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      • Hathaway Education - Westchester Publishing Services UK Limited

        At the heart of Hathaway Education is our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in education. Our materials have a strong emphasis on embracing cultural and ethnic differences, exploring various social values and belief systems, and celebrating both the differences and similarities that make us human. Graded readers play a key role in language progression. They provide a controlled environment for students to access stories and themes that will lead to greater motivation, and accelerated learning.

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        Yo amé Berlin

        by Meir Sussman

        Yo amé Berlin – Una conmovedora novela de post Guerra por Meir Sussman La novela “Yo amé Berlín”, (publicada en hebreo con el nombre “Ahavti et Berlín”), acontece en el año 1985, combinando tres diferentes líneas de historia: La primera trata sobre el retorno de los judíos a Berlín después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Algunos de estos judíos fueron deportados al Ghetto de Lodz en Polonia, y posteriormente a Auschwitz. Retornaron a Berlín después de la guerra para reconstruir ahí el Centro de la Comunidad Judía, y la historia cuenta las antiguas rivalidades entre los funcionarios del Centro. La segunda línea de historia se centra en retrospectivas escenas de estas personas viviendo en el Ghetto de Lodz, mientras la tercera trata de las dificultades de los alemanes en Berlín, al estar dividida la ciudad después de la guerra. La novela contiene dos historias de amor. Una de estas historias, trata de un escritor que pretende ser judío, quien escribe una obra en idioma polaco acerca de las desgracias de los judíos de Polonia durante el siglo 18. Llega a Berlín para traducir su obra al alemán, para presentarla ante la audiencia alemana. El escritor se enamora de una joven música judía-americana que estaba en Berlín tratando de entrar a la famosa Orquesta de Berlín, sus padres habían huido de Alemania hacia los Estados Unidos antes de la guerra. La segunda historia de amor se desarrolla entre un “cazador”, una colorida figura identificada por su “sombrero de caza", y una chica de clase obrera. El clímax de la obra transcurre en el Seder de Pascua, la tradicional cena ceremonial en las vísperas de las vacaciones de Pascua. En este Seder en particular, los participantes discuten el destino de los judíos que sobrevivieron la guerra. El anfitrión, uno de los principales personajes de la historia, recuerda la Pascua de 1941, celebrada mientras estaba en cautiverio en el Ghetto de Lodz. La pregunta, por qué estos judíos han decidido volver a Berlín y reconstruir ahí sus “vidas”, mientras parecen “muertos vivientes”, es expuesta pero no respondida. La historia representa vívidamente la vida de un Berlín dividido y los cambios que la ciudad experimentó, como una metrópolis de la preguerra y después como una ciudad dividida. El autor describe a Berlín como una “isla” revelando su belleza, que reina en junto a la dificultad, el hambre, los borrachos, viudas por la guerra y comerciantes en la propiedad de segunda mano de la vieja y agonizante generación. Meir Sussman nació en Jerusalén. Estudió cinematografía en Nueva Cork y después se trasladó a Alemania, donde vivió por 4 años  estudió teología en la Universidad Libre de Berlín. Sussman editó la película, aclamada por la crítica, “Zacarías”, escrita y dirigida por Irene Dische, que trata sobre la historia de un científico judío quien se ve forzado a dejar Austria e ir a los Estado Unidos como refugiado. Una de los cuentos cortos de Sussman, Die Bau-Maus, fue seleccionado para publicarse en Der Alltag, Zurich, en 1989 bajo el seudónimo de Max Katzenfuss. El autor también ha publicado (en hebreo) dos cuentos para niños: El sofisticado cocinero y Benjamín el bueno y Benjamín el malo.

