Shalev: 35 books

Book cover of Husband and Wife
by Zeruya Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

From the Israeli author of Love Life: “a highly polished and . . . beautifully written story that carries great weights of meaning” (Kirkus Reviews). Zeruya Shalev achieved international literary stardom with her novel Love Life, which The Washington Post Book World called “a brutally...
Book cover of Schmerz
by Zeruya Shalev
Language: German
Release Date: September 14, 2015

Vor zehn Jahren ist Iris bei einem Terroranschlag schwer verletzt worden. Zwar ist sie in ihr altes Leben zurückgekehrt, sie leitet eine Schule, ihr Mann steht ihr treu zur Seite, die Kinder sind fast erwachsen, doch quälen sie Tag für Tag Schmerzen. Als sie Eitan wiederbegegnet, der Liebe ihrer...
Book cover of Pain

Pain

A Novel

by Zeruya Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019

**"Zeruya Shalev is one of my favorite contemporary writers, her work always spiky and original, and Pain is a searing book, a wild and ravenous story of family entanglement and impossible yearning." --Lauren Groff, author of Florida and Fates and Furies A powerful, astute novel that exposes...
Book cover of Wir vergessen nicht, wir gehen tanzen

Wir vergessen nicht, wir gehen tanzen

Israelische und deutsche Autoren schreiben über das andere Land

by Yiftach Aloni, Yiftach Ashkenazy, Yair Asulin
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2015

Vor 50 Jahren nahmen die Staaten Israel und Deutschland ihre diplomatischen Beziehungen auf. Ging es früher vorrangig um Vergangenheitsbewältigung, um die Auseinandersetzung mit historischer oder familiärer Schuld, so sind heute auch freundschaftliche Begegnungen und kulturelle Verbundenheit Realität....
Book cover of In den beginne
by Meir Shalev
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 21, 2011

Eerste keren in de Bijbel De eerste kus in de Bijbel is geen liefdeskus. De eerste liefde in de Bijbel is niet die tussen man en vrouw. De eerste haat in de Bijbel is die van een man jegens zijn vrouw. De eerste lach in de Bijbel is tevens de laatste. In In den beginne beschrijft Meir Shalev een aantal...
Book cover of Für den Rest des Lebens
by Zeruya Shalev
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2012

Chemda Horovitz liegt in ihrem Bett und blickt mit schwindendem Bewusstsein auf ihr Leben zurück. Sie denkt an ihre Kindheit im Kibbuz, an ihre Ehe und ihre zwei Kinder, von denen sie eines zu sehr und das andere zu wenig liebte. Ihr geliebter Sohn Avner ist zu einem Mann herangewachsen, dessen Erfolg...
Book cover of Understanding Machine Learning

Understanding Machine Learning

From Theory to Algorithms

by Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shai Ben-David
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014

Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, with far-reaching applications. The aim of this textbook is to introduce machine learning, and the algorithmic paradigms it offers, in a principled way. The book provides a theoretical account of the fundamentals underlying...
Book cover of Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God

Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God

Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding

by Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Maura Jane Farrelly, Robert Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013

This volume, with contributions from scholars in political science, literature, and philosophy, examines the mutual influence of reason and religion at the time of the American Founding—especially in the writings and speeches of critical figures in that period, such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin,...
Book cover of Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

Cross-National Perspectives

by , Amit, Miri
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs...
Book cover of Thera
by Shalev, Zeruya
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013

Ella Miller is a 36-year-old archaeologist studying one of the largest volcanic blasts in history, the famous Thera eruption. She develops a novel theory that the devastating blast sparked the biblical ten plagues, which led to the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt. Like her research subject,...
Book cover of Bigger than Ben-Hur

Bigger than Ben-Hur

The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences

by Neil Sinyard, Eran Shalev, Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016

First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller. The popular novel spawned an 1899 stage adaptation, reaching audiences of over 10 million, and two highly successful film adaptations. For over a century, it has become a ubiquitous pop cultural presence, representing a deeply...
Book cover of Love And Life
by T. Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Supermax

Supermax

Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement

by Sharon Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s. Drawing on unique access to two Supermax prisons and on in-depth interviews with prison officials,...
Book cover of Een duif en een jongen
by Meir Shalev
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 11, 2013

Een ontroerende roman over een Israëlische gids die vogelaars rondleidt, over zijn familiegeheim en de wereld van duivenhouders. Bekroond met de Brennerprijs.
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