Search Results: Middle East from Quickhatch Books

Ann Arbor: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1969. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 162pp., biblio., figures, tables, maps. Anthropological Papers No. 38. Other than a previous owner's name inside front, a fine copy..

Black Point NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2004. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 190pp., index, notes. "After Iraq traces Iraq's colonial history, Saddam Hussein's brutal rise to power and their relationship to Iraq's major oil reserves.".

Ottawa: Esprit de Corps Books, 2004. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 208pp., photos., map. Light edge wear..

Beirut: s.n., 1961. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 121pp., biblio., notes, photos, figures. Previous owner's name on title page. DJ is edgeworn, nicked, and scuffed..

Cairo: American University of Egypt, 1969. Book. Good. Hardcover. First. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Arabic Books Published in the U. A. R. "Egypt" Between 1926 and 1940: A Study and a Bibliography. Text primarily in Arabic, with six pages at front (back) of English introduction. 400+6 pp., cover scuffed/scraped, one endpaper bent, else good. Important work on the bibliography of Egypt, with a concentration on the period between the two world wars..

London,Nicosia, Istanbul: K Rustem & Bro. and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvii, 323pp., index, biblio., notes. Vg, light wear, three pages near the middle have been accidentally dog-eared on top corner. "The myth that the Ottoman Empire's Armenian subjects were the innocent victims of wanton massacre has had a powerful hold. It is a myth that has served the interests of those countries who wanted to carve up the 'sick man of Europe', especially after the end of the First World War. Kamuran Gürün presents the first objective account of this subject available in English. He provides the evidence which provides the English-speaking world its first opportunity to see Armenian terrorism in perspective, from the tiem ofr the First World War up to the present day.".

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies. xiii, 370pp., index, biblio., notes. Nearly as new..

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2006. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies. 296pp., index, biblio., appendices, notes, maps..

Paris: Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1909. Book. Good. Half-Leather. Quatrième. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 585pp., index, ill., photos, folding maps. Minor wear, light bumping, binding intact but slightly flexible, all signatures and pages in place. Yes, this book is in French. Oui, ce livre est en français. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie Française, de Maurice Landrieux, Vicaire générale de Reims. Wonderfully illustrated, and beautiful folding maps, esp. of Jerusalem..

Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1994. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 180pp., biblio., notes, ill. Very light wear..

Altenberge: Oros Verlag, 1998. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 296pp., glossary, biblio., notes. Translation by Ragai N. Makar, edited by S. Kent Brown, foreword by Lee L. Bean. Arbeiten zum spätantiken und koptischen Ägypten 10..

Leiden: Brill Academic Pub, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Middle East, Vol 9. xix, 180pp., indices, appendices, notes, figures..

Boston: Gambit, 1969. Book. Illus. by Stern, Jossi. Very Good. Cloth. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 158pp., ill. Very light wear to corners, in clipped, nicked-and-repaired, and cello-wrapped DJ. "George Mikes, a Hungarian Jew, was invited back to Israel twenty years after Milk and Honey, his first report on that land at its inauguration, was published. This new book which is the result of the return journey is like an evening's conversation with a penetrating, wry and enlightened traveller in a changed yet familiar country.".

Vancouver, BC, Canada: Talonbooks, Limited, 2006. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224pp., notes, ill. Nearly as new. "In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A. Reed (Persian Postcards: Iran after Khomeini) visited Iran on the eve of the parliamentary elections that were to seal the political defeat of the reform movement. They had come to interview several of the men and women who had propelled Mohammad Khatami to the presidency in 1997, with a mission to rebuild a civil society in Iran under the banner of human rights, democracy, free speech and a renewed dialogue of civilizations. This is their report: Iran's once lively press has been all but silenced, the country's most outspoken journalists imprisoned, and, argues Mohsen Kadivar, one of the regime's sharpest critics, the shah's crown has now merely been replaced by the mullah's turban.".

Casablanca: La croisee des Chemins, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 274pp., notes. Very light wear..

Jerusalem: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2005. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiii, 332pp., ill., maps, figures, tables. .

London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 1996. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 317pp., index, biblio., appendices, tables, figures, notes. Light wear to corners and edges, faint creases to front cover..

London: John Murray, 2003. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv, 306pp., index, glossary, biblio., chronology, notes, photos, maps. VG in VG cello-wrapped DJ. "A thousand years ago, a vast Arab empire stretched from the Asian steppe to Spain, pioneering new technologies, sciences, art and culture, and Arab traders dominated the global economy. Today, Arab states are in decay. On a journey through Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Iraq and Egypt, Stephen Glain looks at the causes of this debility and at hope for the future.".

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi, 361pp., index. Light wear, a few small pen marks to about a half-dozen pages..

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxvi, 365pp., index, notes, ill., maps. Light edgewear..