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Rashidm Ahmed
Taliban: Militant Islam Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean unmarked wrappers with slight edge wear. Pages clean no markings of any kind no creases. Cover flares up a bit. A book about the nature of local Central Asian politics and the consequences of interferences by outside powers. Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowly world of the Taliban the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization into sharp focus in this insightful book. Perhaps the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English language readers explaining the Talibal's rise to power its impact on Afghanistan and the region its role in oil and gas company decisions and the effects of changing American attitudes. An excellent political and historical account. 279 pages with Appendices Notes and Index. 7.75 x 5 inches. 2001 Yale University Press New Haven and London Yale University Press paperback
Referencia librero : 023170 ISBN : 0300089023 9780300089028
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Rashidm Ahmed
Taliban: Militant Islam Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean unmarked wrappers with slight edge wear. Pages clean no markings of any kind no creases. A book about the nature of local Central Asian politics and the consequences of interferences by outside powers. Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowly world of the Taliban the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization into sharp focus in this insightful book. Perhaps the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English language readers explaining the Talibal's rise to power its impact on Afghanistan and the region its role in oil and gas company decisions and the effects of changing American attitudes. An excellent political and historical account. 279 pages with Appendices Notes and Index. 7.75 x 5 inches. 2001 Yale University Press New Haven and London Yale University Press paperback
Referencia librero : 006023 ISBN : 0300089023 9780300089028
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Ariel Sharon; David Chanoff
Warrior: An Autobiography
Simon & Schuster 1989. Nice copy with dust jacket. Just minor shelfwear. Pages of text are clean lightly toned and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Superior service: accurate descriptions prompt shipping and virtually all items carefully packed in boxes not envelopes . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Referencia librero : 227039 ISBN : 0671605550 9780671605551
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Queen Noor
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Miramax 2003. Nice copy with dust jacket. Just minor shelfwear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Superior service: accurate descriptions prompt shipping and virtually all items carefully packed in boxes not envelopes . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Miramax Hardcover
Referencia librero : 226589 ISBN : 0786867175 9780786867172
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Albert Hourani
A History of the Arab Peoples
Belknap Press of Harvard University 1991. Nice copy with dust jacket. Just minor shelfwear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Superior service: accurate descriptions prompt shipping and virtually all items carefully packed in boxes not envelopes . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Belknap Press of Harvard University Hardcover
Referencia librero : 226686 ISBN : 0674395654 9780674395657
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Lewis Bernard
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean wraps unmarked wear to extremities lower corner and lower corner of first few pages creased. Glued binding is tight and solid square. Pages are spotless no markings of any kind. Bernard Lewis has long been considered the West's leading interpreter of Mideast culture and history and one of the world's leading authorities on Islam. This book brings together four decades of writings and lectures with his reflections on Middle Eastern history and foreign affairs the Iranian Revolution the state of Israel and much more. 438 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 2005 Oxford University Press Oxford and New York. Oxford University Press paperback
Referencia librero : 027176 ISBN : 0195182537 9780195182538
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Phares Walid
The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East
New York: Threshold Editions 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Remainder Threshold Editions 2010. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Remainder. Upper rear corner is lightly scuffed else Fine. Clean tight & solid volume. Internals as new. Jacket unclipped clean slight wear to edges. 383 pages with Notes and index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2010 Threshold Edition New York. Threshold Editions hardcover
Referencia librero : 026903 ISBN : 1439178372 9781439178379
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Trofimov Yaroslav
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda
New York: Doubleday 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Type: Ex-Library First Edition Ex-Library Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Library stamp on inside of covers and on upper edge-no other lib markings. Quite clean and unmarked book; backstrap partially loose from crash so front cover has some movement possible. b/w photographs. Pages spotless no creases. Orange and black unclipped jacket is bright and clean slight edgewear. New archival cover to jacket so tape residue strip from library jacket removal is on the book boards. SAUDI ARABIA HISTORY-SIEGE 1979 ABDULLAH AL QAHTANI AFGHANISTAN OSAMA BIN LADEN BRZEZINSKI ZBIGNIEW BEDOUINS BIN BAZ ABDELAZIZ GRAND MOSQUE IRAN IRAQ ISLAM KAABA VANCE CYRUS YEMEN UTEYBI JUHAYMAN BIN SELF 301 pages with Notes and Sources Index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2007 Doubleday New York. Doubleday hardcover
