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Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism In the Service of Jihad.
Author: Matthew LevittISBN: 0300110537 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Matthew Levitt , Senior Fellow and Director of Terrorism Studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and who has served since 2005 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury has placed the hot-button issue of Hamas into perspective with his exhaustive exposé Hamas:...
(No rating) 7-30-2006 Views: 3119

Illicit
Author: Moisés NaimISBN: 0385513925 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews The 1990s witnessed a new breed of creative and ruthless criminal entrepreneurs that embraced open markets and freer politics on a grand scale. Sealants that once safeguarded borders now have melted away due to changes in politics, technology and economics. As a result, traffickers in illicit goods and services have benefited more than...
(No rating) 12-27-2005 Views: 2783

Kafka Comes To America: Fighting For Justice In The War On Terror
Click Here To Purchase Kafka Comes To AmericaAuthor: Steven T. WaxISBN: 978-1-59051-295-1Publisher: Other Press Kafka Comes To America: Fighting For Justice In The War On Terror is lawyer and author Steven T. Wax’s story as to how he succeeded in freeing two unfortunate individuals, an American lawyer Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator working in Pakistan. Both were falsely accused in the war on terror and both were caught up in the U.S. government’s post-9/11...
(No rating) 8-19-2008 Views: 2908

Pathologies of Public America: The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss
Author: James Polk, Ph.DISBN: 1595264523American scholar James Polk and author of Pathologies of Public America: The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss draws heavily on his vast amount of research to build a strong argument that Americans are more interested in their materialistic possessions as cell phones, videogames, computers, and pop stars than thinking and doing something about the conservative-corporate power apparatus that stymies dissent, hinders as much as possible potential...
(No rating) 5-2-2007 Views: 5481

A Pretext For War by James Bamford
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKOKLEASURES.COM Since the war on Iraq, we have been bombarded with all kinds of theories as to its moral and legal rationality. Some of these hot button issues that have been expanded upon in book length books deserve merit with their well thought out arguments and research that supports them, even if you don’t necessarily agree with their authors. Some, however, fall within the category of “schlock” literature, where the...
(No rating) 10-28-2004 Views: 2397

America’s Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies
Purchase From Amazon Author: George FriedmanISBN: 0767917855"War is Politics carried out by other means"-ClausewitzThe fundamental premise of George Friedman's recent insightful book America's Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies is that the events of 9/11, the Afghanistan war and the Iraq War, are all inter-related and form a coherent pattern. Furthermore, the principal actors such as Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and...
(No rating) 11-4-2004 Views: 12572

Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews
Author: David Pryce-JonesISBN: 1594031517Having authored nine novels and twelve books of non-fiction, David Pryce-Jones has now turned his attention to France’s dealings with Arabs and Jews with his Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews. This book actually started out as an essay Pryce-Jones contributed to the French magazine Commentaire in May 2005 which has now given rise to this revised and extended version.Pryce-Jones has selected much of his material from culling the archives of the...
(No rating) 3-9-2007 Views: 2859

Blood From Stones by Douglas Farah
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Disturbing is an understatement when I try to come to grips with the American intelligence community’s failure to understand the complex financial workings of al Qaeda pre and post 9/11. Award-wining investigative reporter for the Washington Post as well as other publications, David Farah delivers an outstanding exposé in his book Blood From Stones of just how extensive this financial network spreads itself...
(No rating) 10-28-2004 Views: 2440

Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World
Author: Joshua KurlantzickPublisher: Yale University PressISBN: 978-0-300-11703-5 If you are wondering how China has been able to effectively exert their soft power around the world, Joshua Kurlantzick’s Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World is a good place to start. Kurlantzick is a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Special Correspondent at the New Republic, and Senior Correspondent at the American Prospect. Many of his articles...
(No rating) 5-21-2007 Views: 5457

