Sid Jacobson and Ernie ColonAnne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic BiographyDrawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam,...

Christopher Robbins Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few...

David K ShiplerThe Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires....

Gaalyah Cornfeld David Noel Freedman, Consulting Editor January 1, 1976 by Harper & Row

Moshe Ma'ozTraces the life and political career of Syria's President Assad, discusses his determination to unite the Arab world, and analyzes his policy decisions

Bill Bryson From one of the most beloved authors of our timeâ more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country aloneâ a fascinating excursion...

Karl Galinsky Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for...

Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt A riveting examination in words and photos of Auschwitz, from its roots as a violent market town to the concentration camps built during...

Miklós Nyiszli, Tibère Kremer(Translator), Richard Seaver(Translator), Richard J. Evans(Introduction)When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical...

Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin distills the complex and passionate intellectual strivings of the man whom David Hume called the first philosopher and great man of letters of the...

Oliver Sacks This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic, which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive...

Naphtali Lau-LavieBalaam's Prophecy is a personal account of Jewish history in the years 1939-89. Written by Ambassador Naphtali Lau-Lavie, journalist and diplomat, who survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps...