Lawrence of Arabia: The Man and the Motive
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1961. First Edition. 256, illus., fold-out map, bibliography, index, small tears along edges of DJ, DJ spine faded, name stamped inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1961. First Edition. 256, illus., fold-out map, bibliography, index, small tears along edges of DJ, DJ spine faded, name stamped inside front flyleaf. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1971. 24 cm, 691, illus., maps, rear board and several rear pages show some dampness damage. More
Washington, DC: GPO, c1979. Third Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 268, illus. More
Washington DC: The American University, 1985. Fourth Edition [stated], First Printing, [stated]. Hardcover. xxxiii, [1], 410 pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations (Figures, Tables, Photographs). Appendixes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ink marks on top edge. This is one of the Area Handbook series. Ex-library with the usual markings. Late 20th Century snapshot. Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about 830,000 sq. mi, making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world, and the largest in West Asia and the Middle East. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Its capital and largest city is Riyadh. The country is home to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. Saudi Arabia is considered both a regional and middle power. The Saudi economy is the largest in the Middle East; the world's eighteenth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the seventeenth largest by PPP. Saudi Arabia has one of the world's youngest populations, with approximately 50 per cent of its population of 32.2 million being under 25 years old. In addition to being a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saudi Arabia is an active and founding member of the United Nations, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and OPEC. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1977. Third Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 389, illus., large ink stamp inside boards. More
Place_Pub: Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997. Reprint Edition. 370, wraps, illus., maps, index, slight wear to bottom edge of covers and spine. More
San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978. First Edition. 24 cm, 370, illus., maps, index, pencil erasure inside rear board, DJ creased: small tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Fourth Printing. 798, wraps, illus., notes, bibliography, chronological table, glossary, index, covers somewhat worn/soiled. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. First Printing. 320, profusely illus., fold-out color frontis illus., appendix, bibliography, small tears & creases to DJ, sm pc missing rear DJ. More
New York: Morrow, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 444, illus., notes, glossary, DJ torn at spine. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxii, 233, [1] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by author and dated on fep. Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947), known as P. J. O'Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and a panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. He has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. He is the author of 20 books, including Holidays in Hell, a compilation of O'Rourke's articles as a free-lance foreign correspondent and All the Trouble in the World, an examination of current political concerns such as global warming and famine from a libertarian perspective. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 states: O'Rourke's original reporting, irreverent humor, and crackerjack writing makes for delectable reading. He never minces words or pulls his punches, whatever the subject. More
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, 271, [1] pages.DJ has some wear and sticker residue. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads: To Jean Brounas, with fondest regards, Bill, Odom. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Includes chapters on The Two-Camp Struggle: Competing Approaches; The Political and Economic Context for Internal War; The Indigenous Sources of Internal Wars; Where U.S. Involvement in Internal Wars is Probable; The Record of East-West Competition in the Third World; Case Assessments: Test of Concepts; The El Salvadoran Case; The Guatemalan Case; The Philippines Case; The Middle East-Southwest Asian Challenge; Case Assessments Conclusion; What Is to Be Done? William Eldridge Odom (June 23, 1932 – May 30, 2008) was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. More
Jerusalem, Israel: Gefen Publishing House Ltd., 2014. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 190, [2] pages. Includes Illustrations, Preface, Sources, Fascination, and Credo. Topics covered include 1926-1957: Growing Up in Denmark; 1958-1967: From Israel's Tenth Anniversary to the Six-day War; 1968-1983: Toward Peace with Egypt; and 1984 to the Present: Struggling On. Richard Oestermann, Danish-born journalist and Middle East correspondent for Scandinavian newspapers, began his career in Israel covering the Eichmann trial in 1961. Educated as a journalist in Denmark and the United States, Oestermann writes daily for the Nordic press, mainly on politics. He has written eleven books, published in Danish, Norwegian and English, primarily focusing on the lives of ordinary people in Israel Jews, Christians and Arabs. His book on the war in Gaza was the first of its kind. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First Edition. 24 cm, 313. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Nat. Defense Univ. Press, 1985. Second Printing. 21 cm, 117, wraps, tables, endnotes, covers somewhat worn/soiled, pencil erasure on a few pages. More
