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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $83, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXISR8)		  
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)		   Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
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, $14.95)		   In the Land of Israel
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)		   The Israelis, Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
Eyewitness Guide Jerusalem: Israel, Petra & Sinai  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES
This compact, gorgeously illustrated guide provides a thorough overview of Israel and Western Jordan, including Petra, Wadi Rum and Amman. (ISR46, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Jerusalem: Israel, Petra & Sinai
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)		   Israel, Palestine, Holy Land Map



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Jerusalem Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A fold-out street map with an inset of the old city in more detail. (ISR13, $8.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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 maps and short essays on history, culture and attractions. (ISR01, $23.99)
 		  
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  •  From the earliest hunter-gatherers to modern Jerusalem, this concise pictorial atlas traces this most complex history in maps and essays. (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, $25.99)
 		  
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, $15.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, Caught in Time  •  Colin Osman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  These well chosen photographs taken between the mid-nineteenth century and World War I, illuminate not just holy places but also archaeological digs, landscapes, architecture and life in the city. (ISR97, $34.95)
 		  
Jerusalem, City of Longing  •  Simon Goldhill   • HISTORY  •  Goldhill shows the layered, multi-religious history of the city through its architecture, organizing his exhilarating guide into a series of seven walking tours (each with map). (ISR63, $19.95)
 		  
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, $15.00)
 		  
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 account of Operation Babylon, the 1981 Israeli air strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor. (ISR54, $15.99)
 		  
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  •  This choice anthology includes excerpts from Oz's celebrated novels and nonfiction. (ISR73, $15.95)
 		  
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 Hebrew Republic, How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last  •  Bernard Avishai   • HISTORY  •  Avishai, a political economist and gifted writer who has spent many years in Israel, argues that secular democracy and new global enterprises hold the key to transforming the nation's future for the better. (ISR102, $26.00)
 		  
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  •  Starting with the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, Gilbert takes the story of Israel up to the first decade of the 21st Century. With 350 photographs, 14 color maps, and 40 facsimile documents (letter, posters, diaries), many of which pull out and unfold to their original size. (ISR66, $34.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
What is a Palestine State Worth?  •  Sari Nusseibeh   • HISTORY  •  The president of and a professor at Al-Quds University, the Arab University of Jerusalem, philosopher and former PLO representative in Jerusalem, Nusseibeh offers a tentative way out of the 60-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict. (MDE195, $19.95)
 		  
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, $25.00)
 		  
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, $16.95)
 		  
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, $14.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Walking Israel  •  Martin Fletcher   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  NBC correspondent in Tel Aviv for three decades, Fletcher breaks from daily headlines for this joyful account of a two-week trek, capturing the cultural diversity, humanity, history and spirit of seaside communities from Lebanon to Gaza along what he calls "the most fascinating, action-packed 100 miles in the world." (ISR94, $15.99)
 		  
Exodus  •  Leon Uris   • LITERATURE  •  A blockbuster novel, this book is mandatory reading for its sweeping overview of Israel and Palestine. (ISR05, $7.99)
 		  
Israel, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Michael Gluzman   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Organized geographically, these 16 stories by celebrated contemporary writers including Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua and David Grossman reflect the cultural diversity of modern Israel. (ISR06, $14.95)
 		  
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, $17.00)
 		  
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, $45.00)
 		  
To the End of the Land  •  David Grossman   • LITERATURE  •  Grossman's haunting novel follows an Israeli mother as she walks across Israel to Galilee to avoid the "notifiers" who might arrive with news of her son's death in a military offensive against the Palestinians. (ISR95, $15.95)
 		  
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  •  Richard Porter  •  Simon Aspinall   • FIELD GUIDE  •  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, $39.95)
 		  
 
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