2019, ISBN: 9781586487638

edizione con copertina flessibile, edizione con copertina rigida

Paperback / softback. New., 6, Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16. Hardcover. Used: Good., Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16, 2.5, Izmir: Arkas Art Center, 2014. Soft cover. New. 4t… Altro …

Paperback / softback. New., 6, Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16. Hardcover. Used: Good., Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16, 2.5, Izmir: Arkas Art Center, 2014. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (26 x 22 cm). In English, French and Turkish. 270 p., color and b/w ills. Galle Daum Lalique: The poets of glass.= Les poetes du verre.= Camin sairleri. [Exhibition catalogue]. Text by Niko Filidis, Sema Olcay, Nadja Inciyan. Émile Gallé, a French designer who was a pioneer and an important representative of the Art Nouveau movement, received an education of philosophy, literature, and botanics. The artist, who was working in the fields of glass art and furniture design, researched techniques of glass decoration and was a pioneer in new era glass art. Gallé, Daum, and Lalique glasses are outstanding products that reflect the spirit of this era. After the 1920s, there was a transition to Art Deco with a cubist influence, mysterious and ambiguous, to a style with sharp lines and geometry. At the beginning of the 20th century, the integration of personal creativity with the possibilities offered by science and technology, enabled the production of beautiful objects that made people happy, by expert artists and craftsmen. Production in the studio of the "one and only" was followed by a time period that moved towards serial production. This process resulted in the absolute victory of industrial production today. Art Nouveau and Art Deco objects, which were products of special and extraordinary design, have been receiving increased attention and demand. With this exhibition of 160 works, you will get an idea of the progressive sensibility in the glass art of Emile Gallé, who was an important representative of decorative arts. You will also have a chance to see various examples of the works by Daum Brothers, who were important representatives of École de Nancy, and by René Lalique, famous designer., Arkas Art Center, 2014, 6, Paperback / softback. New. WINNER OF PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS 2017 Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU, the USA and the UN. It has made itself notorious for its violent radicalism and uncompromising rejection of the Jewish state. After its infamous victory in the 2006 elections the world was watching to see how Hamas would govern. Could an Islamist group without any experience of power - and with an unwavering ideology - manage to deal with day-to-day realities on the ground? Bjorn Brenner investigates here what happened after the elections and puts the spotlight on the people over whom Hamas rules, rather than on its ideas. Lodging with Palestinian families and experiencing their daily encounters with Hamas, he offers an intimate perspective of the group as seen through local eyes. The book is based on hard-to-secure interviews with a wide range of key political and security figures in the Hamas administration, as well as with military commanders and members of the feared Qassam Brigades. Brenner also sought out those that Hamas identifies as local trouble makers: the extreme Salafi-Jihadis and members of the now more quiescent mainstream Fatah party led by Mahmoud Abbas. Updated for a new paperback edition, the book now covers events since 2016 and reflects on what the future holds for Hamas. The book includes a foreword by Shaul Mishal and an epilogue by Benedetta Berti, and discusses Hamas's newly published and more moderate Charter, the impact of the US peace plan, and suggests how we can understand the relationship between Hamas and democracy today since no new elections have taken place., 6, Yale University Press / Islamic Publications 2007. Quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xviii + 236pp, illus, fine, in d/w, nr fine, Yale University Press / Islamic Publications 2007, 0, New York: Harper and Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; xi, (1), 178, (2) pages; Inscribed and signed on ffep - "To Polly and Kim / with memories that go back / a couple of decades and / great affection. // Walt / 11 June, 1964" Clean and secure in original green cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. From the chair of the State department's Policy Planning Council an evaluation of American strategy and its prospects for the future. Provenance: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Author ., Harper and Row, 1964, 4, London: Chapman & Hall. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 259 pages; "With the Author's Compliments" printed slip laid-in. Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Not marked, but from the collection of Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr. Provenance: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, which installed General Fazlollah Zahedi in power and and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. In the 1961, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. took his two older sons Kermit and Jonathan on a month long safari to Africa. Having studied AFRICAN GAME TRAILS, T.R.'s famous account of that earlier safari in 1910, he and his sons set out to retrace its tracks. Aided by Life magazine, these Roosevelts roughed it in safari camps much as Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit had fifty years earlier. Like his namesake, Roosevelt was a great supporter of African wildlife conservation. ., Chapman & Hall, 1962, 3, New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 430 pages; Owner's signature on ffep -- "Kim Roosevelt / 1977" otherwise clean and secure in original binding in very good dustjacket with some chipping at spine ends. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated ., Viking Press, 1977, 3, Zebra, 1977. 1st printing. His name was Al-Malik al Zahir (meaning victorious) Rukn-al-Din (for pillar of the faith) Bybars al-Bundukari (of the crossbowman), but he was called Bybars.. Paperback. near fine paperback,., Zebra, 1977, 4, Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16. Hardcover. Used:Good., Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16, 0, Amber Books, 2019. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (Originally published, 2007) Very large, heavy book, stunning glossy color-illustration of Christian victory on front, spine and back, shiny black color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 224 heavy glossy pages, profusely illustrated, most in color. DJ glossy with same color as book covers. DJ and book, both As New., Amber Books, 2019, 5, paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book., 2.5, London: Peter Nevill. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. viii, 245 pages; Owner's name signed on ffep -- "Kim Roosevelt / Please return!" a couple marginal lines, otherwise clean and secure in originalgreen cloth binding in edgewor, chipped dustjacket. Printed in Great Britain by Foister and Jagg of Cambridge. Study of Hemingway & his work, intending to refute common criticsms & focus on what the author asserts is Hemingway's major concern: "the diagnosis of Twentieth Century fear"; the author believed his book to be the first book-length study of Hemingway. Includes a brief chapter on Old Man and the Sea, then just-published; Atkins regards it as "a small masterpiece." PROVENANCE: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated ., Peter Nevill, 1952, 3, New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; x, (2), 207washington 1967" pages; Clean and secure in original black cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Owner's nice signature on ffep - "Kermit Roosevelt / Washington, 1967" Roosevelt has also made a couple illuminating pencil notes in the section on Politics of Modernization. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related ., Harper & Row, 1966, 4, The American University in Cairo Press, 2007. 236pp. Index. Original boards. 1st Printing (with complete number line). Pages are clean (unmarked). Binding is tight and secure. Unclipped pictorial DJ has slight rubbing to extremities. We have added a removable mylar covering to the dust jacket for protection. Nice copy. . First Edition, 1st printing. Oversized Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mylared., The American University in Cairo Press, 2007, 3, New York: PublicAffairs, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo,.. cloth, pp., xxxviii, 849, dust jacket, (NOT price-clipped) first edition, (stated, with full number line) in protective mylar, CONTENTS: Part I: Tribal Incubator -- Padshahgardi -- Shatter Zone -- Tribe and Mosque -- Modernizing Monarchs -- Red Sunrise -- Part II: Fission -- Commissar Meets Tribesman -- Big Fox Catches Little Fox -- Green Dawn -- Insubordinate Puppets -- The General's Vision -- Part III. Mission to the Mujahidin -- Mission Impossible -- Potemkin Government -- Pakistan Pivots -- Tilting at Windmills -- Wahhabi Emirate -- Desperately Seeking Moderates -- Irreconcilable Policies -- From Marx to Mullahs -- From One War to the Next -- Part IV: America and Afghanistan -- Unholy Alliance -- Between the Lions -- Yankee Meets Tribesman -- From Victory to Stalemate -- Needed: Real Change -- The Way Ahead. " This revelatory, unprecedented, insider's account of Afghanistan's history since the 1970s, and of U.S. involvement, is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the current war."., PublicAffairs, 2011, 5<

