A Ring. A Secret. A Mind Unraveling Through Time.When a tragic accident lands young lawyer Rafi Ciprone-Hantz in a coma, his recovery takes a terrifying turn. As he begins to awaken, Rafi is gripped by inexplicable memories: lives he never lived, places he's never been, and traumas he can't possibly have endured. But what if they were his?A Multigenerational Journey of Trauma and Truth.Traceback brilliantly fuses historical fictio...

Sumo is a fresh and funny introduction to the fascinating world of sumo, Japan's national sport. Author David Benjamin peels away the veneer of sumo as a cultural treasure and reveals it as an action-packed sport populated by superb athletes who employ numerous strategies and techniques to overcome their gargantuan opponents. Sumo provides an engaging, witty, behind-the-scenes look at sumo today.

Volume 22 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1–21 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law.This volume features articles on rabbinic criminal law, tort law, jurisprudence, and judicial practice.

Through the telling of his own madcap childhood, David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of young boys at play. Whether he's stalking frogs though the swamps of Tomah, Wisconsin, playing four-kid baseball with his bothersome little brother and two favourite cousins, or sneaking into the cinema to watch Saturday-afternoon Westerns, David Benjamin is the kind of kid who would have eagerly fallen in with Tom Sawyer. In relating his adventures - including one truly sorry incident with Sna...

In The Hilarious Race Down the Hill, a group of animal friends in the forest enters the wildest race of their lives. What starts as a competition quickly turns into a hilarious adventure full of unexpected twists. From rolling boulders and giant acorns to wild jumps and muddy puddles, every moment is full of surprises. With talking animals, big personalities, and plenty of funny mishaps, this is a race you won’t want to miss! Each chapter presents a unique event in the race, keepi...

In the hilarious world of Fluffy Friends Start a Laugh Riot, a group of talking animals with too much energy attempts to organize a town meeting, only to end up in a whirlwind of giggles and chaos. From juggling sheep to pie-flinging ducks and even a disastrous talent show, the town's animals can't seem to keep things in order. This uproarious story follows the adventures of mischievous animals as they navigate through a series of wacky mishaps and side-splitting events. Every pag...

A defense of individual judgment as the core of humanistic studyWhy do some works of art and thought speak to us for generations while the vast majority are quickly forgotten? What insights do we gain from our experience of exceptional literature, philosophy, and art? How are we changed by our encounters with those works? Professional scholars in the humanities have lately grown uncomfortable, even embarrassed, about judging and asserting the human value of the wor...

The story of Jonah is sacred to all three Abrahamic faiths and remains a recognizable legend even in the most secularized corners of the West. And yet the maritime prophet's story has been trivialized as a quaint children's tale, his character has been blasted by unsympathetic commentators, and even his alleged tomb has now been destroyed by Islamic State militants who, in 2014, took the city of Mosul on the Nineveh Plains. Now that Nineveh is once again in the grip of tyrannical violence ...

A comprehensive guide to visual storytelling from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Storyboarding is the process of graphically organizing a project--a motion picture, animation, motion graphic, or interactive media sequence--in order to translate artists' ideas from story to screen. Whether you're a filmmaker, animator, ad director, writer, or video-game artist--storyboarding is a skill that is absolutely critical. Storyb...

"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years."--From the Foreword by Warren E. BuffettFirst published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.As relevant today as when they f...

Illness, disease and injury prompted the development of medicine from the earliest days of mankind: useful herbs, methods for treating wounds and even setting bones were passed down the generations by word of mouth. With the growth of civilization came more scientific methods, generally discovered by significant individuals. This informative and entertaining audiobook presents the major figures in the history of medicine, from Hippocrates in Ancient Greece to the Roman doctor Galen, the me...

The book you now hold in your hands contains nearly everything the great American puritan Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) ever wrote on the book of Romans. It is collated into a verse-by-verse Bible commentary. Pastors, theologians, historians, and Bible study leaders will find a treasure of biblical insight along with practical application, as one of the great theologians of the Christian church expounds the book that Martin Luther called the "most important piece in the New Testament." Jonath...