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CENTRAL
ASIA & THE MIDDLE EAST
 Soldiers
of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by
Robert Kaplan
World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D.
Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the
1980s, living among the mujahidin — the "soldiers
of god" — whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled
their mission to oust the formidable Soviet invaders. In Soldiers
of God we follow Kaplan’s extraordinary journey and
learn how the thwarted Soviet invasion gave rise to the ruthless
Taliban and the defining international conflagration of the
twenty-first century.... (read
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TERRORISM
 Holy
War, Inc.: Inside the Secret War of Osama Bin Laden
by
Peter Bergen
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed
forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing
down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more
than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives
in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil. As shocking
as it was, it had been long in the making: The assault was
the most sophisticated and horrifying in a series of operations
masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group —
an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen
calls Holy War, Inc..... (read
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GLOBALIZATION
The
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P Huntington
An examination of the political and military conflicts that
have erupted around the globe since the collapse of Communism
in 1989, written by the well-known scholar and director of
the Institute for Strategic Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Huntington envisions a future in which world politics is driven
not by ideologies or economics, but by ethnicity, religion,
and other cultural forces... (read
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THE
WORLD TRADE CENTER & NEW YORK
Manhattan
Unfurled
by Matteo Pericoli
Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then
came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by
just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the
decade, and the sense of the city in its wake — especially
its silence — remained in his mind. He experienced similar
feeling taking photographs of Riverside Drive from the Circle
Line ferry, and decided to transpose them into a line drawing.
It was then that he felt compelled to photograph the whole
of New York’s shoreline profile — from Queens, Brooklyn,
the Bronx, and New Jersey (which he reached by motorcycle)
— and make two continuous and continuously enchanting
pen-and-ink drawing of Manhattan’s skyline.. (read
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RELIGION
A
History of God
by Karen Armstrong
In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of
Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces
the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced
God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical
philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment,
and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the
near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism
into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place
as a classic... (read
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FUNDAMENTALISM
Taliban:
Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
A journalist who covered the civil war in Afghanistan for
20 years and interviewed leaders of the Taliban organization
brings into sharp focus this most radical of fundamentalist
Islamic movements, which is creating instability in the East
and taking an increasing role in the development of oil and
gas pipelines from Central Asia to Western and Asian markets...
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COPING
& BOOKS FOR FAMILIES
The
Sunflower
by Simon Wiesenthal
Can evil be forgiven? The famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
asked this question of people from many walks of life —
including authors, political leaders, and scholars —
and collected their responses in this book. Included are Robert
Coles, The Dalai Lama, Matthew Fox, Mary Gordon, Harold S.
Kushner, Albert Speer, Desmond Tutu, and 47 others... (read
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"The best thing for being sad," replied
Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to
learn something. That is the only thing that never
fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies,
you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder
of your veins, you may miss your only love, you
may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics,
or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser
minds. There is only one thing for it then —
to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags
it. That is the only thing which the mind can never
exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never
fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
— T.H. White, The
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