A military chronicle of the Iraq war is a critical assessment of America's role as viewed from the firsthand perspectives of senior military officers that argues that the guerrilla insurgency that took place in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers.
During the last presidential election in Iran, nonviolent protestors defied the mullahs’ power by wearing green ribbons on their wrists. In June of 2009, the inhabitants of Tehran were living underground to escape the government’s authority, strangled by interdictions, dreaming of freedom and revolution. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and desperate to maintai…
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? Closely argued but clearly written, David Harvey, a leading social theorist of his generation, builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US pol…
This book contains: 1.. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Development 2. International Civil Aviation Organization 3. International Labour Organization 4. United Nations Industrial Development Organization 5. United execution 6. United Nations Population Fund
The contents of this book: 1. Jordan in the Twentieth Century 2. Geography 3. Natural Diversity 4. Government and Politics
This book contains: 1. The Preliterary age 2. Ancient semitic times 3. The Greco-Roman age 4. The Islamic age 5. In modern times-Ottomans and Persians 6. The Arab states
The contents of this book: 1. Urban 2. Feminine 3. Mystic 4. Hospitable 5. Historic 6. Entertaining
The contents of this book: 1. The Shihab Emirate 2. The Reign of Bashir II: 1788-1840 3. The End of the Emirate: 1840-42 4. The Double Kaymakamate: 1842-58
This book contains: 1. Aftermath of war 2. The strained alliance 3. Dealing with the Ancien Regime 4. The coming and the going 5. The divisive pact 6. Beggars and princes 7. Arms and the men 8. More visitors
Ever since Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel and the Palestinian people have been engaged in what commentators persist in calling "the peace process". Yet Israel remains racked by violence and continuing land seizures, and Palestinians are more demoralized than ever before. Now in this probing and impassioned book, one of our foremost Palestinian-America…