Jane Landers The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the...

Carole Boyce Davies Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set...

Michael Rogin The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking...

Peter Ackroyd "MARVELOUS . . . A first-rate biography of an extraordinary man."           -- The Wall Street Journal"SUPERB . . . Ackroyd writes with clarity and His book is consistently...

Jeffrey M Cohen The author offers the layperson a one-volume presentation of various aspects of prayer in Judaism. He looks at the historical development of prayer, the role of the...

Adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea: the remarkable reality of Cold War submarine warfareIn Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter...

Editors:Paul A. Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green-Ahmanson Why do the media so often miss or misunderstand major news stories? One reason is that, in today's complex and pervasively religious world,...

Author: Robin Houghton Of the billions of internet users worldwide, a massive 80% are visiting blogs. The blogosphere has become a huge platform for individuals and businesses alike. As well...

Bella Fromm The diary, smuggled out of Nazi Germany, of a Jewish woman who wrote the social column for a major Berlin newspaper, and was able to observe the rise...

Linda Allison Discusses the elements of the human body. Includes suggestions for related experiments and projects. October 30, 1976 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers  

Elias Chacour As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their...

Uri DanDan, General Ariel Sharon's "media adviser," offers a highly partisan, I-was-there account of the general's recent libel action against Time magazine, which centered on the allegation that Sharon had...