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Still Life with Bombers
Israel in the Age of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders collapsed at Camp David in 2000, a conflict as bloody as any that had ever occurred between the two peoples began. Now David Horovitz—editor of The Jerusalem Report—explores the quotidian and profound effects this conflict and its attendant...
The Damascus Road
A Novel of Saint Paul
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever.
In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of...
The Rabbit Hunter
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
The latest internationally best-selling installment in the Joona Linna series sees him temporarily called back to the police force to solve a series of bizarre and increasingly horrifying murders.
Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in...
The Religion of Technology
The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology.
It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian...
The UN Gang
A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
On the day Pedro Sanjuan moved into his new office at the UN Secretariat in 1984, he had the foresight to unscrew his telephone receiver. Out fell a little packet of high-grade cocaine. When he confronted the undersecretary to the chief Soviet diplomat—really a KGB colonel and the top Russian spy—the...
Country Music
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019
This gorgeously illustrated and hugely...
by Robert Dykstra
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The mountain-top volleys from any scholarly set-to among social historians concerning the elusive roots of American democracy do reach our ears from time to time, and this rather formidable cannonade just may strike off some sparks, although it is hardly leisure reading. The author's efforts seem...
by Paul M. Angle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place...
A Woman's View
How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leaver Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda…these are only a few of the hundreds of “women’s films” that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties. The films were widely disparate in subject, sentiment, and technique,...
Lord of All the Dead
A nonfiction novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write.
Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend...
night thoughts
70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams.
As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. The result is a riveting sequence...
The Arc of a Covenant
The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and explores the fate of the Jewish people.
In this brilliant investigation, one of our premier scholars of American...
by Joan Lee Faust
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Every Sunday, leading horticultural experts writing in the garden pages of The New York Times provide practical advice on almost every phase of gardening—from lawn care to pruning espalier trees; from pest control to terrace landscaping; from old-fashioned rose culture to the selection of exotic...
The Octopus Museum
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics.
Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy's craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze...