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These 5 items are available for $80, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXISR8)

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, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. 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 2008 •  MAP 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. (ISR09, $12.95)

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  •  MapLink    •  A detailed city map of Tel Aviv. (ISR40, $10.95)
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)
Insight Guide Israel  •  Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This lavishly illustrated guide covers the culture, history and attractions of Israel in style. (ISR01, $23.95)
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 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, $27.00)
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 con-flict. (MDE03, $16.95)
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, $27.95)
Judaism, A Very Short Introduction  •  Norman Solomon   • RELIGION  •  Succinctly sketching the history, religious traditions and practice of Judaism. (REL38, $11.95)
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)
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, How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels  •  Thomas Cahill   • HISTORY  •  Cahill brings to life the ancient Hebrews and their contribution to modern life and thought with his usual panache in this second volume on The Making of the Ancient World. (MDE113, $14.95)
The Israel-Arab Reader  •  Barry Rubin  •  Walter Laqueur   • HISTORY  •  This newly revised primer, organized chronologically, 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. (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. (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, $12.95)
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, $15.95)
I Saw Ramallah  •  Mourid Barghouti  •  Edward W. Said  •  Ahdaf Soueif   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An evocative, 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)
Exodus  •  Leon Uris   • LITERATURE  •  A blockbuster novel, this book is mandatory reading for its sweeping overview of Israel and Palestine. (ISR05, $7.99)
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, $28.95)
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. A first-person account accompanies the photographs. (JRD06, $49.95)
Birds of the Middle East  •  R.F. Porter  •  P. Schiermacker-Hansen  •  S. Christensen   • 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. (MDE17, $40.00)