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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Presume First Edition. Creme colored cloth binding with gold print on spine. Tight, sound and unmarked. 294 pages including index. Dust jacket has white and gold print on spine and front panel on green background. Spine color sun faded to blue. . Small closed tea…r on lower edege on rear. In mylar but no pricing present.
The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel
Nelson, Cary [Editor]; Brahm, Gabriel Noah [Editor]; Berman, Russell A. [Contributor]; Budick, Emily [Contributor]; Bérubé, Michael [Contributor]; Caplan, David [Contributor]; Divine, Donna [Contributor]; Harris, Rachel S. [Contributor]; Hirsch, Dr David [Contributor]; Koppelman, Nancy [Contributor]; Landes, Richard [Contributor]; Marcus, Kenneth [Contributor]; Nussbaum, Marthan [Contributor]; Salih, Sabah [Contributor]; Stein, Kenneth [Contributor]; Troen, Ilan [Contributor]; Wolosky, Shira [Contributor]; Cohen, Mitchell [Contributor]; Rossman-Benjamin, Tammi [Contributor]; Edelman, Samuel [Contributor]; Johnson, Alan [Contributor]; Kotzin, Michael [Contributor]; Musher, Sharon [Contributor]; Romirowsky, Asaf [Contributor]; Berman, Paul [Contributor]; Edelman, Carol [Contributor]; Fine, Robert [Contributor]; Robbins, Jeff [Contributor];
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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. signed copy with a note ***please read*** name inside cover with light pencil - no marks on text - has a light blue stain on the right edge - my shelf location - 27-d-25*. Signed by Author.
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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine. Book.
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Light wear to dust jacket, including scuff mark to back jacket and cover board. Otherwise, otherwise, clean with sound binding. 255 pgs. University of Texas Press. 2009. New clear mylar sleeve covers jacket.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A Place To Call Home begins on a ship when a nurse-Sister Adams by name--works her passage home to Australia to console her mother who is grieving for a son killed in the Korean War. Estranged from her family, she stands before the welcome mat, fearful of what she will find inside and wonder…ing whether her mother will accept her despite a breach of decades. Several minutes into their reunion, the mother tells her daughter to leave because she cannot reconcile with a child, born a Catholic, who is now-a Jew.On the ship, Sister Adams is asked to care for the matriarch [Elizabeth Bligh] of a wealthy landed family returning to Australia with son and granddaughter as well as with newly wedded grandson and his wife, a marriage intended to blunt his desire for sexual relations with men. Acutely conscious of the privileges bestowed on the Bligh family, matriarch Elizabeth also embraces a set of traditions coiled around a social structure that is expected to ensure stability from the particularly harrowing experiences of a world war exposing country and people to assaults on all fronts including the ones at home.The encounter between Sarah and Elizabeth reflects the strains and conflicts that hovered over Australia in the years following the traumas of war, their undiminished echo shaping lives and hardening the fault lines. Everyone watching this program knows how the narrative ends for Australia, but few understand what it took to make room in the country for people typically hidden from view or told, in one way or another, that they didn't count for much. The freedoms taken for granted today were won in painful struggles too often measured only as gains without taking a full accounting of losses. In 1953, Australians lived in the shadow of experiences they could not fully explain: the war to which so many young men and women had gone ended up producing more desolation and grief than peace and comfort. Church and family could not offer adequate explanations for the past nor did they continue to serve as the absolute constituents of destiny given the social and political pressures pushing upward and outward against the constraints of class and circumstance. An open society not only posed dangers to traditional class and culture; it also raised fears about what the forces blowing in the wind would bring or where they would take people and society. Would the emancipatory dreams of the poor and exploited be realized and would they march everyone to the edge of a chaotic precipice? Was a bell tolling for all that Australians believed would last forever? Even as it was on the cusp of extinction, the way of life, portrayed in this series, was ended without the world crashing down, and the story told over the six seasons on television peels back the present to reveal a past that explains why change may be more frightening to think about than to live through. