Goldstein: 669 books
Wines of South America
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The most comprehensive guide to the wines of the entire continent, Wines of South America introduces readers to the astounding quality and variety of wines that until recently have been enjoyed, for the most part, only locally. Master Sommelier Evan Goldstein leads wine enthusiasts on an exciting...
by Alexander Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Image thinking is a phenomenon when a concrete image intimates an abstract notion or viewpoint to express. In the sense, the term ‘image’ supposes the figurative imagery and its explanation, as well as an imaginative significance and its associations. To explain the image we use language while...
What to Do to Retire Successfully
Navigating Psychological, Financial and Lifestyle Hurdles
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Seventy-seven million baby boomers are slated to retire over the next twenty years: this boils down to approximately 10,000 daily (The Fiscal Times). Many are inadequately prepared, emotionally as well as financially. In What to Do to Retire Successfully, Goldstein lays out a step-by-step approach to...
Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original....
Janesville
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * **Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ***800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best...
Poetry Los Angeles
Reading the Essential Poems of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about...
On Middle Ground
A History of the Jews of Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick’s Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought...
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund
A Memoir of Interwar Poland
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different...
by Donald M. Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the...
Travellers in Magic
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Fifteen stories of ordinary lives that take fantastic turns
Robert never quite feels at home with Cassie’s family, a gang of eccentrics including a reptile smuggler, a worshipper of Osiris, and an old woman who believes her photographs can see into the future. When he breaks up with Cassie,...
The Stars Bear Witness
An organizer of Jewish resistance in Warsaw, and one of its few survivors, tells of five years of epic heroism, pursuit, and miraculous escape
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bernard Goldstein was a prominent Polish socialist, union organizer and Bund leader in the pivotal years of 1920 and 1921. He became active as a leader of the Jewish resistance movement in German-occupied Poland, eventually playing a critical role on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Bernard was born...
Alley-Oop to Aliyah
African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Every season, dozens of African American basketball players pack up their sneakers to play and live in Israel. They eat Israeli food, navigate Israeli hustle and bustle, experience cultural and religious customs in the world’s only Jewish country, and voluntarily expose themselves to the omnipresent...
7 Treasures of Awakening
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Among the Buddha's many teachings, his instruction on the Seven Factors of Awakening stands alone for the cumulative benefits it makes available to us. When we are firmly established in mindfulness, the Buddha explained, these seven "treasures" serve to steer the mind away from delusion...
ReVisions
Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2001
What does it mean to re-vision Torah? "I use the title ReVisions for this book because I want readers both to revise―in the classic definition of reexamine and alter―and to see the text anew, to have a new vision, a 'revision,' of Torah.... It begins with the notion that women see the text...