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  • Shattered Images

    The Rise of Militant Iconoclasm in Syria

    by Fred A. Reed ...
    Fred A. Reed’s fifth book on the Middle East and “the wars of the Ottoman succession” traces the roots of Islamic fundamentalism, as currently enacted by Hezbollah and other Islamic fundamentalist organizations, to the iconoclasts of sixth- and seventh-century Damascus.The emergence of Iconoclasm, as sudden and overwhelming as it was catalytic, was at once the product of the forces released by the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Conversations in Tehran

    by Fred A. Reed, Jean-Daniel Lafond ...
    In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A. Reed (Persian Postcards: Iran after Khomeini) returned to Iran after a two-year absence—on the eve of the parliamentary elections that were to seal the political defeat of the Reform movement. They had come to interview several of the men and women who had propelled Mohammad Khatami to the presidency in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Salonica Terminus

    Travels into the Balkan Nightmare

    by Fred A. Reed ...
    A vivid, contemporary travelogue, Salonica Terminus explores a current landscape thronged with figures bent beneath the weight of history. It peers beneath the rotting logs of ideology, and prods the decomposing hulks of historical corpses that litter this region of dark mountains and misty valleys. Through its pages lurch extremists, confidence men and would-be national saviors in the vivid, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mirrors and Mirages

    by Monia Mazigh ...
    Translated by Fred Reed ...
    In the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.In Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets us into the lives of six women. They are immigrant mothers — Emma, Samia, and Fauzia — guardians of tradition who want their daughters to enjoy freedom in Western ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope Has Two Daughters

    by Monia Mazigh ...
    Translated by Fred Reed ...
    A bracing and vividly told story set against the backdrops of the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside revolution from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Then We Were One

    by Fred A. Reed ...
    Shocked by his brother's death from psychological trauma sustained in the Vietnam War, Fred A. Reed sets out on a journey of personal discovery. By way of Greece, the Balkans, and the mystical Anatolian highlands, in pursuit of iconoclasts in Syria and Lebanon, he comes under the spell of Islam. In its embrace, he finds renewed brotherhood and liberation.International journalist and award-winning ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln: The Image of His Greatness

    by Fred Reed ...
    Nearly 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln consistently ranks at or near the top of every poll of America's best, most admired, or most popular president ever. The U.S. Mint will issue four new Lincoln cent designs in 2009. A yearlong celebration has been organized and supported by the congressionally established Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. In the midst of all the excitement and ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln: Beyond the Icon

    by Fred Reed ...
    From Award-Winning Author Q. David Bowers. Collect, grade, and attribute your paper money. Organize your collection, with Friedberg and Whitman numbering systems. Make wise purchases in today's market. 900 Pages; more than 1,600 full-color images. Printing quantities for nearly all issues - a guide to rarity. Dealer pricing for all federal notes, 1861 ot date, $1 to $10,000. History and values for ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money

    New England, Part 1: Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire

    by Q. David Bowers ...
    The Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money is the new standard reference on currency issued by state-chartered American banks from 1782 to 1866. In volume 2 of the Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money, Q. David Bowers, the “Dean of American Numismatics,” takes you on a guided tour of New England banks and notes from Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire. Inside you will find decades ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Imperial Canada Inc.

    Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries

    by William Sacher, Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Fred A. Reed ...
    Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Land—all of the land ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Green Chamber

    by Martine Desjardins ...
    Translated by Fred A. Reed, David Homel ...
    Set between 1913 and 1963 in one of Montreal’s well-known, upper-middle-class suburban neighbourhoods, Martine Desjardins’s The Green Chamber is a fast-paced, highly atmospheric, riveting novel that chronicles the decline of a wealthy French-Canadian family over the course of three generations.Every house has its secrets, but none hides them better than the august house of the Delorme family. With ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Daughter

    by Pavlos Matesis ...
    Translated by Fred A. Reed ...
    CALL ME RARAOU, if you please, I was born in Rampartville, the capital city, even if it's only a provincial capital. Guess I was around fifteen when we left the place, me and my ma and half a loaf of dry bread between us, a couple of months after they pilloried her it was, they were still celebrating that so-called Liberation of theirs. Not even a team of wild horses could ever drag me back there. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD