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  • All the Shah's Menby Stephen Kinzer

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 14.95

    This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports) that have now been declassified. Stephen Kinzer's compelling narrative is at once a vital piece of history, a cautionary tale, and a real-life espionage thriller. more...

  • The Audacity of Hopeby Barack Obama

    Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 7.99

    In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the audacity of hope.” The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics—a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the... more...

  • A Woman Among Warlordsby Malalai Joya

    Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 11.99

    Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls’ schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn’t find them; she helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah; and at a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country’s powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords... more...

  • The New Machiavelliby Jonathan Powell

    Random House 2010; US$ 12.34

    * ?Niccolò Machiavelli is misunderstood,? argues Jonathan Powell in his twenty-first-century reworking of the Italian philosopher?s influential masterpiece, The Prince . Taking the lessons Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in fifteenth-century Florence, Powell shows how these lessons can still apply today. Illustrating each of Machiavelli?s maxims with a description of events that occurred during Tony Blair?s time as Prime Minister, The New Machiavelli is designed to be The Prince for modern times. * Tony Blair?s Chief of Staff from 1994 ? 2007 , Jonathan Powell recounts the inside story of that period ? drawing on his own unpublished diaries. He tackles the critics of Blair?s ?sofa government? and gives... more...

  • The Battle for Egyptby Yasmine El Rashidi; Timothy Garton Ash

    New York Review of Books 2011; US$ 4.99

    In a series of riveting dispatches, Cairo native Yasmine El Rashidi provides an eyewitness account of the entire 2011 Egyptian Revolution as it unfolded, from its origins in the days leading up to the first January 25 protest in Tahrir Square through the violent confrontations with the regime and the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, to the subsequent military takeover and the March 2011 constitutional referendum. Drawing on her deep knowledge of the Egyptian capital and its underlying social divisions, El Rashidi brings together a vivid story of the uprising itself with subtle insights about the strengths—and limits—of the protest movement and the prospects for large-scale political change i n the September 2011 parliamentary... more...

  • Hitch-22by Christopher Hitchens

    Allen & Unwin 2011; US$ 18.17

    The acid, hilarious, confessional and provocative memoirs of the bestselling author of God is Not Great - a story of a life lived large. more...

  • Playing with Fireby Pamela Constable

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.99

    A volatile nation at the heart of major cultural, political, and religious conflicts in the world today, Pakistan commands our attention. Yet more than six decades after the country’s founding as a Muslim democracy, it continues to struggle over its basic identity, alliances, and direction. In Playing with Fire, acclaimed journalist Pamela Constable peels back layers of contradiction and confusion to reveal the true face of modern Pakistan. In this richly reported and movingly written chronicle, Constable takes us on a panoramic tour of contemporary Pakistan, exploring the fears and frustrations, dreams and beliefs, that animate the lives of ordinary citizens in this nuclear-armed nation of 170 million. From the opulent, insular salons... more...

  • The Mammoth Book of Cover-Upsby Jon E. Lewis

    Constable & Robinson 2009; US$ 11.12

    The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion,Hess, The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, ElvisFluoridization, Martin Luther King?s murder, Opus Dei, The Gemstone Files, John Paul I, Dead Sea Scrolls, Lockerbie bombing, Black helicopters? In other words everything ?they? never wanted you to know and were afraid you might ask! Jon E. Lewis explores the 100 most terrifying cover-ups of all time, from the invention of Jesus? divinity (pace the Da Vinci Code) to Bush?s and Blair?s real agenda in invading Iraq. Entertainingly written and closely documented, the book provides each cover-up with a plausibility rating. Uncover why the Titanic sank, ponder the... more...

  • The Unmaking of Israelby Gershom Gorenberg

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99

    In this penetrating and provocative look at the state of contemporary Israel, acclaimed Israeli historian and journalist Gershom Gorenberg reveals how the nation’s policies are undermining its democracy and existence as a Jewish state, and explains what must be done to bring it back from the brink. Refuting shrill defenses of Israel and equally strident attacks, Gorenberg shows that the Jewish state is, in fact, unique among countries born in the postcolonial era: It began as a parliamentary democracy and has remained one. An activist judiciary has established civil rights. Despite discrimination against its Arab minority, Israel has given a political voice to everyone within its borders. Yet shortsighted policies, unintended consequences,... more...

  • Pity the Billionaireby Thomas Frank

    Henry Holt and Co. 2012; US$ 11.99

    From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas? , a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least it's supposed to. But when Thomas Frank set out in 2009 to look for expressions of American discontent, all he could find were loud demands that the economic system be made even harsher on the recession's victims and that society's traditional winners receive even grander prizes. The American Right, which had seemed moribund after the election of 2008, was strangely reinvigorated by the arrival of hard times. The Tea Party movement demanded not that we question... more...