Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire


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Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking system.




Redeeming the Dream


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Previous edition published under the title Redeeming the dream: the case for marriage equality.




How to Hold a Crocodile


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Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].













Reclaiming Capital


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Social surplus -- Alternative institutions of accumulation: gaining financial resources -- Alternative institutions of accumulation: building assets in the community -- Constraining capital -- Creating public assets -- Collective action, communities and social change.




All that Comes to Light


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Hometown Money


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Rabbi Benjamin Yudin on the Parsha


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Rabbi Yudin's warm personality and divrei Torah have inspired tens of thousands of his community members, students and radio listeners for over three decades. In this volume - his first book - readers will be intrigued by original, fascinating questions and inspired by deep and uplifting explanations. Crafted over thirty years of popular radio drashos and beloved by listeners both old and young, these thoughts are ideal to bring to your Shabbos table. Rabbi Benjamin Yudin has been Rav of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey since 1969, and has taught at Yeshiva university for decades. Most famously, Rabbi Yudin gives a popular weekly radio drasha on JM in the AM.