“Riveting . . . Well-written and highly compelling."—Wall Street Journal“Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and despair.”—Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Levin was in his New York office when he got a call from an acquaintance...

"David Ben-Gurion: A Life for Israel" is a sweeping, intimate, and deeply human fictionalized narrative biography of one of the most iconic figures in modern Jewish history.Told in Ben-Gurion's own imagined voice, this literary journey traces the life of Israel's founding father from the dusty streets of Plonsk to the desert sands of Sde Boker. Along the way, it captures not only the political battles and historic decisions that shaped the State of Israel, but also...

The zen mind is the beginner’s mind, which sees everything as if for the first time. It is in this zen mind that realization comes. People sit for many years in meditation to find that suddenly in hearing something again for the first time, they’re lifted to a state of understanding that’s far beyond anything they’ve ever experienced. This is why the sayings in this book were written. They’re not meant to teach, but rather to remind you of things you already know.

The Holocaust: A Concise HistoryBy Daniel LevinThe Holocaust is often remembered through images of camps, gas chambers, and mass graves-scenes so overwhelming they can feel detached from ordinary history. This distance, while understandable, obscures a crucial truth: the Holocaust did not erupt suddenly or irrationally. It unfolded through a process.The Holocaust: A Concise History offers a clear, disciplined account of how genocide became possible in the heart of m...

**“Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and despair.”—Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow“In laying bare the raw human toll of the ferocious and cruel Syrian conflict, Proof of Life asks the reader to make a choice between cynicism and compassion.”—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, New York Time...

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—SalonThe inspiration for the Hulu docuseries Stolen Youth, directed by Zach Heinzerling and co-produced by Daniel Barban LevinIn September 2010, at the be...

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—SalonThe inspiration for the Hulu docuseries Stolen Youth, directed by Zach Heinzerling and co-produced by Daniel Barban LevinIn September 2010, at the be...

New York Times Editors’ Choice“A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence.”—The New York TimesBuried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family’s farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an a...

In 2015, the Argentinian novelist Eduardo Berti spent several weeks in a “medico-literary” residency at the University Hospital Centre in Rouen, France, observing and conversing with the staff and volunteers of its palliative care department. From that experience he created this series of lightly fictionalized testimonials from nurses, nursing aides, doctors, administrators, porters, volunteer musicians, and the other people who make the unit tick. The result is a distinctly intimate and o...

The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the church and political structures. Exploring areas from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Chile, the authors analyze the transformation in popular religion and reevaluate the growth of grassroots organizations.

Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I,"...

This book surveys the legal issues confronting courts as they decide school desegregation cases, and the extent to which social science research has been brought to bear on those issues. It examines the relationship between school segregation and residential segregation.