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HAMAS CONTAINED: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance.
Edition: First printing.
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures series, and the first comprehensive look at the history of Hamas. "Neither a democratic political party nor a terrorist group, Hamas is a multifaceted liberation organization, one rooted in the nationalist claims of the Palestinian people. . . Drawing on interviews with organization leaders, as well as publications from the group, Tareq Baconi maps Hamas's thirty-year transition from fringe military resistance towards governance. He breaks new ground in questioning the conventional understanding of Hamas and shows how the movement's ideology ultimately threatens the Palestinian struggle and, inadvertently, its own legitimacy." Notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0804797412.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73819More details Price: $35.00 -
CESARE BORGIA.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Francis Aldor (Aldus Publications Ltd), (1947). Hardcover first edition - Biography of Cesare Borgia,the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI who was named a cardinal at 17 but later resigned that to go on to become a powerful ruler while he had the support of the papacy. Machiavelli was at Borgia's court in 1502-1503 and some of the episodes in The Prince were based on Borgia's actions. Translated from the original Italian by William Stirling. 224 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 69137More details Price: $15.00 -
UNBOUND: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional bookmark laid in.
Book ID: 68886More details Price: $40.00 -
SLAVERY AND HUMAN PROGRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of slavery and emancipation throughout world history, from antiquity to the modern era - divided into three sections - How Progress led to the Europeans' Enslavement of Africans, Redeeming Christianity's Reptutations, and Abolishing Slavery and Civilizing the World - this book discusses the concept that slavery was considered part of progress and the transition from white slaves to black slaves; the emancipation movements and the on-going debate over modern slavery in the United States. Davis has won many prices - the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, the Bancroft - for his thought-provoking works on slavery. Notes, index. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-195034392.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 34744More details Price: $12.00 -
LANDMARKS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT.
Edition: Later printing.
New York & London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1947, c 1938). Hardcover - A survey of economic thought and practice from ancient Egypt on up through the time this was written, with most attention given to the rise of capitalist and then socialist economic theory - Marxian and post-Marxian. Discussion questions, index. 299 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine - usual toning to the pages, some rubbing to the lettering, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 76650More details Price: $15.00 -
JUNGVOLK: The Story of a Boy Defending Hitlers Third Reich.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Drexel, PA Casemate (2008). First edition - The wartime memoir of Will, the nephew of Reinhard Gehlen, head of Nazi Germany intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. He was only 10 when the war began but as a member of the Jungvolk, and lived in a small town near the Westwall, but he became a helper with the local Luftwaffe flak battery. Photographs, ix, 318 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner bumped)
Book ID: 60737More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD: Part II: From the Bastille to Baghdad.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59111More details Price: $25.00 -
QUEEN OF HEARTS: MARGUERITE OF VALOIS ('La Reine Margot') 1553 - 1615.
Edition: First US printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this often misunderstood queen of France, based on her own memoirs and correspondence. Illustrated with photographs. Sources, notes on translation, map, family tree, index. 307 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookplate, one short closed tear to dj)
Book ID: 73964More details Price: $17.50 -
QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Malcolm H. Kerr.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket (marginal notations and underlining, edgewear to the dj, sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 40929More details Price: $65.00 -
DARING YOUNG MEN: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift: June 1948 - May 1949.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69614More details Price: $30.00 -
BEYOND GEOGRAPHY: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A brilliant reconstruction of the 'spiritual history' that led up to the European domination and decimation of aboriginal cultures - native American tribes, Caribbean tribes, the Mayans - as rich in mythic life as the Western culture was barren. The author contends that it was the progressive decay of Christianity from a living mythology into a historically oriented state religion that creted a spiritual vacuum in the West, resulting in a terrific restlessness and energy that eventually mainfested itself in exploration conquest and conversion." Notes on sources, index. xviii, 329 pp. ISBN: 0-670-160989.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55363More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON'S CODES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the early days of cryptography - this book uses the original sources, including many ciphers and code-tables and shows that Lieutenant Colonel George Scovell was a true forerunner to the great code-breakers of the twentieth century. Photographs, maps, notes on sources, index. xix, 346pp. ISBN: 0-06-018891X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62835More details Price: $18.50