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        J'aime Berlin

        by Meir Sussman

        J'aime Berlin - Une touchante histoire d'après-guerre par Meir Sussman La roman "J'aime Berlin" (Ich habe mein Berlin Lieb publié en hébreu sous le titre "Ahavti et Berlin"), se concentre sur l'année 1985, et associe trois différentes histoires: la première est le retour des Juifs à Berlin après la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Certains de ces Juifs, les protagonistes de l'histoire, ont vécu à Berlin avant d'avoir été déportés au ghetto de Lodz en Pologne, et par la suite à Auschwitz. Ils retournent à Berlin après la guerre et y reconstruisent le Centre de la Communauté Juive, et content les querelles entre les officiels et le centre. La seconde histoire se concentre sur les flash-back de ces personnes habitant dans le ghetto de Lodz, alors que la troisième traite des privations des Allemands dans la ville divisée de Berlin après la guerre. Le roman expose deux histoires d'amour. L'une est celle d'un écrivain prétendant être juif, écrivant une pièce de théâtre en polonais sur les malheurs des juifs de Pologne au XVIIIème siècle. Il débarque à Berlin afin de faire traduire ses pièces en allemand et les mettre en scène devant un public allemand. L'écrivain tombe amoureux d'une jeune musicienne juive américaine venue à Berlin afin de tenter de participer au célèbre orchestre de Berlin; ses parents ont fuit Berlin pour les Etats-Unis avant la guerre. La seconde repose sur une histoire d'amour entre un "chasseur" de visage coloré identifiable par son chapeau de "chasse", et une femme locale issue de la classe ouvrière.    L'apogée du roman se déroule lors du premier soir de la Pâques Juive (Seder Pessah), la cérémonie du repas traditionnel à la veille des vacances de Pâques. Lors de ce repas, les participants discutent de la foi des juifs ayant survécu à la guerre. L'invité, l'un des principaux personnages de l'histoire, évoque la Pâques 1941, célébrée en captivité dans le ghetto de Lodz. La question de savoir pourquoi les juifs ont décidé de retourner à Berlin et de reconstruire leur "vie", qui ressemble plus à une "mort vivante", est évoquée, mais reste sans réponse. L'histoire retrace le portrait vivant de la vie dans Berlin divisée et des changements dans la ville comme métropole d'avant-guerre et par la suite comme ville divisée. L'auteur décrit Berlin comme une "île" se délectant de sa beauté, où règnent côte à côte dans la privation, la faim, la soif, les veuves de guerre et les marchants de seconde main d'objets d'occasion, des générations d'agonisants. Meir Sussman est né à Jérusalem. Il a fait des études cinématographiques à New York et par la suite déménagea en Allemagne, ville dans laquelle il vit quatre ans et étudie la théologie à l'Université Libre de Berlin. Sussman a édité le film grandement critiqué Zacharias, écrit et réalisé par Irène Dische, racontant les malheurs d'un scientifique juif forcé de quitter l'Autriche et qui débarqua aux Etats-Unis en tant que réfugié. L'une des histoires courtes de Sussman, Die Bau-Maus, a été sélectionnée pour publication dans le Der Alltag, Zurich, en 1989 sous le nom de plume Max Katzenfuss. L'auteur a aussi publié (en hébreu) deux livres pour enfants : Le Cuisinier Sophistiqué et Benjamin le Bon et Benjamin l

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        The Arts
        May 2016

        Scottish cinema

        by Christopher Meir

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        No masters but God

        Portraits of anarcho-Judaism

        by Hayyim Rothman

        The forgotten legacy of religious Jewish anarchism, and the adventures and ideas of its key figures, finally comes to light in this book. Set in the decades surrounding both world wars, No masters but God identifies a loosely connected group of rabbis and traditionalist thinkers who explicitly appealed to anarchist ideas in articulating the meaning of the Torah, traditional practice, Jewish life and the mission of modern Jewry. Full of archival discoveries and first translations from Yiddish and Hebrew, it explores anarcho-Judaism in its variety through the works of Yaakov Meir Zalkind, Yitshak Nahman Steinberg, Yehudah Leyb Don-Yahiya, Avraham Yehudah Heyn, Natan Hofshi, Shmuel Alexandrov, Yehudah Ashlag and Aaron Shmuel Tamaret. With this ground-breaking account, Hayyim Rothman traces a complicated story about the modern entanglement of religion and anarchism, pacifism and Zionism, prophetic anti-authoritarianism and mystical antinomianism.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        No masters but God

        by Hayyim Rothman, Uri Gordon

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        Business, Economics & Law
        September 2016

