Sa’adyah Gaon was an outstanding tenth-century Jewish thinker--a prominent rabbi, philosopher, and e... more

Mathilde Lewly--a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century--has achieved notoriety among ... more

In this eerie, compelling, and playful novel, a young man tormented by his feeble memory meets an el... more

With Édouard Glissant’s The Fourth Century, the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of h... more

Readable, enjoyable and provides a clear overview of runes and their importance to reading the past.... more

Setting out to tell the story of a mysterious cowboy--a stranger in town with a terrible secret--Chr... more

David Grossman s classic novels See Under: Love and The Book of Intimate Grammar, earned him interna... more

In a chorus of voices David Grossman s The Smile of the Lamb tells the story of Uri, an idealistic y... more

Meir, the narrator of the story, is the personal servant of Nathan, a rich tycoon consumed with biza... more

Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman gives us the story of the greatest and most universal traged... more

In this powerful novel by one of Israel s most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust... more

Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France’s most celebrated and in... more

The Fourth Century tells of the quest by young Mathieu Béluse to discover the lost history of his co... more

Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls ... more

. Its translation into English by Betsy Wing will extend the influence of a writer already famous for her novels and...... more

An accessible account of Norwegian runic inscriptions from their first appearance around AD200 until... more

Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Julia Trubikhina-Kunina, Betsy Hulick, and Gerald Janacek. This is the first...... more

Sa’adyah Gaon was an outstanding tenth-century Jewish thinker who was a pioneer in the fields in whi... more

With a name like Jacques Boucher de Cr?vecoeur de Perthes, it ought to be easy to become a hero. Yet... more

This collection of remarkably beautiful, daring and often surprising poems is the first by Israeli p... more

At a time when the topic of energy is front and centre, this book examines the basic concepts that a... more

So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a m... more

So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a m... more

The Governor s Daughter is an extraordinary tale of innocence adrift in a monstrous world. Set just ... more

This book is concerned with the social and gendered meanings of love in medieval Norway and Iceland.... more