Politics & Social Sciences
Assad or We Burn the Country
JOD 17.00
From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army comma..
Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East R...
JOD 16.50
In the third volume of their graphic history of US and Middle East relations, Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B. cover the tumultuous period that began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and ended with Obama's decision, in 2013, not to intervene in Syria. Taking in the First Gulf War, the rise of al..
Beyond Outrage
JOD 11.00
America's economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us. In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in..
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into The Lives Of Africans...
JOD 16.50
The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People’s Republic China today is both a land of opportunity for Africans, South Americans and other non-Westerners blocked from c..
Black Wave
JOD 14.50
'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2..
Blackwater
JOD 13.00
Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops,..
Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Mi...
JOD 11.00
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosop..
Book of Wills
JOD 16.50
‘To write a will under siege is not surrender – it’s defiance. It says: I existed. I felt. I belonged. I am not yours to erase.’ REEM GHANAYEM Eighteen Gazan writers share their last will and testament and with it their belief in the written word as a profound act of resistance. A dual language Engl..
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
JOD 15.50
International boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts helped topple South Africa's brutal apartheid regime. In this urgent book, Omar Barghouti makes the case for a rights-based BDS campaign to stop Israel's rapacious occupation, colonization, and apartheid against the Palestinian people. T..
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
JOD 25.50
A riveting, firsthand investigation of China’s seismic progress, its human costs, and what it means for America. For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang―“a gifted observer of contemporary China” (Ross Douthat)―has been living through the country’s astonishing, messy progress. China’s tow..
Bush And Cheney
JOD 20.00
Was Americas response to the 9/11 attacks at the root of todays instability and terror? Because of various factors, including climate change, ISIS, the war in Syria, the growing numbers of immigrants, and the growing strength of fascist parties in Europe, commentators have increasingly been pointing..
Capital Is Dead
JOD 15.50
It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism—what if it’s something worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories b..