|
|
|
|
||
|
HELP | |
|
World History
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
|
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Peace To End All Peace : the Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (89 Edition) by David Fromkin From Powells.com In a famous line toward the end of David Lean's magnificent Lawrence of Arabia, Prince Faisal tells Lawrence, "Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men, courage and hope for the future. Then, old men make... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary Publisher Comments We in the west share a common narrative of world historythat runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Orientalism by Edward W Said Publisher Comments The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B Oren Publisher Comments This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America"s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, 'If you think America"s entanglement in the Middle East began with... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors by Said Amir Arjomand Publisher Comments For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W. Bush's axis of evil even before the appearance of Ahmadinejad. But what is the reality? How did Ahmadinejad rise to power, and how much power does he really have? What are the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Byzantine Slavery And The Meditterranean World by Youval Rotman Publisher Comments Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling paradox, and one this book addresses by considering a period in which the definition of slavery and freedom... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era's legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands by Jeremy Salt Publisher Comments Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: Why do they hate us... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll Publisher Comments "The finest historical narrative so far on the origins of al Qaeda" (New York Times Book Review) — now updated to include the 9/11 commission hearings. Looming large in the minds of the American people since the devastation of September 11, 2001... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
American Raj: America & the Muslim World by Eric S. Margolis Synopsis "American Raj" is the culmination of Eric Margolis' years of boots-on-the-ground insight into the Muslim world garnered from his years as a journalist in the Middle East. It takes readers inside the thinking and worldview of anti-Western Islamic radicals... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan Publisher Comments In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B Oren Publisher Comments Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid Publisher Comments Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Palestine by Joe Sacco Publisher Comments A single volume collection of the landmark novel by Joe Sacco.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Women and Gender in Islam : Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (92 Edition) by Leila Ahmed Publisher Comments In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
| see more featured titles |  |
Don't Miss