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Product Description: Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories...read more
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9780231140041 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 15, 2007, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Edward W.
9780674483507 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1966, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Edward W.

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9780231140058 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 15, 2007, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Edward W.

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9780937694336 | Assn of Arab-Amer Univ Graduates, June 1, 1976, cover price $1.00

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9780937694374 | Assn of Arab-Amer Univ Graduates, June 1, 1978, cover price $4.50

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Product Description: "Orientalism" is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater...read more
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9780614216301 | Kazi Pubns Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "Orientalism" is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires.
9780394740676 | Vintage Books, October 1, 1979, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A provocative critique of Western attitudes about the Orient, this history examines the ways in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control the East from the 1700s to the present.

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The author of Culture and Imperialism evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories about Islam and shows how misconceptions about the religion and about the Middle East have been promoted. Reprint. NYT.
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9780394513195 | Pantheon Books, May 1, 1981, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories concerning Islam and shows how misconceptions about the Middle East have been promoted

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9780679758907 | Revised edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories concerning Islam and shows how misconceptions about the Middle East have been promoted
9780394748085 | Random House Inc, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories concerning Islam and shows how misconceptions about the Middle East have been promoted

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Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary criticism
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9780674961869 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 14, 1983, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary criticism

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9780674961876 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 15, 1984, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary criticism

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By Edward W. Said (editor)
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9780801822940 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $19.50

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9780801833465 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 1, 1986), cover price $8.95

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Product Description: A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.
By Jean Mohr (photographer) and Edward W. Said
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9780231114493 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 1999), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.
9780394744698 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 1986), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Offers a portrait of the Palestinian people, recounts the history of their exile, and looks at how adversity has changed them

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Product Description: This book shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence.Blaming the Victims demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780860911753 | Verso Books, January 1, 1988, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence.

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9781859843406 | Subsequent edition (Verso Books, September 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence.
9780860918875 | Verso Books, January 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This book shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence.

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Product Description: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature
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9780816618620 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature

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9780816618637 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature

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Product Description: Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W...read more
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9780231073189 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Examines the performance of Western high-art music, the politicized theorizing of it, and the use of 'melody, solitude, and affirmation' in it

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9780231073196 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music.

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Evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories concerning Islam and shows how misconceptions about the Middle East have been promoted
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9780394509235 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1992, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories concerning Islam and shows how misconceptions about the Middle East have been promoted

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Argues for the existence of Palestine, examining the efforts of the Palestine Liberation Organization to focus attention on the turmoil that has beset their country since the Six-Day War, and adds a new preface and epilogue on the intifada and other recent developments
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9780679739883 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Argues for the existence of Palestine, examining the efforts of the Palestine Liberation Organization to focus attention on the turmoil that has beset their country since the Six-Day War, and adds a new preface and epilogue on the intifada and other recent developments

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Investigates the relationship between culture and the imperialism of the West, combing the masterpieces of the Western tradition from Mansfield Park to Aida to find evidence that the concept of empire-building was embedded in the imagination of the West. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
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9780394587387 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Investigates the relationship between culture and the imperialism of the West through an examination of the concept of empire-building in Western literature

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9780685610770 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: Edward W. Said, noted author, professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and a Palestinian Christian raised in Jerusalem, is interviewed here on a range of subjects: from V.S. Naipaul's and Joseph Conrad's depictions of colonialism and empire in their novels; to the links between the Palestinian and South African struggles; to questions about the effectiveness of Yasser Arafat's leadership...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781567510317 | Common Courage Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Edward W.

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Product Description: Said on Arab culture, western literature, politics (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781567510300 | Common Courage Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Said on Arab culture, western literature, politics

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Investigates the relationship between culture and the imperialism of the West through an examination of the concept of empire-building in Western literature
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9780679750543 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Investigates the relationship between culture and the imperialism of the West through an examination of the concept of empire-building in Western literature

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Thirty-nine essays--written between 1969 and 1993--explore the underlying issues of the Palestinian struggle for statehood, shedding light on the relationship between the Arab Islamic world and the West, the repercussions of the Gulf War, and other concerns. 15,000 first printing.
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9780679430575 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Looks at the history of the Palestinian quest for self-determination and discusses the current situation

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A new collection of essays by the author of Culture and Imperialism explores the changing role of the intellectual in modern society, drawing on both current events and literary examples to support his arguments.
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9780679435860 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A new collection of essays by the author of Culture and Imperialism explores the changing role of the intellectual in modern society, drawing on both current events and literary examples to support his arguments.

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Looks at the history of the Palestinian quest for self-determination and discusses the current situation
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9780679761457 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Looks at the history of the Palestinian quest for self-determination and discusses the current situation

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Product Description: Religious law, the Shari'a, is a dominating influence on political theory in Islamic countries. The jurist-theologian Mawardi (d. 1058) was the first Muslim scholar to study systematically the relationship between Islamic revelation and political thought...read more
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9780748605194 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Religious law, the Shari'a, is a dominating influence on political theory in Islamic countries.

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9780748605248 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Religious law, the Shari'a, is a dominating influence on political theory in Islamic countries.

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Essays by the Palestinian American political analyist examine the challenges to Palestine and Israel in the Middle East peace process (view table of contents)
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9780679767251 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays by the Palestinian American political analyist examine the challenges to Palestine and Israel in the Middle East peace process

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A handsome, authoritative edition of twenty-one classic stories from James's latest and greatest period includes 'The Turn of the Screw,' 'The Figure in the Carpet,' and 'The Altar of the Dead.'
By David Bromwich (editor), John Hollander (editor), Henry James, Edward W. Said (editor), Jean Strouse (editor) and William L. Vance (editor)
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9781883011093 | Library of America, January 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Twenty-one stories include 'The Turn of the Screw,' and 'The Figure in the Carpet'

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An expertly edited, fine edition of James's stories from the end of his career collects thirty-one tales, including the fantasies 'The Great Good Place' and 'The Jolly Corner,' along with 'The Beast in the Jungle.'
By David Bromwich (editor), Denis Donoghue (editor), John Hollander (editor), Henry James, Edward W. Said (editor), Jean Strouse (editor) and William L. Vance (editor)
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9781883011109 | Library of America, January 1, 1996, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Gathers thirty-one stories, including 'The Great Good Place,' 'The Jolly Corner,' and 'The Beast in the Jungle'

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