My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Shavit Ari)(Paperback)

My Promised Land - the triumph and tragedy of Israel (Shavit Ari)(Paperback / softback)

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Shavit Ari)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by

Moving The Goalposts - A Yorkshire Tragedy (Clavane Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF PROMISED LAND EXAMINES YORKSHIRE'S ENDANGERED STATUS AS A SPORTING

Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel (Shavit Shabtai)(Pevná vazba)

Shabtai Shavit, director of the Mossad from 1989-1996, is one of the most influential leaders to shape the recent history of the State of Israel. In this entertaining and engaging book, Shavit combines memoir with sober reflection to reveal what happened during the seven years he led what is widely

The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth (Sand Shlomo)(Paperback)

How the work of Israeli writers today reflects the foundation myths of a Jewish state.The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creation of the state of Israel. In The Words and the Land,

Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (MacLeod Erin C.)(Pevná vazba)

In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. 'Repatriation is a must!' they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s. They consider it the Promised Land, and repatriation is

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird

THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S FORTHCOMING NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer -

A Promised Land (Obama Barack)(Pevná vazba)

ABOUT A PROMISED LANDA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young

Mona in the Promised Land (Jen Gish)(Paperback)

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes a 'hilariously funny and seriously important' novel (Amy Tan) about American multiculturalism and a Chinese American teenager doing her best to fit in-even if it means converting to Judaism. In these pages, acclaimed author Gish

Ralph Gibson: Sacred Land: Israel Before and After Time (Gibson Ralph)(Pevná vazba)

Ralph Gibson's diptych portrayal of Israel, a land at once deeply modern and incredibly ancient The American photographer Ralph Gibson traveled throughout Israel and the surrounding region to create a portrait of a land where the past is vividly part of the present. He contrasts these in two-page

From Triumph to Tragedy: The Chapecoense Story (Bell Steven)(Paperback)

From Triumph to Tragedy is the glorious, uplifting but ultimately tragic story of Chapecoense, the small-town Brazilian football club that made worldwide news following their meteoric rise from non-league to continental sensation.Yet the headlines that will be remembered centre on the air disaster

The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Neider Charles)(Paperback)

'A book filled with richnesses of humor and tragedy of disappointment and triumph, of sweetness and bitterness, and all in that unsurpassed American prose.'--New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewMark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his

November 1918 - Triumph and Tragedy in the Final Days of WW1 (Brook-Shepherd Gordon)(Paperback / softback)

Their Promised Land - My Grandparents in Love and War (Buruma Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Ian Buruma's moving and powerful story of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world

Bound for the Promised Land - The Land Promise In God's Redemptive Plan (Martin Oren R)(Paperback / softback)

The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering which underlies

Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir (Faderman Lillian)(Paperback)

Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman, who, along with her sister, left their shtetl in Latvia to seek a better life in America. However, her mother's family were murdered by Nazis and their home destroyed in the war. Her mother, racked by

California (a History) (Starr Kevin)(Paperback)

California has always been our Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State's premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California's history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold,

One Man's Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 (Hayes Adrian)(Paperback)

A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain.Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meeres above sea level on the China-Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers

Like Flames in the Night (Cossette Connilyn)(Paperback)

Strong-willed Tirzah wants to join her people in driving the enemy from the land of Israel and undergoes training for a secret mission inside the stronghold of Shechem. But soon after she has infiltrated the ruthless Aramean commander's kitchen, she makes a reckless decision that puts her and her

A Promised Land (Obama Barack)(Paperback)

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS

The Promised Land (Maitland Barry)(Paperback)

Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates a series of brutal murders on Hampstead Heath. Under intense pressure to find answers, she arrests the unlikely figure of Charles Pettigrew, a failing London publisher who lives alone on the edge of the Heath. Pettigrew's lawyer

Israel Through My Eyes (Odame Emmanuel Ankrah)(Paperback)

The Holy Land is a focus for people of many different faiths, its historical and spiritual significance well documented. Israel Through My Eyes, however, written by a young Christian Ghanaian doctor, offers a new perspective on this unique country. On the one hand, it is an extremely personal

Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel (Landy David)(Paperback)

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices