Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 370 pages. Focuses on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia. In this study the author provides a detailed analysis of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. The Siamanto Press, Reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Purple endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, white title on spine. Very good condition, just one small spot on bottom edge. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight.

Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap, reprint, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 16 tipped-in full color plates by Willy Pogany. Brown leather covers with gilt decoration on front cover with green and gray/blue flower motif at center. Title in gilt on spine. Front cover spine cracked and separated majority of its length, but cover still holding with interior hinge paper. Edges and corners of covers rubbed. Interior clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cloth 3/4 spine cover with gilt lettering, with silver foil decoration and illustration on front. Remainder mark on bottom page block, Clean, otherwise unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1992, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by Ted Lewin. A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city. Lewin's watercolor illustrations capture contemporary Beirut with stunning clarity and drama.

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, 1st , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, folio, terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt. INSCRIBED BY GUEST on front fly leaf. 15 black & white illustrations in text. 69 pages + 50 pages of black & white plates. Guest was appointed Assistant Curator of the Freer Gallery in 1922, in 1938 the title was changed to Assistant Director; Guest authored numerous books in the area of Chinese Art.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages, Color photos by Ara Guller. Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magnificence. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art. Under Sleyman the Magnificent and his succcessor Selmi II, Sinan designed hundreds of buildings: mosques, palaces, tombs, mausolea, hospitals, schools, caravanserai, bridges, aqueducts and baths, many of them presented and analysed in this book. In his greatest works, he adapted Byzantine and Islamic styles to produce something quite new: a centralized organization of absolute space unhindered by pillars or columns and covered by a soaring dome. An architect of genius in a dynamic new empire expanding into both Asia and Europe, he was a true man of the Renaissance. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 327 pages. John Damascene, a monk near Jerusalem in the early 700s, never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet he had a great influence on Byzantine theology. This book, the first to present an overall account of John's life and work, sets him in the context of the early synods of the Church that took place in the Palestinian monasteries during the first century of Arab rule.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Suleiman presents numerous corrections to the standard view of Lawrence and MidEast history. Also describes what happened after the Arabs had aided the British to win the war. At that point the Arabs effectively had lost because the territory was divided between the British and the French - during which T.E. Lawrence showed his true colors by advising the Arabs to sign. A valuable addition to the literature surrounding T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, bringing to light the actual extent of Lawrence's involvement, and how many texts fail to do justice to the Arabs themselves. 'Mr Mousa's obvious concern to be fair-minded and the weight of the evidence he produces make his book one that must be studied by all who are interested in 'Lawrence of Arabia' (front flap). Clean copy.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Brandeis University Press , reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. The Dead Sea is unlike any other place on earth. Situated a quarter mile below sea level, so saline it can't support life, surrounded by a desolate landscape, it is not just a geologic feature but a source of mystery connected to religious faith. In elegant and vivid prose, Barbara Kreiger re-creates and analyzes the myths and legends surrounding the site and examines both its natural history and its gradual and difficult exploration. But The Dead Sea (first published as Living Waters in 1988) is more than a detailed and delightful travelogue. It is also an inquiry into the human and political drama that has swirled around this mysterious place for more than 12,000 years. In an afterword to the new edition, Kreiger shows how the sea in the post-Peace Accord era may come to take on a new symbolism: with perpetual need for water and a thriving mineral industry as common bonds, Israel and Jordan, two traditional antagonists whose border bisects the sea, may find themselves joining forces to preserve its fragile ecosystem against the threats of technology and tourism. Tan stain to top corner of text b;ock, otherwise clean.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 450 pages. Map endpapers. Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West. In The Politics of Dispossession Said traces his people's struggle for statehood through twenty-five years of exile, from the PLO's bloody 1970 exile from Jordan through the debacle of the Gulf War and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with Israel. As frank as he is about his personal involvement in that struggle, Said is equally unsparing in his demolition of Arab icons and American shibboleths. Stylish, impassioned, and informed by a magisterial knowledge of history and literature, The Politics of Dispossession is a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemic that has the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East. 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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st U.S., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Light blue and tan cloth cover, gilt lettering, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages.Whiskey Tango Foxtrot gathers the best of Gilbertson's photographs, chronicling America's early battles in Iraq, the initial occupation of Baghdad, the insurgency that erupted shortly afterward, the dramatic battle to overtake Falluja, and ultimately, the country's first national elections. No Western photojournalist has done as much sustained work in occupied Iraq as Gilbertson, and this wide-ranging treatment of the war from the viewpoint of a photographer is the first of its kind. Accompanying each section of the book is a personal account of Gilbertson's experiences covering the conflict. Throughout, he conveys the exhilaration and terror of photographing war, as well as the challenges of photojournalism in our age of embedded reporting. But ultimately, and just as importantly, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot tells the story of Gilbertson's own journey from hard-drinking bravado to the grave realism of a scarred survivor. Here he struggles with guilt over the death of a marine escort, tells candidly of his own experience with post-traumatic stress, and grapples with the reality that Iraq--despite the sacrifice in Iraqi and American lives--has descended into a civil war with no end in sight.