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2	Istanbul	Memories and the City	Pamuk, Orhan		Paperback			Alfred A. Knopf			2017	978-1-52473-223-3		625		en	TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues	Biography & Autobiography; Essays & Travelogues; LITERARY CRITICISM; Middle Eastern; Personal Memoirs; TRAVEL				0	0			0	dc5b9f532ce4d89f3dac749e7feedc19.jpeg	From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy--or hüzün--that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters--both Turkish and foreign--who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.	<p><br> <b>From the Nobel Prize-winning author of <i>My Name Is Red</i> and <i>Snow,</i> a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction.</b><br> <br> Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy--or <i>hüzün</i>--that all <i>Istanbullus</i> share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters--both Turkish and foreign--who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.</p>	2	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
3	Revolution For Dummies	Laughing through the Arab Spring	Youssef, Bassem		Paperback			Harpercollins			2017-3-21	978-0-06-244691-6		154		en	Political Science / World / Middle Eastern	Biography & Autobiography; Egypt; History; Middle East; Middle Eastern; Personal Memoirs; Political Science; World				0	0			0	c6e616a26652197704fdb2a5b9bd4c36.jpeg	“Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” --Jon Stewart"The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"—the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt’s history—chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil roiling the modern Middle East, all of which inspired the documentary about his life, Tickling Giants.Bassem Youssef’s incendiary satirical news program, Al-Bernameg (The Program), chronicled the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, and the rise of Mubarak’s successor, Mohamed Morsi. Youssef not only captured his nation’s dissent but stamped it with his own brand of humorous political criticism, in which the Egyptian government became the prime laughing stock.So potent were Youssef’s skits, jokes, and commentary, the authoritarian government accused him of insulting the Egyptian presidency and Islam. After a six-hour long police interrogation, Youssef was released. While his case was eventually dismissed, his television show was terminated, and Youssef, fearful for his safety, fled his homeland. In Revolution for Dummies, Youssef recounts his life and offers hysterical riffs on the hypocrisy, instability, and corruption that has long animated Egyptian politics. From the attempted cover-up of the violent clashes in Tahrir Square to the government’s announcement that it had created the world’s first "AIDS cure" machine, to the conviction of officials that Youssef was a CIA operative—recruited by Jon Stewart—to bring down the country through sarcasm. There’s much more—and it’s all insanely true.Interweaving the dramatic and inspiring stories of the development of his popular television show and his rise as the most contentious funny-man in Egypt, Youssef’s humorous, fast-paced takes on dictatorship, revolution, and the unforeseeable destiny of democracy in the Modern Middle East offers much needed hope and more than a few healing laughs. A documentary about his life, Tickling Giants, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, and is now scheduled for major release.	<p>“Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” --Jon Stewart</p><p>"The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"—the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt’s history—chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil roiling the modern Middle East, all of which inspired the documentary about his life, Tickling Giants.</p><p>Bassem Youssef’s incendiary satirical news program, Al-Bernameg (The Program), chronicled the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, and the rise of Mubarak’s successor, Mohamed Morsi. Youssef not only captured his nation’s dissent but stamped it with his own brand of humorous political criticism, in which the Egyptian government became the prime laughing stock.</p><p>So potent were Youssef’s skits, jokes, and commentary, the authoritarian government accused him of insulting the Egyptian presidency and Islam. After a six-hour long police interrogation, Youssef was released. While his case was eventually dismissed, his television show was terminated, and Youssef, fearful for his safety, fled his homeland. </p><p>In Revolution for Dummies, Youssef recounts his life and offers hysterical riffs on the hypocrisy, instability, and corruption that has long animated Egyptian politics. From the attempted cover-up of the violent clashes in Tahrir Square to the government’s announcement that it had created the world’s first "AIDS cure" machine, to the conviction of officials that Youssef was a CIA operative—recruited by Jon Stewart—to bring down the country through sarcasm. There’s much more—and it’s all insanely true.</p><p>Interweaving the dramatic and inspiring stories of the development of his popular television show and his rise as the most contentious funny-man in Egypt, Youssef’s humorous, fast-paced takes on dictatorship, revolution, and the unforeseeable destiny of democracy in the Modern Middle East offers much needed hope and more than a few healing laughs. A documentary about his life, Tickling Giants, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, and is now scheduled for major release. </p>	3	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
4	Femme Fatale	A New Biography of Mata Hari	Shipman, Pat		Paperback			Harper Collins			2009-3-17	978-0-06-185316-6		468		en	Biography & Autobiography / General	Biography & Autobiography				0	0			0	09857bee0786c2aa905d2b2d003f6c5e.jpeg	In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. But was she actually a spy? In this persuasive new biography, Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth.	<p>In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. But was she actually a spy? In this persuasive new biography, Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth.</p>	4	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
5	Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)	True Stories from a War Zone	Cain, Kenneth|Postlewait, Heidi|Thomson, Andrew		Paperback			Ebury Press			2006	978-0-09-190886-7		324		en	True Crime / General	True Crime	And Other Desperate Measures			0	0			0	26d1148885ed3aea577eefb7ac01c608.jpeg	It's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken and Heidi's paths cross in Cambodia, from where their fates are to become inextricably bound.Over the coming years, their stories interweave through countries such Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti - war-torn, lawless places where the intervention of the UN is needed like nowhere else. Driven by idealism, the three struggle to do the best they can, caught up in an increasingly tangled web of bureaucracy and ineffectual leadership. As disillusionment sets in, they attempt to keep hold of their humanity through black humour, revelry and 'emergency sex'.Brutal and moving in equal measure, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) explores pressing global issues while never losing a sense of the personal. Deeply critical of the West's indifference to developing countries and the UN's repeated failure to intervene decisively, the book provoked massive controversy on its initial publication. Kofi Annan called for the book to be banned, and debate was sparked about the future direction of the UN. Brilliantly written and mordantly funny, it is a book that continues to make waves.	It's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken and Heidi's paths cross in Cambodia, from where their fates are to become inextricably bound.Over the coming years, their stories interweave through countries such Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti - war-torn, lawless places where the intervention of the UN is needed like nowhere else. Driven by idealism, the three struggle to do the best they can, caught up in an increasingly tangled web of bureaucracy and ineffectual leadership. As disillusionment sets in, they attempt to keep hold of their humanity through black humour, revelry and 'emergency sex'.Brutal and moving in equal measure, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) explores pressing global issues while never losing a sense of the personal. Deeply critical of the West's indifference to developing countries and the UN's repeated failure to intervene decisively, the book provoked massive controversy on its initial publication. Kofi Annan called for the book to be banned, and debate was sparked about the future direction of the UN. Brilliantly written and mordantly funny, it is a book that continues to make waves.	5	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
6	Isis Apocalypse, The	The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State	McCants, William|McCants, William Faizi		Paperback			MacMillan			2015-9-22	978-1-25008-090-5		258		English	Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism	History; Iraq; Middle East; Political Ideologies; Political Science; Radicalism; Terrorism				0	0			0	695f02c222deba35cb6de79c3a6bdcd9.jpeg	"The so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, has inspired young men and women around the world to commit heinous acts in its name. By the thousands, they have flooded into the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria and Iraq, and in nearly every continent they have carried out attacks under its black banner. The Islamic State has become one of the most popular and successful jihadist groups on the planet, surpassing even al-Qaeda. How did the Islamic State attract so many followers and conquer so much land? By being more ruthless, more messianic, and more devoted to empire-building than its competitors. The shrewd leaders of the Islamic State combined two of the most powerful yet contradictory ideas in Islam--the return of the Islamic Empire and the end of the world--into a mission and a message that shapes its strategy and inspires its army of zealous fighters. They have defied conventional thinking about how to wage wars and win recruits. Even if the Islamic State is defeated, jihadist terrorism will never be the same. Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few outsiders have seen--The ISIS Apocalypse by William McCants explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophesy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future"--	"The so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, has inspired young men and women around the world to commit heinous acts in its name. By the thousands, they have flooded into the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria and Iraq, and in nearly every continent they have carried out attacks under its black banner. The Islamic State has become one of the most popular and successful jihadist groups on the planet, surpassing even al-Qaeda. How did the Islamic State attract so many followers and conquer so much land? By being more ruthless, more messianic, and more devoted to empire-building than its competitors. The shrewd leaders of the Islamic State combined two of the most powerful yet contradictory ideas in Islam--the return of the Islamic Empire and the end of the world--into a mission and a message that shapes its strategy and inspires its army of zealous fighters. They have defied conventional thinking about how to wage wars and win recruits. Even if the Islamic State is defeated, jihadist terrorism will never be the same. Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few outsiders have seen--The ISIS Apocalypse by William McCants explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophesy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future"--	6	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
7	Isis	inside the army of terror	Weiss, Michael|Hassan, Hassan		Paperback			Regan Arts.	First Regan Arts paperback edition.		2015-2-17	978-1-941393-57-4	2015930621	288		English	History / Middle East / General	IS (Organization); Terrorism; Islam; Terrorists; Insurgency				0	0			0	3db86700eb4eb98881cdf0075e927538.jpeg	A revelatory look inside the world's most dangerous terrorist group.With brutal attacks across the world—Paris, Beirut, Egypt, Turkey—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has proved itself the greatest threat today. They have conquered massive territories in Syria and Iraq in a bid to create a new Muslim caliphate under the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who, with slickly produced murder videos, are spreading violence and mayhem across the globe. Beginning with the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS’s first incarnation, Weiss and Hassan explain who the key players are—from their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the former Saddam Baathists in their ranks—where they come from, how they have attracted both local and global support, and how they operate—from their social media strategy to their illicit oil revenues. Political and military maneuvering by the United States, Iraq, Iran, and Syria have fueled ISIS’s explosive expansion. Drawing on original interviews with former US military officials and current ISIS fighters, the authors also reveal the internecine struggles within the movement itself, as well as ISIS’s bloody hatred of Shiite Muslims, which is generating another sectarian war in the region. A new generation of terror has dawned in the world and to understand how to stop it, we must understand who they are.	Includes bibliographic references (pages 243-267).	7	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
8	Isis	Inside the Army of Terror (Updated Edition)	Weiss, Michael|Hassan, Hassan		Paperback			Simon and Schuster			2016-3-29	978-1-68245-020-8		432		en	Religion / Islam / General	History; Islam; Middle East; Political Science; Religion; Terrorism				0	0			0	8da9651f8ce5bca8ee44c9500a3ce878.png	Fully Revised & Updated Edition of the New York Times Bestselling and Highly Praised Book on ISIS With newly added material and breaking news including: —Interview with a former ISIS spymaster —Why ISIS is targeting Europe and the US —What Russia wants in Syria —Revelations on the brutal ideology of ISISWith brutal attacks in last year across the globe—Brussels, Paris, Beirut, Egypt, Turkey—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has proved itself the greatest terrorist threat in the world today. They have conquered massive territories in Syria and Iraq in a bid to create a new Muslim caliphate under the strict dictates of Sharia law. In this fully revised and updated edition of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who, with slickly produced murder videos, are spreading violence and mayhem across the globe. Beginning with the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS’s first incarnation, Weiss and Hassan explain who the key players are—from their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the former Saddam Baathists in their ranks—where they come from, how they have attracted both local and global support, and how they operate—from their social media strategy to their illicit oil revenues. As money and matériel continue to flow into the region to combat the ISIS’s spreading terror, other forces—Assad’s regime, Russian planes, Iranian Quds Forces, and other Shiite militias—are gaining power and using the fight against ISIS as a means to leverage their agenda in the region. Political and military maneuvering by the United States, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Russia have fueled ISIS’s explosive expansion. In five new chapters, the authors delve further into the inner workings of the Army of Terror and what it is like to live under their ever-tightening rule. With invaluable and exclusive insider information, the authors explore the Islamic State’s enigmatic recruitment and training methods, the impact of their military successes and failures, and how they structure and empower home-grown cells worldwide to carry out their terror. Drawing on original interviews with former US military officials and current ISIS fighters—and brand-new interviews with a former ISIS spy, as well as Kurdish and Yazidi survivors of the ISIS’s assault on northern Iraq—the authors reveal the internecine struggles within the movement itself, as well as ISIS’s bloody hatred of Shiite Muslims, which is generating another sectarian war in the region. A new generation of terror has dawned in the world and to understand how to stop it, we must understand who they are.	<b>Fully Revised & Updated Edition of the <i>New York Times</i> Bestselling and Highly Praised Book on ISIS</b><br> <br> <b>With newly added material and breaking news including:</b><br> <b>—Interview with a former ISIS spymaster</b><br> <b>—Why ISIS is targeting Europe and the US</b><br> <b>—What Russia wants in Syria</b><br> <b>—Revelations on the brutal ideology of ISIS</b><br><br>With brutal attacks in last year across the globe—Brussels, Paris, Beirut, Egypt, Turkey—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has proved itself the greatest terrorist threat in the world today. They have conquered massive territories in Syria and Iraq in a bid to create a new Muslim caliphate under the strict dictates of Sharia law. <br> <br>In this fully revised and updated edition of <i>ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror</i>, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who, with slickly produced murder videos, are spreading violence and mayhem across the globe. Beginning with the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS’s first incarnation, Weiss and Hassan explain who the key players are—from their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the former Saddam Baathists in their ranks—where they come from, how they have attracted both local and global support, and how they operate—from their social media strategy to their illicit oil revenues. As money and matériel continue to flow into the region to combat the ISIS’s spreading terror, other forces—Assad’s regime, Russian planes, Iranian Quds Forces, and other Shiite militias—are gaining power and using the fight against ISIS as a means to leverage their agenda in the region.<br> <br>Political and military maneuvering by the United States, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Russia have fueled ISIS’s explosive expansion. In five new chapters, the authors delve further into the inner workings of the Army of Terror and what it is like to live under their ever-tightening rule. With invaluable and exclusive insider information, the authors explore the Islamic State’s enigmatic recruitment and training methods, the impact of their military successes and failures, and how they structure and empower home-grown cells worldwide to carry out their terror. Drawing on original interviews with former US military officials and current ISIS fighters—and brand-new interviews with a former ISIS spy, as well as Kurdish and Yazidi survivors of the ISIS’s assault on northern Iraq—the authors reveal the internecine struggles within the movement itself, as well as ISIS’s bloody hatred of Shiite Muslims, which is generating another sectarian war in the region. A new generation of terror has dawned in the world and to understand how to stop it, we must understand who they are.	8	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
