This book documents how Israel emerged as one of the world's leading centers of high technology over the last three decades and the impact that it has had, or failed to have, on the wider economy and politics. Based on the study of start-up companies, the project attributes the rise of Israel's tech economy to its unique history, political system, and culture, and shows how those same factors have failed it in the quest to diversify its economy to make it more inclusive and equitable. This...

In 1966, The United States and Australia signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly-run satellite tracking station just south of Alice Springs. The station became known as Pine Gap. For more than 50 years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and has been the target of much public and political controversy. In this fascinating glimpse into the top-secret world of military surveillance, discover how the fallout of controversies such as the Edward Snowden leaks have made th...

Consulting Editor, Dr. Bonita Stanton has worked closely with Guest Editors Drs. David R. Rosenberg and Leslie H. Lundahl to create a current issue devoted to substance abuse in children. Expert authors have written clinical review articles with the goal of providing the pediatrician with the latest information on substances and addiction medicine. The first half of the issue focuses on the following substances: Nicotine Use Disorders in Adolescents; Alcohol Use Disorders in Adolescents; C...

Operational intelligence, knowledge of the enemy’s location and actions, is crucial to effective military operations. The Admirals’ Advantage offers a revealing look at naval operational intelligence based on the findings of a classified Operational Intelligence (OPINTEL) Lessons-Learned Project and a 1998 Symposium at the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center. Participants included senior intelligence and operational leaders who explored the evolution and significanc...

The circus has come to town, and Pete and Penny can't wait to go. But after a monkey shows up at the pizza parlor with a coded message, Pete and Penny uncover a circus crook! Can they save the circus before it's too late? In this unique chapter book series, readers solve the puzzles right alongside the main characters and then those clues lead them to solve the mystery!

Collects War of the Realms: Uncanny X-Men #1-3 and material from War of the Realms: War Scrolls #2. A crucial chapter in Matthew Rosenberg’s UNCANNY X-MEN saga! The War of the Realms has come to Midgard — and the X-Men’s doorstep! Who better to lead them into that war than their very own Valkyrie, Dani Moonstar? But Sabretooth, tired of being the X-Men’s pet, is back to his bloodthirsty ways once again. Joined by Malekith’s forces, he’s determined to make the X-Men bleed for him! Under sie...

They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do. - Barack ObamaThe thrilling, inspirational story of Obama's first Presidential campaign, as told by those who lived it.

The Bear in the Bullring is a clear-eyed guide to thinking better about money, risk, and decision-making in an age of noise and market hype. Drawing on four decades as a top-ranked economist and strategist, David Rosenberg distills the principles that have helped him protect capital, navigate bubbles, and avoid the costly mistakes that derail most investors.This is not a "get rich quick" playbook. Instead, Rosenberg shows why success begins with discipline: understanding c...

The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David Rosenberg tells the story of protest and struggle in London from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.From the suffragettes to the socialists, from the Chartists to the trade unionists, the book invites us to step into the f...

Biblical Genesis vs. Science's Big Bang: Why the Bible Is CorrectBy: David RosenbergIn this book on the big bang and black holes, you will find much evidence that the Hebrew Bible is most accurate in describing creation of the Universe. Since virtually all physical scientists are taught and believe in singularities, they have become stuck in black hole gravity and can’t explain the big bang. The Biblical solution overthrows more than 60 years of cosmology and nuclear physics...

**This stunning new translation of the Hebrew Bible—“the best in a century, without a doubt”—restores the creativity and poetry of the original text (New Republic).Whether rendering the Bible as wondrous or as strangely familiar, David Rosenberg’s “brilliant” and “truly fresh” translation forces us to ask again why the Bible remains a crucial foundation of our culture (Booklist).**Until today, translators have presented a homogeneous Bible in uniform style...

The world's major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-find a common root in one man: Abraham. Yet Abraham looms so large in the realm of world religions that he has remained a ward of the Divine rather than a flesh-and-blood citizen of Humanity. In his monumental new book, David Rosenberg provides a long-overdue history of the patriarch; while revealing that the original story embedded in the Bible is actually our oldest historical biography. We also discover that the wandering asce...