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Battle Scars: Twenty Years Later: 3d Battalion 5th Marines looks back at the Iraq War and How it Changed Their Lives
ISBN: 9781636243559 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalist embedded with the marines of 3/5 during their advance on Baghdad in 2003 talks to survivors twenty years on, and reflects on how the Iraq War changed their lives.
Journalist embedded with the marines of 3/5 during their advance on Baghdad in 2003 talks to survivors twenty years on, and reflects on how the Iraq W...
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163,68 |
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Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
ISBN: 9781474426435 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins.
Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian...
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168,85 |
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The Miracle of the Kurds: A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq
ISBN: 9781617950797 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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177,65 |
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The Iran-Iraq War
ISBN: 9780674088634 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region's collective memory but little understood in the West. Pierre Razoux shows why this war remains central to understanding Middle Eastern geopolitics, from the deep-rooted distrust between Sunni and Shia Muslims, to Iran's obsession with nuclear... From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldie... |
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193,28 |
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Iraq: Power, Institutions, and Identities
ISBN: 9780367520922 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing major political developments in Iraq over the past century, this book provides an up-to-date and accessible study of the country, advancing a sympathetic yet balanced understanding of its critical role in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and in global affairs.
Addressing major political developments in Iraq over the past century, this book provides an up-to-date and accessible study of the country, advancing...
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193,68 |
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Labour's Ballistic Missile Defence Policy 1997-2010: A Strategic Relational Analysis
ISBN: 9781032289281 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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208,58 |
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The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes: A History of Conflict, Tragedy, and Restoration
ISBN: 9781649033253 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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209,16 |
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State and Sufism in Iraq
ISBN: 9781032118215 / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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223,49 |
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The Great War in the Middle East: A Clash of Empires
ISBN: 9780367661748 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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228,46 |
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Armed Organizations and Political Elites in Civil Wars: Pathways to Power in Syria and Iraq
ISBN: 9781032585680 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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228,46 |
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Confronting Al Qaeda: The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy in Al Anbar
ISBN: 9781442264854 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on in-depth interviews with tribal Sheiks involved in the Awakening and their American military counterparts, Confronting al Qaeda is a study of decision-making processes and the political psychology of the Sunni Awakening in al Anbar. It traces the change in American military strategy that made the Awakening collaboration between the Sunni tribes and the U.S. forces possible. It explains how the evolution of the tribal leaders' perspective and of the American military strategy led to defeat al Qaeda in al Anbar. The process of these changing mutual images is detailed as well as how the...
Based on in-depth interviews with tribal Sheiks involved in the Awakening and their American military counterparts, Confronting al Qaeda is a study of...
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248,38 |
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Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy
ISBN: 9780801444579 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it expected to be able to establish a prosperous liberal democracy with an open economy that would serve as a key ally in the region. It sought to engage Iraqi society in ways that would defeat any challenge to that state building project and U.S. guidance of it. Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala argue that state building in Iraq has been crippled less by preexisting weaknesses in the Iraqi state, Iraqi sectarian divisions or U.S. policy mistakes than by the fact that the US has attempted-with only limited success-to control the...
When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it expected to be able to establish a prosperous liberal democracy with an open economy...
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296,63 |
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When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946-63
ISBN: 9781649031167 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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313,74 |
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Nineveh, the Great City
ISBN: 9789088904967 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Well, as for Nineveh, skipper, it was wiped out long ago. There's not a trace of it left, and one can't even guess where it was' (Lucian, 2nd century AD).
Nineveh, the once-flourishing capital of the Assyrian Empire, has fascinated writers, travellers and historians alike since its complete annihilation by allied forces in 612 BC. It was said to have been a great and populous city with 90-km walls, stunning palaces and colossal statues of pure gold. Since 1842 archaeologists have been investigating the ruins of Nineveh, which are located on the eastern banks of the river Tigris, near the... 'Well, as for Nineveh, skipper, it was wiped out long ago. There's not a trace of it left, and one can't even guess where it was' (Lucian, 2nd century...
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322,90 |
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A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam
ISBN: 9781575068374 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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347,68 |
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Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine
ISBN: 9781589839694 / Angielski / Miękka / 786 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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357,78 |
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Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic Cuneiform Texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection
ISBN: 9781948488266 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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360,80 |
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Gertrude Bell and Iraq: A Life and Legacy
ISBN: 9780197266076 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a major re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist, and British civil servant. The book examines Gertrude Bell's role in shaping British policy in the Middle East in the first part of the 20th century, her views of the cultures and peoples of the region, and her unusual position as a woman occupying a senior position in the British imperial administration. It focuses particularly on her involvement in Iraq and the part she played in the establishment of the Iraqi monarchy and the Iraqi state. In...
This is a major re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist, and...
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392,18 |
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Buland Al-Ḥaidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780268205300 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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397,40 |
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Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities: The Lower Sirwan/Upper Diyala River Valley from Prehistory to the Iron Age
ISBN: 9789464271058 / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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397,40 |