9	Ways Of Going Home	A Novel	Zambra, Alejandro		Paperback			Farrar, Straus and Giroux			2013-1-8	978-1-46682-820-9		162		en	Fiction / Literary	Fiction; Literary				0	0			0	ef25af50b0f746ad419c696fed180284.png	Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl.In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but who quietly sympathized—to what degree, the author isn't sure—with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life—which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonist—expose the raw suture of fiction and reality.Ways of Going Home switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too late—the generation which, as the author-narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.	<p>Alejandro Zambra's <i>Ways of Going Home </i>begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl.</p><p>In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but who quietly sympathized—to what degree, the author isn't sure—with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life—which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonist—expose the raw suture of fiction and reality.</p><br><p><i>Ways of Going Home s</i>witches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too late—the generation which, as the author-narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.</p>	9	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
10	Syrian Jihad, The	Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency	Lister, Charles R.		Paperback			Oxford University Press			2016-1-2	978-0-19-061346-4		448		en	History / Middle East / Iraq	History; Iraq; Middle East; Political Science; Security (National & International); Terrorism				0	0			0	f0dddcf052d53e650370a626d73f9ae4.jpeg	The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing civil war is so brutal and protracted has only compounded the situation, as have developments in Iraq and Lebanon. Ranging across the battlefields and international borders have been dozens of jihadi Islamist fighting groups, of which some coalesced into significant factions such as Jabhat al Nusra and the Islamic State. This book assesses and explains the emergence since 2011 of Sunni jihadist organizations in Syria's fledgling insurgency, charts their evolution and situates them within the global Islamist project. Unprecedented numbers of foreign fighters have joined such groups, who will almost certainly continue to host them. Thus, external factors in their emergence are scrutinized, including the strategic and tactical lessons learned from other jihadist conflict zones and the complex interplay between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and how it has influenced the jihadist sphere in Syria. Tensions between and conflict within such groups also feature in this indispensable volume.	The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing civil war is so brutal and protracted has only compounded the situation, as have developments in Iraq and Lebanon. Ranging across the battlefields and international borders have been dozens of jihadi Islamist fighting groups, of which some coalesced into significant factions such as Jabhat al Nusra and the Islamic State. This book assesses and explains the emergence since 2011 of Sunni jihadist organizations in Syria's fledgling insurgency, charts their evolution and situates them within the global Islamist project. Unprecedented numbers of foreign fighters have joined such groups, who will almost certainly continue to host them. Thus, external factors in their emergence are scrutinized, including the strategic and tactical lessons learned from other jihadist conflict zones and the complex interplay between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and how it has influenced the jihadist sphere in Syria. Tensions between and conflict within such groups also feature in this indispensable volume.	10	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
11	Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present		Oren, Michael B.		Paperback			W. W. Norton & Company			2008-2-17	978-0-393-34152-2		891		en	History / United States / General	History; Middle East; United States				0	0			0	5c302cb69089a975f2d48cf555168a3b.jpeg	“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Power, Faith, and Fantasytells the remarkable story of America's 230-year relationship with the Middle East. Drawing on a vast range of government documents, personal correspondence, and the memoirs of merchants, missionaries, and travelers, Michael B. Oren narrates the unknown story of how the United States has interacted with this vibrant and turbulent region.	<p>“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek</p> Power, Faith, and Fantasytells the remarkable story of America's 230-year relationship with the Middle East. Drawing on a vast range of government documents, personal correspondence, and the memoirs of merchants, missionaries, and travelers, Michael B. Oren narrates the unknown story of how the United States has interacted with this vibrant and turbulent region.	11	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
12	Ill Winds	Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency	Diamond, Larry		Paperback			Penguin			2019-6-11	978-0-525-56063-0		368		en	History / Modern / 21st Century	21st Century; Democracy; History; Modern; Political Ideologies; Political Science; United States				0	0			0	eed0f115d50073b03ec64cf915f09663.jpeg	From America’s leading scholar of democracy,a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of libertyLarry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. Ill Winds' core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals relies on U.S. global leadership. If we do not reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the twenty-first century into a dark time of despotism.We are at a hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. Ill Winds offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization, reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote count. In 2019, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We the people."	<b>From America’s leading scholar of democracy,a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of liberty</b><br><br>Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. <br><br><i>Ill Winds'</i> core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals relies on U.S. global leadership. If we do not reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the twenty-first century into a dark time of despotism.<br><br>We are at a hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. <i>Ill Winds</i> offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization, reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote count. <br><br>In 2019, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We the people."	12	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
13	Crossing, The	My journey to the shattered heart of Syria	Yazbek, Samar		Paperback			Random House			2015-7-2	978-1-47352-794-2		193		en	Social Science / Emigration & Immigration	20th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Emigration & Immigration; History; Human Rights; Middle East; Modern; Personal Memoirs; Political Science; Religion; Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict; Social Science				0	0			0	c23ea782c74fa0507f096be5850ba19d.jpeg	'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael PalinFOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMBJournalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland.From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive, to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so many are now desperate to flee.	<p><b>'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- <i>Observer</i></b></p><p><b>'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael Palin</b></p><p><b>FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB</b><br><b></b><br>Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. <i>The Crossing </i>is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland.</p><p>From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive, to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so many are now desperate to flee.</p>	13	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
14	Cairo Pop	Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt	Gilman, Daniel J.		Paperback			University Of Minnesota Press			Nov 01, 2014	978-0-8166-8928-6		256		en	Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social	Anthropology; Cultural & Social; Egypt; Ethnomusicology; History; Middle East; Music; Social Science				0	0			0	c82cb2db5918b228b6bc9bbaf64b4180.jpeg	Cairo Pop is the first book to examine the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their government, which eventually helped oust longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in early 2011. Living in Cairo at the time of the revolution, Daniel Gilman saw, and more importantly heard, the impact that popular music can have on culture and politics. Here he contributes a richly ethnographic analysis of the relationship between mass-mediated popular music, modernity, and nationalism in the Arab world.Before Cairo Pop, most scholarship on the popular music of Egypt focused on musiqa al-?arab. Immensely popular in the 1950s and '60s and even into the '70s, musiqa al-?arab adheres to Arabic musical theory, with non-Western scales based on tunings of the strings of the 'ud—the lute that features prominently, nearly ubiquitously, in Arabic music. However, today one in five Egyptians is between the ages of 15 and 24; half the population is under the age of 25. And shababiyya is their music of choice. By speaking informally with dozens of everyday young people in Cairo, Gilman comes to understand shababiyya as more than just a musical genre: sometimes it is for dancing or seduction, other times it propels social activism, at others it is simply sonic junk food.In addition to providing a clear Egyptian musical history as well as a succinct modern political history of the nation, Cairo Pop elevates the aural and visual aesthetic of shababiyya—and its role in the lives of a nation's youth.	Source title: Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt	14	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
15	Feminists in Development Organizations	Change from the Margins	Eyben, Rosalind|Turquet, Laura		Paperback			Practical Action Publishing			2013	978-1-85339-805-6		208		en	Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries	Developing & Emerging Countries; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science				0	0			0	e5ab5ed9edc1284432e17b132cd818e9.jpeg	Every day in international development organizations, feminists make use of strategy, tactics, wisdom and skill to act for their principles. Most of their strategies are invisible and their tactics subtle. They draw on networks of friendships and relationships that create ripples of effect in enabling their organizations to be pathways of women's empowerment.Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project between 2007 and 2012 in which a group of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international non-governmental organizations came together to critically reflect on their work. The personal stories in this book show that these feminists are 'tempered radicals' positioned on the border of the development agencies that employ them. It is a place where they are neither fully one thing nor another: neither fully paid-up, pen-pushing bureaucrats, nor full-blown feminist activists on the barricades. Nevertheless, these feminist bureaucrats see their work as urgent, essential and a necessary contribution to global efforts to achieve women's rights.Through a series of case studies written by women in development organizations this book reflects on the progress of gender mainstreaming. It shows how feminists can build effective strategies to influence development organizations. It demonstrates and fosters a creative dialogue between feminists working inside and outside bureaucracies for greater understanding and more effective alliances for social change.This book is aimed at staff of development organizations -- who want their organizations to become an instrument in helping transform the lives of women -- and at students and researchers concerned with the politics of gender mainstreaming.Rosalind Eyben has had long experience of working as a practitioner and bureaucrat, including at the UK Department for International Development (DFID). She is currently a professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where she has been a member of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment international research consortium, studying power and relations in international aid.Laura Turquet has worked on gender equality as an advocate and researcher for the past decade, including at the Fawcett Society, Action Aid UK and the newly established United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in New York.'The innovative and even subversive strategies these feminist pioneers have deployed to make their institutions more accountable to women is a revelation.'Srilatha Batliwala, Scholar Associate, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)'Seldom can outsiders understand the challenges of life-on-the-edge within bureaucracies that are ambivalent about employing you for what you believe in.'Alan Fowler, Emeritus Professor of Civil Society in International Development, Erasmus University	Every day in international development organizations, feminists make use of strategy, tactics, wisdom and skill to act for their principles. Most of their strategies are invisible and their tactics subtle. They draw on networks of friendships and relationships that create ripples of effect in enabling their organizations to be pathways of women's empowerment.<br><br>Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project between 2007 and 2012 in which a group of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international non-governmental organizations came together to critically reflect on their work. The personal stories in this book show that these feminists are 'tempered radicals' positioned on the border of the development agencies that employ them. It is a place where they are neither fully one thing nor another: neither fully paid-up, pen-pushing bureaucrats, nor full-blown feminist activists on the barricades. Nevertheless, these feminist bureaucrats see their work as urgent, essential and a necessary contribution to global efforts to achieve women's rights.<br><br>Through a series of case studies written by women in development organizations this book reflects on the progress of gender mainstreaming. It shows how feminists can build effective strategies to influence development organizations. It demonstrates and fosters a creative dialogue between feminists working inside and outside bureaucracies for greater understanding and more effective alliances for social change.<br><br>This book is aimed at staff of development organizations -- who want their organizations to become an instrument in helping transform the lives of women -- and at students and researchers concerned with the politics of gender mainstreaming.<br><br>Rosalind Eyben has had long experience of working as a practitioner and bureaucrat, including at the UK Department for International Development (DFID). She is currently a professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where she has been a member of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment international research consortium, studying power and relations in international aid.<br><br>Laura Turquet has worked on gender equality as an advocate and researcher for the past decade, including at the Fawcett Society, Action Aid UK and the newly established United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in New York.<br><br>'The innovative and even subversive strategies these feminist pioneers have deployed to make their institutions more accountable to women is a revelation.'<br><br>Srilatha Batliwala, Scholar Associate, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)<br><br>'Seldom can outsiders understand the challenges of life-on-the-edge within bureaucracies that are ambivalent about employing you for what you believe in.'<br><br>Alan Fowler, Emeritus Professor of Civil Society in International Development, Erasmus University	15	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
