A Journey to the End of the Millennium
10 best books like A Journey to the End of the Millennium (A.B. Yehoshua): The House of Rajani, Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse, Homesick, Someone to Run With, Judas, A Pigeon and a Boy, My Michael, Esau, World Cup Wishes, Critical Chain
| Author | Alon Hilu |
| ISBN | 1846552990 |
The year is 1895, Jaffa. Salah Rajani, a troubled Muslim boy living in a dilapidated mansion surrounded by orange groves, suffers from peculiar visions about a disaster which is set to befall his people. His life is changed by the arrival of a handsome young man, a dynamic Jewish settler, new to the city,...
| Author | Ben Schott |
| ISBN | 0316524603 |
What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel, penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott--in which literature's favorite gentleman and his gentleman's personal gentleman become spies in service to the Crown.
The misadventures of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and...
| Author | Eshkol Nevo |
| ISBN | 0701181281 |
This heart-warming, charming and clever first novel dips into the lives of each of the inhabitants of a village in Israel.
It is 1995 and Noa and Amir, a student couple, have decided to move in together. Noa is studying photography in Jerusalem and Amir is a psychology student in Tel Aviv. They...
The story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem are portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.
When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring...
«Amos Oz narra en Judas las grandes preguntas y conflictos de la historia y de la religión en Oriente Próximo».
Judas, el regreso de Amos Oz a la novela, género que no había frecuentado desde Una historia de amor y oscuridad, plantea una audaz y novedosa interpretación de la figura de...
| Author | Meir Shalev |
| ISBN | 0805242511 |
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion. During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted...
| Author | Amos Oz |
| ISBN | 0156031604 |
Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah’s tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage...
Esau is a saga of several generations in a family of bakers spanning the period from World War I and the inception of the British Mandate in Palestine through the mid-seventies in Israel. Patriarch Abraham Levy, the proud descendant of fifteen generations of Sephardic Jews, and his wife, the convert...
| Author | Eshkol Nevo |
| ISBN | 0701184426 |
Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few years, put them away, and during the next final - four years from now - we'll get them out and see how many we've achieved. This is how World Cup Wishes opens, and from here we watch...
| Author | Eliyahu M. Goldratt |
| ISBN | 0884271536 |
This book is really hard to evaluate for me. Probably due to my background in agile software development. I secretly hoped the Critical Chain method to provide logical proof to the agile community's intuitive findings. But it didn't.
Critical Chain covers a few important topics: fallacies...
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
Interviewing is a foundational user research tool that people assume they already possess. Everyone can ask questions, right? Unfortunately, that's not the case. Interviewing Users provides invaluable interviewing techniques and tools that enable you to conduct informative interviews with...
אלכוהוליסטית חסרת כול מובלת בידי שוטרים באישון לילה אל סף ביתה של אחותה, אישה שלמראית עין יש לה הכול. האחות האמידה והמוצלחת משכנת את הסוררת ביחידת דיור בחצרהּ,...
Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories
| Author | Savyon Liebrecht |
| ISBN | 1558612351 |
Savyon Liebrecht’s intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Apples From the Desert brings together Liebrecht’s most vivid and affecting work and makes it available in English for the first time.
With a precision and...
ספרו החדש של הסופר המוערך אלון חילו הוא מותחן היסטורי מסקרן ויוצא דופן, הכתוב ביד־אמן.
זוהי תקופת מאורעות הדמים בארץ ישראל של שנת תרפ"א (1921), ששיאם ברצח...
| Author | Alon Hilu |
| ISBN | 9789655454 |
As Far Away as Possible, a modern fable set in contemporary Israel, breathes life into two characters, both of whom must embark on journeys studded with adventure, uncertainty and tests of an existential nature.
This is an epistolary novel that is both comic and Kafkaesque. On one end of the novel,...
| Author | Keith Johnstone |
| ISBN | 0878301178 |
Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular...
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide
| Author | Leah Buley |
| ISBN | 1933820187 |
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There are plenty of books on user experience, heck there are probably 5 more being written right now. So why should you read Leah Buley's "The User Experience Team of One?" Not only is this a well written book, but Leah also fills a current void in the UX literature,...
