This book, by CNN correspondent Satinder Bindra, describes the tsunami of 2004 which caused destruction in a dozen countries and over 200,000 deaths. It graphic...
Holy war ideas appear among Muslims during the earliest manifestations of the new faith. This book locates the origin of Jihad and traces its evolution as an id...
To some it's antisocial anathema, to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provides relief from crippling pain. Some fear it is a dangerous drug that lea...
Saudi Arabia: land of oil, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, and a crucial American ally. John R. Bradley uniquely exposes the turmoil that is shaking the Hous...
A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dream...
Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between liter...
Long standing editor of Vanity Fair, and hailed as the King of New York, Graydon Carter has turned his attention from Hollywood's finest to spearheading his...
An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the ...
A revelatory narrative marked by an incisive and insightful analysis of Asia's pivotal role on the world stage... A resurgent Asia is now emerging as the gl...
An account of the effects of U.S. nuclear bomb testing, this book tells the story of the military members, workers, and local inhabitants who contracted fatal d...
It was the largest organised robbery in history - the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and most of the nations of Europe. Now, for the first...