16	Risk Society	Towards a New Modernity	Beck, Ulrich|Lash, Scott|Wynne, Brian		Paperback			Sage			1992-9-3	978-0-8039-8346-5		270		en	Social Science / Gender Studies	Gender Studies; Social Science; Sociology				0	0			0	fc92cfe0a3e7a631327cd28729ab5a05.jpeg	This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern. Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.	This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern.</p> <p></p> <p>Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.	16	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
17	Paris By the Book	A Novel	Callanan, Liam		Paperback			Penguin			2019-1-15	978-1-10198-629-5		370		en	Fiction / Family Life / General	Family Life; Fiction; Literary; Women				0	0			0	abc94a136da0d716c64e3ed4530db2d3.jpeg	NATIONAL BESTSELLER A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . . When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris. Hoping to uncover clues--and her husband--Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their arrival, she discovers an unfinished manuscript, one Robert had been writing without her knowledge . . . and that he had set in Paris. The Eady girls follow the path of the manuscript to a small, floundering English-language bookstore whose weary proprietor is eager to sell. Leah finds herself accepting the offer on the spot. As the family settles into their new Parisian life, they trace the literary paths of some beloved Parisian classics, including Madeline and The Red Balloon, hoping more clues arise. But a series of startling discoveries forces Leah to consider that she may not be ready for what solving this mystery might do to her family--and the Paris she thought she knew. Charming, haunting, and triumphant, Paris by the Book follows one woman's journey as she writes her own story, exploring the power of family and the magic that hides within the pages of a book.	<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br> <br> A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris</b><br> <br> <i>Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . .</i><br> <br> When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris.<br> <br> Hoping to uncover clues--and her husband--Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their arrival, she discovers an unfinished manuscript, one Robert had been writing without her knowledge . . . and that he had set in Paris. The Eady girls follow the path of the manuscript to a small, floundering English-language bookstore whose weary proprietor is eager to sell. Leah finds herself accepting the offer on the spot.<br> <br> As the family settles into their new Parisian life, they trace the literary paths of some beloved Parisian classics, including <i>Madeline</i> and <i>The Red Balloon</i>, hoping more clues arise. But a series of startling discoveries forces Leah to consider that she may not be ready for what solving this mystery might do to her family--and the Paris she thought she knew.<br> <br> Charming, haunting, and triumphant, <i>Paris by the Book</i> follows one woman's journey as she writes her own story, exploring the power of family and the magic that hides within the pages of a book.	17	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
18	Innovation & Intellectual Property	Collaborative dynamics in Africa	de Beer, Jeremy|Armstrong, Chris|Oguamanam, Chidi|Schönwetter, Tobias		Paperback			Uct Press			2014-1-29	978-1-919895-99-4		424		en	Law / Intellectual Property / Copyright	Copyright; Intellectual Property; Law				0	0			0	d7e18e36df4f1c509147a80bc6d5a23d.jpeg	There are opposing views about how IP protection influences innovation and creativity, and in many developing countries the IP environment could be said to be suboptimal, which adds complexity to this debate. With this in mind, the World Intellectual Property Organisation has established a set of ‘development agenda’ initiatives aimed at balancing developed-country and developing-country interests in global IP governance and norm-setting. However, research around how existing or potential IP systems can be harnessed in a manner which measures and facilitates innovation, creativity and socioeconomic development is scarce, particularly in Africa. This book offers the research findings of the Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open A.I.R.) Project, which explored the intersection of innovation, IP and development in nine African countries - Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Botswana and South Africa. It looks at the roles of IP rights in a range of sites of innovation: agricultural production, biofuel technology development, traditional medicine, university/industry research collaborations, automotive manufacturing, independent musical production and distribution, and scholarly publishing.  The authors establish that African innovation in the present international IP system is undervalued, and the case studies reveal a wide array of innovation contexts and of IP systems at play in them, suggesting alternative potential IP systems.	<p>There are opposing views about how IP protection influences innovation and creativity, and in many developing countries the IP environment could be said to be suboptimal, which adds complexity to this debate. With this in mind, the World Intellectual Property Organisation has established a set of ‘development agenda’ initiatives aimed at balancing developed-country and developing-country interests in global IP governance and norm-setting.</p> <p>However, research around how existing or potential IP systems can be harnessed in a manner which measures and facilitates innovation, creativity and socioeconomic development is scarce, particularly in Africa. This book offers the research findings of the Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open A.I.R.) Project, which explored the intersection of innovation, IP and development in nine African countries - Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Botswana and South Africa. It looks at the roles of IP rights in a range of sites of innovation: agricultural production, biofuel technology development, traditional medicine, university/industry research collaborations, automotive manufacturing, independent musical production and distribution, and scholarly publishing. </p> <p></p><p>The authors establish that African innovation in the present international IP system is undervalued, and the case studies reveal a wide array of innovation contexts and of IP systems at play in them, suggesting alternative potential IP systems. </p>	18	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
19	Egyptians, The	A Radical Story	Shenker, Jack		Paperback			Penguin Books			2016	978-1-84614-632-9		528		en						0	0			0	45d036582f8fdbaf546993b38bbfd3ab.jpeg	From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politics In early 2011, Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention of the world. Half a decade later, the international media has largely moved on from Egypt's explosive cycles of revolution and counter-revolution - but the Arab World's most populous nation remains as volatile as ever, its turmoil intimately bound up with forms of authoritarian power and grassroots resistance that stretch right across the globe. In The Egyptians: A Radical Story, Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses that depict contemporary Egypt as a battle between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other, far more important fault lines: the far-flung communities waging war against transnational corporations, the men and women fighting to subvert long-established gender norms, the workers dramatically seizing control of their own factories, and the cultural producers (novelists, graffiti artists and illicit bedroom DJs) appropriating public space in defiance of their repressive and increasingly violent western-backed regime. Situating the Egyptian revolution in its proper context - not as an isolated event, but as an ongoing popular struggle against a certain model of state authority and economic exclusion that is replicated in different forms around the world - The Egyptians explains why the events of the past five years have proved so threatening to elites both inside Egypt and abroad. As Egypt's rulers seek to eliminate all forms of dissent, seeded within the rebellious politics of Egypt's young generation are big ideas about democracy, sovereignty, social justice and resistance that could yet change the world.	From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politics In early 2011, Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention of the world. Half a decade later, the international media has largely moved on from Egypt's explosive cycles of revolution and counter-revolution - but the Arab World's most populous nation remains as volatile as ever, its turmoil intimately bound up with forms of authoritarian power and grassroots resistance that stretch right across the globe. In The Egyptians: A Radical Story, Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses that depict contemporary Egypt as a battle between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other, far more important fault lines: the far-flung communities waging war against transnational corporations, the men and women fighting to subvert long-established gender norms, the workers dramatically seizing control of their own factories, and the cultural producers (novelists, graffiti artists and illicit bedroom DJs) appropriating public space in defiance of their repressive and increasingly violent western-backed regime. Situating the Egyptian revolution in its proper context - not as an isolated event, but as an ongoing popular struggle against a certain model of state authority and economic exclusion that is replicated in different forms around the world - The Egyptians explains why the events of the past five years have proved so threatening to elites both inside Egypt and abroad. As Egypt's rulers seek to eliminate all forms of dissent, seeded within the rebellious politics of Egypt's young generation are big ideas about democracy, sovereignty, social justice and resistance that could yet change the world.	19	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
20	Honeymoon in Tehran	Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran	Moaveni, Azadeh		Paperback			Random House			April 27, 2010	978-0-8129-7790-5		359		en	Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs	Biographies & Memoirs -- Ethnic & National; Biographies & Memoirs -- Memoirs; Biographies & Memoirs -- Specific Groups -- Women; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Political Science; Religion & Spirituality -- Islam -- Women in Islam				0	0			0	fb85b63681bc7cdd5951c8144acb611b.jpeg	Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad's strident pronouncements. And then the unexpected happens: Azadeh falls in love with a young Iranian man and decides to get married and start a family in Tehran. Suddenly, she finds herself navigating an altogether different side of Iranian life. As women are arrested for “immodest dress” and the authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists, Azadeh is forced to make the hard decision that her family's future lies outside Iran. Powerful and poignant, Honeymoon in Tehran is the harrowing story of a young woman's tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.	Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad's strident pronouncements. And then the unexpected happens: Azadeh falls in love with a young Iranian man and decides to get married and start a family in Tehran. Suddenly, she finds herself navigating an altogether different side of Iranian life. As women are arrested for “immodest dress” and the authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists, Azadeh is forced to make the hard decision that her family's future lies outside Iran. Powerful and poignant, <b>Honeymoon in Tehran</b> is the harrowing story of a young woman's tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.	20	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
21	American Hate	survivors speak out	Sethi, Arjun Singh		Paperback			New Press			2018	978-1-62097-371-4	2018017581	192		English		Politics and government; Race relations; Victims of hate crime; Racism; Hate crimes; History				1	0			0	49851af0e4ac1c3c017389881cfa37b5.jpeg	"Amid the ugly realities of contemporary America, American Hate affirms our courage and inspiration, opening a roadmap to reconciliation by means of the victims' own words."--NPR Books "The collection offers possible solutions for how people, on their own or working with others, can confront hate."--San Francisco Chronicle An NPR Best Book of 2018 A San Francisco Chronicle Books Pick One of Bitch Media's "13 Books Feminists Should Read in August" One of Paste Magazine's "The 10 Best Books of August 2018" A moving and timely collection of testimonials from people impacted by hate before and after the 2016 presidential election In American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, Arjun Singh Sethi, a community activist and civil rights lawyer, chronicles the stories of individuals affected by hate. In a series of powerful, unfiltered testimonials, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the bigoted rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration have intensified bullying, discrimination, and even violence toward them and their communities. We hear from the family of Khalid Jabara, who was murdered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in August 2016 by a man who had previously harassed and threatened them because they were Arab American. Sethi brings us the story of Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented mother of four who took sanctuary in a Denver church in February 2017 because she feared deportation under Trump's cruel immigration enforcement regime. Sethi interviews Taylor Dumpson, a young black woman who was elected student body president at American University only to find nooses hanging across campus on her first day in office. We hear from many more people impacted by the Trump administration, including Native, black, Arab, Latinx, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, undocumented, refugee, transgender, queer, and people with disabilities. A necessary book for these times, American Hate explores this tragic moment in U.S. history by empowering survivors whose voices white supremacists and right-wing populist movements have tried to silence. It also provides ideas and practices for resistance that all of us can take to combat hate both now and in the future.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192).	21	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
22	Fuga Dall'egitto. Inchiesta Sulla Diaspora Del Dopo-golpe		Scarfoglio, Azzurra Meringolo		Paperback			Infinito Edizioni			2019	978-88-68-61324-2		168		it	Political Science / International Relations / General	International Relations; Political Science				1	0			0	53d8c1a019fee09d6ff0584c238f957f.jpeg	Un'inchiesta all'interno della nuova diaspora egiziana, composta dagli esuli di ultimissima generazione. Giornalisti, sindacalisti, artisti, medici, poeti, politici e attivisti per i diritti umani scappati dal loro Paese quando, dopo íl golpe dell'estate del 2013, i militari sono tornati al potere. Un viaggio che parte da New York e Washington, tocca la Silicon Valley, Londra, Berlino, Doha, Istanbul e arriva quasi al Polo Nord. I nuovi esuli egiziani sono arrivati fin qui per sfuggire al carcere, a sommari processi di massa, a tentativi di cooptazione, alla censura di chi non voleva che raccontassero - ad esempio - dettagli scomodi sulla tragica fine di Giulio Regeni. Per alcuni l'esilio è arrivato dopo lunghi periodi di detenzione, segnati da torture fisiche e psicologiche. Dalla diaspora raccontano il viaggio con il quale è iniziato il loro esilio, spesso una fuga improvvisa che li ha resi parte di quella che alcuni storici hanno già definito la più importante ondata migratoria nella storia dell'Egitto contemporaneo. E tra gli esuli che sognano di tornare in patria nasce anche una nuova intellighenzia, che lavora per quando in Egitto tornerà la libertà. "Azzurra Meringolo con questa panoramica umana sugli esuli da un Paese governato da una dittatura ci sollecita a non lasciare nel dimenticatoio donne, uomini e processi che non abbandonano il campo a seguito di una sconfitta, ma la metabolizzano e riprendono il cammino con altre modalità, ma con lo stesso orizzonte ideale". (Moni Ovadia) "L'Egitto è considerato da molti Paesi occidentali un partner chiave nella lotta al terrorismo a livello regionale e questa è la giustificazione usata per rifornirlo di armi, software di sorveglianza e altro materiale, nonostante le prove che dimostrano il loro utilizzo per commettere gravi violazioni dei diritti umani" (Riccardo Noury). Prefazione di Moni Ovadia. Introduzione di Riccardo Noury.	Un'inchiesta all'interno della nuova diaspora egiziana, composta dagli esuli di ultimissima generazione. Giornalisti, sindacalisti, artisti, medici, poeti, politici e attivisti per i diritti umani scappati dal loro Paese quando, dopo íl golpe dell'estate del 2013, i militari sono tornati al potere. Un viaggio che parte da New York e Washington, tocca la Silicon Valley, Londra, Berlino, Doha, Istanbul e arriva quasi al Polo Nord. I nuovi esuli egiziani sono arrivati fin qui per sfuggire al carcere, a sommari processi di massa, a tentativi di cooptazione, alla censura di chi non voleva che raccontassero - ad esempio - dettagli scomodi sulla tragica fine di Giulio Regeni. Per alcuni l'esilio è arrivato dopo lunghi periodi di detenzione, segnati da torture fisiche e psicologiche. Dalla diaspora raccontano il viaggio con il quale è iniziato il loro esilio, spesso una fuga improvvisa che li ha resi parte di quella che alcuni storici hanno già definito la più importante ondata migratoria nella storia dell'Egitto contemporaneo. E tra gli esuli che sognano di tornare in patria nasce anche una nuova intellighenzia, che lavora per quando in Egitto tornerà la libertà. "Azzurra Meringolo con questa panoramica umana sugli esuli da un Paese governato da una dittatura ci sollecita a non lasciare nel dimenticatoio donne, uomini e processi che non abbandonano il campo a seguito di una sconfitta, ma la metabolizzano e riprendono il cammino con altre modalità, ma con lo stesso orizzonte ideale". (Moni Ovadia) "L'Egitto è considerato da molti Paesi occidentali un partner chiave nella lotta al terrorismo a livello regionale e questa è la giustificazione usata per rifornirlo di armi, software di sorveglianza e altro materiale, nonostante le prove che dimostrano il loro utilizzo per commettere gravi violazioni dei diritti umani" (Riccardo Noury). Prefazione di Moni Ovadia. Introduzione di Riccardo Noury.	22	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
