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  • A Garland of Bones

    Child Runaways in India

    by Jonah Steinberg ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    An intimate portrait of India’s child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their livesThis intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children’s decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, and considers histories of landlessness and debt ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Isma'ili Modern

    Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community

    by Jonah Steinberg ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • The Eve of Destruction

    The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War

    by Howard Blum ...
    On October 6, 1973—Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar—the Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody combat, an unprepared Israel was fighting for survival, while the Arabs, with massive forces closing in on the Jewish heartland, were poised to redeem the honor lost in three previous wars.Based on ... Read more

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  • The Crucible of Islam

    by G. W. Bowersock ...
    Little is known about sixth-century Arabia. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from Iberia to India. G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why arid Arabia proved to be fertile ground for Muhammad’s message and why it spread so quickly to the wider world. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The 51 Day War

    Ruin and Resistance in Gaza

    by Max Blumenthal ...
    On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing fifty-one days of war left more than 2,200 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Palestinian civilians, including over 500 children. During the assault, at least 10,000 homes were destroyed and, according to the United Nations, nearly 300,000 Palestinians were displaced. Max ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Israel/Palestine

    How to End the War of 1948

    by Tanya Reinhart ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the negotiating ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Elvis in Jerusalem

    Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel

    by Tom Segev ...
    Translated by Haim Watzman ...
    In a provocative exploration of Israel's cultural identity, award-winning author Tom Segev challenges long-held notions of national unity.In his many works of history, Tom Segev has challenged entrenched understandings of crucial moments in Israel's past. Now, in this short, sharp, polemical book, Segev turns his sights from Israeli history to confront revered assumptions about the country today ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Talking to the Enemy

    Stories

    by Avner Mandelman ...
    **Winner of the 2006 American Library Association Sophie Brody AwardA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2005**The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has shaped the consciousness of a generation, but never before has it been brought to life in such vivid and telling prose. Part Tim O’Brien and part Bernard Malamud, Avner Mandelman’s Talking to the Enemy ranges from boisterously entertaining tales of domestic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Israeli F-4 Phantom II Aces

    by Shlomo Aloni ...
    Series Book 60 - Aircraft of the Aces
    The American manufactured F-4 Phantom II was used by the Israelis in air-to-ground missions, as an attack aircraft, and air-to-air missions as a fighter.Despite performing both roles with equal success the Israeli reliance on the Mirage III and Nesher delta fighters meant that the F-4 was used most regularly in its air-to-ground role. The kill total of the Israeli F-4 community was, consequently, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Missing Peace

    The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace

    by Dennis Ross ...
    "The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill ClintonThe Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever written. Dennis Ross, the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Israel Means to Me

    By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists

    by Alan Dershowitz ...
    Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People"The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a matter of life and death there-all these things beguiled me."-Erica Jong, author"What does Israel mean to me? Courage. The Israelis have more courage in their pinky finger than I have in my whole life."-Tovah Feldshuh, actress"It is an unparalleled story ... Read more

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  • The Global Offensive

    The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order

    by Paul Thomas Chamberlin ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in International History
    On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp in Jordan. They suffered terrible casualties, but they won a stunning symbolic victory that transformed Arafat into an Arab hero and allowed him to launch a worldwide campaign, one that would reshape ... Read more

    $35.09 USD