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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Landby David K. ShiplerISBN 0142002291 (0-14-200229-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land'Book summary:The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental work, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism.[via]Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes about the Holocaust, and much more. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew, the retired Israeli military officer, the Palestinian guerilla, the handsome actor whose father is Arab and whose mother is Jewish.
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Arabian Sandsby Wilfred ThesigerISBN 0140095144 (0-14-009514-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Sands'Book summary:Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, during which time he crossed the Empty Quarter twice. [via]
Arabic: Teach Yourselfby Jack SmartISBN 0071430180 (0-07-143018-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Warby Mark BowdenISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War'Book summary:The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.
Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden's minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle.
"Black Hawk Down ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like The Killer Angels and We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young."-- Bob Shacochis, The New York Observer
"If Black Hawk Down were fiction we'd rank it up there with the best war novels: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, or The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien."-- Tom Walker, The Denver Post
"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote's stirring Civil War Diary, Shiloh."-- Jim Haner, The Baltimore Sun
"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, USA Today
"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable. [via]More editions of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War:
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosniaby Chuck SudeticISBN 0140286810 (0-14-028681-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Book of Dede Korkutby Geoffrey L. LewisISBN 0140442987 (0-14-044298-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhiby William Dalrymple, Olivia FraserISBN 0142001007 (0-14-200100-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi'Book summary:[via]Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth citytoday's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits that are said to assure the city's Phoenix-like regeneration no matter how many times it is destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure.
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A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflictby Ian J. Bickerton, Carla L. KlausnerISBN 0130903035 (0-13-090303-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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The Confusionby Neal StephensonISBN 0060733357 (0-06-073335-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion'Book summary:In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.
In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession.
Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. [via] 
Crescent in a Red Skyby Amir TaheriISBN 0091734630 (0-09-173463-0)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Dawn of the Middle Ages, A.D. 476-814by Michael GrantISBN 0070240760 (0-07-024076-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Diro A. SaundersISBN 0140431896 (0-14-043189-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol" on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. "The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, pose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration," he writes. Despite these obstacles, Decline and Fall remains a model of historical exposition, and required reading for students of European history. [via]
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Essential Sufismby Robert Frager, James FadimanISBN 006251475X (0-06-251475-X)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Sufism'Book summary:Sufis are celebrated in the West for their joy, humor, and devoted worship. Two students of Sufism, James Fadiman and Robert Frager, have collected some of the jewels of Sufic literature, polished them up a bit, and organized them for ready contemplation. Rumi's poems, Attar's stories, Mohammed's terse sayings, and even some moving pieces from contemporary Western devotees make Essential Sufism a treasury of Sufic literature. The extensive introduction provides practical context, and preambles to each section set the tone for what's to come. If you haven't encountered the wisdom of Sufi mysticism, the material in this book is a good place to start; if you have, it's a comfortable place for return. [via]
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An Evil Cradling/the Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostageby Brian KeenanISBN 0140236414 (0-14-023641-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour a Narrative Drawn from Gustave Flaubert's Travel Notes & Lettersby Gustave Flaubert, Francis SteegmullerISBN 0140435824 (0-14-043582-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Global Studies: Islam And the Muslim Worldby Mir Zohair HusainISBN 0073527726 (0-07-352772-6)
Softcover, Dushkin Pub Group
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A Handbook of Living Religionsby John R. HinnellsISBN 0140135995 (0-14-013599-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A History of Indiaby Romila ThaparISBN 0140138358 (0-14-013835-8)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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A History of India Vol. 2 : From the 16th Century to the 20th Centuryby Percival SpearISBN 0140138366 (0-14-013836-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of India Vol. 2 : From the 16th Century to the 20th Century'Book summary:Covers the period from Mughal rule, through the years of British control, to the government of Nehru, with emphasis on the continuity of development from one era to the next. [via]
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0140433937 (0-14-043393-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes three and four, Gibbon vividly recounts the waves of barbarian invaders under commanders such as Alaric and Attila, who overran and eventually destroyed the West. He then turns his gaze to events in the East, where even the achievements of the Byzantine emperor Justinian and the campaigns of the brilliant military leader Belisarius could not conceal the fundamental weaknesses of their empire. [via]
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A History of the Middle Eastby Peter Mansfield, Nicolas PelhamISBN 0143034332 (0-14-303433-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Middle East'Book summary:Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. In this profound book Peter Mansfield, acclaimed author of "The Arabs," follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napolean's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of modern nations, the Palestinian question and the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. The discovery of huge oil reserves has given the region global economic importance as well as unique strategic value, and the result has been massive superpower involvement. Finally he considers the future of the Middle East and concludes that it will remain 'one of the nerve centres of the world'. [via]
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How to Recognize Islamic Artby Gabriele MandelISBN 0140052380 (0-14-005238-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joyby Hafiz, Daniel LadinskyISBN 0143037811 (0-14-303781-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditionsby Huston SmithISBN 0060674539 (0-06-067453-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions'Book summary:Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differences and the similarities among the worldwide religious traditions.
