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**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker“A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I’ve read about Afghanistan, or any other war.” —Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from Afghanistan from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the first full accounting of that entire era, combining previously pu...

Something stirs in the shadows of the trees...Memories stir in the mind of a man...JayDee Svendsen is planning to end his life. Facing a devastating diagnosis, he decides to leave the warm comfort of Arizona to return to the tip of Death's Door in Wisconsin and the surroundings of his youth. It is there that the memories haunt him...But memory is fickle. And though he sets out to exorcise the inner demons of his childhood, he soon r...

A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the h...

In the months leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, this New Yorker correspondent “embedded’ himself among the people of Baghdad and, along with a small number of other Western reporters, rode out the entire invasion and much of the subsequent occupation from inside the city. Jon Lee Anderson’s dispatches from Baghdad were immediately and widely recognized as the most important writing anyone was doing on the war anywhere, for any publication. In recognition of its signific...

In An Epidemic of Rumors, Jon D. Lee examines the human response to epidemics through the lens of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Societies usually respond to the eruption of disease by constructing stories, jokes, conspiracy theories, legends, and rumors, but these narratives are often more damaging than the diseases they reference. The information disseminated through them is often inaccurate, incorporating xenophobic explanations of the disease’s origins and questionable medical inform...

The primary goal of science is to "get it right," meaning that scientists seek to accurately document the world as it is. While erroneous conclusions and flawed theories can and do occur, they can only be tolerated as long as reliable mechanisms of self-correction exist, but an array of recent evidence suggests that this is not always the case. This book offers a behavioral science perspective on how scientific practice becomes compromised and provides recommendations for improvement. Broa...

“A resourceful, even intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World“A very good piece of battle reporting . . . especially vivid.” —Washington MonthlyPrior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, J...

**“A remarkable accomplishment, one that belongs next to such works of graphical history as the March series and Shigeru Mizuki's Showa books. By foregrounding the tension between myth and truth, Che illuminates the present state of our politics as well as the past.” —NPRThe graphic adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara**Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of t...

Carl Gustav Jung merged Eastern mysticism with Western psychology brought scientific respectability to religion laid the foundation for 'the New Age' and is second only to Freud in influence and importance in the world of psychoanalysis. Many consider him a genius but many others disagree.Scholar and clinical psychologist Jon Platania PhD presents Jung as a somewhat opportunistic and dissociated character whose most famous historical events were his break with Freud and his questionable so...

This book contains a defense of the idea that God’s rest on Day 7 of the creation week is instructive for people today. More technically, this book argues for the propriety of weekly Sabbath rest. This means that the normal pattern to be followed by humanity is a week, consisting of seven 24-hour days, six of which are spent in work while the other day is devoted to rest. Theologians would use the language of God’s rest being a “creation ordinance,” which is a term that many theologians us...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker“A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I’ve read about Afghanistan, or any other war.” —Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from Afghanistan from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the first full accounting of that entire era, combining previously pu...

“Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged.”During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his time there, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the ...