Yael: 88 books
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
What Now?
Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Buddhist teachings and meditation offer a roadmap to help college students and others in early adulthood incorporate mindfulness into their lives as a means of facing the myriad struggles unique to this stage of life.
Early adulthood is filled with intense emotions and insecurity. What if you...
by Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Since Israel’s 1967 war, more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the occupied territories, transforming politics and sometimes committing shocking acts of terrorism. Yet little is known about why they chose to live at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sara Yael Hirschhorn unsettles stereotypes about these liberal idealists.
by Yael Farber
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
A riveting new stage adaptation from award-winning writer and director Yael Farber. In this new publication, Farber (inspired by contemporary retellings) adapts the ancient tale of The Ramayana, attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki. The original Ramayana forms a significant part of the Hindu canon,...
Inventing the Gothic Corpse
The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For centuries, vivid images of the corpse were used to deliver a spiritual or political message; today...
Living Emergency
Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In 1991, the Israeli government introduced emergency legislation canceling the general exit permit that allowed Palestinians to enter Israel. The directive, effective for one year, has been reissued annually ever since, turning the Occupied Territories into a closed military zone. Today, Israel's...
Native Land Talk
Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As...
Homeland
Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal, Realty Today reported ‘Israel is facing a housing crisis with …[the] home inventory lacking 100,000 apartments… House prices, which have more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest back in 2011’.
As Yael Allweil...
Overture
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A beautifully written, strikingly accomplished debut novel about love, music, and the complex relationship between mothers and daughters —at once a captivating glimpse into lives lived passionately and a subtle exploration of the nature of genius, it is the perfect book for fans of Bel Canto and...
by Yael Manes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Exploring individual and collective formation of gender identities, this book contributes to current scholarly discourses by examining plays in the genre of 'erudite comedy' (commedia erudita), which was extremely popular among sixteenth-century Italians from the elite classes. Author Yael Manes investigates...
Ruth
From Alienation to Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
In this fluent and penetrating study of the Book of Ruth, Yael Ziegler provides a masterful primer on how to read biblical narratives with sensitivity and depth, using recent methodological breakthroughs in the study of Tanakh. Beyond providing an eye-opening reading of a familiar biblical book, the...
La vie paysanne - Baby-sitting d'enfer
Pièces de théâtre
Language: French
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Recueil de textes de théâtre
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Au coeur des Scènes de la vie paysanne, vous pourrez découvrir une scène en trois actes, dont le but est d’aborder, toujours avec humour, trois phases de la vie paysanne !
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Let's Keep Talking
Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Let's Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes is a collection of original Lacanian case studies of young people today as they struggle with their own modern existential dilemmas of sex and love, life and death. The context, background, and forms of expression may be contemporary,...
by Yael Remen
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Yaakov Eliyhu Binder had been through a frightening experience in the past, mirroring the terror and pain which existed in his life. He repeatedly told his unforgettable memory to his young children, but for his son, Avremele, the tale served as inspiration. Sea of Lights is the story of Avraham Binder,...