William Shakespeare After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle of Dante’s Hell—where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity—stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions...

Joe Schwarcz, PhD When did "chemical" become a dirty word?Forty or so years ago, chemistry -- which had been recognized as a miracle-making boon to humanity - somehow became associated...

Eduardo Kac (Editor) Bio art is a new art form that has emerged from the cultural impact and increasing accessibility of contemporary biotechnology. Signs of Life is the first book to...

Mike Evans As a young girl, Sarah Batsheva was infatuated with the handsome teenage boy who lived down the street. That teenage boy was Adolf Eichmann. It all seemed innocent...

Ruth Corman Since 2011 Ruth Corman has traveled through the complex mosaic that is Israel to introduce readers to aspects of the country that never appear in the media the...

Gilad Sharon Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad...

Gurcharan Das Why should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings--splashed across today's headlines--that have not only...

Carol Shields and Blanche Howard For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which they decide to communicate with one another by writing...

Herbert A Friedman A rabbi, an arms smuggler, a collaborator and a spy, he has flirted with danger, been trailed and jailed, and broken his share of laws. Yet throughout...

Peter Wyden An account of the experiences of Stella Goldschlag, a German Jew who went on to become a "catcher" for the Gestapo, explores why a Jewish woman would hunt...

Duby Tal and Moni Haramati Hardcover - 240 pages, Seventh edition (2000) Table of contents JERUSALEM / SKYLINE is a book of aerial photographs of Jerusalem which casts a different...