Israel: 385 books

The moment came near for the Polish centenarian grandmother to die. From the doctor's statement it appeared she had only a bad quarter of an hour to live. Her attack had been sudden, and the grandchildren she loved to scold could not be present. She had already battled through the great wave of pain,...

This 1895 novel represents Zangwill's rejection of the "art for art's sake" philosophy.  In this story, the protagonist, a talented young artist, sacrifices everything for art, only to be become increasingly unhappy and isolated. 

It must continually be insisted upon in military history, that general actions, however decisive, are but the functions of campaigns; and that campaigns, in their turn, are but the functions of the political energies of the governments whose armies are engaged. The object of a campaign is invariably...

A deft political fraud, riding the currents of public opinion and exploiting patriotic feelings, leads his country into war in this 1901 satire. Zangwill, a friend of H. G. Wells, takes on questions of democracy and imperialism in a story praised by critics for capturing the political atmosphere of his times.

Prima guerra mondiale, Varsavia. Benjamin Lerner, un giovane soldato ebreo dell’esercito imperiale russo, decide di disertare. Si rifugia dallo zio reb Baruch Joseph, a sua volta profugo da uno shtetl occupato dai cosacchi. Nel misero appartamento di Baruch, vivono anche la moglie Toybele e la figlia...

Ciascuno di questi racconti si svolge in uno shtetl polacco, prima della seconda guerra mondiale, abitato da una serie di personaggi descritti con tanta precisione che si possono subito individuare quando riappaiono in un altro racconto, magari in veste di protagonisti. C'è, per esempio, Hirsch Leib...

A year's worth of thought-provoking quotations will inspire you to reflect on the way you teach and provide you with tools to inspire your students, too!

Ethics and integrity in researchare increasingly important for social scientists around the world. We are tackling more complex problems in the face of expanding and not always sympathetic regulation. This book surveys the recent developments and debates around researching ethically and with integrity...

This book offers a unique insight into the character of Austrian economics. This work also collects the recent work of the leading authorities in this area, and will be an indispensible tool for all those interested in the implications of Austrian approach on economics. The author also examines *the market economy *theories of Competition and Entre

The essays in this volume portrays the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive...

In this classic work of Jewish mystical thought, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz explores the major questions asked by modern Jews about the nature of existence. The Thirteen Petalled Rose addresses profound topics like Good and Evil, Divine Revelation, The Human Soul and the Search for Self, as it translates ancient kabbalistic concepts into an intelligible language for a new generation.

This book ist for the people who believe in their dreams mostly to African young's and for anyone who is trying to achieve something worthy in his life. Starting their own business or helping the community through all the difficulties and narrow paths. Having a dream is important. But dreams require preparation and hard work.

This book focuses on the application of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) to speech enhancement using the filtering approach. The authors explain how to derive different classes of time-domain and time-frequency-domain noise reduction filters, which are optimal from the CCA perspective for both...