Targeting Terror: U.S. Policy toward Middle Eastern State Sponsors and Terrorist Organizations, Post-September 11
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Washington Ins/Near East Pol, 2002. 141, wraps, chapter notes. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Washington Ins/Near East Pol, 2002. 141, wraps, chapter notes. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. First U.S. Edition [Stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Includes Prologue: On Dove's Feet, the Kurds. Part One covers The Latest News From the Empire; Part Two covers Five Kingdoms on the Offensive. Also contains Epilogue: Where Does the Sea Go at Ebb Tide? Also contains Index. At the heart of Bernard-Henri Levy's passionate essay is his anger at the betrayal of the Kurds. He spirals out from there to offer a strongly felt portrait of our contemporary reality in which the "empire of nothing", the West that has lost its way, risks being superseded by new powers, the "five kings [Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and Sunni Radical Islamism], pathetic yet daunting, cartoonish yet terrible." A challenging analysis, at once scholarly and readable. In this exquisite gem of a book, Bernard-Henri Levy offers a poetic plea for moral courage and clear thinking in these dark times. He is an international treasure. The Empire and the Five Kings is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture to reveal the stakes facing the West as America retreats from its leadership role, a process that did not begin with Donald Trump's presidency and is not likely to end with him. The crisis is one whose roots can be found as far back as antiquity and whose resolution will require the West to find a new way forward if its principles and values are to survive. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. 557, illus., index, lib stamps (some crossed out in marker), rear flyleaf torn out, small tears to DJ, lib sticker to DJ spine DJ in plastic sleeve, library stamp on fore-edge crossed out in black marker. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1983. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 807, v.7 only, illus., index, some wear and soiling to DJ, sticker residue inside fr bd, pencil erasure on half-title, edges soiled. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition [stated], Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 420, [2] pages. Glossary. Inscribed by Betty Mahmoody on the half title. Some page discoloration. DJ has some wear and soiling. Slightly cocked. Betty Mahmoody (born June 9, 1945, in Alma, Michigan) is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, Not Without My Daughter, which was also made into a film. She is the President and co-founder of One World: For Children, an organization that promotes understanding between cultures and strives to offer security and protection to children of bi-cultural marriages. Not Without My Daughter is an account of her experiences in 1984–1986, when she left Michigan, to go to Iran with her husband and daughter for what she was promised would be a short visit. Once there, she and her daughter were held against their will. The book was made into a 1991 film starring Sally Field as Betty. The book details her 500 mi (800 km) escape to Turkey through the snowy Iranian mountains, and the help she received from many Iranians. More
Bloomington IN: Authorhouse, 2009. Trade paperback. Glued binding. ix, [1], 377, [3] p. Illustrations, black & white. More
Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, c1990. Second Printing. 24 cm, 316, illus. Inscribed by the author. More
Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 316, illus., references, index, sticer residue on front DJ, some wear to DJ edges. More
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 24 cm, 209, illus. Inscribed by the author and his wife Cecilia (to whom the book is dedicated). More
Place_Pub: New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007. First Thus Edition. 285, illus., maps, figures, appendices, bibliography, notes, index, slight creasing to top DJ edge. More
New York: Hill and Wang, c1989. Revised Edition. 22 cm, 321, illus., minor sticker residue and soiling to DJ. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1989. Fourth Edition. 24 cm, 344, illus., library markings. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 84, wraps, endnotes, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 574, map, notes, index. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. 574, [2] pages. Maps. Notes. Index. Slight DJ wear and soiling. Signed by the author on second fep. Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948) is an American journalist and commentator. She worked in The New York Times' Washington bureau before joining Fox News. Miller became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations, particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi. The New York Times later determined that a number of stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate. Miller was involved in the Plame Affair, in which the status of Valerie Plame as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) became widely known. When asked to name her sources, Miller invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the Central Intelligence Agency leak and spent 85 days in jail protecting her source, Scooter Libby. Miller was forced to resign from her job at The New York Times in November 2005. Later, she was a contributor to the Fox News Channel. More
