The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
10 best books like The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America (Kenneth M. Pollack): Chicken with Plums, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues, Shah of Shahs, A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, A History of Modern Iran, Salam Europa!, The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Among the Iranians: A Guide to Iran's Culture and Customs
| Author | Marjane Satrapi |
| ISBN | 0375424156 |
In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that life is no longer worth living. He takes to his bed, renouncing...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 0316925284 |
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace...
Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues
| Author | Giacomo Leopardi |
| ISBN | 0520049284 |
This series is conceived as a library of bilingual editions of works chosen for their importance to Italian literature and to the international tradition of art and thought Italy has nurtured. In each volume an Italian text in an authoritative edition is paired with a new facing-page translation supplemented...
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
| ISBN | 0679738010 |
In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled...
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
| Author | Trita Parsi |
| ISBN | 0300169361 |
The first objective assessment of the high-stakes diplomatic sparring between Washington and Tehran during President Obama’s first years in office
Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention,...
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
| Author | Graham Allison |
| ISBN | 0544935276 |
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece,...
| Author | Ervand Abrahamian |
| ISBN | 0521528917 |
In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country...
| Author | Kader Abdolah |
| ISBN | 9044629069 |
Sjeed Djamal, docent oriëntalistiek aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, woont al lange tijd in Nederland. Op een dag krijgt hij een reisboek in handen van een Perzische sjah, die in de negentiende eeuw door Europa reisde. Sjeed Djamal vindt het fascinerend. Nieuwsgierig besluit hij om deze reis zelf...
The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
| Author | Frederic Wehrey |
| ISBN | 0833046209 |
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has evolved well beyond its origins as an ideological guard for the regime. Today, in addition to wielding military force, its influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society. Wehrey et al. assess the IRGC less...
Among the Iranians: A Guide to Iran's Culture and Customs
| Author | Sofia Koutlaki |
| ISBN | 1931930902 |
The eyes of the world are on Iran, from nuclear issues to women's rights to Iran's perspective on Palestine. Yet a strictly political view does not allow for an accurate or complete outlook on this important and facinating country. In Among the Iranians, Greek-born author Sofia A. Koutlaki shares the...
Alla vigilia del voto in Iran un racconto in prima persona sulle origini della capitale iraniana e sulle sue contraddizioni, sui diritti delle minoranze religiose e delle donne. Donne protagoniste in molti campi, persino nello sport, ma che sono ancora in fondo solo un tassello nella propaganda di...
After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors
| Author | Said Amir Arjomand |
| ISBN | 0195391799 |
For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W. Bush's -axis of evil- even before the appearance of Ahmadinejad. But what is the reality? How did Ahmadinejad rise to power, and how much power does he really have? What are the chances of normalizing relations with Iran?
In...
The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower
| Author | Robert B. Baer |
| ISBN | 0307408647 |
Robert Baer - Image from Penguin Random House.
Nearly everything the average American has been told about Iran is wrong.
This is a compelling analysis of one of the major players on the world stage. For those who have read much about the Middle East there is not a whole lot of new information...
Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
| Author | Steven R. Ward |
| ISBN | 1589012585 |
Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history. CIA analyst Steven R. Ward shows that Iran's soldiers, from the famed "Immortals" of ancient Persia to today's Revolutionary Guard, have demonstrated through the centuries that they should not be underestimated....
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0393328058 |
I am deeply impressed with Will Eisner's level of talent. These are rich, beautiful comics full of life from the inside out; New York-as-metaphor-for-humanity at it's finest, all the colour and noise of the big city in short, fragile glimpses. What he put together here in 142 pages is maybe the most perfect...
| Author | Joseph Roth |
| ISBN | 1585673749 |
Thaumaturgy: A Philosophy of Blessings and Curses
For those who do not live solely in a scientific universe of mechanical rationality, the world is enchanted. It is filled with forces which have personality and therefore might be appealed to for deliverance or assistance. In the monotheistic...
The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny
| Author | Shirin Ebadi |
| ISBN | 0979845645 |
For over fifty years the Shah Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran until Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic Revolution seized power and began its own reign of tyranny. The questions about the revolution shape The Golden Cage while the answers shed light on Islamic Iran's current events and tell us why it strives...
Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 1599869195 |
The Enuma Elish is one of the most important sources which provides an understanding of the Babylonian worldview. The Babylonian worldview is centered on the supremacy of Marduk, and contributes the belief that mankind exists to service god. This Babylonian creation epic was first discovered by...
