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"This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Ideas cannot be divorced from reality, especially not in the Middle Ages. I present them, therefore, in their contemporary political, social, and cultural context." from the Preface"

Eigentlich führt Lea Blumenthal ein ausgeglichenes Leben ... wenn da nicht die anderen wären. Vor allem die Kratzbürsten und Krawallmacher, mit denen sie sich andauernd konfrontiert sieht. Denn Lea hat ein ausgesprochenes Bedürfnis nach Harmonie. Konflikte und Meinungsverschiedenheiten sind ihr ein Graus, weshalb sie jeder Provokation aus dem Weg geht und weiterlächelt, selbst wenn sie schon längst explodieren will. Bis sie beschließt: Es reicht! Zusammen mit ihrer Psychologinnenfreundin stellt Lea sich der Harmoniesucht und lernt die Mechanismen in ihrem Unterbewusstsein kennen....

Etan Yogev had had no experience in bed--and hardly any outside of it--and it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewhat ambivalent member into her own body, and his lips against her lips. She enjoyed it--this teacherly role--it had been a very long time since she had been able to practice the art of sexual instruction, and there was something exciting and alluring about this--all that innocence in a single place "

A humorous and heartrending portrait of expatriate life, "The Greatest Jewish American...

It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off--when a Constitutional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, when children smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host...

From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible. In the "fascinating" (Booklist, starred review) A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood in backwoods...