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Military

Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict

Eric D. Patterson

ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Israel An Introduction

Rubin Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780300162301, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 86 black&white illus.

This comprehensive book provides a well-rounded introduction to Israel – a definitive account of the nation's past, its often controversial present, and much more. Edited by a leading historian of the Middle East, "Israel" is organized around six maj...

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Biography & Memoires

Middle East

Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England

Turner Ralph V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178203, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two so...

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Biography & Memoires

Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Hornblum Allen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...

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Middle East

Asia

Imagining Zion Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement

Troen S. Ilan

ISBN: PB: 9780300178531, Yale University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientis...

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Military

Middle East

Afghanistan How the West Lost Its Way

Bird Tim, Marshall Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300154573, Yale University Press, April 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more democratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved. However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing yea...

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Middle East

Pashas Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World

Mather James

ISBN: PB: 9780300170917, Yale University Press, March 2011
320 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travellers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluri...

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Middle East

Palestine Betrayed

Karsh Efraim

ISBN: PB: 9780300172348, Yale University Press, February 2011
336 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shatte...

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Middle East

Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

Katouzian Homa

ISBN: PB: 9780300169324, Yale University Press, October 2010
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons – for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East – but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than...

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Middle East

Cuneiform Texts from Various Collections

Goetze Albrecht, Foster Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300144901, Yale University Press, August 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 109 black&white illus.

The 217 previously unpublished cuneiform texts presented here, found in small collections throughout the world, date from the late third to the late first millennia BCE and include inscriptions, letters, administrative documents, and literary works i...

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