History Books

The Fevers of History is a distinctive work of historical and political nonfiction that reads the past through the eyes of a physician. Instead of treating history as a dry chronology of kings, wars, empires, and revolutions, Minh Hung / Nguyen Dong Hung approaches civilizations as living political bodies: with symptoms, vital signs, medical histories, immune responses, crises, recoveries, and scars.... more...

JEWISH HISTORY by Minh Hung/Nguyen Dong Hung is a wide-ranging historical study of the Jewish people and their extraordinary journey through exile, memory, faith, scholarship, persecution, adaptation, and renewal. Beginning with the Babylonian Exile in 586 BCE and the destruction of the First Temple, the book follows the return to Jerusalem, the rebuilding of Jewish communal life, the central role of... more...

The question of the Kurdish people has existed for centuries, regarded with utmost seriousness and orderliness by the Kurds themselves. Armed occupiers have repeatedly invaded Kurdistan, forcing the Kurds to take up arms in self-defense. The enemies have refused to recognize the Kurds’ very existence, seeking through pressure and massacre to erase their identity and even their name from history.... more...