The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Author)
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Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. Hard-hitting, outspoken, and controversial, The Caged Virgin is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from a brutal religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. It is a defiant call for clear thinking and for an Islamic Enlightenment. But it is also the courageous story of how Hirsi Ali herself fought back against everyone who tried to force her to submit to a traditional Muslim woman's life and how she became a voice of reform.

Born in Somalia and raised Muslim, but outraged by her religion's hostility toward women, Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage to a distant relative and fled to the Netherlands. There, she learned Dutch, worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women, earned a college degree, and started a career in politics as a Dutch parliamentarian. In November 2004, the violent murder on an Amsterdam street of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom Hirsi Ali had written a film about women and Islam called Submission, changed her life. Threatened by the same group that slew van Gogh, Hirsi Ali now has round-the-clock protection, but has not allowed these circumstances to compromise her fierce criticism of the treatment of Muslim women, of Islamic governments' attempts to silence any questioning of their traditions, and of Western governments' blind tolerance of practices such as genital mutilation and forced marriages of female minors occurring in their countries.

Hirsi Ali relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation. Drawing on her love of reason and the Enlightenment philosophers on whose principles democracy was founded, she presents her firsthand knowledge of the Islamic worldview and advises Westerners how best to address the great divide that currently exists between the West and Islamic nations and between Muslim immigrants and their adopted countries.

An international bestseller -- with updated information for American readers and two new essays added for this edition -- The Caged Virgin is a compelling, courageous, eye-opening work.

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• Published on: 2008-04-01
• Released on: 2008-04-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .52" h x 5.74" w x 8.38" l, .43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

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Libertarian Leadership: Planting the Seed for a Libertarian Future

Libertarian Leadership: Planting the Seed for a Libertarian Future
C. Michael Pickens (Author)
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In this book you will discover:

• Why right now is the best opportunity in history to regain and strengthen freedom in America.
• How minimal effort on your part can turn America around.
• How to create a healthy, safe, and prosperous country.
• How this book can improve every aspect of your life.
• How self responsibility, good character, and action can influence politics

"Each and every chapter I read, the same thought came to me: I wish I had written this book.  Michael Pickens has nicely summarized dozens of communication and leadership tips, tricks, and techniques, along with great examples, that I have sub-consciously used for years.  I keep saying to myself: YES, YES, YES!" - Mark Hinkle, Libertarian Party Chairman 2010-12

"This powerful book is packed full of practical concepts that will help to develop strong leaders within the Liberty Movement" - Judge Jim Gray, 2012 Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate

"This book is a must read for those who choose to make the world a better place for their family, their neighbors, their community, and our country as a whole." - Tom C. Liotta, Author, "Creating Champions for Life"

"I see how the constitution has been eroding year after year and the negative results that it has had for the American people. This book is a must read for anyone who would like to restore good health, real safety, and prosperity to the American people. Get this book NOW! Before time runs out." - Larry Nicholas, Chairman, Washington State Libertarian Party

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• Published on: 2012-07-24
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

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Live from Death Row

Live from Death Row
Mumia Abu-jamal (Author), John Edgar Wideman (Introduction)
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Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live From Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech.

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• Published on: 1996-06-01
• Released on: 1996-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 5.20" w x 7.90" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari (Author), Aimee Molloy (Author)
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When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater. 

For the Bahari family, wars, coups, and revolutions are not distant concepts but intimate realities they have suffered for generations: Maziar’s father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Alone in his cell at Evin Prison, fearing the worst, Maziar draws strength from his memories of the courage of his father and sister in the face of torture, and hears their voices speaking to him across the years. He dreams of being with Paola in London, and imagines all that she and his rambunctious, resilient eighty-four-year-old mother must be doing to campaign for his release. During the worst of his encounters with Rosewater, he silently repeats the names of his loved ones, calling on their strength and love to protect him and praying he will be released in time for the birth of his first child. 

A riveting, heart-wrenching memoir, Then They Came for Me offers insight into the past fifty years of regime change in Iran, as well as the future of a country where the democratic impulses of the youth continually clash with a government that becomes more totalitarian with each passing day. An intimate and fascinating account of contemporary Iran, it is also the moving and wonderfully written story of one family’s extraordinary courage in the face of repression.

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• Published on: 2011-06-07
• Released on: 2011-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.05" w x 6.40" l, 1.46 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Naomi Wolf (Author)
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As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the "system" is in disorder -- if not on the road to functional collapse. But though it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always as clear. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation.

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• Published on: 2008-09-16
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• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 376 pages

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig
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In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature.

With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic-and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left-Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts the issues in terms that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And ultimately he calls for widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, presenting achievable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted-but redeemable-representational system. In this way, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness.

While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common enemy and that we must find a way to fight against it. In REPUBLIC, LOST, he not only makes this need palpable and clear-he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about it.

• Rank: #54321 in Books
• Published on: 2012-10-02
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.27" h x 1.06" w x 5.47" l, .83 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages