Prepare to enter a cyber-neighborhood-a vast community of Jewish cooks, singles, kids, writers, musicians, sports lovers, travelers, history buffs, Holocaust survivors, religious students and families. Acclaimed novelist Michael Levin is your affable guide to the Jewish Internet, adding bits of Jewish culture and commentary to over 800 insightful reviews of Jewish oriented Internet resources, including webpages, gopher menus, FTP sites, and mailing lists.
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Well-written and beautifully designed, [this book] takes you to hundreds of sites of interest to Jews around the world. -- Los Angeles Times, February, 1997
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Michael Levin is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. A former Visiting professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, he is the author of Marx, Engels, and Liberal Democracy.
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New York Times best selling author Michael Levin is an Amherst College graduate, Columbia Law School-trained attorney, and non-practicing member of the Massachusetts Bar, whose publishing career includes six novels, eleven works of nonfiction, dozens of ghostwritten books, a commissioned screenplay and the script for a DVD series.
The author of eight national bestsellers, three novels published by Simon & Schuster and two novels published by Putnam/Berkley, Michael's book Making Jack Falcone, with FBI agent Joaquin Garcia, appeared on 60 Minutes and was optioned by Paramount and producer Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovitch, Ocean's 11, Sex, Lies & Videotape). His work has also been optioned by Disney (and made into the ABC Sunday Night Movie of the Week Model Behavior), and HBO.
Michael's recent books include the following:
2010
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, with Chad Hennings, 3-time Super Bowl winner with the Dallas Cowboys and a fighter pilot in the first Gulf War, who flew 45 humanitarian missions to the Kurds, published in January, 2010 by FaithWorks. This book reached best seller status on amazon.com within days of its publication.
GIANTS, with Pat Summerall, to be published in September, 2010 by Wiley, detailing Summerall's experiences when he was coached by Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi in the same 1958 season with the New York Giants.
2009
WHERE'S MY FIFTEEN MINUTES? HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA AGE, with famed Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman, published in 2009 by Penguin/Portfolio Books. Howard Bragman has represented everyone in Hollywood from Sinatra to Madonna and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live, CNN, and throughout the media. The book reached #10 on the national Barnes&Nobel.com best sellers list.
GHOSTWRITTEN NOVEL FOR PRIVATE CLIENT. This book, written by Michael, reached number two on the Barnes and Nobel.com best seller list (number one was a book by President Obama!) and was optioned as a series by HBO.
THE STICKING POINT, with Jay Abraham, America's leading marketing guru, published in 2009 by Vanguard Books; the book reached number 2 on amazon.com business best seller lists.
2008
MAKING JACK FALCONE with Joaquin Garcia, the true story of the FBI agent who infiltrated the Mafia and took down the top 32 members of the Gambino crime family, published by Simon and Schuster/Touchstone in 2008. This book was optioned in 2007 by Paramount for Steven Soderbergh, director of Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Ocean's 11. It was featured on 60 Minutes in October, 2008 and is a New York Times bestseller.
2007
DROPPING THE BALL with Hall-of-Fame baseball player Dave Winfield, published with Scribner in March, 2007, currently in its second printing, and reached number 2 on the Los Angeles Times nonfiction best seller list. The New York Times called it "unusually thoughtful;" the Boston Globe called it "eloquent," and it was noted as "recommended reading" in Esquire Magazine.
NO ORDINARY LOVE, with NBA star Doug Christie and his wife Jackie Christie.
Michael's books have received outstanding reviews in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, Esquire, Newsweek, People Magazine, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Examiner, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, and other publications from coast to coast. He also consults to a broad variety of authors, ranging from international bestsellers to individuals seeking to become published authors.
He takes great pride in the skills and experience of his capable team of writers.
The author of eight national bestsellers, three novels published by Simon & Schuster and two novels published by Putnam/Berkley, Michael's book Making Jack Falcone, with FBI agent Joaquin Garcia, appeared on 60 Minutes and was optioned by Paramount and producer Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovitch, Ocean's 11, Sex, Lies & Videotape). His work has also been optioned by Disney (and made into the ABC Sunday Night Movie of the Week Model Behavior), and HBO.
Michael's recent books include the following:
2010
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, with Chad Hennings, 3-time Super Bowl winner with the Dallas Cowboys and a fighter pilot in the first Gulf War, who flew 45 humanitarian missions to the Kurds, published in January, 2010 by FaithWorks. This book reached best seller status on amazon.com within days of its publication.
GIANTS, with Pat Summerall, to be published in September, 2010 by Wiley, detailing Summerall's experiences when he was coached by Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi in the same 1958 season with the New York Giants.
2009
WHERE'S MY FIFTEEN MINUTES? HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA AGE, with famed Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman, published in 2009 by Penguin/Portfolio Books. Howard Bragman has represented everyone in Hollywood from Sinatra to Madonna and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live, CNN, and throughout the media. The book reached #10 on the national Barnes&Nobel.com best sellers list.
GHOSTWRITTEN NOVEL FOR PRIVATE CLIENT. This book, written by Michael, reached number two on the Barnes and Nobel.com best seller list (number one was a book by President Obama!) and was optioned as a series by HBO.
THE STICKING POINT, with Jay Abraham, America's leading marketing guru, published in 2009 by Vanguard Books; the book reached number 2 on amazon.com business best seller lists.
2008
MAKING JACK FALCONE with Joaquin Garcia, the true story of the FBI agent who infiltrated the Mafia and took down the top 32 members of the Gambino crime family, published by Simon and Schuster/Touchstone in 2008. This book was optioned in 2007 by Paramount for Steven Soderbergh, director of Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Ocean's 11. It was featured on 60 Minutes in October, 2008 and is a New York Times bestseller.
2007
DROPPING THE BALL with Hall-of-Fame baseball player Dave Winfield, published with Scribner in March, 2007, currently in its second printing, and reached number 2 on the Los Angeles Times nonfiction best seller list. The New York Times called it "unusually thoughtful;" the Boston Globe called it "eloquent," and it was noted as "recommended reading" in Esquire Magazine.
NO ORDINARY LOVE, with NBA star Doug Christie and his wife Jackie Christie.
Michael's books have received outstanding reviews in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, Esquire, Newsweek, People Magazine, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Examiner, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, and other publications from coast to coast. He also consults to a broad variety of authors, ranging from international bestsellers to individuals seeking to become published authors.
He takes great pride in the skills and experience of his capable team of writers.
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This review is from: The Guide to the Jewish Internet (Paperback)
Reviews of 800 Jewish Internet sites on Israel, Torah,
Resturants, Libraries, Museums, Travel. Great for research
and the FREE Windows disk adds EZ links so you can go direct.
Beautifully designed and well written, it brings the worldwide
Jewish Family right to your home or office
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