From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
10 best books like From the Maccabees to the Mishnah (Shaye J.D. Cohen): Heads of the Colored People, The Orphan Master's Son, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales
Heads of the Colored People
| Author | Nafissa Thompson-Spires |
| ISBN | 1501167995 |
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.
A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity...
| Author | Adam Johnson |
| ISBN | 0812992792 |
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0394720245 |
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
| Author | David Graeber |
| ISBN | 1933633867 |
Before there was money, there was debt
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.
Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things...
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
| Author | Jeff Speck |
| ISBN | 0374285810 |
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical...
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
| Author | Zephyr Teachout |
| ISBN | 0674050401 |
When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological ways. This broad understanding...
| Author | Adina Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0805242589 |
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove...
| Author | Ruth Calderon |
| ISBN | 0827612095 |
Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions,...
The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus' Genius
| Author | David Flusser |
| ISBN | 0802825877 |
Introduction by James H. Charlesworth
This new edition of David Flusser's classic study of the historical Jesus, revised and updated by his student and colleague R. Steven Notley, will be welcomed everywhere by students and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism. Reflecting Flusser's...
| Author | Robert L. Hubbard Jr. |
| ISBN | 0802825265 |
This thorough commentary mines recent research to give the Book of Ruth's literary, grammatical, and theological dimensions a rigorous treatment. Hubbard pays particular attention to the skillful literary devices and unique theological perspective of Ruth, using them to propose a new date and...
GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
| Author | Deborah Dash Moore |
| ISBN | 0674021029 |
Whether they came from Sioux Falls or the Bronx, over half a million Jews entered the U.S. armed forces during the Second World War. Uprooted from their working- and middle-class neighborhoods, they joined every branch of the military and saw action on all fronts. Deborah Dash Moore offers an unprecedented...
Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
| Author | Paul D. Tieger |
| ISBN | 0316880655 |
Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century
Now updated for today's hottest jobs--including telecommunications, biotechnology, and health care professional--this bestselling career guide shows people how to determine their personality type, and then explains...
Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
| Author | Ben Reiter |
| ISBN | 0525576649 |
When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment,...
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands
| Author | Charles Moore |
| ISBN | 0307958949 |
Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.
Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher, published...
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
| Author | Matt Stoller |
| ISBN | 1501183087 |
A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party—while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy.
Americans once had a coherent...
The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself
| Author | David Bushnell |
| ISBN | 0520082893 |
Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It...
