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	Eyewitness Guide Jerusalem & the Holy Land  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of Israel and Western Jordan. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (ISR46, $25.00)
	Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths  •  Karen Armstrong RELIGION •  1997 •  PAPER  • 472 PAGES A popular history of Jerusalem by the author of A History of God. Armstrong tackles big subjects -- and this book is no exception: a comprehensive, concise portrait of the city over the last 5,000 years written with the traveler in mind. She appreciates the unique hold of this sacred city on all three faiths. A member of the Association of Muslim Social Services in Jerusalem, she's a former Roman Catholic nun who teaches Judaism. With site diagrams, maps and some illustrations. (ISR10, $18.00)
	In the Land of Israel  •  Amos Oz CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1993 •  PAPER  • 275 PAGES In this compelling volume first published in 1983, Israeli novelist Amoz Oz interviewed dozens of his fellow countrymen from all walks of life. A passionate, candid and diverse portrait of a people and their hopes, fears and prejudices. (ISR03, $14.00)
	The Israelis, Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land  •  Donna Rosenthal CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2005 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES An entertaining and readable portrait of the cultural, ethnic and religious diversity of the modern Israeli people. While terrorism and relations with Palestine are covered, Rosenthal also focuses on internal conflict and differences in the land, such as those between Ashkenazis and Sephardis, between Israeli Arabs and European Jewish settlers, and between the conservative and the secular. (ISR53, $16.00)
	Israel, Palestine, Holy Land Map  •   Freytag & Berndt GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  MAP  • 1 PAGES This up-to-date map covers Israel, Palestine and the Holy Land in detail at a scale of 1:150,000. It includes a booklet with an index, descriptions of 10 top sights and a street plan of Jerusalem's Old City. One Side. 43x29 inches. (ISR09, $14.95)

	Jerusalem Map  •   Borch Maps    •  A fold-out street map of Jerusalem, with an inset of the old city in more detail. (ISR13, $7.95)
	Tel Aviv Map  •   MAPA Publishers   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This frequently updated, detailed city map of Tel Aviv includes a guide to the sights on the reverse. (ISR40, $12.95)
	Bradt Guide Israel  •  Samantha Wilson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide in the excellent series, noteworthy for its focus on culture, nature and responsible travel. (ISR67, $25.99)
	Fodor's Exploring Israel  •  Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this book is an excellent overview of Israel and its attractions for visitors. (ISR49, $22.00)
	Hebrew, A Language Map  •  Kristine K. Kershul   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (ISR48, $7.95)
	Insight Guide Israel  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This lavishly illustrated guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions. (ISR01, $23.99)
	Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Travel Pack  •  Sue Bryant   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This pocket guide to the Tel Aviv & Jerusalem includes an excellent full-color pull-out map. (ISR77, $14.95)
	The Holy Land, An Oxford Archaeological Guide  •  Jerome Murphy O'Connor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Half of this indispensable, authoritative guide is devoted to the Roman temples, Byzantine synagogues and other monuments -- Christian, Jewish and Muslim -- of Jerusalem itself. (ISR12, $37.95)
	The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands  •   Jotischy, Andrew  •  Caroline Hull   • REFERENCE  •  This concise survey shows the relationship between the books of the Bible and the land from which they came through detailed maps, a timeline and essays on topics ranging from the alphabet and Dead Sea Scrolls to the current struggles between the Israelis and Palestinians. (MDE171, $20.00)
	The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict  •  Martin Gilbert   • REFERENCE  •  With chapters on the Jewish national home, the state of Israel, the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars and the struggle to reach a settlement since Camp David. With 204 maps. (MDE160, $29.95)
	A History of Modern Israel  •  Colin Shindler   • HISTORY  •  Shindler charts the tumultuous foundation and course of the modern state of Israel over the last 60 years in this balanced and lucid account. (ISR65, $23.99)
