From 1949 to 2000, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak conducted Israel's successful (and unsuccessful) talks with its Arab neighbors, from the armistice negotiations to Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, to Camp David I and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and finally to the Oslo peace process. The four successful generals who became politicians are covered in four separate biographies, which discuss the early life and military career of each subject and his subsequent ...

Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success. As the disappointing nature of his reality crowds in upon him, Willy and his family suffer the tragic cost of his delusions of grea...

A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later.The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary move...

The classic behind-the-scenes account of what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947—the recovery of a UFO."When I finished Witness to Roswell , I said to myself, 'Case closed!' for the very wealth and sheer weight of eyewitness testimony." —George Noory, host, Coast to Coast AMThis classic in the field of UFOology is filled with hard-hitting eyewitness testimon...

The following Journals were written at the close of many a laborious day, when the energies both of mind and body were almost exhausted by long-continued toil. The author trusts that this circumstance will account for, and palliate, some of the defects which may be discovered in his volumes. Conscious as he is of the deficiencies of his work, he nevertheless hopes that the reader will not pronounce it to be wholly devoid of interest. Though Australia calls up no historical recollections, n...

In this carefully selected audiobook of verse with works by Keats, Kipling, Southey, Yeats and others such Hollywood legends as Helen Hayes and Raymond Massey provide unique readings and interpretations of these classics.

In "Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia," Thomas Mitchell presents a meticulously detailed account of his 1845 expedition, offering a vivid portrayal of the Australian landscape, flora, fauna, and the indigenous populations he encounters. Written in an observational and somewhat romantic style characteristic of 19th-century exploration literature, the journal intertwines empirical observations with poetic reflections, rendering it an invaluable historical docum...

In "Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1," Thomas Mitchell presents a meticulous account of his transformative journeys through the uncharted landscapes of Australia in the 1830s. Drawing upon vivid descriptions and a narrative style that blends adventure with scientific observation, Mitchell's work stands as a paradigmatic example of exploration literature of the time. Through detailed observations of flora, fauna, and indigenous cultures, he paints an intric...

Todd Henry is the thread that ties this trilogy together. I performed his wedding, he performed in my band, and I officiated his funeral.All three of these endeavors require hours, months, and even years to make it look easy. If it was easy, everybody could do it.

'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.' The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann's first major success. It draws on his own family history and on his vivid memories of growing up in the commercial town of Lübeck in North Germany. The narrative traces the decline of a wealthy, established merchant family, from their height during the last decad...

This is a dispassionate examination of the viability of a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the politics of Israel, Palestine and the United States. It includes instructive case studies from South Africa in Namibia and the Irish claim to Northern Ireland. The results of Israeli elections from 2001 to 2013 are analyzed (with the conclusion that the Likud will be in any government coalition for at least the midterm future, giving it a veto over policy). A chapt...

This book is an exploration of the history and ideology of Revisionist Zionism--the stream of Zionism represented by the ruling Likud Party in Israel--from its inception in the 1920s under Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky through its modification under Herut Party leader Menahem Begin to the present. The main features of Revisionist Zionism under Jabotinsky are discussed, with each of the four Likud Party leaders receiving two to three chapters covering his early life, early career and rise to pa...