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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Vietnam War examines the conflict from its origins through to 1975 and North Vietnam's victory. This new revised edition is completely up-to-date with current academic debates and includes new source material. Mitchell Hall explores all the key elements of the conflict, including: * US motivations for entering the war and the military strategies employed * The role of the media * The rise of domestic opposition * The war's impact in the US and Vietnam. Mitchell Hall provides numerous insights into the political decisions of the Vietnamese communists, and Vietnam's relations with other major powers, particularly China and the Soviet Union. The main text is supported by a comprehensive documents section, and a range of study tools, including a Chronology of events, Who's Who, a Glossary of terms and a Further Reading section. Concise yet thorough, the book provides students with an accessible and stimulating introduction to the war. Mitchell K. Hall is Professor of History at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Because of Their Faith (1990) and Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation (2005). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Mattox, Gale A. / Shingleton, A. Bradley, ed. Germany at the Crossroads. Foreign and Domestic Policy Issues. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1992, 217pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good. Interesting themes ten years later: unified Germany and European security, Franco-German arms collaboration, German-American relations after the cold war, European integration and the German Länder, German economic issues, private broadcasting, biotechnology, environmental politics, electronics industry. - CONTENTS: A unified Germany and European security / Dana H. Allin and Daniel H. Mudd -- The politics of Franco-German arms collaboration : between autonomy and alliance / Jonathan B. Tucker -- German-American relations after the Cold War / Dana H. Allin -- European integration and the German länder : lost competence or found opportunity? / Jon M. Appleton -- Momper at Germany's dawn / John Meakem -- German monetary union : thee inevitable experiment / Melinda Hargrave-Kanzow -- German trade and joint ventures with the East / Cole Thompson -- East German firms in the new Germany / J. Henrike Garkisch -- Private broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany / Barbara Reilly -- Technology and the competitive advantage of nations : the case of biotechnology / Richard W. Morris -- Negotiation and compromise in German environmental politics : government, industry, and the public / Carol Deck -- The future of the German electronics industry / Lauren Kelley -- Appendix One. Martin Bangemann speech: "The EC internal market : internal integration, external trade restrictions? ; Rita Süssmuth speech: "The German view of the world in the 1990s and beyond" ; Carola Kaps speech: "Germany in an era of change" -- Appendix Two. West German federal governments since 1949 ; Chronology of the division and unification of Germany ; Articles of the German basic law with respect to unification ; The new German states. 9780813312514 ISBN 0813312515.

New York 2003, Columbia Univ. Black cloth, very good, dj., 440p., index, bibliography, chronology, figures, charts, 26 b.w. photos, 2 maps, bright sharp copy, 16 x 24 cm. F FIRST EDITION.

Zustand: Gut. XVI, 270 Seiten / p. sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - the books constituting the Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, have a complex history of authorship, resulting ina variety of styles, perspectives, and meanings. The authors and editors of the books that became the Bible lived through the political vicissitudes of a region that was a cultural crossroads, subject to successive waves of invasion, settlement, and influence by a variety of civilizations. Consequently, their works reflect the diverse political, intellectual, and literary legacies of the ancient Near East and, in some cases, the incorporation of non-Hebrew texts. -- S. A. Nigosian, a scholar of Biblical and Near Eastern religions, explores the diverse literary antecedents of the Old Testament as well as the Apocrypha - books excluded from the canonical Hebrew text but included in the Sepruagint. Analyzing