Joshua LevyThe Agony of the Promised Land is an excellent introduction to the fascinating and complex history of Israel and Palestine. Starting with the story of Abraham, it guides the...

Arundhati RoyJust in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration really means when it talks about “compassionate conservativism” and “the war...

Michael Kovner This new graphic novel is an attempt to depict Ezekiel’s world. We meet him at the age of 75, isolated and suffering from chronic arthritis that has left...

Dore GoldJerusalem under SiegeIn The Fight for Jerusalem, bestselling author and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold explains why radical Islamists seek to divide and conquer Jerusalem...

Russell MartinBeethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery SolvedThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its...

Michael RosenHow on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael...

Dino ScatenaA biography charting her early days in Melbourne, to her acting years in "Neighbours", through to her international singing career. It tells of the enormous changes she has weathered,...

Rosalind MilesMen dominate history because they write it. This book offers a reappraisal which aims to re-establish women's importance at the centre of the worldwide history of revolution, empire, war...

Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa Stephanie Urdang Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly...

Herman Charles Bosman

Rick BeyerHistory isn't always made by great armies colliding or by great civilizations rising or falling. Sometimes it's made when a chauffeur takes a wrong turn, a scientist forgets to...

Art SpiegelmanMaus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's...