Winning Naturally

Marcus, Amy Dockser Dockser: JERUSALEM 1913, Penguin Group (USA) 2007
ISBN: 0-670-03836-9 As New Condition

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the genesis of one of the greatest politicalstruggles of our time Searching for the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, historians for years focused on the British Mandate period (1920?1948). Amy Dockser Marcus, however, demonstrates that the bloody struggle for power actually started much earlier, when Jerusalem was still part of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism laid the groundwork for the battles that would continue to rage nearly a century later. Nineteen thirteen was the crucial year for these conflicts?the year that the Palestinians held the First Arab Congress and the first time that secret peace talks were held between Zionists and Palestinians. World War I, however, interrupted these peace efforts. Dockser Marcus traces these dramatic times through the lives of a handful of the city's leading citizens as they struggle to survive. A current events must read in our ongoing efforts to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict. About the Author: Amy Dockser Marcus is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who from 1991 to 1998 was based in Israel as the paper's Middle East correspondent. She was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. San Francisco Chronicle A richly insightful, highly readable, and acutely felt offering, one that is also critical and even handed . . . a page-turning, heartbreaking narrative. Publishers Weekly In Ottoman Jerusalem, families of different religions picnicked together at popular shrines and vouched for each other at the bank; Muslims and Jews were business partners and neighbors; and Arab children dressed in costumes for the Jewish holiday of Purim. How then did this city of ethnic diversity become a crucible of sectarian conflict? Marcus (The View from Nebo), a Pulitzer-winning former Wall Street Journalcorrespondent, focuses on the year 1913 as a turning point, when leaders at the Zionist Congress argued for both cultural and demographic domination of Palestine, while at the same time Jews and Arabs were negotiating a possible peace. Marcus also highlights three men who helped shape the destiny of the future Israeli capital. Albert Antebi was a non-Zionist Syrian Jew who advocated for Jewish economic solvency and strong relationships with Muslims; ardent Zionist Arthur Ruppin directed the establishment of Jewish settlements; and Ruhi Khalidi, a prominent Muslim , although not an Arab nationalist, actively opposed Jewish immigration and land purchases. Marcus masterfully brings a Jerusalem of almost a century ago to pungent life, and her political dissection of the era is lucid and well-meaning although she never explains the gulf between moderate Muslims of 1913 and today's Islamist and radical movements. (Apr. 23)Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews A searching contribution to the history of the troubles in Palestine by Wall Street Journal reporter and former Middle East correspondent Marcus. Many Western historians locate the birth of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the British Mandate, which governed Palestine from 1920 to 1948. Marcus pushes the date back to 1913, when the Zionist movement had established itself in Palestine and begun to enlist European settlers, mostly from Russia. One recruiting device, a film by Russian Zionist Noah Sokolovsky of the Jewish enterprise, conveyed "a pulsing nationalism that did not need words or sound to vividly express itself." Arab leaders, naturally, were wary of such expressions of nationalism, and as the Zionist presence grew and with it Arab resentment, the previously broadly agreed upon "notion of a country made up of various peoples united by a common identity seemed to be receding." To the credit of both, the Zionist and Arab leadership made efforts at detente, or perhaps even entente, during an international conference devoted to dismantling the Ottoman Empire. However, the growing numbers of Jews in the Arab land spawned violence and terrorist actions; the infamous "Rehovot incident" sharply divided....Published at Twenty Seven dollars. Hardcover Small Remainder Mark Outer PP

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Sally Pont: Finding Their Stride: A Team of Young Runners and Their Season of Triumph, Harvest Books 2000

Paperback 0156011824 Amazon.com There are certain staples in the canon of sports literature, and they're staples because they continue to work. One of the biggies is the tale of the disparate group molded into a winning team by a dedicated coach. In Finding Their Stride, the theme again hits its own. Pont teaches English at a small, co-ed private school in Pennsylvania, where she also coaches the co-ed cross-country team. It's a quirky squad--Moravian Academy's strength is its brains, not its brawn--and the eclectic group that Pont takes on would just as soon burn the midnight oil, paint a picture, or perform on stage as cover a distance of ground. Naturally, they're the league doormats, wandering egos in search of cohesion. Over the course of one magnificent season, Pont finds ways to wake within them a dormant love of sport and competition, and they bloom, racing as a unit toward a Hollywood ending. After the season is over, after the accolades and prizes have been dispensed, after a long run of her own, Pont manages to supply an almost mystical meaning to what she--and they--have done: "I stop in front of my door, bend over, hands on knees, and breathe deep. My run over, I wonder, what does the Hindu desire after she has plunged into the Ganges? Hope to do it again." In the end, it's that simple. The humor, beauty, and depth that Pont puts into her stirring chronicle make the journey as rousing as its conclusion and its inevitability more renewing than trite. --Jeff Silverman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly As the cross-country coach, an English teacher and dean of students at Moravian Academy, a small independent high school in eastern Pennsylvania, Pont should be eminently qualified to tell the true-grit story of her team of young, determined distance runners pushing themselves toward a winning season. But Pont has trouble finding her own stride in this overwritten personal narrative. Her attempts to describe the physical and emotional challenges she and her students face too often falter on awkward metaphors: "The cartilage in her knees under the taut skin appears to be smiling with bright molars." Pont expresses deep affection and admiration for her students, and readers will believe they are worthy of it. But her efforts to paint these young athletes as interesting individuals never quite succeed, as their stories and personalities blend together. Keeping them straight is much like watching the very races Pont depicts: readers get occasional glimpses of runners as they emerge from the pack or drop behind, but they're too far away, and the course is too spread out, to appreciate any one performance. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ..Rare Books make rare gifts... Experience, Quality, Value..

