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"James Martin’s riveting new meditation on Jesus is one of the best books I’ve read in yearsーon any subject." ー Mary Karr, author of Lit James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of Am……続きを見る

Spanning more than five decades, here is a riveting true account of fighting America’s enemies around the worldーtold by the soldier/operative who was there I am not a hero. Billy Waugh has lurked i……続きを見る

"Feiler’s combination of journalism, commentary and self-discovery tells the reader volumes about humankind.” ーAtlanta Journal-Constitution on Abraham Bruce Feiler, the bestselling author of Walkin……続きを見る

All American is Steve Eubanks inspiring story of two football rivals who faced each other in the momentous 2001 Army-Navy Game who would both go on to serve in the United States military in the Iraq……続きを見る

“Among many recent books on Pakistan, Mr. Akbar’s stands out….A fine and detailed history of Indian Muslim anger and insecurity.” ーThe Economist In Tinderbox, India’s leading journalist delivers a ……続きを見る

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed account of fighting in I……続きを見る

Der Irak liegt in einer der ältesten Kulturlandschaften der Menschheit; seine Hauptstadt Bagdad war im Mittelalter das glanzvolle Zentrum der islamischen Welt. Heute scheint der Reichtum des Landes ……続きを見る

Palmyra ist seit 1980 Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes. Die kulturelle Bedeutung dieser jahrtausendealten Oasenstadt, die so reich an archäologischen Denkmälern ist, hat sie nun zum Ziel des islamistischen……続きを見る

A bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War. The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war, and the Syrian civil warーthese contemporary conflicts have de……続きを見る

«Jeden Tag hörte ich die Stimmen der Opfer, die ihr Leid herausschrien, um zu sagen, was in den Gefängnissen geschieht. Niemand war da, um es zu bezeugen, niemand antwortete ihnen. Diese Toten haben……続きを見る

A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressiv……続きを見る

For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: re……続きを見る

Mustafa Kemal was known both as a vicious dictator and the iron-willed creator of modern Turkey however little was known about him and he was viewed as an enigma by many. Originally published in 193……続きを見る

The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in……続きを見る

This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and emp……続きを見る

Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link betwee……続きを見る

Hagith Sivan offers an unconventional study of one corner of the Roman Empire in late antiquity, weaving around the theme of conflict strands of distinct histories, and of peoples and places, highli……続きを見る

This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, ration……続きを見る

At the Cold War's height, John F. Kennedy set precedents that continue to shape America's encounter with the Middle East. Kennedy was the first president to make a major arms sale to Israel, the onl……続きを見る

Self-determination, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire. The new states that Euro……続きを見る

One hundred years after the deportations and mass murder of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other peoples in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the history of the Armenian genocide is a victim……続きを見る

The Intifada of 2000-2001 has demonstrated the end of an era of diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The style of peacemaking of the Olso Accords has been called into question by the facts on the……続きを見る

Before they had an empire in the East, the British travelled into the Islamic world to pursue trade and to form strategic alliances against the Catholic powers of France and Spain. First-hand encoun……続きを見る

Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest……続きを見る

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspo……続きを見る

The creation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971 ended a century and a half of the existence of the Trucial States in special treaty relations with Britain. This book, first published in 1978, descr……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1986, examines the literature on administration, human resources and development in the Arab world. It emphasizes contemporary societies and their internal dynamics, th……続きを見る

The modern Arab world is faced with a serious problem in the imbalance between human and natural resources. The Gulf states, with their vast natural resources, are poor in human resources, whereas i……続きを見る

The Middle East, defined here as extending from Morocco to Iran and Turkey to Sudan, lies at the crossroads of three continents – Africa, Asia and Europe. With the largest reserves of petroleum in t……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1991, moves beyond sensational headlines to explore how Middle Eastern men and women speak and feel about the societies in which they live. Kevin Dwyer makes use of ext……続きを見る