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9781565845978 | New Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Explains how the identification of a crime against humanity, first defined at Nuremburg, has become the key that unlocks the closed door of state sovereignty and that holds political leaders responsible for the evils they visit upon humankind.
9780713991970 | Viking Uk, April 1, 1999, cover price $30.75 | About this edition: This text explains, without legal jargon, exactly what the rules of international human rights are and what they should be, how they have developed, and in what courts and tribunals they may be asserted and vindicated.
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9781595588609 | 4th edition (New Pr, February 5, 2013), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs.
9781595580719 | 3 edition (New Pr, January 31, 2007), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An updated history of the human rights movement draws on a variety of disciplines to explain how the international community is gaining a greater capacity to advocate for people whose lives have been wasted by war, genocide, and torture, in an account that includes in the latest edition additional chapters on Iraq and Guant�namo.
9781565846685 | New Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How human rights have come to dominate world politics, from Kosovo to East Timor.
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A country-by-country account of the struggles for power and identity in the Middle East travels from the terrorist headquarters of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the royal palace in Amman to an Israeli interrogation cell
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9780684809731 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A country-by-country account of the struggles for power and identity in the Middle East travels from the terrorist headquarters of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the royal palace in Amman to an Israeli interrogation cell
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9780684832289 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1997), cover price $32.99 | About this edition: A country-by-country account of the struggles for power and identity in the Middle East, from the terrorist headquarters of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the royal palace in Amman
9780756758813 | Diane Pub Co, July 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A country-by-country account of the struggles for power and identity in the Middle East travels from the terrorist headquarters of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the royal palace in Amman to an Israeli interrogation cell.
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9781439129418 | Simon & Schuster, December 31, 2012, cover price $15.00
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9780745644684 | 2 edition (Polity Pr, October 30, 2012), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see .
9780745616575 | Polity Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $70.95 | About this edition: Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see .
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9780745644691 | 2 edition (Polity Pr, October 30, 2012), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see .
9780745623924 | Polity Pr, March 12, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see .
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9780470655634 | 4th edition (Blackwell Pub, September 16, 2011), cover price $44.95 | also contains The Globalization Reader | About this edition: Thoroughly revised and updated, The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition offers a provocative assessment of globalization by reviewing the current debates and ongoing research on the topic, providing readers with the most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today.
9780631214779 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 2000, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: The Globalization Reader makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debate.
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9781405102797 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, December 9, 2003), cover price $125.95 | About this edition: The Globalization Reader makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debates.
9780631214762 | Blackwell Pub, November 1, 1999, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: The Globalization Reader makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debate.
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9780470655634 | 4th edition (Blackwell Pub, September 16, 2011), cover price $44.95 | also contains The Globalization Reader | About this edition: Thoroughly revised and updated, The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition offers a provocative assessment of globalization by reviewing the current debates and ongoing research on the topic, providing readers with the most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today.
9781405155526, titled "Globalization Reader" | 3 edition (Blackwell Pub, December 30, 2007), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: The third edition of The Globalization Reader makes sense of globalization by conveying its complexity, importance, and contentiousness from diverse vantage points.
9781405102803 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, December 1, 2003), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The Globalization Reader makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debates.
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9781559706407 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, January 31, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Osama bin Laden pretends to be a selfless freedom fighter seeking to rid the Islamic world of Western dominance+and the de facto leader of the Muslim faithful.
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9780745652306 | 3 edition (Polity Pr, June 21, 2011), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The third edition of this dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East.
9780745635934 | 2 edition (Polity Pr, November 3, 2006), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The second edition of this dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East.
9780745614717 | Polity Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $87.95 | About this edition: This second edition of Beverley Milton-Edwards popular and successful textbook has been fully revised and expandedIncludes up-to-date coverage of the war in Iraq, developments in Israel/Palestine and the aftermath of 9/11Features a new chapter on US relations with the Middle EastProvides an in-depth survey of the literature on the politics, economics, history sociology of the Middle EastOffers extended case-studies of major regions, events and groups from Eygpt to Iran, and from Hamas to BaathismOffers an unusually balanced account of the political life of this important region
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9780745652313 | 3 edition (Polity Pr, June 21, 2011), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The third edition of this dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East.
9780745635941 | 2 rev exp edition (Polity Pr, November 3, 2006), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The second edition of this dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East.
9780745614724 | Polity Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This second edition of Beverley Milton-Edwards popular and successful textbook has been fully revised and expandedIncludes up-to-date coverage of the war in Iraq, developments in Israel/Palestine and the aftermath of 9/11Features a new chapter on US relations with the Middle EastProvides an in-depth survey of the literature on the politics, economics, history sociology of the Middle EastOffers extended case-studies of major regions, events and groups from Eygpt to Iran, and from Hamas to BaathismOffers an unusually balanced account of the political life of this important region
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9780700716104 | Curzon Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: This book addresses two important matters of current concern to Middle East scholars: firstly, the nature of the Egyptian state and society and the interactive process between them and secondly, how change, which would finally lead to development, can be initiated.