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Routh, Edward John: Die Dynamik der Systeme starrer Körper. 2 Bände. Band 1: Die Elemente; Band 2: Die Höhere Dynamik. Mit einem Vorwort von Professor Felix Klein. Aus dem Englischen und mit einem Vorwort von Adolf Schepp. Mit Sach- und Namensregister. Mit Anmerkungen von Professor Felix Klein zum zweiten Band. (= Vorlesungen über technische Mechanik in sechs Bänden, Band 4) Deutsche Erstausgabe. Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1898.
Edward John Routh Born: 20 Jan 1831 in Quebec, Canada Died: 7 June 1907 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Edward Routh"s father, Sir Randolph Isham Routh, had been born in Poole, Dorset, England, in 1787. After being educated at Eton, Randolph served in the British army for thirty-seven years fighting at the Battle of Waterloo. In 1826 Randolph was made a commissary-general and was serving in Canada at the time Edward was born. Edward"s mother, Marie Louise Taschereau, was Randolph Routh"s second wife. Edward came to England in 1842 and his father worked, still as commissary-general, in London. Edward attended University College School and then entered University College, London, in 1847 having won a scholarship. There he studied under De Morgan whose influence led to him deciding on a career in mathematics. After the award of a B.A. from London in 1849, he entered Peterhouse on 1 June 1850 at the same time as Maxwell. However, Maxwell transferred to Trinity College (perhaps because he felt Routh was too strong competition!). Routh obtained his M.A. from London in 1853, being awarded at that time the Gold Medals for Mathematics and for Natural Philosophy. In January 1854 Routh graduated with a B.A. from Cambridge. He was Senior Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos examinations (ranked first among those with First Class degrees) with Maxwell being placed second. The prestigious Smith Prize was at that time decided by examination, and the prize was divided equally between them (the first time the prize had been awarded jointly). In 1855 Routh was elected a fellow of Peterhouse and was appointed as a College lecturer in Mathematics. In the following year he was appointed as assistant tutor at Peterhouse. In 1857 the post of first assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory became vacant and Routh was invited by Airy, the Astronomer Royal, to visit the Observatory so that he might be offered the post. He did go to the Observatory but decided that he would prefer not to accept the post there, but rather remain at Cambridge. While he was there, however, he met Hilda Airy, George Airy"s eldest daughter, and a friendship began which led to their marriage on 31 August 1864. They had five sons and one daughter. Edward Airy Routh served as a lieutenant in the royal artillery, George Richard Randolph Routh became an inspector of schools, Arthur Lionel Routh served as a lieutenant in the royal artillery, Harold Victor Routh became professor of Latin in Toronto, and Rupert John Routh served in the Indian civil service. Routh became the most famous of the Cambridge coaches for the Mathematical Tripos. His first pupil was Third Wrangler in 1856 and, two years later, both the First and Second Wranglers were his pupils. By 1862 he was established as the best Cambridge coach for, in that year, he coached 19 of the 32 Wranglers including seven of those placed in the top ten. Of course once his reputation was established the best students sought him out as a coach and so maintaining his leading role became relatively easy. Naturally his exceptional teaching ability was a factor in his success, but equally his understanding of where students should allocate their energies and how they could make the best use of their knowledge were important. Over a period of 22 years from 1862 Routh coached the Senior Wrangler in every year. During his career he coached about 700 pupils of whom about 480 were Wranglers out of around 900 Wranglers over these 30 years. When he retired as a coach in 1888 a presentation was held at which Routh"s portrait, painted by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, was presented to his wife. Eighty of his former pupils had contributed to the cost of the painting. In fact a rather amusing story was told at the time of the presentation to illustrate Routh"s skill as a teacher [2]:- The case of a student of hydrodynamics was alleged as typical of the trials to which [his patience] was exposed. The troubled undergraduate"s primary difficulty lay in conceiving how anything could float. This was so completely removed by Dr Routh"s lucid explanation that he went away sorely perplexed as to how anything could sink! We must not think of Routh as just a superb teacher, however, for he also contributed to mathematics with some excellent research papers and some outstanding texts. The research areas which interested him most were geometry, dynamics, astronomy, waves, vibrations and harmonic analysis. His work on mechanics was particularly important and in 1877 he was awarded the Adams Prize for work on dynamic stability Treatise on the stability of a given state of motion, particularly steady motion. The fact that he did this in a Christmas vacation suggests that had he devoted more time to research and less to teaching he may have had a much more lasting impact of the course of mathematics. In fact the impact of this prize winning work was very significant since Thomson and Tait rewrote for the second edition of their text Natural philosophy treatise the part dealing with equations of motion using Routh"s developments. He published famous advanced treatises which became standard applied mathematics texts such as A Treatise on Dynamics of Rigid Bodies (1860), A Treatise on Analytic Statistics (1891), and A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle (1898). He was elected a fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1854, and in 1856 he became a founder member of the London Mathematical Society. He was also elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866 and of the Royal Society in 1872. He was awarded honorary degrees from a number of universities including Glasgow (1878) and Dublin (1892). He was made an honorary fellow of Peterhouse in 1883. The author of [2] writes:- Dr Routh was a man of the most kindly disposition, and was both liked and respected by his numerous pupils. He influenced deeply the mathematical teaching of his time and held strong views as to the best ways of promoting the study. For years he has been a familiar figure in the roads and paths around the University town, but latterly his health failed and he was unable to take his usual walk. The alterations in the procedure of the Mathematical Tripos adopted by the Senate last autumn were a real grief to him, and almost his last appearance in public was at the debate on the proposed changes, when he fought for the retention of the Senior Wrangler. Einband leicht fleckig und beim ersten Band ist das Leinen am Fuß aufgetrennt. Buchrücken leicht verfärbt. Befriedigender Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek von Professor Ludwig Föppl mit einem Namenstempel auf dem Vorsatz und einer Bleistiftsignatur auf der Titelseite.

