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The naked sun
Reacting in fear against the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The 50 Outer Worlds of the Spacers together are home to fewer people than planet Earth. And home to many, many more robots. Earthmen hate Spacer robots, too. But Baley doesn't. He once had a robot partner, R. Daneel - and when the authorities of the planet Solaria request terrestrial assistance in investigating a murder, Baley is once again teamed with Daneel. He is the first Earthman in a millennium to travel to the Outer Worlds - and he must endure the glare of a sun far more deadly than Earth's.
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The Invention of a Tradition
The Gaon of Vilna was the foremost intellectual leader of
non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth-century Europe; his legacy is
claimed by religious Jews, both Zionist and not. In the
mid-twentieth century, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin wrote several
books advancing the myth that the Gaon was an early progenitor of
Zionism. Following the 1967 War in Israel, messianic sentiments
spread in some circles of the national-religious public in Israel,
who embraced this myth and made it a central component of the
historical narrative they advanced. For those who identified with
the religious Zionist enterprise, the myth of the Gaon and his
disciples as the first Zionists was seen as proof of the
righteousness of their path.
In this book, Israeli scholar Immanuel Etkes explores how what
he calls the \"Rivlinian myth\" took hold, and demonstrates that it
has no basis in historical reality. Etkes argues that proponents of
the Rivlinian myth seek to blur the distinction between Zionism as
a modern national movement or a religious one-a distinction that
underlies many of the central conflicts of contemporary Israeli
politics. As historian David Biale suggests in his brief foreword
to this English translation, \"what is at stake here is not only
historical truth but also the very identity of Zionism as a
nationalist movement.\"
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The caves of steel
Detective Elijah Baley investigates the murder of an offworlder in Spacetown. In the opinion of the Spacers, the murder is tied up with recent attempts to sabotage the Spacer-sponsored project of converting Earth to an integrated human/robot society on the model of the Outer Worlds.
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A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The history of a single book sheds light on the beginnings of modern Jewish thoughtIn 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published Book of the Covenant. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, Pinḥas’s publication was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior. Its popularity stemmed from its ability to present the scientific advances and moral cosmopolitanism of its day in the context of Jewish legal and mystical tradition. Describing the latest developments in science and philosophy in the sacred language of Hebrew, Hurwitz argued that an intellectual understanding of the cosmos was not at odds with but actually key to achieving spiritual attainment. In A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era, David Ruderman offers a literary and intellectual history of Hurwitz’s book and its legacy. Hurwitz not only wrote the book, but also was instrumental in selling it, and his success ultimately led to the publication of more than forty editions in Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish. Ruderman provides a multidimensional picture of the book and the intellectual tradition it helped to inaugurate. Complicating accounts that consider modern Jewish thought to be the product of a radical break from a religious, mystical past, Ruderman shows how, instead, a complex continuity shaped Jewish society’s confrontation with modernity.
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All aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
Simple text and illustrations explore the life of inventor, Elijah McCoy. Includes explanation of the saying, \"The real McCoy.\"
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Elijah Wood surprises couple at Lord of the Rings wedding
Actor Elijah Wood, who starred in The Lord of the Rings movies as hobbit Frodo Baggins, surprised a couple at their themed Lord of the Rings wedding at the Hobbiton movie set.
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Waiting for Elijah
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation—waiting to wait—becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity.
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Waiting for Elijah : time and encounter in a Bosnian landscape
\"Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world's most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centred on the shared harvest feast of Elijah's Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation - waiting to wait - becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism and embodied memories of proximity.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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