????This is the first English-language book ever to apply psychoanalytic knowledge to the understanding of the most intractable international struggle in our world today—the Arab-Israeli conflict. Two
This pioneering work, dealing with Islamic theories and practices of breastfeeding, provides a unique point of view on the lives of women and children, on family structure, and on marriage strategies
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Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, add
This text develops the theory of systems of stochastic differential equations and presents applications in probability, partial differential equations, and stochastic control problems. Originally publ
This advanced graduate-level text examines variational methods in partial differential equations and illustrates their applications to a number of free-boundary problems. Detailed statements of the s
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Intended for students who have already completed a one-year course in elementary calculus, this rigorous two-part treatment advances from functions of one variable to those of several variables. Topic
This three-part treatment focuses on elliptic and evolution equations. Largely self-contained, this volume concludes with a series of independent topics related to the methods and results of preceding
This study explores the conflicting perceptions that Christians held of the meaning and significance of Jewish books at the beginning of the 16th century, a time when, following their general expulsio
The aim of this book is to explore antagonism towards and acts of violence against English Bibles in England and Scotland (and, to a lesser degree, Ireland) from the English Civil Wars to the end of t
Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age. It has created---with the tacit support of the United States---a special "bargain" with the bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that
Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the
Cohen focuses on a two-decade period from about 1950 until 1970, during which David Ben-Gurion's vision of making Israel a nuclear-weapon state was realized. He weaves together the story of the format
