Levinson: 226 books

Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of Orly Castel-Bloom, Michal Govrin, Zeruya Shalev, and Yoram Kaniuk, the book argues for a new understanding...

War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers’ antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it quickly grew, where it has struggled, what it accomplished, and how it continues to resonate in the national conversation about our military and our wars. Nan Levinson reveals the individuals...

This non-stop, pulse-jangling thrill ride has more heart-pounding twists and turns than a roller coaster as L.A. newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and ex-wife Stevie Marriner chase after stolen art masterpieces believed lost forever. They escape more than one brush with death keeping a step ahead...

For years Hollywood has buzzed with rumors of a curse on the actors who worked on the '50s classic film Rebel Without a Cause, a curse that caused them to die tragically and young. It started with James Dean crashing his Porsche, and then there was Nick Adams's overdose, Sal Mineo's murder, and Natalie...

Think Hitchcock on speed.Charlie Collier, a private dealer in art masterpieces, is flying to Honolulu to deliver a Raphael Madonna to a client by a deadline that, if missed, can cost him a twenty-million dollar sale. Grounded in L.A. by rainstorms, he visits an auction gallery and recognizes...

Four short stories that bring to center stage Augie Fowler, the significant sidekick in the Derringer Award-winning author’s “Affairs” series built around Los Angeles newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife, “Sex Queen of the Soaps” Stephanie (Stevie) Marriner. Only here it’s...

Andee Lujack travels recklessly inside Show Business, in a Hollywood where people are not necessarily who or what they seem, ego trumps affection, name-dropping is an art, nobody trusts anybody, and lying, deception and deceit are recurring substitutes for the truth. Prime among practitioners is her...

In this first detailed examination of Varieties of Religious Experience, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrates James's debts to Darwin, and reconstructs the case for the supernatural that James thought so critical to his work. The author discusses the contribution...

The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies. The book traces how systems are innovated, planned and adapted, deployed and expanded, and reach maturity, where they may either be maintained in a polished obsolesce often propped up by subsidies,...

In these times of rapid change and constant upheaval, can we learn to think and communicate more effectively-at home, in school, on the job, and as citizens in the larger world? This book, which is based on the formulations of "general semantics," says yes, yes, and yes! Topics in it include...

Phil D'Amato, an NYC forensic detective (also featured in several of Levinson's popular short stories and two subsequent novels), is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on Earth--and one of his best friends is a recent casualty. Unless Phil can unravel...

Mid-twenty-first century time traveler Sierra Waters, fresh from her mission to save Socrates from the hemlock, is determined to alter history yet again, by saving the ancient Library of Alexandria - where as many as 750,000 one-of-a-kind texts were lost, an event described by many as “one of the...

Fired pro football team recruiter Hank Holloway stumbles into one of the church world’s best kept secrets and becomes a “choir rustler,” battling for soloists against rustlers who violate one or more of the Ten Commandments in this seriocomic thriller that climaxes at “Sing, You Synods,”...

Mr. & Mrs. Italy Uncover Italy's Best Hotels for Eating, Drinking, and Luxuriating Italy travel specialists, speakers and authors, Drs. David and Debra Levinson, are known as "Mr. & Mrs. Italy" for their exceptional knowledge of one of the world's most popular travel destinations....