Product Description: An ingenious, witty, behind-the-scenes novel about eight hours in the life of an author.A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with a pen or on a computer?) are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him...read more

Tells the story of a boy growing up in a Jewish farming community in Palestine and in Tel Aviv between 1917 and 1930, and describes his discovery of the concrete world around him.

Two short novels, linked by death and destruction. One is the story of a French Count on a crusade to the Holy Land, murdering and burning along the way. The second is the testimony of an elderly lecturer on Russian Jewry. The author's other books include 'My Michael' and 'Where Jackals Howl'.

A profusely illustrated, authoritative, but accessible survey of Jewish history, written by a team of leading historians from Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Britain, ranges from the ancient Middle East to the founding of Israel and beyond. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Features 21 case studies that illustrate commonly used approaches to answer scientific questions in such areas as biology, toxicology, clinical medicine, environmental hazards, agriculture, forestry and wildlife. Examples of statistical methods used in these case studies include linear regression, survival analysis, principle components, design of experiments, resampling and bootstrap...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)