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...

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...

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...

Viktor E FranklFind hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man's Search for Meaning.Eleven months after he was liberated from the...

Reader's Digest Takes a journey back through time to discover and re-discover the changing lives of the British during the 20th century. Personal anecdotes, eyewitness accounts and intimate stories create...

Itamar RabinovichFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an insider’s perspective on the life and influence of Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s first native-born prime minister"Even the warm esteem in which he holds...