BOOKS

Nuclear Debate: Deterrence and the Lapse of Faith
Robert W. Tucker

The Nuclear Debate explains public opposition to the nation's traditional nuclear weapons policies, clarifies the principal moral and political questions that underlie the debate, and    More >

Inside the Nazi Ring: A Naval Attache in Sweden, 1940-1945
Henry Denham

In this absorbing and revealing memoir, Henry Denham recalls his efforts to seek enemy intelligence for Britain while serving as a naval attache in Stockholm from 1941-1945. Despite    More >

Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Michael Haynes

Much of the recent discussion about this important Marxist thinker seeks to define his role as a major theorist during Stalin's rise to power and in subsequent Soviet history. Michael    More >

A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry
Michael C. Hillmann

A sensitive study of a great poet, one of only a handful of women who gained renown during the past 2,500 years of Persian history. During her life in post-Moseddeq, pre-Khomeini Iran,    More >

Challenges to the Humanities
Chester E. Finn Jr. Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts

This provocative volume explores themes that were highlighted in Chester Finn's and Diane Ravitch's earlier work (with coauthor Robert Fancher) Against Mediocrity. It elucidates and    More >

The Politics of Rapid Urbanization: Government and Growth in Modern Turkey
Micahel N. Danielson and Ruşen Keleş

Turkey, like so many other nations in the twentieth century, has been transformed by rapid urbanization with the inevitable result of intense competition for land, jobs, public services,    More >

Flutes of Death [a novel]
Driss Chraibi, translated by Robin A. Roosevelt

The first book in a trilogy that continues with Mother Spring and Birth at Dawn, this naturalistic allegory is about two Arabic-speaking police officers who set out in the Atlas Mountains in    More >

Maiba: A Novel of Papua New Guinea
Russell Soaba

The only child of the last traditional chief of Makawana village, Maiba struggles to hold her people together in the face of the polarizing forces of convention and modernization. Soaba    More >

The Tree Climber: a play in two acts
Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies

In The Tree Climber, a detective, a lizard, a time-traveling dervish, and a magic tree all help to turn the quiet life of a married couple upside down. "Tawfiq al-Hakim’s plays    More >

The Destruction of the European Jews, student edition
Raul Hilberg

This student edition of The Destruction of the European Jews makes accessible for classroom use Raul Hilberg's landmark account of Germany's annihilation of Europe's Jewish    More >

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