Item 616995Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine
Bantam Books. Trade Paperback.
Bantam Books. Trade Paperback.
Hachette Books, August 2005. Hardcover. A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet.....
Atria Books, May 1998. Hardcover. Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by side for the first time in this remarkable book to share powerful feelings and reflections on growing up in one of the world's longest and most dangerous conflicts. Here, thirty-six men and women, boys and girls, tell of.....
Garden City Publishing Company. Hardcover. Cocked. Cocked.
Newsweek Books, January 1972. Hardcover.
Anchor, June 1991. Trade Paperback. In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence--forever known as Lawrence of Arabia--recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for languages, he joined and went on to lead the Arab revolt against.....
Routledge, November 2008. Trade Paperback. This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the American invasion of Iraq and Iran's new influence in the region. After introducing the reader to the region's history.....
Yale University Press, April 2006. Hardcover. Binding is cracking. Binding is cracking. From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less.....
TarcherPerigee, December 2007. Trade Paperback. For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores.....
Free Press, November 2001. Hardcover. On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in.....
Ministry of Defence, Hardcover.
Wiley, August 2003. Hardcover. The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Presents a passionate look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country.Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument with hard.....
Oxford University Press, April 2014. Hardcover. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that.....
Mercury House, May 1995. Trade Paperback. In this collection of 23 essays, a noted Israeli writer begins with insights on words and language (including a beautifully perceptive essay on her native Hebrew: The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World) and ends with pleas for peace in.....
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, December 2003. Hardcover. Dever (Near Eastern archaeology, University of Arizona) explores controversies regarding the true nature of ancient Israel and presents the archaeological evidence for assessing the accuracy of biblical narratives. He posits that the ancestors of the Israelite peoples were most likely Canaanites who.....
Center Street, June 2018. Trade Paperback. In his new book, New York Times bestselling author Jay Sekulow presents a political and historical rationale for the existence of Israel as a sovereign nation. The State of Israel and its very right to exist is a lynchpin issue not only in the.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2017. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the.....
OR Books, April 2024. Trade Paperback. Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The book's expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never been more urgent. In September 2023, US National Security Advisor.....
Basic Books, May 2024. Hardcover. A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence--an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East. "A stunning portrait of.....
Oxford University Press, May 2019. Paperback. No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is still widely misunderstood. While Israelis.....
The Experiment, February 2023. Trade Paperback. The ongoing struggle between Israel and Palestine is one of the most bitter conflicts in history, with profound global consequences. In this book, Middle East expert Michael Scott-Baumann succinctly describes its origins and charts its evolution from civil war to the present day. Each.....
Oneworld Publications, September 2007. Trade Paperback. 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.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, July 2019. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first definitive history of Israel's targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world--from the man hailed by David Remnick as "arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter." "An exceptional work.....
Anchor, July 2005. Paperback. The definitive biography, mesmerizing and "richly textured " (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. - With a new Afterword - "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." --The Boston Globe Here is the story of Gertrude Bell.....
Picador Paper, January 2021. Trade Paperback. The New York Times Bestseller Palestine Book Award Winner Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize Named the Best Book of 2020 by Foreign Affairs A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the.....