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Teacher's Guide for Readers and Writers Genre Workshop title The Strong and the Weak: Hammurabi's Code, Tomb Robbers! A Story of Ancient Egypt (Does Not Contain Common Core Indicators)
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Teacher's Guide for Readers and Writers Genre Workshop title The Strong and the Weak: Hammurabi's Code, Tomb Robbers! A Story of Ancient Egypt (Does Not Contain Common Core Indicators)
Author : Benchmark Education Co., LLC Staff
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
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ISBN : 9781502156235
Common Core Edition of Teacher's Guide for corresponding title. Not for individual sale. Sold as part of larger package only.
Author : Amanda Jenkins
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1450930204
Ditanu is happy as apprentice to Belshunu, a master carver. But his greedy uncle wants to reclaim the boy and his earnings. How will the kindness Ditanu shows the widow Hudu-libbi save him from this fate? Mery can't deter her brother Khaba from robbing the pharaoh's tomb. What she discovers, however, does change his mind. What does Mery learn about Khaba? Read these stories to find out.
Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108484107
"Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
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Author : John Koessler
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2009-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310864216
Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith
Author : Vivienne M. O'Connor
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781601270122
Accompanying CD-ROMs contains the text of vol. 1. and vol. 2.
Author : Christine Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107036151
The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.
Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0425284638
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life. As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights: • For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations. • Ethical rules aren’t universal. You’re part of a group larger than you, but it’s still smaller than humanity in general. • Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others. • You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. “Educated philistines” have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. • Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines. • True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you’re willing to risk for it. The phrase “skin in the game” is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, “The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster,” and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”
Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1000653471
First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.