Referencia librero : 026730 ISBN : 0385519257 9780385519250
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Gelvin James L
The Modern Middle East: A History
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Trade Paperback As New. Second Printing of the First Oxford University Press Edition. Bright glossy clean illustrated wraps tight & solid square text block edges and pages are clean and unmarked. Vignettes and maps. A survey of the modern Middle East detailing the forces of progress reformation revolution and imperialism that all define this history. The author explores how the forces of global modernity have shaped the social economic cultural and political life in the region over the past 500 years. 357 pages with Timeline Biographical Sketches Glossary Credits Index. 6 x 9.25 inches. Oxford University Press New York and Oxford Oxford University Press paperback
Referencia librero : 026636 ISBN : 0195167899 9780195167894
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Lewin Jim
Notes On A Century: Reflections Of A Middle East Historian
New York: Viking/Penguin Group 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Type: Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Other than minimal library markings in Fine Condition. Very clean otherwise unmarked tight solid and square binding internals as new. Bernard Lewis has witnessed and participated in some of the key events of the last century. In this exceptional memoir he shares stories of his wartime service in London and Cairo decrypting intercepts for M16 with sometimes unexpected consequences. After the war he was the first Western scholar ever invited into the Ottoman archives in Istanbul. There are memorable encounters with Edward Kennedy the Shah of Iran Golda Meir Pope John Paul II and many others. He is internationally recognized as the greatest historian of the Middle East. 388 pages indexed. 6.25 x 9.4 inches. 2012 Viking/Penguin Group New York. Viking/Penguin Group hardcover
Referencia librero : 026134 ISBN : 0670023531 9780670023530
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Kremmer Christopher
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
New York: HarperCollins 2002. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First American Edition 2002. Firat published in Australia in 2002. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Black half cloth w/copper titles copper paper-wrappered boards half inche whitish mark on front near lower edge lower corners gently bumped else Fine quite clean binding tight solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. Nine Parts separated with full page illustration and a decorated page. Two 8 page sections of illustrations on coated paper. Maps. Apart from oil carpets are the best known commodity in the Muslim world. Christopher Kremmer chronicles the fascinating ten-year journey along the ancient carpet trade route that runs through the world's most misunderstood and volatile regions--Afghanistan Iran Iraq India Pakistan and the former Soviet Union republics of Central Asia. The simplest motif on a rug can be filled with religious tribal and political significance places where life continues to bustle with bargaining and gossip at the bazaars whille nations crumble leaders fall confrontation between freedom and terror looms. It is also an historical snapshot of countries at the center of global confrontation that exploded onto the home front on September 11 2001. xii 448 pages with Notes Bibliography Glosary and Index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2002 HarperCollins New York. HarperCollins hardcover
Referencia librero : 026009 ISBN : 0060097329 9780060097325
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Goldschmidt Jr. Arthur
A Concise History of the Middle East 6th Edition
Boulder Colorade And Oxford UK: Westview Press 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Type: Hardback Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright and clean red wraps with white titles and silver decoration with a whisper of wear. Tight solid and square binding. Internals as New. This sixth edition has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. A history of the turbulent Middle East from the beginnings of Islam to the present day 2002. It was written primarily for college student and no previous knowledge of this history is assumed. It focuses on the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture the influence of the West. the modernization efforts of Middle Eastern governments the struggle of various peoples for political independence the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict. the reassertion of Islamic values and power the aftermath of the Gulf War and issues surrounding the Palestinian question. An informative detailed balanced background into Middle East history. 447 pges with Chronology Glossary Bibliographic Essay and Index. 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches. 2002 Westview Press Boulder Colorade And Oxford UK Westview Press paperback
Referencia librero : 025142 ISBN : 0813335051 9780813335056
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Anderson Scott
Lawrence in Arabia: War Deceit Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
