Soraya Khalidy This travel guide includes an encyclopaedic section on Egypt which covers the country's nature, history, architecture, arts and traditions. It presents a picture of Egypt as seen by...

Michel Chauveau The book provides an easily digestible introduction to Cleopatra's world... A fascinating introduction to an era when the political and military face of the Mediterranean world was changing...

Donald B Redford Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted...

Geraldine Pinch From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the...

Arthur Green What can Kabbalah teach us about our lives today? What can it teach us about our future? According to the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, Ehyeh, or "I...

Bettina Stangneth A New York Times Notable Book of 2014Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before...

Hannah ArendtSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in...

Alex Pavesi 'When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over.' A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowAll murder mysteries follow a simple set...

Jacob Dafni The best Eilat hiking guide there is-the complete hiker’s guide to 14 one-way hikes, 12 circular trails, and 4 car routes in the beautiful Eilat region. Featuring detailed...

Walter IsaacsonEinstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. In this narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind...

Alan LightmanA modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant...

Alan LightmanIt is 1905 in Berne, Switzerland. A young patent clerk has been dreaming marvellous dreams about the nature of time. He is Albert Einstein and he has almost finished...