discussion is organized: regional economic integration with respect to financial markets (and the consequences for Basel I...

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Jews, like other Americans, have both benefited and suffered from the fraying of traditional loyalties that has come to characterize modern American culture. Arnold M. Eisen relates a major issue or theme in his vision for the renewal of Jewish communities to each of the five books of the Torah. What is the meaning and purpose of Jewish tradition? What is the significance of faith and covenant? What are the contemporary uses of ritual? What sh...