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9780415612746 | Reprint edition (Routledge, December 21, 2010), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This book addresses two important matters of current concern to Middle East scholars: firstly, the nature of the Egyptian state and society and the interactive process between them and secondly, how change, which would finally lead to development, can be initiated.
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A study of the role of Americans in the growth and development of the Tokyo underworld since the end of World War II
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9780679419761 | Pantheon Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A study of the role of Americans in the growth and development of the Tokyo underworld since the end of World War II
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9780375724893 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A provocative study of the role of Americans in the growth and development of the Tokyo underworld since the end of World War II examines the powerful alliances among crime bosses, corporate leaders, politicians, and public figures.
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9780307765178 | Vintage Books, September 15, 2010, cover price $16.00
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9781906523473 | New Internationalist Pubns Inc, August 24, 2010, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: While globalization can be a force for equality, it can also be seen as the embodiment of inequality—the rich world's rabid consumption of resources comes at the expense of poor countries, forced to cut costs and corners to compete.
9781844675364, titled "No-nonsense Guide To Globalization" | Verso Books, September 30, 2006, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow.
9781904456445 | New Internationalist Pubns Inc, August 3, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Globalization is all around us.
9781859843369 | Verso Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow.
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Product Description: In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future...read more
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9780809094899 | Rev upd edition (Hill & Wang Pub, February 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Introduces readers to China's history and political and economic climate, incorporating new information on such situations as the impact of Den Xiaoping's death on the government, China's influence on our election campaigns, and its eagerness to acquire American technology.
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9781435295209 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future.
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9780465044122 | Basic Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Chronicles a time of rivalry, comradeship, machismo, and exhilaration experienced by a group of young South African photographers as they documented their country's transition from apartheid to democracy.
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9780465019786 | Mti edition (Basic Books, March 1, 2011), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A gripping story of four remarkable young men—photographers, friends and rivals—who band together for protection in the final, violent days of white rule in South Africa.
9780465044139 | Basic Books, September 19, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Chronicles a time of rivalry, comradeship, machismo, and exhilaration experienced by a group of young South African photographers as they documented their country's transition from apartheid to democracy.
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9788484504351 | Plaza & Janes Editories Sa, June 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Unabridged edition of Cela's modern novel, with study aids.
9788401427763 | Plaza & Janes Editories Sa, March 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Unabridged edition of Cela's modern novel, with study aids.
9788483280133 | Planeta Pub Corp, September 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This book reflects the crude reality of rural Spain in Franco's time.
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An essential guide offers valuable advice for protecting one's family and finances from the havoc that will be wrought by the Y2K computer crisis, from making copies of important documents to properly stocking the pantry. Original.
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9780446675666 | Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: An essential guide offers valuable advice for protecting one's family and finances from the havoc that will be wrought by the Y2K computer crisis, from making copies of important documents to properly stocking the pantry.
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9780446562492 | Grand Central Pub, June 27, 2009, cover price $8.99
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9781566638265 | Ivan R Dee, March 15, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies.
9781566634403 | Ivan R Dee, February 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Explores the legacy of civil war and despotic regimes crippling Arab nations and points to a complex code of shame, honor, and power-challenging that feed the ongoing political battles.
9780060981037 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, March 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explores the legacy of civil war and despotic regimes crippling Arab nations and points to tribal culture and a complex code of shame, honor, and power-challenging that feed the onging political and religious battles
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Based on his travels to nineteen countries, discussions with the natives of each country, and interviews with Vaclav Havel, Al Gore, and Jacques Cousteau, the author documents the predicted fate of the human species
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9780767900584 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, January 1, 1999), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Based on his travels to nineteen countries, discussions with the natives of each country, and interviews with Vaclav Havel, Al Gore, and Jacques Cousteau, the author documents the predicted fate of the human species
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9780767900591 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, January 1, 2000), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Based on his travels to nineteen countries, discussions with the natives of each country, and interviews with Vaclav Havel, Al Gore, and Jacques Cousteau, the author documents the predicted fate of the human species.
9789990038217 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 2000, cover price $0.02
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9780307484086 | Broadway Books, January 16, 2009, cover price $16.95
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9781860648250 | Revised edition (I B Tauris & Co Ltd, June 1, 2002), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: This revised edition is a comprehensive account of the technological and political possibilities and dangers presented by weapons of mass destruction in the wake of September 11th, 2001.
