BOOKS 2024 #הוצאת פרדס

Vanessa Nakata, a groundbreaking climate activist from Uganda, brings a refreshingly direct perspective to the urgent global discourse on the climate crisis. Nakata chronicles her personal journey from a lone protester in Kampala to becoming a leading voice in the fight for climate justice on the world stage.

A biographical novel written in the first person, from the protagonist's perspective. It is based on obsessive research that has lasted 40 years, since the author - a writer and art therapist - discovered the drawings of children from the Theresienstadt ghetto and their amazing teacher.

A book that reveals for the first time the secrets of the art of storytellers and even strives to improve and perfect skills related to interpersonal communication. Yossi Alfi, Israel's national storyteller, who turned this art into a profession and the profession into an art in itself, leads readers into the rooms of the rooms at the heart of the story and the narrator.

A web of stories, linked together by delicate lines of drawings, functioning as literary images and reinterpreted in each plot line. The book won first prize in the Hari Harshon Literary Competition at the Hebrew University.

Materials from Handel's literary estate, which have not yet been the subject of scholarly research, are revealed here for the first time, leading to surprising discoveries and new insights into Handel and her work. The estate materials include, among other things, a hidden novella, which is widely studied in the book, and an autobiographical text on which Handel worked during the last decade of her life.

This is the second volume in Serena's Portuguese trilogy, following 'A House in Portugal', the bestseller that described the process of building his own home in a small village in the northernmost province of Portugal. This book is a vertical journey, diving into the depths of Portuguese life, through the antiques and broken objects shop of Za Paulo. A character of Zorba the Portuguese.

A personal, sad and funny memoir by an ordinary Israeli, who, by necessity, plunged into one of the most fascinating chapters in modern history – the collapse of the Soviet Empire at the end of the last century and the beginning of the current one.

In the autobiography before you, Morkus writes about a collective memory for his people, which he addresses to one of his daughters. Morkus is considered a leading leader in local government in Israel. Under his leadership, Kfar Yasif turned from a remote agricultural village into a prosperous settlement. The book was published in Arabic in the first edition in 1999 and in the second edition in 2013.

About the world of therapists in the health professions who specialize in working with people with complex disabilities. What motivates a person to choose a therapeutic profession that deals with human functioning, what motivates him to meet people with complex disabilities as an everyday act?

'Self-Help' is the collection of stories that made Lori Moore famous, and established her as one of the most prominent and iconic American writers. Although the book was published in 1985, stories from it are still read today with the same relevance and freshness, thanks to Lori Moore's unique language and her unforgettable characters.

Psychotherapy that combines body, mind and spirit is an integrative therapeutic language, which developed from different treatment approaches, dynamic psychotherapy, humanistic psychotherapy, body psychotherapy and transpersonal psychology.

The book brings together a selection of attorney Avigdor Feldman's columns, written during the last 40 years in which he interprets and describes in literary language what happens between the walls of the courts, and sometimes gives free rein to his imagination.