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Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved. Translations by Jonathan Star.

 

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This is a collection of poems by the Persian poet and mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. Like the Whirling Dervishes, I found myself metaphorically spun by the poet's sublime eloquence. It's heady stuff, this one.

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The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas

 

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Perhaps no other nation on Earth has relied more on intelligence for its survival than Israel. Mossad, the Israeli secret service, CIA's counterpart, has always been at the forefront of the tiny nation's security by employing a combination of intelligence-gathering techniques: HUMINT (human intelligence), SIGINT (signals intelligence), COMINT (communications intelligence), ELINT (electronic intelligence). This book gives an inside peek into Mossad's history, its past directors whose politics didn't always fit the agency's aims; its successes and failures. Above all, this book tells how Israel, to this day, lives up to the prophetic words once uttered by the German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer:

 

"There will come about an age of small independent Nations whose first line of defence will be knowledge."

 

Espionage buffs will find this hard to put down.

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