Del Norte Public Library

Readers can explore the traditions, culture, and history of Islam, one of the world's largest religions.

American Empire is at its apex. We are the sole superpower with no potential challenger for a generation. We can reach any point on the globe with our cruise missiles and smart bombs and our culture penetrates every nook and cranny of the global village. Yet we are now the most hated country on earth, buried beneath a mountain of debt and morally bankrupt. Where the Right Went Wrong chronicles how the Bush administration and Beltway conservatives...

Offers a provocative assessment of the growing tensions between Islam and the Western world, tracing the roots of international terrorism by Islamist extremists and revealing how democracy and Islam can be compatible.

An eye-opening political travelogue that reveals the Muslim world as never before. Drawing on reporting from more than a dozen Islamic countries, Faith at War offers an unforgettable portrait of the Muslim world after September 11. Choosing to invert the question of what "they" have done to "us," Wall Street Journal reporter Yaroslav Trofimov examines the unprecedented American intrusion in the Muslim heartland and the ripples it has caused far beyond...

"After simultaneous suitcase-nuke attacks destroy New York, Washington, D.C., and Mecca, a civil war breaks out and an uneasy truce leaves the United States divided between an Islamic republic with its capital in Seattle, and the Christian Bible Belt in the old South"--From publisher's information.

Provides historical information on Islam and the Muslim world, including the religion's founding by the Prophet Muhammad, the spread of Islam outside the Arabian Peninsula, and political and rule by various dynasties.

Provides a narrative overview of Islamic history from the emergence of the Prophet Muhammad in seventh-century Arabia, through the twentieth century, and examines major themes such as the economic foundations of the Islamic world, the ordering of society, and artistic expressions.

Islam is one of the major forces influencing today's world. This informative reference book uses specially drawn maps to explain how Muslim society, culture, and history rose in the second millennium to have a fully global significance.