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After The Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent

Product Description: A master historian takes us deep into the heart of Europe's current political and financial crisis Walter Laqueur was one of the few experts who predicted Europe's current financial and political crisis when he wrote The Last Days of Europe six years ago...read more

By Walter Laqueur

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9781250000088 | Thomas Dunne Books, January 3, 2012, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: A master historian takes us deep into the heart of Europe's current political and financial crisis Walter Laqueur was one of the few experts who predicted Europe's current financial and political crisis when he wrote The Last Days of Europe six years ago.

Harvest of a Decade: Disraelia and Other Essays

By Walter Laqueur

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9781412842327 | Transaction Pub, November 15, 2011, cover price $39.95

Weimar: A Cultural History

By Walter Laqueur

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9781412818438 | Transaction Pub, June 14, 2011, cover price $34.95

The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent

The historian-author of The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism assesses the dramatic demographic and cultural upheaval that is transforming twenty-first-century Europe, looking at the implications of uncontrolled immigration from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East that has led to an influx of foreigners with no desire to assimilate into European society but that take full advantage of the host nations' social benefits. 15,000 first printing.

By Walter Laqueur

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9780312368708 | Thomas Dunne Books, May 15, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The historian-author of The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism assesses the dramatic demographic and cultural upheaval that is transforming twenty-first-century Europe, looking at the implications of uncontrolled immigration from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East that has led to an influx of foreigners with no desire to assimilate into European society but that take full advantage of the host nations' social benefits.

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9780312541835 | 1 edition (Griffin, March 3, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: • In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents • Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless• According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of British Muslims said Jews were a legitimate target for terrorist attacks What happens when a falling birthrate collides with uncontrolled immigration?

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9781429967020 | 1 edition (Thomas Dunne Books, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Memoirs of a Political Education

Product Description: Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical events that shaped his thinking and that have inspired his intellectual work throughout his life...read more

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9781584657989 | Brandeis Univ, November 10, 2009, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization.

The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

Product Description: For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon...read more

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9780195341218 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon.

Soviet Union 2000: Reform or Revolution?

Examines Soviet policy shifts implemented under perestroika and shares the projections of international experts on the broad changes that will occur in the Soviet Union in the years ahead

By Walter Laqueur

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9780312044251 | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines Soviet policy shifts implemented under perestroika and shares the projections of international experts on the broad changes that will occur in the Soviet Union in the years ahead

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9780312064716 | Reprint edition (Griffin, September 30, 2007), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Examines Soviet policy shifts implemented under perestroika and shares the projections of international experts on the broad changes that will occur in the Soviet Union in the years ahead

The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

Provides an illuminating study of the growing anti-Semitism sweeping the world, offering a comprehensive history of the phenomenon and analyzing the origins, rationale, manifestations, and implications of the current growth of anti-Semitism.

By Walter Laqueur

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9780195304299 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 12, 2006, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Provides an illuminating study of the growing anti-Semitism sweeping the world, offering a comprehensive history of the phenomenon and analyzing the origins, rationale, manifestations, and implications of the current growth of anti-Semitism.

Dying For Jerusalem: The Past, Present And Future Of The Holiest City

Product Description: The Past, Present and Future of the Holiest CityWhy has a symbol become such a tremendous political issue? Whence the insistence on the part of the religious nationalists on keeping Jerusalem as the permanent and exclusive capital? And why the insistence by Palestinians on having it as their capital, which it never was in the past?Why are people who do not want to live in Jerusalem willing to die for it?Praise for Walter Laquer from the New York Times:"Among the last of a remarkable generation of German Jewish intellectuals, Walter Laquer has seen and survived much of this century's agitated history...read more

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9781402206320 | Sourcebooks Inc, March 1, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The Past, Present and Future of the Holiest CityWhy has a symbol become such a tremendous political issue?

For Jerusalem's Sake

By Walter Laqueur

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9781594290251 | Reed Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $26.95

No End To War: Terrorism In The Twenty-first Century

Product Description: While the destruction of the World Trade Center and the strike against the Pentagon shocked the world at large, experts on terrorism like Walter Laqueur couldn't feign complete surprise. In No End to War, Laqueur, who has devoted three decades to the study of political violence, answers the most-often raised questions about terrorism in the light of 9/11 and the still unsolved Anthrax letters...read more

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9780826414359 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Describes the latest events and trends in terrorism against the United States.

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9780826416568 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 30, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the latest events and trends in terrorism against the United States.

9789990096231 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 30, 2004, cover price $0.02

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9781435290761 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: While the destruction of the World Trade Center and the strike against the Pentagon shocked the world at large, experts on terrorism like Walter Laqueur couldn't feign complete surprise.

Voices Of Terror: Manifestos, Writings and Manuals of Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other Terrorists from around the World and Throughout the Ages

Product Description: Renowned historian and international scholar Walter Laqueur offers a sweeping survey of writing on one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: the use of violence as a tool for political change.From ancient Roman tyrannicides and French revolutionaries to the Weathermen and Osama Bin Laden, Voices of Terror brings together 120 of history's most controversial figures, militant organizations and guerrilla groups for a rare glimpse into the minds behind the violence...read more

By Walter Laqueur

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9781594290350 | Sourcebooks Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Renowned historian and international scholar Walter Laqueur offers a sweeping survey of writing on one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: the use of violence as a tool for political change.

