The Torah for Dummies

The Torah for Dummies

By: Arthur Kurtzweil

The Torah is both the most sacred object and the most sacred text in Judaism. It consists of the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The word “Torah” comes from the same root as the Hebrew word hora’ah (hoe-rah-ah), which means “instruction” or “teaching.” The Torah’s purpose, simply stated, is to provide people with instructions for finding and following the path of God and the path to God. Although the words in the Torah, which is also known as the Five Books of Moses, consists of exactly 304,805 letters, the great sages of Jewish tradition teach that all the wisdom in the universe is hidden within these letters. Jewish tradition looks carefully at these letters and at the words they form, and great sages throughout history have provided and continue to provide the proper instruction for analyzing the Torah text and revealing its divine messages. [download]

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The Tudors for Dummies

The Tudors for Dummies

By: David Loades and Mei Throw

The Tudors are in fashion. More than 500 years after the key events of the period, scholars, novelists and film-makers are flocking back to the 16^th century. Fortunately, the Tudors left behind loads of clues as to who they were and what they wanted from life and for England. For example, in many ways the Tudor portrait painter Hans Holbein was the best publicist before Max Clifford! The earlier, medieval rulers suffer from poor publicity, and if you want to study them, much of the research involves dry official records (accounts and grants for the most part). If you’re interested in Henry VIII or Elizabeth I, however, you have stacks of correspondence some of it official, but much of it personal. Busy secretaries and ambassadors were writing everything down. Scholars have even uncovered Henry VIII’s love letters (or at least some of them). Of course, these sources didn’t always get the details right, but that’s where the fun begins. [download]

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Understanding Prescription Drugs for Canadians for Dummies

Understanding Prescription Drugs for Canadians for Dummies 

By: Ian Blummer and Heather McDonald Blummer

Aprescription drug is like a car. It can be a wonderful tool, allowing us to safely and effectively go about our business, and on the other hand it can be troublesome and hazardous, causing us difficulties, grief, and worse. And, like a car, a medicine is much more likely to keep us going in a healthy direction when we know how to use it properly, how to maintain it properly, and what things to watch for to alert us of developing problems (before the engine light comes on!). In this book you won’t learn how to drive a car, but you certainly will discover how to take your medicine for a spin (and minimize the likelihood your medicine will take you for a spin). In Understanding Prescription Drugs For Canadians For Dummies we look at all sides of the prescription drug spectrum, including what a medicine is, how a medicine can help you, and how a medicine can harm you (and how to minimize this risk). [download]

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Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook for Dummies

Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook for Dummies

By: Brian K. Davidson

If you’re reading this, odds are you have made the very important decision to improve your health by having weight loss surgery (WLS). You most likely made this choice after years of struggling to live a healthier lifestyle by trying other methods to lose weight. You probably spent countless hours researching procedures on the Internet, reading books, interviewing doctors, talking to weight loss surgery patients, and speaking with other healthcare professionals, putting in the necessary time and effort to make sure this procedure was the right decision for you. Your surgeon provides you with a tool your surgery to assist you in losing weight and leading a healthier life. Making that tool work is up to you, and a big component of your success will be your long-term eating plan. [download]

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The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity 

By: Vojtech Masni

Rarely has the present receded into the past more quickly than in the years that followed the end of the Cold War. Normally, people sense a continuity; even after great wars that break it do they feel an urge to come to grips with their recent experience by relating it to their new condition. No such urge has grown out of the sudden and unexpected denouement of the East-West conflict, breeding instead the bizarre notion that history itself may have ended.1 Although a proliferation of crises soon exposed the fallacy of such a notion, the forty-year rivalry has continued to fade from memory. That a contest of such intensity and magnitude could safely be relegated to oblivion ‘would seem too good to be true; even if it were so, the reasons why would all the more cry for an explanation. [download]

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The State as Utopia

The State as Utopia

By: Jurgen Georg Backhaus

When we started this project, the question was: is there a difference in the way seafaring and landlocked states visualise the commonwealth? The hypothesis was that Continental cultures develop utopias that are different from maritime cultures. This is clearly not true. In this sense, this volume follows the refutation of the Schumpeter Hypothesis. The question is discussed, if the hypothesis is refuted, why is it still relevant and useful? The answer provided in the book is that the Schumpeter Hypothesis remains important as it charts out an entire research program. The Hypothesis serves as a benchmarking instrument in defining the boundaries between public and private sectors in OECD countries and beyond. The Hypothesis may turn out to define the grammar of discourse for constitutional economic policy in the European and the OECD community. [download]

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