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Scar of David
2007 Winner for Historic Fiction
Leftbooks.com congratulates Susan Abulhawa, author of THE SCAR OF DAVID, who was announced last week by USA Book News as the 2007 Winner of the Fiction & Literature - Historic Fiction category in this year's National Best Book Awards. This most important book on the Palestinian struggle against occupation skillfully weaves the history of Israeli occupation from 1948 to the present through an engaging story of a Palestinian family.
Every day $10 - 15 million dollars goes from U.S. taxpayers in support of genocidal policies of Israel that help facilitate U.S.-planned wider wars in the Middle East. It is very much in our interest as activists to get the truth about the Israeli occupation from 1948 to the present so that we can more effectively stop all U.S. wars and occupations.
And remember that, as usual at leftbooks, you get FREE SHIPPING*!! (with every order of $50 or more). AND feel good knowing your money goes toward the movement for social and economic justice and against war. (For more details on these books or to order just click on the books)
The Scar of David
A Novel by Susan Abulhawa
Excerpts from review by Judy Greenspan:
How do you clear the debris of misconception and prejudice from people’s minds about one of the most misunderstood struggles in history? More importantly, how do you propel people toward a real understanding of the Palestinian people’s right to their homeland? Susan Abulhawa accomplishes these tasks (and more) with her first novel, The Scar of David.
The Scar of David stands out as more than an impassioned history of the Palestinian people’s struggle for their homeland. It is an intricate tapestry, a living quilt of five generations of Palestinian families, their lives and deaths, their pain and suffering and most importantly their love for their homeland—Palestine.
The reader experiences firsthand the "catastrophe" of Nabka, the heinous forced removal of the Palestinian people from their homes and the establishment of the state of Israel and brings us to the Israeli siege of the city of Jenin.
The Scar of David is a must read for everyone wishing to learn the truth about the Palestinian struggle. As a teacher, I would highly recommend its inclusion in middle school, high school and college classes. As an American Jew, I believe this book should be read by Jewish people everywhere who wish to tackle decades of misconceptions and understand and embrace the Palestinians’ right to return to their homeland. (Read the full review at http://www.workers.org)
Hardcover, 326pp, Glossary
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
By Mike Davis
"Los Angeles has become the nation's poster child of calamity. But as Mike Davis brilliantly and devastatingly shows, L.A.'s wounds are largely self-inflicted. ... Davis demonstrates how nature has not decimated L.A. as much as L.A.'s developers and power-brokers have. His genius lies in divining the connections between social injustice and ecological distress ..." —Susan Faludi, author of Backlash
In this book, Mike Davis unravels the secret political history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California. He exposes the deep complicity between social injustice and perceptions of natural disorder. Arguing that paranoia about nature obscures the fact that Los Angeles has deliberately put itself in harm's way, Davis reveals how market-driven urbanization has for generations transgressed against environmental common sense. And he shows that the floods, fires, and earthquakes reaped by the city were avoidable tragedies.
Rich with detail, bold and original, Ecology of Fear is a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future.
Softcover, 496pp
Fidel Castro Reader
The Voice of One of History's Greatest Orators
Edited by David Deutschmann and Deborah Shnookal
Foreword by Felipe Pérez Roque
"Fidel Castro is a man of the masses... The Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people." —Nelson Mandela
"Fidel has his own special way of fusing himself with the people... At the great public mass meetings one can observe something like the dialog of two tuning forks whose vibrations interact, producing new sounds. Fidel and the mass begin to vibrate together in a dialog of growing intensity until they reach a climax in an abrupt conclusion crowned by our cry of struggle and victory." —Che Guevara, 1965
At last, a comprehensive anthology of one of the 20th century's most influential political figures, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro has been an articulate and incisive political thinker and leader, who has outlasted 10 hostile U.S. presidents. With the wave of change now sweeping Latin America, this book sheds light on the continent's future as well as its past.
As the first selection of Fidel Castro's speeches to be published since the 1960s, this is an essential resource.