2019, ISBN: 9781586487638

edizione con copertina flessibile, edizione con copertina rigida

Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16. Hardcover. Used: Good., Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16, 2.5, Izmir: Arkas Art Center, 2014. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" t… Altro …

Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16. Hardcover. Used: Good., Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16, 2.5, Izmir: Arkas Art Center, 2014. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (26 x 22 cm). In English, French and Turkish. 270 p., color and b/w ills. Galle Daum Lalique: The poets of glass.= Les poetes du verre.= Camin sairleri. [Exhibition catalogue]. Text by Niko Filidis, Sema Olcay, Nadja Inciyan. Émile Gallé, a French designer who was a pioneer and an important representative of the Art Nouveau movement, received an education of philosophy, literature, and botanics. The artist, who was working in the fields of glass art and furniture design, researched techniques of glass decoration and was a pioneer in new era glass art. Gallé, Daum, and Lalique glasses are outstanding products that reflect the spirit of this era. After the 1920s, there was a transition to Art Deco with a cubist influence, mysterious and ambiguous, to a style with sharp lines and geometry. At the beginning of the 20th century, the integration of personal creativity with the possibilities offered by science and technology, enabled the production of beautiful objects that made people happy, by expert artists and craftsmen. Production in the studio of the "one and only" was followed by a time period that moved towards serial production. This process resulted in the absolute victory of industrial production today. Art Nouveau and Art Deco objects, which were products of special and extraordinary design, have been receiving increased attention and demand. With this exhibition of 160 works, you will get an idea of the progressive sensibility in the glass art of Emile Gallé, who was an important representative of decorative arts. You will also have a chance to see various examples of the works by Daum Brothers, who were important representatives of École de Nancy, and by René Lalique, famous designer., Arkas Art Center, 2014, 6, Yale University Press / Islamic Publications 2007. Quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xviii + 236pp, illus, fine, in d/w, nr fine, Yale University Press / Islamic Publications 2007, 0, New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 430 pages; Owner's signature on ffep -- "Kim Roosevelt / 1977" otherwise clean and secure in original binding in very good dustjacket with some chipping at spine ends. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated ., Viking Press, 1977, 3, London: Chapman & Hall. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 259 pages; "With the Author's Compliments" printed slip laid-in. Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Not marked, but from the collection of Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr. Provenance: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, which installed General Fazlollah Zahedi in power and and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. In the 1961, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. took his two older sons Kermit and Jonathan on a month long safari to Africa. Having studied AFRICAN GAME TRAILS, T.R.'s famous account of that earlier safari in 1910, he and his sons set out to retrace its tracks. Aided by Life magazine, these Roosevelts roughed it in safari camps much as Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit had fifty years earlier. Like his namesake, Roosevelt was a great supporter of African wildlife conservation. ., Chapman & Hall, 1962, 3, New York: Harper and Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; xi, (1), 178, (2) pages; Inscribed and signed on ffep - "To Polly and Kim / with memories that go back / a couple of decades and / great affection. // Walt / 11 June, 1964" Clean and secure in original green cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. From the chair of the State department's Policy Planning Council an evaluation of American strategy and its prospects for the future. Provenance: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Author ., Harper and Row, 1964, 4, Zebra, 1977. 1st printing. His name was Al-Malik al Zahir (meaning victorious) Rukn-al-Din (for pillar of the faith) Bybars al-Bundukari (of the crossbowman), but he was called Bybars.. Paperback. near fine paperback,., Zebra, 1977, 4, Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16. Hardcover. Used:Good., Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16, 0, Amber Books, 2019. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (Originally published, 2007) Very large, heavy book, stunning glossy color-illustration of Christian victory on front, spine and back, shiny black color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 224 heavy glossy pages, profusely illustrated, most in color. DJ glossy with same color as book covers. DJ and book, both As New., Amber Books, 2019, 5, London: Peter Nevill. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. viii, 245 pages; Owner's name signed on ffep -- "Kim Roosevelt / Please return!" a couple marginal lines, otherwise clean and secure in originalgreen cloth binding in edgewor, chipped dustjacket. Printed in Great Britain by Foister and Jagg of Cambridge. Study of Hemingway & his work, intending to refute common criticsms & focus on what the author asserts is Hemingway's major concern: "the diagnosis of Twentieth Century fear"; the author believed his book to be the first book-length study of Hemingway. Includes a brief chapter on Old Man and the Sea, then just-published; Atkins regards it as "a small masterpiece." PROVENANCE: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated ., Peter Nevill, 1952, 3, New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; x, (2), 207washington 1967" pages; Clean and secure in original black cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Owner's nice signature on ffep - "Kermit Roosevelt / Washington, 1967" Roosevelt has also made a couple illuminating pencil notes in the section on Politics of Modernization. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related ., Harper & Row, 1966, 4, New York: PublicAffairs, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo,.. cloth, pp., xxxviii, 849, dust jacket, (NOT price-clipped) first edition, (stated, with full number line) in protective mylar, CONTENTS: Part I: Tribal Incubator -- Padshahgardi -- Shatter Zone -- Tribe and Mosque -- Modernizing Monarchs -- Red Sunrise -- Part II: Fission -- Commissar Meets Tribesman -- Big Fox Catches Little Fox -- Green Dawn -- Insubordinate Puppets -- The General's Vision -- Part III. Mission to the Mujahidin -- Mission Impossible -- Potemkin Government -- Pakistan Pivots -- Tilting at Windmills -- Wahhabi Emirate -- Desperately Seeking Moderates -- Irreconcilable Policies -- From Marx to Mullahs -- From One War to the Next -- Part IV: America and Afghanistan -- Unholy Alliance -- Between the Lions -- Yankee Meets Tribesman -- From Victory to Stalemate -- Needed: Real Change -- The Way Ahead. " This revelatory, unprecedented, insider's account of Afghanistan's history since the 1970s, and of U.S. involvement, is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the current war."., PublicAffairs, 2011, 5<

