Liza Goldberg is twenty-five, Jewish, heterosexual--and unhappy. She is also a bulimic caught in a self-destructive cycle of alternately binging and starving herself. This novel tells of her discovering her lesbian identity, and of the people in her life, her first female lover, Anemone; Harvey, her gay roommate; and the nursery school kids from whom Liza sneaks peanut butter snacks.

We now live longer today than at any time in history. In the UK, more people are aged over sixty-five than under sixteen and by 2050, over a third of the developed world will be over sixty. How should we deal with this phenomenon? What are the scientific reasons for ageing? And can - or should - we prevent it?Lewis Wolpert, distinguished biologist and octogenarian, explores the scientific background and the implications of our ageing population. In this engaging investigation, he tackles every aspect of the subject from ageism to euthanasia to anti-ageing cream and, through it all, tries to better understand his own ageing. Witty, frank and often inspiring, Lewis Wolpert is the perfect guide to looking very well.

A young woman's journey to Palestine in the wake of World War II stands at the center of this compelling novel about the birth of Israel. 25,000 first printing.

The first four books of poems collects the early work that established the author as one of America's most original and important poets.

A Torah discourse of the Lubavitcher Rebbe usually revolves around a question, sometimes seemingly microscopictension serving as a point of departure for the Rebbes discussion. To hear or read such a discussion is to embark on a journey in which we are challenged and forced to move, and at the end stand far from where we began. Here, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, serves as guide to that journey, elucidating the question in each discourse and explaining its context. In this collection of lucid adaptations of the Rebbes talks on the weekly Torah readings and Jewish holidays, each question is not only resolved but also revealed to be the starting point of a major spiritual search, a journey to the inner sanctum of Torah. With descriptive introductions to each chapter and extensive indexes, Torah Studies is an important gateway to the Rebbes teaching and legacy.

One of the most elite educational institutions in the world, the Air Force Academy has, from its inception, attracted the best and the brightest, producing leaders not only in the military but throughout American society. In recent years, however, the Academy has also been producing a cadre of zealous evangelical Christians intent on creating a fundamentalist power base at the highest levels of our country. With God on Our Side is shocking exposé of life inside the United States Air Force Academy and the systematic program of indoctrination sanctioned, coordinated, and carried out by fundamentalist Christians within the U.S. military. It is also the story of Michael L. Weinstein, a proud Academy graduate and the father of two graduates and a current cadet, who single-handedly brought to light the evangelicals' utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is so essential to the nation's military mission. Weinstein's war would pit him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into "right-thinking" warriors more befitting a theocracy. In the process, he would come face to face with religious bigotry and at its most extreme and fight an unrelenting battle to save his beloved Academy, the ideals it stood for, and the very future of the country. An important book at a critical time in our nation's history, With God on Our Side is the story of one man's courageous struggle to thwart a creeping evangelism permeating America's military and to prevent a taxpayer-funded theocracy in which only the true believers have power.

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

Moses Mendelssohn was a leading figure of the Enlightenment and the Jewish Haskalah. In his work Jerusalem or On Religious Power and Judaism, he argues for religious freedom and the separation of state and religious authority. Mendelssohn maintains that governments should regulate civil affairs while matters of faith belong to individual conscience and cannot be imposed through coercion. The book also defends Judaism as a rational religion compatible with Enlightenment ideals and is widely regarded as an important contribution to modern ideas of tolerance and civil equality.

The life of a young Englishman living in Johannesburg is transformed when he becomes the friend of a bitter Black African

Family Sayings is Natalia Ginzburg's masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Italian literature. Although it asks to be read as fiction, the author, one of Italy's finest twentieth-century writers, admits that it is highly autobiographical. The book spans the period from the rise of Fascism through World War II (in which her first husband perished at the hands of the Nazis) and its aftermath. Its subject is the other people in Ginzburg's family. Woven around the inconsequential, revealing remarks that are repeated in a family until they become its affectionate private code, rich in memory and association, this is one of the rare true evocations of a family in modern literature. Family Sayings is at the same time a living history that documents the life of the assimilated Jewish Ginzburg family and the culture to which they belonged. Winner of the Strega Prize-Italy's Pulitzer for literature-this intimate and candid portrait is no less relevant today than when it was first published in 1963. --

The last two decades have been the most turbulent for American racial and ethnic relations since Reconstruction. Following the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, there has been an explosion of ethnic self-consciousness, affirmative action, and student militancy. What do these events mean, and what should we expect in the future? Nathan Glazer, one of America's foremost social critics, records and interprets the central developments of this crucial period: the shift of major civil rights groups and black leaders from color blindness to color consciousness; the split this shift occasioned with other civil rights advocates, such as Jewish groups; the rapid growth of ethnic self-consciousness and militancy and its impact on schools and colleges; the conflict over bilingualism and over civil rights enforcement caused by the expansion of affirmative action; and the rise of similar issues in the new multi-ethnic states that emerged from colonialism and in Western European nations transformed by mass immigration. The book sums up a period that closed with the election of the first national administration committed to withdrawal from the further reaches of civil rights enforcement, and it forecasts the issues that will be raised as new waves of immigration from Latin America and Asia further transform the American racial and ethnic mix. --

The New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society by Nathan Glazer | ISBN: 0-916304-81-7 | Paper / Pages: 110 / $12.50 | 1988 | Nathan Glazer's _The New Immigration_ examines the social and political implications of recent waves of immigration to the United States. A first-rate monograph and an excellent primer for contemporary debates on immigration.

As their superhuman powers rage out of control, five teenagers, possessed by shards of a shattered star, become ripe for manipulation by The Bringer, a creature determined to use them to turn the Earth into his own personal feeding ground.

The director and writer of the second, third, and fourth Star Trek movies shares his memories of their creation and much more. Movie Tie-in.

In this book, Noam Chomsky reflects on the history of 'generative enterprise' - his approach to the study of languages that revolutionized our understanding of human languages and other cognitive systems.

Told for the first time in their own words, What Are Blind Men Dreaming? is the account of three generations of women--mother, daughter, granddaughter--and the history that shaped them. This collective, yet singular story of survival spans genre, geography, and time to reflect on the legacy of the Holocaust on modern Jewish identity.

“I see God,” wrote Norman Mailer, “as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed artworks.” In these moving, amusing, and probing dialogues conducted in the years before his death, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, rejecting both organized religion and atheism. He avows that sensual pleasures were bestowed on us by God; he finds fault with the Ten Commandments; and he holds that technology was the Devil’s most brilliant creation. In short, Mailer is original and unpredictable in this inspiring journey, in which “God needs us as much as we need God.” Praise for On God “[Norman Mailer’s] theology is not theoretical to him. After eight decades, it is what he believes. He expects no adherents, and does not profess to be a prophet, but he has worked to forge his beliefs into a coherent catechism.” — New York “The glory of an original mind in full provocation.” — USA Today “At once illuminating and exciting . . . a chance to see Mailer’s intellect as well as his lively conversational style of speech.” — American Jewish Life “Remarkable . . . [Mailer’s] a believer—in his own fashion. . . . He has made [God] into a complex character.” — The Globe and Mail Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.” — The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.” — The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.” — The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.” — Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.” — The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.” — Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.” — The Cincinnati Post