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The drasha, or traditional sermon delivered during services, is a rabbi's primary means of conveying Torah ideology and inspiration to his congregants. Many a shulgoer has recounted how, in trying moments of life, the refrain of a rabbi's drasha echoing in his or her head has provided the fortitude and clarity to rise to life's challenges. An engaging and thought-provoking speaker, Rabbi Avraham Steinberg now turns his talents to the art of wr...

40 photocopiable activities designed to improve children's fine motor control, pencil grip and hand-eye coordination.

After spending a not-so-successful day with Dad on the mini golf course for Father's Day, all ends well when Froggy presents his dad with a special coffee mug he decorated in school. Full color.

For many readers, especially trainers and educationalists, the thoroughness of this book is likely to be attractive. The added advantage of O'Connor et al's book is that it covers social work for both adults and children. [This book] is likely to appear on many social work reading lists. [It has] the potential to provide good learning opportunities for post-qualifying as well as pre-qualifying training' - Health and Social Care in the Communit...

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You probably know that Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Didyou know that he also invented an early version of a helicopter and a tank, and that he planned to execute the Time Warp Trio for spying on his inventions? Sam's bright idea to look for the inventor of the Book takes the guys to 15th century Italy to meet up with Leonardo. But it's going to take at least three more bright ideas, two magic tricks, and one great invention to get ...

Today Netherton is hoping for an imaginative regeneration. What it offers is a land of surprises: ancient woodlands, water-skiing on a reservoir, home-brewed ales, churches, chapels, an art centre, canalside walks, a proud industrial past and ever-changing vistas.

No history of Penn State is complete without the stories of its many achieving women. From Rebecca Ewing, the first female graduate, to early pioneering faculty members like Harriet McElwain and Lucretia Van Tuyl Simmons, to latter-day standouts Pat Farrell, Nina Federoff, Cynthia Baldwin, and Connie Moore, women have been an integral part of Penn State's tradition of excellence. In

Written by authors born into the so-called "dilemma of intermarriage, " the stories in "Half/Life explore the experience of being raised in a half-Jewish home. Though each essay is distinct, and the experiences are vastly different, each describes growing up without a streamlined identity, unsure of community or religious direction. From Jenny Traig, whose experiences led her to extreme devotion in the form of religious-obsessive compulsion (s...

This volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hamlet and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is an established form of integrated psychotherapy, which has been applied in a variety of clinical settings to a diversity of disorders with promising outcomes. In "Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Offenders, " the authors describe the application of CAT to forensic settings, illustrating the use of this type of therapy with a range of offence types and clinical disorders. CAT is presented as a new form of foren...

A glimpse into the life of retired deep-sea diver, Se·n Francis Martin O'Donoghue.

A tongue-in-cheek list of quotations by old and new philosophers, and celebrities for bachelors to see the good, the bad and the ugly about women, love and marriage.

As a graduate student in 1968 at the University of Michigan, Roy G. Phillips heeded the advice of renowned genealogist and author Alex Haley, who encouraged the eager researcher to record the history and wisdom of his family elders while they were still alive. Phillips followed this advice and has produced a masterful and compelling account of family and society during the arduous racial maturation of America. Through the experiences of his fa...

Isaac Armalet's catalogue gives the first detailed description of the Syriac, Garshuni and Arabic manuscripts at the Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Library at the Monastery of Charfet in Lebanon. The manuscript collection was established there in the eighteenth century and contains biblical, liturgical, and theological texts of importance to understanding the Christian heritage of the East.

The Guinea Hen Named "Sky is Falling" is a humorous tale regarding the antics of a rancher trying to capture an armadillo who has been destroying his beautiful yard. In his nightly efforts to capture the armadillo, the rancher accidentally traps a guinea hen that becomes hysterical. The guinea hen, along with two other guinea hens, takes a major role in the story with her interference of the rancher trying to capture the armadillo. The rancher...

This book is about an little girl that was here on earth for a short time. And the time she was here how she touch so many people and put smiles on there face. How she lived her life till the end. And how she pulled her family together thought the bad times as well as the hard times. And how her sister's and brother's deal with it all. Even how her dad and I did all we could do. How we lived apart for so many months. And still stayed together ...

What is a space elevator? A space elevator is a physical connection from the surface of the Earth to a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) above the Earth .35, 786 km in altitude. Its center of mass is at the geostationary point such that it has a 24-hr orbit and stays over the same point above the equator as the Earth rotates on its axis. The vision is that a space elevator would be utilized as a transportation and utility system for moving peopl...

Approximately 23.3 million operations were performed in 1989 in the United States, and most of these involved some form of pain management. Unfortunately, clinical surveys continue to indicate that routine orders for intramuscular injections of opioid "as needed"-the standard practice in many clinical settings-fail to relieve pain in about half of postoperative patients. Postoperative pain contributes to patient discomfort, longer recovery per...

The Islamic Shari'a as a phrase has two scope of meanings. Generally and widely construed it denotes everything that has been written by Moslem jurists throughout the centuries, whether it dealt with contemporaneous issues of the time or in anticipation of future ones. The jurist derived their principles from the Qur'an and the Sunna (way of action and the opinions of the Prophet), and from the other sources of Shari'a such as Ijma', (the cons...