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.

Resurrecting Empire Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East , By: Rashid Khalidi , Becon Press
ISBN 0-8070-0235-6

Rashid Khalidi’s powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in Iraq and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political and cultural history of the entire region as well as interviews and documents, Khalidi paints a chilling scenario of our present situation and yet offers a tangible alternative that can help us find the path to peace rather than Empire.

Suicide Bombers: Allah's New Martyrs, By: Farhad Khosrokhavar, Translated by David Macey, Pluto Press, ISBN: 0-7453-2283-2

In the West, the suicide bomber has become a familiar image in newspapers and on television. In Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and elsewhere, the results of suicide bombing have been devastating. What drives young men and women to become suicide bombers? This is not a question that is often addressed.

This remarkable book provides some of the answers, and explores how the suicide bomber relates to the concept of the martyr in fundamentalist Islam.

Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters : White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800,
By: Robert C. Davis, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN : 1-4039-4551-9

This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs,
By: Ergun Caner; Emir Caner,  Kregel Publications
ISBN: 0-8254-2400-3

Unveiling Islam covers the entire scope of Islam—its practices, ethics, and beliefs. It explains the Jihad, sects within Islam, and how Islam can be used to justify violence when one of its primary tenets is peace. The final two chapters show how Islam views Christianity and how Christians can open understanding dialogue with Muslims.

The West and the Rest Globalization and the Terrorist Threat,
 By Roger Scruton,  ISI Books,  ISBN: 1-9322-3621-x

Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial jurisdiction, citizenship, and the independent legitimacy of secular authority and law are both specifically Western and fundamentally antipathetic to Islamic thought.

Silent No More : Confronting America's false images of Islam ,
By Paul Findley, Amama Publications,  ISBN 1-59008-001-7

In Silent No More Findley shares his personal impressions and experiences in dealing with American Muslims, their communities, and issues and events that figure prominently in their concerns and consciences. He narrates how he, like many Americans, harbored misinformation and stereotypes about Islam and its followers until middle age. An unexpected journey to South Yemen to plead for the release of an imprisoned American, put him unwittingly on the trail of discovery of Islam and the Muslims for the last three decades. He examines the false images of Islam that linger in American minds.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades),
By: Robert Spencer, Regnery Publishing  Inc.,  ISBN: 0895260476

Everything (well, almost everything) you know about Islam and the Crusades is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academics and Islamic apologists who justify their contemporary political agendas with contrived historical “facts.”