Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: With Honey, Prayers, and the Shofar (Inbunden)
avHeiligman, Deborah
ISBN: 9781426300769"Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur" examines how these Jewish High Holy Days are celebrated worldwide. Rosh Hashanah, known as the Jewish New Year, is a time for reflection and resolution. On Yom Kippur, also called the Day of Atonement, Jews fast, pray, and ask God's forgiveness for their sins[...]
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith (Häftad)
avDeborah Heiligman
ISBN: 9780312661045 - UTGIVEN: 201111Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species," his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of ev[...]
Celebrate Hanukkah: With Light, Latkes, and Dreidels (Inbunden)
avDeborah Heiligman
ISBN: 9780792259244 - UTGIVEN: 2006-10In "Celebrate Hanukkah" Deborah Heiligman welcomes readers to a holiday celebrated by Jewish communities around the world.
The vivid photography of National Geographic illustrates the joyous celebrations of Jewish people around the world--including Ghana, Uganda, India, Israel, Peru, the United [...]
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith (Inbunden)
avDeborah Heiligman
ISBN: 9780805087215 - UTGIVEN: 2008-12Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species," his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of ev[...]
Celebrate Christmas (Inbunden)
avDeborah Heiligman
ISBN: 9781426301223 - UTGIVEN: 2007-10December 25th is a day of peace and festivity, the culmination of a season of worldwide goodwill. Carol singers give voice to the joyful spirit, trees are decorated, and gifts exchanged between families and friends. A name-check of the gift-bearers awaited by children reflects the global nature of t[...]
Celebrate Ramadan & Eid Al-Fitr (Pocket)
avDeborah Heiligman
ISBN: 9781426304767 - UTGIVEN: 2009-07Ramadan is a month-long holiday when Muslims around the world come together to celebrate faith, family, and community. Each day adults fast from sunrise to sunset. Everyone studies the teachings of the prophet Mohammed and reads the holy book, the Qur'an. People spend time with loved ones and share [...]
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos (Inbunden)
avDeborah Heiligman, LeUyen Pham
ISBN: 9781596433076 - UTGIVEN: 201306Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't le[...]
