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an avenger’s tears: Eric Bana, Munich (DVD)

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It is poignantly fitting that the man who directed Schindler’s List should book-end that tale of Jewish pain with Munich, a film that tells another side of this people’s struggle to survive in a period when the Jews have a state and the ability to answer with something more than simple suffering. (more…)

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the long view: Stewart Wilson, Airliners of the World

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Books like Airliners of the World tend to take two forms. First, there is the coffee table book that’s heavy on the visuals but best eyeballed in your living room. Then there is the ‘field guide’ motif. This version is meant to leave home with you and to frequent air shows, airports, and the spectator area alongside some runways. (more…)

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Good enough to morph into a Princeton Field Guide: Ken Simpson, The Birds of Australia. A Book of Identification

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Do you want the good news first, or the bad news?

Le’ts start with the bad: The Birds of Australia. A book of identification is no longer available in its original hardcover format with its beautifully illustrated birds and its handy bird-by-bird location map. (more…)

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It’ll do: Yisrael Lazar, The New Dictionary English-Hebrew Hebrew-English

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Sometimes you just need a down-and-dirty dictionary that plops a word in English down beside a word in modern Hebrew—or vice versa—and says, ‘There, that’s it. You gotta’ problem with that?’ (more…)

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The ugly beast behind well-spoken pragmatism

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After sixteen great years as a missionary in Latin America, I find myself thriving back in my native land. ‘I bet the readjustment has been hard’, caring friends say. ‘No, not really’, I answer to myself and sometimes to the inquirer. The change has been remarkably smooth. (more…)

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Look it up!: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition)

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While finishing up a PhD at Cambridge and preparing to move back to my country of origin, one of the small but solid griefs of that process was saying goodbye to the familiar Oxford English Dictionary, whose massive volumes lay 13 steps to the right of my desk in Cambridge’s Tyndale House Library. In the three and a half years before that parting, I must have worn a rut in the carpeting during my frequent and satisfying sallies to the OED for help, rescue, and—occasionally—delightful surprise. (more…)

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solid, reliable, up-to-date: Larousse Standard French/English Dictionary

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You will not go wrong if your search for a bilingual French-English dictionary leads you to purchase this volume from Larousse. (more…)

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the go-to style guide for biblical scholars: The SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies

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As the premier North-American-based professional association of biblical scholars, the Society of Biblical Literature (‘SBL’) not only publishes the prestigious and tightly-edited Journal of Biblical Literature (‘JBL’); its influence has a knock-on effect on other journals in this and ancillary fields. (more…)

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excelente paso para lectores de la Biblia en español: Santa Biblia Nueva Version Internacional

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La Biblia en inglés que se llama New International Version (NIV) ha sido todo un fenómeno en el mundo de habla inglesa. A partir del 1999, los lectores de la Biblia en español hemos podido disfrutar de una Biblia que utiliza los mismos prinicipios de traducción que llevaron a luz la NIV. (more…)

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designed for the student’s backpack and other violent locations: Langenscheidt’s Compact German Dictionary. German-English English-German (Langenscheidt Compact Dictionaries)

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I have worn out more than one copy of the Langenscheidt German Compact Dictionary, but that’s no criticism: these sturdy little guys are designed for mistreatment and mobility. (more…)

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