JosephA Massad In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism,...

Lionel Friedfeld and Philippe Metoudi The relationship between Israel and Asia, which has evolved from strong historical ties symbolized by the Silk Road, today encompasses strategic partnerships in technology -...

Jason Gewirtz How will Israel keep its strategic edge over an increasingly dangerous Iran? Israel has been preparing for this day by creating a special and secretive IDF unit called...

Sarvepalli Gopal Among the few great statesmen to emerge in Asia, Jawaharal Nehru achieved a national metamorphosis in some ways even more astonishing than that of another towering patriarch, Mao...

Michael Walzer From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral...

Author: James Patterson In this seventh Middle School episode, Rafe heads back to the place his misadventures began: the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, where he's now being forced to...

Keira Andrews To live through the zombie apocalypse they have to survive each other first.College freshman Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. He humiliated himself trying to pick...

Charles Spencer On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of...

Author: Victoria Aveyard  In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s bestselling Red Queen series, allegiances are tested on every side. And when the Lightning Girl's spark is gone, who...

Anne Bartlett When two very different women stop to help a stranger in trouble, the two women are drawn together by their love of knitting, and the two women help...

CJ Sansom As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart.Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic...

Rainbow Rowell Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble; it has been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her,...