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	Odyssey Guide Iran, Persia: Ancient and Modern  •  Helen Loveday GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 430 PAGES An excellent, comprehensive overview of Iran for the traveler, this illustrated guide includes chapters on Islamic art & architecture, history and religion in addition to a region-by-region survey. With 145 color photographs and 15 maps and site plans. The book is especially strong on Iran's many archaeological sites, a special interest of the author. (IRN20, $24.95)
	Persian Mirrors, The Elusive Face of Iran  •  Elaine Sciolino CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2005 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES A complex portrait of contemporary Iran by a New York Times reporter attuned to the culture and people of Iran. Sciolino, who was aboard the plane that brought Ayatollah Komeini home to Iran in 1979, has been a keen observer of the country, its politics and people for two decades. With a new Afterword for the 2005 edition. (IRN21, $15.00)
	The Road to Oxiana  •  Robert Byron TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 292 PAGES An Englishman abroad in Persia in the 1930s. Robert Byron's brilliant classic account of his journey to Persia and Afghanistan displays splendid language, offhand scholarship, humor and wit. Paul Fussell called it the Ulysses of travel writing. (IRN01, $15.95)
	The Soul of Iran  •  Afshin Molavi TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 355 PAGES Born in Iran and educated in America, journalist Afshin Molavi returns to his homeland, a place much changed in the two decades since the Revolution. Molavi's book is not only a lucid account of travels through the country, but also an enlightening collection of personal tales, political commentary, and history. (IRN37, $15.95)
	Lonely Planet Farsi (Persian) Iran Phrasebook  •  Yavar Dehghani LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  2001 •  PAPER  • 253 PAGES A handy phrasebook for the basics of Farsi as it is spoken in Iran. It focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (IRN23, $7.99)
	Iran Map  •   ITMB 2005 •  MAP A map of Iran at a scale of 1:2,500,000 for the traveler. With shaded topographic relief, index, an inset of central Tehran, and information on key sites throughout the country. (IRN15, $12.95)

	Persian (Farsi), Start Speaking Today!  •   Educational Services Corporation   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A 90-minute accelerated course for travelers following the Foreign Service method. (IRN31, $21.95)
	A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan  •  Christiane Bird   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An intrepid British travel writer, Bird (Neither East nor West) journeys the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria for this insightful profile of the Kurdish people, their culture and future in Central Asia. (IRN44, $14.95)
	All the Shah's Men, An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror  •  Stephen Kinzer   • HISTORY  •  A new edition of Kinzer's history of the events leading up to the 1953 overthrow of the elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, by the CIA. (IRN51, $14.95)
	Crusades, The Illustrated History  •  Thoma Madden   • HISTORY  •  An important, richly illustrated account of the struggle between Christianity and Islam in the Near East, and an essential guide to understanding many modern-day conflicts, from the Balkans and Lebanon to Palestine and the War on Terror (EUR309, $26.95)
	History of the Persian Empire  •  Arthur Olmstead   • HISTORY  •  A classic, scholarly history of Persia. (IRN08, $29.00)
	Islam, The Straight Path  •  John L. Esposito   • RELIGION  •  A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tome intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader. (MDE22, $39.95)
	Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women  •  Geraldine Brooks   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A highly readable overview of the role of women in Islamic society, drawn from the author's many interviews with women throughout the Arab World. (ARB06, $14.95)
	On Wings of Eagles  •  Ken Follett   • HISTORY  •  Ken Follett's best-selling account of the daredevil mission masterminded and paid for by Ross Perot to rescue two corporate executives from jail in Iran on the eve of revolution. (IRN06, $7.99)
	Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq  •  Stephen Kinzer   • HISTORY • NEW  •  In this compelling review of American adventures overseas, Kinzer crisply outlines the events, politics and personalities of 14 cases in which America has brought down foreign governments over the last 110 years. (USA148, $16.00)
	Roots of Revolution, An Interpretive History of Modern Iran  •  Nikki Keddie   • HISTORY  •  The revolutionary forces of Islam in contemporary Iran. (IRN10, $21.00)
	Shah of Shahs  •  Ryszard Kapuscinski   • HISTORY  •  An impressionistic account of the last Shah of Iran by a Polish journalist, this brilliant book captures the irony, force and power of the revolution that toppled the Shah. (IRN11, $13.95)
	The Assassins  •  Bernard Lewis   • HISTORY  •  Lewis studies the history and influence of the group in this insightful account, putting recent terrorist events into a historical perspective. (IRN41, $15.95)
	The Heirs of Mohammad, Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-shia Split  •  Barnaby Rogerson   • RELIGION  •  Rogerson transports the reader back to the 7th-century in this gripping tale of the intrigue, politics and personalities surrounding the division of Islam into Shia and Sunni factions. (ISL65, $27.95)
	The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation  •  Sandra MacKey   • HISTORY  •  An incisive history of Iran from the ancient Persian empire through a succession of invaders to the revolutionary government. (IRN07, $18.00)
	The Last Great Revolution, Turmoil and Transformation in Iran  •  Robin B. Wright   • HISTORY  •  A rich, anecdotal history of the events of the Islamic revolution of 1979 and its aftermath. Wright combines her own experiences and wide-ranging interviews with Iranians in this portrait of the fast-changing political and cultural landscape of the country. (IRN30, $15.00)
	The Mantle of the Prophet, Religion and Politics in Iran  •  Roy Mottahedeh   • HISTORY  •  The novelistic tone of this historical study makes this an exceptionally engaging read. This gripping account of revolutionary Iran and the role of Islam and politics is a powerful and insightful record of a turbulent time. (IRN43, $27.95)
