Joshua Hammer: 12 books

*Newsweek'*s Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer arrived in the West Bank in October 2000 -- just after Ariel Sharon made his inflammatory visit to the Haram al-Sharif, otherwise known as the Temple Mount. Sharon's trip ignited the worst violence the Middle East had seen in decades. Overnight, the...

Award winning author and journalist Joshua Hammer tracks down the haunts of Arthur Conan Doyle and his favorite sleuth.

In Jerusalem archeologists labor to discover what lies beneath the Temple Mount, the magnificent edifice that has served the faithful as a symbol of Gods glory for 3,000 years and remains at the crossroads of the three great monotheistic religions. Here, award-winning journalist Joshua Hammer discovers, interpretations of ancient history are being shaped by modern-day politics.

To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post). In the 1980s, a young adventurer...

The lush peaks of Iraqi Kurdistan are irresistible to a certain breed of bold backpacker: Theyre exotic, beautiful, and way off the beaten track. But when three young Americans were arrested by Iranian border guards last July after straying too far down a trail, the costs of adventure travel got a lot...

Agatha Christie was 48 years old in 1938, gaining fame and fortune from her prolific output of short stories and novels, one series starring the detective Hercule Poirot, another centered on the underestimated spinster Jane Marple. Christies life had settled into a comfortable routine: Part of the year...

1999: Amidst Yosemites grandeur, a murderer is on the loose. Before he is apprehended, four people lay dead - one decapitated. Here award-winning journalist Joshua Hammer digs into Yosemites past to uncover the almost forgotten story of the killers cruel rampage, exploring the stark contrast between natures beauty and mans brutality.

In the second installment of his series on how to improve performance by making knowledge work more productive, Brand Velocity CEO Jack Bergstrand shows why (and how) winning organizations can reinvent their strategies. The secret: Envision.

Here's the tantalizing final chapter of one of historys most sensational murders: the discovery of the remains of the two missing children of Russias last czar, Nicholas II.

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The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...