Barry Millington The unrivaled single-volume survey of Wagner's life and work Edited by one of the leading Wagner scholars of modern times, and with contributions from seventeen experts from around...

Abba Eban A companion volume to a new PBS series traces the history of Israel through its four decades of fluctuating fortunes, political turmoil, various leaders, and continuing culture.  November...

Gunter Grass January 1, 1992 by HBJ.  

Arturo Toscanini Fifty years after his death, Arturo Toscanini is still considered one of the greatest conductors in history, and probably the most influential. His letters, expertly collected, translated, and...

Sinclair McKay The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a...

Barry Millington January 1, 1986 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd

Michael Tanner While no one would dispute Wagner's ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of...

Ronald Taylor This integrated study of the man, his life, and his works draws on Wagner's autobiographical writings and letters, the diary of his wife, Cosima, and the reminiscences of...

Natalia Ginzburg WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK‘As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones.’Between...

Philip Roth The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of...

Judea Pearl (Editor), Ruth Pearl(Editor) When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered in Pakistan, many Jews were particularly touched by his last words affirming his Jewish identity. Many...

Cate Haste History has long vilified Alma Mahler (1879-1964). Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her peers.Drawing on Alma's vivid,...