The approach is at once classic and contemporary, retaining all the empathy, eloquence, and erudition that millions of readers love about the earlier edition, while being edited and designed for a contemporary general readership. This delightful marriage of engaging text and remarkable pictures vividly brings to life the scope and vision of Huston Smith's expertise and insight.
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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iranby Christopher de BellaigueISBN 0060935367 (0-06-093536-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran'Book summary:The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers, the suicidal holy warriors, the martyrs, and the mullahs responsible for the now moribund revolution? Is modern Iran a society at peace with itself and the world, or truly a dangerous spoke in the "Axis of Evil"?
Christopher de Bellaigue, a Western journalist married to an Iranian woman and a longtime resident of a prosperous suburb of Tehran, offers a stunning insider's view of a culture hitherto hidden from American eyes, and reveals the true hearts and minds of an extraordinary people.
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Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africaby Constance B. HilliardISBN 0070288984 (0-07-028898-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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An Introduction To Islamby Frederick Mathewson DennyISBN 0131835637 (0-13-183563-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Islamby Jamal J. Elias, Ninian SmartISBN 0132662639 (0-13-266263-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Islamic Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the Literary Worldby Robert IrwinISBN 0131833324 (0-13-183332-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Pr
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Istanbul: The Imperial Cityby John FreelyISBN 0140244611 (0-14-024461-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Jerusalem, Shining Stillby Karla KuskinISBN 0064432432 (0-06-443243-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Journey of the Self: A Sufi Guide to Personalityby Shaykh Fadhlalla HaeriISBN 0062503766 (0-06-250376-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Kashmir: The Untold Storyby Humra QuraishiISBN 0143030876 (0-14-303087-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kashmir: The Untold Story'Book summary:Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists, and Indian security forces battle it out in a region once known as `paradise on earth'. In all the propaganda, and news and statistics about terrorist strikes, counter insurgency operations, and the foreign hand, the human stories are often lost. In this book, journalist Humra Quraishi draws upon her extensive travels in the Valley and interactions with ordinary Kashmiris over two decades to try and understand what the long strife has done to them. She brings us heartrending stories of mothers waiting for their young sons who disappeared years ago, picked up by the army or by militants; minds undone by the constant uncertainty and fear and almost daily humiliation; old harmonies tragically undermined by the atmosphere of suspicion; an entire generation of young Kashmiris who have grown up with no concept of security; and individual families and a whole society falling apart under the strain of the seemingly endless turmoil. [via]
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The Kingdomby Robert LaceyISBN 0151472602 (0-15-147260-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883by Simon WinchesterISBN 0060838590 (0-06-083859-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded August 27, 1883'Book summary:In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian island of Krakatoa, which resulted in the deaths of 36,000 people and sent shock-waves around the world. But what at the time was a mysterious, almost supernatural phenomenon has become, under the precepts of the contemporary science of plate tectonics, explicable if no less tragic. Winchester veers between eyewitness accounts by survivors and the limited scientific measurements of the time in an attempt to describe the indescribable. The event "is still said to be the most violent explosion ever recorded and experienced by modern man," he writes. "Six cubic miles of rock had been blasted out of existence, had been turned into pumice and ash and uncountable billions of particles of dust." Yet words and numbers can barely hint at the scale of the calamity, which resulted in tsunamis that washed