Tom WolfeThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on...

Tadeusz BorowskiTadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides...

The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu: The Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Force: Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Operation 1963-1976Jonathan NetanyahuThe Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu "Yoni, " as he was known...

Saul DavidOperation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in HistoryThe definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever,...

Martin GilbertThe never-before-told story of a group of child survivors, by the author of the bestselling THE HOLOCAUST.

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VS NaipaulIn 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.

Tania Coen-UzzielliInspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, in 2015 the Israel Museum presented an interdisciplinary exhibition that took viewers on a journey through...

Joyce Antlern You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn...

Oliver Sacks This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic, which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive...

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the WorldA.J. JacobsPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious,...

Rebecca Skloot   Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of...