Civilization And Its Enemies:The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris
The following review was submitted by: NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES The over-whelming sentiment of Lee Harris’s timely Civilization And Its Enemies The Next Stage of History is pretty much summed up in the Preface when he asserts: “The subject of this book is forgetfulness.” Harris, who could be described as a “philosopher’s philosopher,” convincingly places 9/11 into perspective with carefully crafted arguments reminding the reader that we have learned little from the past. Concepts...
(No rating) 10-28-2004 Views: 2415

Conscious Globalism: What’s wrong with the world and how to fix it
Author: David A. SchwerinISBN: 0976518937 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW
(No rating) 8-9-2005 Views: 2575

Constitution Translated for Kids: Third Edition
Click Here To Purchase Constitution Translated for Kids, Second Edition Author: Cathy Travis
(No rating) 10-25-2008 Views: 2212

Conversations With Cuba by C. Peter Ripley
Good travel writing must encompass an author’s ability to leave a good deal of his preconceptions and certainties at home and view everything from a different perspective. Conversations With Cuba, authored by C. Peter Ripley does not disappoint the reader in presenting Cuba in an impartial and unbiased light that for many of us will be quite a revelation. As the title suggests, the book is based on a chronicle of conversations the author held with several Cubans during the course of his six...
(No rating) 1-1-1970 Views: 2831

Deep Thinking The Human Condition: New Ideas We Can't Do Without
Click Here To Purchase Deep Thinking The Human Condition: New Ideas We Can't Do WithoutAuthor: S.A. OdunsiPublisher: Human RethinkISBN: 978-0-615-22173-1We hear so much these days about the problems of unremitting economic underdevelopment in the so-called Third World as well as in some areas of the developed countries that we have to ask the question, why has it been so elusive to solve and moreover will it ever be solved?Now readers of books with a taste for dissecting the problem and its...
(No rating) 8-6-2008 Views: 3047

Few Are Chosen-A Campaign Memoir
Click Here To Purchase Few Are Chosen-A Campaign MemoirAuthor: Prof. Douglas McFarlandISBN: 978-1-59298-227-1 It is not very often that someone would pen memoirs of an event in his life where he was unsuccessful in reaching his ultimate goal. However, such is not the case with Prof. Douglas McFarland who in the early 1992 ran for the Republican Party’s nomination as candidate for the US Senate in Minnesota and lost.Prof. McFarland, who is presently a la
(No rating) 5-19-2008 Views: 2314

Right To Recover: Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell Research in America
Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Yvonne PerryISBN: 1-933449-41-1 978-1-933449-41-8With her generously subtitled book, Right To Recover: Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell Research in America, freelance writer and author, Yvonne Perry has provided us in considerable detail sound arguments why President George W. Bush was wrong in vetoing a bill which would provide federal funds for stem cell research.This accessible and must-read book is essential for...
(No rating) 7-2-2007 Views: 3195

Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
If you are interested in a diatribe, with some humour thrown in, pertaining to many of the ills of the USA, then Michael Moore’s, Stupid White Men should satisfy your appetite. Best known for his TV series TV Nation and his documentary Roger and Me, Moore is, to put it mildly, a “ramble rouser.” He is not afraid to sound off about government, corporate America, student apathy, law enforcement agencies, firearms, or anything else that may be on his mind. In the opening chapter of Stupid...
(No rating) 1-1-1970 Views: 2276

THE UN GANG:A MEMOIR OF INCOMPETENCE, CORRUPTION, ESPIONAGE, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AT THE UN SECRETARIAT
AUTHOR: Pedro A. SanjuanISBN: 0385513194The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With Pedro A. Sanjuan CLICK HEREIn 1984 Pedro Sanjuan was appointed by then-Vice President George H. W. Bush to the UN Secretariat. During the next 10 years what Sanjuan discovered pertaining to the inner working of the Secretariat, as well as other United Nations agencies, was mind boggling. It is quite...
(No rating) 11-11-2005 Views: 4585