Israel: 385 books

First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler's most recent essays – all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty...

Was macht man, wenn man in den Freund seines jüngeren Bruders verliebt ist? Wenn dieser Freund gleichzeitig der beste Kumpel ist? Was macht man, wenn noch jemand auf der Bildfläche erscheint, der das eigene - sowieso schon völlig gestörte - Seelenleben noch mehr durcheinander bringt? Und was macht man, wenn dieser jemand der Bruder der unerreichbaren großen Liebe ist?

Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind proposes that the optimal goal of psychotherapy lies in cultivating a free mind with integrity that will not seek to do major harm to one’s life or to the lives of others. This book looks at a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including classic conditions of...

Beneath the gritty surface of industrial England, an ancient and persecuted people continue to love and dream. Subtitled “Being Pictures of a Peculiar People,” this influential 1892 early work of Anglo-Jewish fiction, set in London’s East End, brought its author fame—and comparisons to Dickens and Twain—for his humanity and humor.  

Published in 1901, and first performed to great success in 1908, Zangwill's play features a Jewish immigrant's assimilation into American culture.  David Quixano emigrates from Russia after his family is murdered in a pogrom.  Once in the United States he writes a symphony, "The Crucible," and falls in love with a young Russian woman whose family hides a shocking secret.

Following the previous year’s Dreamers of the Ghetto, this 1899 collection of sketches includes “ ‘They That Walk in Darkness,’ ” “Transitional,” “Noah’s Ark,” “The Land of Promise,” “To Die in Jerusalem,” “Bethulah,” “The Keeper of Conscience,” “Satan Mekatrig,” “Diary of a Meshumad,” “Incurable,” and “The Sabbath-Breaker.”

This 1898 collection of essays profiles famous Jews “who have arisen in the Ghetto from its establishment in the sixteenth century to its slow breaking-up of our own day.” Portraits include Baruch Spinoza, Heinrich Heine, Ferdinand Lassalle, Felix Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, Sabbatai Zevi, Solomon Maimon, and Benjamin Disraeli.

Martial Arts, The Circle Of Life takes an in depth look at the students journey in the martial arts and the hurdles they face at each level and correlates it with the human life cycle and the challenges we face during the different stages of life. For example, a new white belt student enters a class...

The Widening Circle of Genocide, the third volume of an award-winning series, combines an encyclopedic summary of knowledge of the subject with annotated citations of literature in each field of study. It includes contributions by R.J. Rummel, Leonard Glick, Vahakn Dadrian, Rosanne Klass, Martin Van...

A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul focuses on how an individual lives one’s life, and on the extent of harm that an individual can inflict on oneself or others. In this book, Charny provides a new lens for treating real people rather than offering treatments that alleviate symptoms.

When you have dyslexia and other learning disorders it’s very hard sometimes to put your thoughts into words whereby others may grasp your intentions. Through the journey of this book you’ll find the written words from the heart of one such person. It’s a compiling story about struggles, hardships,...

Prayers That Attract Divine Help from Heaven is a prayer-warfare book written to assist people who desire to know how to confront satanic battle and have victory over them. It is a book designed by the Holy Ghost for modern-day Christians who are tired of being pushed around by evil powers of this age.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Arthur Rimbaud, the volatile genius of French poetry, invented a language that captured the energy and visual complexity of the modern world. This book explores some of the technical aspects of this language in relation to the new techniques brought forth by the Impressionist painters such as Monet, Morisot, and Pissarro.

[DYK a.k.a. Did You Know? eBook eVersion is so-so much more than the paperback version. It truly have all that the paperback has to offer with the exceptions of additional poetical QT. Quoting Thoughts. As well as formatting aspect of digital colours, to give a more vibrant read and visual stimuli. The...