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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism's most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness, and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism, and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader, any reader, to join the conversation.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Aleksandr Nikitenko, born into Russian serfdom in 1804, almost miraculously gained his freedom as a young man, 37 years before serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire. His autobiography - here translated into English - is one of the very few ever written by a former serf.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism's most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness, and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism, and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader, any reader, to join the conversation.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Aleksandr Nikitenko, born into Russian serfdom in 1804, almost miraculously gained his freedom as a young man, 37 years before serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire. His autobiography - here translated into English - is one of the very few ever written by a former serf.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master 'whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness' and 'thin, plain, tense, sour' Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 59334th. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Brings the story of modern Iran, exploring the political, cultural, and social changes. This book provides insightful commentary on the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War, and the effects of 9/11 and Iran's strategic relationship with the US. It also discusses developments in education, health care, the arts, and the role of women.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Brings the story of modern Iran, exploring the political, cultural, and social changes. This book provides insightful commentary on the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War, and the effects of 9/11 and Iran's strategic relationship with the US. It also discusses developments in education, health care, the arts, and the role of women.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Investigating Fred Astaire's magical talent, this book takes up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and his accomplishments. It discusses his early days with his talented and outspoken sister Adele, and his gifts as a singer.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Investigating Fred Astaire's magical talent, this book takes up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and his accomplishments. It discusses his early days with his talented and outspoken sister Adele, and his gifts as a singer.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. Brilliant and enjoyable. . . . Magisterial.--G'za Verm's, Times Literary Supplement Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights.--Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian.--James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion Fredriksen confronts her documents--principally the writings of the New Testament--as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. Brilliant and enjoyable. . . . Magisterial.--G'za Verm's, Times Literary Supplement Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights.--Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian.--James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion Fredriksen confronts her documents--principally the writings of the New Testament--as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The art of international negotiation can be learned, according to William Zartman and Maureen Berman.  Their purpose in this book is to teach aspiring diplomas and others how to negotiate most effectively.  Drawing on a wide range of sources?historical material from past negotiations, interviews with experienced negotiators, the theories and ideas of other students of the problem, and findings on bargaining behavior from experiments and stimulations?they introduce their own scheme of organization to clarify the nature of negotiation. They portray negotiation as a three-stage process involving prenegotiation, developing a formula, and working out details, and they provide insights into the appropriate behaviors for each phase.  Their examples from several dozen postwar negotiations, based on the reflections of seventy participants interviewed for this study, are particularly vivid and illuminating.  Viewing negotiation as a paradoxical process in which both conflict and cooperation are required, Zartman and Berman present a more positive and constructive model than previous studies have done.  Their major prescription?that negotiators try to find agreement on a formula before turning to matters of detail?clearly facilitates the framing of joint decisions among opposing parties.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Offers an analysis of worldwide democratic institutions. Examining thirty-six democracies during period from 1945 to 2010, the author arrives at important - and unexpected - conclusions about what type of democracy works best.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis? David Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful and often amazing insights, it can also dangerously mislead us.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. This study discusses how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups became sorted into a set of distinct regional societies in North America.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A revered psychologist invites us to re-examine our thinking about controversial contemporary issues, from the genetic basis for behaviors to the functions of education.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction  ?The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr. McAuley lays bare. . . . [He] tells this haunting saga in eloquent detail. As French anti-Semitism rises once again today, the effect is nothing less than chilling.??Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal  ?Elegantly written and deeply moving. . . . [A] haunting book.??David Bell, New York Review of Books   In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews?pillars of an embattled community?invested their fortunes in France?s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country?s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps.   In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin de siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt?the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d?Anvers?McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of ?invading? France?s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind?many ultimately donated to the French state?were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason.  In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions.  Is evil really a kind of nothingness?  Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive?  Why does goodness seem so boring?  Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. The first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer.

Paperback. Condition: Good. An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Barry Goldwater is regarded by some as one of the most prominent and controversial politicans of the 20th century. This biography draws on interviews with Goldwater, and with his friends, family and colleagues, as well as looking at his private papers.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities?This elegantly written and well-researched book recovers the Jewishness that has too often been erased or glossed over in the mythologizing of a gay icon.??Helene Meyers, Tablet Harvey Milk?eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck?was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not served even a full year when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk?s assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century. Before finding his calling as a politician, however, Milk variously tried being a schoolteacher, a securities analyst on Wall Street, a supporter of Barry Goldwater, a Broadway theater assistant, a bead-wearing hippie, the operator of a camera store, and an organizer of the local business community in San Francisco. He rejected Judaism as a religion, but he was deeply influenced by the cultural values of his Jewish upbringing and his understanding of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. His early influences and his many personal and professional experiences finally came together when he decided to run for elective office as the forceful champion of gays, racial minorities, women, working people, the disabled, and senior citizens. In his last five years, he focused all of his tremendous energy on becoming a successful public figure with a distinct political voice.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and Englands most distinguished man of letters.

Hardback. Condition: Good. A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar?s autocracy When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops, he instead marched his soldiers across the Rubicon River, in violation of Roman law. The Senate turned to its proconsul, Pompey the Great, for help. But Pompey?s response was unexpected: he commanded magistrates and senators to abandon Rome?a city that, until then, had always been defended. The consequences were the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar?s autocracy. In this new history, Luca Fezzi argues that Pompey?s actions sealed the Republic?s fate. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including Cicero?s extensive letters, Fezzi shows how Pompey?s decision shocked the Roman people, severely weakened the city, and set in motion a chain of events that allowed Caesar to take power. Seamlessly translated by Richard Dixon, this book casts fresh light on the dramatic events of this crucial moment in ancient Roman history.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason.  In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions.  Is evil really a kind of nothingness?  Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive?  Why does goodness seem so boring?  Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all.…