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In this collection of thoughts, homilies, witticisms and warnings, internationally renowned historian, Ronnie S Landau, examines the place of the Seven Deadly Sins - pride, envy, wrath, greed, sloth, gluttony and lust - within world culture and consciousness over the past 2,500 years.Penetrating and thought-provoking, often irreverent, this rich assembly of ideas aims to challenge the way we think about our emotions, frailties and predilections.Culled from every conceivable source and discipline, it will make you smile, grimace, glow and fume - but, above all, reflect on the human condition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49513646620945,"sku":"GOR003836566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1445732270.jpg?v=1750923085"},{"product_id":"nazi-holocaust-book-ronnie-s-landau-9781566630528","title":"The Nazi Holocaust","description":"The Nazi Holocaust is an important breakthrough in the struggle to understand this shattering event. By shunning simplistic explanations, Landau seeks to mediate between the vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts—Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, and the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience—his book is a model text, brief but surprisingly comprehensive.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391732224273,"sku":"CIN1566630525G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52751535636753,"sku":"NIN9781566630528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1566630525.jpg?v=1751087999"},{"product_id":"nazi-holocaust-book-ronnie-s-landau-9781780769714","title":"The Nazi Holocaust","description":"The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic 'explanations' Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts - Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience - Landau penetrates to the very heart of its moral and historical significance. Deeply concerned lest the Holocaust, as a 'unique' phenomenon, be cordoned off from the rest of human history and ghettoized within the highly charged realm of 'Jewish experience', he is at pains to show that transmitting understanding of the Holocaust is about connecting with all humanity.Intended both for the general reader and for students and academics (especially in history, psychology, literature and the humanities), this work is an important breakthrough in the struggle to perpetuate the memory of a tragedy which the world is all too ready to forget.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52533103395089,"sku":"NLS9781780769714","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781780769714.jpg?v=1760663639"},{"product_id":"sweet-spot-book-ronnie-s-landau-9781835385685","title":"The Sweet Spot","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating and, at times, hilarious account of an improbable career, Ronnie Landau, classicist and modern historian, takes the reader from his beginnings in a small Jewish community in north-east England, to his diverse experience of teaching and lecturing in radically different educational settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether it is his account of cutting his teeth in a rough-and-tumble north London comprehensive, being a visiting tutor in uber-posh Eton, running a massive department in Europe's largest adult education Institute, being visiting professor in a Canadian university, located in an exotic English castle, or enthusing about Greek civilisation aboard cruise ships, this book will inform, engage and entertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memoir also tells of the author's struggles to write about what he sees as the most important, universal messages of the Holocaust, and the intimidating demands of getting his first book published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating, thought-provoking and often irreverent, this rich assembly of ideas and observations will challenge the way we think about the worlds of education and identity, and of recent history itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you're very lucky, there will be two or three teachers over a lifetime who you can point to and say they shaped the way you see the world. For me, without hesitation, one of those is Ronnie Landau. Through him I learnt the modern history of the Jewish people, a knowledge which informs my thinking to this day. It was a privilege to be his student and it is a privilege to read his story.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Jonathan Freedland, Guardian columnist, broadcaster and author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52657407918353,"sku":"NLS9781835385685","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52755691077905,"sku":"NIN9781835385685","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781835385685.jpg?v=1762228591"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-ronnie-s-landau.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}