	Aliya, Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel  •  Liel Leibovitz   • RELIGION  •  A well-researched and deeply personal examination of the spiritual and psychological motivations of American Jews who immigrate to Israel. (ISR55, $14.95)
	From Beirut to Jerusalem  •  Thomas Friedman   • HISTORY  •  An illuminating and heartfelt exploration of the complex Middle East. Pulitzer Prize winner Friedman provides a personal and a scholarly perspective on the roots of the conflict. (MDE03, $17.00)
	Homeland, The Illustrated History of the State of Israel  •  Marv Wolfman   • HISTORY  •  Depicting the history of Israel from biblical Abraham to the present, this sophisticated, four-color graphic adaptation is academically grounded, guiding readers through highlights in historical detail and from Israel's world view. (ISR59, $21.95)
	In the Footsteps of Abraham, The Holy Land in Hand-painted Photographs  •  Helen Speelman  •  Richard Hardiman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  These 174 hand-tinted lantern slides show the cities, monuments and landscapes of the Holy Land before the advent of modern tourism. (ISR71, $65.00)
	Jerusalem, City of Longing  •  Simon Goldhill   • HISTORY  •  Goldhill focuses on Jerusalem as a living city, organizing the book into seven walking tours, one for each day of the week - although, as he reminds the reader, "in Jerusalem everyone will encourage you to take the Sabbath off." (ISR63, $18.95)
	Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography  •  John Dominic Crossan   • HISTORY  •  With sweep and authority Crossan depicts the revolutionary Jesus of history and the gospels, distilling a lifetime of scholarship. (ISR33, $14.99)
	Judaism, A Very Short Introduction  •  Norman Solomon   • RELIGION  •  Succinctly sketching the history, religious traditions and practice of Judaism. (REL38, $11.95)
	Life in Year One, What the World Was Like in First-century Palestine  •  Scott Korb   • HISTORY  •  With humor and chutzpah, Scott Korb conures daily life in the Holy Land in this short, wittily annotated history. With chapters in money, home, food, hygeine, religion, war and death, the book conludes with a piercing account of Korb's travels from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. (MDE182, $25.95)
	O Jerusalem  •  Dominique Lapierre  •  Larry Collins   • HISTORY  •  A new edition of the dramatic history of the siege of Jerusalem during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, as told through the personal stories of Jews, Arabs and Brits. (ISR11, $18.00)
	Raid On The Sun, Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb  •  Rodger W. Claire   • HISTORY  •  Based on interviews with surviving pilots and planners, this is a fast-paced of Operation Babylon, the 1981 Israeli air strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor. (ISR54, $15.95)
	Scars of War, Wounds of Peace, The Israeli-Arab Tragedy  •  Shlomo Ben-Ami   • HISTORY  •  Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, traces the twists and turns of the Middle East conflict from the founding of Israel to the present. (MDE145, $16.95)
	The Access Bible, New Revised Standard Version  •  Gail R. O'Day  •  David Peterson   • RELIGION  •  For those who'd like to take a bible along on a trip to the Holy Land, this is an excellent choice. (ISR26, $42.99)
	The Amos Oz Reader  •  Amos Oz  •  Mitza Ben-Dov   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Divided into four sections including the kibbutz, Jerusalem, "In the Promised Land" and autobiography, this choice anthology includes excerpts from both Oz's novels and nonfiction. (ISR73, $16.00)
	The Case for Israel  •  Alan M. Dershowitz   • HISTORY  •  A prominent defense attorney, Dershowitz uses the form of a legal brief for this confrontational survey of the politics and policies of Israel. (ISR56, $12.95)
	The Gifts of the Jews  •  Thomas Cahill   • HISTORY  •  Cahill brings to life the ancient Hebrews and their contribution to modern life and thought in this second volume on The Making of the Ancient World. (MDE113, $16.00)
	The Israel-Arab Reader  •  Barry Rubin  •  Walter Laqueur   • HISTORY  •  Organized chronologically, this newly revised primer includes speeches, letters, articles, timelines and reports dealing with the continuing conflict in the Middle East. (ISR62, $18.00)
	The Story of Israel  •  Martin Gilbert   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A commemorative slipcased edition of Gilbert's balanced, authoritative and marvelously well illustrated chronicle of the nation of Israel. (ISR66, $45.00)
