Förlag Schocken Books

A guide for parents with children up to the age of three explains how to apply the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery to infants and toddlers, providing advice on such areas as designing a baby's bedroom, utilizing child-siz...

Läs mer »

Describes the theory and practice of the educational program, emphasizing developmental flexibility, responsibility, and intellectual curiosity for elementary school students.

Läs mer »

The definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga--the ancient healing discipline for body and mind--by its greatest living teacher. Light on Yoga provides complete descriptions and illustrations of all the positions and breathing exerci...

Läs mer »

In "The Promise of Politics, "Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx...

Läs mer »

A collection of previously unpublished and uncollected essays includes the late philsopher's reflections on the nature of evil, the making of moral choices, and the integral interconnection between judgment and responsibility. Reprint. 10,000 firs...

Läs mer »

A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old E...

Läs mer »

The only available collection that brings together all of Kafka's stories--those published during his lifetime and those released after his death.

Läs mer »

Tells the stories of a milkman and his daughters and a salesman's encounters with fellow Jews while riding the train.

Läs mer »

'Still a monument of postwar writing on anti-Semitism....Michael Walzer's fine introduction will help current readers sift out what remains relevant form Sartre's work for considering the variants of antisemitism haunting the world today.' Elisabe...

Läs mer »

From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach about living in a troubled world. It's Kushner's most important book since "W...

Läs mer »

A group of philosophers, critics, and writers weigh the moral issues involved in a young Jews' response to a dying Nazi's confession of mass murder.

Läs mer »

Part of the Jewish Encounter series Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with...

Läs mer »

In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, was a gifter and ...

Läs mer »

Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion.

Läs mer »

Traces the course of the women's rights movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention through the passage of the Nineteenth Ammendment giving women the right to vote.

Läs mer »

"This book is for people thinking about becoming teachers as well as for people in teacher training and for people who are in the classroom and think of themselves as still learning how to teach. It is about the specifics of working with chil...

Läs mer »

A study of child development designed for parents describes patterns of learning between the ages of five and eleven and examines means of improving the youngster's educational environment.

Läs mer »

I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker, ' 'The Metamorphosis, ' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even m...

Läs mer »

The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

Läs mer »

Montessori: A Modern Approach has been called the single best book for anyone -- educator, childcare professional, and especially parent -- seeking answers to the questions: What is the Montessori method? Are its revolutionary ideas about early ch...

Läs mer »

This book is Dr Montessori's exposition of the theory behind her educational techniques. First published in 1912, her method encourages the child to develop a sense of order and logical thought through liberty for the child, complemented by organi...

Läs mer »

An encyclopedia of yoga practices, practical yoga, and the philosophy and background of yoga. Included are three thorough sections on health and energy levels, postures, and a survey of yoga's history.

Läs mer »

The authors recount how they created a lifestyle based on self-reliance, good health, and a minimum of cash.

Läs mer »

With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America's most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are scie...

Läs mer »

This edition, bringing together Volumes One and Two of Buber's classic work, contains marvelous tales - terse, vigorous, often cryptic - of the Hasidic masters.

Läs mer »

A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This...

Läs mer »

Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge.

Läs mer »

In 1939 the influential architect Berthold Lubetkin abruptly left his thriving career in London and dropped out of sight, moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural Gloucestershire. Life in the house the Lubetkins named "World's End&quo...

Läs mer »

A collection of Wiesel's personal essays and landmark speeches, first published by Summit Books in 1990. No bibliography or index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Läs mer »

This engaging and informative book provides an introduction to the liturgy of the Siddur--the Jewish prayerbook. More than a "how-to" guide, this resource deals with basic issues for the modern worshiper, the historial compilation of the...

Läs mer »