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  • Long Shadows

    Truth, Lies and History

    de Erna Paris ...
    One of the most urgent issues facing the world today is how countries shape historical memory in the aftermath of calamity, making decisions that cast long shadows into the future. Combining gripping storytelling with sharp observation, Erna Paris takes us on an extraordinary journey through four continents to explore how nations reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events. She travels through ... Leer más

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  • From Tolerance to Tyranny

    A Cautionary Tale from Fifteenth-Century Spain

    de Erna Paris ...
    One thousand years ago, a civilization existed in Spain that was famed throughout Europe. To the horror of the Christian rulers to the north, Jews, Christians, and Moors lived together in harmony — and in doing so they created one of the most extraordinary societies the West has ever known.In the span a few hundred years, however, Spain would transform itself from a pluralistic, multicultural ... Leer más

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  • The Sun Climbs Slow

    The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice

    de Erna Paris ...
    In this groundbreaking investigation, Erna Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and the implications for the world at large.The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent tribunal of its kind. The mandate of the ICC is to challenge criminal impunity on the part of national ... Leer más

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  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Leer más

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  • Don't Panic

    ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East

    de Gwynne Dyer ...
    It took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called "Islamic State" into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist extremists?With the rise of ISIS, a new style of terrorism that publicly gloats over acts of extreme cruelty ... Leer más

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  • But You Did Not Come Back

    A Memoir

    A French woman's heartrending account of her survival in a WWII Nazi concentration camp—and a tribute to her father who died there.A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan ... Leer más

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  • Isabella

    The Warrior Queen

    An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspired in her youth by ... Leer más

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  • Neighboring Faiths

    Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

    Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from "a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion" ( Commonweal).Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David ... Leer más

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  • Dogs of God

    Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

    From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort to consolidate its own burgeoning power by throwing off the yoke of the Vatican. By waging war on ... Leer más

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  • The Great Reformer

    Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

    A biography exploring the making of a revolutionary leader who used his position's power to challenge and redirect the world's largest Christian church.A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of the Year"Consider this book the cornerstone of any collection on Pope Francis and twenty-first-century Christianity." — Booklist (starred review)... ... Leer más

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  • The Jews of Spain

    de Gerber ...
    The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their tragedy of expulsion marked the end of one critical phase of their history and the beginning ... Leer más

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  • Granada

    A Pomegranate in the Hand of God

    Andalusia: ancient homeland of the mysterious Iberians, birthplace of Roman emperors, seedbed of modern Anarchism, and unmarked gravesite of Spain's greatest lyric poet. Perhaps most importantly, Andalusia is home to the city of Granada, where a hybrid culture composed of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with ... Leer más

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