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The First Israelis
With a New Preface by the Author; Tom Segev; Translated by Arlen N. Weinstein
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The founding of Israel in 1948--one of the seminal events of the century--offers a heroic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a...
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The Accidental Empire
Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
Gershom Gorenberg
Holt Paperbacks
"Gershom Gorenberg . . . has produced a remarkably insightful third account . . . It's a groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . Yet it still soars. The book works powerfully on two important levels: as a deeply informative counterhistory and as a mournful reminder of what happens when a democratic government acquiesces in the face of its own militants."—
Jonathan D. Tepperman,
The New York
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After Jihad
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
Noah Feldman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"A substantial and important defense of why America should support democratic reform and not the authoritarian status quo in much of the Muslim world. In the follow-up to the conflict in Iraq, no subject could be more timely."—
Emran Qureshi,
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The Age of Deception
Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Mohamed ElBaradei
Metropolitan Books
For the first time, the Nobel Prize laureate and "man in the middle" of the planet's most explosive confrontations speaks out—on his dealings with America,...
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The Antelope's Strategy
Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
Jean Hatzfeld; Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
Picador
"'Why keep on?' asks Claudine Kayitesi, a Tutsi survivor living in relative peace in Nyamata, Rwanda. Her question is not a philosophical one, though that would be understandable given what she has experienced—rape, displacement, the murder of a sister and many others. Rather, her query is directed at the persistent questions of the French journalist Jean Hatzfeld, who has returned to the war-torn landscape he wrote about in two previous books,
The Machete Season
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Life Laid Bare
, to speak again to survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. Why Hatzfeld keeps on asking questions is among the many thought-provoking issues at the heart of his new book,
The Antelope's Strategy
. Seven years after his reporting for
Machete Season
, Hatzfeld finds a much-changed Rwanda: The terrors of war have been replaced by an awkward—and sometimes dangerous—atmosphere of forced reconciliation. Some Hutu prisoners have been released or have returned from exile to live among the families of those they killed. 'Not one prisoner came asking for forgiveness,' says Kayitesi. A Hutu ex-convict notes, 'I was charged, I was convicted, I was pardoned. I did not ask to be forgiven.' Hatzfeld captures this tension gracefully, weaving lengthy interview excerpts with his own artfully written observations. The result is a book that illustrates vividly the thorny realities that accompany survival and appeasement. 'People are living peacefully, but actually they are avoiding one another,' Kayitesi comments in the book's final pages. 'We'll be humble and nice, we'll share, we'll cooperate as we should. But believing them is unthinkable.'"—
Nora Krug,
The Washington Post
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The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
Gilbert Achcar
Picador
“This is a refreshing and original study, showing clearly that Muslim anti-Semitism is neither universal, nor inevitable, nor subject to pat explanations.”—
The Economist
“A systematic and scholarly refutation of the simplistic myths that have arisen following the formation of Israel . . . the best book on the subject so far.”—
Tariq Ali,
The Guardian
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As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
Karl Gerth
Hill and Wang
"Gerth author of
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
, does much to redress the imbalance and to point out the potential influence of Chinese consumerism, not only on China but on the rest of the world. The book is both informative and entertaining. Although supported by input from published sources, the text is largely the result of insightful observations of the author, who lived, studied, and traveled extensively in China. The book draws parallels between expanding consumerism in China and corresponding developments in other countries such as the US. However, Gerth is careful in identifying unique aspects of China's embrace of domestic consumption. The book contains extensive source notes, readings, and Web sites for further investigation. The writing style is reader friendly and can be appreciated by a broad spectrum of readers who have even a passing interest in understanding the growing importance of China as a world power. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."—
W. C. Struning, emeritus, Seton Hall University,
Choice
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The Assassins' Gate
America in Iraq
George Packer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"Packer provides page after page of vivid description of the haphazard, poorly planned and almost criminally executed occupation of Iraq. In reading him we see the staggering gap between abstract ideas and concrete reality."—
Fareed Zakaria,
The New York Times Book Review
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Because They Hate
A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
Brigitte Gabriel
St. Martin's Griffin
"Her writing is eloquent and her passion tremendous." --Publishers Weekly “Brigitte Gabriel's words should be read, and studied carefully, by all the law...
