Stanly Johny Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Foreign Ed @the_hindu; JNU PhD; Coauthor of The Comrades & The Mullahs; Author of The ISIS Caliphate; Adjunct Faculty at @ACJIndia; Tweets are personal.

The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
'I am a dead man.’ That’s what #SalmanRushdie thought on Feb 14, 1989, the day Ayatollah Khomeini issued the fatwa for his novel #TheSatanicVerses for alleged blasphemy against Islam. -- Sudipta Datta profiles the author who's battling for his life. https://t.co/DAARwNMlpn
Paperback, 2008
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
U.S. Climate Finance: Yemen
U. S. Department of State
Why the international community is not interested in #Yemen? Has the US State Department called the seven-year-long bombing of the the poorest Arab country a genocide? Has the French or British parliament passed any resolution yet? Is the EU considering any sanctions?
Paperback, 2014
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Salman Rushdie
"You own the present, Mr. Prime Minister, but the centuries belong to art" -- Salman Rushdie to Rajiv Gandhi after #TheSatanicVerses was banned in India. Saw this quote in Pankaj Mishra's essay on Rushdie's memoir Joseph Anton.
Paperback, 2013
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Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes
Tariq Ali
Books I want to read Churchil: His Times, His Crimes--Tariq Ali Liberalism and its Discontents--Fukuyama Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West--Perry Anderson Gandhi's Assassin--Dhirendra Jha Home in the World-- Amartya Sen Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said--T Brennan.
Hardcover, 2022
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ever Closer Union?: Europe in the West
Perry Anderson
Books I want to read Churchil: His Times, His Crimes--Tariq Ali Liberalism and its Discontents--Fukuyama Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West--Perry Anderson Gandhi's Assassin--Dhirendra Jha Home in the World-- Amartya Sen Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said--T Brennan.
Hardcover, 2021
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Liberalism and Its Discontents
Francis Fukuyama
Where I review Francis Fukuyama's latest book, Liberalism and its Discontents. https://t.co/bd21tDhMPC
Paperback, 2023
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Home in the World: A Memoir
Amartya Sen
Books I want to read Churchil: His Times, His Crimes--Tariq Ali Liberalism and its Discontents--Fukuyama Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West--Perry Anderson Gandhi's Assassin--Dhirendra Jha Home in the World-- Amartya Sen Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said--T Brennan.
Paperback, 2023
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
"Beneath every history, another history." ― Hilary Mantel, 'Wolf Hall'. Wolf Hall is one of the greatest books I've read & reread. And Mantel was the Queen of English language fiction--among the greatest. Her publisher says she was working on another book. What a loss!
Paperback, 2021
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
John J. Mearsheimer
You may not agree with everything Prof. Mearsheimer says. But the best theoretical framework to understand Russia's Ukraine attack is his offensive realism (The Tragedy of Great Power Politics). And to understand why China backs Russia, read Prof. Walt's The Origins of Alliances.
Paperback, 2014
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
M. E. Sarotte
As #Finland joins NATO, the book you should read to understand the trans-Atlantic nuclear-military alliance's open-door expansionism and Russia's defensive aggression is M. E. Sarotte's 'Not One Inch'.
Paperback, 2022
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