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The Talmud: A Selection by Norman Solomon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in its importance to Judaism. As the Bible is the word of God, The Talmud applies that word to the... -
The A to Z of Judaism by Norman Solomon 9780810855557
Booksplease Price: £51.50Judaism, the religion of the Jewish people, is one of the first recorded monotheistic religions, and as such is one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. While its influences can... -
Making Sense of "God" by Norman Solomon 9781666761443
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666761443Author Norman SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Judaism: A Very Short Introduction by Norman Solomon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.35Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of those with the Jewish faith, Solomon explores... -
Judaism and World Religion by Norman Solomon 9781349120710
Booksplease Price: £46.28A text which draws on traditional sources, mainly but not exclusively Jewish, to address contemporary issues, ranging from conservation of the environment, through to business and commercial ethics,... -
Making Sense of "God" by Norman Solomon 9781666761450
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £34.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666761450Author Norman SolomonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Judaism: A Very Short Introduction Norman Solomon 9780198930471
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring How has Judaism changed since the days of the Bible? What sects and divisions does it have, and how does it respond to the challenges of... -
Torah from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Faith Norman Solomon 9781786940858
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.19Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one with which the author has struggled all his life:... -
Torah from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Faith by Norman Solomon 9781906764135
Booksplease Price: £44.28Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one with which the author has struggled all his life:... -
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death by Norman Solomon
Booksplease Price: £13.14War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key ""perception management"" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades... -
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.43An unflinching expose of the hidden costs of American war-making written with "an immense and rare humanity" (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts"[War Made Invisible is] an antidote... -
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death by Norman Solomon 9780471694793
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.57War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key ""perception management"" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades... -
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine Norman Solomon 9781620979167
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88With a new preface by the author on the Gaza war An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier... -
Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower by Jeffrey Sterling
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60In May 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act by revealing details about Operation Merlin (a covert operation that... -
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews': Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century by Tony Kushner 9781138253988
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of... -
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam by Anton M. Pazos
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Pilgrimages can be analysed as acts of conflict - such as the Crusades - or also as platforms for relationship building and rapprochement between religions. With a set of contributions from leading... -
Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War by Miriam Pemberton
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions... -
Flaming Creatures and Other Secret-flix of Cinemaroc by Jack Smith 9781887123525
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.63Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and... -
Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate by Howie Hawkins 9781931859301
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo, David Cobb, Sharon Smith, Norman Solomon and other Green Party members and allies ask: can we break the two-party stranglehold on US politics? and debate strategy for how... -
Jewish Folk Tales in Britain and Ireland Liz Berg 9781803999647
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87In this book of folk tales, Liz Berg shares Jewish memories: authentic tales, songs and jokes told by Jews in Britain and Ireland. Some stories moved from place to place, changing and adapting to new... -
Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin Ira Chernus 9781594512766
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89"This book takes an incisive look at the stories we are told -- and tell ourselves -- about evil forces and American responses. Chernus pushes beyond political rhetoric and media cliches to examine... -
A Blogger's Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in a Digital World by Erik Ringmar 9781843312888
Booksplease Price: £9.59There was never such a thing as true freedom of speech. In the past, in order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspaper, a radio or a TV station. Until now. The age of... -
Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation by David Enders 9780472031696
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.54"David Enders has a stunning independent streak and the courage to trust his own perceptions as he reports from outside the bubble Americans have created for themselves in Iraq."---Joe Sacco, author... -
Ernest Bloch Studies by Alexander Knapp 9781108792622
Booksplease Price: £32.42Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and... -
Ernest Bloch Studies by Alexander Knapp 9781107039094
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £92.64Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and... -
John Ryan's Express: One of the UK's Largest O Gauge Layouts by John Ryan 9781912101498
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53John Ryan's model railway at Over Peover, Cheshire is a story on continual development. He first became interested in model railways at the age of five when his father took him to see A4s, A2s and... -
The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend by Saul Landau
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of... -
Hollywood's Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis by Benjamin Frymer 9780230621992
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.77This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to... -
Hollywood's Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis by Benjamin Frymer 9780230623590
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £27.80This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to... -
Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah by David J. Halperin 9781906764241
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £18.14Sabbatai Zevi (1626-76) stirred up the Jewish world of the mid-seventeenth century by claiming to be the messiah, then stunned it by suddenly converting to Islam. His story, and that of the movement... -
Origins of the Warfare State: World War II and the Transformation of American Politics by Carl Boggs
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The post-World War II emergence of a full-blown state of perpetual war is arguably the most important feature of contemporary American politics. This book examines the "warfare state" in terms of a... -
Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Louis Jacobs 9781904113119
RRP: £25.85Booksplease Price: £24.92More than forty years have passed since Louis Jacobs first put forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical... -
Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity by Robert Jensen 9780872864320
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78As we approach the elections of 2004, U.S. progressives are faced with the challenge of how to confront our unresponsive and apparently untouchable power structures. With millions of antiwar... -
Religion and Creation by Keith Ward 9780198263937
Booksplease Price: £73.63This book is the second part of a major project of comparative theology begun with Religion and Revelation (Clarendon Press, 1994), which looks at major concepts of faith in all four of the main... -
Raritan on War: An Anthology Jackson Lears 9781978841611
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £45.70We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the... -
Jewish Identities in the New Europe by Jonathan Webber
RRP: £31.35Booksplease Price: £20.66How do the Jews of Post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe-east and west-regard themselves? Do they perceive themselves as a religious minority, an ethnic group, or simply as ordinary members of the... -
War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire... -
Raritan on War: An Anthology Jackson Lears 9781978841604
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.24We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the... -
Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile by Adi Ophir 9780198744900
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £113.44Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the... -
The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran and What's Wrong with U.S. Policy Reese Erlich 9781138599062
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Based on frequent, first-hand reporting in Iran and the United States, The Iran Agenda Today explores the turbulent recent history between the two countries and reveals how it has led to a misguided...