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A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions and, despite the extraordinarily varied forms it has taken and diverse beliefs it has contained over three millennia, it has been generally understood by both Jews and gentiles as a single entity. There have been many histories of t ...Show more
Client Earth by Martin; Thornton, James;Goodman
Category: Science
Ecological disaster across the globe is being averted by the skillful, strategic deployment of idealistic and dogged environmental lawyers enforcing existing laws (and working to improve them). Environmental lawyer James Thornton sees the Earth as his client. The organisation he founded in 2007, ClientE ...Show more
History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
Category: History
Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions and, despite the extraordinarily varied forms it has taken and diverse beliefs it has contained over three millennia, it has been generally understood by both Jews and gentiles as a single entity. There have been many histories of t ...Show more
Josephus's the Jewish War - A Biography by Martin Goodman
Category: Judaica | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes the life of this book, from its com ...Show more
Rome and Jerusalem by Martin Goodman
Category: History
In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus, surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only 80 ye ...Show more
Rome and Jerusalem - The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by Martin Goodman
Category: History
In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus, surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only 80 ye ...Show more
Suffer and Survive by Martin Goodman
Category: Biography Memoir
John Scott Haldane (1860-1936) was one of the greatest and most colourful of British scientists, acknowledged as the leading physiologist of the Victorian era. The most successful serial self-experimenter in the history of science, Haldane crawled through the carnage of underground explosions, locked hi ...Show more
The Apocrypha by Martin Goodman (Editor); John Barton (Editor); John Muddiman (Editor)
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford Bible Commentary Ser.
The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It offers verse-by-verse explanation of every book of the Bible by the world's leading biblical scholars. From its inception, OBC has been desi ...Show more
The Cellist of Dachau by Martin Goodman
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Cellist of Dachau is an acclaimed and "masterful" novel of the Holocaust- the legacy that haunts us, and the music that binds us.In 1938, Otto Schalmik, a 19-year-old musician from a Jewish family in Vienna, is arrested by Nazi police. Transported to Dachau, he is summoned to the home of the camp's ...Show more
The Jewish War by Martin (INT) Martin (TRN); Goodman Josephus; Hammond
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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