Just World Books: 33 books
Palestine
The Legitimacy of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 2014, distinguished jurist Richard Falk completed his six-year term as UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine. With Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, he powerfully illuminates the transformation of the Palestinians’ struggle over recent years into one for legitimacy, similar to that pursued...
Chaos and Counterrevolution
After the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In Chaos and Counterrevolution, international law scholar Richard Falk explores the wave of popular protests that swept North Africa and the Middle East in 2011-and the rapid demise (or reversal) the protest movement suffered in most countries, soon thereafter. The protests of 2011 inspired a new...
by David Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
War Is A Lie is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those that have been most widely defended as just and good. This is a handbook of sorts, an engaging, always informative manual that can be used to debunk...
Afghanistan Journal
Selections from Registan.net
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The coldest I have ever been in my life was in the mountains of Afghanistan. I was in a helicopter with the windows and doors open. It was dark, the middle of winter, and I wasn’t wearing a jacket. But up there, something became clear to me: America is fighting its wars all wrong.... Thus starts...
Gaza Writes Back
Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Gaza Writes Back is a compelling anthology of short stories from fifteen young writers in Gaza, members of a generation that has suffered immensely under Israel’s siege and blockade. Their experiences, especially during and following Israel’s 2008-2009 offensive known as Operation Cast Lead”,...
General's Son
Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is mirrored...
Interesting Times
China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
When President Richard Nixon held his meetings with Chairman Mao in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige presents Ambassador Freeman's most...
UNtold
The Real Story of the United Nations in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Drawing on personal experience with the UN, this combination of informative text and whimsical cartoons describes how the organization is supposed to work, how it actually behaves, and why there is a difference. UNtold lets readers in on the quirks and mysteries of international diplomacy and global...
War Diary
Lebanon 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
What was it like to live in Beirut during the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006? Lebanese agronomy professor and social activist Rami Zurayk spent the whole war in Beirut with his family. War Diary: Lebanon 2006 is his intimate and vivid record of the 33-day onslaught. Throughout those 33 days, Israel's...
Chief Complaint
A Country Doctor's Tales of Life in Galilee
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
With these short stories, Hatim Kanaaneh explores the changing, precarious, and ever-shrinking world of Palestinians living in Israel. As his village’s first Western-trained physician, Kanaaneh had intimate access to his neighbor’s lives, and he chronicles them here in a fictionalized collection...
Food, Farming, and Freedom
Sowing the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The wave of anti-government protests that swept through the Arab world from December 2010 on started to transform politics and society in the Middle East. The protests came as a surprise to many observers-- but not to Rami Zurayk, an veteran Lebanese agronomist and social activist who had been analyzing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
While many books have examined the broader topic of military conflict, most neglect to focus on damage military violence inflicts on regional—and global—ecosystems. The War and Environment Reader provides a critical analysis of the devastating consequences of "war on the environment"...
The People Make the Peace
Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
As young adults in the 1960s and 1970s, the nine people featured in this book-including co-editor Frank Joyce, Rennie Davis, Judy Gumbo, Alex Hing, and others-worked to end the U.S. war in Vietnam. Independently of each other, while the United States was still at war, nearly all of them travelled...
by Laila El-Haddad
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Laila El-Haddad takes us into the intense life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it, with her young son. She was in Gaza City in 2005, watching hopefully as the Israelis prepared their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. She covered the January...