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  • The Recorder

    Series series Yale Musical Instrument Series
    The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the presentThe recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role. Although it is frequently regarded as a stepping-stone on the path toward higher musical pursuits, this role is just one recent facet of the recorder’s fascinating history—which spans professional and ... Read more

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  • Café Shira

    A Novel

    by David Ehrlich ...
    Translated by Michael Swirsky ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Café Shira’s devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary café owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to the needs of his patrons while ignoring his own. Christian, a young religious pilgrim, has come to Jerusalem to find God ... Read more

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  • Who Will Die Last

    Stories of Life in Israel

    by David Ehrlich ...
    Hilarious and sad at the same time, Ehrlich’s collection of short stories, Who Will Die Last is an original and moving work of fiction. Ever deeply humane, the author takes his characters on a tantalizing journey through their souls. His understated style transforms even a heartbreaking plot into an uplifting and funny story. Israel’s special history, landscapes, and conflicts add to the drama and ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality

    John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital shifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken for granted in developed nations. This collection of essays assembles 21 philosophers, economists, and political scientists to help readers ... Read more

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  • Earthcare

    An Anthology in Environmental Ethics

    This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific ... Read more

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  • Birds in Jeopardy

    The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada

    As the human population skyrockets and the toxic impact of human society spreads, the natural habitats of birds degrade and diminish and the bird populations decline. Two hundred years ago, when the United States and Canada were home to less than 5 million people, they were also home to some 650 species of birds. Today, more than 280 million people live there, and 33 bird species have already been ... Read more

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  • The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History

    Our Generation of Memories, From 1960 to Today

    Can you guess the most memorable sports moments to happen in the Big Apple?Collected together for the first time, The 20 Greatest Moments in New York Sports History chronicles the most memorable sporting events to be held in New York, ranking them based on importance and effect on the sport (and city).Broken down into four parts, each event will include the storyline that led up to the moment, ... Read more

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    One Woman's Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem

    On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely 18, she was stoned by Palestinian kids just outside one of the gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. In the years that followed, she was terrified to explore the ancient city she so loved.But, sick of living in fear, she has now chosen to live within the Old City's walls, living in each of the four quarters: Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and ... Read more

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  • Three Floors Up

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    by Eshkol Nevo ...
    Translated by Sondra Silverston ...
    Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army ... Read more

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  • The Book of Separation

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    by Tova Mirvis ...
    The memoir of a woman leaving behind her faith and her marriage to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a world unknown to her.A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Best Book Pick by O, The Oprah Magazine; Jewish Week; Real Simple"An intimate tale of departure . . . [Mirvis] movingly conveys the heartache that accompanies the abandonment of one way of life in search of ... ... Read more

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  • Tel Aviv Noir

    Translated by Yardenne Greenspan ...
    by Gadi Taub ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Israeli crime fiction that "sets the bar high for subsequent Noir offerings. The genre is hot, Tel Aviv is exotic, and this volume is outstanding" ( Library Journal, starred review).Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct ... Read more

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  • Native

    Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life

    by Sayed Kashua ...
    Essays by "Jerusalem's version of Charles Bukowski . . . Just as aware and critical—of his city, his family, Israel, the Arabs, but most of all of himself" (NPR).Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society." An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating ... Read more

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