Judith: 2966 books

Politicians' lives are public lives. The decisions they make and do not make, and the way they behave, affect us all and shape our lives. To what extent do the inner lives of our leaders influence their performance? Should we know about the inner person? Indeed, how can we know? The...

It’s had twenty-five years to cool off, but Sins is still as hot as ever! Sins is a decadent treat oozing with dirt and gossip that would make anyone blush, but that’s the fun of it. Sins is a super-glossy tale of passion and intrigue set in the world of haute-couture that starts during World War II and ends in the early ’80s.

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...

Poetry and short stories written from a spiritual and humorous point of view.

Six million Jews died in Europe, and the Holocaust lives on in the minds of those individuals who survived the worst genocide the world has ever known. One, by One, by One is a masterwork—a stark and haunting exploration of how people rationalize history, how rationalization gives birth to lies, how the victims are blamed, and history's horrors are forgotten.

This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. Born into Victorian Britain’s elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. Florence’s family, especially her mother, opposed the...

The beloved author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with wry good humor. Fans of Viorst’s funny, touching, and wise decades poems will love these verses filled with witty advice and reflections on marriage, milestones, and middle-aged children. Viorst...

Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New...

In the late 1580s a new kind of entertainment flowered in London: professional theatre, with its custom built playhouses, professional companies, incredible staging and, last but not least, the new writers, poets, playwrights - the roaring boys. To ambitious young writers, London was a magnet offering...

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...

The original stories about the sacredness of all life can be found on walls of caves and temples and the first writings. The ancients understood their connection with animals to be a spiritual principle. This original knowledge still exists in the texts of world religions and philosophies. Yet, virtually...

What if you could change your life, your health, your world in the wink of an eye? Like an optical illusion, a picture hidden in a picture that suddenly reveals itself with a change of focus, so alternate realities "alternities" await your discovery. Through true and astounding stories of...

Have you ever wanted to knit scarves and other cool things like the ones you have seen in stores?  Do some of your friends love to knit in their free time and you would love to join them?  Has the idea of knitting something interested you but you had no idea how to go about it?  Well, this book will...

"Little Bear's and Friend's Summer Trip is a delightful adventure that different is acceptable. Throughout the story friendships grow celebrates friendship. The story provides an understanding that being between animals that usually do not coincide. In the end, the young animals realize their mother's...