whole villages into the ocean and forever changed the very topography of the area. The author also explores the social and cultural topography, noting, "Orthodox Islam, its revival in part triggered by tragic events such as the great cataclysm, was totally transformed in Java during the nineteenth century, with fundamentalism, militancy, and profound hostility to non-Muslims its watchwords." At times Winchester seems to overstate his case, and the link he finds between Krakatoa and the rise of anti-Western sentiment in the Islamic world isnt especially convincing. But, by weaving together the disaster with science, communications, politics, religion, and economics, he has come up with a comprehensive and often fascinating glimpse into the way the world, and our perception of it, can change in an instant. --Shawn Conner [via]
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Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Wayby Shah, Indries, SayedISBN 0140195130 (0-14-019513-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Legend of Seyavashby Dick Davis, Firdawsi, FerdowsiISBN 0140445668 (0-14-044566-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legend of Seyavash'Book summary:Firdowsi is the epic poet of Persia. In this book, Dick Davis translates Firdowski's story of the "Book of Kings" into couplets along the same lines as his version of Attar. [via]
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Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islamby Sonsyrea TateISBN 0062511351 (0-06-251135-1)
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A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraqby Christopher HitchensISBN 0143016083 (0-14-301608-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Jan Potocki, Ian MacLeanISBN 0140445803 (0-14-044580-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'Book summary:Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the "Decameron" and "Tales from the Thousand and One Nights", provides entertainment on an epic scale. [via]
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The Marrakesh One-Twoby Richard GrenierISBN 0140073728 (0-14-007372-8)
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0140132708 (0-14-013270-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairsby Bill Woodward, Madeleine AlbrightISBN 0060892587 (0-06-089258-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Mighty And the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, And World Affairsby William Woodward, Madeleine AlbrightISBN 0060892579 (0-06-089257-9)
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L. A. Gang Memberby Monster K. Scott, Sanyika ShakurISBN 0140232257 (0-14-023225-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliyaby Farid Al-Din AttarISBN 0140192646 (0-14-019264-6)
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The New English Bible with the Apocryphaby Joint Committee on the New Translation of the BibleISBN 0140036814 (0-14-003681-4)
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Oriental Magicby Sayed Idries ShahISBN 0140194649 (0-14-019464-9)
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The Ottomans: Dissolving Imagesby Andrew WheatcroftISBN 0140168796 (0-14-016879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ottomans: Dissolving Images'Book summary:The Ottoman Empire was a "mystery wrapped inside the enigma". This book aims to unravel the mystery in two ways. Firstly, it looks at the Ottomans and their world in terms relevant to an eastern Islamic society, with its own principles and practices that seemed merely barbaric to the West. The book also comes to terms with the West's expectations of the Ottomans. The author's aim is both to tell the story and offer some explanation. The book interprets the Ottomans, to make sense of a society that to Western eyes seemed feckless and utterly corrupt, cruel and craven by turns. It was frequently all of these things but not without reason or cause. [via]
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The Perennial Philosophyby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060901918 (0-06-090191-8)
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Persian Lettersby Montesquieu, Charles Louis De Secondat, De LA Br`Ede Et DeISBN 0140442812 (0-14-044281-2)
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Portable Gibbonby Edward GibbonISBN 0140150609 (0-14-015060-9)
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060959037 (0-06-095903-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Summer'Book summary:There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.
