In Creating A Judaism Without Religion: A Postmodern Jewish Possibility, Daniel Breslauer explores the contemporary phenomena of a Jewish identity that is divorced from traditional concepts of "religion" as the sole source of Jewishness. Challenging, articulate, and occasionally iconoclastic chapters include Creative Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin Buber; Jewish Studies, Disciples of the Besht, and Responses to the Holocaust; A Possibility for Deconstruction of Revelation: The case of Eugene B. Borowitz; Visions of the Messiah in Poetry, Theology, and Mysticism; Jewish Culture as Experiments in Variety: Some Reflections on Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Cultural Zionism; Anthropological Betrayal: Bialik and the Jewish Book; Bialik, Agnon, and Ben Yehuda: Hebrew and the Individual's Spiritual Quest; Negotiation as Theology: Reflections on Stories by I.L. Peretz, S.Y. Agnon, and Martin Buber; Considerations of Eisik Ben Yekel of Crakow, Some Stories of I.L. Peretz, and the Meaning of Circumcision; and The Limits of Covenant Theology, Instructive Poems by Ilan Sheinfeld, and the Subversive in Peretz. A welcome and recommended addition to Judaic Studies reading lists and academic reference collections, Creating A Judaism Without Religion is enhanced with an extensive bibliography and an exhaustive index.

From a creative thinking/problem solving standpoint, this is a excellent resource. From a opportunity finding viewpoint, it's quite disappointing, personally speaking. Although the coverage on the aspect of creative thinking is very broad and somewhat deep in many respects, with good, useful strategies/techniques and examples to follow, it does not offer much in terms of opportunity finding approaches for the business reader. For that, you need to buy and read Michel Robert's "Innovation Formula", and/or Edward de Bono's "Opportunities", and/or & Nigel MacLennan "Opportunity Finding." Neverthesless, this book is still worthwhile to be bought/read and kept in your personal library. Reading it is like reading many creative thinking books in one go. The author drew a lot - I mean really a lot - of creativity stuff from other books.

I find this book when I search books about neighborhood watch project. Although there is just nine pages about this issue in this book, I browse the whole book because I feel it is very good. In this eight chapters book, it gives a whole picture about many major aspacts of theories and policies on crime prevention in modern society. In the first part, it introduces the concepts, the theories and policy of crime prevention. In the second part, it introduces crime prevention within the criminal justice system including the police and probation services, and crime prevention beyond the criminal justice system which includes local authorities, the voluntary sector, the informal sector and the private sector. It also introduces partnerships in crime prevention, community safety and the politics of crime prevention. Every chapter has an introduction and summary. It is a good text book and easy to understand. If a person curious like me want to "learn" something about what is going on in criminal prevention theories, policy and prctices since 60's through 90's, it will fullfill you curiosity. For example, I'm interested in the part of neighbourhood watch. In this book (paperback page 142 - 150), it mentions how this project expanded, developed in UK after transplanted from North America. By reading these pages, it's very useful that I find a dozen other authors who have published articles or books on this issue. Then I can find and read more archives.

A woderfully brilliant piece of writing, a text book all universities shuold keep in their libraries!

If you would like to be first on your block to be able to explain coherently the early Spartan Great Rhetra, Greek colonization, the actual history of the mysterious Mamertines of brief Punic War fame, this is your book. This book is a serious piece of scholarship and, as such, appears to supplant all previous work in its chosen area.

While it is perhaps to the author's advantage that the period it deals with is notorious for lack of contemporary sources, I must add that I have yet to find any work that truly seems to make sense of it all.

Whether you agree with Ogden or not, you will find yourself on the cutting edge of things if you know this book, and on the trailing edge if you don't.

This is exactly what you'd expect. You've got a couple of letters and need an answer, they're all here. Granted, that's a bit to look through, but desperate times and all that. I found this book particularly good for crossword construction, if you're into that sort of thing.

This is a wonderful first book of poems by a young poet very accomplished in his craft. From the title poem beginning, to the 'passion fruit' at the close, every offering is well worth savoring, digesting, and contemplating. The poems are, every one of them, accessible and contemporary -- perfect for the commuter on public transportation -- one poem per train-ride, and perfect at the bedside.

Don't miss this treasure.

This is a very good collection of short stories by Luthier Daniel Rabinovich; these are not jokes or deliberately funny stories, but rather shows us another face of this great performer. The stories have very good twisting 'finales', and are rather short. A great buy!

Finally, an author who tells it like is is ! Hanson's real life experiences blend with his academic research to produce a book that has practical application both professionally and personally. His master of the difficult art of telling parables adds a dimension to this book that is missing in other books on this topic.

This is one of the only books available that addresses this issue. Many people form transient and very fulfilling cyber relationships, but I have not seen a book devoted to those relationships and what impact they have, both on the cyber parties involved and their families and friends. CybeRelations looks at those strange, wonderful, fast-moving 'affairs of the keyboard' in a humorous and exposing light. I enjoyed reading and re-reading certain chapters, and would really like to know what happened to most of these people. Thanks should go to both authors, Daniel and Kathleen, for taking what appears to be an enourmous amount of time putting this book together.