The Fall of a Sparrow(1st Edition) The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Dina Porat, ElizabethYuval Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2009 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-6248-9, ISBN: 0-8047-6248-1
""The Fall of a Sparrow" is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (19181987). An unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, Kovner was born in Vilna, "the Jerusalem of Lithuania." Long before the rest of the world suspected, he was the first person to state that Hitler was planning to kill the Jews of Europe. Kovner and other defenders of the Vilna ..."
The Path to Paradise The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers by Anat Berko, ElizabethYuval, Moshe Addad Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2009 by Potomac Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59797-364-9, ISBN: 1-59797-364-5
"***Named Among the Top 50 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Perspectives on Terrorism www.terrorismanalysts.com, Volume II, Issue 11*** Suicide bombers are often compared to smart bombs. From their dispatchers’ point of view, they are highly effective, inexpensive weapons, and there is no need to invest in their technological development. Suicide bombers are in fact smarter than smart bombs because they can choose their own tar ..."
"This compelling book offers a unique glimpse into the motivations of suicide bombers, especially women and children, and those who recruit and dispatch them. As a woman and a mother, Anat Berko was able to win the trust of imprisoned bombers and speak with them intimately. Entering Israel's most heavily secured cells, she met with female and adolescent would-be suicide bombers and their dispatchers, lawyers, and interrogators. The perso ..."
"This book is an introduction to the modern approach to the theory of Markov chains. The main goal of this approach is to determine the rate of convergence of a Markov chain to the stationary distribution as a function of the size and geometry of the state space. The authors develop the key tools for estimating convergence times, including coupling, strong stationary times, and spectral methods. Whenever possible, probabilistic methods a ..."
"An elegant compilation of Cézanne's drawings and prints from the collection of the late Karsten SchubertIn honor of the generous bequest by the late Karsten Schubert, founder of Ridinghouse, to the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, this luxurious book, featuring a tipped-on cover drawing, focuses exclusively on Paul Cézanne’s (1839–1906) drawings and prints of diverse subjects: from portraits and bather scenes to landscapes and copie ..."
The Path to Paradise(1st Edition) The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers (Praeger Security International) by Anat Berko Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2007 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99446-4, ISBN: 0-275-99446-5
The Fall of a Sparrow The Life and Times of Abba Kovner by Dina Porat and ElizabethYuval by Dina Porat, ElizabethYuval 440 Pages, Published 2009 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-7252-5, ISBN: 0-8047-7252-5
"Interview with Meir Davidson, Eliyahu Eshel, and Yuval Ne'eman; Meir Davidson,
It All Happened So Quickly (Tel Aviv, 1975), 78–80; handwritten drafts by Kovner
in the IDF archives, 6127/49, File 80. 19. Interview with Yehuda Wallach; Dagan
and Yakir, Shimon Avidan Givati, 23; for Meir Davidson's remarks, see Dagan
and Yakir, Shimon Avidan Givati, 250, interview with Uri Avneri, and Avneri, “
Fighter Abba Kovner”; and for a request t ..."
"This book is an introduction to the modern theory of Markov chains, whose goal is to determine the rate of convergence to the stationary distribution, as a function of state space size and geometry. This topic has important connections to combinatorics, statistical physics, and theoretical computer science. Many of the techniques presented originate in these disciplines.The central tools for estimating convergence times, including coupl ..."
The Smarter Bomb(Updated) Women and Children as Suicide Bombers by Anat Berko Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1953-3, ISBN: 1-4422-1953-X