New York New York USA: Anchor/Random House 2014. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean unmarked tight and solid volume gently used if at all. Military history researched in depth and at the center was Lawrence 1888-1935 himself. The Arab revolt against the Turks during WW I was a conflict shaped in large measure by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers--Lawrence called it a "sideshow of a sideshow". Lawrence had been an archaeologist in 1914 excavating ruins in Syria--by 1917 he was becoming a legend at the head of an Arab army fighting a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. And the author examines the complex politics of an era and how the modern Middle East was formed. 577 pages with Notes Bibliography and Index. 6.2 x 9.25 inches. Anchor/Random House New York New York USA Anchor/Random House paperback
Referencia librero : 024063 ISBN : 0307476413 9780307476418
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Nordberg Jenny
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
U.S.A: Crown Publishers 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. An investigative Journalist writes about what it means to be a girl in Afghanistan--the birth of a boy is celebrated; the birth of a girl is viewed as a misfortune. And--a "bacha posh" translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy" is a third kind of child temporarily raised as a boy and presented to the world as such. Vivid characters bring this story to life. Binding of black half cloth with gilt titles ivory paper-wrapped boards very clean spotless unmarked lower corners bumped; tight solid & square. Rough cut. Internals ans page edges quite clean no marks of any kind no creases. Clean jacket is unclipped faintg wear to some extremities. 350 pages with Notes and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2014 Crown Publishers USA Crown Publishers hardcover
Referencia librero : 023936 ISBN : 0307952495 9780307952493
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Mufti Shahan
The Faithful Scribe
New York New York USA: Other Press 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Type: Hard Back First Edition. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Remainder red dot on lower edge of page block. Fine spotless spring green cloth binding with sharp and bright gilt titles; tight solid and square volume. Internals as new. A personal family history tracing origins back 1400 years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad offering a look at Pakistan's history; and also a larger story of the world's first Islamic democracy and how a state that once promised to bridge Islam and the West is now threatening to fall apart under historical and political pressure--and why this important to us all. 358 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 2013 Other Press New York New York USA Other Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 023492 ISBN : 1590515056 9781590515051
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Karsh Efraim
Islamic Imperialism: A History
New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2006. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Just a whisper of wear to corners of cover and a tiny imperfection on front else fine. A very well documented history of Islamic imperialism from the 7th century and how the Muslim mainstream behaved toward its neighbors. For anyone who wants to understand the Middle East of today its history culture and religion. 284 pages with Notes and Index. 9.25 x 6.2 inches. 2006 Yale University Press New Haven and London. Yale University Press paperback
Referencia librero : 023498 ISBN : 0300106033 9780300106039
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Amos Deborah
Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power Exile and Upheaval in the Middle East
U.S.A: PublicAffairs 2011. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Type: Ex-Library Trade Paperback Ex-Library Book in Good Condition. Clean and except for minimal lib markings unmarked solid and tight. Endpaper has bar code blacked out and strip where card was removed; lib stamp on upper edge. Internals quite clean and free from any markings no creases. NPR Reporter Deborah Amos traveled from Amman to Beirut and Damascus tracking across the Middle East the Sunnis who were displaced by the collapse of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It has been the largest exile community in post-World War II history. And now perhaps a greater on going on right now with the refugee situation. Amos shows how the region has been reinvented by the new Sunnni diaspora. Her work implicates the shortsighted American policy and also the age-old schism between Sunni and Shia and the maneuverings of meddling neighbors such as Syria. 230 pages with Index. 9 x 5.75 inches. 2011 PublicAffairs USA PublicAffairs paperback
Referencia librero : 023499 ISBN : 158648950X 9781586489502
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Chayes Sarah
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
U.S.A: Penguin Press 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Remainder First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Remainder mk else Fine. 16 page Illustration section monochrome on coated paper. Green half cloth with black titles gray boards very clean and unmarked tight solid and square. Internals as new. An eyewitness account of the return to violence and corruption of warlordism in Afghanistan in the wake of the defeat of theTaliban. A powerful disturbing narrative of misguided U. S. policy and of how the deeply entrenched centuries-old tradition of tribal warlordism abides to this day. The author was an overseas correspondent for National Public Radio NPR on assignment in Afghanistan covering the last stand of theTaliban from their home base in Kandahar. When her tour ended in 2002 her commitment to help rebuild a broken nation was so deep that she accepted a job running a nonprofit founded by President Karzai's brother. She has witnessed the Afghanistan story unfold and this book tells her story and the story of what happened in Afghanistan. 386 pages. Chapter Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 2006 Penguin Press USA Penguin Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 023617 ISBN : 1594200963 9781594200960
