The brand new edition of the unrivalled and bestselling annual, Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book.The world's best-selling annual wine guide.Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference bo
Christine Winecki is a Holocaust child survivor. In her book she presents the story of her life, starting with the fond memories of her early childhood in south-eastern Poland, and then taking the rea
Arnold Daghani (1909-1985) was a German-speaking Jew living in Romania who was emprisoned in the Mikhailowka labor camp upon the invasion of the Nazis. An artist, Daghani worked on watercolors while i
European and North American scholars in a wide range of social sciences and humanities gathered in Boston in May 2001 in response to a law suit over one writer calling another a Holocaust denier that
The Board of Deputies is one of British Jewry's finest institutions, a representative body, defending Jewish interests, that has enabled a diverse and sometimes fractured community to speak with a col
In a feminine approach to Holocaust studies, Dublon-Knebel (German history, Tel Aviv U., Israel) presents the product of an Israeli-German team of female historians and sociologists on Jewish inmates
A story of one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and of an underground existence in the non-Jewish part of the city during the Second World War. Based entirely on the authora??s original diar
Kopel Kolpanitzky grew up in Lahwah, Byelorussia. His entire family was murdered in the Lahwah ghetto uprising against the Nazis, except for his father, who had previously been imprisoned by the Sovie
In an exploration of human evolution that includes 225 full-color photos and illustrations and 20 maps, a Cambridge professor explains where human ancestors lived, that they wore and ate, whether they
Despite its coffee-table appearance, this book is an authoritative guide to the world's whiskies and distilleries. The large format provides Broom--an award-winning writer on spirits--with room to sup
Playing with our cats, feeding them, grooming them, training them, even protecting them gives us rich emotional rewards. The continuation of this happy relationship is what this go-to guide is all a
So what if filet mignon and foie gras are no longer on the menu? Diana Henry revives the lost art of home economics-making the most of what you have-combining it with today's desire for a sustainabl
The story of science is often told as a series of flashes of brilliance-those famous eureka moments. But the truth is that rivalry, power, influence and sheer blind chance have played equally signifi
