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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $15.66
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Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Markar Melkonian
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Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 2008-06-10
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Reading Level: 344
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Description: What do "Abu Sindi", "Timothy Sean McCormack", "Saro", and "Commander Avo" all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unraveling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestor's town in Turkey and led to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the Cold War and the unraveling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? My Brother's Road is not just the story of a long journey and a short life --it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words. |
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $19.76
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anna M. Kerttula
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 957.7
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Publication Date: 2000-11
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Reading Level: 180
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Price: $29.50
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Sale: $13.95
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Manufacturer: Steerforth Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mark Taplin
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Publisher: Steerforth Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 914.70486
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Publication Date: 1997-10-25
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Reading Level: 325
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Description: Mark Taplin went to Russia in 1984, a junior-level diplomat sent deep into Cold War land. He tells of the map he studied, colored green for the few cities where foreigners were allowed, and omnipresent red for "Stay Away." In 1992 Taplin returned. Russia and the U.S. had signed an "Open Lands" agreement allowing free travel, and Taplin wanted to explore the lands that taunted and haunted him from the map eight years before. The result is a book you can't put down, an informed look at a complex country. Russia requires more than a casual eye and pen to sort through the contradictions, and Taplin excels in both.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 1999-06-10
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Since the fall of Communism in Russia, the Kremlin archives have yielded a hitherto hidden history of the Soviet regime. Richard Pipes, emeritus professor of Russian history at Harvard and author of Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, is the principal editor of this first collection of secret Lenin papers published in English. The collection reveals sides of the Bolshevik leader long guessed at in the West but never proven, particularly his efforts to subvert the West. Such revelations make this volume an invaluable historical tool that helps part the Iron Curtain of silence and disinformation.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $19.87
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Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Joe Sacco
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Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 949.703
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: A landmark work of New Journalism is now available in softcover. Safe Area Gorazde is Joe Sacco's 240-page opus about the war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco spent four months in Bosnia in 1995-1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Sacco spent four weeks in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water. The hardcover edition of Safe Area Gorazde put Sacco on the map as one of the pre-eminent journalists of his time, and the softcover edition will present his work to a wider audience. The book has been prominently featured in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Utne Reader, Spin, The London Times, The Washington Post, Brill's Content, several NPR programs, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, The Atlantic Monthly, and other media. The book also led to Sacco being named a recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. Safe Area Gorazde features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $59.99
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Manufacturer: Mazda Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George A. Bournoutian
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Publisher: Mazda Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.0491992
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Publication Date: 2002-07
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Reading Level: 499
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $19.10
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dockrill::Michael F. Hopkins
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.825
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Publication Date: 2006-02-19
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Reading Level: 196
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Description: Michael Dockrill's concise study of the early years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and Soviet Union has been widely acclaimed as an authoritative guide to the subject. In this second edition, he and Michael Hopkins bring the story up to the events of 1991, and also expand coverage of key topics.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $22.00
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Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Austin Jersild
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 2003-05
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Orientalism and Empire sheds new light on the little-studied Russian empire in the Caucasus by exploring the tension between national and imperial identities on the Russian frontier. Austin Jersild contributes to the growing literature on Russian "orientalism" and the Russian encounter with Islam, and reminds us of the imperial background and its contribution to the formation of the twentieth-century ethno-territorial Soviet state. Orientalism and Empire describes the efforts of imperial integration and incorporation that emerged in the wake of the long war. Jersild discusses religion, ethnicity, archaeology, transcription of languages, customary law, and the fate of Shamil to illustrate the work of empire-builders and the emerging imperial imagination. Drawing on both Russian and Georgian materials from Tbilisi, he shows how shared cultural concerns between Russians and Georgians were especially important to the formation of the empire in the region.
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Price: $29.00
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Sale: $22.98
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anthony Fletcher
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 1999-03-11
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the social and cultural dominance of the male - has long been a fundamental feature of western civilisation, yet has only recently begun to be systematically investigated by historians. This book is the first attempt to provide a rounded portrait of its workings over a long stretch of the English past. Fletcher's account draws from a vast range of sources - literary, medical, religious and historical - to investigate the mechanisms through which men and women interpreted and understood their social worlds. He explores the early modern view of the body, of sexual desire and appetites, and of gender difference. He looks at the nature of marital relationships, and shows how subordination was implemented and consolidated through church, school, home and community. And he exposes patriarchy's tragic consequences: smothered opportunity, crushed sexuality, and a pall across many women's lives. Yet, over these three centuries, the conventional foundations of male superiority came under acute pressure. Fletcher reveals the depth of male anxiety in the face of women's volatility, verbal assertiveness and alleged vibrant sexuality, and shows how the gender system began to be transformed as men sought to detach it from its biblical foundations and inculcate gender identities on something like their modern ideological basis. This revolution in the entire premise upon which gender was grounded is fundamental to an understanding of the structure of English society today.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $26.17
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephen M. Saideman::R. William Ayres
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.540947
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Publication Date: 2008-06-06
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The collapse of an empire can result in the division of families and the redrawing of geographical boundaries. New leaders promise the return of people and territories that may have been lost in the past, often advocating aggressive foreign policies that can result in costly and devastating wars. The final years of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, the end of European colonization in Africa and Asia, and the demise of the Soviet Union were all accompanied by war and atrocity.These efforts to reunite lost kin are known as irredentism & mdash; territorial claims based on shared ethnic ties made by one state to a minority population residing within another state. For Kin or Country explores this phenomenon, investigating why the collapse of communism prompted more violence in some instances and less violence in others. Despite the tremendous political and economic difficulties facing all former communist states during their transition to a market democracy, only Armenia, Croatia, and Serbia tried to upset existing boundaries. Hungary, Romania, and Russia practiced much more restraint.The authors examine various explanations for the causes of irredentism and for the pursuit of less antagonistic policies, including the efforts by Western Europe to tame Eastern Europe. Ultimately, the authors find that internal forces drive irredentist policy even at the risk of a country's self-destruction and that xenophobia may have actually worked to stabilize many postcommunist states in Eastern Europe.
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