14 Ebooks by Sicker Martin Sicker
Sicker Martin Sicker: Pre-Islamic Middle East
Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective. He argues that there are a number of relatively constant environmental …
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€78.55
Sicker Martin Sicker: Islamic World in Decline
The long era of Muslim political ascendancy that began in a small region of western Arabia reached its pinnacle some nine hundred years later with the siege of Vienna by Suleiman the Magnificent in …
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€79.16
Sicker Martin Sicker: Between Man and God
Sicker presents a personal attempt to come to grips with the awesome question, Where was God at Auschwitz? and with it some of the related central issues of Jewish thought and belief. There is a …
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€78.92
Sicker Martin Sicker: Reading Genesis Politically
Sicker asserts that the Mosaic canon, the Pentateuch, is first and foremost a library of essentially political teachings and documents, and that the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis set …
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€90.38
Sicker Martin Sicker: Political Economy of Work in the 21st Century
When Congress enacted Social Secuirty in 1935, with the age of retirement set at age 65, average life expectancy was 62 years. By the time Medicare was enacted 30 years later, life expectancy had …
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€79.18
Sicker Martin Sicker: Making of a Pariah State
The Making of a Pariah State takes the reader behind the flamboyance and apparent irrationality of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to expose his attempt to impose national cohesion on the Arab, Muslim, …
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€65.59
Sicker Martin Sicker: Between Rome and Jerusalem
Sicker sheds new light on the political circumstances surrounding the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. He places the 300-year history of Judaea from the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba, 167 …
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€79.25
Sicker Martin Sicker: Political Culture of Judaism
Sicker examines the fundamental norms of civic conduct considered essential to the emergence and moral viability of the good society envisioned in the source documents and traditions of Judaism. The …
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€30.23
Sicker Martin Sicker: Geopolitics of Security in the Americas
Sicker examines the role of the United States within the Western Hemisphere and the geopolitical and geostrategic factors that have helped shape its policies in the region. He demonstrates that such …
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€78.30
Sicker Martin Sicker: Introduction to Judaic Thought and Rabbinic Literature
Many people have heard the term Talmud but have little or no idea what it is, what it contains, and why it was written; moreover, few have ever actually looked into one of its works, and even fewer …
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€56.11
Sicker Martin Sicker: Reshaping Palestine
Sicker examines the early stages of the process by which Palestine, an obscure and relatively miniscule backwater of the Ottoman Empire, became a critical factor in the history and convoluted …
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€83.42
Sicker Martin Sicker: Islamic World in Ascendancy
In the view of Dr. Martin Sicker, it was with the emergence of Islam that the combination of geopolitics and religion reached its most volatile form and provided the ideological context for war and …
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€78.75
Sicker Martin Sicker: Orthocratic State
Sicker argues that it is the achievement of orthocracy as the motivating concept of the state rather than democracy as its optimum form that is crucial for mankind in the 21st century, …
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€83.68
Sicker Martin Sicker: Rise and Fall of the Ancient Israelite States
By subjecting biblical writings to a political analysis, Sicker constructs a plausible political history of the ancient Israelite states that dealt with virtually every issue faced by governments …
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€83.72
