BOOKS 2024 #דביר

On the surprising power of game theory to explain human behavior. Why are we the way we are? Read 'The Human Game' and you will understand that there is a formula that explains why. If you understand the formula, you will understand yourself.

Award-winning British Jewish journalist and best-selling author Jonathan Friedland tells the unbelievable story of Rudolf Verba, the man who escaped Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear.

History is not just the story of leaders, famous people, wars, inventions or extraordinary events. History is also and above all the story of all of us: everything that happened to women and men, girls and ordinary children. Each episode tells a story about a boy or girl in a different time and in a different place in the world, from ancient times to today.

At the beginning of the 20th century, it seemed that the Western world was marching safely into a better future: the economy flourished, the buds of the welfare state appeared, and hundreds of years of struggle for freedom seemingly heralded the victory of liberal democracy. But then the First World War broke out, which changed the face of Europe.

In his rhythmic rush from piece to piece, Brecht solves the mystery of Four Alice and several other mysteries connected to Beethoven's favorites. And he follows the strange incarnations of masterpieces. And he reports on Beethoven's relations with patrons and with performers. and about concerts that ended in stormy drama.

Kerem Shalom of the 1970s, a small green island of land workers and peace seekers on the Rafah border in the Western Negev, has long since disappeared. Its people, kibbutz members and Tel Aviv high school graduates who tried to go against the flow in Israeli society, have not lived there for many years. Only her memory as a legend of the desert left continues to live after her and lights sparks in the eyes of those who think it is possible otherwise

Nurit Gertz, who created a new version of a novel (the last two: 'The Sea Between You' and 'What's Lost in Time, a Biography of Friendship') here rewrites Oedipus the King and extracts from it, with courage, sensitivity and clear sobriety, the story of our time and the story her own intimate.