2011, ISBN: 9781250002518

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New York, NY: Random House (NY), 2009. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket. How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terro… Plus…

New York, NY: Random House (NY), 2009. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket. How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror; (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD SAMALL WEAR ON LOWER EDGE OF COVER-THIS IS AN ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE-2009. ) by Reza Aslan... Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 228 p. Audience: General/trade. How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror; (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD SAMALL WEAR ON LOWER EDGE OF COVER-THIS IS AN ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE-2009. ) by Reza Aslan (Author)210 PAGES. A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting a cosmic war. According to award-winning writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan, by infusing the United States War on Terror with the same kind of religiously polarizing rhetoric and Manichean worldview, is also fighting a cosmic war a war that can t be won. How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology fueling al-Qa ida, the Taliban, and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Surveying the global scene from Israel to Iraq and from New York to the Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a stronger force today than it has been in a century. At a time when religion and politics are increasingly sharing the same vocabulary and functioning in the same sphere, Aslan writes that we must strip the conflicts of our world in particular, the War on Terror of their religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that always lie behind the cosmic impulse. How do you win a cosmic war? By refusing to fight in one., Random House (NY), 2009, 2.5, NY: Picador, 2011. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Collectible - Fine. 5.5"x8.5" 354 pgs. 1st Printing.Cover design by Pete Garceau. Cover photos: Rome and Airplane c Shutterstock; Latvia c Dreamstime. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked, & unclipped. GIFT QUALITY. "A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the Iron Curtain. Among the thousands who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family three generations of Russian Jews. There is Samuil, an old Communist and Red Army veteran, who reluctantly leaves the country to which he has dedicated himself body and soul; Karl, his elder son, a man eager to embrace the opportunities emigration affords; Alec, his younger son, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; and Polina, Alec's new wife, who has risked the most by breaking with her old family to join this new one. Together, they will spend six months in Rome their way station and purgatory. They will immerse themselves in the carnival of emigration, in an Italy rife with love affairs and ruthless hustles, with dislocation and nostalgia, with the promise and peril of a new life. Through the unforgettable Krasnansky family, David Bezmozgis has created an intimate portrait of a tumultuous era. Written in precise, musical prose, The Free World is a stunning debut novel, a heartfelt multigenerational saga of great historical scope and even greater human debth. Enlarging on the themes of aspiration and exile that infused his critically acclaimed first collection, Natasha and Other Stories, The Free World establishes Bezmozgis as one of our most mature and accomplished storytellers." Goodreads 3.37., Picador, 2011, 5<

2011, ISBN: 9781250002518

Livres de poche

NY: Picador, 2011. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Collectible - Fine. 5.5"x8.5" 354 pgs. 1st Printing.Cover design by Pete Garceau. Cover photos: Rome and Airplane c Shutterstock; Latvia … Plus…

NY: Picador, 2011. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Collectible - Fine. 5.5"x8.5" 354 pgs. 1st Printing.Cover design by Pete Garceau. Cover photos: Rome and Airplane c Shutterstock; Latvia c Dreamstime. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked, & unclipped. GIFT QUALITY. "A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the Iron Curtain. Among the thousands who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family three generations of Russian Jews. There is Samuil, an old Communist and Red Army veteran, who reluctantly leaves the country to which he has dedicated himself body and soul; Karl, his elder son, a man eager to embrace the opportunities emigration affords; Alec, his younger son, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; and Polina, Alec's new wife, who has risked the most by breaking with her old family to join this new one. Together, they will spend six months in Rome their way station and purgatory. They will immerse themselves in the carnival of emigration, in an Italy rife with love affairs and ruthless hustles, with dislocation and nostalgia, with the promise and peril of a new life. Through the unforgettable Krasnansky family, David Bezmozgis has created an intimate portrait of a tumultuous era. Written in precise, musical prose, The Free World is a stunning debut novel, a heartfelt multigenerational saga of great historical scope and even greater human debth. Enlarging on the themes of aspiration and exile that infused his critically acclaimed first collection, Natasha and Other Stories, The Free World establishes Bezmozgis as one of our most mature and accomplished storytellers." Goodreads 3.37., Picador, 2011, 5<