the formation and contents of these works, Nigosian compares them with the religious, philosophical, didactic, and historical works created by the neighboring Near Eastern civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Asia Minor. Proceeding book by book, he highlights parallels in language, structure, and story among Hebrew and non-Hebrew and non-canonical Hebrew texts. -- From the ubiquity of flood myths throughout the ancient Near East to similarities between seduction tales in Genesis and Egyptian mythology, Job-like stories from Babylonian legend, and the recycling of elements within the Hebrew Bible, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the composition and compilation of the Bible and the complex process of canonization. It also features a glossary, an extensive bibliography, and a chronology of the composition of the Hebrew Bible and the Apocrypha. ISBN 9780801879906 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 378 15,2 x 1,5 x 22,9 cm, Broschiert / Paperback.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. 368 Seiten Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Contents - PROLOGUE - Man at the Crossroads - P A R T I : T H E O V E R V I E W - CHAPTER ONE - The History of Abraham - CHAPTER TWO - Out of Sumer - CHAPTER THREE - The Original Audience in Jerusalem - CHAPTER FOUR - What Will History Be Now? - P A R T I I : T H E E D U C A T I O N - CHAPTER FIVE - A Portable Culture - CHAPTER SIX - The Meaning of Journeys - CHAPTER SEVEN - The Call - CHAPTER EIGHT - The Education of Abraham - CHAPTER NINE - Contracts - P A R T I I I : T H E J O U R N E Y - CHAPTER TEN - The Journey - CHAPTER ELEVEN - Promised Land - CHAPTER TWELVE - The Witness - CHAPTER THIRTEEN - The Cosmic Theater in Ur and Harran - CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Arranging a Child - CHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Court of the World - CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Acting Out the Drama - CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - The Survivors - CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The Influence of the Writing Prophets - CHAPTER NINETEEN - Inheritance and the Threat of Extinction - EPILOGUE - Death and Burial - APPENDICES - Chronology - Essential Notes in the Margin - Selected Bibliographical Notes - Chapter and Verse: On Translating Faithfully - Acknowledgments - Index ISBN 9780465070947 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 657.

Maps, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 143pp, chronology, glossary of Buddhist terms, notes, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Due to its unique position as a crossroads between East and West, the Silk Road was never simply a trade route, but rather a conduit at which varied cultures and religions converged and great civilisations flourished. Many of the world's major faiths thrived there, but Buddhism became the unifying influence. For centuries Buddhist monks and devotees hewed scores of cave temples out of the cliffs situated just outside Dunhuang, an oasis town at the fork of the northern and southern trade routes of the Silk Road. In 1900, a secret cave was discovered by a Daoist priest among the many caves dotting the cliff face at Dunhuang. Its entrance had been sealed and disguised but, when opened, it yielded an extraordinary hoard of ancient Buddhist manuscripts, documents and paintings, preserved in the desert climate since the early eleventh century. In early 1907 Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1942), a Hungarian-born explorer employed by the British in India, was the first foreigner to gain access to the secret cave archive. His expeditions, first published in the 1920s and here retold, helped to reveal the long-forgotten history of the Silk Road.

