Hardcover. Costa Mesa CA, Mazda, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, b&w illustrations, page 719 to 1185. Translated by Nayer Mostofi Glenn. Vol III ONLY of a three-volume set. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Princeton University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 475 pages. A balance sheet of thirty years of revolutionary experiment, this work is a comprehensive analysis of the failure of the socialist transformation of Egypt during the regimes of Nasser and Sadat. Testing recent theories of the nature of the developing states and their relation both to indigenous class forces and to external pressures from advanced industrial societies, John Waterbury describes the limited but complex choices available to Egyptian policy-makers in their attempts to reconcile the goals of reform and capital accumulation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Jerusalem, Ariel Publishing House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 380 pages. Photo-album of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the second half of 19th to beginning of 20th centuries. Includes an introductory essay in Hebrew and English about "The Pioneers of Photography in the Holy Land, 1840-1930" by Dan Kyram. The photographs depict the physical and cultural landscape of Ottoman Palestine: from the villages, cities and holy sites to photographs of the customs and attire of the various inhabitants of the land. The photographs are accompanied by captions in English and Hebrew, and appended by a short introduction in English and a slightly longer one in Hebrew. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver on spine and on front cover. Signed presentation from Stephen Wise on front fly leaf. 294 pages. A critique of the White Paper of Lord Passfield and the charges of betrayal hurled at the British Labor Government by Jews regarding British-Zionist relations. Mild shelf wear, clean copy. Remnants of dj laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Forum/Prima Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 652 pages. As relevant today as the day it was written; to truly comprehend why peace in the Middle East-an end coveted for so long by so many-is becoming more and more illusive, one must read this excellent book. Clean copy.
Softcover. Elibron Classics, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Two softcover volumes, Vol. II complete in two parts, 589 total pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1829 edition published by John Murray in London. Clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. UK, Cambridge At the University Press , 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with faded spine, 523 pages .VOL. 2 ONLY. Includes bibliography and index. Illustrated with black-and-white plates and genealogy foldout chart. Comprehensive study on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East during the Crusades, by well-noted historian Steven Runciman. Lacks dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Taplinger Publishing, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1961 and revised twice to reflect changes in Iranian society. Endpapers map. Page edges tanning, a clean copy.
Hardcover. Malden MA, Blackwell , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 558 BC to the present day. The book traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic. For each period, the author utilizes the most recent scholarship in order to examine Iran's political, social, and cultural history. He presents this history within an analytical framework which focuses on rulership as the central theme of identity for Iranians. He also considers the part played in Iranian identity by land, political culture, religion, and the arts. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle Books/New York Times, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket. Translated by Ruth Geyra Stern and Sol Stern. The events preceding the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Public Affairs, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 422 pages, b&w illustrations. Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and covert actions, The Sword and the Olive traces the history of the IDF from its beginnings in Palestine to today. The book also goes beyond chronology to wrestle with the political and ethical struggles that have shaped the IDF and the country it serves--struggles that are manifesting themselves in the recent tragic escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Often revisionist in attitude, surprising in many of its conclusions, this book casts new light on the struggle for peace in the Middle East. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 360 pages with index. The author deals in detail with two periods when he feels there was a chance for peace -the six years following the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the aftermath of the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War of 1967.
Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. 214 pages, 52 maps & diagrams. A guide to Turkey that lays out the geography, as well as the historical, political and cultural history of the country. Clean copy.
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