Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban
By: Bette Dam
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was…
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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By: William Finnegan
4.27
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more
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"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
2. The Wisdom of Life
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None , T. Bailey Saunders
4.12
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
A leading German philosopher and metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)… read more
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"The perverse, obtuse, wicked biped race"-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
"La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
"Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
3. Egypt: Military Society; the Army Regime, the Left, and Social Change Under Nasser
By: Anouar Abdel-Malek
4.75
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
' Military Society' is the story of fifteen years (1952-1967)--the final stage of Egypt's nat8ional… read more
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- politics
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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. How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century
By: Shyam Saran
3.97
Format: 352 pages,
Former India Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran has had a ringside view of the most critical events and … read more
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6. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
By: Charles Montgomery
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Charles Montgomery's Happy Citywill revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades … read more
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7. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
By: Joby Warrick
3.64
Format: None pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising i… read more
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- politics
- history
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8. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
By: Anand Gopal
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist National Book Award in Nonfiction finalist Helen Bern… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. The Panama Papers
By: Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering… read more
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10. War
By: Sebastian Junger
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm,Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantl… read more
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11. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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12. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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13. Curfewed Night
By: Basharat Peer
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. read more
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14. Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
By: Robert Lacey
2.83
Format: None pages,
What happened in the Middle East's oil-rich powerhouse while we weren't looking? Saudi Arabia is a … read more
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15. The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur : How the Pulwama Case was Cracked
By: Rahul Pandita
3.99
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Inside the world of the jaish-e-mohammed – from the Parliament attack to the Pulwama bombing in Feb… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
16. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more
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"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
17. Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
By: Ryan Holiday
4.04
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday's best… read more
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"Start small...on something big."-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing."-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
"History is written with blood, sweat, and tears, and it is etched into eternity by the quiet endurance of courageous people."-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
18. 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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- history
19. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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- history
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
21. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
By: Craig Whitlock
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more
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"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
22. 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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23. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
By: Bradley Hope
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more
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24. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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25. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- history
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26. The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left
By: Hassan Abbas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first account of the new Taliban—showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from… read more
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- history
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27. The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad
By: Thomas Hegghammer
4.29
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in … read more
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- nonfiction
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28. Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
By: Volodymyr Ishchenko
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world In T… read more
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29. Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban
By: Bette Dam
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was… read more
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30. Rise of the South African Reich
By: Brian Bunting
3.56
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
Penguin African Library #AP12. Revised Edition, 1969. read more
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