Come visit our new webstore!
Posted by Helena Cobban on February 01, 2012
We are pleased to announce that the new Just World Books webstore is open for business, and more titles will be put on its shelves every week for the next few weeks! The store and the print-&-distribute system that backs it up now allow us to ship books easily and inexpensively to residents of the U.K. and Australia, as well as the United States! Not to worry if you live elsewhere, because we can still easily ship all over the world from one of our three printing hubs, though with some additional shipping costs (Contact us for details).
Already now, you can place discounted advance orders in the store for Miko Peled's The General's Son, his very moving, upcoming memoir of the personal journey that has made him into a gutsy Israeli peace activist... and for Jon Randal's The Tragedy of Lebanon, which is a reissue of his acclaimed 1983 study of Lebanon's rightwing Christian militias with a brand-new, insightful preface.The Peled book should be shipping in late February or early March. We've already had scores of orders for it! The Randal book should ship in about the third week of February, in time to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres this summer.
We've also added to the webstore Reidar Visser's A Responsible End? The United States and the Iraqi Transition, 2005-2010 and the hardcover version of Chas Freeman's great America's Misadventures in the Middle East.The paperback version of Freeman will be in the store, soon-- along with all the rest of our current offerings. (Ebooks will go into the store a little later.)
As we continue loading new titles onto the webstore's shelves, remember that you can always buy any of our titles by hitting the yellow "Buy" buttons on the relevant pages on the main JWB website. Remember, too, that if you, your community group, or your local bookstore want to place an order for five or more of our titles, you can find out the terms for doing so, here.
Other News
2012
Nakba Day: Remembering Through Palestinian Stories
Every May 15th, Palestinians and their allies around the world commemorate Nakba Day, the Catastrophe, the displacement and dispossession that Palestinians suffered as a result of the 1948 war and the establishment of the state of Israel. This is a time not only to reflect on what was lost as families fled their homes becoming stateless refugees, but also a time to remember the Palestinian culture and to anticipate a resolution to the 64 year old crisis that has cost so many so much. Here at Just World Books, we have a number of titles that poignantly address these issues; Miko Peled's new book The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, Jon Randal's reissued classic The Tragedy of Lebanon: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and American Bunglers, and of course, Laila El-Haddad's always popular Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything in Between.
2012
"Gaza Mom": An inspired gift for Moms, Dads, or Grads!
What could make a better gift for a Mom, a Dad, or a new Graduate in your life than a copy of Laila El-Haddad's engaging, informative, and often wryly funny Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between? You can order your gift copy of copies of El-Haddad's fine book here. El-Haddad has been a busy woman lately! Recently she was seen speaking around the state of Colorado under the auspices of the friends of Sabeel... and last month she was discussing the fate of Palestinian refugees on Al Jazeera's "The Stream" program... Meanwhile, anticipation of her upcoming book with fellow writer and photographer Maggie Schmitt, The Gaza Kitchen cookbook, has been on the rise as well. The National recently wrote a glowing preview of their cookbook, where El-Haddad explained the motivation behind this much-awaited JWB publication:
2012
Fabulous JWB author events, coming up!
Two of our great Spring 2012 authors, Miko Peled and Jon Randal, have some great book events coming up! If you live in Southern California, Washington DC, or New York, then you'll have a chance to see one of them soon. Peled is speaking to a hometown audience in Coronado, CA, this Thursday, at 6:30 pm, about his fabulous book The General's Son. Randal, who nowadays calls Paris, will be speaking about The Tragedy of Lebanon (and of the Palestinians who got caught up in Lebanon's punishing civil war) at two public events in Washington, DC: an evening event on Tuesday, May 8, and a noon-time event on Wednesday, May 9. Check back for details... Then on Friday, May 11, he'll be speaking at this excellent 10:30 am event in New York, right next to the U.N. building.
2012
At the webstore: Special Lebanon package-- and many price reductions!
Tell your friends about the two great new deals we're offering customers at the JWB webstore. Firstly, we're offering a new 'Witness to War in Lebanon' package that brings you two great titles for only $25 (a saving of $7 over buying them separately.) More details, below... Secondly, we've instituted longterm price reductions on a number of paperback titles for customers residing in all areas other than the United States or United Kingdom. For example, check out the prices we're now offering these customers for Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom (now $26), or Rami Zurayk's Food Farming and Freedom (now $25.) Prices for customers in the U.S. and U.K. remain at their previously existing low (bargain!) levels.
2012
Helena Cobban speaks, brings JWB books to North Carolina, April 15-18
Just World Books owner Helena Cobban will be speaking on current Middle East developments-- and also, bringing some of JWB's most relevant and topical books-- to community gatherings in North Carolina, April 15-18. Mark your calendars if you live in Asheville, Raleigh, or Durham-- and of course, be sure to tell your friends, too! The schedule is below.
2012
Six JWB ebook titles now on sale at webstore!
Avid readers-on-the-go can now load up their ebook readers with JWB titles-- from our webstore! We just put six of our titles up onto the new "Ebook department" in the webstore, where they are available for download from anywhere in the world. More will be coming soon. Indeed, it is our plan to have all our existing books published in ebook versions by the end of April-- and to have our new titles out as ebooks very soon after their formal publication date.
2012
Taking orders now for Matt Zeller's 'Watches Without Time'
Just World Books is very proud to be publishing Matt Zeller's very important and timely book, Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan-- and we are now taking advance orders for it on this page at our webstore. Zeller is a highly decorated U.S. Army veteran who in 2010, when he was just 28 years old ran for the U.S Congress in NY's 29th District. (Sadly, he lost.) Watches Without Time is a collection of the vividly written and very carefully observed accounts he sent home to family and friends during the large portion of 2008 that he spent, as a U.S. Army first lieutenant, training Afghan security forces in Ghazni Province.
2012
Miko Peled's "The General's Son": Shipping now, and excerpts at Mondoweiss!
We are pleased to announce that Miko Peled's memoir The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine is in print and orders are being fulfilled. If you placed an advance order, then your copy is being shipped. If you haven't placed an order yet, you can go to the JWB webstore and buy your copy now. Also, the renowned blog on Middle East affairs, Mondoweiss, has published an exclusive and extensive excerpt from the book. We are so proud of how The General's Son has turned out and we are excited to help Peled share his arresting story with the world.
2012
Soli Özel of 'Troubled Triangle' talks about Turkey's regional role
In a recent interview in the Just World Books podcast series, Turkish political scientist Soli Özel said he thought the decision Turkey made last August to side with the Syrian opposition against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad was taken a bit hurriedly, putting Turkey onto a somewhat awkward “single-track path.” He also talked about the importance of the Turkish model of a Muslim-led democracy to the newly elected Islamist parties in Egypt and Tunisia. Özel was one of two Turkish contributors to JWB's recent title Troubled Triangle: The United States, Turkey, and Israel in the New Middle East.
2012
Jon Randal's 'Tragedy of Lebanon': A timely re-issue amid regional turmoil
Amid daily reports that now link the rising violence in Syria with networks and groups in Lebanon, Just World Books is delighted to be publishing a timely re-issue of Jon Randal's acclaimed 1983 study of the rise and activities of the extreme rightwing Christian in Lebanon. The new volume is titled The Tragedy of Lebanon: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and American Bunglers. (The earlier edition was published in the United States under the slightly unfortunate title "Going All the Way"-- a moniker that, Randal now tells us in the thoughtful, all-new Preface to the current volume, was first suggested to him by John Le Carré.) Randal's poignant and still fresh recounting of the devastation wrought during the Lebanese Civil War is now available online for purchase in advance of publication, with free shipping offered until February 29.