        Forest Hydrology

        Processes, Management and Assessment

        by Devendra Amatya, Thomas Williams, Leon Bren, Carmen de Jong

        Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community. They interact with water and soil in a variety of ways, providing canopy surfaces which trap precipitation and allow evaporation back into the atmosphere, thus regulating how much water reaches the forest floor as through fall, as well as pull water from the soil for transpiration. The discipline "forest hydrology" has been developed throughout the 20th century. During that time human intervention in natural landscapes has increased, and land use and management practices have intensified. This book: - Presents cutting edge thinking and assessments in forest hydrology across all latitudes and terrains, including state-of-the-art modelling techniques and methodologies - Describes the latest challenges facing forest hydrology, such as increased occurrence of disturbance, due to extreme floods, drought, disease, and fire, potentially caused by climate change - Is written by an internationally renowned team of scientists, engineers, and managers to give a well-rounded review of the subject The book will be useful for graduate students, professionals, land managers, practitioners, and researchers with a good understanding of the basic principles of hydrology and hydrologic processes. ; This book presents cutting edge thinking and assessments in forest hydrology across all latitudes and terrains, including state-of-the-art modelling techniques and methodologies. It describes challenges facing forest hydrology such as extreme floods, drought, disease, and fire, and is written by an internationally renowned team. ; 1: An Introduction to Forest Hydrology 2: Forest Runoff Processes 3: Forest Evapotranspiration: Measurement and Modelling at Multiple Scales 4: Forest Hydrology of Mountainous and Snow Dominated Watersheds 5: European Perspectives on Forest Hydrology 6: Tropical Forest Hydrology 7: Hydrology of Flooded and Wetland Forests 8: Forest Drainage 9: Hydrological Modeling in Forested Systems 10: Geospatial Technology Applications in Forest Hydrology 11: Forests Cover Changes and Hydrology in Large Watersheds 12: Hydrologic Effects of Forest Management 13: Hydrology of Forests after Wildfire 14: Hydrologic Processes of Reference Watersheds in Experimental Forests, USA 15: Applications of Forest Hydrologic Science to Watershed Management in the 21st Century 16: Hydrology of Taiga Forests in High Northern Latitudes 17: Future Directions in Forest Hydrology

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        May 2000

        Bremen

        Literarische Spaziergänge

        by Johann-Günther König, Jutta Golda

        Hier gelt ich nichts, und würde gern was gelten, / Denn diese Stadt ist echt, und echt ist selten«, befand Joachim Ringelnatz nach einem Besuch in Bremen. Die Freie Hansestadt wurde bereits vor 1000 Jahren als »Rom des Nordens« gepriesen, war Martin Luther ebenso ein Begriff wie Goethe. Was Wunder, seit dem Welterfolg des Grimmschen Märchens von den Bremer Stadtmusikanten weiß schließlich jedes Kind, daß Bremen ein lohnendes Reiseziel ist – und sei

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      • Banking & finance: study & revision guides
        June 2015