Ocean Press, softcover, b/w photos, chronology, index, 517pp
Swimming Up the Tigris
Real Life Encounters with Iraq
By Barbara Nimri Aziz
"Barbara Aziz has written a must-read book which puts a human face on an Iraqi people dehumanized by simplistic, misleading, and inaccurate media accounts before, during and after America's illegitimate invasion and occupation of their homeland. She also puts an inconvenient truth to the lies and misrepresentations often held as fact by many Americans concerning the reality of life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the awful impact of economic sanctions on the Iraqi people before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the sophistication and depth of a thousands-year-old culture that is in the process of being destroyed by the combined forces of greed, hubris, and ignorance." —Scott Ritter, chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
Barbara Nimri Aziz, a frequent visitor to Iraq, saw firsthand what life was like for Iraqis during the long years of the embargo. By revisiting this critical period, she sheds light on the illegal and questionable tactics used by the United States to destroy Iraq through the sanctions, well before the WMD ruse, and provides context to more fully understand the current failed occupation and worldwide anti-U.S. sentiments.
Univ. Press of Fla, hardcover, notes, illustration, index, 310pp
Life & Debt (dvd)
A Film by Stephanie Black
Jamaica, land of sea, sand and sun... and a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries.
With twenty-five years of "help" from the International Monetary fund (IMF) and the World Bank intended to bring Third World nations such as Jamaica into the fold of free market economies, these "restructuring policies" have crippled Jamaica's efforts toward self-reliant development while enriching the lenders. This scathing film is an unapologetic look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy officials.
Featuring a dynamic reggae soundtrack and a searing voice over based on text by Jamaica Kincaid as well as interviews with former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, Deputy Director of the IMF Stanley Fisher and President of Haiti Jean Bertrand Aristide, Life and Debt portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devastating consequences of globalization.
Powerful!...offers the clearest analysis of globalization and its negative effects that I've ever seen.—Stephen Holden, The New York Times
DVD, New Yorker Video, 2001, 86 minutes, Music by Mutabaruka, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Sizzla, Buju Banton, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Anthony B., Yami Bolo and many more
The Omnivore's Dilemma
A Natural History of Four Meals
By Michael Pollan
"One of the 10 best books of the year" —The New York Times Book Review
From the introduction: "Eating is an agricultural act," as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much as been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world—and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating in ignorance are fleeting. Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them. There are things in it that will ruin their appetites. But in the end this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kinds of pleasure that are only deepened by knowing.
Softcover, 437pp, index
2008 Calendars Are In!!
(Here's Just Two of the Many)
The Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
A beautiful calendar dedicated to supporting political prisoners and exposing state repression and the injustice of the so-called justice system. This year's calendar is dedicated to the legacy of the Black Panthers.
All proceeds, to the Certain Days Collective, support the New York State Task Force on Political Prisoners, Addameer (Arabic for Conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Assoc., a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution which focuses on human rights issues and the San Francisco 8. The eight former Black Panthers that were arrested January 23rd, 2007 in California, New York and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. (See DVD: Legacy of Torture by Freedom Archives)
11 in. x 8.5in, open 22 in x 8.5in
Women Who Dare Engagement Book
Each week of this inspirational calendar features a photograph and brief biography of a woman who has excelled in her field—from an iconic African American civil rights pioneer to a French pilot who risked her life to rescue wounded soldiers. The fifty-three women profiled have made tremendous contributions in various arenas, including politics, literature, the arts, sports, and medicine. Each day's calendar entry presents a milestone event in women's history.
112 matte-coated pages with 53 images and concise biographies of notable women. 6 5/8 inches wide and 8 inches tall, hardcover with a Wire-O binding. This weekly engagement calendar includes daily historical entries and full-page 2008 and 2009 yearly grids. The weekly pages have faint rule lines.
Click here for the full collection of Calendars and Datebooks!
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2007 Winner for Historic Fiction
Leftbooks.com congratulates Susan Abulhawa, author of THE SCAR OF DAVID, who was announced last week by USA Book News as the 2007 Winner of the Fiction & Literature - Historic Fiction category in this year's National Best Book Awards. This most important book on the Palestinian struggle against occupation skillfully weaves the history of Israeli occupation from 1948 to the present through an engaging story of a Palestinian family.
