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Hillel: If Not Now, When?

10 best books like Hillel: If Not Now, When? (Joseph Telushkin): I, Claudius, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends, Living a Jewish Life, Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion, Tortilla Flat, The Age of Sustainable Development, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

I, Claudius
AuthorRobert Graves
Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity...
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
AuthorKai Cheng Thom
ISBN0994047134
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
ISBN0316478520
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? Talking to Strangers is all about what happens when we encounter people we...
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0827603665
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Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the...
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
AuthorAnita Diamant
ISBN0805210954
Married to a convert herself, Anita Diamant provides advice and information that can transform the act of conversion into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth.

Here you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, a Hebrew name; how to handle...
Living a Jewish Life
AuthorAnita Diamant
ISBN0062734431
Jewish tradition is a gift and a challenge. "Living a Jewish Life" is your guide to the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism, explained in ways that address the choices posed by modern life. From hanging a mezuzah to celebrating a wedding, from lighting Sabbath candles to choosing a synagogue...
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
AuthorNishta J. Mehra
ISBN1250133564
Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance

Brown, White, Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted son, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed...
Tortilla Flat
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN0582461502
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." -- New York Herald Tribune

Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the...
The Age of Sustainable Development
AuthorJeffrey D. Sachs
ISBN0231173148
Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent...
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
AuthorAdam Winkler
ISBN0871407124
We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation’s earliest days to gain equal rights...
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
AuthorLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Lambda Literary Award finalist

In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate...
M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441014844
Guido and Nunzio may not be the brightest bodyguards in the world - but they certainly are faithful. When Skeeve "the Great" asks them to join the army of Possiltum, the two thugs volunteer without question...
Except: Whose side are they on?
Queen Hemlock's? The Mob's Fairy Godfather's? Skeeve's?...
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
AuthorRichard H. Thaler
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to...
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019
AuthorDavid C. Krakauer
ISBN1947864157
Over the last three decades, the Santa Fe Institute and its network of researchers have been pursuing a revolution in science.

Ignoring the boundaries of disciplines and schools and searching for novel fundamental ideas, theories, and practices, this international community integrates...
Rashi
AuthorElie Wiesel
ISBN0805242546
Part of the Jewish Encounter series

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.

Wiesel brilliantly evokes...
Désorientale
AuthorNégar Djavadi
Si nous étions en Iran, cette salle d’attente d’hôpital ressemblerait à un caravansérail, songe Kimiâ. Un joyeux foutoir où s’enchaîneraient bavardages, confidences et anecdotes en cascade. Née à Téhéran, exilée à Paris depuis ses dix ans, Kimiâ a toujours essayé de tenir...
The Everything Chess Basics Book
AuthorU.S. Chess Federation
If you're looking to learn about the game of chess--and win--The Everything Chess Basics Book provides you with the perfect introduction. Endorsed by the United States Chess Federation, The Everything Chess Basics Book is an authoritative guide that appeals to chess players of all ages and skill....
The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
AuthorTurney Duff
New York Times Bestseller

The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements.  A remarkable writing debut, filled with indelible...
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