Martin Goodman: 20 books

“A marvelous book with rich teachings that particularly touch the heart of death -- and, thus, life itself.”--Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight Carlos Castaneda comes back from the dead in a true-life spiritual adventure story set in the French Pyrenees, Machu...

A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism...

Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope. Who will stop the planet from committing...

A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem. Martin Goodman—equally renowned in Jewish and in Roman studies—examines this conflict, its causes, and its consequences with unprecedented authority and thoroughness....

The Roman World 44 BC – AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire,...

23 teenage writers respond to Malorie Blackman's books with stories of their own. Characters reach across divides of love, race, war and gender. With a special introduction by Malorie Blackman.

A dystopian novel set around London's disused Heathrow Airport. For sixteen years the Earth has baked and no girls have been born. Karen's the last girl. Steven's her gay twin. Dad turns their home into a fortress as women take their chance to rule the world. Their eyes are on Steven. Perhaps, with a...

西元前2000年～迄今 第一本最完整全面的猶太教歷史，穿越四千年的漫長時空，史詩級的重量巨作！ 在西元前第二和第一千紀時，猶太教在多神教的美索不達米亞社會中誕生，是三大亞伯拉罕宗教（世界三個有共同源頭的一神教，即是猶太教、基督教和伊斯蘭教）中最古老的一個。 在橫跨四千年的歷史中，猶太民族曾經創造大衛王的輝煌時代，擁有所羅門王的驚人財富，但在周遭諸國如羅馬帝國的侵略與控制下，猶太人遭受迫害與驅逐，分散到世界各地，足跡遍佈古代近東、中亞、非洲、歐洲、美洲，還有東方亞洲一些城市。 然而，數千年的時間過去，多少古文明已在歷史長河中銷聲匿跡，遺失了領土、語言、宗教、傳統習俗與文化，但猶太人沒有在漂泊中遺忘自己與上帝的約，猶太教維繫了整個民族，甚至在包容吸收了各地文化後，變得更多元與成熟。 從國際情勢中躍出版面的以巴衝突，或是在歷史中被血腥記憶的二戰猶太人屠殺，以及被電影小說不斷傳頌或改編的摩西出埃及記等聖經故事，可以發現猶太人種種歷史大事件和宗教經典的影響，其實遠超舊時代西方基督文化主導下的評估，其豐富的精神文化與悠久的歷史，是保存迄今最古老的偉大文明之一。 本書綜觀描寫了猶太人從西亞地區（透過被征服、流亡、離散）向外擴展，帶著他們的宗教經典、文化傳統、哲學思想以及生活習俗，遷徙到世界各地開枝散葉的故事，同時也見證了猶太文化對世界的貢獻。 【各界齊聲推薦】 「這是一部中文世界難得一見的猶太教通史，作者立足於猶太民族主體意識，結合現代歷史批判的研究方法，將令人撲朔迷離的四千年猶太教傳統進行系統化梳理與雅俗共賞的論述。本書中譯本的出版，對長期以來受限於聖經敘述與以色列建國兩種神話式史觀的華人閱聽大眾，料將產生重大的思想衝擊，並徹底顛覆對猶太民族既有的刻板印象。」 ──蔡源林（政大宗教所所長） 「本書詳實而細緻地陳述了猶太宗教的千年歷史，讀者可以在其深入淺出的說明中，不僅能找尋到許多有趣的部份，更能在字裡行間的閱讀中獲得許多啟發，非常適合所有希望深入認識猶太宗教的讀者。」 ——鄭印君（輔仁大學宗教學系系主任） 「猶太人的文化源遠流長、豐富多元，其崇高的一神信仰也曾是地中海世界的道德指標，後來雖在諸帝國的同化與迫害下歷經困頓與流離，卻能展現巨大的靈性力量，儘管在現今巴勒斯坦的衝突與糾葛中扮演著從被害者轉為加害者的角色，但其鮮活生動的故事仍很迷人且充滿驚奇。」 ──鄭仰恩（台灣神學院教會歷史學教授） 「在這本傑作中，卓越的牛津學者馬汀．古德曼將猶太教的整個歷史──從約瑟夫斯到猶太復興運動──濃縮成一個非常易讀的綜合體，特別把焦點放在猶太教的多樣性，並以最新的研究文獻為根據。因此，所有研究猶太教的學生都應該從這本書開始讀起。」 ──強納森．沙那（Jonathan...

Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole. Employing a biographical approach,...

The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important...

Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children. It boils down the huge amount of knowledge...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...

Networked thermostats, fitness monitors, and door locks show that the Internet of Things can (and will) enable new ways for people to interact with the world around them. But designing connected products for consumers brings new challenges beyond conventional software UI and interaction design. This...

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...