James L Kugel The God of the modern world -- all-powerful, all-knowing, invisible, and omnipresent -- has been a staple of Western civilization. Yet in this remarkable book, James Kugel...

Bernard HaischOn the one hand, we have traditional science, based on the premises of materialism, reductionism, and randomness, with a belief that reality consists solely of matter and energy, that...

David Hartman with Charlie Buchholtz Covenant & Conscience—A Groundbreaking Journey to the Heart of Halakha “Anyone curious about the Jewish way of life, yet dissatisfied with much of contemporary Jewish...

Howard Blum Mt Sinai. For many, it's the most sacred place on Earth--the site where god descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments. Yet for centuries, humankind has not known...

Ed. Jim HeimannThe Golden Age of Advertising - the 70s Hardcover, 351 pages Published June 15th 2006 by Taschen (first published February 28th 2006)

Thomas BulfinchThis work brings together the stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece, Rome and Northern mythology. It demonstrates how these images have helped enrich the development of English...

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been...

Louis Untermeyer A collection of poems about innocence, animals, famous people, and holidays by such authors as William Blake, Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, and David McCord Published July 22, 1998

The British Library The "Golden Haggadah" is one of the outstanding works among the British Library's collection of Hebrew manuscripts. The Haggadah, a type of prayer book, is the order...

Sara Hamo On a bright day in 1979 Sara, a 34-year-old mother of two young daughters, discovers she has cancer. Although shocked and frightened, she realizes the physician himself is...

Mario Livio Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale...

Wilfrid Blunt A beautifully illustrated large book recounting dramatic journeys of men who have ventured across Central Asia, including Alexander the Great, Sir Aurel Stein, Hsuantsang, Marco Polo, Kutayba, and...