They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich

Product Description: The life-saving power of art Berlin 1939. A few months after Kristallnacht, eighteen-year old Irene Spicker tries to flee to Belgium but ends up in a Nazi prison. Freed after a few weeks, she tries again-this time, in the dark of night, she successfully crosses the frontier...read more

By Irene Awret and Walter Laqueur (foreword by)

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9780299188306 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The life-saving power of art Berlin 1939.

Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Drawing on personal interviews, journals, memoirs, and his own experiences, the author of A History of Zionism chronicles the lives of a generation of young German Jews who fled Germany in the wake of Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Reprint.

By Walter Laqueur

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9781584651062 | Brandeis Univ, March 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Drawing on personal interviews, journals, memoirs, and his own experiences, the author chronicles the lives of a generation of young German Jews who fled Germany in the wake of Hitler's rise to power in 1933.

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9781860648854 | Reprint edition (I B Tauris & Co Ltd, January 17, 2004), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Drawing on personal interviews, journals, memoirs, and his own experiences, the author of A History of Zionism chronicles the lives of a generation of young German Jews who fled Germany in the wake of Hitler's rise to power in 1933.

A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel

Product Description: From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement.

By Walter Laqueur

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9780805211498 | Reprint edition (Schocken Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement.

Una Historia Del Terrorismo

By Walter Laqueur

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9788449313738, titled "Una historia del terrorismo / A History of Terrorism" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 15, 2003, cover price $46.95

Weimar: A Cultural History 1918-1933

By Walter Laqueur

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9781842120279 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 1, 2002, cover price $19.95

9780399503467, titled "Weimar: A Cultural History, 1918-1933" | Perigee, May 1, 1976, cover price $8.95

The New Terrorism: Threat And Response

By Fouad Ajami, Milton Bearden, Richard K. Betts, Ashton Carter, John Deutch, Michael Scott Doran, Stephen E. Flynn, Walter Laqueur, Bernard Lewis, William J. Perry, Ahmed Rashid, Gideon Rose, Jessica Stern and Philip Zelikow

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9780876092996 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2002, cover price $14.95

The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict

A historical overview of the continuing crisis in the Middle East traces the course of the Israel-Arab conflict from its earliest origins, through the various wars, skirmishes, and peace efforts, to the Israel-PLO and Israel-Jordan peace accords, in a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and reports dealing with all aspects of the subject. Original. (view table of contents)

By Walter Laqueur (editor)

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9780871968739 | 4 rev exp edition (Facts on File, March 1, 1985), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A compilation of documents and essays that provide a comprehensive background on the Arab-Israeli conflict

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9780140297133 | 6 revised edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 2001), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Covers the Israel-Arab conlict from the beginning through the Israel-Jordan peace accords, including speeches, letters, articles, and reports by British, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, American, and U.

9780140245622 | 5th/rev/up edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1995), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing crisis in the Middle East.

9780140169904 | Rev&updatd edition (Viking Pr, December 1, 1984), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A compilation of documents and essays that provide a comprehensive background on the Arab-Israeli conflict

A History of Terrorism

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By Walter Laqueur

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9780765807991 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

The Holocaust Encyclopedia

Provides hundreds of entries and over 250 photographs of such Holocaust related topics as antisemitism, euthanasia, and mischlinge, incuding biographical information on such notorious figures as Adolph Hitler, Josef Mengele, and Amon Goeth. (view table of contents)

By Judith Tydor Baumel (editor) and Walter Laqueur (editor)

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9780300084320 | Yale Univ Pr, March 29, 2001, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Provides hundreds of entries and over 250 photographs of such Holocaust related topics as antisemitism, euthanasia, and mischlinge, incuding biographical information on such notorious figures as Adolph Hitler, Josef Mengele, and Amon Goeth.

The Age of Terrorism

Examines the causes of terrorism and surveys the motives, ideology, and operations of the major terrorist groups

By Walter Laqueur

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9781560009696 | Transaction Pub, February 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

9780316514798 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1988), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Examines the causes of terrorism and surveys the motives, ideology, and operations of the major terrorist groups

The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction

Amazon.com Review: The use of violence to achieve political goals stretches all the way back to biblical times, and Walter Laqueur outlines its long practice in these pages. Yet his main concern is with the 21st-century threat of "megaterrorism": "What we know about past ages of barbarism is frightening enough," he writes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195118162 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 24, 1999, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780195140644 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 12, 2000, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

Confronting History: A Memoir

Product Description: Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of this century’s great historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Walter Laqueur (foreword by) and George L. Mosse

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9780299165802 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L.

The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's "Final Solution"

Explores the Nazi extermination of the Jews between 1941 and 1942, particularly when the genocide became known and what the reactions were to this information (view table of contents)

By Walter Laqueur

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9780316514743 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1981, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Explores the Nazi extermination of the Jews between 1941 and 1942, particularly when the genocide became known and what the reactions were to this information

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9780805059847 | Reprint edition (Owl Books, November 1, 1998), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Explores the Nazi extermination of the Jews between 1941 and 1942, particularly when the genocide became known and what the reactions were to this information

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