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Jerusalem
The Biography
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $32.50
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine... Read more >
The Biography
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $32.50
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine... Read more >
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Warriors of God
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Written by Nicholas Blanford
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $30.00
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a... Read more >
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Written by Nicholas Blanford
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $30.00
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a... Read more >
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Warriors of God
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Written by Nicholas Blanford
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $17.99
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a... Read more >
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Written by Nicholas Blanford
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $17.99
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Warriors of God
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Written by Nicholas Blanford
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $24.00
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a... Read more >
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Written by Nicholas Blanford
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $24.00
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a... Read more >
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Ghost on the Throne
The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
Written by James Romm
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.
The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the... Read more >
The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
Written by James Romm
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $28.95
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.
The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the... Read more >
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Ghost on the Throne
The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
Written by James Romm
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $10.99
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.
The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the... Read more >
The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
Written by James Romm
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $10.99
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.
The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Oil Kings
How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Written by Andrew Scott Cooper
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $25.00
struggling with a recession . . . European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans . . . A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s.
Oil Kings is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off... Read more >
How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Written by Andrew Scott Cooper
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $25.00
struggling with a recession . . . European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans . . . A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s.
Oil Kings is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off... Read more >
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In an Antique Land
History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
Written by Amitav Ghosh
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as... Read more >
History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
Written by Amitav Ghosh
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Arabs
Journeys Beyond the Mirage
Written by David Lamb
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $10.99
The Arabs is widely considered one of the essential books for understanding the Middle East and the peoples who live there. David Lamb, who spent years as a correspondent in Cairo, explores the Arabs’ religious, political, and cultural views, noting the differences and key similarities between the many segments of... Read more >
Journeys Beyond the Mirage
Written by David Lamb
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $10.99
The Arabs is widely considered one of the essential books for understanding the Middle East and the peoples who live there. David Lamb, who spent years as a correspondent in Cairo, explores the Arabs’ religious, political, and cultural views, noting the differences and key similarities between the many segments of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Righteous Victims
A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998
Written by Benny Morris
Format: eBook, 800 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2011
Price: $16.99
Righteous Victims, by the noted historian Benny Morris, is a comprehensive and
objective history of the long battle between Arabs and Jews for possession of a land they both call home. It appears at a most timely juncture, as the bloody and protracted struggle seems at last to be headed for... Read more >
A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998
Written by Benny Morris
Format: eBook, 800 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2011
Price: $16.99
Righteous Victims, by the noted historian Benny Morris, is a comprehensive and
objective history of the long battle between Arabs and Jews for possession of a land they both call home. It appears at a most timely juncture, as the bloody and protracted struggle seems at last to be headed for... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Iran at War
1500-1988
Written by Kaveh Farrokh
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $29.95
1500-1988
Written by Kaveh Farrokh
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $29.95
Iran’s complex, violent military history encompasses two world wars, foreign intervention, anti-government revolts, border disputes, a revolution, a war against Iraq that lasted over eight years, and its desperate quest to become a nuclear power.
Following his award-winning book, Shadows in the Desert, which explored the military history of ancient Persia...
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eBook.
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Let Us Water the Flowers
The Memoir of a Political Prisoner in Iran
Written by Jafar Yaghoobi
Format: Trade Paperback, 409 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $19.00
Including an introduction that explains the events of the 1980s within the larger context of 20th-century Iranian history, an epilogue that movingly describes the traumatic effects of imprisonment on survivors and their families, a glossary, and a list of resources for further research, this book is must reading for Americans trying... Read more >
The Memoir of a Political Prisoner in Iran
Written by Jafar Yaghoobi
Format: Trade Paperback, 409 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $19.00
Including an introduction that explains the events of the 1980s within the larger context of 20th-century Iranian history, an epilogue that movingly describes the traumatic effects of imprisonment on survivors and their families, a glossary, and a list of resources for further research, this book is must reading for Americans trying... Read more >
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Black Crack in Iran
Written by Aslon Arfa
Text by Steffen Gassel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $29.95
Creating an accurate picture of daily life in Iran is a difficult endeavor. Due to strict religious and moral codes, even photographing a woman inside her home without a scarf covering her head is all but impossible. Evidence of the censure of media in Iran has always been visible to Western... Read more >
