The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
by Vali Nasr
W. W. Norton

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Iranian-born Nasr dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam, providing an understanding of the 1,400-year bitter struggle between Shias and Sunnis.

The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
by Madeleine Albright
Harper Perennial

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"A particularly candid first draft of history?The result is a book that makes an important contribution to the question of how our foreign policy should adjust to the rise of religion worldwide." --Washington Post

Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Basic Books

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America's most distinguished commentator of foreign policy, Brzezinski offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential adminstrations' foreign policy. Beginning with what he terms the conventional thinking of the Bush I administration and ending with the "suicidal statecraft" of Bush II, Brzezinski offers a controversial and highly-opinionated analysis of the past twenty years.

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"A harrowing picture of national danger that no American reader will welcome, but that none should ignore." --The New York Times Book Review

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
by William Dalrymple
Knopf

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The Mughal emperor Zafar II--mystic, poet, and calligrapher--created a court of unparalleled cultural brilliance. But when he was declared leader of the uprising against British rule in 1857, his achievements were of no help: Delhi was quickly under siege and what's known as the "Raj's Stalingrad" had begun. Dalrymple is the first to present the Indian perspective on the seige, and one that has at its heart the stories of the individuals caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history.

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
by Nicholas Wade
Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Wade asks big questions: What was the first human language? How large were the first societies? When did our ancestors first leave Africa, and by what route? By eloquently solving these and other mysteries, Wade offers nothing less than a uniquely complete retelling of the human story--beginning 500 years ago.