Readings Books

The Mad Disciples of Jacob Frank

Barak a Bassman

It is the early 1790s in a Poland on the verge of being partitioned into extinction by its greedy neighbors, with the Russian Empire in the lead. The Jewish false…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Jacob

Jacquelyn Frank

Immortals walk among us. First in the paranormal series "filled with mesmerizing, breathtaking, scorching sex--[and] unforgettable characters" (Christine Feehan, #1 New York Times-bestselling author). Falling out of a window is…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Los jesuitas y la gestion religiosa intercultural a principios de la Edad Moderna

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Los jesuitas y la gestion religiosa intercultural a principios de la Edad Moderna

Frank Jacob

Este libro analiza el papel del capital humano y la mentalidad global de la exitosa gestion intercultural de la Compania de Jesus en los contextos geograficos de Japon y Peru…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Emma Goldman

Frank Jacob

Emma Goldman is probably one of the most-well known anarchists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Born in Russia, radicalized in the US and spending a large part of her…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Japanese War Crimes during World War II

Frank Jacob

A challenging examination of Japanese war crimes during World War II offers a fresh perspective on the Pacific War-and a better understanding of reasons for the wartime use of extreme…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Transatlantic Radicalism

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Transatlantic Radicalism

The Atlantic Ocean not only connected North and South America with Europe through trade but also provided the means for an exchange of knowledge and ideas, including political radicalism.

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Jacob Frank: The End to the Sabbatain Heresy

Alexandr Kraushar,Herbert Levy

Jacob Frank is the second and last major exponent of apostate messianism, the concept that lead to the Sabbatain Heresy. This text contains a study of his life and features…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Notes on Post Exchanges

Jacob Frank

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Himmler’s Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank

Mark Lewis,Jacob Frank

The only survivor of his sixty-four-member family, Frank provides the only firsthand account in English of Lublin and the destruction of its Jewish quarter. Amid the horrors and everyday minutia…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth

Jay Michaelson (affiliated assistant professor, affiliated assistant professor, Chicago Theological Seminary)

The Heresy of Jacob Frank is the first monograph length study on the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), who, in the wake of false messiah Sabbetai Zevi, led the…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816

Pawel Maciejko,Pawel Maciejko

Based on extensive archival research, this book explores the history of Frankism, a Jewish religious movement that began in Poland and spread into the Habsburg Empire and the German lands…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth

Jay Michaelson (affiliated assistant professor, affiliated assistant professor, Chicago Theological Seminary)

The Heresy of Jacob Frank is the first monograph length study on the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), who, in the wake of false messiah Sabbetai Zevi, led the…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Max Jacob: Lettres a Nino Frank

Anne S. Kimball

Max Jacob: Lettres a Nino Frank, edited by Anne S. Kimball, contains 85 lettres written by the French poet to author-journalist Nino Frank. The correspondence began in 1923 when the…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Jacobs Houses

Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living is edited by Wright scholar and noted author Neil Levine and features essay contributions by all three Jacobs children (Susan, Elizabeth…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Frank’s Wing

Jacob McArthur Mooney

A collection of poetry from a breathtaking Canadian poet about, broadly speaking, art, mortality, and the fear of missing out.

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Mr S: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Mr S: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra

George Jacobs

An insider’s account of life with Sinatra during the heady years of the Rat Pack that’s as cool, original and dazzling as the man himself.

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts

Frank Jacob

This book provides an insight into the construction of monstrosity in different kinds of media, including literature, film, and TV series.

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy's Souvenir Album of the First World War

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War

Frank Jacob

As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking (B&W)

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking (B&W)

Frank Jacob

This book recounts the story of Florentine Ariosto Jones, who after the Civil War decided to manufacture watches. Combining the cheap labor available at the time in Switzerland with US…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence

Frank Jacob

A challenging examination of Japanese war crimes during World War II offers a fresh perspective on the Pacific War-and a better understanding of reasons for the wartime use of extreme…

Available to order, ships in approx 3 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Gallipoli 1915/16: Britanniens Bitterste Niederlage

Frank Jacob

The Battle of Gallipoli was the Britain’s most bitter defeat of the First World War. This volume seeks to place the Dardanelles campaign in proper perspective. It situates Gallipoli in…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking [B&W]

Frank Jacob

This book recounts the story of Florentine Ariosto Jones, who after the Civil War decided to manufacture watches.

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Migration and the Crisis of the Modern Nation State?

The anthology explores the interrelationship between migration and a supposedly existent crisis of the modern nation state.

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for Japanism, Pan-Asianism and Terrorism: A Short History of the Amur Society (The Black Dragons)1901-1945

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Japanism, Pan-Asianism and Terrorism: A Short History of the Amur Society (The Black Dragons)1901-1945

Frank Jacob

This monograph is the first modern research study in English to provide history of the Amur Society ( known as Black Dragon Society due to a mistranslation from Japanese to…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Western Japaneseness: Intercultural Translations of Japan in Western Media

This book illustrates how the Western image of Japan in popular media is rather a construct that, in a way, replicated itself, instead of a more serious encounter with a…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking (Premium Color)

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking (Premium Color)

Frank Jacob

This book recounts the story of Florentine Ariosto Jones, who after the Civil War decided to manufacture watches. Combining the cheap labor available at the time in Switzerland with US…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Modern Japanese Literature

Examines the developments of the country’s history: its economic and military rise in the early 20th century and its bitter defeat after WWII. Essays in this volume explore the search…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for George Kennan on the Spanish-American War: A Critical Edition of Cuba and the Cubans

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

George Kennan on the Spanish-American War: A Critical Edition of Cuba and the Cubans

This book presents a critical edition of the lecture Cuba and the Cubans by George Kennan the Elder, with a wide-ranging introduction examining its influence on American public opinion of…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity: A Comparative Approach

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity: A Comparative Approach

Frank Jacob

The present book provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and will show that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity.

