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As Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Walter Lewin takes listeners on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. "I introduce people to their own world," writes Lewin, "the world they live in and are familiar with but don't approach like a physicist - yet."

From Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein–the creator of the international Shabbat Project–comes a book that tells the story of Shabbat in a way that has never been told before, and a call to “return Shabbat to the center of Jewish life”.

«Has cambiado mi vida» es una frase muy común en los emails que Walter Lewin recibe a diario de fans cautivados por sus «videoclases» sobre la física. Durante cuarenta y tres años como profesor en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts, Lewin ha perfeccionado su peculiar arte de enseñar y de hacer de la física algo divertido. En Por amor a la física Lewin responde a preguntas curiosas y nos acompaña en un viaje maravilloso abriendo nuestros ojos a la belleza y al poder con los que la física puede revelar los mecanismos ocultos del mundo que nos rodea.

An iyun Torah shiur exploring classic works of halacha authored by the gedolei haAchronim. Geared towards those well-versed in textual, Yeshiva-style learning, the Chief Rabbi’s Chabura examines a wide range of halachic principles, ideas and applications through the lens of the original sources. At the moment the shiur is focused on the Minchas Chinuch and the mitzvah of vidui and teshuva.

Insights, ideas and inspiration mined from the weekly Torah portion and the classic commentaries, and distilled by South African Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein. Known as a "spiritual entrepreneur", Rabbi Goldstein has launched and led a number of initiatives that have changed the face not only of his own community, but of world Jewry. In the Language of Tomorrow, he explores the Torah's vision for creating a better society, and an inspired, meaningful life.

Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.The 20th Anniversary Edition includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s.