23	Ill Winds	Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency	Diamond, Larry		Paperback			Penguin			2019-6-11	978-0-525-56063-0		368		en	History / Modern / 21st Century	21st Century; Democracy; History; Modern; Political Ideologies; Political Science; United States				1	0			0	eed0f115d50073b03ec64cf915f09663.jpeg	From America’s leading scholar of democracy,a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of libertyLarry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. Ill Winds' core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals relies on U.S. global leadership. If we do not reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the twenty-first century into a dark time of despotism.We are at a hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. Ill Winds offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization, reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote count. In 2019, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We the people."	<b>From America’s leading scholar of democracy,a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of liberty</b><br><br>Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. <br><br><i>Ill Winds'</i> core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals relies on U.S. global leadership. If we do not reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the twenty-first century into a dark time of despotism.<br><br>We are at a hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. <i>Ill Winds</i> offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization, reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote count. <br><br>In 2019, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We the people."	23	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
24	Identity	The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment	Fukuyama, Francis		Paperback			Farrar, Straus and Giroux			2018-9-11	978-0-374-71748-3		232		en	Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy	Democracy; History & Theory; Philosophy; Political; Political Ideologies; Political Science				1	0			0	366e5b7cef609361734289666855cb2b.png	The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of stateIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people,” who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious “identity liberalism” of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy.Identity is an urgent and necessary book—a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.	<p><b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Origins of Political Order</i> offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state</b></p><p>In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people,” who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. </p><p>Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious “identity liberalism” of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy.</p><p><i>Identity</i> is an urgent and necessary book—a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.</p>	24	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
25	Speech Police	The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet	Kaye, David		Paperback			Columbia Global Reports			2019-6-3	978-0-9997454-8-9		144		en	Law / Computer & Internet	Business & Economics; Computer & Internet; Computers; Computers & Information Technology; Industries; Law; Social Media; Web				1	0			0	9b2fe8a3b32e972e01730608412d556b.jpeg	"David Kaye's book is crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human history." -- Cory Doctorow, author ofRadicalized, Walkaway andLittle Brother The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech paradise, but a lot of the material on it turned out to incite violence, spread untruth, and promote hate. Over the years, three American behemoths--Facebook, YouTube and Twitter--became the way most of the world experiences the internet, and therefore the conveyors of much of its disturbing material. What should be done about this enormous problem? Should the giant social media platforms police the content themselves, as is the norm in the U.S., or should governments and international organizations regulate the internet, as many are demanding in Europe? How do we keep from helping authoritarian regimes to censor all criticisms of themselves? David Kaye, who serves as the United Nations' special rapporteur on free expression, has been has been at the center of the discussions of these issues for years. He takes us behind the scenes, from Facebook's "mini-legislative" meetings, to the European Commission's closed-door negotiations, and introduces us to journalists, activists, and content moderators whose stories bring clarity and urgency to the topic of censorship.Speech Police is the most comprehensive and insightful treatment of the subject thus far, and reminds us of the importance of maintaining the internet's original commitment to free speech, free of any company's or government's absolute control, while finding ways to modulate its worst aspects.	Source title: Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (Columbia Global Reports)	25	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
26	From Cold War to Hot Peace	An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia	McFaul, Michael		Paperback			Houghton Mifflin Harcourt			2018-5-8	978-0-544-71625-4		535		en	Biography & Autobiography / Political	Biography & Autobiography; Diplomacy; History; International Relations; Political; Political Science; Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Russian & Former Soviet Union; World				1	0			0	44b66fc876a341d1f1a33d620544e514.jpeg	NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate—and has banned from Russia—a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present“A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States.” —New York Times Book ReviewPutin would need an enemy, and he turned to the most reliable one in Russia’s recent history: the United States and then, by extension, me. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today’s most contentious and consequential international relationships. As President Barack Obama’s adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States’ policy known as “reset” that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries. And then, as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency. This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of U.S.-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president. From the first days of McFaul’s ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family.From Cold War to Hot Peace is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.	<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br><br> From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate—and has banned from Russia—a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present</b><br><br><b>“A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States.” </b>—<b><i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br><i>Putin would need an enemy, and he turned to the most reliable one in Russia’s recent history: the United States and then, by extension, me.</i><br><br> In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today’s most contentious and consequential international relationships. As President Barack Obama’s adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States’ policy known as “reset” that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries. And then, as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency. This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of U.S.-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president. From the first days of McFaul’s ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family.<br><br><i>From Cold War to Hot Peace </i>is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.	26	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
27	Egyptians, The	a radical history of Egypt's unfinished revolution	Shenker, Jack		Paperback			New Press			2017	978-1-62097-255-7	2016027141	538		English	Political Science / World / Middle Eastern	Politics and government; Revolutions; Egyptians; Social conditions; Personal narratives; History				0	0			0	d652d28f52bc132c741a8145e99f8606.jpeg	A Kirkus Best Book of 2017 From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, an "intimate and comprehensive portrait" (Pankaj Mishra) of the battle for contemporary Egypt that marks a stunning debut from a rising star In The Egyptians, journalist Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses that depict contemporary Egypt as a battle between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other, equally important fault lines: far-flung communities waging war against transnational corporations, men and women fighting to subvert long-established gender norms, and workers dramatically seizing control of their own factories. Putting the Egyptian revolution in its proper context as an ongoing popular struggle against state authority and economic exclusion, The Egyptians explains why the events of the past five years have proved so threatening to elites both inside Egypt and abroad. As Egypt's rulers seek to eliminate all forms of dissent, seeded within the rebellious politics of Egypt's young generation are big ideas about democracy, sovereignty, social justice, and resistance that could yet change the world.	Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.	27	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
28	Tribalization	Why War is Coming	Debeuf, Koert		Paperback			Academic & Scientific Publishers			2019-5-15	978-90-5718-769-8		194		en	Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism	Fascism & Totalitarianism; Peace; Political Ideologies; Political Science				0	0			0	b2ac771126234588e809631d57bcbc7c.jpeg	War is coming. In Tribalization Koert Debeuf depicts war as an inevitable outcome should the current decreasing of democracy and globalization continue. To describe this worldwide process towards more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism The author coins the term tribalization to describe this worldwide process, towards a more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism, and reminds his readership of the highly similar 1930s. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the dangerous politics of world leaders like Vladimir Putin, and terrorism are but a few exponents of the worldwide tribalization process that is currently fuelling geopolitics. Leaving traditional explanations aside, Debeuf explains the continuous historical interaction between globalization and tribalization not merely as a economic or political phenomenon. Tribalization is collective psychology, it interrupts globalization when communities react to collective trauma by returning to their mythical, tribal past. Debeuf's insights are based on history and psychology but also on his personal experience during the Arab Revolution, and during his previous political functions, both as an advisor to the former Belgian Prime Minister and as European Union official.	War is coming. In Tribalization Koert Debeuf depicts war as an inevitable outcome should the current decreasing of democracy and globalization continue. To describe this worldwide process towards more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism The author coins the term tribalization to describe this worldwide process, towards a more authoritarian nationalism and fundamentalism, and reminds his readership of the highly similar 1930s. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the dangerous politics of world leaders like Vladimir Putin, and terrorism are but a few exponents of the worldwide tribalization process that is currently fuelling geopolitics. Leaving traditional explanations aside, Debeuf explains the continuous historical interaction between globalization and tribalization not merely as a economic or political phenomenon. Tribalization is collective psychology, it interrupts globalization when communities react to collective trauma by returning to their mythical, tribal past. Debeuf's insights are based on history and psychology but also on his personal experience during the Arab Revolution, and during his previous political functions, both as an advisor to the former Belgian Prime Minister and as European Union official.	28	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
29	الجدران تهتف	جرافيتي الثورة المصرية	مايا, جويلي،		Paperback			زيتونة،			2012	978-977-586418-5		678		ar	History / Middle East / Egypt	Art; Art & Politics; Egypt; Graffiti & Street Art; History; Middle East				0	0			0	6e714a7669ab892fbb8aad73d6473335.jpeg	An epic journey through the street art and graffiti of the January 2011 Egyptian revolution The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 gave birth to an unprecedented explosion of popular political and social expression in the form of bold, defiant, and often unforgettable street art and graffiti. This acted as both the revolution's chronicle, its commentary and response to the headlong rush of events, and as a driver of the revolution, a powerful means of influencing and directing what people felt, thought, and did during the heady days and months that followed from the 25 January 2011 uprising. Wall Talk takes us on an epic journey through the street art and graffiti that filled Egypt's streets between the twenty-fifth of January 2011 and the thirtieth of June 2012. Matched with a corresponding timeline of the key events of those eighteen months, it presents an enthralling and invaluable record of a moment in time that changed the course of Egyptian history forever.	<b>An epic journey through the street art and graffiti of the January 2011 Egyptian revolution</b><br> <br> The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 gave birth to an unprecedented explosion of popular political and social expression in the form of bold, defiant, and often unforgettable street art and graffiti. This acted as both the revolution's chronicle, its commentary and response to the headlong rush of events, and as a driver of the revolution, a powerful means of influencing and directing what people felt, thought, and did during the heady days and months that followed from the 25 January 2011 uprising. <i>Wall Talk</i> takes us on an epic journey through the street art and graffiti that filled Egypt's streets between the twenty-fifth of January 2011 and the thirtieth of June 2012. Matched with a corresponding timeline of the key events of those eighteen months, it presents an enthralling and invaluable record of a moment in time that changed the course of Egyptian history forever.	29	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
30	Quiet American, The		Greene, Graham		Paperback			Open Road Media			2018-3-13	978-1-50405-254-2		193		en	Fiction / Political	Classics; Fiction; Historical; Literary; Political				0	0			0	5e3dbcbf532308f772044ec0b50fa280.jpeg	A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian).   It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing.   Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).	<b>A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, <i>The Guardian</i>).</b><br>  <br> It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing.<br>  <br> Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (<i>The New York Times</i>).<br>  <br>	30	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
31	Bab Al Khourouj		Fishere, Ezzedine Choukri		Paperback			Dar Shorouk			2012	978-977-093135-6		483		ar						0	0			0	813755684afa9055312c7d2bd048f335.jpeg			31	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
