“An appealing manual that offers encouraging methods for pursuing a happier and more connected life.”—Kirkus Reviews• Defines the meaning of “namaste” and explains how to apply it in daily interactions to build stronger communities• Offers practical strategies to develop self-awareness and compassion, foster deeper connections with others, and support mutual growth• Includes exercises, mindfulness meditations, and svadhyaya (“self-...

In August 2022, a 57-year-old desk jockey, husband, and father, set out to ride his bicycle ffrom the Atlantic shore to the Pacific. He did not expect to make it the whole way. He certainly did not expect to have anything interesting to say about the experience. But he did, and he did.

“Horn, lineups, anthem and final words, it was game-time. As the starters jumped up from our bench and ran to center court for the toss, Coach lifted his fist towards me and I bumped it with a grin. Feeling the same pulse of energy that he was, I looked around to the growing crowd. Young, old, black, white, and every age and shade in between, they came to support their school, students, friends, and sons; they came because it was Friday night, and the week, with all its ups and downs, was ...

This book offers a survey of the encounter between the Third Reich and European Jewry. Pointing out the difficulties historians face in interpreting the ever-expanding documentary record, it includes treatment of the role of non-Germans in the Holocaust, consideration of the much-debated nexus between the Holocaust and modernity, and discussion on how 'the Holocaust' developed as a distinct historical topic.Fully updated, this new third edition incorporates the latest scholarly fin...

We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political structures spread, we are left wondering about our ties to each other. Consequently, there is no better time than now to reconsider ideas of unity.In The Ethics of Oneness, Jeremy David Engels reads the Bhagavad Gita alongside the works of American thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. Drawing on this rich combin...

**An antidote to political burnout and civic despair: drawing on mindfulness and modern wisdom to cultivate resilience, healthy engagement, and skillful presence in turbulent timesA compact, beautifully designed guide offering 27 powerful teachings of interdependence to navigate news, social media, and civic engagement with clarity and courage**250 years after the US Declaration of Independence, this incisive Declaration of Interdependence is a timely, tender, and ...

In the spring of 1944, thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope that the Jews trapped in Hungary were still capable of fighting back, some of the volunteers set out for Budapest. Tragically, they were betrayed by their local guides, who turned out to be doub...

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.In The Art of Gratitude, Jeremy David Engels sketches a genealogy of gratitude from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary self-help movement. One of the most striking things about gratitude, Engels finds, is how consistently it is described using the language of indebtedness. A chief purpose of this, he contends, is to make us more co...

Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's perceptions of law, with a special focus on the narratives of men and women who have suffered serious injuries in the province of Chiangmai, Thailand.This work embraces neither the...

The Nazi Holocaust is often said to dominate the study of modern Jewish history. Engel demonstrates that, to the contrary, historians of the Jews have often insisted that the Holocaust be sequestered from their field, assigning it instead to historians of Europe, Germany, or the Third Reich. He shows that reasons for this counterintuitive situation lie in the evolution of the Jewish historical profession since the 1920s.This one-of-a-kind study takes readers on a tour of twentieth-...

The announcement in December 1942 by the Polish government-in-exile that the Germans were attempting to exterminate all Jews in Poland came after much information had reached the West through other sources. The Polish government’s action and inaction in releasing the information was the result of the complex weighing by the government’s concept of its obligations to the Jewish citizens of Poland.Originally published in 1987.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring ...

At this writing, I am sixty years old, and the realization that I'm not getting any younger has prompted me to put some things from my life down on paper. I am writing this for my daughter Gina and son Todd, who one day, may want to know what their father did during his younger years in the military. All of my stories take place from late 1968 to mid-1970. From basic training to AIT, but mostly my lovely tour of Vietnam in Southeast Asia. Some of my stories, I hope you will find funny, and...