Benjamin Isaac is one of the most distinguished historians of the ancient world, with a number of landmark monographs to his name. This volume collects most of his published articles and book chapters of the last two decades, many of which are not easy to access, and republishes them for the first time along with some brand new chapters. The focus is on Roman concepts of state and empire and mechanisms of control and integration. Isaac also discusses ethnic and cultural relationships in th...

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's sixty-year history. These are real Mission: Impossible true stories brimming with high-octane action—from the breathtaking capture o...

The Trump administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” vision for the Middle East was unveiled on January 28, 2020. What followed over the next eleven months was one of the most fascinating and consequential periods of US foreign policy in a generation, leading to five normalization agreements between Israel and Muslim states. The Abraham Accords achieved what had seemed impossible for decades and set the Middle East on a trajectory toward a broad regional peace.Aryeh Lightstone is uniqu...

A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life.Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't.For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded us. But in Every Life Is on Fire, physicist Jeremy England argues that the answer has been under our noses the whole time, deep within the laws of thermodynami...

A beautiful and urgent exploration of the experience of child poverty from Tom Percival, creator of the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series, for fans of Boy at the Back of the Class. Working in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, £1 from the sale of a hardback copy in the UK will go towards supporting children in poverty.'Powerful and moving with the potential to change lives' Hannah Gold'Full ...

An essential introduction to democratic socialism, and a galvanizing argument for its power to drive positive change in America and beyond.“Bhaskar Sunkara has delivered a razor-sharp guide to socialism’s history, transformative promise, and path to power.” —Naomi Klein, #1 bestselling author of DoppelgangerEvery day, more Americans are embracing democratic socialism, as shown by the stunning popularity of Zohran M...

It’s not always easy being Death: a witty and gloriously gothic tale of friendship and discovery from bestselling Jenni Spangler.Twelve-year-old Valentine Crow has lived his entire life at the Foundling Hospital. Now, he and his best friend Philomena are leaving to begin their new lives as apprentices – but Valentine has been assigned to Death himself. Valentine finds himself in an impossible situation when his best friend’s name appears on the list of souls to tak...

The epic story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cannot be told without including its dedication to speechmaking and eloquence. Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards collect important speeches from a broad range of sources that highlight the history, diversity, and centrality of public speaking in Latter-day Saint life. An expert introduces each speech while offering perspective on its place in Latter-day Saint history. The collected works express a diversity of...

This book deals with the history of Isaac Newton, the greatest genius that ever existed, one of the famous men of science.In the same year in which Galileo, sad and blind, went away from the earth, Sir Isaac Newton came to make his home upon it...In speaking of Newton we are tempted to paraphrase a line from the Scriptures: Before Newton the Solar System was without form, and void; then Newton came and there was light. To have discovered a law not only applicable to matter ...

O livro se estrutura em cinco blocos de discussão correlacionados, com seus tópicos se entrelaçando em camadas num todo diverso e heterogêneo. No primeiro bloco, os autores partem de um plano geral e íntimo ao mesmo tempo, como agentes e expectadores de uma história que se desenrola no hoje, pondo a comunidade brasileira em perspectiva e analisando o conflito no Oriente Médio a partir dos grandes movimentos das populações judias e palestinas. O segundo bloco traz o plano psíquico da anális...

Das Zeitalter des fortschrittlichen Denkens und der revolutionären Ideen mit globalen Auswirkungen. Die Philosophie der individuellen Freiheit, der Toleranz und der Bürgerrechte prägte die Welt, wie wir sie kennen. Weltbewegende soziale, politische und wissenschaftliche Ideen, die den Lauf der Geschichte für immer verändert haben. Diese Sammlung enthält die einflussreichsten und wichtigsten Werke der Aufklärung: Von dem Geist der Gesetze (Montesquieu) Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der ...

This autobiography collection contains My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Isaac Newton, and The Autobiography of Galileo Galilei.