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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, x, 254 pp., selected bibliography, a few ink-stamps Introduction by the editors. Articles are An Economic Analysis of Philanthrophy," Barry R. Chiswick, "The Dimensions of Contemporary American Jewish Philanthropy," Kosmin, "The Relationship Between Jewish Identity and Philanthropy," Mordechai Rimor and Gary A. Tobin, "The Determinants of Jewish Charitable Giving in the Last Part of the Twentieth-Century," Ritterband, "Tradition and Transition in Jewish Women's Philanthropy," Madeleine Tress and Kosmin, "Dimensions of Giving: Volunteer Activity and Contributions of the Jewish Women of Rhode Island," Alice Goldstein, "Patterns of Giving of Some Jewish Career Women: A Preliminary Investigation," Rela Geffen Monson, "Tzedakah: Orthodox Jews and Charitable Giving," Samuel C. Heilman, "Intergenerational Philanthropic Slippage: The Case of Children of Major Jewish Philanthropic Families in New York City," Egon Mayer, "Generous Fathers, Ungenerous Children: A Small City Perspective," Arthur S. Goldberg, "The Bottom Line: Major Gifts to Federation Campaigns," Norbert Fruehauf, "Havurah Jews and Where They Give," Bethamie Horowitz, "The New Jewish Philanthropies," Ira Silverman, "The Changing Client System of Jewish Federations," Donald Feldstein, "Israeli Society and Diaspora Philanthropy: How Well Does the Gift Perform?" Israel Katz.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Clean, unmarked copy with tight binding and crisp, bright dust jacket with only minimal scuffing/creasing along upper edge (see picture).

Condition: Good. This copy is in Good condition ? a loved and well-read book with visible signs of use. The text is fully readable and complete with no missing pages. There may be some cover wear, mild creasing to the spine, or minor marks inside, but nothing that detracts from the reading experience. Every book we list is individually hand-checked by our team at Kisharon Langdon New Chapters. We take pride in honest, accurate grading ? what you read is what you receive. New Chapters is a social enterprise supporting people with Learning Disabilities and Autistic People into meaningful work. Your purchase makes a real difference.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9781861976512.…

Paperback. Condition: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Profile Books, 2003. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. 318 Seiten; P. Profile Books - 1st. 2003 : Paul Iganski - tb - 9-82-4-L6 29-0LRD-9U9R Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495.

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Paperback. Condition: New. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan-the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests-the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the ancestral homeland of the dynasty. The Land of the Elephant Kings investigates how the Seleucid kings, ruling over lands to which they had no historic claim, attempted to transform this territory into a coherent and meaningful space."This engaging book appeals to the specialist and non-specialist alike. Kosmin has successfully brought together a number of disparate fields in a new and creative way that will cause a reevaluation of how the Seleucids have traditionally been studied."-Jeffrey D. Lerner, American Historical Review"It is a useful and bright introduction to Seleucid ideology, history, and position in the ancient world."-Jan P. Stronk, American Journal of Archaeology.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award"Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than starting a new count, as other states did, each time a new monarch was crowned.Fascinating."-Harper'sIn the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests, his successors, the Seleucid kings, ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia and Anatolia to the Persian Gulf. In 305 BCE, in a radical move to impose unity and regulate behavior, Seleucus I introduced a linear conception of time. Time would no longer restart with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years-continuous and irreversible-became the de facto measure of historical duration. This new temporality, propagated throughout the empire and identical to the system we use today, changed how people did business, recorded events, and oriented themselves to the larger world.Some rebellious subjects, eager to resurrect their pre-Hellenic past, rejected this new approach and created apocalyptic time frames, predicting the total end of history. In this magisterial work, Paul Kosmin shows how the Seleucid Empire's invention of a new kind of time-and the rebellions against this worldview-had far reaching political and religious consequences, transforming the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future."Without Paul Kosmin's meticulous investigation of what Seleucus achieved in creating his calendar without end we would never have been able to comprehend the traces of it that appear in late antiquity.A magisterial contribution to this hitherto obscure but clearly important restructuring of time in the ancient Mediterranean world."-G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books"With erudition, theoretical sophistication, and meticulous discussion of the sources, Paul Kosmin sheds new light on the meaning of time, memory, and identity in a multicultural setting."-Angelos Chaniotis, author of Age of Conquests.…

