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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.57
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92
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Publication Date: 2008-01-15
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: During the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Overcoming their fears and prejudices, the two men began a dialogue that, over more than a decade, grew into a remarkable friendship.
Now an award-winning journalist, Goldberg describes their relationship and their confrontations over religious, cultural, and political differences; through these discussions, he attempts to make sense of the conflicts in this embattled region, revealing the truths that lie buried within the animosities of the Middle East.
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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $19.54
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Manufacturer: Taschen
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Philip Jodidio
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Publisher: Taschen
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2007-11-01
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Reading Level: 191
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Description: Construction fever in the Gulf The small emirates and states located on the Gulf, at the eastern edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, are building new cities in the desert at an astonishing rate, from Bahrain to Doha, and south to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Comprised of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, the UAE is an oil-and-gas-rich region that has experienced an unparalleled architectural boom in recent years. With a dizzying array of ultra-modern towers popping up throughout the area, it's no surprise that the Gulf region has attracted many of the world's most prominent architects, including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel, who are all designing groundbreaking projects for the ambitious Cultural District project on Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. With these and many more remarkable, large-scale projects recently built or in progress, the Gulf emirates are perhaps today's top architectural hotspot. Architects featured: AEDAS, Tadao Ando, Asymptote, Atkins, Behnisch Architects, Frank O. Gehry, Gensler, Zaha Hadid, HOK Sports, Kazuhiro Kojima, KPF, Greg Lynn, Jean Nouvel, OMA/Porsche Design, Oosterhuis NL, Carlos Ott, I.M. Pei, RNL, Hadi Simaan, SOM, Pei Zhu TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects--from the firmly established to the up-and-coming--with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation or region featured.
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $39.28
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Manufacturer: daab
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: daab
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Publisher: daab
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.95357
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Publication Date: 2006-08-30
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Reading Level: 236
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Description: Only a few decades ago, Dubai was merely a tranquil Bedouin city. Today, the skyline of a boomtown rises from the desert. Reports about it are distinguished by superlatives. In particular, reports regardign new buildings in this country of little shadow overshadow anything that has been constructed before. Burj Al Arab, currently the world's largest luxury hotel, with its also technically unique facade is just one example of these buildings. Palm Project or Hydropolis, both visionary, artificially created islands belong to the same category. As does the construction of the world's highest apartment tower. Dubai presents a kind of preview of the ultramodern - a trend that is also reflected in the design of various restaurants, hotels and label stores. Representing the most important gate to the Middle East, this city is primarily one thing: thoroghly international and with incredible power on its way to a new future. This is the theme of this book, with chosen objects and crucial information concerning them.
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Price: $22.50
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Sale: $20.25
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Manufacturer: Ithaca Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rosemarie Said Zahlan
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Publisher: Ithaca Press
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Edition: Rev Upd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1999-04
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Reading Level: 212
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Price: $69.95
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Sale: $59.79
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Andrea B. Rugh
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.2095357
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Publication Date: 2007-03-06
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: The book describes the impact of cultural perceptions on rulers’ behaviors in the United Arab Emirates, once the Trucial States. Despite differences in size, economic resources, and external political pressures, the seven emirates' rulers utilized very similar cultural expectations to gain the support of others. The author describes what has generally been only touched upon before--the significant but largely “invisible” roles women and marriage play in the political process of tribal societies. |
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $52.10
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Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Christopher M. Davidson
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Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 953.57
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Publication Date: 2005-01-31
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Reading Level: 333
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.45
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Federal Research Division
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956
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Publication Date: 2004-06-17
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) in 1993 was a federation of seven separate amirates that had joined together in the winter of 1971-72 to form a single independent country. The new nation was created out of the British dependencies that had been known as the Trucial Coast states (also seen as Trucial Oman or Oman Coast) since 1853 when Britain and the local rulers signed the Treaty of Maritime Peace in Perpetuity, an agreement that ceded to London responsibility for foreign affairs. The individual amirates of the UAE include Abu Dhabi (also seen as Abu Zaby), Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Dubayy (also seen as Dubai), Ras al Khaymah, Sharjah (also seen as Ash Shariqah), and Umm al Qaywayn.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $17.78
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Manufacturer: Interlink Publishing Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915.35704
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Publication Date: 1997-11
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Reading Level: 364
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Description: The UAE, composed of the seven states of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, have made the desert bloom-for the benefit of both citizen and tourist. Parks, golf courses, and racecourses stand in lush and verdant contrast to the desert sand, while gardens ablaze with tropical color enrich the wide, tree-lined roads and avenues of the Emirates' twenty-first century cities. Yet just outside civilization, the ancient sands of the Arabian Desert lure the visitor. With a detailed section on the economy, Spectrum Guide to the United Arab Emirates is the first comprehensive and visitor-friendly guide to this modern grouping of states. It is an essential companion for business travelers and tourists alike.
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Manufacturer: Zodiac Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Christine Nowell::Nick Crawley
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Publisher: Zodiac Publishing
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Publication Date: 2001-09-15
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Now & Then - Abu Dhabi is a photographic insight into the capital city and emirate of a nation whose fortunes waned in one area to be replaced by oil wealth in another. This book is a beautiful and historical photographic record, and will be an inspiration for photographers in the years to come.
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Sale: $45.79
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Manufacturer: Trident Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Trident Press
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Publication Date: 2001-06-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: An authoritative and wide-ranging book uncovering the rich heritage of the United Arab Emirates, its political renaissance and its modern transformation into one of the most developed nations in the world.
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