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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"--
What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of Rights. As an older, cannier politician he co-founded the original Republican party, setting the course of American political partisanship. Finally, having pioneered a foreign policy based on economic sanctions, he took the United States into a high-risk...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
""Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance."--
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays by some of today's brightest minds on the vulnerability of America to authoritarianism and how the election of Donald Trump, the rise of propaganda and the shortcomings of our elections processes are curtailing democratic freedoms.
Publisher
King's Hawaiian
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
It is Hallowaiian on the Big Island of Hawaii, so excitement and mischief are in the air. Three young friends, kai, Eddie and Leilani uncover a mysterious idol in a secret cave whilst catching some waves at sunset. They quickly uncover that they've unleashed an ancient evil upon the island in the form of a giant pineapple headed monster. The kids find help in some mystical friends and discover that in order to vanquish the evil, Kai must uncover his...