32	Juicy Joyful Life, A	Inspiration for Women Who've Found the Sweetness in Every Day	Rene, Bryna		Paperback			Inspired Living Publishing			2010	978-0-9845006-0-4		306		en	Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational	Body, Mind & Spirit; Happiness; Inspiration & Personal Growth; Motivational & Inspirational; Personal Growth; Self-Help				0	0			0	0a7b006bf7bea71416cd48486ac9b6ca.jpeg	A woman's trail guide to discovering her own authentic story! Do you ever wonder why some women are able to live grounded in the now, cherish the small moments, and look back without regret? How, despite obstacles like anxiety, depression, addiction, abuse, or devastating loss, they are able to stand tall in their world and shed light on all those around them? These women are living Juicy, Joyful lives-and now, for the first time, they share their inspirational, heartfelt stories with the collective intention to encourage ALL women to embrace the truth that where you've been does not define where you will go. You can create a new personal story.Readers looking to go beyond a passive reading experience and journey into the realms of self-discovery will not be disappointed. Each woman's story is followed by a journaling prompt page featuring three Juicy Questions to help the reader draw parallels between the lessons in the narrative and her own experience encouraging her to do the inner work so that she can start living her own Juicy, Joyful Life!Compiled by Linda Joy, Publisher of Aspire Magazine. a pioneer in the field of women's inspirational media.... each story spurs you on to make the most invincible choices in your life. I love the stories, the honesty, the comfort and the brightness in these pages. I felt like I got to got to have dinner with a wise friend who had just chosen more for herself---and was going to make sure I did the same! Tama J. Kieves, best-selling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love	A woman's trail guide to discovering her own authentic story! <p>Do you ever wonder why some women are able to live grounded in the now, cherish the small moments, and look back without regret? How, despite obstacles like anxiety, depression, addiction, abuse, or devastating loss, they are able to stand tall in their world and shed light on all those around them? <p>These women are living Juicy, Joyful lives-and now, for the first time, they share their inspirational, heartfelt stories with the collective intention to encourage ALL women to embrace the truth that where you've been does not define where you will go. You can create a new personal story.<p>Readers looking to go beyond a passive reading experience and journey into the realms of self-discovery will not be disappointed. Each woman's story is followed by a journaling prompt page featuring three Juicy Questions to help the reader draw parallels between the lessons in the narrative and her own experience encouraging her to do the inner work so that she can start living her own Juicy, Joyful Life!<p>Compiled by Linda Joy, Publisher of Aspire Magazine. a pioneer in the field of women's inspirational media.<p>... each story spurs you on to make the most invincible choices in your life. I love the stories, the honesty, the comfort and the brightness in these pages. I felt like I got to got to have dinner with a wise friend who had just chosen more for herself---and was going to make sure I did the same! Tama J. Kieves, best-selling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love	32	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
33	This is How You Lose Her		Díaz, Junot		Paperback			Penguin			2013	978-1-59463-285-3		239		en	Fiction / Hispanic & Latino	Fiction; Hispanic & Latino; Short Stories (single author)				0	0			0	552bc4b3b16d40decb04a4d803061a9c.jpeg	A must-have collector's edition of Junot Díaz's bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated by celebrated comic artist Jaime Hernandez A major New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, This Is How You Lose Her is Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz's celebration of love in all its facets--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandez--deemed "one of the twentieth century's most significant comic creators"--has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses. A true work of art, inside and out, this is a keepsake that fans will treasure and new readers will delight in discovering.	<b>A must-have collector's edition of Junot Díaz's bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated by celebrated comic artist Jaime Hernandez</b><br> <br> A major <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, <i>This Is How You Lose Her</i> is Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz's celebration of love in all its facets--obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandez--deemed "one of the twentieth century's most significant comic creators"--has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses. A true work of art, inside and out, this is a keepsake that fans will treasure and new readers will delight in discovering.	33	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
34	Love	Quotes and Passages from the Heart	Aronson, B. C.		Paperback			Random House Reference			2006-12-26	978-0-375-72216-5		212		English	Reference / Quotations	Quotations; Reference				0	0			0	706cdca608181d37637561a60e278bc3.jpeg	“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”—Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Writer“To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.”—Frances Farmer, ActressWhether it's the love we feel for parents, significant others, or even pets, this treasury of quotes and passages offers a wonderfully diverse way to discover the meaning of love. Included are thoughts from talented minds such as George Bernard Shaw, Anna Quindlen, Woody Allen, and many more. This beautiful hardcover gift book, affordably priced at $14.95, is perfect for readers of any age who are in the mood for love.	“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”<br>—<i>Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld</i>, Writer<br><br>“To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.”<br>—<i>Frances Farmer</i>, Actress<br><br>Whether it's the love we feel for parents, significant others, or even pets, this treasury of quotes and passages offers a wonderfully diverse way to discover the meaning of love. Included are thoughts from talented minds such as George Bernard Shaw, Anna Quindlen, Woody Allen, and many more. This beautiful hardcover gift book, affordably priced at $14.95, is perfect for readers of any age who are in the mood for love.	34	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
35	Today's American	how free?	Puddington, Arch|Melia, Thomas O.|Kelly, Jason		Paperback			Rowman & Littlefield			2008	978-0-7425-6290-5	2007051924	330		English	Political Science / American Government / General	Civil rights -- United States; Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States				0	0			0	725593fc96512244c51242699eed6c35.jpeg	TodayOs American: How Free? assesses the state of American freedom in the post-9/11 period. Conducted by Freedom House, the study looks at a broad range of rights and liberties, including the electoral process, freedom of the press, counterterrorism policies, corruption, freedom of belief, academic freedom, race relations, immigration, property rights, and equality of opportunity. The study places current problems in their historical context and compares American performance with the state of freedom in Europe. It applies the same rigorous analytical criteria to American freedom as Freedom House applies to other countries in the world in its roster of democracy surveys. The study concludes that the problems that the United States faced prior to 9/11_including racial inequality, problems with the criminal justice system, and weaknesses in the electoral system_present a greater challenge to freedom over the long term than do the civil liberties problems that have emerged with the war on terrorism.	Includes bibliographical references.	35	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
36	Mortality		Hitchens, Christopher		Paperback			Grand Central Publishing			2012-9-4	978-1-45551-782-4		57		en	Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs	Biography & Autobiography; Personal Memoirs				0	0			0	ac4e57d18b91637a5c1a6ab44cd5daa7.jpeg	On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death.MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.	On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, <i>Hitch-22</i>, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.<br>Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death.<b><br></b><b>MORTALITY</b> is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.<br>	36	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
37	Trial, The		Kafka, Franz		Paperback			Bookrix			2019-1-9	978-3-7368-0239-1		342		en	Fiction / Satire	Fiction; Satire				0	0			0	7ab11d65449d288d26a218a48496a260.jpeg	The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes. Look at Joseph K., a bank officer living in a country with a constitution. He wakes up one day with strange men in his apartment telling him he's under arrest. Why or for what offense, no one knows. The arresting officers themselves don't know and can't tell him. Even if he's under arrest, however, no one picks him up or locks him in jail. He can still go to his office, work, perform his customary daily chores, and do whatever he wants to do as he awaits his trial. But he is understandably anxious and worried. He is, after all, charged with an unknown but very grave offense. He has a criminal case. He is an accused. He is under arrest. For this problem he consults so many. He gets a lawyer. His uncle comes to his aid. He talks with his lawyer's other client--also charged and under arrest like him. He consults other people, a painter (who is said to know the "Court"), some women, a priest, etc. about his case. But no one can tell him what the charge is and what his sentence will be. The "Examining Magistrate," the "Judges," the "Court," the proceedings/ trial, and even the "Law" itself--they all seem to be unsolvable enigmas.	The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes. Look at Joseph K., a bank officer living in a country with a constitution. He wakes up one day with strange men in his apartment telling him he's under arrest. Why or for what offense, no one knows. The arresting officers themselves don't know and can't tell him. Even if he's under arrest, however, no one picks him up or locks him in jail. He can still go to his office, work, perform his customary daily chores, and do whatever he wants to do as he awaits his trial. But he is understandably anxious and worried. He is, after all, charged with an unknown but very grave offense. He has a criminal case. He is an accused. He is under arrest. For this problem he consults so many. He gets a lawyer. His uncle comes to his aid. He talks with his lawyer's other client--also charged and under arrest like him. He consults other people, a painter (who is said to know the "Court"), some women, a priest, etc. about his case. But no one can tell him what the charge is and what his sentence will be. The "Examining Magistrate," the "Judges," the "Court," the proceedings/ trial, and even the "Law" itself--they all seem to be unsolvable enigmas.	37	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
38	Double and the Gambler, The		Dostoevsky, Fyodor		Paperback			Vintage Classics			January 16, 2007	978-0-375-71901-1		354		English	Fiction / Classics	Classics; Fiction				0	0			0	e1d580709606053214bff6f2a5870408.jpeg	The two original short novels brought together here - in new translations by award-winning translators - were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky. The Double, written in Dostoevsky's youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger - a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. In the dilemma of this increasingly paranoid hero, Dostoevsky makes vividly concrete the inner disintegration of consciousness that would become a major theme of his work. The Gambler was written twenty years later, under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky - who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring - knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.	The two original short novels brought together here - in new translations by award-winning translators - were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky. The Double, written in Dostoevsky's youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger - a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. In the dilemma of this increasingly paranoid hero, Dostoevsky makes vividly concrete the inner disintegration of consciousness that would become a major theme of his work. The Gambler was written twenty years later, under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky - who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring - knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.	38	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
39	Egypt in Flux	Essays on an Unfinished Revolution	Iskandar, Adel		Paperback			Oxford University Press			2013	978-977-416596-2		193		en	Political Science / Essays	Essays; History; Middle East; Political Science				1	0			0	ce2329bfafab238a14cb6e1289dbba74.jpeg	No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution has been neither victorious nor defeated. Egypt in Flux is a collection of essays on the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of change in the country's ongoing revolutionary current. While written over a span of several years, the essays are timeless in the historical context they provide and their ability to chart the country's trajectory in the period ahead. From the conditions that precipitated the uprising and the eruption of national dissent to the derailing of the revolution, the author reflects on the pressing topics of the day while being mindful of the counterrevolutionary movements and the continuation of the unending uprising. From discussions about the illusion of fair and free elections, social inequities, and labor disparities to examinations of religion, sports, literature, and sexuality, the essays in this valuable and intellectually stimulating volume chart both the broad lines and the nuances of an unfinished revolution.	No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution has been neither victorious nor defeated. Egypt in Flux is a collection of essays on the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of change in the country's ongoing revolutionary current. While written over a span of several years, the essays are timeless in the historical context they provide and their ability to chart the country's trajectory in the period ahead. From the conditions that precipitated the uprising and the eruption of national dissent to the derailing of the revolution, the author reflects on the pressing topics of the day while being mindful of the counterrevolutionary movements and the continuation of the unending uprising. From discussions about the illusion of fair and free elections, social inequities, and labor disparities to examinations of religion, sports, literature, and sexuality, the essays in this valuable and intellectually stimulating volume chart both the broad lines and the nuances of an unfinished revolution.	39	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
40	Fruits Of Sorrow	Framing Our Attention to Suffering	Spelman, Elizabeth V.		Paperback			Beacon Press	New Ed edition		July 23, 1998	978-0-8070-1421-9		224		English	Social Science / Human Services	General; Congresses; Macromolecules; Polymerization; Polymers; Fiction-General; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Social Science-Human Services; Suffering; Human Services; Mind & Body; Philosophy				0	0			0	eb86982608fa93ecfff72e88cdbefba8.jpeg	Through a remarkable blend of intellectual history, philosophical reading, and contemporary cultural analysis, Fruits of Sorrow explores the hidden dynamics at work when we try to make sense of suffering. Spelman examines the complex ways in which we try to redeem the pain we cause and witness. She also shows the way our responses are often more than they seem: how compassion can mask condescension; how identifying with others' pain often slips into illicit appropriation; how pity can reinforce the unequal relationship between those who cause and those who endure suffering.	Through a remarkable blend of intellectual history, philosophical reading, and contemporary cultural analysis, <i>Fruits of Sorrow</i> explores the hidden dynamics at work when we try to make sense of suffering. Spelman examines the complex ways in which we try to redeem the pain we cause and witness. She also shows the way our responses are often more than they seem: how compassion can mask condescension; how identifying with others' pain often slips into illicit appropriation; how pity can reinforce the unequal relationship between those who cause and those who endure suffering.	40	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
41	Inside Jihad	understanding and confronting radical Islam	Hamid, Tawfik		Paperback			T. Hamid	[1st ed.].		2008	978-0-9815471-0-7	2008900898	201		English	Religion / Islam / General	Jihad.; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.; Violence -- Religious aspects -- Islam.				0	0			0	0f92c91002c6e1032675a2037e7faab5.jpeg	This is an insider analysis of the phenomenon of Radical Islam by an ex-Islamic radical and an associate of the Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri (currently the first in command of Al-Qaeda). The book describes Dr. Hamid's journey against Islamic Radicalism since 1982.In Inside Jihad, Dr. Hamid analyses the problem in an objective manner and suggests strategic solutions to solve it.Dr. Tawfik Hamid (See: www.tawfikhamid.com ) is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a radical Islamic organization Jamaa Islameia JI (of Egypt) with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri, currently first in command of Al-Qaeda. After being radicalized in the JI (approximately thirty-five years ago), he had an awakening of his human conscience, recognized the threat of Radical Islam, and started to teach modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts.Dr. Hamid has appeared on shows spanning the spectrum from CNN to Fox News and C-SPAN, and his articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, VOA, France 24, RT (Russia Today), and the Jerusalem Post. Dr. Hamid's comments have also appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy magazine, USA Today, The Huffington Post, the National Journal, and Wired magazine. (See more at: www.tawfikhamid.com )Dr. Hamid has been a guest speaker at many reputable private and governmental fora - both within the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Hamid has spoken and testified before/with: the US Congress (House Armed Service Committee); the Future Summit at the invitation of President Shimon Peres; numerous Department of Defense (DoD) offices at the Pentagon; the Special Operations Command; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI); the National Security Agency (NSA); the European Parliament; the New York Academy of Science, and many others.	Includes bibliographical references.	41	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
