Believing in the supreme Ismaili motto “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” Sabbah wanted to “experiment” with how far he could manipulate religious devotion for his own political gain through appealing to what he called the stupidity and gullibility of people and their passion for pleasure and selfish desires. The novel focuses on Sabbah as he unveils his plan to his inner circle, and on two of his young followers — the beautiful slave girl Halima, who has come to Alamut to join Sabbah's paradise on earth, and young ibn Tahir, Sabbah's most gifted fighter. As both Halima and ibn Tahir become disillusioned with Sabbah's vision, their lives take unexpected turns. Alamut was originally written in 1938 as an allegory to Mussolini's fascist state. In the 1960's it became a cult favorite throughout Tito's Yugoslavia, and in the 1990s, during the Balkan's War, it was read as an allegory of the region's strife and became a bestseller in Germany, France and Spain.

    Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much of Europe. A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, Address Unknown is a haunting tale of enormous and enduring impact.

    Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a startling and vivid picture of a decadent era.

    The mighty saga of three generations cursed by a bloodstained fortune, set in the 19th century.

    . . This is an unusual record, well worth reading."--New York Times Book Review"Mrs. Kohl has told this story of South Dakota with a simplicity, a directness, and an understanding of its quietly heroic element which make her book an appealing as well as a significant contribution to the latter-day history of the pioneers."-Saturday Review

    Originally published during the Great Depression, The WPA Guide nevertheless finds much to celebrate in the heartland of America. Nearly three dozen essays highlight Iowa's demography, economy, and culture, but the heart of the book is a detailed traveler's guide, organized as seventeen different tours, that directs the reader to communities of particular social and historical interest throughout the state. Rarely has so much information about a place been gathered in a single volume. This unique book, fit for the glove compartment or for a relaxing evening at home, is a special invitation to share in the richness and diversity of Iowa and its people.

    

    Both of them were by nature retiring, scholarly citizens, & withdrawn from the activities of the Hitler regime which seemed to them a temporary farce. Shortly after the Nazis took control of Cologne, they demanded that he sacrifice science to the interests of the party & he refused. He withdrew, temporarily, from the Museum, & there followed the record of indignities & petty revenge, trying to humiliate & discredit him, because, he would neither compromise with Hitler, nor leave the country. An illuminating picture of everyday atrocities, of the legal, cultural & political degeneration of a city, & of the Lips, deserted by everyone. Illuminating in the revelation of Hitler's throttle-hold over all activities. The book is a vivid protest against fascist tyranny--an interesting book to read as footnotes to the husband's The Savage Hits Back.--KirkusIntroductionPrelude in FortissimoVivace-Struggle with the LemuraeFinale-A Beginning