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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 4th Impression. Hardback. The Dark Side. This book is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world - ecisions that not only violated the Constitution, which White House officials took an oath to uphold, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In gripping detail, acclaimed New Yorker writer and bestseller author Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions - U.S. - held prisoners, some of them completely innocent, were subjected to treatment more reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition than the twenty-first century. This book relates real, specific cases, shown in rela time against the larger tableau of what was happening in Washington, looking at the intelligence gained - or not - and the price paid. In some instances, torture worked. In many more, it led to false information, sometimes with devastating results. For instance, there is the stunning admission of one of the detainees, Sheikh Ibn al-Lbi, that the confession he gave under duress - which provided a key piece of eveidence, buttressing congressional support for going to war against Iraq - was in fact fabricated, to make the torture stop. In all cases, whatever the short-term gains, there were incalcuclable losses in terms of moral standing, our country's place in the world, and its sense of itself. This book chronicles one of the most distrubitng chapters in American history, one that will serve as the lasting legacy of the George W. Bush presidency. Illustrated. 392 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. Very clean & tightly bound, large format hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine & rubbed at the edges. 158 pages, photos and illustrations in the text.

Cloth and Boards. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Heretics and Heroes. How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World. Price clipped to D/J. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, the author guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the contine-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation.This is an age of the most sublime artistis and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the relifious pieties of the past. It is an era of just-discovered continents and previousl;y unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole cul;ture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue. Illustrated. 344 pp. Hand cut pages. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardcover.…

Zustand: BUONO USATO. I ED. Da revisionare INGLESE Buono stato, sovraccoperta originale illustrata in carta patinata, elementi della grafica in rilievo, Grafica: Jean Traina, pochi segni d'uso, coperta bicroma in cartone rigido, caratteri dorati in bassorilievo sul dorso, ammaccatura, tagli e pagine ottimamente conservati. Fa parte della The Dublin Saga. I edizione. Numero Pagine 774.…

Cloth & Boards. Zustand: Very Good. Irst Thus. Hardback. Slight mark to title page. No date. Contents: 548pp light brown and fawn boards (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Tapa dura. Zustand: Muy buena. First Edition. Contains numerous illustrations in the text. 15 X 22 Cms., 280 Pp.