42	Nine Days		Hiatt, Fred		Paperback			Delacorte Press	1st ed.		2013-4-9	978-0-385-74273-3	2012008653	258		English	Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship	Voyages and travels; Vietnam; Dissenters; Missing persons; Chinese Americans; Human trafficking; Fiction				0	0			0	8865bdad91d978e96f5c36f8d1681933.jpeg	A fast-paced contemporary thriller in the vein of James Patterson and Anthony Horowitz set against the bustling backdrop of Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the border of China. This heart-pounding adventure takes place as two teens, an American teenage boy and his friend, a Chinese girl from his Washington, DC-area high school, must find her father who has been kidnapped—and they only have nine days. Although the characters in the novel are fictionalized, they are based on a real Chinese family who were part of the Chinese Democracy Movement and inspired this story.	A fast-paced contemporary thriller in the vein of James Patterson and Anthony Horowitz set against the bustling backdrop of Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the border of China. This heart-pounding adventure takes place as two teens, an American teenage boy and his friend, a Chinese girl from his Washington, DC-area high school, must find her father who has been kidnapped—and they only have nine days. Although the characters in the novel are fictionalized, they are based on a real Chinese family who were part of the Chinese Democracy Movement and inspired this story.	42	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
43	Reducing Genocide to Law	definition, meaning, and the ultimate crime	Akhavan, Payam		Paperback			Cambridge University Press			2012-1-26	978-0-521-82441-5	2012392625	211		English	Social Science / Criminology	Genocide; Genocide (International law)	Cambridge studies in international and comparative law; Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996)			0	0			0	a604f2e052fb34ec828fafd86457b402.jpeg	Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction assume such importance in conferring meaning on suffering and injustice? Could reducing a reality that is beyond reason and words into a fixed category undermine the very progress and justice that such labelling purports to achieve? For some, these questions may border on the international law equivalent of blasphemy. This original and daring book, written by a renowned scholar and practitioner who was the first Legal Advisor to the UN Prosecutor at The Hague, is a probing reflection on empathy and our faith in global justice.	Includes bibliographical references and index.	43	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
44	Inside Jihad	understanding and confronting radical Islam	Hamid, Tawfik		Paperback			T. Hamid	[1st ed.].		2008	978-0-9815471-0-7	2008900898	201		English	Religion / Islam / General	Jihad.; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.; Violence -- Religious aspects -- Islam.				1	0			0	0f92c91002c6e1032675a2037e7faab5.jpeg	This is an insider analysis of the phenomenon of Radical Islam by an ex-Islamic radical and an associate of the Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri (currently the first in command of Al-Qaeda). The book describes Dr. Hamid's journey against Islamic Radicalism since 1982.In Inside Jihad, Dr. Hamid analyses the problem in an objective manner and suggests strategic solutions to solve it.Dr. Tawfik Hamid (See: www.tawfikhamid.com ) is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a radical Islamic organization Jamaa Islameia JI (of Egypt) with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri, currently first in command of Al-Qaeda. After being radicalized in the JI (approximately thirty-five years ago), he had an awakening of his human conscience, recognized the threat of Radical Islam, and started to teach modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts.Dr. Hamid has appeared on shows spanning the spectrum from CNN to Fox News and C-SPAN, and his articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, VOA, France 24, RT (Russia Today), and the Jerusalem Post. Dr. Hamid's comments have also appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy magazine, USA Today, The Huffington Post, the National Journal, and Wired magazine. (See more at: www.tawfikhamid.com )Dr. Hamid has been a guest speaker at many reputable private and governmental fora - both within the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Hamid has spoken and testified before/with: the US Congress (House Armed Service Committee); the Future Summit at the invitation of President Shimon Peres; numerous Department of Defense (DoD) offices at the Pentagon; the Special Operations Command; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI); the National Security Agency (NSA); the European Parliament; the New York Academy of Science, and many others.	Includes bibliographical references.	44	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
45	Inside Jihad	understanding and confronting radical Islam	Hamid, Tawfik		Paperback			T. Hamid	[1st ed.].		2008	978-0-9815471-0-7	2008900898	201		English	Religion / Islam / General	Jihad.; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.; Violence -- Religious aspects -- Islam.				0	0			0	0f92c91002c6e1032675a2037e7faab5.jpeg	This is an insider analysis of the phenomenon of Radical Islam by an ex-Islamic radical and an associate of the Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri (currently the first in command of Al-Qaeda). The book describes Dr. Hamid's journey against Islamic Radicalism since 1982.In Inside Jihad, Dr. Hamid analyses the problem in an objective manner and suggests strategic solutions to solve it.Dr. Tawfik Hamid (See: www.tawfikhamid.com ) is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a radical Islamic organization Jamaa Islameia JI (of Egypt) with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri, currently first in command of Al-Qaeda. After being radicalized in the JI (approximately thirty-five years ago), he had an awakening of his human conscience, recognized the threat of Radical Islam, and started to teach modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts.Dr. Hamid has appeared on shows spanning the spectrum from CNN to Fox News and C-SPAN, and his articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, VOA, France 24, RT (Russia Today), and the Jerusalem Post. Dr. Hamid's comments have also appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy magazine, USA Today, The Huffington Post, the National Journal, and Wired magazine. (See more at: www.tawfikhamid.com )Dr. Hamid has been a guest speaker at many reputable private and governmental fora - both within the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Hamid has spoken and testified before/with: the US Congress (House Armed Service Committee); the Future Summit at the invitation of President Shimon Peres; numerous Department of Defense (DoD) offices at the Pentagon; the Special Operations Command; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI); the National Security Agency (NSA); the European Parliament; the New York Academy of Science, and many others.	Includes bibliographical references.	45	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
46	Going Home		Norris, Ken		Paperback			Talonbooks			October 28, 2007	978-0-88922-573-2		196		English	Poetry / Canadian	Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Canadian; Poetry / Canadian; General; Poetry				0	0			0	1f6411237355eabbda16093716350e80.jpeg	If, as Robert Creeley said, "form is never more than an extension of content," what happens when we lose form? Does content retreat into its ruins, its absences? Can we never go home because it retreats from us as relentlessly and unfathomably as our future? Is the imagination of "our" future as illusory and unreliable as the memory of "our" past? If, for the young man, "going home is the first defeat," the first violation of a burgeoning autonomy, is the very imagination of "home" an abrogation, a transgression? These are the questions that the deceptively simple lyrics of this book ask, that we encounter as we navigate our way, "room to room" through their stanzas--from the poet's New York childhood, his Montreal mentorship with Louis Dudek, to his volitionary adoptive "home" of Asia. The world changes in Going Home--9/11 happens. In that singular, extended historic moment all of our working models of representation on our North American Island turn to paper and dust, and now we know history always had other plans for us. The whole manufactured unreality of our world falls away in these poems, leads us both toward and away from being "at home" in the moment. "We're all here and not here," the poet reminds us: an index of time and the true nature of existence--a present impermanence.	If, as Robert Creeley said, "form is never more than an extension of content," what happens when we lose form? Does content retreat into its ruins, its absences? Can we never go home because it retreats from us as relentlessly and unfathomably as our future? Is the imagination of "our" future as illusory and unreliable as the memory of "our" past? If, for the young man, "going home is the first defeat," the first violation of a burgeoning autonomy, is the very imagination of "home" an abrogation, a transgression? These are the questions that the deceptively simple lyrics of this book ask, that we encounter as we navigate our way, "room to room" through their stanzas--from the poet's New York childhood, his Montreal mentorship with Louis Dudek, to his volitionary adoptive "home" of Asia. The world changes in Going Home--9/11 happens. In that singular, extended historic moment all of our working models of representation on our North American Island turn to paper and dust, and now we know history always had other plans for us. The whole manufactured unreality of our world falls away in these poems, leads us both toward and away from being "at home" in the moment. "We're all here and not here," the poet reminds us: an index of time and the true nature of existence--a present impermanence.	46	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
47	Attacks On the Press	Journalism on the World's Front Lines	(CPJ), Committee to Protect Journalists		Paperback			Wiley			2013-2-19	978-1-11855-055-7		304		en	Business & Economics / General	Business & Economics; Finance				0	0			0	c16b766bf2cc4c1f1be9c9a6b324af43.jpeg	The world's most comprehensive guide to international press freedom From Aleppo to Zacatecas, Beijing to Brasilia, the past decade has seen a sharp rise in the number of journalist imprisonments, assassinations, and disappearances worldwide. Caught between warlords and religious extremists, corrupt police and drug cartels, and hemmed in by increasingly oppressive censorship laws, journalists have never been at such peril, nor asked to pay such a high price for the ethical practice of their profession. Begun as a simple typewritten list in 1986, Attacks on the Press has grown to become the definitive annual assessment of press freedoms globally. Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, it provides up-to-the-minute analyses of media conditions, press freedom violations, and emerging threats to journalists in every corner of the world. In this 2013 edition, you will find front-line reports and analytical essays by CPJ experts covering an array of topics of critical importance to journalists, including: Journalist casualties at the front lines of conflicts in Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and other global hot spots The curtailment of Internet freedoms across Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the draconian measures now in place in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand The status of investigations into the disappearances of 35 journalists worldwide, and why more than half of those disappeared went missing in Mexico and Russia The rise in journalist imprisonments globally, the spate of new anti-terrorism laws that made it possible, and the example set by the U.S. government in the wake of 9/11 The state of journalistic freedoms in Iran since the Green Movement and the practice of summary imprisonment of Iranian journalists How the rise of mobile Internet technology and social media has engendered new dangers for journalists from both insurgent groups and the governments they are fighting In addition to being an invaluable source of timely information and guidance for media professionals, Attacks on the Press gives voice to journalists globally, providing them with a platform for direct advocacy with governments and a seat in discussions at the UN, OAS, EU, AU, and other official bodies.	<p><b>The world's most comprehensive guide to international press freedom</b></p> <p>From Aleppo to Zacatecas, Beijing to Brasilia, the past decade has seen a sharp rise in the number of journalist imprisonments, assassinations, and disappearances worldwide. Caught between warlords and religious extremists, corrupt police and drug cartels, and hemmed in by increasingly oppressive censorship laws, journalists have never been at such peril, nor asked to pay such a high price for the ethical practice of their profession.</p> <p>Begun as a simple typewritten list in 1986, <i>Attacks on the Press </i>has grown to become the definitive annual assessment of press freedoms globally. Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, it provides up-to-the-minute analyses of media conditions, press freedom violations, and emerging threats to journalists in every corner of the world.</p> <p>In this 2013 edition, you will find front-line reports and analytical essays by CPJ experts covering an array of topics of critical importance to journalists, including:</p> <ul> <li>Journalist casualties at the front lines of conflicts in Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and other global hot spots</li> <li>The curtailment of Internet freedoms across Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the draconian measures now in place in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand</li> <li>The status of investigations into the disappearances of 35 journalists worldwide, and why more than half of those disappeared went missing in Mexico and Russia</li> <li>The rise in journalist imprisonments globally, the spate of new anti-terrorism laws that made it possible, and the example set by the U.S. government in the wake of 9/11</li> <li>The state of journalistic freedoms in Iran since the Green Movement and the practice of summary imprisonment of Iranian journalists</li> <li>How the rise of mobile Internet technology and social media has engendered new dangers for journalists from both insurgent groups and the governments they are fighting</li> </ul> <p>In addition to being an invaluable source of timely information and guidance for media professionals, <i>Attacks on the Press </i>gives voice to journalists globally, providing them with a platform for direct advocacy with governments and a seat in discussions at the UN, OAS, EU, AU, and other official bodies.</p>	47	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
48	Moral Relativism		Lukes, Steven		Paperback			Profile Books			2011-5-26	978-1-84765-320-8		188		en	Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy	Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy				0	0			0	c96723a5bb0361ee4fd58480e995e457.png	Do we as humans have no shared standards by which we can understand each other? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that wins out? These questions show up everywhere, from the debate over female circumcision to the UN Declaration of Human Rights. They become ever more pressing in an age of mass immigration, religious extremism and the rise of identity politics. So by what right do we judge particular practices as barbaric? Who are the real barbarians?This provocative book takes an enlightening look at what we believe, why we believe it and whether there really is an irreparable moral discord between 'us' and 'them'.	<p>Do we as humans have no shared standards by which we can understand each other? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that wins out? These questions show up everywhere, from the debate over female circumcision to the UN Declaration of Human Rights. They become ever more pressing in an age of mass immigration, religious extremism and the rise of identity politics. So by what right do we judge particular practices as barbaric? Who are the real barbarians?</p><p>This provocative book takes an enlightening look at what we believe, why we believe it and whether there really is an irreparable moral discord between 'us' and 'them'.</p>	48	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
49	One Hundred Years Of Solitude		Marquez, Gabriel Garcia		Paperback			Harper Collins			2003-6-24	978-0-06-053104-1		433		English	Fiction / Classics	Classics; Fiction; Literary				0	0			0	1bca1ddea09592068069f0442b3fbfae.jpeg	One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel García Márquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.	<p>One of the 20th century's enduring works, <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.</p> <p>The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.</p> <p>Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel García Márquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master.</p> <p>Alternately reverential and comical, <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.</p>	49	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
