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When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East. Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier".

An American officer presents an invaluable handbook for dealing with cultural issues in the Middle East during military operations....

To mark the 75th anniversary of D-day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness.

In the 25 years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart. Mandelbaum argues that the widespread peace ended because three major countries put an end to it with aggressive nationalist policies aimed at overturning the prevailing political arrangements in their respective regions.

In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed then too controversial to publish), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of “evil-doers?”

Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy describes in fascinating detail what happened when leaders from both sides came together to try to end the hostilities. The meeting was meant to end the fighting on peaceful terms.

This is an inspiring, engrossing tale of one man's odyssey from physics professor and college president to citizen diplomat, a search for "a better game than war". Fresh, candid, and compassionate, he challenges us all in new ways to find our passion and respond to it, to think about our values and the nature of change and risk.

"Colombia's Milestone in World Peace" is from the August 25, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Steven Pinker and Juan Manuel Santos and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

Secretary of State John Kerry warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday that the Israeli government was undermining any hope of a two-state solution to its decades-long conflict with the Palestinians, and said that the U.S. vote in the United Nations last week was driven by an effort to save Israel from “the most extreme elements” in its own government.

"Kerry Rebukes Israel, Calling Settlements a Threat to Peace" is from the December 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"How Peace Between Afghanistan and the Taliban Foundered" is from the December 26, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mujib Mashal and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Once a Child Soldier, Now Seeking a Path as Colombia Contemplates Peace" is from the April 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Nicholas Casey and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Putin Declares Syria Operation a Success and Says It'll Lead to Peace" is from the March 17 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Neil Macfarquhar and Anne Barnard and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Interventions, by Noam Chomsky, is getting new press after the Pentagon banned the book from Guantanamo Bay's prison library. Interventions is Noam Chomsky at his best. Not since his all-time best-selling title, 9/11, published in the Open Media series in 2001, have readers and listeners had a timely, short, affordable Chomsky. Unlike 9/11, Interventions is a writerly work - a series of more than 30 tightly argued essays aimed at various aspects of U.S. power and politics in the post-9/11 world. While critical of U.S. military interventions around the globe, each piece in the book is in itself an intellectual intervention.

"Taliban Say They Won't Attend Peace Talks, but Officials Aren't Convinced" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Rod Nordland and Mujib Mashal and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Obama Calls on Putin to Help Reduce Violence in Syria after Peace Talks Stall" is from the April 18, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael D. Shear and Nick Cumming Bruce and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"When Your Pet Is a Four-Legged Peace Broker" is from the July 24, 2015 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Henry Alford and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Breaking Years of Silence, Key Taliban Envoy Pushes for Peace Talks" is from the October 31, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mujib Mashal and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Afghan Government Signs Draft Peace Deal with Insurgent Faction" is from the September 22, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Rod Nordland and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"U.N. Envoy Says Israeli Settlements 'Undermine' Peace Talks" is from the Jul 1, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Ex-Professor Upsets Ukraine Politics, and Russia Peace Accord" is from the March 18, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Andrew E. Kramer and narrated by JJ Langan.