A young Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Carmen Rodriguez, is called to investigate the murder of a Hasidic Jew. The Shomrim, the Hasidic community patrol, apprehended a suspect, Ramon Perez, a few minutes after the murder.
During the course of her investigation, Carmen learns that one of three eyewitnesses to the crime, Moshe Herz, is mentally unstable and may have a crack problem. Moshe's landlady tells Carmen that Moshe has a dybbuk.
Tightly plotted, suspenseful, and funny, "Twelve Wounds" provides a sobering insight into what sometimes passes for criminal justice in New York...
A young Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Carmen Rodriguez, is called to investigate the murder of a Hasidic Jew. The Shomrim, the Hasidic communi...
How does the body work? This question has intrigued and occupied mankind since soothsayers first peered into animal entrails. From the primitive medicine of ancient Egypt to the mind-boggling achievements of modern laboratories, the healing craft has been a fascinating part of man's progress. "Explorers of the Body" is a history of medicine told through lively stories of the men and women who made the great breakthroughs in our understanding of human physiology: Edward Jenner, Gregor Mendel, Marie Curie, Jonas Salk, William Harvey, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, and many others.
""Explorers...
How does the body work? This question has intrigued and occupied mankind since soothsayers first peered into animal entrails. From the primitive medic...
This work provides a unique service to historians by identifying over 150 places in Austria, Germany, France and the United States that are in some way associated with Adolf Hitler. The entry on Braunau am Inn (upper Austria) gives information on Hitler's birthplace, which is now a school for handicapped children. The entry for Klesheim Palace, built in 1700?1709 and renovated to Hitler's tastes for his guests, details such visitations as that of Benito Mussolini on April 22, 1941, the two dictators met at the palace to discuss the Italian contribution to the war effort and German influence...
This work provides a unique service to historians by identifying over 150 places in Austria, Germany, France and the United States that are in some wa...
DRAMA; WAR AND PSYCHOANALYSIS is the story of Freud's efforts to learn if a famous patient, the Rat Man, was circumcised. THE FAMILY DOCTOR is Dr. Eduard Bloch, the Jewish poor people's doctor, who cared for Adolf Hitler's mother in 1907, in Linz, as she was dying of breast cancer. Thirty years later, after Hitler had annexed Austria, Hitler protected Bloch. But Bloch was reluctant to give up Klara's medical record and two postcards Hitler had sent him in 1907. Would Bloch, the only Jew that Hitler protected from Hitler, be murdered for his disobedience? THE ABORTIONIST is the drama of an...
DRAMA; WAR AND PSYCHOANALYSIS is the story of Freud's efforts to learn if a famous patient, the Rat Man, was circumcised. THE FAMILY DOCTOR is Dr. Edu...
Germany's Nazi government initially made its primary headquarters in one of Berlin's oldest buildings, the Old Reich Chancellery. Unsatisfied with the building, Adolf Hitler commissioned Albert Speer to design and build a newer, grander structure, and his New Reich Chancellery was completed in early 1939. Hitler described his New Reich Chancellery and other Nazi buildings as his -words of stone, - eternal monuments to the work that he and the Nazi party intended to perpetuate. Frequented by Hitler and his inner circle, the Chancellery witnessed their fanatical plans and was an architectural...
Germany's Nazi government initially made its primary headquarters in one of Berlin's oldest buildings, the Old Reich Chancellery. Unsatisfied with the...
Else Ury's Nesthakchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Anne Marie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book Nesthakchen series follows Annemarie from infancy (Nesthakchen and Her Dolls) to old age and grandchildren (Nesthakchen with White Hair). Volume 2 describes Anne Marie's first school year.
Else Ury's Nesthakchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Anne Marie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book Nesthakchen ser...
