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The Global Focus Bookstore strives to highlight books that are both especially valuable and provide different or alternatives perspectives to the so-called conventional wisdom. For Amazon account holders, you can buy books viia one-click shopping, without even leaving the website. Your purchases through the Global Focus Bookstore help provide financial support for the Flashpoints and Global Focus websites. We appreciate your patronage. Thank You. |
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Imperial
Hubris |
Don't be put off by the anonymous author, a veteran US intelligence analyst. At a time where leaders spout black and white, good and evil characterizations of the war on terror, Imperial Hubris sounds a word of caution. By over-simplifying the problem, the US, he argues, risks losing the war on terror. This book expands on his earlier title "Through Our Enemies Eyes" explaining the perspectives and grievances of Islamist terrorists. US policies, driven by military responses is a recipe for disaster. Imperial Hubris is both refreshing in its candor and chilling in its forecasts. | ||
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Terror
in the Name of God Jessica Stern ISBN: 006050532X Buy Now $18.45 |
The author recounts her visits with an assortment of religious terrorists from America to Israel and across the Muslim world.Stern begins with a skeptical view, but comes closer to understanding the diverse motivations that drive people to terrorism. We see that there those who believe and others who exploit the believers. Stern, a notional security advisor also includes policy recommendations. | ||
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Hizbollah |
It's easy to condemn Hizbullah and dismiss them as mindless terrorists, as so many do, but there's more to this organization. Saad-Ghorayeb draws on first-hand experience and interviews to provide a deeper of view of the resistance fighters that forced the Israeli Defense Force out of Lebanon and has developed a pragmatic military-political strategy to advance their cause. Understanding Hizbullah and their evolutionary transformations, may help identify ways to deal with Hamas and al-Qaeda. | ||
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Jewish
Fundamentalism in Israel By Israel Shahak, Norton Mezvinsky ISBN: 0745320902 Buy Now $13.97 |
Lurking beneath the veneer of a democratic and secular Isareli state is an aspect of Jewish life as dangerous, diabolical and disruptive as any Islamic extremists. Shahak and Mezinky translate and explain the real meaning and impact of the "land of Israel" and how Jewish fundamentalists have and will frustrate efforts at any peaceful resolution. This book helps us explain the settlement movement and the forces that drive it inexorably forward. As Hebrew speaking, theological scholars the authors know their subject and present it in a readable fashion. | ||
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Mass
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Mass Hate picks up where "The Nature of Prejudice" leaves off, exploring how prejudice grows to become and hatred and mutates into genocide. It's a dark side of human nature, but one that continues to rear its ugly head. Kressel delves into the Holocaust, Bosnia and Rwanda, providing a foundation for coming to grips with today's genocide in Sudan, and undoubtedly more cases in the future. | ||
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Through
Our Enemies Eyes Usama bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America By Anonymous ISBN 1-57488-552-9 Buy Now $20.96 |
This book is by the author of Imperial Hubris and provides a detailed, comprehensive description and insightful analysis of al-Qaeda and Usama bin Laden. The book reveals a surprising number of facts and an informed perspective that are simply not reported by mainstream media. "Possibly offensive, most certainly contrversial," if you want one book to really help understand on al-Aqaeda - this is the one. | ||
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The
Iranians Persia, Islam, and the Soul of a Nation By Sandra Mackey ISBN 0452275636 Buy Now $11.17 |
The subtitle - Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation is, indeed, the subject and essence of this fine book. Mackey combines an often lyrical style with solid historical perspective to explain the soul of the Iranians, a people torn between thier nationalism and their religion. Iran's is a story of a nation searching for its identity, but distracted by tyrants and deceived by foreigners. As the US neocons set their sights on Iran, it's worth reading the Iranians; perhaps left alone they'll find their own solutions. | ||
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The
Troubles : Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace By Tim Pat Coogan ISBN: 0312294182 Buy Now $22.95 |
Coogan writes serious books for serious readers, as long as they are informative. The book is an excellent acount of the Irish struggle against British colonialism in modern times. Thankfully, the author explains but doesn't belabor the 750 years of conflict that led to the current period known as the Troubles - the wee tiff that's claimed over 3500 lives and directly affected virtually every family in Northern Ireland. Serious, detailed and collectible, it's a singularly great resource. | ||
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Bandit
Country By Toby Harnden ISBN: 0340717378 Buy Now $14.99 |
