Shapira: 34 books
Ben-Gurion
Father of Modern Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
David Ben-Gurion cast a great shadow during his lifetime, and his legacy continues to be sharply debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder of modern Israel, but this new biography by eminent Israeli historian Anita Shapira...
Waiting for José
The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen?...
Style and Seduction
Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews...
Eight Lessons on Infinity
A Mathematical Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
A fun, non-technical and wonderfully engaging guide to that most powerful and mysterious of mathematical concepts: infinity.in this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira presents an introduction to mathematical theories which deal with the most beautiful concept ever invented by...
To Heal the Soul
The Spiritual Journal of a Chasidic Rebbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
Within the vast and varied body of chasidic literature, rarely does one find a chasidic rebbe writing about himself. Those rebbes who did choose to put pen to paper tended to write expositions on biblical or rabbinical texts, and in many cases it was their students and followers who copied down their...
A Theory of Mediators' Ethics
Foundations, Rationale, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Many aspects relating to the conduct of mediation are left to mediator choice, but mediators often lack adequate guidance on how their discretion ought to be exercised. In this book, Omer Shapira identifies the ethical norms that govern mediators' conduct. Adopting a professional ethics perspective...
by Haim Shapira
Language: German
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Wir alle wollen glücklich sein. Doch was ist das eigentlich, Glück? Und wo finden wir es? Den einen seligmachenden Ratgeber zu diesem Thema gibt es nicht, meint Haim Shapira. Denn Glück bedeutet für jeden einzelnen von uns etwas anderes. Und so stellt Shapira die fundamentalen Fragen des Lebens...
by Haim Shapira
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
We all want to be happy but what is happiness? Haim Shapira navigates the terrain of happiness, exploring and contemplating an eclectic range of theories and insights into the conflicts we face on our journey to creating our own happiness.
What is your happiest moment? How can you know it?...
Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust
How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
An accessible, light-hearted exploration into Game Theory. Haim Shapira describes what it is, why it is important and how it can help us in our daily lives.
This book provides many humorous anecdotes and insightful examples of how our daily lives are affected by Game Theory. Game Theory is...
Inventing the Gothic Corpse
The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For centuries, vivid images of the corpse were used to deliver a spiritual or political message; today...
The Wisdom of King Solomon
A Contemporary Exploration of Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In the Book of Ecclesiastes the main character, already rich in material wealth, seeks wisdom and looks upon the lessons of his own life. Inspired by that search, bestselling philosopher Haim Shapira muses on the perennial questions most relevant to our lives.
Ecclesiastes is among the most...
La Argentina ansiolítica
Medicados y automedicados: cómo nos están cambiando la vida las pastillas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2012
La medicalización de la vida cotidiana es un fenómeno que se repite en
cada vez más países, pero la forma en que los argentinos se
relacionan con pastillas de todo tipo presenta sus particularidades.
Shapira las aborda sin prejuicios y con humor.
Un hombre que llega a la guardia de una...
Israel
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Written by one of Israel’s most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the volume explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop...
by Ana Iorga, Ming Hsu, Irit Shapira-Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.
Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests....