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Showing posts with label @israelbookreview. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2018

Trump and the Media (MIT Press) by Pablo J. Boczkowski (Editor), Zizi Papacharissi (Editor) ( The MIT Press)

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The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media. Donald Trump's election as the 45th President...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Reuben Fine: A Comprehensive Record of an American Chess Career, 1929–1951 Hardcover– by Aidan Woodger (McFarland)

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American Grandmaster Reuben Fine grew up in the East Bronx in an impoverished Russian-Jewish family, learning to play chess from an uncle ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel Paperback – August 27, 2017 by William R. Koenig (Christian Publications)

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2017 Expanded Edition. Over one hundred billion-dollar, record-setting catastrophes and/or events occurred while US presidents George H. W...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Tales of Trains: Where the Journey is the Destination by Nora Dunn and,‎ The Professional Hobo (#IBRTravelBooks)

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42,000 kilometres. 11 countries. 44 days. Traveling by train isn’t always about getting to where you’re going – at least it hasn’t been for...
Monday, January 29, 2018

The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) Paperback by Siân Lincoln (Editor, Contributor),‎ Yannis Tzioumakis (Editor, Contributor),‎ Amanda Howell (Contributor),‎ Bill Osgerby (Contributor),‎ Claire Molloy (Contributor),‎ Cynthia Baron (Contributor),‎ Frederick Wasser (Contributor),‎ Gary Needham (Contributor),‎ George Rodosthenous (Contributor),‎ Hilary Radner (Contributor),‎ Jane Feuer (Contributor),‎ Mark Bernard (Contributor),‎ Millie Taylor (Contributor),‎ Oliver Gruner (Contributor),‎ Pamela Church Gibson (Contributor),‎ Richard Dyer (Contributor),‎ Tamar Jeffers MacDonald (Contributor),‎ Tim McNelis (Contributor) (Wayne State University Press)

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A low-budget independent film made by a now defunct video company in the late 1980s, Dirty Dancingbecame a sleeper hit with a huge, prima...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Elements of Architecture: Assembling Archaeology, Atmosphere and the Performance of Building Space. Mikkel Bille and Tim Flohr Sørensen (eds). Routledge. 2016.

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In the new collection Elements of Architecture: Assembling Archaeology, Atmosphere and the Performance of Building Space, editors Mikkel Bil...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy—and What We Can Do About It. by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames (McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing)

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S teve Forbes's Money: The Gold Standard Is The World's Prosperity Engine Ex Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren rightly calls...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Literary St. Petersburg A Guide to the City and Its Writers By Elaine Blair (The Little Bookroom) (IBRChildrensbooks)

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Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers living there. This uniqu...

The Little Bookroom Guide to Paris with Children Play • Eat • Shop • Stay By Kim Horton Levesque (The Little Bookroom) (IBRChildrensBooks)

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The Little Bookroom Guide to Paris with Children  focuses on  what sophisticated parents with good taste want to know: how to s ee Paris...
Monday, November 13, 2017

My Very First Dinosaurs BookFeb 1, 2016 by Alex Frith and Lee Cosgrove Board book (Usbourne Books) (#IBRChildrensBooks)

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MY VERY FIRST DINOSAURS BOOK From the "My Very First" series by Alex Frith ; illustrated by Lee Cosgrove Age Range: 4 - 7 Dozens o...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

The Jewish Wedding Now Paperback – June 6, 2017 by Anita Diamant ( Scribner)

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Newly revised and updated, the definitive guide to planning a Jewish wedding, written by bestselling novelist Anita Diamant—author of  The...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi: Excavation and Critique. Gareth Dale. Pluto Press. 2016

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. Gareth Dale’s latest book on the social theory of Karl Polanyi is a magisterial culmination of the author’s extensive decade-long resea...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Totaled: The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup that Took On Big Auto, Big Oil and the World Kindle Edition by Brian Blum (Blue Pepper Press )

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Just a few weeks ago, electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors handed over the first of its $35,000, 350-km range vehicles to eager customers....
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Disrupt This! MOOCs and the Promise of Technology. Karen Head. University Press of New England. 2017.

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As I was finishing this book, I noticed an announcement on Twitter posted by my school for a public event about the future of education aide...

Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them by Gina Kolata St. Martins, 262 pp., $25.99

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In screening for genetic mutations that can cause disease, the line between useful and damaging knowledge is hard to draw. We can in man...

The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture by Benjamin G. Martin Harvard University Press, 370 pp., $39.95

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“When I hear the word ‘culture,’ I reach for my revolver.” This philistine wisecrack is often attributed to Air Marshal Hermann Goering, or ...