Boaz: 32 books
A Pastor’s Wife Survived the Mistress
From Death to Life and the Divorce Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
According to the author, for the past 20 years in the church world and in the business world, many great marriages and families have fallen apart. Leaders have failed to give their followers and supporters closure about what really happened in their marriages. Especially in the church world, many...
by Boaz Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to “the Land” of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the “new” historians and sociologists focused on their failures and shortcomings....
The Arabic Historical Tradition & the Early Islamic Conquests
Folklore, Tribal Lore, Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The early Arab conquests pose a considerable challenge to modern-day historians. The earliest historical written tradition emerges only after the second half of the eighth century- over one hundred years removed from the events it contends to describe, and was undoubtedly influenced by the motives...
Eating the Bible
Over 50 Delicious Recipes to Feed Your Body and Nourish Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A collection of recipes and Bible stories create a tactile connection between good food and the Good Book.
One weekend, a decade ago, author Rena Rossner was served a bowl of lentil soup at dinner. The portion of the Bible that had been discussed that week was the chapter in which Esau sells...
Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems
Theory, Practice, Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that 'decarbonization' means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the economy in...
by Juli Boaz Karr
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Every winter, Grandma would get us out, her white vinyl snowflakes. “Just in case we don’t get real snow,” Grandma would say as she put us on display in all the windows of the house. But one year, Grandma left one of us out, stuck on the window all year! And oh my! The wonders we were told about...
The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook
Using Lean and the Theory of Constraints for Better Healthcare Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The essential healthcare guide to doing more with existing resources The healthcare industry faces foundational challenges to how it sustains itself. As the gap between cost and revenue continues to widen, and as cost-effectiveness remains an elusive imperative, the question persists: how can healthcare...
Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity
Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs...
Nixon Administration and the Middle East Peace Process, 1969–1973
From the Rogers Plan to the Outbreak of the Yom Kippur War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in Israeli society and a national trauma whose wounds have yet to heal some four decades later. In the years following the war many studies addressed the internal and international political background prior to the war, attempting to determine causes and steps...
by Boaz Ganor
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
There is no journalistic work more deserving of the designation "story" than news of crime. From antiquity, the culture of crime has been about the human condition, and whether information comes from Homer, Hollywood, or the city desk, it is a bottom about the human capacity for cruelty...
Econophysics of the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and Related Games
Classical and Quantum Strategies for Multi-agent, Multi-choice Repetitive Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game. It explains how the tangible formulations of these games, using stochastic strategies developed by statistical physicists employing both...
by Craig Hovey, Lisa Fisher, Rachel Boaz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Understanding America’s Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with US gun culture and the contemporary debate about the availability and use of guns. This edited volume is unique in that it draws on a wide variety of disciplines and presents perspectives...
by Noel T. Boaz
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A leading anthropologist's twenty-year quest in northern and eastern Africa shows how findings from a variety of fields contribute to a holistic picture of human evolution and provide a context for understanding today's problems.
Computational Complexity
A Modern Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
This beginning graduate textbook describes both recent achievements and classical results of computational complexity theory. Requiring essentially no background apart from mathematical maturity, the book can be used as a reference for self-study for anyone interested in complexity, including physicists,...