Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument has convincingly established that conclusion. Examining the problem from a variety of perspectiv...

In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world's major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Connected by their mutual--if differentiated--veneration of the One God proclaimed by Abraham, these traditions share much beyond their origins in the ancient Israel of the Old Testament. This Very Short Introduction explores the intertwined histor...

Nouvelle couverure.Le protagoniste de ce roman gothique est John Melmoth, un érudit qui a vendu son âme au diable en échange d'un sursis de cent cinquante ans sur la mort. Dans le présent de la narration, 1816, il cherche désespérément un homme qui reprenne le pacte en son nom. Le passé est révélé par une série d'analepses mises en abyme dans la narration repère, selon le principe du récit dans le récit, l'auteur ayant recours à des lieux communs tels que le paquet de lettres retro...

The most detailed and comprehensive examination to show how tiny Israel grew to be a global civil and military cyber power and offer the first detailed proposal for an Israeli National Cyber Strategy. Israel is the subject of numerous cyber attacks from foreign adversaries. As a consequence, it has built an extremely sophisticated cyber security system. Indeed, Israel is now regarded as one of the top cyber powers in the world. In Israel and the Cyber Threat, Cha...

Les urgences en gynécologie constituent le quotidien des praticiens. Cet ouvrage pratique et didactique apporte une réponse rapide sur la conduite à tenir pour toutes les pathologies communes rencontrées en consultation. Après un rappel de la conduite pratique de l'examen gynécologique aux urgences, l'ouvrage décrit dans une 1re partie les principaux motifs de consultation rencontrés ainsi que les conduites à tenir devant les douleurs pelviennes aiguës, les ménorragies-métrorragies, les vu...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Four “lost” Dr. Seuss tales starring familiar faces, including Horton the Elephant and an early version of the Grinch!Don’t miss the Netflix original series Dr. Seuss’s Horton!**“It happened last May, on a very nice dayWhile the Elephant Horton was walking, they say,Just minding his business . . . just going his way . . .”First published in magazines in the 1950s and available together for the...

In Israel and the Cyber Threat, Charles D. ("Chuck") Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Siboni provide a detailed and comprehensive study of Israel's cyber strategy, tracing it from its origins to the present. They analyze Israel's highly advanced civil and military cyber capabilities and organizational structures to offer insights into what other countries can learn from Israel's experience. To achieve this, they explore how and why Israel has been able to build a remarkable cy...

Author of “How to Make Ideas Clear” or “The Fixation of Belief”, Charles Sanders Peirce was known as a great American Scientist and Philosopher, pioneer in the movement of Pragmatism. William James called Peirce the most original thinker of their generation. Peirce placed himself somewhere near the rank of Leibniz. This much is now certain; he is the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician.“Peirce stands out as one of ...

Is it good to be trusting, or should we be wary of trusting others? Trust seems to be the basis of large-scale social cooperation and even of democracy itself, but in recent years many commentators and researchers have lamented the dawn of a post-trust era. Edited by David Collins, Iris Vidmar Jovanovic, and Mark Alfano, The Moral Psychology of Trust examines trust from a variety of perspectives in philosophy and the social sciences. The contributors explore topics such as the nature of tr...

Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that "pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US" ( Choice).Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political legacy of a law eventually comes into focus. With a diverse ...

Coordonné par Pierre Jacquet, professeur d’économie à l’École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) et Jean-Michel Severino, senior Research Fellow à la Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), le numéro 156 de la Revue d’économie financière est consacré à l’« Innovation financière dans les pays en développement ».Réunissant 22 auteurs et autrices, et riche de 14 articles, le thème central de ce numéro se décline en 3 c...

This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher, and the underground Zionist Youth Movement, Carl Lutz led an extensive rescue operation between March 1944 and February 1945. It is estimated that Lutz and his team of rescue...