	Forgotten Empire, The World of Ancient Persia  •  John Curtis  •  Nigel Tallis   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This gorgeous book displays the exquisite splendor of Persia's Achaeminid Empire in a stunning collection of photographs. The book is divided into comprehensive sections detailing trade and commerce, religious and burial customs, jewelry, and many other facets of daily life in ancient Persia. (IRN39, $55.00)
	Islamic Arts  •  Jonathan Bloom  •  Sheila Blair   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A comprehensive survey of 1,000 years of Islamic architecture, design and decoration. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps and site plans. (ISL01, $24.95)
	The Persian Album, 1400-1600, From Dispersal to Collection  •  David Roxburgh   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This illustrated study examines the practice of art collection and preservation in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century courts of Iran. An interesting and insightful read for anyone interested in Islamic art history. (IRN40, $70.00)
	Daughter of Persia, A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution  •  Dona Munker  •  Sattareh Farman Farmaian   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The last century of political turmoil in Iran reflected in the life story of one woman. (IRN29, $14.95)
	Journey from the Land of No, A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran  •  Roya Hakakain   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Poet and documentary filmmaker Roya Hakakian writes movingly of her life as a young Jewish girl in Tehran in the 1970s in this affecting memoir. Revolution, religion, politics and family are intertwined in this graceful, affectionate portrait. (IRN32, $13.00)
	Lipstick Jihad, A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran  •  Azadeh Moaveni   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Moaveni, a young reporter who grew up in southern California, returns to her parents' homeland in this engaging and insightful memoir of her experiences in Iran. With her illuminating anecdotes, the contradictions and complexity of life and culture in modern Iran are thrown into sharp relief. (IRN45, $13.00)
	Mirrors of the Unseen, Journeys in Iran  •  Jason Elliot   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In this rich portrait of life in modern Iran, Elliot enlivens his adventures with anecdotes, sketches of the people he encounters, casually delivered doses of history and literature, along with a mild dash of politics. (IRN49, $16.00)
	Persepolis 2, The Story of a Return  •  Marjane Satrapi   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Satrapi's graphic novel/autobiographyof her experiences as a youth aboard in Vienna and back in Iran is visually superb, narratively smart, and free from sentimental claptrap. (IRN35, $12.95)
	Persepolis, The Story of a Childhood  •  Marjane Satrapi   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  With the hard, exacting eye of a child, Satrapi observes and retells the Iranian revolution as she saw and experienced it in this graphic novel/memoir. Taken together, the no nonsense black-and-white illustrations and the unembroidered narrative are completely devastating. (IRN36, $12.95)
	Persian Girls  •  Nahid Rachlin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nahid hones in on modern Iranian society and the difficulties it continues to pose for women in this memoir about moving back and forth across Iran, living under the Shah as a teenager, and coming to America. (IRN47, $23.95)
	Persian Pictures  •  Gertrude Bell   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell' s first published work. (IRN59, $18.95)
	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books  •  Azar Nafisi   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Azar Nafisi's dazzling memoir lends an insightful view of modern Iran. Iranian born Nafisi finds freedom from the Cultural Revolution's oppression in the pages of Western classics. (MDE74, $15.00)
	The Valleys of the Assassins, and Other Persian Travels  •  Freya Stark   • EXPLORATION  •  A remarkable account of adventures in remote Persia by the intrepid Freya Stark, originally published in 1934. Her expedition discovered the site of Lammassar, the second of the great fortresses to be discovered in the remote Alamut Valley (MDE53, $15.00)
	Where God Was Born, A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This third of Feiler's books on the Bible and the Middle East, takes him to Israel, Iraq and Iran. He interweaves his own spiritual quest with interviews and an account of travels with archaeologist Avner Goren. (MDE91, $14.95)
	A Feast in the Mirror, Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women  •  Mohammed Medhi Khorrami  •  Shouleh Vatanabadi   • LITERATURE  •  A diverse collection of stories, revealing of daily life, culture and society in contemporary Iran. (IRN22, $17.95)
	My Uncle Napoleon, A Novel  •  Iraj Pezeshkzad  •  Dick Davis  •  Azar Nafisi   • LITERATURE  •  Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran) provides the introduction for this new edition of Pezeshkzad's comic masterpiece (made into a wildly popular television series in the 1970s), which unfolds in the house and garden of the doddering, delusional hero of the title. It's uproarious though it may be a farce (think Jeeves); it's also an eye-opening, laugh-out-loud portrait of Iranian society and customs. (IRN18, $13.95)
	The Arabian Nights  •  Husain Haddawy   • LITERATURE  •  Translator Husain Haddawy grew up hearing his grandmothers' friends re-tell these tales on winter nights in Baghdad. His love for the story shines through in this Norton edition, translated from Muhsin Mahdi's Arabic text. (ARB10, $16.95)
	The Conference of Birds  •  Farid-Ud-Din Attar   • LITERATURE  •  A classic example of mystic Sufi verse, stunningly translated into English. Attar's masterpiece has had tremendous influence on the West, and was adapted into a fine English poem by Chaucer in the late 14th century. (IRN12, $15.00)
	The Hand of Poetry, Five Mystic Poets of Persia  •  Coleman Barks   • LITERATURE  •  A well-chosen selection from five classical Sufi masters of Persia. (IRN13, $14.95)
	Birds of the Middle East  •  R.F. Porter  •  P. Schiermacker-Hansen  •  S. Christensen   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An outstanding guide to 700 species of the birds in the region from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Cyprus. (MDE17, $40.00)

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