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. B00K: Fine/, $58.95 9780415443258 POSTCOLONIAL THEORY and the ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT * SALZMAN, Philip Carl; DIVINE, Donna Robinson ROUTLEDGE 2008 UnStated 1sT Edition H/c. Light To Darker Purple Tones Spine With Title In 0ff~White Letters, Hard Cover B00K: Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 256… Numbered Pages That Appear To Be Lightly Viewed, Printed On 0ff~White Paper, In Fine+/, Condition, Clean And Tight To The Spine. Front Top Corner Is Lightly Bumped. = SYNOPSIS: Postcolonial Theory Is One Of The Main Frameworks For Thinking About The World And Acting To Change The World. Arising In Academia And Reshaping Humanities And Social Sciences Disciplines, Postcolonial Theory Argues That Our Ideas About Foreigners, ? The Other,? Particularly Our Negative Ideas About Them, Are Determined Not By A True Will To Understand, But Rather By Our Desire To Conquer, Dominate, And Exploit Them. According To Postcolonial Theory, The Cause Of Poverty, Tyranny, And Misery In The World, And Of Failed Societies Around The World, Is Euro-American Imperialism And Colonialism. Previously Published As A Special Issue Of Israel Affairs, This Work Examines And Challenges Postcolonial Theory. In Scholarly, Research-Based Papers, The Specialist Authors Examine Various Facets Of Postcolonial Theory And Application. First, The Theoretical Assumption And Formulations Of Postcolonial Theory Are Scrutinized And Found Dubious. Second, The Deleterious Impact On Academic Disciplines Of Postcolonial Theory Is Demonstrated. Third, The Distorted Postcolonial View Of History, Its Obsession With Current Events To The Exclusion Of The Historical Basis Of Events, Is Exposed And Corrected. Fourth, An Examination Of Middle Eastern Culture Challenges The Assumption That These Societies Have Been Shaped Entirely, And Victimized, By Western Intrusion. Finally, Exploring The Arab-Israel Conflict, The One-Sided Case Of PostColonial Arabism Is Explored And Found To Be Faulty. = D/j: None. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Remainder Or Other Marks. Description Applies To This B00K, Only. = = This B00K Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE. Fine/, 2008 (ilustrador).
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, clean dj - from a private collection -.
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder and London 1994
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First edition. 23.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 227pp. Grey cloth, no jacket. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Palestine was neither a single territorial unit nor a discrete political entity. This study of political, economic and social developments among Palestinian Arabs at that time shows how their commu…nities were affected by imperial and international forces.
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Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Association for Israel Studies 2010
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Librería: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, Estados Unidos de AmericaClayton Fine Books
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Editorial: University of Texas Press, Austin 2009
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Hardcover. Condición: ex library-good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Jewish History, Life and Culture series. viii, 255 p. 24 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Ex library with labels on dustjacket and ink stamps on text block edges and title page.
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Hardback. Condición: New. October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds is a collection of essays by scholars that seeks to analyze how words and imagery used to categorize the violence and savagery of the October 7th assaults by Hamas have been used to reframe the historical narrative of this century-long conflict into an avalanche…of antisemitism and cultural toxicity that has attempted to reshape American society, impacting politics, media, and academia.Edited by Jewish studies scholar and Middle East political scientist Donna Robinson Divine, and Asaf Romirowsky, historian and the executive director of both the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), the essays collected in October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds offer a mixture of data-driven analysis with a careful account of narratives and ideology to measure how much of a footprint October 7 leaves on war and peace in the world going forward.October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds exposes how Hamas savagery cast a destructive shadow not only over the men, women, and children caught on the battlefields of Gaza but also over the educators and journalists expected to explain why this atrocity occurred. Despite its brutality, Hamas won substantial support on campuses, in the media, and from an array of progressive movements. This terrorist organization's attacks, astonishing in their ambition, can only be fully understood by examining not only what has happened to Israel, Gaza, and to the Middle East but also to a world forced to respond to domestic protests echoing and supporting Hamas' savagery. This distinctive volume illustrates the importance of engaging these complex issues with the rigors of scholarly tools. Only with these skills can the deeper story of October 7 be fully told. An essay from an undergraduate in the volume clarifies not only the importance of teaching students how to think about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, not what to think about it, but also that it can be done. The book shows that unless the nightmare that began on this fateful day is thoroughly understood, we will all be condemned to repeating and reliving it.
