This six-volume 'portrait of a Mediterranean personality' is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a 'marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts' into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them.
It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century.
Volume I, subtitled Economic Foundations, gives an overview of the Mediterranean (history, peoples, culture) during the high middle ages; discusses the working class; the business world, and government's role in commerce; and provides a complete description of travel and seafaring.

A novel based on the author's personal experiences tells the story of crooks who prey on the ghetto poor.

This six-volume 'portrait of a Mediterranean personality' is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a 'marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts' into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them.
It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century.
Volume III, subtitled The Family, reveals the Mediterranean family--the extended family, marriage (rituals, economics, social and cultural safeguards), the Mediterranean household, widowhood, divorce, remarriage, and the world of women.

A come Aquila, B come Bottone, C come Cavalieri, D come... Un abbecedario un po' speciale, un'introduzione all'arte, un piccolo museo. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.

Ben pochi si sono dichiarati a favore della guerra, quasi nessuno si è proclamato amante della guerra, ma tutti sembrano desiderare ciò che solo con la guerra possono ottenere. Quando a Bismarck chiesero se, allora, voleva la guerra, rispose: 'Ovviamente no. Voglio la vittoria!'. Molti capi politici vogliono lo stabilirsi di una pace gravata da vergognose ingiustizie, preferendo entrare nelle Nazioni altrui a poco a poco, senza incontrare resistenza. Da questa paradossale confusione dei valori, dalla loro deformazione e commercializzazione prende avvio il presente volume, per tentare un più sottile discernimento, per cercare di tenere assieme le dimensioni della lucidità disincantata e della passione, che ci fa innamorati delle opere della pace. Questo libro prova a sfatare il mito del primato della guerra e della violenza, mostrandone le connessioni con quell'Occidente che, dall'Iliade alla Guerra del Golfo, da Achille a G. Bush, ha affermato, con ossessiva coerenza, la decisività della forza e, alla bilancia della forza, la decisività della propria potenza. Dall'Occidente si distingue il miglior spirito europeo, giudicato ancora capace di percepire le grandi sfide storiche: non l'Europa soffocata dal costume mercantile, nella quale solo le scogliere di Dover sembrano non ancora in vendita, ma l'Europa dell'Umanesimo dell'altro uomo e della convergenza nella diversità: la 'patria delle differenze' che ha messo in evidenza De Rougemont. In colloquio fitto con pensatori appassionati ed influenti (tra gli altri, S. Agostino, Pascal e Dostoevskij), si profila la singolare prop

Scritto per partecipare a un concorso indetto nel 1787 dall'Accademia di Metz sul tema 'Come rendere gli ebrei più felici e più utili in Francia', questo saggio rappresenta un momento fondamentale di quel percorso che porterà nel 1791 l'Assemblea Nazionale francese a riconoscere i diritti di cittadinanza degli ebrei francesi. In esso trovano espressione, in una chiave di riforma illuministica, molti motivi della riflessione sulla 'questione ebraica' in epoca moderna. Accompagnato da un saggio che ricostruisce, attraverso una ricca messe di documenti, l'atteggiamento della Francia rivoluzionaria verso gli ebrei, il testo di Gégoire rappresenta un documento storico di straordinario valore.

Highlights the wildest and most exciting events on the planet and looks at travel in a brand-new way.

With the help of football star Elliot Stone, Kenyatta concentrates his army's forces on ridding the black community of rampant drug traffic.

This marks the first appearance in trade paperback of any book by a writer who is a star in inner cities and whose novels have sold an incredible five million copies. Goines was never more hard-boiled than he is here, in this almost Shakespearean revenge fantasy about a hitman whose icy heart melts when his beloved daughter is lured astray by a smooth-talking pimp. Rave praise for the Old School Books Series: 'One of the most exciting literary revival series since the rediscovery of Jim Thompson's novels...' --Digby Diehl, Playboy 'If you can't get enough of Shaft, Foxy Brown (the original one) or Dolemite, then check Old School Books' new series of pulp novels featuring the boldest African-American authors of our time. These new cultural artifacts are fast-paced and hard. They take the brutality and ruin of the urban Black landscape and transform them into art. Each character in the series is searching for 'old school' wisdom and never loses sight of the racial, political, and emotional context from which they came.'--The Source 'My endorsement of Old School Books is a hundred percent. This is the kind of publishing program that shows serious readers that publishing can still be more than just a business. This is a cultural service of the highest order. W.W. Norton and Company deserves a standing ovation. Congratulations.'--Clarence Major, University of California, Davis 'Glad to see that at least one publisher isn't afflicted with the bottom-line fever, the republishing of these old time classics proves that Norton is devoted to quality publishing. I'm especially glad to see John A. Williams' The Angry Ones used. It's as fresh as the day it was written.'--Ishmael Reed, University of California, Berkeley 'As of late, members of the pulp pantheon are finding themselves being revised by Hollywood, scrutinized by serious academics, and canonized by the Library of America, though they never completely went out of fashion. But a little-known subgenre of pulp that faded from public view will soon be getting its second chance when Norton's Old School Books, a series of paperback reprint by black pulp novelists, hit bookstores.'--Village Voice Literary Supplement

African-American hit man Daddy Cool tries to protect the only person he loves--his daughter, Janet--when a cunning pimp lures her into his stable.