Search Results: Middle East from Ainsworth Books

Toronto: Dundurn. Very Good. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 1550025538 . Card covers show light shelf wear, corner curl.; A bright, solid book.; 8.82 X 5.98 X 0.71 inches; 256 pages; From the back cover: "Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimize the state. These accusations criminalize the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of Israel." "Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened? This book attempts to explain the phenomenon.Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimize the state. These accusations criminalize the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of… Read More

New York: Random House. Very Good+. 2003. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0812969847 . Card covers show light shelf wear. ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; 5.17 X 1.2 X 8.01 inches; 536 pages; "the de?nitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America’s efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam from its medieval origins and, drawing on their years of counter-terrorism work at the National Security Council, provide essential insights into the thinking of Usama bin Laden and his followers. With unique authority, they analyze why America was unable to defend itself against this revolutionary threat on September 11, 2001, why bin Laden’s apocalyptic creed is gaining ground in the Islamic world, and what the United States must do to stop the new terror." .

Jerusalem: Carta. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 9652200514 . Red card covers show some shelf wear with minor creasing.; A bright, solid book. Illustrated with maps throughout. ; Maps; 7.80 X 5.12 X 1 inches; 80 pages; This volume illustrates how Israel has changed geographically from Biblical times to the late 20th century. .

Peking: Foreign Languages Press. Very Good. 1967. Stapled wraps. Covers show light shelf wear, light soiling, light creasing. ; A tight solid book. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 53 pages; Speeches and editorials supporting the Arab people's resistance movements. .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very Good+. 2022. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0297871315 . Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 301 pages; "In today's Tehran, intrigues abound and survival depends on an intricate network of falsehoods: mullahs visit prostitutes, local mosques train barely pubescent boys in crowd control tactics, and cosmetic surgeons promise to restore girls' virginity. Navai paints an intimate portrait of those discreet recesses in a city where the difference between modesty and profanity, loyalty and betrayal, honor and disgrace is often no more than the believability of a lie." .

London: Allen Lane. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0713997753 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 367 pages; "In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. CURSED VICTORY is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath - a military occupation of the Palestinian territories that is now well into its fifth decade." .

Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers. Very Good+. 2002. Softcover. 1563841932 . Card covers show very light edge wear; A bright, solid book.; B&W Photographs; 10.30 X 7.30 X 1 inches; 128 pages; Recounts Aileen Coleman's almost 4 decades of ministry as a medical missionary in the Middle East. Her work with the Bedouin earned her respect from all sides .

London: Harpercollins/Fourth Estate. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2005. Third Printing. Hardcover. 184115007X . Dust jacket shows some bruising head and tail of spine, light soil and a couple of scratches. Bookshows light edge wear, few creased pages. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. This substantial book may require extra postage. ; 9.2 X 6.5 X 2.8 inches; 1328 pages; "This is the author's first-person account of fifty years of bloodshed and tragedy in the area, from the Palestinian-Israeli bloodbath to the shock and awe of the recent war against Iraq. The Great War for Civilisation is written with passion and anger, a reporter's eyewitness account of the Middle East's history. All the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the region -- from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini, from Saddam to Ariel Sharon -- come alive in these pages. Fisk has met most of them, and even spent the night out at a guerrilla camp with bin Laden… Read More

New York: Hachette Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2017. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316399051 . Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W and color photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages; "A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels." .

New York: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 1400044871 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, bumped bottom of spine.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 6.25 X 1.5 X 9.5 inches; 336 pages; "An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America" .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0151472602 . Boards show light shelf wear, dustjacket has creases and short tears. 1" X 3" section missing from back panel of DJ. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, map endpapers, B&W photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 631 pages; "The Kingdom is the story of a country - a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words “In the name of God,” where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers and adulterers are publicly executed in the street. By its own reckoning, this country is just entering the 15th century. The Kingdom is also the story of a family - a family that has fought its way from poverty and obscurity into wealth and power the likes of which the world has never known, a family characterized by fierce loyalty among… Read More

Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0771007663 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 577 pages; "Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present." .

New York NY: AMS Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. 0404602339 . Top, back corner bumped, otherwise as new ; Tan, cloth covered boards with red titles front and spine, B&W illustrations ; Oriental Explorations and Studies No. 3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 426 pages; This is a modern reprint of the 1927 edition by the American Geographical Society of New York .

Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0931948517 . Boards and DJ show light shelf wear, with light chipping and short tears to DJ. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; 9.40 X 6.10 X 1.50 inches; 407 pages; A former hostage in Iran offers a firsthand account of his 444 days in captivity and his relationship with his jailor, a young militant Islamic fundamentalist. .

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0886190355 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, 2 inch closed tape-repaired tear on front of DJ.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar.; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 278 pages .

London: Heinemann Ltd.. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0434019844 . The usual library markings, missing FFEP ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 299 pages .