New York, N.Y. St. Martin's Press, June 2000. First U.S. Edition (stated). First printing [stated]/. Hardcover. viii, [2], 355, [3] pages. Ink name of former owner written in ink on the top corner of the front free endpaper. Includes Notes, Select Bibliography, and Index. Baqer Moin is a BBC journalist and author. He has been described as "a specialist on Iran and Islam and is head of the BBC's Persian Service" (in 1999) and as "BBC's Central Asia specialist" (2001). Moin studied in the religious seminaries of Mashhad in Eastern Iran before becoming a journalist. As of August 27, 2000 he was head of the BBC's Persian service, a broadcast service so influential in Iran that "even Ayatollah Khomeini listened to it". He is the author of the book Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah. which the NY Times called "the first serious and accessible examination of the ayatollah's life." Amazon describes him as having written extensively on Islam, Iran and Afghanistan." The previous owner's name is Jacob Singer-Beilin, believed to be the Rabbi Jake Singer-Beilin who joined Temple Chai as the Director of Education after being ordained from the Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles in 2011. In addition to his rabbinic ordination, Rabbi Jake received his Master of Arts in Jewish Education while at HUC. During this time, he served congregations in Great Falls, MT, Tarzana, CA, and Pacific Palisades, CA. He grew up in Ventura, CA, and received his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of California, Davis in 2005. During high school and college, Rabbi Jake became very involved in NFTY and URJ Camp Newman, both as a participant and staff member. He also served on staff at Gindling Hilltop Camp in Malibu, CA. Rabbi Jake is passionate about prayer and spirituality, rabbinic literature, and providing Jewish education for all ages and learners. More
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 397, illus., references, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1966. Reprint Edition. 26 cm, 545, illus., maps (some fold-out), bibliographical note, index. Reprint of the 1952 First Edition. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1969. Reprint Edition. 26 cm, 545, illus., maps (some fold-out, 3 maps in rear pocket), biblio footnotes, glossary, index, small tear at bottom spine. More
Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 597, [1] pages. Notes. Index. About the Author. Some ink marks noted. Seyed Hossein Mousavian (born 1957 in Kashan) is an Iranian policymaker and scholar who served on Iran's nuclear diplomacy team in negotiations with the EU and International Atomic Energy Agency. He currently resides in the United States, where he is a visiting research scholar at Princeton University. Mousavian played a role in a number of key developments during his more than two decades working on Iranian foreign affairs. He helped to secure the release of two German hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon from 1990 to 1993 and American and other Western hostages held in Lebanon in 1998?1999, as well as contributing to the mediation of the largest-ever humanitarian exchange between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah under Germany's auspices (1995?1996). Mousavian also played a role in Iran's cooperation with the US in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in 2001. From 2003 to 2005, Mousavian was Spokesman of the Iranian nuclear negotiation team, which in 2003 agreed for Iran to provisionally suspend uranium enrichment and allow inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency at its nuclear sites as confidence building measures. In 2004, while head of the negotiating team, Mousavian asserted Iran's sovereign right to pursue nuclear technology for civilian use and expressed satisfaction that the U.S. had been ?isolated? at the IAEA in its attempt to pressure Iran. More
New York: Longman, c1986. Third Printing. 24 cm, 248, some scratches to DJ. More
New York: Columbia University Press, c1994. First Printing. 24 cm, 214, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Trade Edition. 430, some wear and tears along DJ edges. More
Sudbury, Suffolk: N. Spearman, 1982. First Paperbk? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 35, wraps, illus., ink correction to table of contents. More
New York: Doubleday, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 300, [4] pages. Map. Notes. Index. Previous owner's address label removed from fep. Contents include Introduction; Prologue: "A Week in September"; Afghanistan: The Good War Gone Bad; Afghanistan: Reconciliation?; Who Lost Pakistan?; Iran: Between War and Containment; Iraq; The Signal Democracy; The Fading Promise of the Arab Spring; The Gathering Storm; The China Challenge, and Conclusion: America, The Pivotal Nation. Vali Reza Nasr (born 20 December 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and author, specializing in the Middle East and the Islamic world. He is Majid Khaddouri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. He served as the eighth dean of the school from 2012 to 2019. Nasr is also a Non-Resident Fellow in South Asia at Atlantic Council and is described by The Economist as "a leading world authority on Shia Islam". He taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, University of San Diego, and the Naval Postgraduate School. Drawing from his decades of scholarship and specifically from his two-year tenure as senior adviser to Richard Holbrooke, the president’s special adviser to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nasr accuses the Obama White House of lacking any strategic vision for the Middle East and abandoning diplomacy and economic engagement in favor of shortsighted, tactical maneuvers driven by domestic politics and opinion polls. An informed, smoothly argued brief that will surely rattle windows at the White House. More