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Chandrasekaran Rajiv
Imperial Life in The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House 2007. First Thus. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Vintage Books First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean bright unmarked tight and square volume. " - - It should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq". From The New York TImes Book Review. 365 pages with Notes and Index. 5.2 x 8 inches. 2007 Vintage Books/Random House New York New York USA Vintage Books/Random House paperback
Referencia librero : 022488 ISBN : 0307278832 9780307278838
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Rashid Ahmed
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
U.S.A: Penguin Books 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used worn book light wear around cover tight and square binding. Pages toned clean no markings no creases. Ahmed Rashid the author of "Taliban" is an investigative journalist who here analyzes five Central Asian Republics - KAZAKHSTAN KRYGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN - where religious repression political corruption and extreme poverty have created a fertile climate for militant Islam. Based on research and interviews Rashid explains the roots of fundamental rage in Central Asia describes the goals and activities of militant organizations and suggests ways of neutralizing the threat and bringing stability to this region. 281 pages Indexed with Notes and Glossary. 5 x 8 inches. 2002 Penguin Books USA Penguin Books paperback
Referencia librero : 022692 ISBN : 0142002607 9780142002605
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STEWART RORY
The Places in Between
U.S.A: Harcourt 2006. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan in 2002. By day he passed through mountains with 9 feet of snow hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban and communities thriving in the remains of medieval civilizations. This is a story of his journey the people he met and their stories--heroes and rogues tribal elders and teen-agers soldiers Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He makes tangible the forces of tradition ideology and allegiance and shapes their lives. 297 pages. 5.4 x 8 inches. 2006 Harcourt Orlando Florida USA Harcourt paperback
Referencia librero : 022718 ISBN : 0156031566 9780156031561
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Wright Robin
Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam
U.S.A: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Updated with new chapters. Important book for all those who want to understand the violence of the Middle East. Red and black pictorial wraps are clean and unmarked trace wear to lower front corner and lower edge. Soundly bound square. Pages edges and pages clean free from any markings no creases. 330 pages with Glossary Notes and Index. 6.2 x 9.25 inches. 2001 Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster New York New York USA Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster paperback
Referencia librero : 022332 ISBN : 0743233425 9780743233422
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Makiya Kanan
Cruelty and Silence: War Tyranny Uprising in the Arab World
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. By the author of "Republic of Fear" written under the pseudonym of Samir al-Khalil which first sounded the alarm about the cruelty and totalitarian nature of Saddam Hussain's regime. In "Cruelty and Silence" written under his own name Makiya confronts the rhetoric of Arab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political cruelty in the Middle East. In his exploration of these cruelties he lays out the nationalist mythologies that underpin them. He calls for a new politics in the Arab world a politics that puts absolute respect for human life and a revulsion of cruelty above all else. Fine Binding of black half cloth with silver titles gray boards spotless tight & solid square with sharp corners. Internals as new also. Black glossy jacket with red and blue titles with photograph by Makiya of Arab children. 367 pages with Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.4 inches. W W Norton & Co Inc New York 1993. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
Referencia librero : 022184 ISBN : 039303108X 9780393031089
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Lewis Bernard
What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
USA: Harper Perennial 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright clean unmarked pictorial wrappers faint wear to upper front corner sound and tight binding square. Internals as new. A concise study of the Muslim world's responses to the West and of its own long sad decline. Bernard Lewis a renowned authority in Islamic affairs examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of how it had been overtaken overshadowed and dominated by the West.--after centuries of being in the forefront of human achievement economically culturally militarily. This is a portrait of a culture in turmoil. 186 pages with Notes and Index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Harper Perennial New York 2003. Harper Perennial paperback
Referencia librero : 022113 ISBN : 0060516054 9780060516055
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Bergen Peter L
Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Updated version with new chapters. Bright and clean wrappers slight wear to extremities soundly bound and square. A couple of pages dog-eared and a few words underlined otherwise clean no other markings lightly toned pages. 303 pages with Notes and Index. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster New York 2002. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster paperback
