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1997MS-44Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1997. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs Indians East Asians and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti societythat Kuwaitis are an absolute minority in their own country. Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archival research the author examines the social dimension of labor migration to Kuwait since independence in 1961 exploring how the presence of over one million foreign workers has influenced the way Kuwaitis organize their lives and perceive themselves. In particular Longva looks at the relations between two sharply differentiated social categories and the politics of exclusion that have allowed Kuwaitis to protect their rights and privileges as citizens against infringement by the huge influx of expatriates. Longva examines the little-studied system of kafala or sponsorship under which all foreign workers enter and reside in the country showing how it has become the most critical source of power for native Kuwaitis vis-à-vis immigrants. She also addresses aspects of ethnicity and class describes the life of expatriates and looks at developments in gender relations and the role of women in building the national identity in the context of migration and modernization. 266 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
199533519London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1995 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing in U.K. -- SIGNED inscribed to Charles Issawi who wrote many books on the Middle East "old friend good friend" and dated 22-11-95. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus cover and text block are bumped; marginal short lines throughout with very good dust jacket. ISBN 0297813455 Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
19660093761966. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press 1966 V.Good 226 pp. Hebrew Text Translation and Commentary with Special Reference to the Arabic Text. hardcover
19702829z1970. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub. 1970/Gd. condition/406 pages - Telling their own stories are the people of Israel. AT22829z hardcover
1991MS-2New York: New York University Press 1991. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of the way in which two sharia courts in Libya deal with questions of divorce in an almost exclusively tribal and largely nomadic environment. Topics include unilateral divorce; divorce by consent; judicial divorce; consequences of divorce; Sharia and custom in the Cyrenaican family; Quadis and divorce; Arabic legal and technical terms; etc. 236 pgs. Spine title slightly faded. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York University Press Hardcover
18353440079Paris: Librairie De Charles Gosselin 1835. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. French language. Exlibrary markings. Lightly circulated. Full leather over boards edge worn on all volumes with shelf wear as well. Volume 3 has a scraped area at lower front. Volume 4 has split at joint between spine and front although the front board is still attached. Binding and hinges sound. Pages clean tanned with marbled page edges visible when closed. Two fold-out maps Syria and the eastern Mediterranean in back of Volume 4 are in good to very good condition. Account of a trip to the Middle East written by Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine 1790-1869 French author poet and statesman. Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 1552 pages. Librairie De Charles Gosselin hardcover
1962242651L'Observateur Du Moyen-Orient 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Some suggestion of dust-dulling and wear to the spine bands and panel edges with staining to the boards. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; various pagings of newspaper clippings. Notes; Collected Newspapers of L'Observateur Du Moyen-Orient from July 1962 to December 1962. Subjects; L'Observateur Du Moyen-Orient. French Newspapers. July 1961 to December 1962. Genre; Periodicals. L'Observateur Du Moyen-Orient hardcover
190721954SPCK 1907. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece original tissue guard captioned in red present and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original red buckram bevelled boards gilt back black endpapers uncut backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably bright fresh clean copy. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Robert Sinker 1838-1913 was famously Librarian of Trinity College Cambridge and Chaplain of Trinity College Chapel. He compiled several bibliographical works including a scholarly account of the College library and the standard Catalogue of its Fifteenth-Century Printed Books and was active also as a biblical scholar publishing a number of textual studies resulting from the progressive archaeology of the Holy Land. A SPLENDID AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. SPCK, hardcover
1984MS-22Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1984. Comprehensive scholarly text presents an unabridged translation of Ayatollah Khomeini's "A Clarification of Questions" which provides a unique picture of the belief structure of Shi'ism. A compendium of 3000 "problems" Khomeini's treatise is intended to guide laymen in their religious duties as well as to cover all of life's questions and needs from personal hygiene and ritual purity to organ transplants and modern banking. The Resaleh Towzih al-Masael reveals how the external world is viewed by the Shi'ite faithful. 432 pp. No spine cracks or creases. Scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Paperback
1984350441984. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1984/Gd.condition/400 pages - Intolerance and defiance in the Middle East is discussed in this text. TR335044 paperback
1999MS-1<p>Israel: Ministry of Defense and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press 1999. Comprehensive expanded reference text presents a comparative view of the country between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea from the second decade of the turbulent twentieth century to the present. Includes approximately seventy aerial photos taken by German British and Australian aviators during WWI and newer color photos of the same seventy sites taken between 1930-1990 to show a comparative study of the physical changes. 208 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.</p> Ministry of Defense and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press hardcover
190119264Edward Stanford 1901. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece; original red diced cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back uncut and largely unopened black endpapers a near fine copy. With the publisher's separately printed trade terms slip. EXTREMELY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION Edward Stanford, hardcover
