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Primary Pediatric Care

Published in Hardcover by Mosby (2001-01-15)

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Very Useful

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-26

This book is an outstanding reference for the primary care pediatrician in office practice. It is much better oriented to day-to-day pediatrics than Nelson's and its imitators. The CD-ROM is very useful and easy to navigate. As a bonus, the CD-ROM contains all of the excellent illustrations for Zitelli & Davis' superb Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis.

Outstanding

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2001-08-20

This book is an outstanding reference for the primary care pediatrician in office practice. It is much better oriented to day-to-day pediatrics than Nelson's and its imitators. The CD-ROM is very useful and easy to navigate. As a bonus, the CD-ROM contains all of the excellent illustrations for Zitelli & Davis' superb Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis.

Great reference for primare care healthcare providers.

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 1999-09-23

This book was a great reference in residency and now in practice

Yalla!: A Wandering Jew Survives Palestine, Cuba, Jamaica, And America

Published in Hardcover by Robert D. Reed Publishers (2006-01-30)

Authors: Alejandro Modena and Colin Ingram

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An Editor's Candid Comments

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Review Date: 2006-07-31

I'm a professional book writer and editor, having written some thirty books and edited a hundred or so more over the course of many decades. I worked with the author, Alejandro Modena, for several years, helping him to tell his life story. Of all the many biographical books I've worked with, I have rarely if ever come across a life so filled with fascinating, unusual and unforgettable adventures. From unusual Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine to capitalism vs. communism in Cuba to outmaneuvering the Chinese in the sale of firecrackers, you will be enthralled with these true stories. I highly recommend this one, Colin Ingram.

A truly definitive, personally candid, and uniquely captivating biography

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Review Date: 2006-04-05

Yalla! A Wandering Jew Survives Palestine, Cuba, Jamaica And America is the persistently engaging biographical account of Alejandro Modena. Having fled from Palestine to Cuba, Yalla! follows Modena through his new life in Cuba as the young man contracts a dread disease, meets and denies the scriptural assistance of Ernest Hemingway, discovers his wife and childhood friend is secretly Catholic instead of Jewish and has fled to a convent, saves his father from suicide in Jamaica, and many more entertaining and enthralling stories. As an often comedic and highly intimate tale of one man's complex and survivalist life, Yalla! is a very highly recommended as a truly definitive, personally candid, and uniquely captivating biography.

Forgotten People: People Without Faces

Published in Hardcover by Robert D. Reed Publishers (2001-03)

Author: Alejandro Modena

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Must Reading for those with aging parents

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Review Date: 2005-12-06

All of us with aging parents (the sandwich generation) will benefit from this riveting account of the emotional struggle many of us will face, either as the aged one, or as the loved ones who must make gut wrenching decisions about our last years.

Modena Racing Memories: Italian Sports Car and Grand Prix Racing, 1957-1963

Published in Hardcover by Motorbooks (1999-10-31)

Author: Graham Gauld

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Italian passion

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Review Date: 1999-11-10

The hub of the Italian exotic car industry brought to life. Some great period photos. This book is a must for those interested in the golden age of Italian sports racing cars.

Shaking the Pillars of Exile: 'Voice of a Fool,' an Early Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)

Published in Hardcover by Stanford University Press (1997-09-01)

Author: Talya Fishman

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warning : i want to be sakhal?

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Review Date: 2004-07-05

this book shaken my HALAKHA pillars i hate and love the day i bought it , after i finished reading it i found my self obliged to go further reading any other related subjects , the same happen to me when read DAVICI CODE i read LEONE Modena URIEL ACOSTA and SPINOZA /iam still reading / for those who don t like their loved ideas to be broken ,i say don t touch the cover of this book , it is mass destruction tool

The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi

Published in Paperback by Princeton University Press (1988-09-01)

Author: Leone Modena

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A spectacular insight to Italian Jewry and gehtto life

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 1998-01-15

The Autobiography Of A Seventeenth Century Venetian Rabbi is a unique and interesting book. It is unique in that it is one of the only autobiographies ever written by a rabbi of such stature. The book is very interesting due to the inside view it gives the reader into Jewish life in the Italian ghetto at that period in history. Not often do we find such a marvelous first hand account of history.

Aside from the holistic historic perspective it gives, the personal life of Leon De Modena is an amazing story of survival. His tragic life is reminiscent of the life of Job. The book also gives us a clue of Leon Modena's genius and talents as an author, scholar, playwright and poet.

The book contains two parts; one, the autobiography itself (which I highly recommend). The other part consists on various essays on the autobiography, the author and the historic outlook. In the essays Leon de Modena was portrayed as a typical product of the renaissance period. Leon de Modena was by no means "typical". Another flaw is the manner in which the essays portrayed his autobiography as a characterless perspective, when in fact the book is full of personal feelings and emotions. The lame attempt to define and describe Leon Modena's character which is found in the essays is an understatement of the largest scale, bordering the term 'insult'. Leon Modena's life was so colorful that no artist can paint the colors, no writer can read his limits, and no book can define his character.

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An inside look into the life of a great Italian Jewish Rabbi

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 1998-07-17

The Autobiography Of A Seventeenth Century Venetian Rabbi is a unique and interesting book. It is unique in that it is one of the only autobiographies ever written by a rabbi of such stature. The book is very interesting due to the inside view it gives the reader into Jewish life in the Italian ghetto at that period in history. Not often do we find such a marvelous first hand account of history.

Aside from the holistic historic perspective it gives, the personal life of Leon De Modena is an amazing story of survival. His tragic life is reminiscent of the life of Job. The book also gives us a clue of Leon Modena's genius and talents as an author, scholar, playwright and poet.

The book contains two parts; one, the autobiography itself (highly recommended). The other part consists of various essays on the autobiography, the author and the historic outlook.

In the essays Leon de Modena was portrayed as a typical product of the renaissance period. Leon de Modena was by no means "typical".

The essays also describe his autobiography as a characterless, objective perspective. In fact the book is full of personal feelings and emotions.

The lame attempt in the essays to define and describe Leon Modena's character is an understatement of the largest scale, bordering the term 'insult'. Leon Modena's life was so colorful that no artist can paint the colors, no writer can read his limits, and no book can define his character.

1852 Modena 2002: 150o Anniversario Dei Francobolli Estensi

Published in Hardcover by Vaccari (2002-01)

Author: Irene Piazzoni

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1930s, la frontiera urbana nell'America nel New Deal (Cinema/Modena)

Published in Unknown Binding by Marsilio (1985)

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Leo Modenas Briefe und SchriftstuÌˆcke;: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Juden in Italien und zur Geschichte des hebraÌˆischen Privatstiles (28. Jahresbericht ... in Budapest fuÌˆr das Schuljahr 1904-1905)

Published in Unknown Binding by (1905)

Author: Leon of Modena

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Accademie e cultura: Aspetti storici tra Sei e Settecento (Centro di studi muratoriani, Modena. Biblioteca delledizione nazionale del carteggio di L.A. Muratori ; 5)

Published in Unknown Binding by Olschki (1979)

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