Douglas R HofstadterDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity...

Ben CaspitBenjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit...

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...

George BurnsBurns' career has spanned the history of modern show business, and here is the backstage story of the people who made that history. The reader gets the inside scoop...

Matti Friedman “A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” — The Wall Street...

Shaun O'ConnellFrom Old New York to the Harlem Renaissance, the Algonquin Round Table to the New York Intellectuals, the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth,...

David HepworthA rollicking look at 1971, rock’s golden year, the year that saw the release of the indelible recordings of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Who, Rod Stewart, Carole King,...

Gutta Sternbuch and David Kranzler January 1, 2005 by Feldheim Publishers

Edith HahnEdith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was...

Joseph R OwenColder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir"A MUST READ . . . This book [is] one of the best on that war in Korea. ....

Mary Dorothy GeorgeFrom the disease infected rookeries and teeming vice-ridden streets to the sweatshops, coffee houses and spacious parks, George's recreation of a capital city in a dirty, brutal—but also...

THE HUMAN RECORD is the leading primary source reader for the World History course, providing balanced coverage of the global past. Each volume contains a blend of visual and textual...