A Concise History of the Middle East

6 best books like A Concise History of the Middle East (Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr.): All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, Children of the Fleet, World Order

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Author	Stephen Kinzer
ISBN	0471678783

An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves...

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

Author	Corey Robin
ISBN	0199793743

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's...

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

Author

Eric Metaxas

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

On All Hallow’s Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document...

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Author

James Lovelock

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an...

Children of the Fleet

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0765377047

From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years.

Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Card's bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Ender's Shadow series.

Ender...

World Order

Author	Henry Kissinger
ISBN	1594206147

Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of...