Zustand: Gut. 319 Seiten / p., Abb. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar / Cover slightly rubbed, otherwise good copy. - From the beginning of civilization, the Levant, the coastal region of the eastern Mediterranean from Syria in the north to Egypt in the south, was the crossroads of various peoples and cultures. From this important trade region, fundamental social and economic changes began spreading across the Middle East and the Mediterranean, leaving behind a rich heritage of unique material remains. However, not only archaeologists and historians have been fascinated by this blend of Eastern and Western traditions. Combining the ancient oriental culture of Mesopotania and Egypt with European classical antiquity, the Levant has for centuries inspired artists and poets, continuously luring travelers to re discover the power of this region. -- 4000 years of history and archaeology in the Levant - from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages - are presented in this volume. Uncovering buried history, a team of French archaeologists follows the significant cultural developments and their impact on the gate between the Orient and the Occident: relics of the first cities in the Bronze Age, traces of the Phoenician conquests in the Mediterranean, characteristics of the fusion of cultures in the Greco-Roman era, monuments to the kingdoms of the Nabataens and their mythical capitol Petra, evidence of the golden age of oriental Christianity, and finally the manifestation of Islamic conquest as a battle for power during the crusades. -- In his pictures, the photographer Robert Polidori shows much more than just the special highlights of each epoch, but rather the cultural-historical meaning of the Levant as a region in which the face of civilization was dramatically shaped. -- Containing a synoptic chronology presenting the developments of the Levant in the context of the high cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran, a glossary of historical and archaeological terminology, a bibliography covering international publications on the topic, and a comprehensive index, The Levant is a culturally and historically engaging work - for both the amateur enthusiast and the expert archaeologist as well as tor the traveler. ISBN 9783829004954 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2250 Originalpappband mit Originalumschlag / Originalhardcover with dust jacket.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - â ¿These guitars have been really good tools; theyâ ¿re not just museum pieces. They all have a soul and they all come alive.â ¿ â ¿ Eric Claptonâ ¿In his own words, Clapton tells his story through the history of his instruments.â ¿Ââ ¿ÂRolling StoneInÂSix-String StoriesÂEric Clapton reflects on a legendary career as told through the tools of his trade: his guitars. Collected together here for the first time are the instruments Clapton sold in three record-breaking auctions between 1999 and 2011 to benefit the Crossroads treatment centre he founded in 1998. Featuring some of the most famous guitars ever played, Clapton guides the reader through nearly 300 instruments as he discusses their provenance, reveals insights about his own playing, and shares anecdotes from each chapter of his spectacular life in music. â ¿One by one these guitars were the chapters of my life. They belong to a very well-loved family.â ¿Ââ ¿ÂEric ClaptonSix-String StoriesÂpresents a â ¿family treeâ ¿ that makes connections between iconic instruments, such as Claptonâ ¿s famous â ¿Blackieâ ¿ Stratocaster, and previously unknown rarities, placing them in the chronology of his career. Clapton recalls the instruments he bought to emulate his heroes, the guitars with unknown origins that became their own legend, the ones that never left his side, and the legacy they left behind. Every piece has been individually photographed, revealing every curve, detail and scratch, while the work of over 80 of the worldâ ¿s best rock photographers shows the instruments in play. See Claptonâ ¿s evolution from the psychedelic Sixties, through the stripped-back Seventies, electric Eighties, and unplugged Nineties, right up to the sale of the last guitar. â ¿As an avid rock or blues fan, I would look at all the pictures in this book.â ¿Ââ ¿ÂEric ClaptonHistorical and technical information for each piece in the collection â ¿ including playlists and concert dates for those instruments used on records and at public appearances â ¿ completes the story behind each guitar. â ¿The guitars are things of great beauty.â ¿Ââ ¿ÂEric ClaptonÂ.

