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A remarkable feat--clear, compelling and accessible--.Critical background for any appreciation of the Jewishstate.-- The New York Times Book Review With his characteristic grace and lucidity, Howard M. Sachar,renowned author of thirteen earlier books on Middle Eastern andJewish history, brings to life the complex and dramatic story ofthe friendships and fallings-out between Israel and the variousEuropean powers over the last half-century. Dr. Sachar chronicles the always uneasy relationship between Israeland Great Britain; its early love-affair and nasty break-up withFrance; the shifting Soviet policies toward Israel; and theunlikely emergence of Germany as the new nation's chief Europeanbenefactor. A master of historical narrative, Sachar once againenlightens us with fine scholarship, insightful analysis, and anunerring knowledge of human--and national--motivations.
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renownedscholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent ofwritten records–the overwhelming majority of our time here onearth–and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of thepast, and of how scholars and scientists labor to bring it tolight. Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline,detailing how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNAanalysis have helped us to define humankind’s past–how things havechanged–much more clearly than was possible just a half centuryago. As for why things have changed, Renfrew pinpoints some of theissues and challenges, past and present, that confront the study ofprehistory and its investigators. Renfrew then offers a summary ofhuman prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literatecivilization that is refreshingly free of conventional wisdom andgrand “unified” theories. In this invaluable account, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulouslyresearched and
