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The Failure Factory
How Unelected Bureaucrats Are Undermining U.S. Security
Written by Bill Gertz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.00
The U.S. government is in crisis.
The real power in America has shifted to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and national-security reporter Bill Gertz exposes this group of astonishingly powerful leaders–and their enablers in the political... Read more >
How Unelected Bureaucrats Are Undermining U.S. Security
Written by Bill Gertz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.00
The U.S. government is in crisis.
The real power in America has shifted to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and national-security reporter Bill Gertz exposes this group of astonishingly powerful leaders–and their enablers in the political... Read more >
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The Terminal Spy
After sipping tea in a London hotel, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer and vocal foe of the Kremlin, fell ill and was rushed to the hospital, fatally
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $16.00
“A story that is at once real-life thriller and an immensely sinister cautionary tale about the new Russia.” –Star Tribune
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin, fell ill... Read more >
After sipping tea in a London hotel, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer and vocal foe of the Kremlin, fell ill and was rushed to the hospital, fatally
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $16.00
“A story that is at once real-life thriller and an immensely sinister cautionary tale about the new Russia.” –Star Tribune
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin, fell ill... Read more >
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating... Read more >
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating... Read more >
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating...
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The Corpse Walker
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner... Read more >
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner... Read more >
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The Geopolitics of Emotion
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
Written by Dominique Moisi
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $21.95
The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization.
In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post–Cold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion... Read more >
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
Written by Dominique Moisi
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $21.95
The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization.
In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post–Cold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion... Read more >
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The Geopolitics of Emotion
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
Written by Dominique Moisi
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $21.95
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
Written by Dominique Moisi
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $21.95
The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization.
In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post–Cold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion...
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The Challenge for Africa
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.
The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging... Read more >
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.
The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging... Read more >
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The Challenge for Africa
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.
The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging... Read more >
Written by Wangari Maathai
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.
The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
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Saviors and Survivors
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
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Saviors and Survivors
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
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7 Deadly Scenarios
A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century
Written by Andrew Krepinevich
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.00
A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.
Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.
China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.
Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.
What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How would we respond? Are we ready?
These are the questions... Read more >
A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century
Written by Andrew Krepinevich
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.00
A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.
Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.
China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.
Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.
What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How would we respond? Are we ready?
These are the questions... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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7 Deadly Scenarios
A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century
Written by Andrew Krepinevich
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.00
A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.
Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.
China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.
Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.
What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How would we respond? Are we ready?
These are the questions... Read more >
A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century
Written by Andrew Krepinevich
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.00
A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.
Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.
China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.
Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.
What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How would we respond? Are we ready?
These are the questions... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Much Too Promised Land
America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Written by Aaron David Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $16.00
For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller records what went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we are today... Read more >
America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Written by Aaron David Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $16.00
For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller records what went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we are today... Read more >
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Reza War and Peace
Written by Reza Deghati
Introduction by Sebastian Junger
Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $75.00
With the Middle East and Asia as his far-ranging home territory, Reza has chronicled 30 years of turmoil, hope, and splendor for a host of international publications including Newsweek, Time, Geo, and National Geographic magazines. Now, he displays some of his most dramatic works in Reza War and Peace–a powerful and... Read more >
Written by Reza Deghati
Introduction by Sebastian Junger
Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $75.00
With the Middle East and Asia as his far-ranging home territory, Reza has chronicled 30 years of turmoil, hope, and splendor for a host of international publications including Newsweek, Time, Geo, and National Geographic magazines. Now, he displays some of his most dramatic works in Reza War and Peace–a powerful and... Read more >
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The Failure Factory
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
Written by Bill Gertz
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $26.95
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and... Read more >
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
Written by Bill Gertz
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $26.95
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Failure Factory
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
Written by Bill Gertz
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $16.00
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and... Read more >
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
Written by Bill Gertz
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $16.00
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Elvis Is Titanic
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a... Read more >
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a... Read more >
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Dangerous Business
The Risks of Globalization for America
Written by Pat Choate
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $25.95
From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks... Read more >
The Risks of Globalization for America
Written by Pat Choate
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $25.95
From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $26.95
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $26.95
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president...
Also available as an
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abridged audiobook download,
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The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Read by John Lee
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $29.95
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Read by John Lee
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $29.95
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Read by John Lee
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $15.00
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Read by John Lee
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $15.00
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $16.00
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $16.00
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Read by Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $22.50
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Read by Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $22.50
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Heavy Metal Islam
Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Written by Mark LeVine
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.”
—Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene
“Music is the weapon of the future.”
—Fela Kuti
An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” They... Read more >
Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Written by Mark LeVine
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.”
—Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene
“Music is the weapon of the future.”
—Fela Kuti
An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” They... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
