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Romania had a catastrophic experience during the Second World War: an ally of the Axis in its invasion of the USSR, it then turned against the Nazis and joined the Allies in 1944. Its role in the Holocaust was a complex and terrible one. Dan Stone's remarkable new book tells the full story of...

A thought-provoking exploration of the roots of modern Jewish politics This is the first book to explore the nineteenth-century political movement led by Jewish leaders seeking equality―a movement that historian David Sorkin calls emancipation politics. The emancipationists, most of whom had...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS PROVIDES UNPARALLELED NEW INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the seven-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in...

An entertaining and enlightening expose of over-inflated claims about the Reformation and what it has done for us What has the Reformation ever done for us? A lot less than you might think, as Rodney Stark shows in this enlightening and entertaining antidote to recent books about the rise of...

Edouard Schuré (1841-1929), dans ce livre mythique, esquisse l'histoire secrète des religions et nous convie à un voyage dans la grande tradition ésotérique: de l'initiation brahmanique aux mystères de l'Égypte, de la mission d'Israël à celle du Christ, du mythe d'Orphée aux mystères d'Eleusis.

Part memoir, part reckoning, part argument for a different future, Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews asks whether Israel can survive without an external enemy and refuses to let the reader look away from the answer. Avrum Burg, a former Speaker of the Knesset raised in the shadow of the Hebron massacre and the Holocaust, traces how Israel's founding trauma hardened, over decades, into a permanent and self-justifying machinery of fear.

A stimulating and expert analysis of the unique conditions that allowed Christianity to take shape and flourish across the Roman Empire during its first three centuries, from one of our leading historians of the ancient world “How did the intersection of Roman rule, Greek culture, and Judaean...

Lviv, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays, written more than half a century apart -...

Christians in every generation must know what they believe. Only then can God’s people declare His truth with clarity and conviction in a confused world. Throughout the centuries, the church has written summaries of the Bible’s teaching for this reason. Creeds proclaim essential Christian...

Seit Urzeiten ranken sich zauberhafte Legenden und magische Geschichten rund um die letzten Tage des alten und den Beginn des neuen Jahres. Viele Bräuche, Weisheiten und Mythen rund um die Raunächte und ihre Magie werden heute wiederentdeckt und wieder genutzt. Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie auf...

The supernatural has ever been a part of human existence. Medieval Christians saw miracles in the lives of saints and put faith in savants who spoke with the dead. For later Catholics and Protestants, the spiritual realm remained charged with divine and diabolic forces, but so was the mundane...

A History of Ancient Israel: Audio Lectures traces God’s covenant people from Abraham through the exodus, conquest, monarchy, exile, and return. Grisanti and Bolen bring the biblical record into conversation with historical research, archaeological discoveries, and the geography of the land...

In God We Trust invites listeners to think and reflect critically about the truths and complexities of the role of religion and the founding of America in order to separate history from political ideology and to understand why this distinction matters for the future of our nation and democracy...

Scripture commands Christians to be a remembering people. Contemplating how God's church has prevailed throughout war, heresy, political upheaval, and more, we will begin to grasp the bigger story of his work in the world and gain bold faith for our lives today.

Kamba Ramayanam, originally titled Ramavataram, is a monumental 12th-century Tamil epic composed by the legendary poet Kambar. It is a masterful adaptation of Sage Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana, deeply infused with the cultural nuances, poetic styles, and devotional fervor of the Tamil Bhakti...

What Makes a Prince Abandon Everything?The Path That Transformed Siddhartha into the Buddha, Now Told Like Never BeforeWhat would drive a prince to abandon his palace, his power, his very identity? What would compel a man to walk away from everything in search of something he cannot yet name?In...

Best-seller internacional que mobilizou a opinião pública Uma impressionante história de Jesus, de sua época conturbada e do nascimento do cristianismo. Em uma narrativa de tirar o fôlego, Zelota oferece uma nova perspectiva sobre aquela que talvez seja a história mais extraordinária da...

Through this novelized history of the Soka Gakkai—one of the most dynamic, diverse, and empowering movements in the world today—readers will discover the organization's goals and achievements even as they find inspiring and practical Buddhist wisdom for living happily and compassionately in...

A memoir of hope and survival. I. Betty Grebenschikoff has reached into the past to write a moving account of her experiences as a Holocaust refugee in China. Shanghai was the only port in 1939 that was willing to admit European Jews without passports or visas. Once My Name Was Sara details her...

Step into the blessed life story and the fascinating biography of the final Messenger of Allah Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.Little Hearts Seerah Collection Volume One: From the Blessed Birth to the First Revelation, gently carries young readers through the early story of Makkah, from Hājar and...