Every day $10 - 15 million dollars goes from U.S. taxpayers in support of genocidal policies of Israel that help facilitate U.S.-planned wider wars in the Middle East. It is very much in our interest as activists to get the truth about the Israeli occupation from 1948 to the present so that we can more effectively stop all U.S. wars and occupations.
And remember that, as usual at leftbooks, you get FREE SHIPPING*!! (with every order of $50 or more). AND feel good knowing your money goes toward the movement for social and economic justice and against war. (For more details on these books or to order just click on the books)
The Scar of David
A Novel by Susan Abulhawa
Excerpts from review by Judy Greenspan:
How do you clear the debris of misconception and prejudice from people’s minds about one of the most misunderstood struggles in history? More importantly, how do you propel people toward a real understanding of the Palestinian people’s right to their homeland? Susan Abulhawa accomplishes these tasks (and more) with her first novel, The Scar of David.
The Scar of David stands out as more than an impassioned history of the Palestinian people’s struggle for their homeland. It is an intricate tapestry, a living quilt of five generations of Palestinian families, their lives and deaths, their pain and suffering and most importantly their love for their homeland—Palestine.
The reader experiences firsthand the "catastrophe" of Nabka, the heinous forced removal of the Palestinian people from their homes and the establishment of the state of Israel and brings us to the Israeli siege of the city of Jenin.
The Scar of David is a must read for everyone wishing to learn the truth about the Palestinian struggle. As a teacher, I would highly recommend its inclusion in middle school, high school and college classes. As an American Jew, I believe this book should be read by Jewish people everywhere who wish to tackle decades of misconceptions and understand and embrace the Palestinians’ right to return to their homeland. (Read the full review at http://www.workers.org)
Hardcover, 326pp, Glossary
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
By Mike Davis
"Los Angeles has become the nation's poster child of calamity. But as Mike Davis brilliantly and devastatingly shows, L.A.'s wounds are largely self-inflicted. ... Davis demonstrates how nature has not decimated L.A. as much as L.A.'s developers and power-brokers have. His genius lies in divining the connections between social injustice and ecological distress ..." —Susan Faludi, author of Backlash
In this book, Mike Davis unravels the secret political history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California. He exposes the deep complicity between social injustice and perceptions of natural disorder. Arguing that paranoia about nature obscures the fact that Los Angeles has deliberately put itself in harm's way, Davis reveals how market-driven urbanization has for generations transgressed against environmental common sense. And he shows that the floods, fires, and earthquakes reaped by the city were avoidable tragedies.
Rich with detail, bold and original, Ecology of Fear is a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future.
Softcover, 496pp
Fidel Castro Reader
The Voice of One of History's Greatest Orators
Edited by David Deutschmann and Deborah Shnookal
Foreword by Felipe Pérez Roque
"Fidel Castro is a man of the masses... The Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people." —Nelson Mandela
"Fidel has his own special way of fusing himself with the people... At the great public mass meetings one can observe something like the dialog of two tuning forks whose vibrations interact, producing new sounds. Fidel and the mass begin to vibrate together in a dialog of growing intensity until they reach a climax in an abrupt conclusion crowned by our cry of struggle and victory." —Che Guevara, 1965
At last, a comprehensive anthology of one of the 20th century's most influential political figures, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro has been an articulate and incisive political thinker and leader, who has outlasted 10 hostile U.S. presidents. With the wave of change now sweeping Latin America, this book sheds light on the continent's future as well as its past.
As the first selection of Fidel Castro's speeches to be published since the 1960s, this is an essential resource.
