The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

Where the West Ends

Michael J. Totten · 268 pages

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Raja Shehadeh · 211 pages

"Provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine"--Jimmy Carter (from cover).

Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran

Elaine Sciolino · 416 pages

"Like the mirror mosaics found in Iran's royal palaces and religious shrines, there is more to the whole of the country than the fragments revealed to outsiders. Persian Mirrors captures this elusive Iran. Sciolino paints in astonishing detail and rich color the surprising inner life of this country, where a great battle is raging, not for control over territory but for the soul of the nation."--B

The Dark Heart of Italy

Tobias Jones · 286 pages

An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy.In 1999 Tobias Jones travelled to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors and famous writers. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment.Now, in this

Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East

Ted Dekker, Carl Medearis · 245 pages

The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran

Hooman Majd · 252 pages

We have an idea of the texture of life in Paris or Rome, but what is the texture of life like in Tehran? How do you get a driving licence? Or secure an account with a discreet and reputable liquor dealer? This title introduces us to the daily delights and challenges of life in the so-called axis of evil.

In The Land Of Israel

Amos Oz

Fast Times in Palestine

Pamela J. Olson · 256 pages

Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler · 327 pages

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

Anne Garrels · 240 pages

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

Rory Stewart · 396 pages

"Iraq. September 2003; it's six months after the US-led invasion, and the country is in anarchy - the infrastructure has collapsed, terrorist attacks have begun and the coalition has decided to rule directly via the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Rory Stewart, a young British diplomat, is appointed as the coalition deputy governor (CPA deputy governorate coordinator) of a province of 850,0

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

Richard Dowden · 576 pages

Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo.

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan

Christina Lamb · 352 pages

The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday

Neil MacFarquhar · 393 pages

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 pioneering political and social change. There is the Kuwaiti sex therapist in a leather suit with m

North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State

John Sweeney · 338 pages

"North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and big brother is always watching: it is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few foreign journalists to have witnessed the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea, having entered the countr

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

T.R. Reid · 304 pages

Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour ofsuccessful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible pathstoward U.S. reformIn The Healing of America, New York Timesbestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the otherindustrialized democracies have achieved something the UnitedStates can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at areasonable cost.In his global quest to fin

Walking With The Comrades

Arundhati Roy · 182 pages

In early 2010, Roy traveled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world's biggest mining corporations. The result is this... report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.

Salvador

Joan Didion · 108 pages

"Previously published in ... The New York review of books in October 1982." Discusses the situation of anarchy and terrorism in El Salvador as of 1982.

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Kim Barker · 311 pages

In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job. When Barker arrives in Kabul, foreign aid is at a record low, electricity is a pipe dream, and of the few remaining foreign troops, some aren’t allowed out after dark. Meanwhile, in

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn · 510 pages

"When China wakes, it will shake the world," Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the people, the politics, and the paradoxes of China as never before. China Wakes combines groundbreaking reportage with the authors' personal account

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

Eliza Griswold · 322 pages

Award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in "The Tenth Parallel" show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and that local

The Yellow Wind: With a New Afterword by the Author

David Grossman · 228 pages

An account of the author's three month journey on the West Bank of the Jordan River and his awareness of the moral dilemmas inherent in the Palestinian predicament.

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

Michela Wrong · 353 pages

Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population was pauperized, he plundered the country's copper and diamond resources, downing pink champagne in his jungle palace l

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa

Howard W. French · 280 pages