        Looking Back at the Israeli Banking System, 1965 – 2012

        A collection of articles and papers on developments and policy issues, relating to the Israeli banking system

        by Prof. Meir Heth

        This book, published recently by Rubin Mass Ltd, is a collection of articles and papers on developments and policy issues, relating to the Israeli banking system, written over a period of more than four decades by Professor Meir Heth. Heth held key positions in the Israeli capital markets. He was Superintendent of Banks with the Bank of Israel, chairman of the board of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, of Bank Leumi and of other major Israeli corporations. Israel was born in 1948, and its banking system was quite primitive in the early years. Heth, who started in the research department of the Bank of Israel in 1962, wrote several articles that are essential to the understanding of the factors that shaped the structure and business of Israeli Banking for decades to come. Among these are the methods of the Bank of Israel's monetary policy, widespread linkage of financial assets, the legal ceiling of the rate of interest and the deep intervention of the government in the working of the financial markets. Along the years the system has undergone several crises. Heth was actively involved in some of them and he devoted several papers to the issues involved. He criticized sharply for years the policy pursued by the banks of regulating their shares' prices. Following the crisis that led to a de facto nationalization of the four major banks Heth dealt in several articles with the process of reprivatizing the banks. Over the years, many banking institutions disappeared, some were declared insolvent but many more were acquired by the big banks, a process that shaped the concentrated structure of the system. Heth devoted several articles to the bankruptcy of the Israel British Bank, an event that occurred during his tenure as superintendent and had political and international repercussions. The liquidation of the bank and its British subsidiary lasted over 30 years Several articles and papers were dedicated to important policy issues: The conflict of interests involved in the banks' securities business and ways to tackle the problem, the establishment of a formal system of deposit insurance and the need of overhauling the Law of Banking in order to establish a coherent system of bank regulation. This book will be of interest to followers of the Israeli economy and to scholars following the development of banking in emerging markets.

      • The environment
        September 2007

        Detritus and Decomposition in Ecosystems

        by Zafar Reshi & Sumira Tyub:

        The present book is a detailed assessment of the pools and fluxes of detritus in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Besides presenting a comprehensive analysis of the process of detritus decomposition, the book gives an exhaustive account of the biotic and abiotic factors affecting the rate of detritus decomposition. Portrayal of the role of decomposition in nutrient cycling and delineation of the contemporary concepts of humus biosynthesis are the noteworthy features of this book. The book would be serve the needs of post-graduate students having Ecology as one of their major subject and researchers engaged in soil biology and biochemistry, soil sciences and ecosystem structure and function.

      • Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology
        May 2016

        Escrituras, lengua y cultura en el antiguo Egipto

        by Josep Cervelló Autuori

        Parte importantísima de la fascinación que los antiguos egipcios ejercen sobre nuestra cultura se debe al poderoso atractivo de su lengua y sus sistemas de escritura, inseparables de la aventura humana de su desciframiento, que permitió entender lo que unos signos tenazmente trazados en muros, papiros y objetos revelaban acerca de una de las primeras grandes civilizaciones de la historia. Este libro es una aproximación a la lengua y las escrituras egipcias desde una perspectiva cultural: la evolución de la lengua, su descripción gramatical y fonológica, los principales testimonios literarios y documentales, las características de los distintos sistemas de escritura y, en especial, de los jeroglíficos, la historia del proceso que llevó a su desciframiento, sin olvidar cuestiones fundamentales sobre su origen. La mirada se expande más allá del valle del Nilo, al considerar también la influencia de las escrituras egipcias en otras culturas, influencia cuyo resultado más visible son nuestras propias letras alfabéticas, que derivan en última instancia de una selección de jeroglíficos.

      • October 2020

        From the Roots Up

        by Spillett, Tasha

        Dez and Miikwan’s stories continue in this sequel to Surviving the City.   Dez’s grandmother has passed away. Grieving, and with nowhere else to go, she’s living in a group home. On top of everything else, Dez is navigating a new relationship and coming into her identity as a Two-Spirit person.   Miikwan is crushing on the school’s new kid Riel, but doesn’t really understand what Dez is going through. Will she learn how to be a supportive ally to her best friend?   Elder Geraldine is doing her best to be supportive, but she doesn’t know how to respond when the gendered protocols she’s grown up with that are being thrown into question.   Will Dez be comfortable expressing her full identity? And will her community relearn the teachings and overcome prejudice to celebrate her for who she is?

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