Referencia librero : 022049 ISBN : 0743234952 9780743234955
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Hersh Seymour
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
New York: Harper Perennial 2005. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover trace wear to extremities. Soundly bound square. Pages clean no markings of any kind pages lightly toned. Seymour Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize for his breaking news of the massacre at My Lai; his expose on Saudi corruption nuclear black marketeers and other scandals have established his credentials as an investigative reporter. In Chain of Command he looks behind the "war on terror" and into the causes that led the US into Iraq. 404 pages with index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Harper Perennial New York 2005. Harper Perennial paperback
Referencia librero : 021342 ISBN : 0060955376 9780060955373
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Gannon Kathy
I Is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan
U.S.A: PublicAffairs 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Former owner name on endpaper otherwise book is as new in binding of brown and deep orange paper-wrapped boards solid square with sharp corners. Pages also as new. Jacket is clean and unmarked not price-clipped upper edge slightly ruffled. Kathy Gannon reports on the roots of terrorism in the Middle East. As a Western journalist in Afghanistan she knew that country under the Taliban knows its beleaguered people its ruthless leaders and speaks with authority about Afghanistan's heartbreaking history. 186 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Public Affairs USA 2005. PublicAffairs hardcover
Referencia librero : 021406 ISBN : 1586483129 9781586483128
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Hamza Khidhir with Jeff Stein
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapon Agenda
New York: Scribner 2000. First Edition Paperback. Hardcover. Good/Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Fine condition except for minimal neat library markings. Clean solidly bound otherwise unmarked no creasing. Pages very clean and free from any markings. The Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb tells how he did it in secret with the cynical help of the U. S. French German and british suppliers and experts and kept it hidden from the U.N. inspectors after the Gulf War. 352 pages w/index. 9.6 x 6.5 inches. Scribner New York 2000. Scribner hardcover
Referencia librero : 020857 ISBN : 0684873869 9780684873862
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LEWIS BERNARD
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Handsome binding of brown half-cloth with gilt titles bright red cloth-wrapped boards in immaculate condition. Tight & solid square with sharp corners. Internals as new. A wealth of information in this collection of essays on Middle Eastern history culture politics and current events by Bernard Lewis hailed as the world's foremost Islamic scholar a man who politicians journalists historian and the general public have all turned to for insight into the Middle East. xiv 438 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Oxford University Press Oxford and New York 2004. Oxford University Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 020745 ISBN : 0195173368 9780195173369
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Evans Mike
The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps
Lake Mary Florida U.S.A: FrontLine/Strang Communications 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Rem Mk on page block top edge. Clean and bright cover with trace wear to extremities Tight glued binding. Former owner name on inside of front cover. Internals spotless no markings no creases. 348 pages with Notes and Index. 6 x 9 inches. Publisher: Frontline/Strang Communications Lake Mary Florida 2007. FrontLine/Strang Communications paperback
Referencia librero : 020289 ISBN : 1599791889 9781599791883
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Bellaigue Christopher de
Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town
New York: Penguin Press 2010. First US Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback First American Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Clean unmarked tight & solid volume. Jacket unclipped. Christopher de Bellaigue journalist for the Economist in 2001 and based in Istanbul wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for the New York Review of Books and briefly mentioned the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915 and suggested it was best understood as a part of the struggles that were part of the end of the Ottoman empire. He had left Turkey for another assignment when he was besieged with letters about that article that led him to go back to Turkey and see if he got it all wrong--about that massacre. There he found the 'official version' of the event but went on to try to discover what really happened. Here is what he found in a place in which the centuries old conflict among Turks Armenians and Kurds was still very much alive and bringing to life the basic conflicts in the Middle East: between statehood and religion; imperial borders and ethnicity. A fascinating book. 270 pages with bibliography. 6.4 x 9.25 inches. Penguin Press New York 2010. Penguin Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 019909 ISBN : 1594202524 9781594202520
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Garrels Anne; with Letters By Vint Lawrence
Naked In Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen By NPR's Correspondent
