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  • Response to Modernity

    A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement.The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of the Modern Jew

    Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.Until the 18th century Jews lived in Christian Europe, spiritually and often physically removed form the stream of European culture. During the Enlightenment intellectual Europe accepted a philosophy which, by the universality of its ideals, reached out to embrace the Jew within the greater community of man. The ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rabbi Leo Baeck

    Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Rabbi Leo Baeck

    Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

    The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

    by Michael Meyer ...
    The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Road to Sleeping Dragon

    Learning China from the Ground Up

    by Michael Meyer ...
    From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition.In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Long Ships

    by Frans G. Bengtsson ...
    Translated by Michael Meyer ...
    A beloved Viking saga and masterpiece of historical fiction, The Long Ships is a high spirited adventure that stretches from Scandinavia to Spain, England, Ireland, and beyond.Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson’s hero, Red ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Oxford History Of Mexico

    by William Beezley;Michael Meyer ...
    The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of Mexican history, from religion to technology, ethnicity, ecology and mass media, are analyzed with ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Walden and Civil Disobedience

    by Henry David Thoreau, Michael Meyer ...
    A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movementsCritical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts in 1845. Walden, the account of his stay near Walden Pond, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Union Square Cafe Cookbook

    160 Favorite Recipes from New York's Acclaimed Restaurant

    by Danny Meyer, Michael Romano ...
    The award–winning restaurant offers recipes revealing "what goes into the restaurant's mingling of French, Italian and other cuisines. . . . [I]mpressive" ( Publishers Weekly).Union Square Cafe serves some of the most imaginative, interesting, and tasty food in America. Now its devoted fans can savor the restaurant's marvelous dishes, trademark hospitality, and warm decor at home.Offered are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It Can't Happen Here

    by Sinclair Lewis, Gary Scharnhorst ...
    “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—SalonIt Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.Written during the Great Depression, when the country was ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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