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SEVIER, Christopher. Aquinas on Beauty. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. xi + 226 pp. Cloth, $85.00--While there have been several books on Thomas Aquinas's aesthetics--most notably those of Umberto Eco, [...]

The Iraq war has pumped adrenaline into the publishing industry. Whereas five years ago, few bookstores included any selections on Iraq, today dozens of Iraq books line the shelves. There [...]

CAMUS, Albert. Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism. Translated with an introduction by Ronald Srygley, Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy: Studies in Religion in Politics. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, [...]

Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict. Edited by Markus E. Bouillon, David M. Malone, and Ben Rowswell. Boulder: Rienner Press, 2007. 351 pp. $24.50. The International Peace Academy (IPA), [...]

The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. By Ali A. Allawi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.518 pp. $28. There is no shortage of accounts by U.S. [...]

The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq. Edited by Brendan O'Leary, John McGarry, and Khaled Salih. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.355 pp. $45. The Kurdistan National Assembly in Erbil, Iraq, [...]

Architects of Delusion Europe, America, and the Iraq War by Simon Serfaty Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 170 pp. $45. Serfaty, a professor of U.S. foreign policy at Old [...]

Still Broken A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon by A.J. Rossmiller New York: Presidio Press, 2008. 236 pp. $24.95 Rossmiller dedicates the first half [...]

Muhammad's Grave Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 400 pp. $38 Western policymakers and academics often concern themselves with [...]

Nights in the Pink Motel An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq by Robert Earle Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. 256 pp. $34.95. Hundreds of U.S. diplomats and officials [...]

Circle in the Sand The Bush Dynasty in Iraq by Christian Alfonsi New York: Vintage, 2007. 470 pp. $15.95. "Bush derangement syndrome"--the irrational hatred of George W. Bush and the [...]

Baghdad at Sunrise by Peter R. Mansoor New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 376 pp. $28. Few soldiers who write narratives of war attain a perspective that transcends their own [...]

British Policy in Mesopotamia, 1903-1914 by Stuart A. Cohen Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2008. 265 pp. $34.50. As U.S. forces occupied Iraq in 2003, numerous historians scrambled to elucidate lessons [...]

Swimming Up the Tigris by Barbara Nimri Aziz Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007. 314 pp. $24.95 Aziz, a freelance reporter and host of an Arab-interest radio show in New [...]

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East by Olivier Roy New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 160 pp. $24.95 Roy, research director at the Centre National de la Recherche [...]

Losing the Golden Hour An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction by James Stephenson Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. 174 pp. $23.95 Insider accounts of Iraq's occupation are a dime a [...]

War and Decision by Douglas J. Feith New York: Harper, 2008. 674 pp. $27.95 Former U.S. officials, military officers, and journalists have penned dozens of books about the decision to [...]

Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism, and the Six Day War by Moshe Shemesh Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. 346 pp. $75 In this latest book, his fifth in English, Shemesh, [...]

Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success. By Anthony H. Cordesman. Westport: Praeger Security International, 2006.410 pp. $49.95. Cordesman prolifically chronicles Middle Eastern military affairs, and Iraqi Security Forces is […]

Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. By Maziar Behrooz. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999.239 pp. $55. The political left in Iran has long played an active [...]

The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon. By Tamara Chalabi. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 227 pp. +xvii. $69.95. Both Western and Arabic-language histories have neglected the Shi'ites of […]

The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East BY JOSHUA MURAVCHIK Encounter, 350 pages, $25.95 ON JANUARY 21, 2005, George W. Bush looked out over the crowds gathered [...]

The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement. By Maurice M. Roumani. Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2008.310 pp. $77.50. In 1948, 36,000 Jews lived in Libya. Today, none do. Roumani, [...]

Things Fall Apart. By Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack. Washington: Brookings, 2007. 239 pp. $19.95. In Things Fall Apart, Byman and Pollack, both Washington policymakers now affiliated with [...]

Palestine and Transjordan: Geographical Handbook. By the Naval Intelligence Division. New York: Kegan Paul, 2006.621 pp. $425. In 1915, the British admiralty established a geographical section within its Naval Intelligence [...]

The Development of Trans-Jordan, 1929-1939: A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. By Maan Abu Nowar. Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2006. 392 pp. $64. Because the archives of many [...]

Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence. By Aliza Marcus. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 349 pp. $35. Most writers on the Kurdistan Workers' [...]

China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World. By John W. Garver. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. 392 pp. $24.95. Between 2005 and 2007, Iranian trade with China [...]

Between Foreigners and Shi'is. By Daniel Tsadik. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 295 pp. $60. There is often an inverse relationship between the policy importance of a country such as [...]

Treacherous Alliance. The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S. By Trita Parsi. New York: Yale University Press, 2007. 361 pp. $28. The trilateral relationship between Israel, Iran, and [...]

Iraq: People, History, Politics. By Gareth Stansfield. Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2007. 262 pp. $22.95. Stansfield, an associate professor of Middle East Politics, is a prolific writer about Iraq and [...]

A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. By Joost R. Hiltermann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 314 pp. $29. In the course of a few minutes [...]

Islamic Terror Abductions in the Middle East. By Shaul Shay. Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. 197 pp. $67.50. Kidnapping has become a tactic of choice among Middle Eastern terrorists. [...]

Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. By Barbara Slavin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. 246 pp. $24.95. The fine line between reporting [...]

Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy. By Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.354 pp. $27.95. Herring and Rangwala, political scientists at the universities of [...]