X, 472 und IX, 544 Seiten, mit 95 Figuren im Text. 24,5 cm. Leinen mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln und Kopffarbschnitt.

[SW: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaft, Arbeit, Schwingung, Bewegung, Differentialgleichungen, Lehrbücher, Physik, Angewandte Mathematik, Lineare Algebra, Euler, Leonhard, Kraft Kräfte, Lagrange, Joseph Louis de, Trägheitsmomente, Rotation, Pendel, Klassische Physik]

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Judith Krantz: Scruples Two, Bantam 1993

Mass Market Paperback 0553561111 From the Publisher Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended . . . continues. Only a single night's sleep seperates the lives of the characters in Scruples from this mesmerizing sequel. Billy Ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill, Billy's partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini. From The Critics Gale Research After her youngest son graduated from high school, Krantz began working on a novel, writing six-and-a-half hours a day, five days a week. After nine months Scruples was completed. "I truly enjoy writing, " the author revealed to Jill Gerston of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "If I didn't, I could never close myself in my room for almost a year." Krantz then asked family friend and lawyer Morton L. Janklow to read the manuscript. Janklow said he knew immediately that Scruples was destined to be a bestseller, and he agreed to serve as Krantz's literary agent. Although Scruples was at first rejected by an editor at Simon & Schuster, Crown Publishers eventually purchased the hardcover rights and released it in March of 1978. Four months later the novel became the number one bestseller, according to the New York Times, and remained on its bestseller list for almost one year. Publishers Weekly Picking up on Oscar night, where Krantz's 1977 blockbuster first novel left off, this sequel is long on background filler, short on suspense, rarely exciting or even steamy. Wealthy and gorgeous Billy Ikehorn has a secret, but when her movie producer husband Vito Orsini's never-before-mentioned teenage daughter shows up, Billy's secret, and her marriage, become irrelevant. She mothers Gigi, starting her off, naturally, with an expensive new haircut and wardrobe. Meanwhile, Billy's Beverly Hills-based designer clothes store, Scruples, is so successful she opens new branches. Then a tragedy involving her key staff sends the distraught Billy fleeing to Paris, where she has an affair with a sculptor. Gigi moves to New York, lives with lingerie model Sasha (the ""Great Slut'') Nevsky, and falls for Sasha's brother Zach. Ultimately, Billy realizes that having scads of money doesn't buy happiness (though it does make it possible to dine in five-star restaurants, live in groovy houses, wear fabulous clothes, stay forever young-looking, and finance your own business venture to design less expensive clothes for average-income folks--""Scruples Two''). Perhaps in ""Scruples Three'' Billy will donate excess clothing to the homeless. 500,000 first printing;500,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection. ( June ) Kirkus Reviews Krantz gives fans another dizzying spin around the glitter world of high fashion, hot sex, and Hollywood, picking up in 1978 with a pregnant Billy Ikehorn (of Scruples, 1977) the night after her new husband, Italian producer Vito Orsini, wins the Oscar (but, of course). Billy's marital bliss lasts a nanosecond before Vito cheats, she miscarries ..Rare Books make rare gifts... Experience, Quality, Value..

[SW: Women's Fiction, Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, Contemporary Romance]

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