2019, ISBN: 9781586487638

edizione con copertina flessibile, edizione con copertina rigida

Amber Books, 2019. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (Originally published, 2007) Very large, heavy book, stunning glossy color-illustration o… Altro …

Amber Books, 2019. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (Originally published, 2007) Very large, heavy book, stunning glossy color-illustration of Christian victory on front, spine and back, shiny black color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 224 heavy glossy pages, profusely illustrated, most in color. DJ glossy with same color as book covers. DJ and book, both As New., Amber Books, 2019, 5, Oxford Univ Pr, 2017. Hardcover. New. 260 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.00 inches., Oxford Univ Pr, 2017, 6, Paperback / softback. New. The Giriama of Kenya's coastal hinterland persistently resisted colonialism, and they were unreceptive both to Christianity and to Islam. In 1912 the British colonial authorities earmarked the Giriama as a key source of labor for the plantations Europeans were trying to develop along the coast. The Giriama, prosperous producers and traders, could not become wage laborers and maintain their successful economy, and the British demands upon this scattered people therefore were spontaneously rejected. Increased pressure increased Giriama recalcitrance. Finally, military action brought defeat to the Giriama, whose only weapons were bows and arrows and whose decentralization prevented coordinated resistance. They lost their best lands, paid a heavy fine, and had to contribute a thousand laborers to the Carrier Corps. But the British costs were also heavy. The coastal plantations failed, few Giriama ever became wage laborers, and the entire area became depressed economically. Cynthia Brantley explores the precolonial Giriama's political and economic system and their dynamic trade relationship with the coast of Kenya in an effort to explain why the Giriama were so determined in their resistance to British pressure. She shows that even when the political and social structures of a people seem weak, it is unlikely that the population will submit to changes that undermine the economy. Moreover, their very lack of a centralized political or religious organization made the imposition of foreign administration extremely difficult. The British won the war, but their victory was hollow. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981., 6, Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16. Hardcover. Used:Good., Oxford University Press, 2017-08-16, 0, London: Peter Nevill. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. viii, 245 pages; Owner's name signed on ffep -- "Kim Roosevelt / Please return!" a couple marginal lines, otherwise clean and secure in originalgreen cloth binding in edgewor, chipped dustjacket. Printed in Great Britain by Foister and Jagg of Cambridge. Study of Hemingway & his work, intending to refute common criticsms & focus on what the author asserts is Hemingway's major concern: "the diagnosis of Twentieth Century fear"; the author believed his book to be the first book-length study of Hemingway. Includes a brief chapter on Old Man and the Sea, then just-published; Atkins regards it as "a small masterpiece." PROVENANCE: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated ., Peter Nevill, 1952, 3, New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; x, (2), 207washington 1967" pages; Clean and secure in original black cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Owner's nice signature on ffep - "Kermit Roosevelt / Washington, 1967" Roosevelt has also made a couple illuminating pencil notes in the section on Politics of Modernization. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related ., Harper & Row, 1966, 4, The American University in Cairo Press, 2007. 236pp. Index. Original boards. 1st Printing (with complete number line). Pages are clean (unmarked). Binding is tight and secure. Unclipped pictorial DJ has slight rubbing to extremities. We have added a removable mylar covering to the dust jacket for protection. Nice copy. . First Edition, 1st printing. Oversized Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mylared., The American University in Cairo Press, 2007, 3, New York: PublicAffairs, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo,.. cloth, pp., xxxviii, 849, dust jacket, (NOT price-clipped) first edition, (stated, with full number line) in protective mylar, CONTENTS: Part I: Tribal Incubator -- Padshahgardi -- Shatter Zone -- Tribe and Mosque -- Modernizing Monarchs -- Red Sunrise -- Part II: Fission -- Commissar Meets Tribesman -- Big Fox Catches Little Fox -- Green Dawn -- Insubordinate Puppets -- The General's Vision -- Part III. Mission to the Mujahidin -- Mission Impossible -- Potemkin Government -- Pakistan Pivots -- Tilting at Windmills -- Wahhabi Emirate -- Desperately Seeking Moderates -- Irreconcilable Policies -- From Marx to Mullahs -- From One War to the Next -- Part IV: America and Afghanistan -- Unholy Alliance -- Between the Lions -- Yankee Meets Tribesman -- From Victory to Stalemate -- Needed: Real Change -- The Way Ahead. " This revelatory, unprecedented, insider's account of Afghanistan's history since the 1970s, and of U.S. involvement, is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the current war."., PublicAffairs, 2011, 5<