50	You Can't Go Home Again		Wolfe, Thomas		Paperback			Simon and Schuster	1st Scribner trade paperback ed.		2011-10-11	978-1-45165-050-1	2011030045	658		English	Fiction / Coming of Age	Novelists; Fiction				0	0			0	75c37dbf393527a3a4d9650262c5e536.jpeg	Now available from Thomas Wolfe’s original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that “will stand apart from everything else that he wrote” (The New York Times Book Review)—first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfe’s magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that takes him deep into New York’s hectic social whirl; to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler’s shadow. He discovers a world plagued by political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace. He is a changed man yet a hopeful one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully “go back home to your family, back home to your childhood…away from all the strife and conflict of the world…back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time.”	Now available from Thomas Wolfe’s original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that “will stand apart from everything else that he wrote” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>)—first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.<br><br>A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfe’s magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II.<br> <br>Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that takes him deep into New York’s hectic social whirl; to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler’s shadow. He discovers a world plagued by political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace. He is a changed man yet a hopeful one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully “go back home to your family, back home to your childhood…away from all the strife and conflict of the world…back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time.”	50	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
51	Snow		Pamuk, Orhan		Paperback			Faber & Faber, Limited			2010	978-0-571-25823-9		448		en						0	0			0	6e5f38fa0773976830ea04bfcccf981c.jpeg	The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the small and mysterious city of Kars near the Armenian border. The snow is falling fast as Ka arrives, and soon all roads are closed. He discovers a city plagued by a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young women, and where the Islamists are poised to win the municipal elections. If he wants to understand what's happened to this part of the world during his absence, this is the place to begin. But the rogue coup that unfolds before his eyes over the next three days tells him far more than he wants to know. He sees a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe, consumed by religious and political conspiracies, and haunted by the silences of its own history.	The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the small and mysterious city of Kars near the Armenian border. The snow is falling fast as Ka arrives, and soon all roads are closed. He discovers a city plagued by a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young women, and where the Islamists are poised to win the municipal elections. If he wants to understand what's happened to this part of the world during his absence, this is the place to begin. But the rogue coup that unfolds before his eyes over the next three days tells him far more than he wants to know. He sees a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe, consumed by religious and political conspiracies, and haunted by the silences of its own history.	51	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
52	Joseph Anton	a memoir	Rushdie, Salman		Paperback			Random House Publishing Group	1st ed.		2012-9-18	978-0-679-64388-3	2012372283	657		English	Religion / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict	Indic Authors; Censorship; Fatwas; Biography; English Authors; Freedom of the press; Islam and literature; Personal narratives; History; Protective custody; Blasphemy (Islam)				f	f			0	77d5a6b86873e568312e0fe53f85608d.jpeg	NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPageOn February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.”   So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton.   How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.   It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.Praise for Joseph Anton  “A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times   “A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post   “Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book.”—USA Today   “Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie’s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism.”—The Wall Street Journal   “Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written.”—The Independent (UK)   “A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.”—Le Point (France)   “Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books   “Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”—de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)   “One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”—DNA (India)   “Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom.”—The Boston Globe	<b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY</b><br> <b><i>San Francisco Chronicle • </i>Newsweek/The Daily Beast • <i>The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage</i></b><br><br>On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word <i>fatwa</i>. His crime? To have written a novel called <i>The Satanic Verses,</i> which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.”<br>  <br> So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—<i>Joseph Anton.</i><br>  <br> How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.<br>  <br> It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Joseph Anton</i></b><br> <b> <br></b>“A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career.”<b>—Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i> </b><br>  <br> “A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year.”<b>—Jonathan Yardley, <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> “Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book.”<b><i>—USA Today</i></b><br>  <br> “Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie’s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism.”<b><i>—The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> “Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written.”<b><i>—The Independent</i> (UK)</b><br> <b> </b><br> “A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.”<b><i>—Le Point </i>(France)</b><br> <b> </b><br> “Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”<b>—Los Angeles Review of Books</b><br> <b> </b><br> “Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”<b>—<i>de Volkskrant </i>(The Netherlands)</b><br> <b> </b><br> “One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”<b>—<i>DNA </i>(India) </b><br> <b> </b><br> “Extraordinary . . . <i>Joseph Anton</i> beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom.”<b>—<i>The Boston Globe</i></b>	52	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
53	قصر الشوق		محفوظ, نجيب|الشروق, دار		Paperback			دار الشروق			2006-1-1	978-977-093076-2		565		ar	Fiction / General	Fiction				0	0			0	e159fed4847f57832ad117a6b06a8e6c.jpeg	الجزء الثاني من ثلاثية القاهرة, سلسلة مكونة من ثلاث روايات حائزة على جائزة نوبل للأدب. الثلاثية تعتبر أفضل رواية عربية في تاريخ الأدب العربي حسب اتحاد كتاب العرب	<br>الجزء الثاني من ثلاثية القاهرة, سلسلة مكونة من ثلاث روايات حائزة على جائزة نوبل للأدب. الثلاثية تعتبر أفضل رواية عربية في تاريخ الأدب العربي حسب اتحاد كتاب العرب	53	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
54	السكرية		محفوظ, نجيب|الشروق, دار		Paperback			دار الشروق			2012-1-1	978-977-093084-7		533		ar	Fiction / General	Fiction				0	0			0	ff555be52acafd434a91438e766ea879.jpeg	الجزء الثالث من ثلاثية القاهرة, سلسلة مكونة من ثلاث روايات حائزة على جائزة نوبل للأدب. الثلاثية تعتبر أفضل رواية عربية في تاريخ الأدب العربي حسب اتحاد كتاب العرب	الجزء الثالث من ثلاثية القاهرة, سلسلة مكونة من ثلاث روايات حائزة على جائزة نوبل للأدب. الثلاثية تعتبر أفضل رواية عربية في تاريخ الأدب العربي حسب اتحاد كتاب العرب<br>	54	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
55	في غرفة العنكبوت	رواية	محمد, عبد النبي،		Paperback			دار العين للنشر،			2017	978-977-490384-7		348		ar						0	0			0		Roman om skuespillernes liv, levevilkår og oplevelser, når de ikke er på arbejde	Roman om skuespillernes liv, levevilkår og oplevelser, når de ikke er på arbejde	55	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
56	Security Archipelago, The	Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism	Amar, Paul		Paperback			Duke University Press			2013-7-12	978-0-8223-5398-0		325		en	Social Science / Gender Studies	Gender Studies; Human Geography; Human Rights; Political Science; Social Science				1	0			0	f620655c5ab012d295bf2ffa0d32b2ce.jpeg	In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining the pivotal, trendsetting cases of Brazil and Egypt. Addressing gaps in the study of neoliberalism and biopolitics, Amar describes how coercive security operations and cultural rescue campaigns confronting waves of resistance have appropriated progressive, antimarket discourses around morality, sexuality, and labor. The products of these struggles—including powerful new police practices, religious politics, sexuality identifications, and gender normativities—have traveled across an archipelago, a metaphorical island chain of what the global security industry calls "hot spots." Homing in on Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Amar reveals the innovative resistances and unexpected alliances that have coalesced in new polities emerging from the Arab Spring and South America's Pink Tide. These have generated a shared modern governance model that he terms the "human-security state."	In <i>The Security Archipelago</i>, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining the pivotal, trendsetting cases of Brazil and Egypt. Addressing gaps in the study of neoliberalism and biopolitics, Amar describes how coercive security operations and cultural rescue campaigns confronting waves of resistance have appropriated progressive, antimarket discourses around morality, sexuality, and labor. The products of these struggles—including powerful new police practices, religious politics, sexuality identifications, and gender normativities—have traveled across an archipelago, a metaphorical island chain of what the global security industry calls "hot spots." Homing in on Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Amar reveals the innovative resistances and unexpected alliances that have coalesced in new polities emerging from the Arab Spring and South America's Pink Tide. These have generated a shared modern governance model that he terms the "human-security state."<br>	56	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
57	Counterinsurgency		Kilcullen, David		Paperback			Oxford University Press			2010-5-19	978-0-19-974625-5		265		en	Political Science / History & Theory	History; History & Theory; International Relations; Military; Political Science; World				0	0			0	3233b1e39db6130094906b68169632a8.jpeg	David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a dramatic success. In Counterinsurgency, Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this vitally important topic. Here is a picture of modern warfare by someone who has had his boots on the ground in some of today's worst trouble spots-including Iraq and Afghanistan-and who has been studying counterinsurgency since 1985. Filled with down-to-earth, common-sense insights, this book is the definitive account of counterinsurgency, indispensable for all those interested in making sense of our world in an age of terror.	David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a dramatic success. In Counterinsurgency, Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this vitally important topic. Here is a picture of modern warfare by someone who has had his boots on the ground in some of today's worst trouble spots-including Iraq and Afghanistan-and who has been studying counterinsurgency since 1985. Filled with down-to-earth, common-sense insights, this book is the definitive account of counterinsurgency, indispensable for all those interested in making sense of our world in an age of terror.	57	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
58	Resurrection		Tolstoy, graf Leo		Paperback			Penguin Books			2009	978-0-14-042463-8		564		en	Fiction / Literary	Classics; Fiction; Literary				0	0			0	5ae08c3df2ace306a538963874175831.jpeg	Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics. Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers. Anthony Briggs' superb new translation preserves Tolstoy's gripping realism and satirical humour. In his introduction, Briggs discusses the true story behind Resurrection, Tolstoy's political and religious reasons for writing the novel, his gift for characterization and the compelling psychological portrait of Dmitri. This edition also includes a chronology, notes and a summary of chapters. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) spent his youth in wasteful idleness until 1851, when he travelled to the Caucasus and joined the army with his older brother, fighting in the Crimean war. After marrying in 1862, Tolstoy settled down, managing his estates and writing two of his best-known novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommunicated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo. If you enjoyed Resurrection, you might like Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, also available in Penguin Classics.	Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics. Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers. Anthony Briggs' superb new translation preserves Tolstoy's gripping realism and satirical humour. In his introduction, Briggs discusses the true story behind Resurrection, Tolstoy's political and religious reasons for writing the novel, his gift for characterization and the compelling psychological portrait of Dmitri. This edition also includes a chronology, notes and a summary of chapters. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) spent his youth in wasteful idleness until 1851, when he travelled to the Caucasus and joined the army with his older brother, fighting in the Crimean war. After marrying in 1862, Tolstoy settled down, managing his estates and writing two of his best-known novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommunicated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo. If you enjoyed Resurrection, you might like Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, also available in Penguin Classics.	58	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
59	Immortality		Kundera, Milan		Paperback			Harper Collins	1st HarperPerennial Ed edition		1999-10-20	978-0-06-093238-1		370		English	Fiction / Literary	Modern fiction; Kundera, Milan - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - General; Fiction; Classics; Literary; Fiction / Classics; Reading Group Guide				0	0			0	2131c4bedd65cc2f2218b9bc2a19b8fa.jpeg	Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence.	<p>Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence. </p>	59	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
60	Diaries Of Adam and Eve and Other Stories, The		Twain, Mark		Paperback			Courier Corporation			2008-6-26	978-0-486-46030-7	2008004677	98		English	Fiction / Religious	Humorous stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction				0	0			0	867a6b8ca73a5d8331338f87aa668976.jpeg	&quot;Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself,&quot; notes Adam in his diary, adding, &quot;The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here.&quot;Adam has a lot to learn about Eve, and even more from her, as she names the animals, discovers fire, and introduces all manner of innovations to their garden home. Mark Twain&#39;s &quot;translation&quot; of the diaries of the first man and woman offers a humorous &quot;he said/she said&quot; narrative of biblical events. The great American storyteller found comfort and inspiration in the company of women, and his irreverent look at conventional religion is also a thoughtful — and humorous — argument for gender equality.In addition to the tales from Eden, this collection features five short stories: &quot;The $30,000 Bequest,&quot; &quot;Was It Heaven? Or Hell?&quot; &quot;Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale,&quot; &quot;The Californian’s Tale,&quot; and &quot;A Monument to Adam.&quot;	"A new selection of seven unabridged stories reprinted from The $30,000 bequest and other stories, originally published by Harper and Brothers, New York, in 1906."	60	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