Washington, DC: Middle East Res & Info Proj, 1970? 22 cm, 47, wraps, table, some soiling to covers. More
New York: Hatherleigh Press, 2002. Revised Edition. 9th printing. Trade paperback. 466 pages. Includes a new foreword by Norvell B. De Atkine, Preface to the 1983 Edition, Preface to the 1976 Edition; Preface: On a Personal Note; and A Note on Transliteration. Chapters include The Arabs and the World; The Group Aspects of the Mind; Arab Child-Rearing Practices; Under the Spell of Language; the Bedouin Substratum of the Arab Personality; Bedouin Values; The Bedouin Ethos and Modern Arab Society; The Realm of Sex; The Islamic Component of the Arab Personality; Extremes and Emotions, Fantasy and Reality; Art, Music, and Literature; Bilingualism, Marginality, and Ambivalence; Unity and Conflict; Conflict Resolution and "Conferentiasis"; The Question of Arab Stagnation; The Psychology of Westernization; Postcript: The Last Ten Years. Also includes Conclusion, Postcript: The Last Ten Years; Tables, Appendix 1 on The Judgment of Historians; Appendix 2 on The Arab World and Spanish America; Notes, and Index. One of the great classics of cultural studies, the Arab Mind is a journey of observation through the society of a complex and volatile region. The political and cultural entanglements of the Middle East affect the entire world every day. Although Arab culture often seems incomprehensible to the Western world, Raphael Patai's sensitive study unlocks the mysteries of Arab society to help us understand an ancient people. This book was first published in 1973, and was revised in 1983. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Second paperback printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 376 pages. Preface to the Paperback Edition. Appendix I, II, and III. Notes. Index. Book has some staining and discoloration in the last third to one half of the text. Some other page discoloration noted. Raphael Patai (November 22, 1910 July 20, 1996), born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist. During the late 1930s and early 1940s Patai taught at the Hebrew University and served as the secretary of the Haifa Technion. He founded the Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology in 1944, serving as its director of research for four years. He also served as scientific director of a Jewish folklore studies program for the Beit Ha'Am public cultural program in Jerusalem. In 1947 Patai went to New York with a fellowship from the Viking Fund for Anthropological Research. Patai became a naturalized citizen in 1952. He held visiting professorships at a number of the country's most prestigious colleges. He held full professorships of anthropology at Dropsie College from 1948 to 1957 and Fairleigh Dickinson University. In 1952 he was asked by the United Nations to direct a research project on Syria, Lebanon and Jordan for the Human Relations Area Files. Patai's work was wide-ranging but focused primarily on the cultural development of the ancient Hebrews and Israelites, on Jewish history and culture, and on the anthropology of the Middle East generally. He was the author of hundreds of scholarly articles and several dozen books, including three autobiographical volumes. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. 260, index, some soiling to flyleaves, library stamp inside rear flyleaf (only library marking), DJ torn and pieces missing. More
London: Quartet Books, 1978. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 179, glossary, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Place_Pub: Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 63, wraps, maps, endnotes, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 1995. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. v, [1], 46 p. 23 cm. Maps. Endnotes. More
New York: Wyndham Books, c1979. First Printing. 23 cm, 254. More
New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. x, 350, illus., Inscribed by hand by the author (Shimon Peres) on the front free endpaper. Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the ninth President of Israel (2007–2014), the Prime Minister of Israel (twice), and the Interim Prime Minister, in the 1970s to the 1990s. He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November He was chosen as a protégé by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father. He began his political career in the late 1940s, holding several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952 which he attained at the age of 28, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959. In 1956, he took part in the historic negotiations on the Protocol of Sèvres. In 1963, he held negotiations with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, which resulted in the sale of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel, the first sale of U.S. military equipment to Israel. Peres represented Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima in the Knesset, and led Alignment and Labor. Peres first succeeded Yitzhak Rabin as Acting Prime Minister briefly during 1977, before becoming Prime Minister from 1984 to 1986. As Foreign Minister, Peres engineered the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty, and won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Accords peace talks with the Palestinian leadership. More