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“edna fernandes”

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  • The Last Jews of Kerala

    The Two Thousand Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community

    by Edna Fernandes ...
    Two thousand years ago, trade routes and the fall of Jerusalem took Jewish settlers seeking sanctuary across Europe and Asia. One little-known group settled in Kerala, in tropical southwestern India. Eventually numbering in the thousands, with eight synagogues, they prospered. Some came to possess vast estates and plantations, and many enjoyed economic privilege and political influence. Their ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Hollow Kingdom

    ISIS and the Cult of Jihad

    by Edna Fernandes ...
    A timely and insightful book on ISIS—the world’s most dangerous terrorist network—by the bestselling author of Holy Warriors.Governments across the world openly acknowledge the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as one of the greatest terrorist threats in history, greater even than Al Qaeda, which first set light to a global jihad. Never before has there been such a wealth of information, ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Holy Warriors

    A Journey Into The Heart Of Indian Fundamentalism

    by Edna Fernandes ...
    Home to all the major religions, India is also, inevitably, host to virtually every type of religious fanatic. No other nation has witnessed as much proselytizing or heard as many war cries in the name of God as India. For centuries, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims have waged bloody wars, sought violent conversion and declared jihad against their enemies, as their religions have been ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

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  • The Social Instinct

    How Cooperation Shaped the World

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  • We Fight Fascists

    The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain

    by Daniel Sonabend ...
    The “inspiring,” little-known history of the Jewish vigilantes of the 43 Group, who fought fascism in Britain following World War II (Guardian).Returning to civilian life, at the close of the Second World War, a group of Jewish veterans discovered that, for all their effort and sacrifice, their fight was not yet done. Creeping back onto the streets were Britain’s homegrown fascists, directed from ... Read more

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  • The Barbary Corsairs

    Pirates, Plunder, and Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580

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  • Churchill The Young Warrior

    How He Helped Win the First World War

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  • On Spice

    Advice, Wisdom, and History with a Grain of Saltiness

    by Caitlin PenzeyMoog ...
    A revealing look at the history and production of spices, with modern, no-nonsense advice on using them at home.Every home cook has thoughts on the right and wrong ways to use spices. These beliefs are passed down in family recipes and pronounced by television chefs, but where do such ideas come from? Many are little better than superstition, and most serve only to reinforce a cook’s sense of ... Read more

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  • Lincoln and the Irish

    The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union

    by Niall O'Dowd ...
    An unprecedented narrative of the relationship that swung the Civil War.When Pickett charged at Gettysburg, it was the all-Irish Pennsylvania 69th who held fast while the surrounding regiments broke and ran. And it was Abraham Lincoln who, a year earlier at Malvern Hill, picked up a corner of one of the Irish colors, kissed it, and said, “God bless the Irish flag.”Lincoln and the Irish untangles ... Read more

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  • The War of Atonement

    The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War

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    This is the authoritative account of the Israeli army’s performance in the bitter Yom Kippur War of 1973. The origins of the war amid the turbulent history of competing powers in the Middle East are fully explored, as is the build-up of Arab forces that almost inexplicably caught Israel by surprise. The author then provides a gripping narrative of the conflict itself, punctuated by firsthand ... Read more

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  • In Broad Daylight

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    **How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work by Father Patrick Desbois and his team at Yahad–In Unum that has culminated to date in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites, many of them unmarked.One key finding: Genocide does not happen without the neighbors. The ... Read more

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