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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen

10 best books like Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen (Laura Kasinof): The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail, Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq, Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military, Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea, Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American, Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
AuthorNicholas Lemann
ISBN0374527512
What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed this...
Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail
AuthorDebbie Clarke Moderow
ISBN0544484126
A captivating memoir of one woman’s attempt to finish the Iditarod, led by her team of spunky huskies with whom she shares a fascinating and inextricable bond

At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that’s where she found herself...
Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq
AuthorJackie Spinner
When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as the most junior member of the "Washington Post" bureau staff, Jackie Spinner entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible. Bombs were a daily occurrence and kidnapping an ever-present threat for American journalists. Yet "the longer...
Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military
AuthorTanya Biank
ISBN0451239229
As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today’s military—the professional and personal challenges that confront female soldiers from the combat zone to the home front...

Since 9/11, more than 240,000 women soldiers...
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
AuthorCullen Murphy
ISBN0374298556
A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School

For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation's top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone's throw...
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0618446656
The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile...
Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place
AuthorSusan Wittig Albert
ISBN0292719701
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
AuthorRobert D. Kaplan
ISBN1400034523
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for...
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American
AuthorJohn Stauffer
ISBN0871404680
Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln,...
Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers
AuthorLee Sandlin
ISBN0307378527
Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster-the super cell tornado-that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.

While tornadoes...
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
AuthorHenry Wiencek
ISBN0374175268
A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery

When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking...
Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
AuthorThomas Norman DeWolf
ISBN0807014419
Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on
 
“We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To...
Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads with a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan
AuthorMax Alexander
ISBN1401324177
The hilarious story of two brothers, a truckload of batteries, and a brilliant plan to bring light--and new business opportunities--to Ghana

At age 47, Whit Alexander, the American co-founder of the Cranium board game, decided to start a new business selling affordable goods and services...
تقاطع نيران: من يوميات الانتفاضة السورية
AuthorSamar Yazbek
لا تكتب سمر يزبك يومياتها هذه لتواجه «الخوف والذعر» فقط وإنما لتراود الأمل أيضاً، كما تعبّر.
لكنها على يقين تام أنّ ما تكتبه حقيقي وواقعي وليس من صنع المخيّلة....
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
AuthorElliot Carlson
ISBN1612510604
This is the first biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, the Officer in Charge of Station Hypo the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and his key role in breaking the Imperial Japanese Navy's main code before the Battle of Midway. It brings together the disparate threads of Rochefort's life and career,...
This Way Madness Lies
AuthorMike Jay
ISBN0500518971
This Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through the lens of its proverbial home: Bethlem Royal Hospital, London, popularly known as Bedlam. The book charts the evolution of the asylum through four incarnations: the eighteenth-century...
A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
AuthorMark Tessler
ISBN0253208734
"This is the best book on the subject at present. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review)

"[Mr. Tessler is] thoughtful, well-informed and resolutely fair-minded... rigorous and commiserative alike, and his gloss on the fallout from the creation of Israel, which included...
My Old Man and the Mountain: A Memoir
AuthorLeif Whittaker
ISBN1680510681
In 1963, the world followed the first American Mount Everest Expedition, and watched as "Big Jim" Whittaker became the first American to stand on top of the world. He returned home a hero.

My Old Man and the Mountain is Leif Whittaker's engaging and humorous story of what it was like to "grow up...
Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll
AuthorJoe Oestreich
ISBN0762779241
A classic underdog story about a local band that almost hits the big time.

 

Everyone knows the price of fame. Hitless Wonder measures the price of obscurity. What happens when you chase a dream into middle age and, in doing so, risk losing the people you love?.
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
AuthorAndrew Pettegree
ISBN0300179081
The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper

Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared...
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier & the Yukon Gold Rush
AuthorHoward Blum
ISBN0307461726
New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting...
Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
AuthorTy Burr
ISBN0307377660
WITH 8 PAGES OF BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

How—and why—do we obsess over movie stars? How does fame both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars’ images altered over a century of cultural and technological change? Do we create celebrities,...
Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization
AuthorPaul Kindstedt
ISBN1603584110
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science and technology, we can see how different cheeses have been shaped by and tailored to their surrounding...
Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life
AuthorSayed Kashua
ISBN0802124550
Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as “a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society.” An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate...
Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure
AuthorSamira Kawash
ISBN0374711100
For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least it's honest about what it is—a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. So why...
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