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Hardback. Condición: New. October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds is a collection of essays by scholars that seeks to analyze how words and imagery used to categorize the violence and savagery of the October 7th assaults by Hamas have been used to reframe the historical narrative of this century-long conflict into an avalanche…of antisemitism and cultural toxicity that has attempted to reshape American society, impacting politics, media, and academia.Edited by Jewish studies scholar and Middle East political scientist Donna Robinson Divine, and Asaf Romirowsky, historian and the executive director of both the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), the essays collected in October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds offer a mixture of data-driven analysis with a careful account of narratives and ideology to measure how much of a footprint October 7 leaves on war and peace in the world going forward.October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds exposes how Hamas savagery cast a destructive shadow not only over the men, women, and children caught on the battlefields of Gaza but also over the educators and journalists expected to explain why this atrocity occurred. Despite its brutality, Hamas won substantial support on campuses, in the media, and from an array of progressive movements. This terrorist organization's attacks, astonishing in their ambition, can only be fully understood by examining not only what has happened to Israel, Gaza, and to the Middle East but also to a world forced to respond to domestic protests echoing and supporting Hamas' savagery. This distinctive volume illustrates the importance of engaging these complex issues with the rigors of scholarly tools. Only with these skills can the deeper story of October 7 be fully told. An essay from an undergraduate in the volume clarifies not only the importance of teaching students how to think about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, not what to think about it, but also that it can be done. The book shows that unless the nightmare that began on this fateful day is thoroughly understood, we will all be condemned to repeating and reliving it.
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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds is a collection of essays by scholars that seeks to analyze how words and imagery used to categorize the violence and savagery of the October 7th assaults by Hamas have been used to reframe the historical narrative of this century-long conflict into a…n avalanche of antisemitism and cultural toxicity that has attempted to reshape American society, impacting politics, media, and academia.Edited by Jewish studies scholar and Middle East political scientist Donna Robinson Divine, and Asaf Romirowsky, historian and the executive director of both the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), the essays collected in October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds offer a mixture of data-driven analysis with a careful account of narratives and ideology to measure how much of a footprint October 7 leaves on war and peace in the world going forward.October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds exposes how Hamas savagery cast a destructive shadow not only over the men, women, and children caught on the battlefields of Gaza but also over the educators and journalists expected to explain why this atrocity occurred. Despite its brutality, Hamas won substantial support on campuses, in the media, and from an array of progressive movements. This terrorist organization's attacks, astonishing in their ambition, can only be fully understood by examining not only what has happened to Israel, Gaza, and to the Middle East but also to a world forced to respond to domestic protests echoing and supporting Hamas' savagery. This distinctive volume illustrates the importance of engaging these complex issues with the rigors of scholarly tools. Only with these skills can the deeper story of October 7 be fully told. An essay from an undergraduate in the volume clarifies not only the importance of teaching students how to think about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, not what to think about it, but also that it can be done. The book shows that unless the nightmare that began on this fateful day is thoroughly understood, we will all be condemned to repeating and reliving it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket as Issued. 1st. 1st printing; grey c w/red titles; 232 clean, unmarked pages. Map (ilustrador).
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The Arab struggle for survival and power.
Divine, Donna Robinson:Politics and society in ottoman Palestine.
Editorial: Boulder, Lynne Rienner, , 1994
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Añadir al carritoVIII/226 S./pp., 1 Karte/Map, Originalleineneinband (publisher's cloth binding), gutes Exemplar (fine), Sprache: englisch.
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Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780415443258.
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Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:1555874738.