USA: Picador USA 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. With a New Introduction and Afterword that covers the first year of America's occupation in Iraq. Clean unmarked card cover no edgewear no creases tight glued binding. Internals also very clean and unmarked. Pages moderately toned. THE IRAQ WAR. 244 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Publisher: Picador New York 2004. Picador USA paperback
Referencia librero : 018834 ISBN : 0312424191 9780312424190
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Anderson Jon Lee
The Fall of Baghdad
U.S.A: Penguin Press 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. The essential book on the invasion of Iraq from the perspective of the Iraquis themselves. Binding of navy half cloth with silver titles navy boards very clean and unmarked no edgeweat tight and solid. Few pale spots on bottom edge of text block. Prev owner bookplate on ffep. Internals in Fine Condition. 389 pages. 2004 Penguin Press USA Penguin Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 018232 ISBN : 1594200343 9781594200342
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Lamb David
The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage
U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. xvi 333 pages with bibliography and index. White cover with red titles is clean and unmarked with trace wear to front corners. Tight glued binding square. . Pages completely clean with no markings lightly toned. A thoughtful close-up study of the Arab peoples based on firsthand observation and on knowledge of their history. Lamb deals with most of the issues that vex the Middle East today -- spread of religious extremism the politics of oil the changing image of Israel the nature of Arab terrorism with considered suggestions on the most effective measures for stamping it out. xvi 333 pages with bibliography and index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Vintage Books/Random House New York 1988. Vintage Books/Random House paperback
Referencia librero : 017913 ISBN : 0394757580 9780394757582
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Goldberg Jeffrey
Prisoners : A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
New York: Alfred A Knopf/Random House 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. An unusual friendship developed between an American Jew who served as guard in the largest prison in Israel and his prisoner Rafiq a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices they began a dialogue that grew into a friendship. This is an account of life in that harsh desert prison--mean overcrowded and violent-and of that dialogue between the guard Jeffrey Goldberg and Rafiq. It is a dialog of their accusations explanations fears prejudices and aspirations. Jeffrey Goldber became an award-winning correspondent for The New Yorker and Rafiq became a graduate student in Washington DC where Goldberg was located. And their dialogue continued. Clean unmarked solid volume in brown half cloth with bold and bright gilt titles with gray boards; square with sharp corners. Internals As New. Black jacket with orange and gray titles is clean unclipped as new. 316 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Alfred A Knopf/Random House New York 2006. Alfred A Knopf/Random House hardcover
Referencia librero : 017972 ISBN : 0375412344 9780375412349
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Khalidi Rashid
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints And America's Perilous Path In The MIddle East
Boston MA: Beacon Press 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. His book provides the historical and cultural perspective so vital to understanding the situation and to finding a more effective and just foreign policy. Very clean solid attractive volume in binding of black half cloth w/gilt titles black paper-wrapped boards unmarked no edgewear square sharp corners. Book plate on endpaper else Fine. Clean bright jacket with original price intact no edgewear quarter inch circular whitish spot on upper corner. 223 pages with Chapter Notes and Index. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Beacon Press Boston MA 2004. Beacon Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 017799 ISBN : 0807002348 9780807002346
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Goodson Larry P
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure Regional Politics and the Rise of the Taliban
U.S.A: Univ of Washington Press 2001. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and bright cover with cover photograph: Afghan refugees in Iran holding posters of opposition leasder Ahmed Shah Masood 1999. Text block clean and free of any markings Tightly bound. xv 264 pages. Six Maps & Tables Appendix: Major Actors in Modern Afghan History Notes Glossary References Cited& Index. 6 x 9 inches. University of Washington Press Seallte WA 2001. Univ of Washington Press paperback
Referencia librero : 017281 ISBN : 0295980508 9780295980508
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Lamb David
The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage
USA: Vintage Books/Random House 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. White cover with red titles is clean unmarked trace wear to front corners. Pages completely clean with no markings lightly toned. Gently used if at all. A thoughtful close-up study of the Arab peoples based on firsthand observation and on knowledge of their history. Lamb deals with most of the issues that vex the Middle East today -- spread of religious extremism the politics of oil the changing image of Israel the nature of Arab terrorism with considered suggestions on the most effective measures for stampingi t out. xvi 333 pages with bibliography and index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Vintage Books/Random House New York 1988. Vintage Books/Random House paperback
Referencia librero : 017169 ISBN : 0394757580 9780394757582
