Edmund De Waal   264 wood and ivory carvings none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the...

Jonathan Kirsch "The stories you are about to read are some of the most violent and sexually explicit in all of Western literature. They are tales of human passion in...

Gedalyah Nigal Story-telling has been an integral part of the hasidic movement from its very beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present day. Stories about the holy hasidic leaders-the...

Tina Rosenberg Rosenberg's previous book, Children of Cain, dealt with the change from dictatorship to democracy in South America. Here, she approaches a similar theme in Eastern Europe after the...

Eliana GilThis book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in posttraumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a...

Alan Berman With the global warming crisis hitting the headlines with alarming regularity, this book simply could not be more timely. Now more than ever it is of vital importance...

Edited by Steven Glazer The Heart of Learning asks teachers and students to recommit themselves to what they love most in education. The renown contributors outline a map for enabling...

Osho Written in clear, simple, and often light language, The Heart Sutra offers discourses on the most important sutras in Buddhist literature, penetrating to the heart of Buddhist belief.Exploring these...

Edward Hoffman   Judaism has always regarded Hebrew as a sacred language, the medium of divine communication. And its letters are no ordinary forms. The very word for letter, ot,...

Rami M Shapiro "Now you can experience the empowering words of the Hebrew prophets, even if you have no previous knowledge of the Hebrew Bible or Judaism. This Skylight Illuminations...

Joseph Campbell The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the...

Peter Schafer This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Hekhalot or Merkavah mysticism. The emphasis is on the conceptions of God,...