Israel: 385 books
The Big Picture
Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Discover the compelling story of the evolution of contemporary art, its state today, and where it’s headed, through a sample of ten artworks created by ten artists over a span of fifteen years.
Written in an engaging, straightforward style by prominent art historian Matthew Israel, this book...
by Ronald Israel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Interviews With Global Citizen Leaders has a dual purpose. First, it is intended to highlight global work being done in different sectors by people dedicated to making a difference in the way the world works. It also provides readers with the life stories of these leaders, and the factors that motivated...
The Long Shorter Way
Discourses on Chasidic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The Long Shorter Way is a major interpretation and exploration of Chasidism, based on a series of lectures delivered by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz on Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi’s classic Chasidic work, the Tanya. Like the Tanya itself, The Long Shorter Way focuses...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
by Israel S. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This is the autobiography of Israel S. Campbell, also called the "Father of Black Texas Baptists." Campbell was born a slave in Kentucky and was sold to several owners in the Ohio Valley during the first twenty years of his life. He converted to the Baptist Church and fled to Canada. Later he spent twenty-four years in Texas, where his sermons are still famous today.
My Old Lady
Complete Stage Play and Screenplay with an Essay on Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. Along the way, he has also written screenplays for film including Author! Author!, starring Al Pacino, as well as the award-winning Sunshine, James Dean, and The Strawberry...
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India
Language, Translation, and the Making of Protestant Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes initiated by early missionary...
The Recipe Club
A Tale of Food and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
“A look at the difficulties of sustaining childhood bonds, it’s also a satisfying meditation on how nourishment for the body can replenish the soul.”
—People
A novel that combines the moving story of a friendship told in letters with more than 80 delicious recipes, The Recipe Club by...
The Genocide Contagion
How We Commit and Confront Holocaust and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In The Genocide Contagion, Israel W. Charny asks uncomfortable questions about what allows people to participate in genocide—either directly, through killing or other violent acts, or indirectly, by sitting passively while witnessing genocidal acts. Charny draws on both historical and current examples...
by Israel Scheffler
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This title, first published in 1973, brings together a variety of papers by Israel Scheffler, one of America’s leading educational philosophers. The essays each stress the importance of critical thought and independent judgement to the organization of educational activities. In the first section,...
by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Israel Abrahams' extensive analyses of the famous jewish poem. Joseph Zabara has only in recent times received the consideration justly due to him. Yet his "Book of Delight," finished about the year 1200, is more than a poetical romance. It is a golden link between folk-literature and imaginative poetry.
by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
The Book of Delight and Other Papers by one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation, Israel Abrahams.Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the book Aspects of Judaism, which was published in 1895. His chief works were Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) and Chapters on Jewish Literature (1898).
The Philosopher's Stone
Spiritual Alchemy, Psychology, and Ritual Magic
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
A new edition of Regardie's classic text
In the mid-1930s, Israel Regardie had an insight into understanding alchemical writings. The result was The Philosopher's Stone, where he analyzed three 17th-century alchemical works symbolically, psychologically, and via magickal energy.
Now,...
by Israel Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Truth and lie are parallel concepts. Truth is total departure from lie, and lie is complete shift from truth. Truth and lie do not socialize; truth stands pure and sure but lie is filthy and unreliable. Any mix-up of lie with truth, the truth becomes impure. You need to understand however, that truth...