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Junger Sebastian
Fire: With a New Essay on Afghanistan and a New Afterword By the Author
USA: Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition with a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword by the author. Bright clean card cover with light edgewear. No soiling. Tight glued binding. Pages clean and without marks of any kind toned. This is a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban's defeat in Kabul. 250 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. Perennial/HarperCollins New York 2002. Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers paperback
Referencia librero : 016841 ISBN : 0060088613 9780060088613
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MANSFIELD PETER
The Arabs-New Edition
London England: Penguin Books 1985. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Third Edition 1985. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Peter Mansfield explores social political and historical aspects--from the pre-Islamic nomads of Arabia the life of Muhammad and the rise of Arab power that followed to the Western Colonial period the tragedy of Palestine and the modern Arab renaissance reinforced by the power of oil. To be read by anyone who wants to know about the Arab world and how they have become what they are today. Pictorial wrappers are clean with moderate wear to extremities with creased corners rubbed edges. Overstock mark on bottom edge. Soundly bound. Pages clean no marks moderately toned. 527 pages with Index. 5.2 x 7.8 inches. England Penguin Books 1985. Penguin Books paperback
Referencia librero : 008335 ISBN : 0140225617 9780140225617
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STEWART RORY
The Places in Between
Orlando Florida USA: Harcourt 2006. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Trade Paperback As New. Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan in 2002. By day he passed through mountains with 9 feet of snow hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban and communities thriving in the remains of medieval civilizations. This is a story of his journey the people he met and their stories--heroes and rogues tribal elders and teen-agers soldiers Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He makes tangible the forces of tradition ideology and allegiance and shapes their lives. 297 pages. 5.4 x 8 inches. 2006 Harcourt Orlando Florida USA Harcourt paperback
Referencia librero : 013799 ISBN : 0156031566 9780156031561
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Chafets Ze'Ev
Double Vision: How America's Press Distorts Our View of the Middle East
New York: William Morrow & Co 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Binding of copper half cloth silver titled with ivory boards; very clean and unmarked with slight bumping of lower corners. Interior is Fine--very clean and completely unmarked. Clean and bright unclipped jacket. not clipped. A book to help readers to understand the Middle East - and the news we get about it and the news we don't get. Many countries in the Middle East are off limits to reporters; we don't hear about the threats to journalists and the censorship they must practice. The author examines the distortion of many of America's prestigious newspapers and the subtle influences on the way we look at this part of the world. It names names in a stunning expose of journalistic self-censorship duplicity and failure by some of America's most famous news people. 349 pages with Chapter Notes and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher: William Morrow & Co. New York 1985. William Morrow & Co hardcover
Referencia librero : 015229 ISBN : 0688039774 9780688039776
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Kunstel Marcia and Albright Joseph
Their Promised Land: Arab and Jew in History's Cauldron One Valley in the Jerusalem Hills
New York: Crown Publishing 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Remainder First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Remainder mark on bottom edge else Fine. 7 area maps. An authentic story of two families one Jewish and one Arab who lived for generations in the valley outside of Jerusalem and their lives before and during the rise of Zionism up to the 1948 war for Israel's independence. Genealogy charts for the Hamdan Family and the Levy Family on endpapers. Black half cloth gilt titled with blue cloth over boards very clean tight solid square no edgewear interior fine. 392 pages with Chapter Notes Bibliography and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Crown Publishing New York 1990. Crown Publishing hardcover
Referencia librero : 015233 ISBN : 0517572311 9780517572313
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Prendergast John
The Road To India: Guide to the Overland Routes to the East
London UK: John Murray 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Type: Hard Back First Printing of this scarce title. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Archival protective cover. Two page map of the area in the center of the book. Orange cloth gilt titled very clean and unmarked with a small bump to the rear bottom edge otherwise fine. Internals clean and unmarked. The author has over 40 years experience driving in the East including 8 return trips to India by road since 1960. The overland route he took was through Turkey Iran Afghanistan and Pakistan to India with much information on vehicles distances traveling times gas stations etc with plenty of anecdote and history exploration of handicrafts of an area landscape etc. This particular route may be a thing of the past for a while-doesn't sound like a likely trip today! But wonderful for the armchair traveler or for those optimistic about future trips! 206 pages. 6 x 8.75 inches. 1977 John Murray London UK John Murray hardcover
