So far, all the efforts of the United States and other to cajole the Israelis and the Palestinians to enter into a peace treaty have been unsuccessful.

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership?

Marilynne Robinson is a lauded author of fiction.  Her first novel Housekeeping was widely praised.

Using time travel as an organizing principle, Robert M. Sapolsky, in his book Behave, addresses human reaction to stimuli and concludes that nature reigns over nurture.

Literature provides some brilliant examples of what's in store when the honeymoon is over. 

ISRAELI LITERATURE offers visions of human existence from a wide range of cultural perspectives.

The core book (and thus, the SDG) is intended for non-scientists.  There is no math required and no prior background beyond general knowledge.

Some of our most forgotten presidents have been individuals who contributed in their own way to making this country great.

At over 900 pages our core book of stories is, in the words of one reviewer, "a monument to bad behavior . . . equally impossible to pick up and put down."