Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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Escape to Aswan
$16.00 Add to cartOn a brief visit to Cairo to support an investigation her fiancé, a Jewish American journalist, has undertaken, Salma is caught up in the machinations of a new, radical Islamist group with a ven
- Author: Sedky-Winter, Amal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1951082583
- Language: English
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
$19.00 Add to cartA myth-shattering view of the Islamic world’s myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Wes
- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120565
- Language: English
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
“A fantastic tru… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0547248024
- Language: English
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Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose
$7.99 Add to cart“Nye’s sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.”–Kirkus Reviews
A moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People’s Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist N
- Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063144654
- Language: English
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Baba’s Gift: A Persian Father’s Love of Family
$18.99 Read moreBaba’s Gift is a radiant celebration of a Persian father’s love of family, from his boyhood in Iran to his new life in America.
Baba enchants his six daughters with his stories, transporting them to h- Author: Ariana Shaheen Amini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1632173239
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Egyptian Arabic Phrasebook & Dictionary
$11.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Egyptian Arabic Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Egyptian Arabic phrases and vocabulary for all your
- Series: Phrasebook
- Author: Lonely Planet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1786575973
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Baghdad: Marine Corps Gunships on the Opening Days of the Iraq War
$29.99 Read moreClimb in the cockpit and join a Marine attack helicopter pilot in this authentic and compelling firsthand account of the opening days and nights of the Iraq War.
Experience the sights, smells, and so- Author: Buer, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 195502667X
- Language: English
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The Sea People: A Captivating Guide to the Seafarers Who Invaded Ancient Egypt, Eastern Anatolia, the Hittite Empire, Palestine, Syria
$23.99 Add to cartThe Sea People were a menace to eastern Mediterranean society and contributed to the destruction of the Late Bronze Age. But what do we really know about them?
It is difficult to know the Sea People in
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168934
- Language: English
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Fugitive/Refuge
$22.00 Add to cartDynamically pairing traditional and experimental forms, Philip Metres traces ancient and modern migrations in an investigation of the ever-shifting idea of home.
In Fugitive/Refuge, Philip Metres follo
- Author: Metres, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596693
- Language: English
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
$25.99 Add to cart“I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel. . . .”
For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a rep- Author: Mekhennet, Souad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1250180570
- Language: English
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An Accidental Archaeologist
$30.00 Add to cartThis personal and professional memoir recounts the author’s formative years and the family influences that propelled him forward. The experience of anti-Semitism in grammar school and college played a… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Eric M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666743526
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior
$38.00 Add to cartFrom leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, “American Grit” feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL’s Call to a Nation, Rorke Denver, the bestselling account of how he helped create … [more below]
- Author: Denver, Rorke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1401324797
- Language: English
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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
$22.00 Add to cart“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1439155186
- Language: English
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The Dead Sea Scrolls – Revised Edition: A New Translation
$39.99 Add to cart“The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation” is a landmark work that brings to life the long-inaccessible ancient scrolls of Qumran. Three distinguished translators at the forefront of modern scrolls sch… [more below]
- Author: Wise, Michael O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 006076662X
- Language: English
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
$21.99 Add to cart“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.” –H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
- Author: McMaster, H. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929081
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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Nkjv, Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Teal, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version
$29.99 Add to cartAn easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.
Reading the Bible on the go? This compac
- Author: Thomas Nelson
- Binding:
- Page Count: 1856
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0785233458
- Language: English
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The Places in Between
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous…an instant travel classic” (Entertainment Weekly).In J… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031566
- Language: English
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Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men
$14.99 Add to cart“The perfect Christmas gift for anyone interested in the historical background behind the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.” — Robert J. Hutchinson, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible, … [more below]
- Author: Longenecker, Dwight
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1684512573
- Language: English
