Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa Stephanie Urdang Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly...

This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It...

Gloria Sananes SteinIn 1917, Marguerite Saltiel, an 18 year old reporter for L'Independant, a popular newspaper in Salonica, Greece, was involved in the adventure of wartime coverage on the Allied...

Antonia Fraser Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine méchante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French...

Neil Waldman The author of The Never-Ending Greenness discusses the history of Masada, from the building of Herod's Temple through its use by Zealots as a refuge from the Romans...

Tivadar Soros A passionate true account details the life of the author, a lawyer in Budapest during the time of the German invasion in 1944 who secured new identities for...

Art SpiegelmanMaus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's...

John Nichol and Tony RennellDoctors, nurses, medics and stretcher bearers go where the bullets are thickest, through bomb alleys and mine fields, ducking mortars and rockets, wherever someone is hit...

Albert S Lyons, R Joseph Petrucelli II Here is the story of medicine in all its fascinating detail. Written by two distinguished physicians for laymen as well as interested professionals,...

Arthur M Eckstein This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate...

Saul Friedlander "No one has written more incisively about the dynamics and divergences of German and Jewish memory of the Third Reich than Saul Friedlander. His new book is a...

Peter Matthiessen An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once...