9781860644603 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: This timely book examines the new style of terrorism by small groups, cults, even individuals with access to weapons of mass destruction.
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The author relates his time spent with Afghanistan's mujahidin during their fight against Soviet invaders and provides insight into the circumstances that led to the rise of the Taliban.
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9781400030255 | Vintage Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author relates his time spent with Afghanistan's mujahidin during their fight against Soviet invaders and provides insight into the circumstances that led to the rise of the Taliban.
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9780307546982 | Vintage Books, December 24, 2008, cover price $16.00
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This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's. Find out more information about the RGS-IBG journals by following the links below:AREA:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004-0894The Geographical Journal: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016-7398Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-2754
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9781557868879 | Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2002, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's.
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9781557868886 | Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2002, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's.
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9780470712542 | Blackwell Pub, November 10, 2008, cover price $94.95
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9780374131432 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examining the glories of its past and its hopes for the future, the author explores Turkey's unrealized potential as a nation poised between Europe and Asia.
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9780374531409 | Revised edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 16, 2008), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: “A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head.
9780374528669 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Examining the glories of its past and its hopes for the future, the author explores Turkey's unrealized potential as a nation poised between Europe and Asia.
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Links globalization to changing trends in modern culture to present a case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade, considering such topics as the market exchange versus aesthetic quality, the impact of technology on art, and the affect of globalization on societal intelligence. (Social Science)
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9780691090160 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Links globalization to changing trends in modern culture to present a case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade, considering such topics as the market exchange versus aesthetic quality, the impact of technology on art, and the affect of globalization on societal intelligence.
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9780691117836 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie.
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9781400825189 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $26.95
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Product Description: On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil...read more
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9780786240357 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever.
9780743205023, titled "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" | Free Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: CNN's terrorism analyst examines Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, al-Queda, discussing its operations and mission, the planning and execution of specific terrorist acts, and future threats from militant Islamic movements.
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9780743234955, titled "Holy War Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" | Free Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: CNN's terrorism analyst examines Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, al-Queda, discussing its operations and mission, the planning and execution of specific terrorist acts, and future threats from militant Islamic movements.
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9780743524650, titled "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, November 1, 2001), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever.
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9780743524643, titled "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, November 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: CNN's terrorism analyst examines Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, al-Queda, discussing its operations and mission, the planning and execution of specific terrorist acts, and future threats from militant Islamic movements.
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9781435296817, titled "Holy War Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever.
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Product Description: "The Last Great Revolution is written with clarity and insight about Iran's tumultuous twenty-year Islamic revolution. Robin Wright speaks authoritatively about the Iranian republic's evolution, from the convulsive, vindictive early years of he revolution to the current uncertainties over experimentation with Islamic democracy...read more
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9780375406393 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2000), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Arguing that the Iranian revolution will stand with the French and Russian revolutions as one of the greatest movements of the modern era, the author describes the ongoing transformation of Iranian society and Islam.
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9780375706301 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Arguing that the Iranian revolution will stand with the French and Russian revolutions as one of the greatest movements of the modern era, the author describes the ongoing transformation of Iranian society and Islam.
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9781435295353 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: "The Last Great Revolution is written with clarity and insight about Iran's tumultuous twenty-year Islamic revolution.
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Product Description: Now in paperback, the acclaimed nonfiction thriller that takes us behind the scenes and reveals what really happened in 1989 when 20,000 American soldiers invaded Panama, arrested that nation's leader, and hauled him back to Miami to stand trial for violations of American law -- violations committed in that ruler's own country...read more
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9780316340809 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The tale of three Americans who defied their superiors to make a criminal case against Manuel Noriega chronicles a four-year manhunt featuring cops, diplomats, paratroopers, a famous cocaine cartel, and a president trying to make a name for himself.
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9780316154802 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, June 1, 2002), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The tale of three Americans who defied their superiors to make a criminal case against Manuel Noriega chronicles a four-year manhunt featuring cops, diplomats, paratroopers, a famous cocaine cartel, and a president trying to make a name for himself.
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9781435296923 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Now in paperback, the acclaimed nonfiction thriller that takes us behind the scenes and reveals what really happened in 1989 when 20,000 American soldiers invaded Panama, arrested that nation's leader, and hauled him back to Miami to stand trial for violations of American law -- violations committed in that ruler's own country.
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9780393048162 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1999, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Argues that the 'Iron Wall' strategy of making Israel the dominant state in the region has not produced large-scale peace or prosperity in the Middle East.
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9780393321128 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2001), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Argues that the 'Iron Wall' strategy of making Israel the dominant state in the region has not produced large-scale peace or prosperity in the Middle East.
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9781435295131 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Israel's conflict with the Palestinians, and with the Arab world at large, casts a long shadow over her history.
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