194117184Damascus: Librairie Universelle. 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Soft boards have some toning. Pages unopened ; Profusely illustrated and with many travel descriptions. ; The Green Guide Books; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 260 pages . Librairie Universelle paperback
19911214A116Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University 1991. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: x 361; viii 84. Very Good. 8.75 x 10.75 inches 22.5 x 27 cm. Signed by Author. Complete two volume set: Main volume plus supplement. No jacket as issued. Light marking to boards. Slight bumping to corners. A couple of light marks to half title page of main volume. Very clean text throughout. From the private collection of renowned British archaeologist Sinclair Hood. Inscribed to Hood and signed by the author to card attached to front free endpaper of the supplement volume. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £19.00; USA £33.00; Oceania £40.00; Rest of World £37.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches 22.5 x 27 cm. Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University hardcover
292321. Soft Cover. Good. Makes it clear that what the future holds for Kashmir and the rest of the country of India depends upon who would be at the steering wheel of history. AI529232 paperback
1991284871991. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1991/Gd. condition/476 pages - A textbook and reader on an introduction to Judaism. AR628487 hardcover
1990MS-27Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1990. Scholarly text authored by a group of distinguished Jordanian economists examines the extent to which economic inequality in Jordan has increased since 1973 despite- and due to a concerted program of economic development. Utilizing empirical data on the distribution of income the authors analyze the wage and income differentials by occupation economic sector rural/urban variables; relationship to poverty-line social security and health care expenditures. Includes analyses of income distribution in the West Bank and Gaza. 208 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Paperback
5H1859640710<p>Mint condition. Never read or opened. Still in original publisher's wrap. No remainder mark. 5-2H1859640710</p> Garnet Publishing, Ltd hardcover
19170864New York Knopf 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown octavo. Pp. xv 299. Frontispiece with 2 photo illustrations. Plus 7 plates with 14 photo illustrations. Publisher's catalogue on verso of title-page. A citation set in Hebrew type "If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand wither" on title-page. Bibliography index. HARDCOVER bound in the original publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in red and turquoise lacks first flyleaf first inner hinge cracked remnant of a label some foxing. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Albert Montefiore Hyamson 1875-1954. English administrator. From 1917 to 1919 he edited the Zionist Review. He served as Chief Immigration Officer in Palestine under the British Mandate returning to England in 1934. He later became president of the Jewish Historical Society of England. He published studies of Palestine and Zionism as well as a history of the Jews of England. Here he claims to have written a book which has no concern with Palestine either as a religious or an archaeological centre but instead deals with the present and the future. The front paste-down bears the lovely contemporary booksellers' ticket of R. Mazin & Co. London "Publishers Booksellers Printers Bookbinders etc." displaying a banner in Hebrew. F-5 OUT <br/> <br/> New York, Knopf hardcover
1985MS-41Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1985. Scholarly text examines the evolution of the Sa'udi government from 1901 to 1983 a period of major social and political transformation and the ways in which a traditional elite the Al Sa'ud has managed to surmount the formidable obstacles of tribal and regional differences compounded by rapid modernization. The Council of Ministers formed in 1953 is one method developed by the Sa'udis to cope with these problems and represented the first step toward a national administrative system. Dr. Huyette traces the Council's antecedents as well as the changes in its membership procedures and responsibilities and the concomitant changes in the political elite and its style of leadership. 201 pp. Publisher's stampon the half title page. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Paperback
19421206T010London: John Murray 1942. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xix 260. Very Good Plus. 6.25 x 9 inches 16 x 23 cm. First printing. Lacking the jacket. Red buckram binding with gilt illustration to front board. Slight fading to spine slight spotting to page edges. Some lightly pencilled notes to margins text is otherwise very clean throughout. Complete with all photographic plates including a double sided fold-out and the fold-out map. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Excellent example. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 6.25 x 9 inches 16 x 23 cm. John Murray hardcover
2011SBS-9781409405238ASHGATE 2011. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2011SBS-9781409405238ASHGATE 2011. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
1987AN-50Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press 1987. Scholarly comprehensive text reviews the archaeology of western Iran from the first Neolithic villages through the earliest political states from the archaic and Persian empires to the profound influences of the Greek and Roman civilizations and finally to the fall to Islamic invaders. Text adopts a geographic approach concentrating on settlement patterns and the inferences that can be made from them concerning population changes the function of sites in regional social networks and regional interactions. 332 pgs. Illustrated. Tiny faint scuff to outer edge. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Smithsonian Institution Press Hardcover
19271206T054London: Edward Arnold and Co. 1927. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xvi 180. Very Good. 5.75 x 9 inches 15 x 23 cm. Blue cloth binding. Light marking to boards. Page edges untrimmed. Foxing to page edges a few light spots to text. Pages 175/176 and 177/178 have been carelessly opened resulting in tears to outer margin. Pencilled notes to final page of text. Complete with 16 photographic plates and three fold-out maps. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper C.E. Rusbridge. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 9 inches 15 x 23 cm. Edward Arnold and Co. hardcover
