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We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran by Aria Minu-Sepehr Publisher Comments ARIA MINU-SEPEHR was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shahs Imperial Iranian Air Force. It seemed his father could do anything—lead the Golden Crowns in death-defying aerobatic maneuvers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Shah by Abbas Milani Publisher Comments Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social reformer, a romantic egomaniac, and a deeply conflicted man and leader. Here, internationally... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by S Farmaian Publisher Comments An intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past century “A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the right to direct their own destiny. This is a book... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stoning of Soraya M.: A Story of Injustice in Iran by Freidoune Sahebjam Publisher Comments Soraya M.'s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn't afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya's dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Roya Hakakian Synopsis On the evening of September 17, 1992, eight leading members of the Iranian and Kurdish opposition had gathered at a little-known restaurant in Berlin when two darkly-clad men burst through the entrance. Within moments, the roar of a machine gun filled... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup by Christopher De Bellaigue Publisher Comments On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against a cussed, bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, and his crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments In GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH, Mark Bowden tells the story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran by Robin B Wright Publisher Comments Robin Wright has reported from over 120 countries for many leading news organizations, but her perceptive coverage of Iran has garnered her the most respect and praise among her colleagues. In The Last Great Revolution, Wright meticulously describes the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari Publisher Comments At the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, a man in a checkered shirt sits down in an easy chair. He removes several documents from his pocket and hands one to Haleh Esfandiari, a sixty-seven-year-old Iranian American grandmother he has interrogated and... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Iran: A People Interrupted by Hamid Dabashi Publisher Comments A political and cultural history of Iran and an up-to-the-moment account of the latest "rogue nation" to make international headlines, by a preeminent Iranian scholar. <BR>Iran's nuclear ambitions have thrust that country into the international... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Persian Girls: A Memoir by Nahid Rachlin Publisher Comments Praised by V. S. Naipaul, Anne Tyler, and other writers, Nahid Rachlin has spent her career writing novels about hidden Iran-the combustible political passions underlying everyday life and the family dramas of ordinary Iranians. With her long-awaited... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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History of Modern Iran (09 Edition) by Ervand Abrahamian Publisher Comments In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels in Persia, 1673-1677 (88 Edition) by John Chardin Publisher Comments First inexpensive edition of great travel classic offers detailed, sharply observed portrait of 17th-century Persia. Vivid record of life at court of Shah: lavish banquets and entertainments, diplomatic negotiations, intrigues and cruelty, more. Also... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer Publisher Comments This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terence Ward Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-322).... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East by Ali M Ansari Publisher Comments Iran refuses to relent in developing nuclear technology, despite U.N. sanctions. Rumors persist that Israel is drawing up plans for military strikes. Neither the emboldened Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nor the embattled President Bush has... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran by Amy Motlagh Publisher Comments Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $37.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Road to Democracy in Iran (Boston Review Books) by Akbar Ganji Publisher Comments Akbar Ganji, called by some Iran's most famous dissident, was a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But, troubled by the regime's repressive nature, he became an investigative journalist in the 1990s, writing for Iran's pro-democracy... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Hardcover
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Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West by Dore Gore Synopsis Across the Western alliance, liberal politicians and pundits are calling for renewed diplomatic engagement with Iran, but bestselling author Gold shows why engaging Iran through diplomacy is not only futile but could also be deadly for the U.S. and its... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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