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The Binswanger House is an extraordinary and vital history, spanning the story of a Jewish family over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an enquiry into a complex betrayal with enduring consequences. When Dr Gabriel Byng was visiting the Jewish Museum in Berlin in...

A journalist’s incisive and darkly entertaining look at self-improvement spirituality—in which new age practices like astrology, tarot, and manifestation are reconfigured through the lens of social media algorithms and wellness culture to create a religion of the highly-optimized self. If...

This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from Hadrian's Wall, London and other sites across...

Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities. It shows how Greek myths continue to...

A search for the roots of the dissenting tradition in England, rediscovering secret sects, extraordinary individuals and their eccentric, influential legacies. Protestants believed that the world would end in 1600. It didn’t – quite. For the next century, Britain was on fire. Civil wars...

A sweeping new history of the Byzantine Empire in all its power and splendor For more than a thousand years, the Byzantine Empire stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, shaping the course of world history. Its capital, Constantinople, was the largest and wealthiest city in the Christian...

In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, now for the first time in colour, its opening two chapters guide the reader through the events of Roman...

An enthralling portrait of one of the most famous buildings in the world—the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam—and its four-hundred years of history. Millions have passed through its doors, but few know the full story of the house in Amsterdam’s Canal District that hid Anne Frank and her...

The definitive and moving account of America’s only World War II Holocaust refugee shelter. Nearly eighty years ago, the residents of a small town in upstate New York welcomed a group of refugees that changed the town forever. The 982 people were the only refugees to enter the United States...

From the gates of Paradise to the end of time, The One and Only Tree offers an extraordinary quest — a magical, millennia-spanning adventure built upon the most sacred object in the history of Christendom. From the bazaars of Jerusalem in the last years of the nineteenth century to the...

A revolutionary vision of Islam and Muslim identity, revealing a religion that isn’t just compatible with progressive ideas about sex and politics, but which actually got there first—and got erased for it. Did you know the Quran granted women the right to divorce in the 600s? Or that it...

Foreword by Paul Giamatti An exploration of the enduring worldview that has inspired individuals across time, from Ancient Greece to modern Hollywood—a sustained combination of magic, mysticism, and animism. We are experiencing a crisis of meaning. Instead of deepening our lives, religion...

One of the most daring rescue operations of World War II was spearheaded by an unlikely heroine: a Jewish daycare director. When Nazis invaded the Netherlands and turned the theater across from her daycare into a detention center for Jewish families, Henriëtte Pimentel knew she had to act...

'A rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism' MITCH ALBOM, New York Times Bestselling Author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Little Liar Just two miles from where Anne Frank hid during WWII, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish nursery director, plotted one of the most...

"This book is a gift to all those wanting to enter into the spirit of the historical Jesus and the mystic Christ. By honoring the people of Jesus's land and their poetic language, it brings a needed balance to the historical Jesus movement." —Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing The Hidden...

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The Shadow and the Flame is the sweeping and definitive history of the fight for Holocaust memory and the larger intellectual debates that raged around its memorial from the end of World War II to the present day. In 1945, the end of World War II and the liberation of the Nazi camps ended the...

An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust. “Profoundly moving. An extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. It is essential reading.” —Edmund de Waal, New...

An accessible and accurate guide to gnostic faith and philosophy Gnosticism For Dummies walks you through the mythology, literature, and essential texts of Gnosticism, an early form of Christianity and current New Age religion and philosophy embedded in pop culture. This guide strips away the...

The moving true story of the children who survived the Holocaust against the odds and found their way to life in the Lake District. In the summer of 1945, amidst the serene beauty of England's Lake District, three hundred Jewish children, orphaned and scarred by the trauma of war and...