Freddy the Detective

Children's Books

Walter Rollin, Brooks

Animals

DUCKWORTH G

Sons of the Conquerors

Politics & Social Sciences

POPE, Hugh

Social Sciences

Girl from the Golden Horn

Literature & Fiction

Kurban Said

Contemporary

Slice of Life

Marranca, Bonnie

Mystery of the Portland Vase

Robin Brooks

History

The definitive biography of Egyptian president Gamal Adbel Nasser, one of the most important Arab leaders of the 20th century; Since the death of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 there has been no ideology to capture the imagination of the Arab world except Islamic fundamentalism. Any sense of completely secular Arab states ended with him and what we see today happening in the Middle East is a direct result of Western opposition to his strategies and ideals. Nasser is a fascinating figure fraught with dilemmas. With the CIA continually trying to undermine him, Nasser threw his lot in with the Soviet Union, even though he was fervently anti-Communist. Nasser wanted to build up a military on par with Israel's, but didn't want either the '56 or '67 wars. This was a man who was a dictator, but also a popular leader. His ideology appealed to most of the Arab people and bound them together. While he was alive, there was a brief chance of actual Arab unity producing common, honest, and uncorruptable governments throughout the region. More than ever, the Arab world is anti-Western and teetering on disaster. This examination of Nasser's life is tantamount to understanding wheth

Nasser the Last Arab

Said Aburish

Biographies & Memoirs

A landmark defense of civilization that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our world. The publication of The Dragons of Expectation in 2005 reaffirmed Robert Conquest's stature as a leading intellectual and one of the world's great humanists. In the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity and George Orwell's Essays, this book brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern minds; to often disastrous effects. In what Publishers Weekly called "a frontal assault on the pieties of the left," Conquest masterfully examines how false nostrums have infected academia, politicians, and the public, showing how their reliance on "isms" and the destructive concepts of "People, Nation, and Masses" have resulted in a ruinous cycle of turbulence and war. Including fresh analyses of Russia's October Revolution, World War II, and the Cold War, The Dragons of Expectation is one of the most important contributions to modern thought in recent years. 3 illustrations

Dragons of Expectation

Conquest, Robert

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Women's Life in Greece and Rome

Mary R Lefkowitz

Ancient Civilizations

Bush Agenda

Business & Money

Antonia Juhasz

International

Links

Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in 20 years. But this is not a nostalgia trip—his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother's grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend's family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.

Nuruddin, Farah

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