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 Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in ConflictBest Price: $10.00 As someone who lived in Beirut in the early sixties and has lost touch with the country, I found... |  Whose Promised Land?Best Price: $4.50 THIS BOOK IS VERY FAIR AND BALANCED. THOSE EUROPEAN JEWS THERE ARE NOT REAL JEWS ANYWAY, THEY... |  Antony and Cleopatra (The Pelican Shakespeare)Best Price: $2.58 One of the classics, what else can I say? Sure, a bit melodramatic, but this is Shakespear... |  Crusades: The Illustrated HistoryBest Price: $16.65 "Crusades - The Illustrated History," Thomas F. Madden, Editor, shares all the... |  My War Gone By, I Miss It SoBest Price: $6.85 This is Anthony Loyd's first book, an accounting of his somewhat haphazard entry into the world... |
 Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition sponsored by National GeographicBest Price: $13.01 I absolutely adore this book. The pictures are so beautiful and layed out perfectly. The book... |  Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic ApproachesBest Price: $25.47 Recently taking a biblical archaeology course with Dr. Zevit, and referring frequenlty to this... |  Istanbul: The Imperial CityBest Price: $7.07 This is being used a text for the History of Turkey in a local junior college. it is highly... |  Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient EgyptBest Price: $2.50 First of all, Naydler's book is an outstandingly thorough and convincing argument that the... |  The Lives of the Desert Fathers: Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)Best Price: $7.59 THE LIVES OF THE DESERT FATHERS was my first introduction to these early Christian masters who... |
 One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian ImpasseBest Price: $8.57 Ali Abunimah gives a bold, insightful look into a policy option that has not been seriously... |  Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition (Phoenix Book)Best Price: $7.98 A small book, one volume in a larger series of studies of world civilazations published by... |  The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading IraqBest Price: $4.75 Many reviewers here are criticizing Pollack for supporting the Iraq war as it was waged, talking... |  Secrets of the Exodus: The Egyptian Origins of the Hebrew PeopleBest Price: $12.11 I've always thought it totally implausible that a tribe would be allowed to go around ransacking... |  America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)Best Price: $20.00 I was honored by having Bob Vitalis teach me a class while I was at the University of... |
 One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and TorturersBest Price: $1.77 If you are open to honest evaluations of the so-called "few bad apples," then you'll... |  A Brief History of Israel (Brief History Of... (Checkmark Books))Best Price: $12.83 This book could be considerably better. But it gives me a chance to show that I can be... |  The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs (Complete)Best Price: $24.29 I bought this for my daughter and she loved it. The pictures along with the writing made it... |  Kosovo: War and RevengeBest Price: $14.45 Perhaps nothing explains more about the reason for the war in Kosovo then a chart on page 313... |  Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Cultural Atlas of)Best Price: $38.50 If you are interested in ancient cultures as I am this is a great addition to your studies. It... |
 The Surge: A Military HistoryBest Price: $17.13 Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and... |  War Stories: Operation Iraqi FreedomBest Price: $8.14 I normally do not read "war" books. When I saw this book I had to get it -- after a... |  An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming IsraelBest Price: $18.02 I have just finished reading Jeff Halper's An Israeli in Palestine and found it almost... |  The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and MeaningBest Price: $22.60 After having read this book for my historical anthropology class, I was completely taken by its... |  The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern MindBest Price: $6.82 It is a light history on the subject. I did enjoy reading the book although I would be careful... |
 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq WarBest Price: $12.19 For a photo journal the print quality is not great with pixels visual in some of the photos.... |  Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical LeaderBest Price: $12.20 As Iran's nuclear program accelerates, all eyes are on the blacksmith's son who could have his... |  A Year of Absence: Six women's stories of courage, hope and loveBest Price: $15.66 As a military spouse and after reading so many great reviews here and elsewhere, I felt the need... |  Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient PersiaBest Price: $39.96 This large and attractive book is the work of two scholars from the Department of the Ancient... |  The Forts of Judaea 168 BC-AD 73: From the Maccabees to the Fall of Masada (Fortress)Best Price: $10.97 This is a seldom explored topic covering an often ignored period for this region of the Middle... |
 The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, IraqBest Price: $27.81 Gregory does a great job of connecting geographical concepts to recent conflicts in the Middle... |  Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and PracticeBest Price: $18.35 What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some... |  Understanding the Contemporary Middle East (Understanding (Boulder, Colo.).)Best Price: $10.60 I quote here the first and last sentence of the intro to chapter 6: "It would be an... |  Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen: A Culinary Journey through Syria, Lebanon, and JordanBest Price: $18.95 `Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen' by Sonia Uvezian, a native of... |  One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"Best Price: $7.50 Well researched but irritating sometimes, as many reviewers have noted, for the moral... |
 The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World (Commonwealth Fund Publications)Best Price: $27.00 I first encountered this book in the mid-1990s while living overseas in a review of recommended... |  Toppamono: Outlaw, Radical, Suspect, My Life In Japan's UnderworldBest Price: $20.52 Toppamono is a Japanese phrase for someone who pushes ahead regardless. Miyazaki Manabu has been... |  Global Political IslamBest Price: $34.61 This is a first rate overview and summary of political islam, mainly in the twentieth and early... |  A History of Modern IsraelBest Price: $13.51 The State of Israel came into existence in response to a specific need to safeguard Jews and to... |  Early Times: The Story of Ancient EgyptBest Price: $11.93 It may have a no-frills feel, but this text really piqued my interest in Egyptian history and... |
 Minoan and Mycenaen Art (World of Art)Best Price: $5.50 This is an excellent guide to the arts of Bronze Age Greece. The book is generously illustrated... |  1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle EastBest Price: $13.56 Mr. Segev has given readers another look into Israeli society and history. What I really liked... |  Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam HusseinBest Price: $6.20 Mayada Al Askari was born in Iraq, in 1955, to a prominent Iraqi family, and is the... |  In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of CombatBest Price: $2.09 An excellent book. Rick Atkinson really knows how to research a subject. To read his books is... |  Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli SocietyBest Price: $21.57 Scholarly, unbiased, thoughtful argument touching on a highly explosive, emotionally charged... |
 Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt (Chronicles)Best Price: $21.32 I've been waiting for a book like this to come out. If you have Chronicle of the Pharaohs you... |  The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 (Essential Histories)Best Price: $5.65 The historical content and political analysis in the book is so much in line with the way the... |  Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939Best Price: $33.11 Hourani and Hitti have always been the darlings of modern Western (American at least) thought on... |  The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran: The Essene Record of the Treasure of AkhenatenBest Price: $7.99 The title alone shows how careless this book is. Feather attempts to connect the Copper Scroll... |  Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness TraditionBest Price: $30.22 One of the reasons I bought this book is that Kenneth Kitchen in his "On the Reliability of... |
 Cairo: The City VictoriousBest Price: $8.67 Max Rodenbeck wrote this book as though, he was speaking to me on a cafe, somewhere by the... |  Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's OdysseyBest Price: $1.87 Dr. Ajami offers readers his erudition and wisdom, a rare combination. His observations on the... |  The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish PeopleBest Price: $11.25 okay, before i start on the review of this book, i'd like to first comment on the distribution... |  Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global TerrorismBest Price: $8.11 I want give you information,that until today-April 02-2008,I never recieve this book.Whereis my... |  Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of IranBest Price: $2.00 I believe this book is important because it describes Iran very different from what Iran is... |
 The Search For Ancient EgyptBest Price: $5.10 This book is not really about Ancient Egypt. It is, as its title suggests, a book about the... | ||||
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