How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism
By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against the T…
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1. Chaos: Making a New Science
By: James Gleick
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more
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"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. The Dog of the South
By: Charles Portis
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more
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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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7. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
By: Judith Herrin
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
By: Eugene Rogan
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more
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9. Planet of Slums
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages,
Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more
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10. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe i… read more
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11. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
By: Peter Sarris
4.29
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessme… read more
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12. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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13. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
14. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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16. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
17. Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
By: Ian Black
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle… read more
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18. How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism
By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against the T… read more
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19. The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
By: Benny Morris
4.10
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republ… read more
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"In his memoirs, Celal Bey recalled what it felt like to witness what were, in effect, death marches. “I was like a person sitting beside a river,"-Benny Morris, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
20. My Road from Damascus
By: Jamal Saeed
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written wit… read more
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21. Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East: From European Colony to US Power Projection Platform
By: Stephen Gowans
4.21
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Washington has poured billions into Israel’s economy and military and, since 1967, Israel has under… read more
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