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Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

10 best books like Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Amy Dockser Marcus): Shopgirl, The Madonnas of Leningrad, Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right, The Real Frank Zappa Book, Me of Little Faith, The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years, Thank You for Smoking, Siegfried, Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East

Shopgirl
AuthorSteve Martin
ISBN0786891076
Lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her two cats. She attempts to forge a relationship with middle-aged, womanizing, Seattle millionaire...
The Madonnas of Leningrad
AuthorDebra Dean
ISBN0060825316
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—her distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of...
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
AuthorAl Franken
ISBN0452285216
Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander, bias, and even treason. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the...
The Real Frank Zappa Book
AuthorFrank Zappa
ISBN0330316257
The first third of this book is really Zappa talking in a tongue in cheek manner about his career. Unfortunately, the second two thirds is more or less ranting about people he didn't like, his politics in the 80s (which I mostly agreed with but that is NOT why I wanted to read this book) and we do not learn much...
Me of Little Faith
AuthorLewis Black
ISBN1594489947
What do we believe? And in God's name why?

These are the thorny questions that Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little Faith. And he's come up with some answers. Or at least his answers. In more than two dozen essays...
The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years
AuthorEdward Klein
ISBN0312312938
Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy. Once...
Thank You for Smoking
AuthorChristopher Buckley
ISBN0812976525
Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage and put his son through...
Siegfried
AuthorHarry Mulisch
ISBN0141009144
Celebrated author Rudolf Herter is in Vienna to read from his masterpiece, The Invention of Love, when in a TV interview he speaks of his desire to write about evil. He is later contacted by an elderly couple who believe he should hear their shocking story. As servants at the Berghof, Hitler's retreat...
Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit
AuthorLaura Penny
ISBN1400081041
“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...”

Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,”...
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
AuthorNeil MacFarquhar
ISBN1586486357
Since his boyhood in Qadhafi's Libya, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all the bloodshed in its recent history, is a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity.In this book, he introduces a cross-section of unsung, dynamic men and women...
Bushworld
AuthorMaureen Dowd
From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and...
The Mexican Mafia
AuthorTony Rafael
ISBN1594031959
The Mexican Mafia is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique into a transnational criminal organization. The Mexican Mafia controls every Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California and is rapidly expanding its...
The Gadfly
AuthorEthel Lilian Voynich
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Updated)
AuthorGordon Thomas
ISBN0312339135
Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism, and assassination ever ventured. Gordon Thomas's 1999 publication of Gideon's Spies, resulting from closed-door interviews...
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
AuthorEvan Thomas
ISBN0743252217
Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo...
My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
AuthorSusan Butler
ISBN0300108540
My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding...
In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
AuthorDavid Wessel
ISBN0307459683
“Whatever it takes”

That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched...
Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster
AuthorMichael Corbitt
ISBN0061030481
An expose of organised crime and its unholy alliance with world leaders, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement, Double Deal is a 40–year saga told with unflinching honesty by mob insider and former Chicago chief of police Michael Corbitt.

Growing up poor and angry, Michael Corbitt...
A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View
AuthorLaurence H. Meyer
ISBN0060542705
As a governor of the Federal Reserve Board from 1996 to 2002, Laurence H. Meyer helped make the economic policies that steered the United States through some of the wildest and most tumultuous times in its recent history. Now, in A Term at the Fed, Governor Meyer provides an insider's view of the Fed, the...
The Secret Symbols Of The Dollar Bill: A Closer Look At The Hidden Magic And Meaning Of The Money You Use Every Day
AuthorDavid Ovason
ISBN0060839082
Do you know the true meaning of a dollar?

Few people do. Now an expert on arcane symbolism uncovers the fascinating secret meanings behind the design of the money we use every day.

In The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill, David Ovason explores the visual complexity and magic behind...
Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia
AuthorW.E. Mosse
ISBN1850435138
This work tells the story of the reforming Tsar who modernized Russia after her defeat in the Crimean War. Few spheres of Russian life were untouched by his reforms. In the face of bitter opposition, he liberated millions of serfs and secured their endowment with land. He reformed the Russian courts,...
Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier
AuthorMatthew Brzezinski
ISBN0684869772
After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pulled...
Rat Bastards
AuthorJohn "Red" Shea
ISBN0061907545
You've met the Italian mob
in "The Godfather," now welcome
to the real-life world of Irish
America's own murderous clan
of organized crime

The man who has remained silent for more than a decade finally speaks, revealing the gritty true story of his life inside the infamous...
The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering
AuthorLeonard Mosley
ISBN0297768107
Of all the leading figures of Hitler's 3rd Reich, Hermann Goering is one of the more interesting if not the most sympathetic. Mosley, an accomplished journalist & biographer with a long list of books to his credit, offers a readable & entertaining biography of Hitler's onetime deputy. This...
Richthofen The Red Baron
AuthorEmile C. Schurmacher
A great book covering the 20 months of Manfred von Richthofen's life as a fighter pilot. It starts with some very important background of his upbringing, and follows to his legendary death.

If you're even remotely interested in this, now romantic, part of history, it is a must read. It doesn't...
The Dark Lady from Belorusse
AuthorJerome Charyn
In this beautiful memoir of a Bronx upbringing, Jerome Charyn evokes with extraordinary accuracy an unusual childhood during World War II. Charyn successfully peels back the years of his life to recapture the innate curiosity, sense of wonder, and uncommon reasoning that all young children possess....
The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939-1940
AuthorRobert Edwards
ISBN1933648503
On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union's Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army and annexing the former Russian territory by the end of the year. But Finland held out for 105 bitterly cold, fiercely combative days,...
The Most Evil Dictators in History
AuthorShelley Klein
Tudo o que eu sinto por este livro é repugnância; não pelo livro em si mas por aquilo de que fala. São dados a conhecer ao leitor vários homens que ao longo de séculos impuseram o seu poder e vontade sobre milhões de pessoas cometendo atrocidades inimagináveis. Podemos, a partir destes relatos,...
Anonymous Lawyer
AuthorJeremy Blachman
ISBN0805079815
A wickedly funny debut novel about a high-powered lawyer whose shockingly candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before...
The Merger: The Conglomeration of International Organized Crime
AuthorJeffrey Robinson
ISBN1585672483
Robinson has his tough-guy moments -- he has a habit of using words like "slimeball" to describe specific mobsters, much as the Philadelphia Daily News would -- but the reportage is also very alarming. Robinson not only knows his stuff; his 2000 expose is a wrenching preamble to the horrors of 2001, demonstrating...
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