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  • The Great Seljuqs

    A History

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    This book provides a broad history of the Seljuq Turks from their origins and early conquests in the 10th century, through the rise of empire, until its dissolution at the end of the 12th. Where the history of the Seljuqs is usually studied in the context of medieval Persian, Arabic or Islamic history, this book considers the topic from the perspective of Turkish history.Examining the corpus of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Bibi

    The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

    A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel -- its history, present, and future -- without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads itBenjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli Prime ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Iraq

    A History

    Series series Short Histories
    Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law – all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of civilization.In this unrivalled study, John Robertson details the greatness and grandeur of Iraq’s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

    Translated by Andrew Bromfield ...
    From the winner of the Nobel Prize for work that stands as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time" (Swedish Academy).Before the United States' invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties—and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. The Soviet Union talked about a "peacekeeping" mission, while the dead were shipped ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Ancient Israel

    Series Book 139 - The A to Z Guide Series
    Of the many ancient civilizations we are aware of, few are smaller than the ancient Kingdom of Israel. Small both in geographical area and population, it was barely noticed by the major civilizations of the time in Egypt, Mesopotamia and elsewhere, which either ignored or crushed it. Yet, several millennia later, Israel is the civilization we remember most acutely, which we know—or think we know ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

    Series Book 2 - The Copenhagen Trilogy
    The largest English-language collection to date from Israel’s finest poetFew poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably accessible poems, vivid in their evocation of the Israeli landscape and historical predicament, yet universally resonant. His are some of the most moving love poems ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Battle of Tours

    by John C. Scott ...
    TOURS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BATTLE IN HISTORY This is not a history book! It is not unlikely that this book will get me killed and I would not dismiss the danger to its publishers. If you have the courage to print and distribute it there is no doubt that it will be one of the all-time best sellers in the world today. Tours the largest city in the Centre region of France is the location of what was ... Read more

    $12.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    Series Book 52 - Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic

    A History of the Islamic Republic

    In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Parting the Desert

    The Creation of the Suez Canal

    Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East

    Why Islam is Not the Problem

    The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest in the region. The idea that we can decipher Jihadist radicalization or problems in the Middle East simply by reading the Qur'an has now become symptomatic of our age. This dangerous over-simplification and the West's obsession with ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Death in Jerusalem

    The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli

    by Kati Marton ...
    On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations–appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears for the climb toward the New City, an Israeli Army jeep nosed into the road, forcing Bernadotte’s car and the two following him to come to a full stop. From the jeep sprang three uniformed men ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

    by Benny Morris ...
    This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side-where the archives are still closed-is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Enemy at the Gate

    Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe

    In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Palestine-Israel Conflict

    A Basic Introduction

    The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period.The Palestine-Israel Conflict provides a balanced, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full history of the region, from Biblical times ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lawrence in Arabia

    War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East“A fascinating book, the best work of military history in recent memory and an illuminating ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Fatimids 2

    The Rule from Egypt

    by Shainool Jiwa ...
    Series series World of Islam
    One of the most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909–1171) were distinguished by their Imam-caliphs, who asserted religious as well as political authority in direct descent from the family of the Prophet. Their conquest of Egypt in 969 marked the inception of a burgeoning Mediterranean empire. From there, they refined their systems of administration, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On Earth or in Poems

    The Many Lives of al-Andalus

    “With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale UniversityHow the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank.During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Spies of No Country

    Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad

    **“Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAward-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but it’s all true.**The four spies were young, Jewish, and born in Arab countries. In 1948, at the outbreak of war in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The First Great Powers

    Babylon and Assyria

    The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • How Sanctions Work

    Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare

    Sanctions have enormous consequences. Especially when imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of citizens. But do economic sanctions induce the behavioral changes intended? Do sanctions work in the way they should?To answer these questions, the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes over 14 photos and mapsMore than fifty years after World War II, America’s major air power contribution to the war in Europe-in efforts such as Big Week, Regensburg, and Patton’s dash across Europe-live on in the memories of airmen and students of air power. Never before had air forces performed so many roles in so many different types of operations. Air power proved to be extremely ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Question of Palestine

    **This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever."A compelling call for identity and justice." —Anthony Lewis"Books such as Mr. Said's need to be written and read in the hope that understanding will provide a better chance of survival." —The New York Times Book Review**With the rigorous scholarship he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Prisoner of the Infidels

    The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe

    Series series World Literature in Translation
    Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation.A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the seventeenth-century memoir of Osman Agha of Timişoara—slave, adventurer, and diplomat—into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman’s life begins ... Read more

    $18.99 USD