“Will you not memorize a little poetry to halt the slaughter?” the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. Darwish’s poetic statement points to world-evacuating and genocidal violences—in a triangulation of Palestine, Iraq, and the American settler state—as his language recalls us to a sonority in utterance and acts of refusal in collective form. Through readings of Arabic and Arab poetry, art, translation, and philosophy, Jeffrey Sacks illumines an indetermined, non-accumulative, non-prop...

In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Shimon Ballas, and Taha Husayn, Sacks demonstrates the reiterated incursion of loss into ...

What test should you take? One competitive test for future science majors is the advanced placement biology test, however, many excellent students augment that with the SAT Biology test to show further interest in this specialty. High school students who did not have the AP experience are encouraged to take the SAT Biology test if their intended college requires it. However, if you are looking to save both money on tuition and fast track through some of the easier Biology courses you are e...

If you want to 'change lives, change organizations, change the world,' the Stanford business school's motto, you need power.Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, power is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Don't blame the tool for how some people used it.Rooted firmly in social science research, Pfeffer's 7 rules provide a manual for increasing your ability to get thing...

On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein became a household name as an international sex trafficker of underage girls, serial sex abuser, and confidant of the most famous, rich, and most powerful men in the world. Barely a month after his arrest, he was reportedly found dead in his prison cell, supposedly by suicide. Numerous investigations are ongoing, to find out how he really died -- but the public has been kept in the dark.In this first of a series of books about the most notorious #Me...

On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein became a household name as an international sex trafficker of underage girls, serial sex abuser, and confidant of the most famous, rich, and powerful men in the world. Barely a month after his arrest, he was reportedly found dead in his prison cell, supposedly by suicide. Numerous investigations are ongoing, to find out how he really died—but the public has been kept in the dark.In this first of a series of books about the most notorious #MeToo era ...

This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul through an examination of profound literary, philosophic, and theological reflections on topics as various as friendship, marriage, tyranny, sovereignty, sin, forgiveness, comedy, tragedy, and c...

Using elements of Ricoeur's thought, psychoanalysts respond as both theoreticians and clinicians to his groundbreaking dialogue.Beginning with Sigmund Freud, the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has fallen short of its mutually enriching potential. This volume builds on Ricoeur's sustained effort to construct an innovative bridge between the two disciplines and contributes to a long-overdue dialogue.Ricoeur's engagement with the Freudian o...

Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul.— Elias KhouryThe book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain apathetic for a moment…—HaaretzAt once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are coll...

Incidentally discovered thyroid nodules and palpable neck masses present a common clinical problem. Further evaluation with neck ultrasound helps to characterize these lesions and stratify the risk of malignancy. Based on ultrasound characteristics, these lesions can be better defined using pathologic and other clinical data in order to determine the best management.This practical handbook is a case compendium based on thyroid and neck ultrasonography patterns that are commonly enc...