Amnon Yona At long last, Amnon Yona, is permitted to write about his exploits. He was a leading player in the clandestine operations that led to the creation of the...

Elliot Jager The Balfour Sixty-Seven Words 100 Years of Conflict is a concise account of the players, motivations, and setting for one of the most consequential letters of modern history....

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,...

Peter Schafer The Origins of Jewish Mysticism offers the first in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of Ezekiel to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity....

Richard Yeats Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely and brilliantly alive...a masterpiece' Tennessee Williams. 'Easily the best...

Nancy Boyd Webb (Editor) From the editor of the widely acclaimed Play Therapy with Children in Crisis , this new volume explores a related and still neglected area\m-\childhood bereavement. Drawing...

Alvaro Enrigue From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan.One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan...

Peter Carey Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar...

Haruki Murakami A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami.The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person...

James McBride From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass...

Joseph Kanon In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder...

Thomas Piketty What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for...