Joan KirkbyDrawing on letters and poems, this book examines the life and major work of Emily Dickinson with special emphasis on the poet's fascination with language, gender, the limit states...

Dovid KatzWords on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz...

Bill Goldstein A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of...

Martin Gilbert This 4th volume in the biography of Winston Churchill covers the period 1917 to 1922, and includes the German breakthrough of March 1918, the anti-Bolshevik intervention of 1919,...

Marc Aronson and John W Glenn National Geographic has always given readers the bigger picture of our world. Now The World Made New shows children the bigger context of American...

Arthur CotterellWorld Mythology Myths and Legends of the world brought to life Form the siege of Troy to the twilight of the Norse gods at Ragnarok and the mysteries of...

Keith D Dickson World War II was the most destructive event of the twentieth century. It was total war covering the entire globe, and the nations that fought it employed...

Eliezer Schweid This book focuses on some of the main ethical and spiritual problems raised by the Holocaust. It is divided into two parts, addressing first the views and moral...

Norman StoneA pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone'The best short primer on the war in twenty years' Andrew RobertsNorman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative...

Leah Garrett June 1942. The Third Reich is victorious everywhere. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of...

John SD EisenhowerThe author of Agent of Destiny provides a detailed overview of the role of the United States during World War I, from the selection of Pershing as commanding...

Eli Amir “I’m an Arab Jew. I listen to classical music in the morning and Arabic music in the evening.” Surprisingly for someone so young, Nuri Imari (whose family we...