John Gross "Comic verse," writes editor John Gross, "is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go." In...

W. E. B. Du Bois Edited by Eric J Sundquist The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader encompasses the whole of Du Bois's long and multifaceted writing career, from the 1890s...

Jean Houston "The story of Isis and Osiris really begins with their conception and their siblings' conception in the belly of Nut, the great heavenly goddess. Theirs is a tale...

Alan Furst September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His to transport the national gold...

Alan L Mittleman Founded in Germany in 1912, Agudat Israel was the first comprehensive, international political movement among Orthodox Jews. This study examines the forces that led to its formation,...

Nancy FridayFrom the diaphragm to the WonderBra, the author of such classic books as My Secret Garden and My Mother/My Self traces the past 25 years of changes in women's...

Stephen Donaldson Twice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange other-world where magic worked. Twice he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their...

Pearl Abraham Filled with laughter and tears, author Pearl Abraham’s moving novel takes you behind the mysterious, closed doors of a Chassidic Jewish community in New York state. The Romance...

Jack Whyte Born of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the Dream of Eagles produced a king, a country and an everlasting legend—Camelot The orphaned baby Arthur—heir to the Colony...

Y David Shulman The Jewish mystical tradition teaches that in order to create the many planes of being that culminated in our world, God brought into being ten sefirot, or...

Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber The Shambhala Dictionary of Taoism presents the basic terminology and doctrines of this ancient Chinese philosophy for the general reader in a clear and easily understandable form, effectively...

Abraham J Twerski The myth that Jews do not abuse their spouses must be shattered! Now, for the first time, a direct address to the problem of spouse abuse in...