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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0812971892ISBN 13: 9780812971897
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller ZealotThough it is the fastest-growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance and fear for much of the West. In No god but God, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed scholar of religions, explains this faith in all its beauty and complexity. Beginning with a vivid account of the social and religious milieu in which the Prophet Muhammad forged his message, Aslan paints a portrait of the first Muslim community as a radical experiment in religious pluralism and social egalitarianism. He demonstrates how, after the Prophets death, his successors attempted to interpret his message for future generations-an overwhelming task that fractured the Muslim community into competing sects. Finally, Aslan examines how, in the shadow of European colonialism, Muslims developed conflicting strategies to reconcile traditional Islamic values with the realities of the modern world, thus launching what Aslan terms the Islamic Reformation. Timely and persuasive, No god but God is an elegantly written account of a magnificent yet misunderstood faith.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0812970551ISBN 13: 9780812970555
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spains early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomass magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailors plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal-the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.Spains colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbuss meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princesss recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem.The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spains many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved Indians from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers-Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them-created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims.Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives.Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound-often disturbing-echoes in the present.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
ISBN 10: 0812967089ISBN 13: 9780812967081
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Electroboy is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals with kaleidoscopic intensity the terrifying world of manic depression. For years Andy Behrman hid his raging mania behind a larger-than-life personality. He sought a high wherever he could find one and changed jobs the way some people change outfits: filmmaker, PR agent, art dealer, stripper-whatever made him feel like a cartoon character, invincible and bright. Misdiagnosed by psychiatrists and psychotherapists for years, his condition exacted a terrible price: out-of-control euphoric highs and tornadolike rages of depression that put his life in jeopardy.Ignoring his crescendoing illness, Behrman struggled to keep up appearances, clinging to the golden-boy image he had cultivated in his youth. But when he turned to art forgery, he found himself the subject of a scandal lapped up by the New York media, then incarcerated, then under house arrest. And for the first time the golden boy didnt have a ready escape hatch from his unraveling life. Ingesting handfuls of antidepressants and tranquilizers and feeling his mind lose traction, he opted for the last resort: electroshock therapy.At once hilarious and harrowing, Electroboy paints a mesmerizing portrait of a man held hostage by his in-satiable desire to consume. Along the way, it shows us the New York that never sleeps: a world of strip clubs, after-hours dives, and twenty-four-hour coffee shops, whose cheap seductions offer comfort to the citys lonely souls. This unforgettable memoir is a unique contribution to the literature of mental illness and introduces a writer whose energy may well keep you up all night.From the Hardcover edition.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0812973100ISBN 13: 9780812973105
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In its final report, the 9/11 Commission famously called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism. To Gerald Posner, the bestselling author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, this is a gross understatement. In his new book, Secrets of the Kingdom, Posner exposes the undeniable truth about U.S.-Saudi relations-and how the Saudis influence on American business and politics poses a grave threat to our security.The result of an intensive two-year investigation, Secrets of the Kingdom penetrates the innermost layers of the shielded House of Saud and presents indisputable evidence of complicity and deceit at the highest levels-evidence that the 9/11 Commission, either deliberately or negligently, failed to consider. Using bank records and other previously undisclosed information, Posner unearths many disturbing truths and shattering revelations about the ties that bind the Saudi and U.S. governments, including how countless failures in U.S. intelligence and law enforcement gave extraordinary preferential treatment to prominent Saudis living in the United States, including members of the bin Laden family, in the days after 9/11 a likely close connection between a powerful member of the House of Saud and Abu Zubeydah, the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative captured so far by the United States how the Saudi government has turned a blind eye to the role Saudi charities-including many controlled or supported by Kingdom officials- have played in bankrolling al-Qaeda and Islamic terror groups the never-before-revealed Saudi and U.S. emergency plans in the event of a national crisis in the Kingdom, plans that could affect the security of the United States and the entire Middle EastSecrets of the Kingdom is an explosive study that will have a profound impact on both U.S. policy and Americans perception of their government and its extensive ties to a foreign power. Posner uncovers a disturbing picture of how two nations, despite their differing agendas, have become inextricably entwined.From the Hardcover edition.
Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
ISBN 10: 0812970446ISBN 13: 9780812970449
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0812975669ISBN 13: 9780812975666
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
ISBN 10: 0812968123ISBN 13: 9780812968125
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
ISBN 10: 0812968689ISBN 13: 9780812968682
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0812968794ISBN 13: 9780812968798
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010
ISBN 10: 0812981057ISBN 13: 9780812981056
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10: 0812967151ISBN 13: 9780812967159
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009
ISBN 10: 081297963XISBN 13: 9780812979633
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. I dont have two lives, Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990 to 2005. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, and William Burroughs-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitzs family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes. The pictures form a narrative of a life rich in contrasts and continuities. The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while, she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of the life.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10: 0812973046ISBN 13: 9780812973044
Seller: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
ISBN 10: 0812974697ISBN 13: 9780812974690
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
ISBN 10: 0812977351ISBN 13: 9780812977356
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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