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Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror
by Paul L. Williams
Publisher:
Alpha (2002-02-08)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 240 pages
Edition:
1st
SKU:
66540
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VG-
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Al-Qaeda: Anatomy of Terror examines the network's religious roots, its widespread organizational reach (including the U.S.), its complex political and religious agenda, and its terrifying tactics. The book includes a chilling account of life within al-Qaeda that comes in part from the testimony of members of the Bin Laden group, including Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, who was arrested for staging the August 1998 suicide bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It describes al-Qaeda's capabilities of acts of mass destruction, including stockpiles of nuclear "suitcase bombs" and its ability to produce chemical, bacteriological, and radiological weapons. It is impossible to understand the present situation without also understanding the often violent history of Islam and its factions. Al-Qaeda: Anatomy of Terror covers not only the social, political, and economic factors that have led to the creation of this elusive terrorist network, but also uncovers its religious roots in fundamentalist interpretations of the Koran and the widespread support for those interpretations among radical Islamic groups worldwide.
Benares
by Henry Wilson
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson (1988-08)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 95 pages
SKU:
73126
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G+ / NONE
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Bushido Soul of Japan
by Inazo Nitobe
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing (1969-09-10)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 203 pages
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66440
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VG / VG
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III RECTITUDE OR JUSTICE HERE we discern the most cogent precept in the code of the samurai. Nothing is more loathsome to him than underhand dealings and crooked undertakings. The conception of Rectitude may be erroneousit may be narrow. A well- known bushi defines it as a power of resolution;"Rectitude is the power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering;to die when it is right to die, to strike when to strike is right." Another speaks of it in the following terms: " Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. As without bones the head cannot rest on the top of the spine, nor hands move nor feet stand, so without rectitude neither talent nor learning can make of a human frame a samurai. With it the lack of accomplishments is as nothing." Mencius calls Benevolence man's mind, and Rectitude or Righteousness his path. "How lamentable," he exclaims, "is it to neglect the path and not pursue it, to lose the mind and not know to seek it again! When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it." Have we not here "as in a glass darkly" a parable propounded three hundred years later in another clime and by a greater Teacher, Who called Himself the Way of righteousness, through whom the lost could be found? But I stray from my point. Righteousness, according to Mencius, is a straight and narrow path which a man ought to take to regain the lost paradise. Even in the latter days of feudalism, when the long continuance of peace brought leisure into the life of the warrior class, and with it dissipations of all kinds and accomplishments of gentle arts, the epithet Gishi (a man of rectitude) was considered superior to anyname that signified ...
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Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (Asia's Transformations)
by (Editor: Elizabeth J. Perry) (Editor: Mark Selden)
Publisher:
Routledge (2003-10-01)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 336 pages
Edition:
2
SKU:
82245
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VG
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This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. The book draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues including women, labour, ethnic conflict and suicide. This new revised edition adds three new chapters on Falun Gong, Christianity and land struggles thus providing a comprehensive resource for both undergraduates and specialists in the field and encouraging the reader to challenge conventional images of contemporary Chinese society.
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Chinese Thought, from Confucius to Mao Tse-Tung
by Herrlee Glessner Creel
Publisher:
University Of Chicago Press (1971-01-15)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 304 pages
SKU:
81808
Condition:
G+
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"Chinese philosophy before our Christian era is emphasized in this nontechnical summary of Chinese thought. Professor Creel also deals with Confucianism, the ideas of Mo-tsu and Mencius, Taoism, Legalism, and their variations and adaptations. As an introduction for the general reader, this book stands among the best."â
China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide
"There exists nowhere else such a well-written presentation of the main trends in Chinese thought in so brief a space. The text is not cluttered with Chinese names and the pages are not weighed down with footnotesâbut the references are there for those who want them, with suggestions for further readings. This is a book which can be understood by those who have never read anything else about China."â
The New York Times Book Review
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Conflict in Japan
by E S Krauss, T P Rohlen, P G Steinhoff
Publisher:
University of Hawaii Press (1984-12-01)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 428 pages
Edition:
First Edition.
SKU:
66791
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VG+
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From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA (2004-05-02)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 456 pages
Edition:
1ST
SKU:
82286
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VG / VG
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From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
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Journey between two Chinas (A Cass Canfield book)
by Seymour Topping
Publisher:
Harper & Row (1972)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 459 pages
Edition:
1st
SKU:
80817
Condition:
G+ / G+
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Journey Between Two Chinas, 1972 1st Edition, by Seymour Topping. A person study of China from 1949 to about 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket, 459 pages, published by Harper & Row.
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
Publisher:
Potomac Books Inc. (2007-03-31)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 484 pages
Edition:
Updated
SKU:
79454
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VG+
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With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy and a market economy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsinâs handpicked successorâVladimir Putin, a self-described childhood hooligan turned KGB officerâresolved to end the revolution.
Kremlin Rising
goes behind the scenes of contemporary Russia to offer a sobering picture of its leader and the direction in which the country is now headed.
As Moscow bureau chiefs for the
Washington Post
, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser witnessed firsthand the methodical campaign to reverse the post-Soviet revolution and transform Russia back into an authoritarian state. Their gripping narrative moves from Putinâs unlikely rise through the key moments of his tenure. But the authors go beyond the politics to draw a moving and vivid portrait of the Russian people they encounteredâboth those who have prospered and those barely survivingâand show how the political flux has shaped these individualsâ lives.
With shrewd reporting and unprecedented access to Putinâs insiders,
Kremlin Rising
offers both unsettling revelations about Russiaâs leader and a compelling inside look at life in the land he is building. This book is an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Russia and the debate about the countryâs uncertain future and its relationship with the United States.
Massada Guide to Israel
by Avraham Lewensohn
Publisher:
Golden-Lee Book Distributors (1985-06)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 552 pages
SKU:
64519
Condition:
G+
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$4.67
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