In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible.
Blunt, irreverent, and at times delightfully subversive, Opera Wars spotlights operas colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic futurea colorful, witty look behind the velvet curtain (Rene Fleming).
'Powerful and timeless, this is a book for everyone that will kick-start honest conversations and help create real change' Fearne Cotton'This book reminds us that being vulnerable is the very gateway to deeper friendships and richer forms of flourishing.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy.
For fans of The Many Lives of Mama Love and the many women struggling with addiction while raising families, a candid recovery memoir chronicling one suburban New Jersey mother's journey from secret vodka binges to sobriety.
Pep Guardiola: Redefining FootballBefore the trophies, before the touchline celebrations, and before becoming one of football's most influential minds, Pep Guardiola was simply a boy from the small Catalan town of Santpedor with a football at his feet and questions in his mind.
An instant Sunday Times bestseller'A sexy, frank and delectable memoir' The New York Times'An instant, hedonistic culinary classic' The London Standard'It's the two best things in the world: food and sex'Slutty Cheff is an anonymous London chef who knows what it's really like to work in the capital's hectic restaurant scene.
This work, Volume 2 in the series is separated into two parts: Part 1 presents the discursive concepts and the order of power of Qur'anic discourse which ensured that it could NOT be made manifest within the ambit of the discourse of and the order of power of the Age of Prophethood, for only the Qur'an is the Manifest Book.
En un rincón remoto del Pirineo aragonés, donde el tiempo parece detenerse, nace la historia de Marino, un pastor forjado entre montañas, tradición y sacrificio.
An inspiring and life-affirming story of a difficult childhood transformed into happy adulthood through the power of nature and gardensBeloved author Marc Hamer writes about finding refuge in his tiny back garden in this highly original story of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of gardens.
Gold-Plated Puppets is a sharp, satirical social novel about a newly wealthy family desperately trying to cover their lives, status, culture, and conscience with a thin layer of gold.
For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, an epistolary memoir about two young women's friendship across continents and decadesan enduring connection kept alive by the simple act of written correspondence.
**Named one of the Economist 'Best Books of the Year So Far' May 2026**An extraordinary first-hand account of Russia's descent into totalitarianism, paranoia and madness.
The Ultimate AMB-BC® Exam Prep Guide: Your All-In-One Resource for Certification SuccessPassing the Ambulatory Care Nurse is a significant milestone that validates your expertise and enhance AMB-BCs your professional credibility.
From the smoke-filled ad rooms of 1960s England to the bright, unforgiving lights of Los Angeles - and finally to the shores of Kauai - Ad Man to Island King is not a success story.
Classic blues, one of America's most distinctive musical art forms, originated specifically in a portion of Mississippi known as "e;the Delta,"e; a formerly cotton-growing feudal kingdom of sorts, stretching from Memphis, Tennessee, south to Vicksburg, hugging the great Mississippi River in between these cities along its eastern shore.
A coming of age memoir of growing up as a Hijabi torn between two cultures - by British Sudanese comedian on the up, Ola Labib'Growing up as the only Black, hijab-wearing girl in a white seaside town, with strict African Muslim parents, I was stuck between a world I didn't feel part of and one I wasn't allowed to fully embrace.
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.
In this "e;hilarious"e; memoir, a woman recounts her memories of summer camp "e;that anyone who has ever drunk bug juice will cringingly recognize"e; (The Wall Street Journal).
Mixed Race Children (1987) challenges the stereotype of 'mixed race' children having identity problems, that they 'don't fit in anywhere', showing that many of the children in this study of radical identity and categorization had worked out their own positive mixed race identity.
Memorials, Monuments, and Memories is a collection of personal essays and reflections spanning more than a decade of Memorial Days, Veterans Days, and moments of quiet civic remembrance.
**Named one of the Economist 'Best Books of the Year So Far' May 2026**An extraordinary first-hand account of Russia's descent into totalitarianism, paranoia and madness.
