Phoenix Ascending

The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the beleaguered Jewish people, as a phoenix ascending of ancient legend, achieved national self-determination in the reborn State of Israel within three years of the end of World War II and of the Holocaust. They include the pivotal 1946 World Zionist Congress, the contributions of Jacob Robinson and Clark M. Eichelberger to Israel’s sovereign renewal, American Jewry’s crusade to save a Jewish state, the effort to create a truce and trusteeship for Palestine, and Judah Magnes’s final attempt to create a federated state there. Joining extensive archival research and a lucid prose, Professor Monty Noam Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft.

Surgery - How to Rehearse Before You See the Nurse A Practical Guide to an Easier Time Do you need to go "under the knife" for any reason? Are you anticipating an extended or short-term hospital visit? Do you feel uncertain, overwhelmed, or ill prepared? If so, you will need this complete 'survival kit' to prepare for surgery, your hospital stay, and recuperation at home. This instructive easy-to-read book is a practical guide written from the patient's perspective. It is designed to help you through one of the most challenging journeys you can experience - surgery. The witty title, courtesy of comedian Jackie Mason, illustrates the style of the book - a good-humored approach to a potentially harrowing experience. Rosann Argenti, an accomplished social worker, Tai Chi Master-instructor, and Licensed Massage therapist, relates her personal saga about her operation. Argenti provides a wealth of information for patients and their families to use both before and after surgery. Through a series of carefully designed questionnaires, you will gain the confidence that you are making appropriate decisions. You will also derive emotional sustenance to help you as you venture through the medical arena. This book offers an abundance of useful and effective recommendations on exercise, breathing and relaxation, music therapy, self-massage, aromatherapy, drug dependency, depression, diet, and nutrition. Furthermore, you are provided with a complete 'survival kit' for your hospital stay. There are also very useful sections on "Helpful Hints for Family and Friends', 'Living Will/Advance Directive', and 'Helpful Hints Regarding Your Hospital Bill'. Rosann offers unique and creative guidelines to make healing at home a comfortable experience and an opportunity to develop self-confidence. "Surgery - How to Rehearse Before You See the Nurse is accurate, up-to-date, entertaining, and informative. I heartily recommend it as useful reading for patients, families, and

Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor. Universities do not exist to generate a profit from capital investment, yet contemporary universities are increasingly using corporations as their model for internal organization. While the media, politicians, business leaders and the general public all seem to share a remarkable consensus that higher education is indispensable to the future of nations and individuals alike, within academia bitter conflicts brew over the shape of tomorrow's universities. Contributors to the volume range from the star academic to the disgruntled adjunct and each bring a unique perspective to the discussion on the academy's over-reliance on adjuncts and teaching assistants, the debate over tenure and to the valiant efforts to organize unions and win rights.

Explore how inter-dimensional shifts can be applied to help heal individual bodies as well as global and ecological systems to bring about the healing and survival of yourself and the entire human species. Gain confidence in your consciousness and it's truly enduring nature and come to understand how powerful your conscious will, your free will, truly is. With knowledge comes the realization that you can access the eternal and powerful nature of your consciousness that you can access before leaving (or traveling to and from) your physical body. Expand your ability to independently evolve from your physical body. Prepare the way to expand beyond unnecessary limitations to develop new patterns of existence, healing, and transition ?????? for yourself, your species, and your ecosystem.

In a fantasy world where martial artists can split mountains and creeks with a wave of their hand and break rivers with a kick, there exists a little restaurant like this. The restaurant isn't large, but it is a place where countless apex existences will rush into. There, you can taste egg-fried rice made from phoenix eggs and dragon blood rice. There, you can drink strong wine brewed from vermillion fruit and water from the fountain of life. There, you can taste the barbecued meat of a ninth grade supreme beast sprinkled with black pepper. What? You want to abduct the chef? That's not going to happen, because there's a tenth grade divine beast, the Hellhound, lying at the entrance. Oh, that chef also has a robotic assistant that killed a ninth grade supreme being with a single hand and a group of crazy women whose stomachs were conquered.

After transmigrating into a weak noble body, Marvin discovered that he was familiar with the world, this was the game he played in his previous life and... Damn! He only had six months before the Great Calamity! As a former top player, he would obviously fight to save the world... Yeah, no. Time to plan and prepare for the upcoming events, better to use that knowledge to get ahead rather than fight with gods. Follow Marvin's journey through this new world.

In these times many people feel that their cherished religious values are held hostage by the forces of secularization and that, as a consequence, society is morally bankrupt. While acknowledging this problem, John Cobb overturns the prevailing expectations by drawing a distinction between secularization and secularism. Secularization, as Cobb uses the term, has a prophetic function. It is a process by which religion is cleansed and refocused on mission and ministry rather than on other-worldly myths and concerns. The uncritical understanding of religion that focuses on religion for its own sake is what Cobb calls secularism. In Cobb's view, secularization has led to secularism or a culture of consumerism that threatens those very religious convictions many hold dear. After teasing the concepts of secularization and secularism apart, Cobb proposes an alternate path for secularization that will help us reevaluate our relation to our world and each other.