On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future

Pakistan: A Hard Country

Anatol Lieven · 583 pages

Large, heavily populated, and strategically placed between Iran, Afghanistan and India, Pakistan is of vital importance to the world. This book looks at how Pakistan works, and rather than seeing it as a failed state, the author treats it as a viable and coherent state.

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

Bernard Lewis · 197 pages

In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, an

Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World

Robin Wright · 307 pages

Written by a veteran reporter, this is an up close portrait of the fierce struggle between moderates and extremists taking place within the Islamic world today. Why don't Muslims challenge the violent extremists among them? Well, they do. Here she cites the clerics, comedians, and rappers who challenge al Qaeda violence; the women who are launching liberation movements; and the former jihadists wh

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon · 240 pages

The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State

William McCants · 242 pages

The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda. Thousands of its followers have marched across Syria and Iraq, subjugating millions, enslaving women, beheading captives, and daring anyone to stop them. Thousands more have spread terror beyond the Middle East under the Islamic State's black flag. How did the Islamic State at

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Michael Eric Dyson · 228 pages

Fifty years ago, when a white woman asked Malcolm X what she could do for the cause, he told her "Nothing." Now, Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong and responds that if society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths-- including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.

Israel at War : Inside the Nuclear Showdown with Iran

Joel C. Rosenberg

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Jeff Sharlet · 454 pages

A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of Christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerfulThey are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosen—congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators

Because They Hate

Brigitte Gabriel · 258 pages

The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

Patrick Cockburn · 144 pages

"In this explosive new book, renowned Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out how, by exploiting the repeated missteps of the West, jihadist organizations have come to create a caliphate that stretches from the Sunni heartlands in the north and west of Iraq through a broad swath of northeast Syria"--

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan · 341 pages

"How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide swaths of Syria and Iraq? How did the widely celebrated revolution against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad descend into a movement led by a psychopathically violent band of jihadists dedicated to the destruction of America? And just who are these

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 288 pages

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Kevin Phillips · 499 pages

From America's premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nationIn his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling—and imperiling—the United States.

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

Jimmy Carter · 211 pages

"The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal op

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism

Michelle Goldberg · 256 pages

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America

Chris Hedges · 272 pages

Includes information on abortion, Antichrist, apocalyptic violence, Bible, religious broadcasting media, George W. Bush, Christian Right, Christians, conversion process, converts, creationism, democracy, Democratic Party, dominionism, education system, elections, Darwinʼs theory of evolution, fundamentalism, homosexuality, Islam, Jesus, Jews, lesbians, liberalism, love, male church leaders, cult o

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party

Max Blumenthal · 413 pages

Award-winning journalist and documentary videographer Max Blumenthal has been behind some of the most sensational (and funniest) exposes of Republican excesses. Whether it was his revelation of Sarah Palin's involvement with a Kenyan pastor who boasted of epic battles with witches, his shocking reports on rapture-ready fanatic Pastor John Hagee's ties to Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman,

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

John N. Gray · 256 pages

Utopian ideologies of the last century rejected traditional faiths and claimed to be based in science. They were actually secular versions of the myth of Apocalypse - the belief in a world-changing event that brings history, with all its conflicts, to an end. This text argues that the death of Utopia does not mean peace.

Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made

Kristin Kobes Du Mez · 352 pages

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam

Robert Spencer

Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All — and What We Can Do About It

Sean Faircloth

Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

Reza Aslan · 240 pages

The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting in the name of God. According to award-winning writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan, the United States, by infusing the War on Terror with its own religiously polari

Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Ann Coulter · 326 pages

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz · 144 pages

In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former ra