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Betrayed
A Play
George Packer
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"A Sunni who has worked for years as a translator for the Americans in Iraq, [Adnan] has been denied a visa to immigrate to the United States . . . His plight is one of three heart-rending tales woven together in Betrayed, a new play by George Packer about the suffering of Iraqis who have risked everything to help the American government and military in Iraq—and have, all too often, received insufficient protection in return. The play . . . explores its subject with a clean focus that draws out the emotional power of the material with clinical precision."—
Charles Isherwood,
The New York Times
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Beyond America's Grasp
A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East
Stephen P. Cohen
Picador
Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region from the breakup of the Ottoman Empire to the present. A century ago, there emerged two...
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Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies
Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
Barbara Slavin
St. Martin's Griffin
In Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies, Barbara Slavin untangles the love-hate relationship between Iran and the United States that has brought the two countries to...
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Blood and Belonging
Journeys into the New Nationalism
Michael Ignatieff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now,...
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Blowback, Second Edition
The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
American Empire Project
Chalmers Johnson; With a New Introduction on Blowback in the Post-9/11 World
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"Stunning . . . No one has exposed the shortsightedness, hubris, corruption, and instability of our country's imperial overreach with such impassioned incisiveness.
Blowback
is a wake-up call for America."—
John W. Dower, author of
Embracing Defeat
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Breaking News
A Memoir
Martin Fletcher
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Martin Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to Tel Aviv bureau chief for...
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Captive
My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
Jere Van Dyk
St. Martin's Griffin
Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for...
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The Challenge
How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers to Defend the Constitution--and Won
Jonathan Mahler
Picador
"[
The Challenge
] tells the story of a captive who gave his name to a great constitutional decision; and it describes the personal struggles of his lawyers, their courage, and their faults . . . A work of rare drama."—
Anthony Lewis,
The New York Review of Books
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Crescent and Star
Turkey Between Two Worlds
Stephen Kinzer
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"An intriguing portrait of a pivotal nation in historic transition."—
Robert D. Kaplan, author of
Balkan Ghosts
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The Dark Child
The Autobiography of an African Boy
Camara Laye; Introduction by Philippe Thoby-Marcellin; Translated by James Kirkup and Ernest Jones
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent...
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Dead Aid
Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Dambisa Moyo; Foreword by Niall Ferguson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“An incendiary new book . . . Here is a refreshing voice . . . What makes
Dead Aid
so powerful is that it’s a double-barrelled shotgun of a book. With the first barrel, Moyo demolishes all the most cherished myths about aid being a good thing. But with the second, crucially, she goes on to explain what the West could be doing instead.”—
Christopher Hart,
The Daily Mail
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Death as a Way of Life
From Oslo to the Geneva Agreement
David Grossman; New Expanded Edition
Picador
"Powerful . . . [Grossman's] depth of understanding and facility of expression rekindle regret for a decade that began with Oslo's cautious hopes and collapsed—notably after Rabin's assassination—into outright despair."—
Milton Viorst,
The Washington Post
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Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
American Empire Project
Robert Dreyfuss
Metropolitan Books
"Crisp, lively . . . Provides a concise and readable account of the evolution of America's partnerships with radical Islamic groups and regimes."—
The
American Conservative
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Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
Amira Hass; Translated by Maxine Nunn
Picador
In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so...
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Escape from Slavery
The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan
St. Martin's Griffin
"Bok takes the Sudanese government and world leaders to task for their indifference to his people's suffering. Although he at first was an unwilling ambassador, he has become a leading voice for the antislavery movement in the United States."—
Detroit News and Free Press
"A touching modern-day slave narrative that is more than just an account of [Bok's] journey from childhood to manhood under the worst of circumstances . . . Pages of historical details are eye-opening and provide a glimpse into what can happen when religion is the impetus in the governing of a nation . . . An informative, inspiring read."—
The Boston Globe
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