BOOKS 2024

What is consciousness? Do only we, human beings, have a conscious, thinking, knowing, feeling soul, or do other creatures also have some kind of consciousness - and if so, what does it include? What does an octopus think with its flexible arms? How does a crow remember where it buried worms and where peanuts? Is the female fish Abu Nafha excited at the sight of the magnificent nest that the male has drawn for her on the bottom of the sea?

How four women managed to bring philosophy back to life. An innovative group biography, it describes an exciting chapter in the history of European philosophy of the 20th century, a chapter led by four women: Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foote.

An abandoned mansion, family trauma and dark secrets make up Lisa Joel's new psychological thriller. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, Tallulah and Zeke - a young girl and her partner - disappear after a night out that starts in a pub and ends with a pool party in a huge country estate. Their baby son was left behind in the care of Kim, Tallulah's mother.

Eighth book in the series of graphic novels for young people 'The Baby Sitters Club', created by Reina Telgemeier. Based on the bestselling series by Anne M. Marten. The school year is starting, and everyone is excited to start the live class...

A historical novel that combines a touching love story with a tense historical drama. It is based on the true and extraordinary story of Nancy Wake, one of the most decorated women of World War II, a hero who risked her life many times to help the war effort and saved countless people from death.

The book deals with democracy in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It contains an analysis of the state of government in Israel with a deep, sober view. He points to inherent failures in the system that are not solvable, but also offers a ray of light: a logical solution that is required by all of these: sovereign democracy. A surprising solution, intended for all human colonies wherever they are.

In the second half of the twentieth century, the medical community adopted the scientific method as a basis for practice. It seemed that after thousands of years the way was paved for a regulated process: from the laboratory through the clinical trial to the patient's bed. But it soon became clear that the road is neither straight nor continuous.

Who was promised the promised land? It is an innovative, groundbreaking and unusual essay in its field, about the hundred-year Israeli-Arab conflict. Prof. Zion's findings are amazing. They call into question decisions of the Security Council, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, as well as decisions of countries and other international bodies.

In his new book on the history of the Zionist political imagination from the beginning of the idea of ​​modern Zionism to the establishment of the State of Israel, Dimitri Shomsky challenges a deterministic view by examining unknown writings by the fathers of Zionism and by re-examining the known sources, which were interpreted in a tendentious and ahistorical way in the classical literature on Zionism

A true story about a fourteen-year-old girl from a small village, about her life unfolding like a leaf blowing in the wind, between the private wars and the military wars. She had big dreams with her first love, until he was sent to the front in 1973.

Edgar goes on vacation with his mother in the resort town of Zemmering in Austria. To the hotel where they are staying comes a young baron looking for a love adventure. The baron endears himself to Edgar the child - with the aim of reaching the mother's heart through him. Little by little, the boy notices the relationship between the baron and his mother, and feels cheated. At the end of the vacation, upon their return home, the upset Edgar realizes that there is a secret he must keep.

What is the nature of aphids, those "strange growths" seen on various plants? Insects that cause the plant to produce sap are actually the most intimate way in which animals feed on plants. In scientific language but equal to everyone's soul, this book reveals to those interested and lovers of nature and the country one of the most impressive and prominent groups among the creators of objects: the aphids.