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiotic systems and their constructions during wars in different…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiotic systems and their constructions during wars in different…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Narratives Without Guilt: Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Narratives Without Guilt: Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility

Frank Jacob

During the Second World War Japanese soldiers committed several different war crimes, including the kidnapping and raping of women or the mistreatment of POWs. In relation to the war crime…

Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now

Cover image for The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

Frank Jacob

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Migration and the Crisis of the Modern Nation State?

This anthology explores the interrelationship between migration and a supposedly existent crisis of the modern nation state.

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

Frank Jacob

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

George Kennan on the Spanish-American War: A Critical Edition of Cuba and the Cubans

This book presents a critical edition of the lecture Cuba and the Cubans by George Kennan the Elder, with a wide-ranging introduction examining its influence on American public opinion of…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for The Radicalization of European Jews in the US Metropolis: Transatlantic Jewish Anarchism in New York City at the Turn of the 20th Century

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

The Radicalization of European Jews in the US Metropolis: Transatlantic Jewish Anarchism in New York City at the Turn of the 20th Century

Frank Jacob

New York City, where many immigrants first arrived in the United States, was home to a large Jewish community, including many who subscribed to radical political views such as Anarchism…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Geschaftsbeziehungen und die Institutionen des marktlichen Austauschs

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Geschaftsbeziehungen und die Institutionen des marktlichen Austauschs

Frank Jacob,Frank Jacob

Aufbauend auf der Neuen Institutionenoekonomik prasentiert Frank Jacob einen Vorschlag fur die Erklarung von Geschaftsbeziehungen. Er stellt eine Typologie fur Institutionen des marktlichen Austausches vor und entwickelt auf dieser Basis…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader

In Asia the Age of Extremes witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution: From Admiration to Frustration

Frank Jacob

How did Emma Goldman perceive the Russian Revolution and how did her perception change between 1917 and the early 1920s? What impact did the revolution’s corruption by Lenin have on…

Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

Cover image for Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children: Genocide and Displacement

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children: Genocide and Displacement

Frank Jacob

Ernst Papanek (1900-1973) was an Austrian-born Viennese reform pedagogue who realized already in the 1930s that unaccompanied, traumatized young refugees were self-directed. He organized Kindertransporte for about 1,600 refugees between…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

East Asia and the First World War

Frank Jacob

The First World War was a truely global event that changed the course of history in many participating as well as non-participating countries. In East Asia, the war stimulated the…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for Sports and Politics: Commodification, Capitalist Exploitation, and Political Agency

Paperback

Add to list Added to list

Sports and Politics: Commodification, Capitalist Exploitation, and Political Agency

This title highlights the historical and contemporary interrelation between sports, politics, and capitalism. It provides a survey of major scandals of the 20th and 21st centuries related to this trias…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Sports and Politics: Commodification, Capitalist Exploitation, and Political Agency

This title highlights the historical and contemporary interrelation between sports, politics, and capitalism. It provides a survey of major scandals of the 20th and 21st centuries related to this trias…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Prostitution: Eine Begleiterin der Menschheit / A Companion of Mankind

Dieser Aufsatzband behandelt das kulturelle Phanomen der Prostitution in seiner gesamten chronologischen und regionalen Breite. This anthology deals with the cultural phenomenon of prostitution in its whole chronological and regional…

Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

Cover image for Pornography: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Hardback

Add to list Added to list

Pornography: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The present volume offers insight into the interdisciplinary field of porn studies and shows how topics in this field can be approached. In addition, results from different disciplines are provided…

Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

Books, books & more books.

Straight to your inbox.

Search results for ‘Jacob Frank’

Filter & RefineApply

In Stock

Authors & Contributors

Binding

Category

Price Range

The Mad Disciples of Jacob Frank

Jacob

Los jesuitas y la gestion religiosa intercultural a principios de la Edad Moderna

Emma Goldman

Japanese War Crimes during World War II

Transatlantic Radicalism

Jacob Frank: The End to the Sabbatain Heresy

Notes on Post Exchanges

Himmler’s Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank

The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth

The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816

The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth

Max Jacob: Lettres a Nino Frank

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Jacobs Houses

Frank’s Wing

Mr S: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra

All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts

A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War

Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking (B&W)

Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence

Gallipoli 1915/16: Britanniens Bitterste Niederlage

Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking [B&W]

Migration and the Crisis of the Modern Nation State?

Japanism, Pan-Asianism and Terrorism: A Short History of the Amur Society (The Black Dragons)1901-1945

Western Japaneseness: Intercultural Translations of Japan in Western Media

Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking (Premium Color)

Modern Japanese Literature

George Kennan on the Spanish-American War: A Critical Edition of Cuba and the Cubans

Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity: A Comparative Approach

War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

Narratives Without Guilt: Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility

The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

Migration and the Crisis of the Modern Nation State?

The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

George Kennan on the Spanish-American War: A Critical Edition of Cuba and the Cubans

The Radicalization of European Jews in the US Metropolis: Transatlantic Jewish Anarchism in New York City at the Turn of the 20th Century

Geschaftsbeziehungen und die Institutionen des marktlichen Austauschs

Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader

Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution: From Admiration to Frustration

Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children: Genocide and Displacement

East Asia and the First World War

Sports and Politics: Commodification, Capitalist Exploitation, and Political Agency

Sports and Politics: Commodification, Capitalist Exploitation, and Political Agency

Prostitution: Eine Begleiterin der Menschheit / A Companion of Mankind

Pornography: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Filter & Refine