21st century

Contains seventy-five poems by American poets, selected by the editor as the best of 2006, and includes a brief profile of each featured poet.

Presents an examination of the economic problems facing young people aged 18-35, providing the author's view that young Americans are hampered by low wages, high taxes, student loans, and other factors.

Discusses the danger that exists due to the production of nuclear weapons in poor countries that are potentially hostile to the West, and considers the likelihood of terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons, leaving the U.S. and other Western countries without a clear target for retaliation.

Traces the history and controversies surrounding popular culture in the Arabic-speaking world, and discusses how the region's political atmosphere influences its media, arts, and lifestyle.

Presents a collection of essays that examine issues related to Islam, providing information on its history, corebeliefs, radical sects, terrorism, and more.

Presents a comprehensive anthology of one hundred eighty poems by a number of contemporary poets such as Mark Halliday, Donna Masini, Robert Bly, and others.

Presents twenty four selections of short fiction by nineteen Arab-American writers that focus on ethnic issues, social and domestic affairs, stereotyping, estrangement, and assimilation into American culture and lifestyle.

Explores how children have been used as soldiers around the world throughout history, focusing on new strategies in the twenty-first century that target children, turning them into soldiers and terrorists.

Explores how poets use ambiguous language and metaphors to try and convey language, and discusses how the same ambiguous language leads to a reader's distrust of the poem and what it seems to be talking about.

Explores the underlying factors that have contributed to the United States shift from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage.