Editor's Shelf pictures the books as they appear on the shelf. It's more of an inventory of recent arrivals than any serious assesment of the book.

The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , By: Professor As`ad AbuKhalil, Seven Stories Press, 
ISBN: 1-58322-610-9

In this unsparing probe into the history and power structure of the kingdom, Professor AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America’s New “War on Terrorism”, affords the reader unique insight into the intense friction that underlies the increasingly precarious balance between the Saudi royal family and the fundamentalist clerical establishment.

Terror in the Mind of God , By: Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Press, ISBN: 0-520-24011-1

This, the first comparative study of religious terrorism, explores incidents such as the World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. Incorporating personal interviews with World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, Juergensmeyer takes us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violent acts. In the process, he helps us understand why these acts are often associated with religious causes and why they occur with such frequency at this moment in history.

Islam: A Threat to Other Civilizations?, By: Mohammed Yunus, UBS Publishers, ISBN: 81-7476-411-9

Islam: A Threat to Other Civilizations? explains the historical personality of Islam and contribute to a better understanding of its resurgence after the end of the colonial era and the emergence of scores of Islamic countries. Having decades, Dr. Yunus apprehended the development of a clash between the newly independent Islamic countries ad other states that would be inimical to international harmony and peace due, at least partly, to the lack of mutual comprehension because the clash of political interest breeds suspicion and hostility, and ignorance makes it worse

Beyond Baghdad, By: Ralph Peters, Stackpole Books,
ISBN: 0-8117-0084-4

In Beyond Baghdad, America's most provocative writer on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy. Author Ralph Peters describes future threats at home and abroad, offers startling insights into today's most pressing issues, and highlights global opportunities that lie, unrecognized, within our grasp. Written in his trademark style--powerful, lively, and accessible--Peters' themes range from the lessons of recent combat experiences to a proposed revolutionary redesign of Washington's international strategy.

War, Terror & Peace In the Quran and in Islam, By: T. P. Schwartz-Barcott, Army War College Foundation press,
 ISBN: 0-970-96822-1

T. P. Schwartz-Barcott has taken 230 Muslim battles from the years 624 through the Afghanistan-Iraq war and, combined with incisive evaluation of scripture from the Qur'an as used by Muslim warriors, has deducted some surprising--and highly useful--patterns of warfare and combat behavior that will prove enormously useful in dealing realistically with Muslims in combat should their present anti-Western operations continue throughout the world. An amazing compilation of, and objective research into, Muslim warfare. Especially useful for government and military leaders who must deal with Muslims in combat situations.

Salonica, City of Ghosts,  By: Mark Mazower,  Alfred A. Knopf,
 ISBN: 0-375-41298-0

Salonica, City of Ghosts is an evocation of the life of a vanished city and an exploration of how it passed away. Under the rule of the Ottoman sultans, one of the most extraordinary and diverse societies in Europe lived for five centuries amid its minarets and cypresses on the shore of the Aegean, alongside its Roman ruins and Byzantine monasteries. Egyptian merchants and Ukrainian slaves, Spanish-speaking rabbis–refugees from the Iberian Inquisition–and Turkish pashas rubbed shoulders with Orthodox shopkeepers, Sufi dervishes and Albanian brigands. Creeds clashed and mingled in an atmosphere of shared piety and messianic mysticism. How this bustling, cosmopolitan and tolerant world emerged and then disappeared under the pressure of modern nationalism is the subject of this remarkable book.