THE RAMBAM CHUMASH - The Five Books - Compact Ed.

THE RAMBAM CHUMASH - The Five Books - Compact Ed.

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Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 822

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THE RAMBAM CHUMASH - Maimonides Torah based on The Guide for the Perplexed is an English-Hebrew Chumash with delineated parshiot including comprehensive and extensive footnotes sourced from one of the greatest works of Jewish philosophy ever written, the Rambam's Moreh Nevuchim - The Guide for the Perplexed.


Saints and Citizens

Saints and Citizens

Author: Lisbeth Haas

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0520280628

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Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, native emancipation after 1826, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848.


Island of the Blue Dolphins

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0395069629

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Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.


Foundations of Chumash Complexity

Foundations of Chumash Complexity

Author: Jeanne E. Arnold

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2005-12-31

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1938770196

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This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest cultures are renowned for such complex institutions as ceremonial potlatches, slavery, cedar plank-house villages, and rich artistic traditions, the Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with a different set of organizational characteristics: ascribed chiefly leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and intensive and highly specialized craft production activities. Chumash sites provide some of the most robust data on these subjects available in the Americas. Contributors present stimulating new analyses of household and village organization, ceremonial specialists, craft specializations and settlement data, cultural transmission processes, bead manufacturing practices, watercraft, and the acquisition of prized marine species.


Evolution of Chumash Society

Evolution of Chumash Society

Author: Chester King

Publisher: Garland Science

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780824025076

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First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Rashi

Rashi

Author: Elie Wiesel

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 2009-08-11

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0805242546

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Part of the Jewish Encounter series From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the Crusades. The incomparable scholar Rashi, whose phrase-by-phrase explication of the oral law has been included in every printing of the Talmud since the fifteenth century, was also a spiritual and religious leader: His perspective, encompassing both the mundane and the profound, is timeless. Wiesel’s Rashi is a heartbroken witness to the suffering of his people, and through his responses to major religious questions of the day we see still another side of this greatest of all interpreters of the sacred writings. Both beginners and advanced students of the Bible rely on Rashi’s groundbreaking commentary for simple text explanations and Midrashic interpretations. Wiesel, a descendant of Rashi, proves an incomparable guide who enables us to appreciate both the lucidity of Rashi’s writings and the milieu in which they were formed.


Labor, Capital, and Finance

Labor, Capital, and Finance

Author: Assaf Razin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-27

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780521785570

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This treatment offers a model of globalization by examining international labor, finance, and capital flows.


The Way the Wind Blows

The Way the Wind Blows

Author: Roderick J. McIntosh

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0231528809

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-- Robert W. Harms, Yale University


Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition)

Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition)

Author: Deborah Miranda

Publisher: Heyday Books

Published: 2024-03-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597146289

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Now in paperback and newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by the likes of Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine. Bad Indians--part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir--is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Widely adopted in classrooms and book clubs throughout the United States, Bad Indians--now reissued in significantly expanded form for its 10th anniversary--plumbs ancestry, survivance, and the cultural memory of Native California. In this best-selling, now-classic memoir, Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experiences of California Indians more widely through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. This anniversary edition includes several new poems and essays, as well as an extensive afterword, totaling more than fifty pages of new material. Wise, indignant, and playful all at once, Bad Indians is a beautiful and devastating read, and an indispensable book for anyone seeking a more just telling of American history.