Ocean Press, softcover, b/w photos, chronology, index, 517pp
Swimming Up the Tigris
Real Life Encounters with Iraq
By Barbara Nimri Aziz
"Barbara Aziz has written a must-read book which puts a human face on an Iraqi people dehumanized by simplistic, misleading, and inaccurate media accounts before, during and after America's illegitimate invasion and occupation of their homeland. She also puts an inconvenient truth to the lies and misrepresentations often held as fact by many Americans concerning the reality of life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the awful impact of economic sanctions on the Iraqi people before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the sophistication and depth of a thousands-year-old culture that is in the process of being destroyed by the combined forces of greed, hubris, and ignorance." —Scott Ritter, chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
Barbara Nimri Aziz, a frequent visitor to Iraq, saw firsthand what life was like for Iraqis during the long years of the embargo. By revisiting this critical period, she sheds light on the illegal and questionable tactics used by the United States to destroy Iraq through the sanctions, well before the WMD ruse, and provides context to more fully understand the current failed occupation and worldwide anti-U.S. sentiments.
Univ. Press of Fla, hardcover, notes, illustration, index, 310pp
Life & Debt (dvd)
A Film by Stephanie Black
Jamaica, land of sea, sand and sun... and a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries.
With twenty-five years of "help" from the International Monetary fund (IMF) and the World Bank intended to bring Third World nations such as Jamaica into the fold of free market economies, these "restructuring policies" have crippled Jamaica's efforts toward self-reliant development while enriching the lenders. This scathing film is an unapologetic look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy officials.
Featuring a dynamic reggae soundtrack and a searing voice over based on text by Jamaica Kincaid as well as interviews with former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, Deputy Director of the IMF Stanley Fisher and President of Haiti Jean Bertrand Aristide, Life and Debt portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devastating consequences of globalization.
Powerful!...offers the clearest analysis of globalization and its negative effects that I've ever seen.—Stephen Holden, The New York Times
DVD, New Yorker Video, 2001, 86 minutes, Music by Mutabaruka, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Sizzla, Buju Banton, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Anthony B., Yami Bolo and many more
The Omnivore's Dilemma
A Natural History of Four Meals
By Michael Pollan
"One of the 10 best books of the year" —The New York Times Book Review
From the introduction: "Eating is an agricultural act," as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much as been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world—and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating in ignorance are fleeting. Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them. There are things in it that will ruin their appetites. But in the end this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kinds of pleasure that are only deepened by knowing.
Softcover, 437pp, index
2008 Calendars Are In!!
(Here's Just Two of the Many)
The Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
A beautiful calendar dedicated to supporting political prisoners and exposing state repression and the injustice of the so-called justice system. This year's calendar is dedicated to the legacy of the Black Panthers.
All proceeds, to the Certain Days Collective, support the New York State Task Force on Political Prisoners, Addameer (Arabic for Conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Assoc., a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution which focuses on human rights issues and the San Francisco 8. The eight former Black Panthers that were arrested January 23rd, 2007 in California, New York and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. (See DVD: Legacy of Torture by Freedom Archives)
11 in. x 8.5in, open 22 in x 8.5in
Women Who Dare Engagement Book
Each week of this inspirational calendar features a photograph and brief biography of a woman who has excelled in her field—from an iconic African American civil rights pioneer to a French pilot who risked her life to rescue wounded soldiers. The fifty-three women profiled have made tremendous contributions in various arenas, including politics, literature, the arts, sports, and medicine. Each day's calendar entry presents a milestone event in women's history.
112 matte-coated pages with 53 images and concise biographies of notable women. 6 5/8 inches wide and 8 inches tall, hardcover with a Wire-O binding. This weekly engagement calendar includes daily historical entries and full-page 2008 and 2009 yearly grids. The weekly pages have faint rule lines.
Click here for the full collection of Calendars and Datebooks!
And there's much, much more -
Click on your resource for the truth and remember, leftbooks.com was created by and for activists involved in the struggles for social justice and against U.S. war and racism. The money doesn't go to a giant corporation, it goes towards building the movement against war, racism, poverty and injustice.
NOW'S THE TIME TO SHOP - HERE'S WHY:
*Purchase $50 worth of items and receive FREE SHIPPING!!! -
*Free Shipping by USPS Priority Mail in the U.S. only. Expedited shipping, both domestic and international,
available at a cost.
And yes, we're open 24 hours. So, what are you waiting for? Join the on-line activist community.
[a href="leftbooks.com"]leftbooks.com[/a] - Books to change the world: That's the point!