Fromkin, David:Kosovo Crossing, American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkan Battlefields
- Erstausgabe 2014, ISBN: 9780684868899
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Princeton . 2007. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691129068. 15 line illustrations. 19 tables. 176 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Political S… Mehr…
Princeton . 2007. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691129068. 15 line illustrations. 19 tables. 176 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Political Science Netherlands Culture. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial film about Muslim suppression of women. The Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects, broadcast media, and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream. In this arresting book, Paul Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn demonstrate that there are deep conflicts of values in the Netherlands. In the eyes of the Dutch, for example, Muslims oppress women, treating them as inferior to men. In the eyes of Muslim immigrants, Western Europeans deny women the respect they deserve. Western Europe has become a cultural conflict zone. Two ways of life are colliding. Sniderman and Hagendoorn show how identity politics contributed to this crisis. The very policies meant to persuade majority and minority that they are part of the same society strengthened their view that they belong to different societies. At the deepest level, the authors' findings suggest, the issue that government and citizens need to be concerned about is not a conflict of values but a clash of fundamental loyalties. inventory #35994 ISBN: 9780691129068., 0, New York:: Leon Amiel, 1976.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum binding Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 10 inches tall by 8 inches wide . Chronology. Description: Well illustrated in black and white and color. ''It lies in the geographical center of Europe. Its Germanic origins determine the character of its people. The Frankish kings forced the warring Germanic tribes into political unity. The German 'Reich' arose in the clash between idea and reality. The conflict between the desire for unity and divisive political forces has left its stamp on the history of the German nation even into present.'' In this series, words and pictures combine to give a wide panoramic view of the political, social and cultural history of key peoples and nations. The series is under the general editorship of Otto Zierer (author of this volume)., Leon Amiel, 1976., 3, Harvil & Secker, 2010. Soft Cover. Fine. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in unread, FINE condition. Due publicatin March 2010. Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But their lives took divergent paths, as did their scientific views. Whenever Oskar comes to visit from his prestigious research post in Geneva, there is tension in the air, and it doesn't help their friendship that he feels Sebastian has not lived up to his intellectual capacities, having chosen marriage and fatherhood as an exit strategy. A few days after a particularly heated argument between the two men, Sebastian leaves his son sleeping in the back seat while he goes into a service station. When he returns, the car has disappeared without trace. His phone rings and a voice informs him that in order to get his son back he must kill a man. As Sebastian's life unravels, the only person he can safely reach out to is Oskar. Then Detective Schilf comes on the scene, with a most unorthodox method of uncovering the truth. With intelligence, wit, precision, and grace, Juli Zeh crafts a philosophical thriller which uses the clash of the ideal and the material worlds, the bending of reality, and the search for a definition of time to explore the ideas of guilt and innocence and the infinite configurations of love., Harvil & Secker, 2010, 5, American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, Inc, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Very Good-Collectible. 6.25"x9.25" 423 pages, bibliography, w/excerpt from Land Divided. First printing. Black boards w/gold letters on spine. No DJ. Maps for paste downs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, & unmarked. Faint soil spots throughout. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War, the moving saga of the Birmingham family continues as the clash between North and South forces generations of family members to examine their personal and political loyalties. After surviving harrowing battles together, cousins Ben and Luke Birmingham are dispatched by the Union army to New York City to quell rioting draft protestors. Violence spills into the streets of the teeming city, and the assignment proves to be more life-threatening than the battlefield. As the war scars the nation, it demands more from the family, and Luke's younger brother Robert is drawn into the Union cause and must fight against the odds for survival. Meanwhile, Anne Birmingham struggles with the reality that Ivar Gunderson, the man who saved her life, will most likely die in Andersonville prison unless she can find a way to free him. Can she rely on her family to help with her plan to rescue the man she loves? Volume three of the Faith of Our Fathers series journeys with the Birmingham family through time and place-The South, the North, and into the West, through a war that both tears them apart and brings them back together. An epic worthy of the most pivotal event in American history, Through the Perilous Fight is a story of survival, acceptance, and love of a family finding where its true strength lies., Covenant Communications, Inc, 2003, 3, New York: Ballantine Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . 429 pages. Cotton Malone, No. 9. September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose nineteenth-century expedition across the desert met with a murderous end have been uncovered. In Washington, D.C., the official investigation of an international entrepreneur, an elder in the Mormon church, has sparked a political battle between the White House and a powerful United States senator. In Denmark, a Justice Department agent, missing in action, has fallen into the hands of a dangerous zealot—a man driven by divine visions to make a prophet’s words reality. And in a matter of a few short hours, Cotton Malone has gone from quietly selling books at his shop in Denmark to dodging bullets in a high-speed boat chase. All it takes is a phone call from his former boss in Washington, and suddenly the ex-agent is racing to rescue an informant carrying critical intelligence. It’s just the kind of perilous business that Malone has been trying to leave behind, ever since he retired from the Justice Department. But once he draws enemy blood, Malone is plunged into a deadly conflict—a constitutional war secretly set in motion more than two hundred years ago by America’s Founding Fathers. From the streets of Copenhagen to the catacombs of Salzburg to the rugged mountains of Utah, the grim specter of the Civil War looms as a dangerous conspiracy gathers power. Malone risks life, liberty, and his greatest love in a race for the truth about Abraham Lincoln—while the fate of the United States of America hangs in the balance. ., Ballantine Books, 2014, 5, The Free Press, NY, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A clean copy, no damage to either the dust jacket, or the book. In this book, the author turns attention to the sobering implications of the clash between American ideals and Balkan realities. His incisive analysis reveals the uses and the limits of military power in the world today at the new path the American leaders must explore to advance American values. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; Balkans; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 068486889x. ISBN/EAN: 9780684868899. Inventory No: 0267291. . 9780684868899, The Free Press, 1999, 3<