The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0060833165 (0-06-083316-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn'tby Stephen R. ProtheroISBN 0060846704 (0-06-084670-4)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin HamidISBN 0151013047 (0-15-101304-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Rottweiler: A Novelby Ruth RendellISBN 0091799511 (0-09-179951-1)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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The Sacred Paths Of The Westby Theodore M. LudwigISBN 0130293555 (0-13-029355-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Sacred Paths of the West/the Sacred Paths of the East/Keys to Successby Theodore M. LudwigISBN 0134474597 (0-13-447459-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Scriptures of the Westby James Fieser, John PowersISBN 0070210225 (0-07-021022-5)
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Season of Migration to the Northby Al-Tayyib SalihISBN 0141187204 (0-14-118720-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Silk Routeby John S. Major, Stephen FieserISBN 0064434680 (0-06-443468-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islamby Asra NomaniISBN 0060832975 (0-06-083297-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Struggle Within Islam: The Conflict Between Religion and Politicsby Rafiq ZakariaISBN 0140107940 (0-14-010794-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Loveby Asra NomaniISBN 0062517147 (0-06-251714-7)
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Toward the Oneby Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanISBN 006090352X (0-06-090352-X)
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Vest Pocket Arabicby HattoriISBN 0064649075 (0-06-464907-5)
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Walking The Bible: A Journey By Land Through The Five Books Of Mosesby Bruce FeilerISBN 0060838639 (0-06-083863-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking The Bible: A Journey By Land Through The Five Books Of Moses'Book summary:Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses is the story of Bruce Feiler's 10,000-mile trek from Mount Ararat to Mount Nebo, undertaken for reasons he did not understand at the outset and accompanied by a companion who was very nearly a stranger. In the book's first chapter, in characteristically understated style, Feiler suggests a viable parallel to his journey:
Abraham was not originally the man he became. He was not an Israelite, he was not a Jew. He was not even a believer in God--at least initially. He was a traveler, called by some voice not entirely clear that said: Go, head to this land, walk along this route, and trust what you will find.
Feiler, a fifth-generation American Jew from the South, had felt no particular attachment to the Holy Land. Yet during his journey, Feiler's previously abstract faith grew more grounded. ("I began to feel a certain pull from the landscape.... It was a feeling of gravity. A feeling that I wanted to take off all my clothes and lie facedown in the soil.") Feiler's attentiveness, intelligence, and adventurousness enliven every page of this book. And the lessons he learned about the relationship between place and the spirit will be useful for readers of every religious tradition that finds its origins in the Bible. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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A Wall of Lightby Edeet RavelISBN 0060761474 (0-06-076147-4)
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White Mughalsby William DalrympleISBN 014200412X (0-14-200412-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Mughals'Book summary:[via]White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa'Most excellent among Women'the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister and a descendant of the Prophet. Kirkpatrick had gone out to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjection of the subcontinent. Instead, he fell in love with Khair and overcame many obstacles to marry hernot least of which was the fact that she was locked away in purdah and engaged to a local nobleman. Eventually, while remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam, and according to Indian sources even became a double-agent working for the Hyderabadis against the East India Company.
It is a remarkable story, involving secret assignations, court intrigue, harem politics, religious and family disputes. But such things were not unknown; from the early sixteenth century, when the Inquisition banned the Portuguese in Goa from wearing the dhoti, to the eve of the Indian mutiny, the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassments to successive colonial administrations. William Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as 'Hindoo Stuart', who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols, and who spent many years trying to persuade the memsahibs of Calcutta to adopt the sari; and Sir David Ochterlony, Kirkpatrick's counterpart in Delhi, who took all thirteen of his wives out for evening promenades, each on the back of their own elephant.
In White Mughals, William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre a compelling tale of love, seduction and betrayal. It possesses all the sweep and resonance of a great nineteenth-century novel, set against a background of shifting alliances and the manoeuvring of the great powers, the mercantile ambitions of the British and the imperial dreams of Napoleon. White Mughals, the product of five years' writing and research, triumphantly confirms Dalrymple's reputation as one of the finest writers at work today.
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Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Homeby Coleman Barks, John Moyne, Jalal Al-Din RumiISBN 0140195769 (0-14-019576-9)
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The Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Villageby Erika FriedlISBN 0140149937 (0-14-014993-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Yacoubian Buildingby ALAA AL-ASWANY, Humphrey T. DaviesISBN 0060878134 (0-06-087813-4)
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Arabic: Teach Yourselfby Jack Smart, Frances AltorferISBN 0071430172 (0-07-143017-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow any of the Teach Yourself Language Courses at your own pace or use them as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are professionally designed for self-guided study, making them one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find.
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- Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar
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