International & World Politics
Review:Very good book. Learned a few new things about the teaching and understanding of nonviolence tactics and how useful MLK used it as a tool to fight Bull Connor and the rest of the segregationist in 1963 Alabama. Read more
Review:Excellent book that provides context for out seemingly endless wars in the Middle East and elsewhere. Deserves to be read widely and discussed in the mainstream media. James Risen deserves his reputation as one of the outstanding investigative reporters of our time. Read more
Review:Encouraging, challenging, eye opening. This is a book that keeps your interest start to finish. Should be a must read for all who trust in Christ and want to see His plan carried out around the world. Read more
Review:I read Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" in college in the early 1960s. It was an assigned reading in my only sociology class so I can't claim any credit for discovering the book on my own. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and into more recent times, "The Wretched of the Earth" has been high on the reading lists of every Social Science and History department of every significant university in the USA, in the rest of the Western Hemisphere nations except when the universities have been cl... Read more
Review:Seemingly unable to come to terms with the Muslim world, Orientalism is as timely to read today as it was when it was first published in 1978. Edward Said offered a much needed examination of many of the texts that had come to represent the corpus of "Orientalism" in Western Humanities classes. He went back to the late 18th and early 19th century to set the basis for this new field of study that emerged from the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt. What began as an investigation of the monuments of ... Read more