Most books about the Northern Ireland conflict have focused on the urban combat waged in Belfast and Derry. But the 6 counties are primatily rural and in County Armagh the IRA and British security locked horns in battle, fought between barns and hedgerows. Around tarnquil towns like Crossmaglen, with its "Beware Sniper" warning signs over 115 British soldiers died. The author has interviewed members of the army, MI5, RUC and IRA to provide a balanced account of the troubles in what is called "Bandit Country." | ||
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Beyond
Intifada Narratives of Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip By Haim Gordon, Rivca Gordon, and Taher Shriteh ISBN 0275971295 Buy New $44.95 |
The authors tell the stories of six Palestinians (four men and two women), who describe their lives amid the conflicts of the Gaza Strip from the 1993 peace process to the present day. "A deeply personal and emotionally moving account that lends human faces to the strife and turmoil that have plagued the Occupied Territories. Beyond Intifada puts a human face on the tragedy of Palestine. | ||
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Arab
and Jew Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land By David K. Shipler ISBN 0142002291 Buy New $11.90 |
The correspondent for The New York Times in Jerusalem from 1979 to 1984, David K. Shipler brings a very American moral commitment to the problem of Arab-Jewish relations. The occupation of the West Bank was by then a static fact of life; many young Israelis and Palestinians had grown up knowing no other reality. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the massacres of Palestinians by Lebanese militiamen at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, which were under Israeli control, had shaken the consciences of many American Jews. Many of the voices in this book are American, from idealistic young secular Jews working for Arab-Jewish cooperation to the more fanatical followers of Meir Kahane. This work, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. | ||
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Dishonest
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Aruri argues that the special relationship between the United States and Israel turned into a strategic alliance after the war in 1967 -- ruling out a role of honest brokering for the United States -- all other would-be peacemakers and facilitators were held at bay. The U.S. diplomatic -monopoly continues to serve as the single most effective means to accomplish Israel's goals. It sustains Israel, protecting it from international scrutiny, and engineers the gridlock that allows the Israeli government to negotiate indefinitely. | ||
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The
Nature of Prejudice By Gordon W. Allport ISBN 0201001799 Buy New $12.95 |
For my money, this is one of the best books ever written. Readers will learn more than they ever wanted to know - about themselves, society, conflict and genocide. It all begins with "prejudice," as in-groups seek advantage over out-groups and proceeds to decsribe the things we do and teach our children to get and keep that advantage. Over 500,000 copies in print is not enough, this book should be in every hotel room. Written in the 1950's it's every bit as releven today, no watter wht your religion, nationality or other group identifier; the names - black, Jew, Irish, Korean - are interchangeable, it's the behaviors that are constant. | ||
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Terrorist
Reader |
There hundreds of books about terrorism, mostly by people who've never met one. Whittaker's book is a collection of articles many of which are valuable, a few not. His book is better than most and presents some different perspectives on a timely and troubling issue.The book provides 13 case studies covering the IRA and UFF in Northern Ireland, Spain's ETA, Peru's Shining Path, the Tamil Tigers, al-Qaeda and more. It's an excellent overview of the terrorist phenomenon. | ||
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WizCom QuickLink Pen Handheld Scanner
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EDITOR'S CHOICE - Better than a photographic memory! No more underling, highlighting, or tabbing, justsweep the portable scanner across the text, save it, download it and you're ready to edit and collect endless information for easy access. It even comes with language translation capabilities on CD. Handheld scanners are the way of the the future today - ideal for students, researchers.Take it to the libray, bookstore, even on secret missions. It also keeps your books in pristine condition for resale, or posterity. I use one constantly. | ||
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Martyrs |
It's easy to condemn martyrs and suicide bombers; it's harder to understand what drives people to such desperate acts, but Davis does an admirable job. Through candid, soemtimes chilling interviews with terrorist trainers, suicide bombers, their families and clerics, Davis begins to shed light on the problems that spark such hatred and zealotry. It's a distrubing picture, presented with objectivity that makes the quest for peace all the more compelling. A fascinating book. | ||
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Belfast
Diary War as a Way of Life By John Conroy ISBN 0807002178 Buy New $17.00 |
Conroy gives readers an unusually intimate and personal view of the conflict, reporting on his time spent living in Belfast. It's value is in persoanlizing events from the perspective of ordinary citizens. Although much has changed since it was written, little has changed and Belast Diary remains a fascinating snapshot. As someone who has lived in Belfast, I highly recommend this title. | ||
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