Covering 2500 years, here are the impressions of synagogue worshipers and visitors, Jews and non-Jews, told in their own words, from Jeremiah to George Washington, Liszt, and Yossele Rosenblatt, from the slums of Rio to the shtetls of Ukraine to the temple in Jerusalem. Here is the Jewish experience--tragic, comic, and inspiring by turns.

THROUGH THE RUINS: TALKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AN THE ARTS 1 is the inaugural volume in a series of publications dedicated to exploring creative tools of resistance. THROUGH THE RUINS is based on public talks presented at the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) by Faustin Linyekula (Kisangani); The White Pube (London); Cassils (LA); Emily Johnson (New York); Border Forensics (London); Ashmina Ranjit (Nepal); Mark Sealy (London); and Hamed Sinno (Philadelphia). In the...

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk reaction to build walls and close borders by arguing that there is not a moral, legal, philosophical, or economic case for limiting the movement of human beings at borders. The volum...

Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itselfWater Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, engaging posthumanism, biotheory, and other cutting-edge th...

“Charles Ota Heller’s newest memoir, Cowboy from Prague, is a gripping and hauntinglybeautiful exploration… required reading for a generation that often forgets that the struggle is themost important part of the journey.”--Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, Israel Prize LaureateFrom the author of the acclaimed memoir, Prague: My Long Journey Home, comes an inspiring account of a refugee who boarded a ship toward hope—toward the United States—where he began a ...

Diese Sammlung enthält die größten Krimi-Klassiker: Sherlock Holmes-Krimis (Arthur Conan Doyle): Späte Rache - Eine Studie in Scharlachrot Das Zeichen der Vier Der Hund von Baskerville Das Tal des Grauens Sherlock Holmes-Detektivgeschichten Detektiv Auguste Dupin-Krimis (Edgar Allan Poe) Die Maske des roten Todes (Edgar Allan Poe) Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) Das schwatzende Herz (Edgar Allan Poe) Das Faß Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) Wachtmeister Studer-Krimis (Friedri...

Dieser Band enthält folgende Romane: Chris Heller: Das Spiel der Magie Charles Lotin Hildreth: Die geheimnisvolle Stadt Oo Gordon MacCreagh: Ungeheuer am Zimwi Krater Drei Jugendliche werden in die Welt eines Online-Rollenspiels versetzt. Normalerweise agieren sie dort als mächtige Götter mit magischen Fähigkeiten. Jetzt müssen sie ohne ihre Superkräfte auskommen und stehen gleichzeitig vor einer schwierigen Aufgabe: Sie sollen diese Welt der Götter und Magier vor dem Untergang retten - un...

Author Charles Ota Hellers early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didnt last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced.In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel H...

Among the piles of obsolete farm and household implements, haystacks, dust, and debris abandoned in her historic barn, Katie Aldridge discovered a box containing the Civil War letters of Charles Freeman Biddlecom. Painstakingly transcribing and lightly editing more than 100 letters written by the soldier to his wife during his service, Ms. Aldridge resurrected the voice of the Civil War combat soldier. The tone and character of "Charlie's" detailed accounts of the war compelled Ms. Aldridg...

This volume, a collection of eleven original essays by many of the foremost US military historians, focuses on the transition of the Army from parade ground to battleground in each of nine wars the United States has fought. Through careful analysis of organization, training, and tactical doctrine, each essay seeks to explain the strengths and weaknesses evidenced by the outcome of the first significant engagement or campaign of the war. The concluding essay sets out to synthesize the findi...

Die Anthologie *100 Meisterkrimis - Klassiker die man kennen muss* vereint packende Geschichten aus der Welt der Kriminalliteratur, die Schutz und Schärfe gleichermaßen bieten. Der Band umfasst ein breites Spektrum an Stilen, von der viktorianischen Detektivgeschichte über Abenteuerromane bis hin zu psychologischen Thrillern. Durch die Vielfalt der Werke, darunter Beiträge von Literaturriesen wie Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle oder Friedrich Glauser, erhalten Leser Einblicke in die En...

How did Clint Eastwood spend his Thursday evenings? What caused one of Americas greatest basketball coaches to scream the n-word at the author? How did Heller become an early witness to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair? Why did jazz singer Helen OConnell proposition the young, innocent Charlie Heller? What led the author to insult the leader of Americas space program? How did Heller and a TV star/sex therapist develop immediate rapport? How did the author and the leader of a famous rock band be...