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The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives

Metropolitan Books
An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust means—and doesn't mean—in the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our...
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Waltz with Bashir
A Lebanon War Story

Metropolitan Books
“Special, strange, and peculiarly potent... Extraordinary.” —Variety One night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, Christian...
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The Seventh Decade
The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America’s new nuclear policies When the cold war...
  
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Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine

Metropolitan Books
The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century’s greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG...
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The Book of Love
The Story of the Kamasutra

Metropolitan Books
An engaging, enlightening “biography” of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world’s most famous sex manual The Kamasutra is one of the world’s...
  
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Ain't My America
The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
From “the finest literary stylist of the American right,” a surprising and spirited account of how true conservatives have always been antiwar and anti-empire...
  
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The Hitler Salute
On the Meaning of a Gesture

Metropolitan Books
A strikingly original investigation of the origins and dissemination of the world’s most infamous greeting Sometimes the smallest detail reveals the...
  
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A People's History of American Empire
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in...
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Nemesis
The Last Days of the American Republic
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
A New York Times bestseller, Nemesis is Chalmers Johnson’s “fiercest book—and his best” (Andrew J. Bacevich) In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers...
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Into the Tunnel
The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943

Metropolitan Books
A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion When the German Remembrance...
  

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What We Say Goes
Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, “America’s most useful citizen.” (The...
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The Sorrows of Empire
Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
"Impressive . . . a powerful indictment of U.S. military and foreign policy." -Los Angeles Times Book Review, front page In the years after the Soviet...
  
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global “free market” has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her...
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Imperial Ambitions
Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign...
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Hitler's Beneficiaries
Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

Metropolitan Books
A stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich—and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state In this groundbreaking book,...
  
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Anne Frank
The Biography

Metropolitan Books
Updated and filled with striking new revelations, the bestselling, "superb" biography that "honors in full a life we thought we knew" (Newsweek) Praised as...