Product Description: Amor, pobreza y guerra presenta una mezcla fascinante de temas de rabiosa actualidad, desde la literatura hasta la política, con el inconfundible tono controvertido y brillante del autor. Desde el legado de autores como Kipling, Borges o Trotsky hasta las causas y consecuencias del 11S, pasando por las polémicas contra la ...read more

Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence.Beginning with a thorough exposé of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus—though still widely believed—explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today’s distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians. (view table of contents)

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Explores the special relationship between the United States and Great Britain

Analyzes the 1974 crisis in Cyprus which resulted in its division, looks at the role Kissinger played, and discusses the incident's effects on Greece and Turkey

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A collection of essays discusses political assassination in America, the evisceration of politics by pollsters and spin doctors, the Jewish quarter of Damascus in the aftermath of the Gulf War, Mother Theresa, and P. J. O'Rourke. Reprint. NYT. IP.

'A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made'--Provided by the publisher.

Product Description: A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great...read more