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  • The Land of Hope and Fear

    Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An urgent, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, and the external threats to their country, at a critical juncture in its history. • Through moving narratives and on-the-ground reporting, a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent decades working in Israel reveals what holds the country together.“A wondrous tale told ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel

    by Simon Schama ...
    “Simon Schama has re-examined the role of Baron Edmond de Rothschild [1845-1934] and his son James [1878-1957] in the Jewish settlement of Palestine... He refutes Herzl’s charge that the colonies were a ‘rich man’s pastime to while away what would otherwise have been idle hours’ by illustrating how Baron Edmond’s immediate concern in 1882 for the sanctuary of Eastern European pogrom victims was, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Refuge and Resistance

    Palestinians and the International Refugee System

    by Anne Irfan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of displaced people around the world. This regime has exerted particular authority over Palestinian refugees, who are served by a specialized UN body, the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Formed shortly after the 1948 war, UNRWA continues to provide quasi-state services such ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Air Force Way of War

    U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam

    “Laslie chronicles how the Air Force worked its way from the catastrophe of Vietnam through the triumph of the Gulf War, and beyond.” —Robert M. Farley, author of GroundedThe U.S. Air Force’s poor performance in Operation Linebacker II and other missions during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hollow Land

    Israel's Architecture of Occupation

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupationThis new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands.From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • NRSV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible

    Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture

    Discover new dimensions of insight with a behind-the-scenes tour of the ancient worldYou’ve heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many details are you missing? Sometimes a little context is all you need to discover the rich meaning behind even the most familiar stories of Scripture. That’s what the NRSV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible provides. Every page of this NRSV Bible is ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

    A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

    A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    An “arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world.The history of the Ottoman Empire—once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power—has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this “original and wide-ranging” (Wall Street ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Notes on a Foreign Country

    An American Abroad in a Post-American World

    by Suzy Hansen ...
    Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world."</str... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Under Jerusalem

    The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City

    by Andrew Lawler ...
    **A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval“A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.”—Washington Post**In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The March of the Ten Thousand

    Being A Translation of The Anabasis

    by Xenophon ...
    Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes. Xenophon, one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encouraging the Greek army of 10,000 to march north across foodless deserts and snow-filled mountain ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Turkey Under Erdogan

    How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West

    An incisive account of Erdoğan’s Turkey – showing how its troubling transformation may be short-livedSince coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a militaristic foreign policy, intervening in regional flashpoints from Nagorno-Karabakh to Libya. And its democracy, sustained by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Skunk Works

    A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

    This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Byzantium

    Edited by Cyril Mango ...
    The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Three Worlds

    Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

    by Avi Shlaim ...
    In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel.'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMESToday the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished.Why so? One explanation speaks of the timeless clash between Arab and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Snake Eaters

    Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat

    by Owen West ...
    “Every deploying adviser, and every American interested in how we are fighting our wars, should read Owen West’s gripping and important book” (The Wall Street Journal).From 2005 through 2007, the battle for the poisonous city of Khalidiya became so intensely personal that an Iraqi battalion, its American military advisors, and the insurgents they hunted knew one another by name. A third-generation ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers

    The Concept of Evil in Early Iran

    Early Iranians believed evil had to have a source outside of God, which led to the concept of an entity as powerful and utterly evil as God is potent and good. These two forces, good and evil, which have always vied for superiority, needed helpers in this struggle. According to the Zoroastrians, every entity had to take sides, from the cosmic level to the microcosmic self.One of the results of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Siege of Malta

    The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John

    In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a Muslim ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Arabs

    A History

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Arabia Felix

    The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767

    Series series NYRB Classics
    A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades.Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sylvia Rafael

    The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy

    Series series Foreign Military Studies
    "There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.... She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities."—From the Mossad's psychological evaluation of Sylvia RafaelWhen Moti Kfir, head of the Academy for Special Operations of the Mossad, first interviewed Sylvia Rafael in a coffee shop, he knew she would make a great combatant for Israel's intelligence ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Storm Over Iraq

    Air Power and the Gulf War

    An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought the way it was, the book examines the planning and preparation for war. Richard P. Hallion argues ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

    by Ilan Pappe ...
    The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMANBetween 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Lemon Tree

    An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

    by Sandy Tolan ...
    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST“Extraordinary … A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum … Highly readable and evocative.” – The Washington PostThe tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East – with an updated afterword by the author.In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five ... Read more

    $12.99 USD