Wicked in this year's Broadway smash!

Explores the complex history of Islam and the philosophical and religious discrepancies that distinguish traditional beliefs from radicalism, and discusses the history of radical Islam and the role of the Saudi Arabian government.

Wicked is this year's Broadway smash!

Outside Spain, the political movement known as the Workers Party of Marxist Unification (Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxist or POUM) is chiefly known as the revolutionary group with which George Orwell fought during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. This book presents a historical study of the POUM.

Tracing the movements of the Sephardic Jews to the Balkans - following their expulsion from Spain during the Inquisition - Schwartz draws on place names, historical chronicles, epitaphs, folk ballads, banned books and the media. He explores these communities who, hundreds of years after forced exile, were almost entirely destroyed in the Holocaust.