Referencia librero : 015457
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Rubin Barry
Revolution Until Victory: The Politics and History of the Plo
Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard Univ Press 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. A comprehensive account of the Palestinian struggle and the PLO and also a telling case study of radical revolutionary and Third World politics of our time. Jacket photograph of 'Jubilant Palestinians drape their flag over the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City after the Israeli-PLO Accord signing Friday September 1993'. Binding of black half cloth red titled with brown parchment designed paper-wrapped boards very clean and unmarked with slight rubbing of spine heel and lower edge. Tight and solid square with sharp corners. Former owner name on endpaper with a line through it. Light small smudge on fore edge of page edges otherwise clean and white. Pages clean no markings no tears. Unclipped clean jacket with light wear around spine head and heel. 271 pages with Notes Bibliography Glossary and Index. 1994 Harvard Univ Press Cambridge MA and London England Harvard Univ Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 015486 ISBN : 0674768035 9780674768031
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Roosevelt Eleanor
India and the Awakening of the East
New York: Harper and Bros 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. 32 pages of photographs. Endpaper map of the Middle East 1952. Green quarter cloth with light green titles light green boards; very clean and unmarked sunned along edges edges lightly rubbed. Tight and solid. Rough cut. Pages clean completely unmarked lightly and evenly toned. Clean and bright jacket in amazingly good condition rubbed along fold sunned on spine not price-clipped. A five month journey in 1952 that grew out of a dispute in the United nations about undernourished children--to Lebanon Syria Jordan Israel Pakistan India and Indonesia--E. Roosevelt said on landing in Lebanon "I have come to learn" and she tells a moving and personal story about the problems and hopes of peoples coming of age. 237 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Harper and Bros New York 1953. Harper and Bros hardcover
Referencia librero : 015050
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Orfalea Gregory
Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab Americans
Austin Texas U.S.A. And London England: Univ of Texas Press 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. A powerful and personal account of some one hundred years of Arab-American history in the United States for over two million Arab-Americans. Very clean solid handsome volume. Tight & solid sewn binding. Jacket bright and clean with trace wear along some edges. 354 pages with Notes Glossary Bibliography and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. University of Texas Press Austin Texas 1988. Univ of Texas Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 015051 ISBN : 0292707487 9780292707481
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THOMAS HUGH
SUEZ
U.S.A: Harper & Row 1966. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE and Vintage Jacket in Very Good Condition. Mylar jacket cover. An essay in contemporary history that explores and explains the extraordinary sequence of events that culminated in the Anglo-French Suez expedition in 1956 and the Israeli invasion of the Sinai Peninsula; the enmity between Dulles and Eden; the Israeli desire for a preventive war; the shades of Munich and appeasement that haunted British statesmen; the question of oil supplies; --so many aspects perhaps unknown or forgotten about this international crises in the 1950s. Black cloth red and yellow titled on spine; very clean and unmarked; no edgewear; top edge of text block dust-dulled; tight and solid binding. internals in fine condition. Clean black jacket with orange lettering rubbed light edgewear light chipping to spine ends. 264 pages. 5.75x8.5". 1966 Harper & Row USA Harper & Row hardcover
Referencia librero : 015102
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Schultheis Rob
Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan
USA: Orion Books/Crown Publishing 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover Book and jacket As New. An account from the front lines of the Afghan civil war giving a human face to a conflict that is hard for Americans to understand. Rob Schulteis fell in love with Afghanistan in the 1970s when it had barely changed for 500 years before being plunged into civil war. Through the eighties he reported on the war from the front lines. Afghanistan 1979-1989. 155 pages. 5.25 x 9.5 inches. Orion Books/Crown Publishing New York 1992 Orion Books/Crown Publishing hardcover
Referencia librero : 014534 ISBN : 0517588617 9780517588611
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Howe Irving and Gershman Carl Editors
Israel The Arabs And The Middle East
New York: Quadrangle Books 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Binding of blue-green cloth gilt titled; very clean and unmarked; slight rubbing of edges with strip of sunning on upper and lower edge. Tight solid and square. Interior is in Fine Condition pages toned. Blue and green striped jacket very clean with slight corner and edge wear rear jacket flap wrinkled. Writing "as partisans but not as propagandists" the editors of this volume have joined witha distinguidhed group of contributors to seriously probed the problems of the Middle East. Their central premise is that the survival of Israel is a major priority for everyone who cares about democracy. 440 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Quadrangle Books New York 1972. Quadrangle Books hardcover
Referencia librero : 014096
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