FREE/BARGAIN — Non-Fiction

[Sumanuil]

This month's University of Chicago Press free e-book is From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America

“From Eve to Evolution firmly corrects the mistaken view that evolutionary biology and feminism are at odds. And it reveals a more diverse dialogue around the science of sexual equality in the era than is generally appreciated” — Nature

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by sufue

I've really liked the books I've read in Jason Goodwin's too short Investigator Yashim series, and so I am happy to have his non-fiction Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire pop up in my eReaderIQ as being on sale for $2.99. I've read a couple of histories of Constantinople/Byzantium/Constantinople, which pretty much have to have a lot of Ottoman history, but haven't so far read a book just focusing on the Ottoman Empire itself. And this one got a couple of pretty nice comments from Kirkus and The New York Times Book Review - see the blurb/spoiler.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KF2SN20

Thank you for that one. Bought it.

[salty-horse]

The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar is $0.75 on Amazon.com (Kobo has full price)

An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust means—and doesn't mean—in the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our time

There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with ugly claims and counterclaims: one side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting a tragedy while denying the tragedies of others.

In this pathbreaking book, political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores these conflicting narratives and considers their role in today's Middle East dispute. He analyzes the various Arab responses to Nazism, from the earliest intimations of the genocide, through the creation of Israel and the destruction of Palestine and up to our own time, critically assessing the political and historical context for these responses. Finally, he challenges distortions of the historical record, while making no concessions to anti-Semitism or Holocaust denial. Valid criticism of the other, Achcar insists, must go hand in hand with criticism of oneself.

Drawing on previously unseen sources in multiple languages, Achcar offers a unique mapping of the Arab world, in the process defusing an international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of Arab-Western understanding.