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Night Draws Near
Henry Holt and Co. 2006; US$ 15.99From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, here is a riveting account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations Like her country, Karima?a widow with eight children?was caught between America and Saddam. It was March 2003 in proud but battered Baghdad. As night drew near, she took her son to... more...
The Sole Spokesman
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 32.00Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review more...
Cruel Crossing
Transworld 2013; US$ 26.69The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep - the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the Pyrenees during the Second World War were malnourished and exhausted after weeks on the run hiding in barns and attics. Many never even reached the Spanish... more...
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 22.95The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its breathtaking resurgence... more...
Through the Perilous Fight
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem. In the summer of 1814, the United States of America teetered on the brink of disaster.... more...
Hip: The History
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again.... more...
Unholy Business
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 21.99In 2002, an ancient limestone box called the James Ossuary was trumpeted on the world's front pages as the first material evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ. Today it is exhibit number one in a forgery trial involving millions of dollars worth of high-end, Biblical era relics, some of which literally re-wrote Near Eastern history and which... more...
The Cleanest Race
Melville House 2011; US$ 20.00Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic , presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime?s... more...
The Age of Kali
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives : the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the ?age of darkness? predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch... more...
The Barbarous Years
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 35.00Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. They were a mixed multitude?from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states,... more...









