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Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9780226549330, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders", Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil tau...
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£16,00
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Moses A Human Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300251883, ISBN: HB: 9780300209624, Yale University Press, May 2020
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar. No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many...
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Ultramarathon Mom From the Sahara to the Arctic
ISBN: PB: 9781782551393, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2018
320 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 102 black&white illus.
Holly Zimmermann, mother of four, has endeavored to take on some of the world's most difficult and dangerous foot races. A grueling 160-mile ultramarathon through the Sahara Desert is the core of her story. Tales of running under a scorching sun, li...
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Gershom Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
ISBN: PB: 9781512601138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zi...
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Jacob Unexpected Patriarch
ISBN: HB: 9780300144260, Yale University Press, November 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed, then puzzlingly attempt to justify them. In this book an eminent biblical scholar looks at Jac...
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£18,99
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Rosenfeld's Lives Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing
ISBN: PB: 9780300171532, ISBN: HB: 9780300126495, Yale University Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a 'genius' upon the publication of his novel, "Passage from Home"; someone people expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when f...
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Archbishop Oscar Romero A Disciple Who Revealed the Glory of God
ISBN: PB: 9781589662117, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During his lifetime, Archbishop Oscar Romero chose to live the Christian Gospel in a radical way, defending, supporting, and serving the poor, and confronting the oppressive and murderous violence of the Salvadoran dictatorship. As a result, in March...
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When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes
ISBN: HB: 9781563680243, Gallaudet University Press, November 1993
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Born almost totally deaf, Philip Zazove has spent his entire life beating the odds – first by excelling in public schools during an era when most deaf children went to special schools, then by aspiring to become a medical doctor. Despite his stellar...
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