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Condition: Poor. Scratches/creases to cover, scuffs to edges & fading at spine. Marks to textblock edges. Some creases/folds to page corners. Significant highlighting/underlining/notes throughout, underlining messy in places, going over text but remains readable.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire. Book.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan-the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests-the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the ancestral homeland of the dynasty. The Land of the Elephant Kings investigates how the Seleucid kings, ruling over lands to which they had no historic claim, attempted to transform this territory into a coherent and meaningful space."This engaging book appeals to the specialist and non-specialist alike. Kosmin has successfully brought together a number of disparate fields in a new and creative way that will cause a reevaluation of how the Seleucids have traditionally been studied."-Jeffrey D. Lerner, American Historical Review"It is a useful and bright introduction to Seleucid ideology, history, and position in the ancient world."-Jan P. Stronk, American Journal of Archaeology Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award"A magisterial contribution to this hitherto obscure but clearly important restructuring of time in the ancient Mediterranean world."-G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books"Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than starting a new count, as other states did, each time a new monarch was crowned Fascinating."-Harper's"The new dating system was intended to make the king master of time. It ultimately transformed the historical consciousness of the empire's populations, triggered the nostalgic desire to keep the memory of a pre-Seleucid past, and shaped expectations of the future. With erudition, theoretical sophistication, and meticulous discussion of the sources, Paul Kosmin sheds new light on the meaning of time, memory, and identity in a multicultural setting."-Angelos Chaniotis, author of Age of ConquestsIn the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests, his successors, the Seleucid kings, ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia and Anatolia to the Persian Gulf. In 305 BCE, in a radical move to impose unity and regulate behavior, Seleucis I introduced a linear conception of time. Time would no longer restart with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years-continuous and irreversible-became the de facto measure of historical duration. This new temporality, propagated throughout the empire and identical to the system we use today, changed how people did business, recorded events, and oriented themselves to the larger world.Some rebellious subjects, eager to resurrect their pre-Hellenic past, rejected this new approach and created apocalyptic time frames, predicting the total end of history. In this magisterial work, Paul Kosmin shows how the Seleucid Empire's invention of a new kind of time-and the rebellions against this worldview-had far reaching political and religious consequences, transforming the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future. Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the system we use today, became the measure of historical duration. Paul Kosmin shows how this invention of a new kind of timeand resistance to ittransformed the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Winner of the AHA Prize in History prior to CE 1000An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity.As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts, Greek dramas frequently played out on a watery stage. In particular, antiquity's key events and exchanges often occurred on coastlines. Yet the shore was not just a site of conquest and trade, ire and yearning. The seacoast was a singular kind of space and was integral to the cosmology of the Greeks and their neighbors. In The Ancient Shore, award-winning historian Paul Kosmin reveals the influence of the coast on the inner lives of the ancients: their political thought, scientific notions, artistic endeavors, and myths; their sense of wonder and of self.The Ancient Shore transports readers to a time when the coast was an unpredictable, formidable site of infinite and humbling possibility. Shorelines served as points of connection and competition that fostered distinctive political identities. It was at the coast-ever violent, ever permeable to predation-that state power ended, and so the coast was fundamental to theories of sovereignty. Then too, the boundary of land and sea symbolized human limitation, making it the subject of elaborate and continuous philosophical, scientific, and religious attention.Kosmin's ancient world is expansive, connecting the Atlantic to the Straits of Malacca, the Black Sea to the Indian Ocean. And his methods are similarly far-ranging, integrating accounts of statecraft and commerce with intellectual, literary, religious, and environmental history. The Ancient Shore is a radically new encounter with people, places, objects, and ideas we thought we knew.…

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