Written by Aslon Arfa
Text by Steffen Gassel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $29.95
Creating an accurate picture of daily life in Iran is a difficult endeavor. Due to strict religious and moral codes, even photographing a woman inside her home without a scarf covering her head is all but impossible. Evidence of the censure of media in Iran has always been visible to Western... Read more >
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The People Reloaded
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $18.95
A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests
Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential election—engendering... Read more >
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $18.95
A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests
Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential election—engendering... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The People Reloaded
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $18.95
A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests
Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential election—engendering... Read more >
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $18.95
A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests
Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential election—engendering... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Our Man in Tehran
The True Story Behind the Secret Mission to Save Six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis & the Foreign Ambassador Who Worked w/the CIA to Bring Them Home
Written by Robert Wright
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $12.95
For the true story behind Argo, read Our Man in Tehran
The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved into a crisis that... Read more >
The True Story Behind the Secret Mission to Save Six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis & the Foreign Ambassador Who Worked w/the CIA to Bring Them Home
Written by Robert Wright
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $12.95
For the true story behind Argo, read Our Man in Tehran
The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved into a crisis that... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Our Man in Tehran
The True Story Behind the Secret Mission to Save Six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis & the Foreign Ambassador Who Worked w/the CIA to Bring Them Home
Written by Robert Wright
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $9.99
The True Story Behind the Secret Mission to Save Six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis & the Foreign Ambassador Who Worked w/the CIA to Bring Them Home
Written by Robert Wright
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $9.99
For the true story behind Argo, read Our Man in Tehran
The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved into a crisis that...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Strong Horse
Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Written by Lee Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $14.95
Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Written by Lee Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $14.95
In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in the region.
Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered that the standard explanation—a clash of...
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The Battle for Saudi Arabia
Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power
Written by As'Ad Abukhalil
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer.
In this unsparing probe into the... Read more >
Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power
Written by As'Ad Abukhalil
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer.
In this unsparing probe into the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Bin Laden, Islam, & America's New War on Terrorism
Written by As'Ad Abukhalil
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed militant fundamentalist networks that... Read more >
Written by As'Ad Abukhalil
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed militant fundamentalist networks that... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Bleeding Afghanistan
Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence
Written by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls
Foreword by David Barsamian
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Through in-depth research and detailed historical context, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls report on the injustice of U.S. policies in Afghanistan historically and in the post-9/11 era. Drawing from declassified government documents and on-the-ground interviews with Afghan activists, journalists, lawyers, refugees, and students, Bleeding Afghanistan examines the connections between the U.S... Read more >
Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence
Written by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls
Foreword by David Barsamian
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Through in-depth research and detailed historical context, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls report on the injustice of U.S. policies in Afghanistan historically and in the post-9/11 era. Drawing from declassified government documents and on-the-ground interviews with Afghan activists, journalists, lawyers, refugees, and students, Bleeding Afghanistan examines the connections between the U.S... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
City of Widows
An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Written by Haifa Zangana
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a... Read more >
An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Written by Haifa Zangana
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Israel/Palestina
Como Acabar con la Guerra de 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart
Translated by Catalina Martinez
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
En Israel/Palestina, Reinhart traza el desarollo del Muro de Seguridad y la doctrina israelí de "Retirada Unilateral," que se inició en respuesta a la ampliación de la población Palestina, la cual pronto será la mayoría. Examinando la diplomacia reciente, incluyendo aquellos acuerdos auspiciados por los EEUU (Camp David, Oslo, y Taba)... Read more >
Como Acabar con la Guerra de 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart
Translated by Catalina Martinez
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
En Israel/Palestina, Reinhart traza el desarollo del Muro de Seguridad y la doctrina israelí de "Retirada Unilateral," que se inició en respuesta a la ampliación de la población Palestina, la cual pronto será la mayoría. Examinando la diplomacia reciente, incluyendo aquellos acuerdos auspiciados por los EEUU (Camp David, Oslo, y Taba)... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Israel/Palestine
How to End the War of 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the... Read more >
How to End the War of 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
Love & War in Afghanistan
Written by Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
Love and War in Afghanistan presents true stories of fourteen ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan. In a quarter-century of uninterrupted war, the people of Afghanistan have endured foreign invasions, ethnic strife, a fundamentalist Islamic totalitarian regime, and the unending crossfire of rival warlord factions. The country remains an... Read more >
Written by Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
Love and War in Afghanistan presents true stories of fourteen ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan. In a quarter-century of uninterrupted war, the people of Afghanistan have endured foreign invasions, ethnic strife, a fundamentalist Islamic totalitarian regime, and the unending crossfire of rival warlord factions. The country remains an... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