	Walking the Bible, A Photographic Journey  •  Bruce Feiler   • RELIGION  •  Color photographs and accompanying vignettes capture the people and places of Feiler's remarkable odyssey through the biblical lands of Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Turkey. (MDE94, $32.50)
	Israel, Past and Present  •  D. Bahat   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Ingenious overlaid illustrations on acetate show Holy Land sites and monuments as they look today and as they did when they were first constructed in antiquity. (ISR44, $22.50)
	A Tale of Love and Darkness  •  Amos Oz   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A family saga and portrait, Oz writes of growing up in Jerusalem in the 1940s, his family's origins and his life as a novelist and commentator. Big in scope, A Tale of Love and Darkness is, in part, the story of Israel and its people. (ISR45, $16.00)
	Abraham, A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Feiler mixes travel, history and faith, focusing on the historical Abraham as the father of Judaism, Islam and Christianity. (MDE79, $12.99)
	God, A Biography  •  Jack Miles   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner in the category of biography -- and a biography it is: a marvelous, demanding and risky look at the development of God (the man and the idea). (ISR18, $16.00)
	I Saw Ramallah  •  Mourid Barghouti  •  Edward W. Said  •  Ahdaf Soueif   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An evocative and powerful memoir, focused on the author's return to the West Bank after 30 years, a place utterly changed and still at the center of the devastating conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. (MDE73, $12.95)
	Israel Through My Lens, Sixty Years as a Photojournalist  •  David Rubinger   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The compelling autobiography of Israel's preeminent photojournalist, illustrated with his most memorable images. With 129 illustrations, 46 in full color. (ISR64, $35.00)
	The Holocaust Is Over, We Must Rise from Its Ashes  •  Avraham Burg   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The son of Holocaust survivors, the former speaker of the Knesset draws on his own family history to inform his views on how the Jewish people can live in peace and security. (ISR78, $16.00)
	Israel, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Michael Gluzman  •  Naomi Seidman   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A diverse collection of modern stories, mostly fiction, by Israel's very best writers. The editors have chosen provocative pieces for this short book that reflect the cultural diversity of modern Israel, secular and religious, Jewish and Arab. (ISR06, $14.95)
	Exodus  •  Leon Uris   • LITERATURE  •  A blockbuster novel, this book is mandatory reading for its sweeping overview of Israel and Palestine. (ISR05, $7.99)
	Mornings in Jenin  •  Susan Abulhawa   • LITERATURE  •  This family saga, drawing on the author's own experiences and history, follows four generations of a Palestinian family who lost their home in 1948 with the creation of Israel. (MDE186, $15.00)
	Once Upon a Country, A Palestinian Life  •  Sari Nusseibeh   • LITERATURE  •  The Palestinian leader and scholar offers a close-up and sympathetic account of the troubling recent history of the region. (MDE144, $16.00)
	Only Yesterday  •  Shmuel Yosef Agnon   • LITERATURE  •  Israeli Nobel Laureate Agnon's masterpiece here appears in English translation. First published in 1945, the novel tells of a man who immigrates to Palestine at the beginning of the century, when many Jewish idealists were returning to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times. (MDE139, $29.95)
	The Book of Abraham  •  Marek Halter   • LITERATURE  •  Widely celebrated, this riveting family saga traces the tumultuous history of a scroll through 19 centuries of European Jewish history. (ISR52, $14.95)
	In a Desert Land, Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan  •  Neil Folberg   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A stunning collection of photographs of the desert Middle East, including the Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem. (JRD06, $49.95)
	Birds of the Middle East  •  R.F. Porter  •  P. Schiermacker-Hansen  •  S. Christensen   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  An outstanding guide to 700 species of the birds in the region from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Cyprus. Second edition (MDE17, $39.50)

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