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8vo. pp vi, 256. Illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. Contributors include: Irfan Khawaja, Ronald Niezen, Ed Morgan, Herbert S. Lewis, Efraim Karsh. ISBN: 0415443253 Near fine.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A Place To Call Home begins on a ship when a nurse-Sister Adams by name--works her passage home to Australia to console her mother who is grieving for a son killed in the Korean War. Estranged from her family, she stands before the welcome mat, fearful of what she will find inside and wonder…ing whether her mother will accept her despite a breach of decades. Several minutes into their reunion, the mother tells her daughter to leave because she cannot reconcile with a child, born a Catholic, who is now-a Jew.On the ship, Sister Adams is asked to care for the matriarch [Elizabeth Bligh] of a wealthy landed family returning to Australia with son and granddaughter as well as with newly wedded grandson and his wife, a marriage intended to blunt his desire for sexual relations with men. Acutely conscious of the privileges bestowed on the Bligh family, matriarch Elizabeth also embraces a set of traditions coiled around a social structure that is expected to ensure stability from the particularly harrowing experiences of a world war exposing country and people to assaults on all fronts including the ones at home.The encounter between Sarah and Elizabeth reflects the strains and conflicts that hovered over Australia in the years following the traumas of war, their undiminished echo shaping lives and hardening the fault lines. Everyone watching this program knows how the narrative ends for Australia, but few understand what it took to make room in the country for people typically hidden from view or told, in one way or another, that they didn't count for much. The freedoms taken for granted today were won in painful struggles too often measured only as gains without taking a full accounting of losses. In 1953, Australians lived in the shadow of experiences they could not fully explain: the war to which so many young men and women had gone ended up producing more desolation and grief than peace and comfort. Church and family could not offer adequate explanations for the past nor did they continue to serve as the absolute constituents of destiny given the social and political pressures pushing upward and outward against the constraints of class and circumstance. An open society not only posed dangers to traditional class and culture; it also raised fears about what the forces blowing in the wind would bring or where they would take people and society. Would the emancipatory dreams of the poor and exploited be realized and would they march everyone to the edge of a chaotic precipice? Was a bell tolling for all that Australians believed would last forever? Even as it was on the cusp of extinction, the way of life, portrayed in this series, was ended without the world crashing down, and the story told over the six seasons on television peels back the present to reveal a past that explains why change may be more frightening to think about than to live through. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A Place To Call Home begins on a ship when a nurse-Sister Adams by name--works her passage home to Australia to console her mother who is grieving for a son killed in the Korean War. Estranged from her family, she stands before the welcome mat, fearful of what she will find inside and wonder…ing whether her mother will accept her despite a breach of decades. Several minutes into their reunion, the mother tells her daughter to leave because she cannot reconcile with a child, born a Catholic, who is now-a Jew.On the ship, Sister Adams is asked to care for the matriarch [Elizabeth Bligh] of a wealthy landed family returning to Australia with son and granddaughter as well as with newly wedded grandson and his wife, a marriage intended to blunt his desire for sexual relations with men. Acutely conscious of the privileges bestowed on the Bligh family, matriarch Elizabeth also embraces a set of traditions coiled around a social structure that is expected to ensure stability from the particularly harrowing experiences of a world war exposing country and people to assaults on all fronts including the ones at home.The encounter between Sarah and Elizabeth reflects the strains and conflicts that hovered over Australia in the years following the traumas of war, their undiminished echo shaping lives and hardening the fault lines. Everyone watching this program knows how the narrative ends for Australia, but few understand what it took to make room in the country for people typically hidden from view or told, in one way or another, that they didn't count for much. The freedoms taken for granted today were won in painful struggles too often measured only as gains without taking a full accounting of losses. In 1953, Australians lived in the shadow of experiences they could not fully explain: the war to which so many young men and women had gone ended up producing more desolation and grief than peace and comfort. Church and family could not offer adequate explanations for the past nor did they continue to serve as the absolute constituents of destiny given the social and political pressures pushing upward and outward against the constraints of class and circumstance. An open society not only posed dangers to traditional class and culture; it also raised fears about what the forces blowing in the wind would bring or where they would take people and society. Would the emancipatory dreams of the poor and exploited be realized and would they march everyone to the edge of a chaotic precipice? Was a bell tolling for all that Australians believed would last forever? Even as it was on the cusp of extinction, the way of life, portrayed in this series, was ended without the world crashing down, and the story told over the six seasons on television peels back the present to reveal a past that explains why change may be more frightening to think about than to live through. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