Zustand: Gut. 477 Seiten Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht beschmutzt und Aufkleberstelle abgerissen, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / Binding slightly soiled and sticker spot torn off, otherwise perfect condition - Contents -- DOCUMENTS -- Paul de Man: A Chronology, 1919-1949 -- ESSAYS -- Timothy Bahti -- Telephonic Crossroads: The Reversal and the Double Cross -- Ian Balfour -- "Difficult Reading": De Man s -- Itineraries -- John Brenkman -- Fascist Commitments -- Stephen Bretzius -- Synchronic Theory' and Absolutism: Et tu, Brute? De Man s Wartime Writings -- Cvnthia Chase -- Trappings of an Education -- Stanley Corngold -- On Paul de Man s Collaborationist Writings -- ELs de Bens -- Paul de Man and the Collaborationist Press -- Ortwin de Graef -- Aspects of the Context of Paul de Man s Earliest Publications -- Mowed by Notes on Paul de Man s -- Flemish Writings -- Jaques Derrida -- Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man s War tr. Peggy Kamuf] -- Aris Fioretos -- To Read Paul de Man [tr. Birgit -- Baldwin] -- William Flesch -- Ancestral Voices: De Man and His -- Defenders -- Hans-Jost Frey -- Literature, Ideology [tr. Stuart Barnett] -- Thomas Fries -- Paul de Man s 1940-1942 Articles in Context [tr. Judith Geerke and Glenn W. Most] -- Catherine Gallagher -- Blindness and Hindsight -- Rodolphe Gasché -- Edges of Understanding -- Alexander Gelley -- Regarding the Signatory -- Sandor Goodhart -- Disfiguring de Man: Literature, History, and Collaboration -- Gerald Graff -- Looking Past the de Man Case -- Peggy Kamuf -- Impositions: A Violent Dawn at Le Soir -- Alice Yaeger Kaplan -- Paul de Man, Le Soir, and the Francophone Collaboration (1940 1942) -- Richard Klein -- DeMan s Resistances: A Contribution to the Future Science of DeManology -- S. Heidi Krueger -- Opting to Know: On the Wartime -- Journalism of Paul de Man -- Jeffrey S. Librett -- From the Authority of Appropriate (De)form(ation) to: Toward De Man s Totalitarian Acts -- Jeffrey Mehlman -- Perspectives: On De Man and Le Soir -- J. Hillis Miller -- An Open Letter to Professor Jon -- Wiener -- Kevin Newmark -- Resisting, Responding -- Richard Rand -- Rigor Vitae -- Herman Rapaport -- De Man Ce Soir -- Tobin Siebers -- Mourning Becomes Paul de Man -- S. David Sperling -- Observations on Occupation -- Michael Sprinker -- Determinations: Paul de Man s -- Wartime Journalism, -- Allan Stoekl -- De Man and Guilt, -- Andrzej Warminski -- Terrible Reading (preceded by "Epigraphs"), -- Lindsay Waters -- Paul de Man: A Sketch of Two Generations -- Samuel Weber -- The Monument Disfigured -- Edouard Colinet -- Paul de Man and the Cercle du Li -- bre Examen -- Werner Hamacher -- Journals, Politics [tr. Peter Burgard et al.] -- Thomas Keenan -- Documents: Public Criticisms. ISBN 9780803223523 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1440 22,9 x 3,2 x 29,2 cm, Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket.

A group of 45 original items concerning Hearn from 1907-1988 from newspapers, magazines, publisher, Ambassadors, letters, prospectus. Hearn Festivals and a wide variety of original materials. Sold as acollection. . *** **** *** . . COLLECTION OF 45 ORIGINAL PIECES OF EPHEMERA . . . ABOUT LAFCADIO HEARN & RELATED ARTICLES, . . . BOOK REVIEWS, LETTERS, WITH PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS . * This is a group of various & miscellaneous materials. Some of these period items are without date or other indications of source. They represent a collector's collection of fascinating items hitherto seldom found together as a "collection." . *** THIRTY-TWO UNUSUAL ITEMS: . 1. Richard A. Cordell: PLEDGED TO THE EXOTIC, A review of Elizabeth Stevenson's book: "LAFCADIO HEARN" with two b.w. photos, extracted from Saturday Review of Literature, 1961. . 2. HEARN MEMORIAL MUSEUM, MATSUE: a 4 page pamphlet, in English with titles: . "LAFCADIO HEARN MEMORIAL MUSEUM: LIFE OF LAFCADIO HEARN," map of "PLACES OF INTEREST CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN & LIST OF 31 PLACES." . 3. Leonard L. Mckall. ed. "NOTES FOR BIBLIOPHILES: LAFCADIO HEARN, clipped article, 3 columns. . 4. Photocopy of two articles on one A4 sheet, from THE IRISH TIMES: a. Feb. 9, 1990 LAFCADIO HEARN by Deasun Mac Liam b. Feb, 26, 1990 LAFCADIO HEARN by Sean G. Ronan, former Ambassador to Japan. . 5. NEW YORK TIMES, March 6, 1932. "LAFCADIO HEARN'S LAST DAYS: His Widow Who Recently Died Told Of The Life Of The American Writer In Japan." Clipped article, 2 columns, taped in 2 places. A quote from Hearn states: "Tokyo is the most horrible place in Japan" he wrote in 1895." . 6. LAFCADIO HEARN JOURNAL, vol.2, no.2, Autumn 1993, with [8]p. essay: "LAFCADIO HEARN IN JAPAN" by Suetoshi Funaoka . 