Engaging the Muslim World
10 best books like Engaging the Muslim World (Juan Cole): A People's History of the United States, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, A People's History of the World, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
A People's History of the United States
| Author | Howard Zinn |
| ISBN | 0060838655 |
Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s...
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
| Author | Judy Goldman |
| ISBN | 0385543948 |
A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed.
Together
is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.
When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper...
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This...
A People's History of the World
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
In The Exception to the Rulers, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman exposes the lies, corruption, and crimes of the power elite-an elite that is bolstered by large media conglomerates who obscure the truth. Her goal is "to go where the silence is, to give voice to the silenced majority," and she is...
| Author | Douglas Wilson |
| ISBN | 0891075836 |
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding...
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
| Author | Kevin Phillips |
| ISBN | 0767905342 |
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and...
| Author | Leonard Zeskind |
| ISBN | 0374109036 |
More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history to date of the white supremacist movement as it has evolved over the past three-plus decades. Leonard Zeskind draws heavily upon court documents, racist publications, and first-person reports, along with...
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
| Author | Bernard Lewis |
| ISBN | 0060516054 |
For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to...
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0684841886 |
"Our country faces many insistently urgent problems, on the solution of which its prosperity and even its survival depend--the threat of nuclear war, the shrinking of essential resources and supplies of energy, the pollution or spoliation of the environment, the spiraling of inflation accompanied...
| Author | Antonin Sertillanges |
| ISBN | 0813206464 |
"Evening! how little , usually, people know about making it holy and quiet, about using it to prepare for really restorative sleep! How it is wasted, polluted, misdirected."
~~ quote from The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.
It has taken me a year to work my way through...
| Author | Douglas J. Feith |
| ISBN | 0060899735 |
Douglas J. Feith, the Bush Administration's most influential and controversial international policy strategist, offers an intimate, you-are-there chronicle of the planning of the War on Terror. A highly influential international policy analyst for more than a quarter century before joining...
Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English....
How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0812694120 |
Philosophy of everybody's business. As human beings, we all have the ability, and even the proclivity, to philosophize. We all engage in philosphical thought in the course of our daily live. What is philosophy? Why is it important? The importance of philosophy can be summed up in two words: Great Ideas....
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0684838230 |
Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common sense" of Aristotelian logic, presenting Aristotle's...
Ten Philosophical Mistakes
'Ten Philosophical Mistakes' looks at the faulty foundations of ten modern philosophical problems.
1. Denial of human consciousness
2. The mistake about the human mind
3. The failure to recognize that ideas are meanings
4. The mistake of not acknowledging the contributions...
How to Speak How to Listen
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0684846470 |
Listen to How I Speak would have been the better title for Adler's didactic abortion How to Speak, How to Listen. A book that styles itself as a how to speak and listen, there is very little content of this kind. Instead, Adler moralizes ad nauseum on a completely different problem: why it is important to...
Knowledge, Language, Thought and The Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al–Attas
| Author | Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud |
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
1 AL–ATTAS: A REAL REFORMER AND THINKER
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
2 RE–ISLAMISING THE WORLD
Ali Alawi
3 AL–BALAGH
Omar Jah
4 SHIFTS OF LANGUAGE AND TURNS IN WORLDVIEW:
Naquib...
Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase
| Author | Arthur Quinn |
| ISBN | 1880393026 |
Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings"...
Instruction of the Student: The Method of Learning
| Author | Burhan al-Din al-Zarnuji |
| ISBN | 1929694040 |
Banyak buku tip belajar ada di pasaran, tetapi kalau ada yang tertanya-tanya bagaimana para 'alim ulama kita yang berjaya membina peradaban Islam dahulu belajar, saya rasa inilah antara buku yang mampu memberi pencerahan.
Sangat wajar dibaca dan direnung bersama-sama oleh setiap pelajar...
| Author | James W. Sire |
| ISBN | 0877883572 |
I love this book! What's not to love in a book about reading? The author's purpose is to help us read better for greater comprehension. He says "Our goal in reading carefully is not only to understand what is being said explicitly but to see why it is being said. We want to learn to recognize the world views...
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
| Author | Vijay Prashad |
| ISBN | 1565847857 |
A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor.
'"Europe" is morally, spiritually indefensible. And today the indictment is brought against it…by tens and tens of thousands of millions of men who, from the depths of slavery,...
The Death of the Liberal Class
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 1568586442 |
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define...
Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
| Author | Kim Phillips-Fein |
| ISBN | 0393059308 |
Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the "nanny state." Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals...
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
| Author | Nicholas Lemann |
| ISBN | 0394269675 |
There are some positive aspects to this book, the foremost being that it was written at all. It focuses on the causes and results of serious problems which had not been solved in 1991, with little optimism that ghetto problems would ever be solved except by the upward movement of people who found a way out....
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
| Author | James Carroll |
| ISBN | 0618187804 |
From the National Book Award–winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast — often hidden — impact on America.
This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America,...
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide
| Author | Dan Cryan |
| ISBN | 1848310552 |
Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships. "Introducing Capitalism" tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through...
The Lost Children: Part 1 of 3
The Lost Children can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 1 of 3 (Chapters 1-4 of 25).You can read Part 1 two weeks ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.First published in 1974 as A Circle of Children this is the first of four books from...
