The Torah For Dummies
By: Arthur Kurzweil
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text The foundation of Hebrew and Jewis…
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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
By: Jerry B. Jenkins , George J. Thompson
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Improve communication, resolve conflicts, and avoid the most common conversational disasters throug… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief
By: Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz , Yehuda Hanegbi
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From Madonna's music videos to the glossy pages of celebrity magazines and back to the Lower East S… read more
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- judaism
- religion
- judaica
- spirituality
5. Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History
By: Joseph Telushkin
4.33
Format: 48 pages,
What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question? In this insigh… read more
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- judaism
- nonfiction
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6. When Bad Things Happen to Good People
By: Harold S. Kushner
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he woul… read more
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7. Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
By: Anita Diamant
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Married to a convert herself, Anita Diamant provides advice and information that can transform the … read more
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8. Living a Jewish Life
By: Anita Diamant , Howard Cooper
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Jewish tradition is a gift and a challenge. "Living a Jewish Life" is your guide to the cultural an… read more
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9. The Legend of the Baal-Shem
By: Martin Buber , Maurice S. Friedman
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his w… read more
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10. Beginner's Guide to the Kabbalah
By: David A. Cooper
3.58
Format: None pages, Audio CD
"Kabbalah": the word itself suggests secret wisdom and ancient mystery. Now a leading voice in the … read more
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11. The Essential Talmud
By: Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz , None
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction to the beliefs, attitudes, and methods of the sacr… read more
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12. DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible
By: Rick Strassman
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Naturally occurring DMT may produce prophecy-like states of consciousness and thus represent a brid… read more
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13. The Bible for Dummies
By: Jeffrey Geoghegan , None
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Ninety percent of Americans own a copy of the Bible, and while it's the most widely read book, it's… read more
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14. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
15. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
16. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- judaica
- audiobook
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
17. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
By: Noa Tishby
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more
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"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
18. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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- audiobook
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
19. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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- audiobook
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
20. An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.09
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
In this book Walter Brueggemann, America's premier biblical theologian, introduces the reader to th… read more
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- religion
- spirituality
"In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly craf…"-Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
21. The Torah For Dummies
By: Arthur Kurzweil
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text The foundation of Hebrew and Jewis… read more
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