61	Saviors and Survivors	Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror	Mamdani, Mahmood		Paperback			Crown/archetype			2010-5-25	978-0-307-59118-0		418		en	History / Africa / East	Africa; East; History; Human Rights; Political Science; Security (National & International)				0	0			0	eeae89fb4afeabb006713963307347e6.jpeg	From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “native” and “settler” tribes and creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s when the Sudanese government tried unsuccessfully to address the problem by creating homelands for tribes without any. The involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific counterinsurgency–but not to genocide, as the West has declared.Mamdani also explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-year civil war in neighboring Chad, creating a confrontation between Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet support) and the Reagan administration (allied with France and Israel) that spilled over into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the war involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on Terror and called for a military invasion dressed up as “humanitarian intervention.”Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.	From the author of <i>Good Muslim, Bad Muslim </i>comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at<i> </i>the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. <br><br>In <i>Saviors and Survivors</i>, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “native” and “settler” tribes and creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s when the Sudanese government tried unsuccessfully to address the problem by creating homelands for tribes without any. The involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific counterinsurgency–but not to genocide, as the West has declared.<br><br>Mamdani also explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-year civil war in neighboring Chad, creating a confrontation between Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet support) and the Reagan administration (allied with France and Israel) that spilled over into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the war involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on Terror and called for a military invasion dressed up as “humanitarian intervention.”<br><br>Incisive and authoritative, <i>Saviors and Survivors </i>will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.	61	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
62	Beer in the Snooker Club		Ghali, Waguih		Paperback			Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group			2014-6-10	978-0-8041-7075-8		180		en	Fiction / Political	Cultural Heritage; Fiction; Literary; Political				0	0			0	8b9347ae528de79523093c49a33bc447.png	Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram’s favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club, whose members strive to emulate English gentility; but his best friends are young intellectuals who devour the works of Sartre and engage in dangerous revolutionary activities to support Egyptian independence. By turns biting and comic, Beer in the Snooker Club — the first and only book by Waguih Ghali — became a cult classic when it was first published and remains a timeless portrait of a loveable rogue coming of age in turbulent times.	Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, <i>Beer in the Snooker Club </i>is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram’s favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club, whose members strive to emulate English gentility; but his best friends are young intellectuals who devour the works of Sartre and engage in dangerous revolutionary activities to support Egyptian independence. By turns biting and comic, <i>Beer in the Snooker Club </i>— the first and only book by Waguih Ghali — became a cult classic when it was first published and remains a timeless portrait of a loveable rogue coming of age in turbulent times.	62	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
63	Insanity Defense, The	The Complete Prose	Allen, Woody		Paperback			Random House Trade Paperbacks			June 12, 2007	978-0-8129-7811-7		354		English	Humor / Form / Essays	Form - Essays; Humor / Essays; Allen, Woody - Prose & Criticism; Humor				0	0			0	d8dda87d666d100e58bd46485ee056e5.jpeg	Comprising the classic bestsellersGetting Even, Without Feathers, andSide Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really–this book has no Introduction. The Insanity Defensereveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges (“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage”); reflects on death (“I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear”); and notes the effect on history wrought by trick chewing gum, the dribble glass, and other novelties. There is also an inspiring story of the futile race to beat Dr. Heimlich to the punch: “The food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. If we can transfer the procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell.” All Woody Allen fans will cherish this uproarious treasury–and those who don’t enjoy The Insanity Defense are just plain crazy. “If you don’t care if you break into helpless whoops of laughter on buses, trains, or wherever you happen to be reading it.” –Chicago Tribune, onWithout Feathers “Brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled.” –The New York Times,onSide Effects	Comprising the classic bestsellers<i>Getting Even, Without Feathers</i>, and<i>Side Effects</i>, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really–this book has no Introduction.<br> <br> <i>The Insanity Defense</i>reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges (“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage”); reflects on death (“I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear”); and notes the effect on history wrought by trick chewing gum, the dribble glass, and other novelties. There is also an inspiring story of the futile race to beat Dr. Heimlich to the punch: “The food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. If we can transfer the procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell.”<br> <br> All Woody Allen fans will cherish this uproarious treasury–and those who don’t enjoy The Insanity Defense are just plain crazy.<br> <br> “If you don’t care if you break into helpless whoops of laughter on buses, trains, or wherever you happen to be reading it.”<br> <i>–Chicago Tribune</i>, on<i>Without Feathers</i><br> <br> “Brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled.”<br> <i>–The New York Times,</i>on<i>Side Effects</i>	63	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
64	March: Book One	Book One	Lewis, John|Aydin, Andrew		Paperback			Top Shelf Productions	1st printing		2013-8-12	978-1-60309-302-6		132		English	Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General	Comics & Graphic Novels; Nonfiction	March, Book One			0	0			0	5855a4cfb685856a2821eda304e52f6f.jpeg	Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper&#39;s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole). March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis&#39; lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis&#39; personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans John Lewis&#39; youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.	USA The paperback ISBN is on the back cover.	64	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
65	غرفة 304		عزت, عمرو|الشروق, دار		Paperback			دار الشروق			2019	978-977-093544-6		82		ar						0	0			0	39b6fcaf3d0dd89a3c349f90305bd5db.jpeg			65	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
66	Domination and the Arts Of Resistance	Hidden Transcripts	Scott, James C.		Paperback			Yale University Press			2008	978-0-300-15356-9		272		en	Political Science / History & Theory	History & Theory; Political Science				0	0			0	aacf245df013447406d337e4e7654db4.png	"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt.	"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's <i>glasnost </i>campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt.	66	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
67	In Quest Of Justice	Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt	Fahmy, Khaled		Paperback			Univ Of California Press			2018-11-13	978-0-520-97172-1		393		en	Medical / History	History; Medical; Middle East				0	0			0	a5c4c174352273e6bbd17bae050a1a27.png	In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.	<i>In Quest of Justice</i> provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.	67	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
68	My Struggle:		Knausgaard, Karl Ove		Paperback			MacMillan			2013-5-28	978-0-374-53414-1		449		en	Fiction / Biographical	Biographical; Fiction; Literary				0	0			0	9cf2d735c74d14c9dfc1d73cbe9d1df2.png	A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues—death, love, art, fear—and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.	A<i> New York Times </i>bestseller,<i> My Struggle: Book 1 </i>introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues—death, love, art, fear—and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, <i>My Struggle </i>is an essential work of contemporary literature.	68	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
69	المولودة		كامل, نادية		Paperback			Al-karma Books			2018-1-31	978-977-646793-4		552		ar	Biography & Autobiography / General	Biography & Autobiography				0	0			0	990a8b194474d537203d6ac43c23dc73.png	وُلِدَت لأب مصري يهودي وأم إيطالية مسيحية، تقابلا في مصر في عشرينيات القرن الماضي، فتزوجا وعاشا فيها. وُلِدَت وعاشت في القاهرة، انضمت إلى الحركة الشيوعية والعمل السري، دخلت السجن، أحبَّت صحفيًّا ومناضلًا مصريًّا وتزوجا، عملت كصحفية تناصر قضايا المرأة، وفي خلال ذلك دعمت زوجها - خصوصًا عندما تعرض لملاحقة السلطة وللعزلة - وأصبحت أمًّا فربت ابنتيها وحفيديها.   ولكن حياة «نائلة كامل»، المولودة «ماري إيلي روزنتال»، وشخصيتها، تتحديان أي تصنيف مبسط تقدمه هذه المحطات المختزلة. ننتقل في هذا الكتاب الممتع إلى مصر أخرى لم تعد موجودة الآن، بأحوالها وناسها، ونعود مع ماري إلى سنوات السجن، ورفقاء الكفاح، واختيارات صعبة، ومواقف عصيبة، ونكتشف كيف ربت ابنتيها نادية ودينا، وكيف خاضت علاقاتها بعائلات أمها وأبيها وزوجها وحفيديها في أجواء فرز على أسس الدين والعرق والجنس. كتاب استثنائي عن حياة فريدة لإنسانة مصرية ملهمة.	<p> وُلِدَت لأب مصري يهودي وأم إيطالية مسيحية، تقابلا في مصر في عشرينيات القرن الماضي، فتزوجا وعاشا فيها. وُلِدَت وعاشت في القاهرة، انضمت إلى الحركة الشيوعية والعمل السري، دخلت السجن، أحبَّت صحفيًّا ومناضلًا مصريًّا وتزوجا، عملت كصحفية تناصر قضايا المرأة، وفي خلال ذلك دعمت زوجها - خصوصًا عندما تعرض لملاحقة السلطة وللعزلة - وأصبحت أمًّا فربت ابنتيها وحفيديها.</p> <p> </p> <p>ولكن حياة «نائلة كامل»، المولودة «ماري إيلي روزنتال»، وشخصيتها، تتحديان أي تصنيف مبسط تقدمه هذه المحطات المختزلة. ننتقل في هذا الكتاب الممتع إلى مصر أخرى لم تعد موجودة الآن، بأحوالها وناسها، ونعود مع ماري إلى سنوات السجن، ورفقاء الكفاح، واختيارات صعبة، ومواقف عصيبة، ونكتشف كيف ربت ابنتيها نادية ودينا، وكيف خاضت علاقاتها بعائلات أمها وأبيها وزوجها وحفيديها في أجواء فرز على أسس الدين والعرق والجنس.</p> <p>كتاب استثنائي عن حياة فريدة لإنسانة مصرية ملهمة.</p> <p> </p>	69	2020-02-01	2020-02-01	Van Ness
70	المولودة		كامل, نادية		Paperback			Al-karma Books			2018-1-31	978-977-646793-4		552		ar	Biography & Autobiography / General	Biography & Autobiography				1	0			0	990a8b194474d537203d6ac43c23dc73.png	وُلِدَت لأب مصري يهودي وأم إيطالية مسيحية، تقابلا في مصر في عشرينيات القرن الماضي، فتزوجا وعاشا فيها. وُلِدَت وعاشت في القاهرة، انضمت إلى الحركة الشيوعية والعمل السري، دخلت السجن، أحبَّت صحفيًّا ومناضلًا مصريًّا وتزوجا، عملت كصحفية تناصر قضايا المرأة، وفي خلال ذلك دعمت زوجها - خصوصًا عندما تعرض لملاحقة السلطة وللعزلة - وأصبحت أمًّا فربت ابنتيها وحفيديها.   ولكن حياة «نائلة كامل»، المولودة «ماري إيلي روزنتال»، وشخصيتها، تتحديان أي تصنيف مبسط تقدمه هذه المحطات المختزلة. ننتقل في هذا الكتاب الممتع إلى مصر أخرى لم تعد موجودة الآن، بأحوالها وناسها، ونعود مع ماري إلى سنوات السجن، ورفقاء الكفاح، واختيارات صعبة، ومواقف عصيبة، ونكتشف كيف ربت ابنتيها نادية ودينا، وكيف خاضت علاقاتها بعائلات أمها وأبيها وزوجها وحفيديها في أجواء فرز على أسس الدين والعرق والجنس. كتاب استثنائي عن حياة فريدة لإنسانة مصرية ملهمة.	<p> وُلِدَت لأب مصري يهودي وأم إيطالية مسيحية، تقابلا في مصر في عشرينيات القرن الماضي، فتزوجا وعاشا فيها. وُلِدَت وعاشت في القاهرة، انضمت إلى الحركة الشيوعية والعمل السري، دخلت السجن، أحبَّت صحفيًّا ومناضلًا مصريًّا وتزوجا، عملت كصحفية تناصر قضايا المرأة، وفي خلال ذلك دعمت زوجها - خصوصًا عندما تعرض لملاحقة السلطة وللعزلة - وأصبحت أمًّا فربت ابنتيها وحفيديها.</p> <p> </p> <p>ولكن حياة «نائلة كامل»، المولودة «ماري إيلي روزنتال»، وشخصيتها، تتحديان أي تصنيف مبسط تقدمه هذه المحطات المختزلة. ننتقل في هذا الكتاب الممتع إلى مصر أخرى لم تعد موجودة الآن، بأحوالها وناسها، ونعود مع ماري إلى سنوات السجن، ورفقاء الكفاح، واختيارات صعبة، ومواقف عصيبة، ونكتشف كيف ربت ابنتيها نادية ودينا، وكيف خاضت علاقاتها بعائلات أمها وأبيها وزوجها وحفيديها في أجواء فرز على أسس الدين والعرق والجنس.</p> <p>كتاب استثنائي عن حياة فريدة لإنسانة مصرية ملهمة.</p> <p> </p>	70	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
71	Little Bitcoin Book, The	Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future	Ajiboye, Timi|Buenaventura, Luis|Liu, Lily		Paperback			Amazon Digital Services Llc - Kdp Print Us			2019-8-14	978-1-64199-050-9		116		en	Business & Economics / E-Commerce / General	Business & Economics; E-Commerce; Money & Monetary Policy				1	0			0	3013c69d6aae0053da853a27d9f0be36.jpeg	You've probably heard about Bitcoin on the news or heard it being discussed by your friends or colleagues. How come the price keeps changing? Is Bitcoin a good investment? How does it even have value? Why do people keep talking about it like it's going to change the world? The Little Bitcoin Book tells the story of what's wrong with money today, and why Bitcoin was invented to provide an alternative to the current system. It describes in simple terms what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it's valuable, and how it affects individual freedom and opportunities of people everywhere - from Nigeria to the Philippines to Venezuela to the United States. This book also includes a Q & A section with some of the most frequently asked questions about Bitcoin. If you want to learn more about this new form of money which continues to gain interest and adoption around the world, then this book is for you.	You've probably heard about Bitcoin on the news or heard it being discussed by your friends or colleagues. How come the price keeps changing? Is Bitcoin a good investment? How does it even have value? Why do people keep talking about it like it's going to change the world? The Little Bitcoin Book tells the story of what's wrong with money today, and why Bitcoin was invented to provide an alternative to the current system. It describes in simple terms what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it's valuable, and how it affects individual freedom and opportunities of people everywhere - from Nigeria to the Philippines to Venezuela to the United States. This book also includes a Q & A section with some of the most frequently asked questions about Bitcoin. If you want to learn more about this new form of money which continues to gain interest and adoption around the world, then this book is for you.	71	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
72	الثورات العربية	وجهة نظر أوربية	كورت ديبوف									978-977-650709-8																		72	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
73	فرتيجو		أحمد مراد									978-977-093111-0																		73	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
74	The Satanic Verses	A Novel	Salman Rushdie		Paperback			Random House Trade Paperbacks	Random House Trade Paperback Edition		2008	978-0-8129-7671-7	2008272671	561		English		Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General									4bdf493fa7ae9524b22e51f2cc8dd740.jpeg		One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, <i>The Satanic Verses</i> is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, <i>The Satanic Verses</i> is a key work of our times.	74	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
75	Into The Hands Of The Soldiers		David D. Kirkpatrick									978-1-52660-601-3																		75	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
76	ديمقراطيات في خطر!		ألفرد ستيبان									978-9953-88811-8																		76	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
77	عام التنين		محمد ربيع					Al Kotob Khan for Publishing and Distribution			2012	978-977-630612-7		278		ar		Fiction									381169dcb8c209d6c5038e3669bac7d1.jpeg		في &quot;عام التنين&quot; ينسج محمد ربيع عالماً من الفانتازيا السياسية التي لا تختلف كثيراً عن الواقع كما عهدناه خلال الستين عام الماضية، مستندا على وقائع وأماكن وأحياناً شخصيات حقيقية. ويدخل إلى سراديب البيروقراطية المصرية، عالمه الأثير منذ &quot;كوكب عنبر&quot; وأقبية &quot;الدولة العميقة&quot; وعملائها المبثوثين في كل مفاصل الحياة.. عام التنين هو عام 2012 وسيشهد وفقاً للرواية أحداثاً سياسية كبيرة.	77	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
78	Policing Brief		Jo-Anne Prud'homme									978-0-9829399-0-1																		78	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
79	بين القصرين		نجيب محفوظ					دار الشروق،			2014	978-977-093081-6		583		ar													The engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900's. Arabic title: Bayn al-Qasrayn. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.	79	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
80	The Power of Positive Thinking		Norman Vincent Peale					Vermilion			2012	978-0-09-194745-3		301		en		Body, Mind & Spirit; Personal Growth; Self-Help									06ce94656a1a176b7ba39f9a1a02d721.jpeg		you do not need to be defeated by anything, ... you can have peace of mind, improved health, and a never-ceasing flow of energy.' The Power of Positive Thinking is a practical, direct-action application of spiritual techniques to overcome defeat and win confidence, success and joy. Norman Vincent Peale, the father of positive thinking and one of the most widely read inspirational writers of all time, shares his famous formula of faith and optimism which he developed himself by trial and error whilst searching for a way of life. Millions of people have taken Peale's teachings as their own simple and effective philosophy of living. His gentle guidance helps to eliminate defeatist attitudes, to know the power you possess and to make the best of your life.	80	2020-02-01	2020-02-01
81	قانون جديد		مؤمن محمدي									978-977-640249-2																		81	2020-02-01	2020-02-01