7. Group of three items. By Lafcadio Hearn & H.F. Farney [editors]: "YE GIGLAMPZ: A Weekly Illustrated Journal." A reprint of the 1874 journal in first facsimile, by Crossroads Books with the Public Library of Cincinnati announcement of the new publication. A prospectus with 3 items. . . a. A small [4] page pamphlet and order form . . b. A4 size [4] page detailed description with 7 photos & . drawings from the journal, with order form. . . c. Large white envelope with YE GIGLAMPZ cover . illustration and return address of the "Friends of the . Public Library" return address, . A complete prospectus. The envelope flap was neatly mended, unused glue intact. . 8. THE NEW YORK TIME: BOOK REVIEW, February 3, 1991: "ODD MEN OUT' "LAFCADIO HEARN WAS JAPAN'S GREATEST WRITER FROM CINCINNATI." The complete issue, 36 pages, Hearn article & photo on the front cover. "WANDERING GHOST: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn" by Jonathan Cott. Book review by John B. Schwarts, with 1 b.w. photo, center folded. . 9. Photo copy of plate 228 & p.236 of a woodblock color print by Jun'ichiro Sekino: "LAFCADIO HEARN [1850-1904], from the book by James A. Michener. "JAPANESE PRINTS: From the Early Masters to the Modern," 3 A4 sheets, with biography of Hearn. . 10. A Photo copy of: [CINCINNATI FINE ARTS JOURNAL, March 1933]: "TRIBUTE TO A FORMER CINCINNATIAN."] "THEY SAY." "Note-The following communication recently received from P.D. Perkins, of South Pasadena, California, tells its own story. Lafcadio Hearn lived for several years in Cincinnati, where he was a newspaper writer." On A4 paper. . Our note: Perkins was the compiler of the most important, comprehensive and useful grand bibliography of Hearn with title: "LAFCADIO HEARN: A Bibliography Of His Writings. By P.D. And Ione Perkins,1934 . 11. SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: SPECIAL TRAVEL ISSUE OF IMAGE MAGAZINE. The full issue, with article: "By Donald W. George: "MEETING IN MATSUE." LAFCADIO HEARN AND THE SOUL OF OLD JAPAN, [6]p. article, with 11 color photos. . 12. AMS PRESS invoice for:" HEARN, LAFCADIO: MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES OF VARIOUS LAFCADIO HEARN WRITINGS IN THE TENRI CENTRAL LIBRARY." dated 9.18.92. . 13. UNIVERSITY CINCINNATI, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, Department of English, Writing Program, May 19, 1990. From Jon Hughes. Re: CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL OF LAFCADIO HEARN'S ARRIVAL IN JAPAN." . Announcing the Festival in Matsue City, Japan, August 30-3 Sept, 1990. With a radio play: "THE TANYARD MURDER: A radio play about Lafcadio Hearn." With an advert for Jon Hughes new book: DISMAL MAN TWO RADIO PLAYS." & a photo copy article by Randy McNut: "EARLY REPORTER CAPTURED SINS OF QUEEN CITY," a book about Hearn. A4 size, [5p.]. . 14. [Sean G. Ronan, former Ambassador to Japan.] "SCHEMA," Introduction to Lafcadio Hearn, biography, chronology, bibliography, religious, education, diplomatic, business, other & other subjects and libraries holding Hearn works. [3] pages, part of a speech presented by Ronan at the opening of the Lafcadio Hearn Library in the Irish Embassy, Tokyo. [September 19, 1988], about A4 size. . 15. Photo copy of an advert for a new book on Hearn from France: By Bernadette Lemoine: "EXOTISME SPIRIESTHETIQUE DANS LA VIE ET L'OEUVRE DE LAFCADIO HEARN [1850-1904]." With a book review, ordering details &c. Some marginalia, folded. with a hand-written note on it from the author, reading "From the author, in memory of our conversations & confoundances [sic] in and after Tokyo, in Autumn of 1983. With my best regards and wishes. B. Lemoine." . 16. Color pamphlet from the Lafcadio Hearn Centennial Festival, in Matsue City, with some scribbled notes, address by Prof. Ikeno in Japanese &also that of Yoshioka.Japanese text, map and photo of Hearn's study and drawing. . 17. An adverts on red paper from Hokuseido publishers, Tokyo, "Just Out," "THE COMPLETE LAFCADIO HEARN LECTURES" In Four Volumes. With photo of Hearn, and photo of the 4 volume set, with description edited by Professors; Tanabe, Ochai & Nishizaki in English. Verso in Japanese. . Together with another advert on buff paper for the book by P.D. & Ione Perkins: LAFCADIO HEARN: A Bibliography Of His Writings, with introduction by Dr. Sanki Ichikawa, LIMITED EDITION OF 200 ONLY COPIE.