Publisher:
New York: Forge, (2019). First Edition.
Seller ID: vita5534
Octavo, brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xii + 383 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: ...After two and a half years of occupation, and months of fighting between ISIS militants and government forces, the Mosul zoo was one of the few outdoor attractions still standing in Iraq's second city. The zoo survived under the stern hand of Abu Laith, the ÒFather of Lions,Ó a lifelong animal lover. As the siege continued, Abu Laith and his family and helpers went hungry to keep the animals alive, risking their lives to pick through garbage for leftovers in ISIS-occupied neighbo... View More...
Royal octavo, orange boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 212 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Promised to the Israelites by God, the Holy Land is the most fought-over region in the world. Lying between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan, its capital is Jerusalem, a city sacred to the three great monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Holy Land is also at the junction of the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and connects to a fourth area, Arabia. Invaders have come from all four directions, often their aim not to take the Holy... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1984).
Seller ID: vas756
Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 317 pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Michael Grant's The History of Ancient Israel provides a unique blending of material drawn from the Hebrew Bible and modern archeological sources. Grant, one of today's finest historians of the ancient world, presents a full portrait of Ancient Israel, which along with Greece and Rome set the religious and cultural standards of Western Civilization. Grant traces the evolution of the Israelites from the earliest permanent settlments in Canaan to the destruction of Jerusalem and ... View More...
Publisher:
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Balknap Press of Harvard University Press, (1991).
Seller ID: vass5353
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xx, 551 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern Wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single-volume work that chronicles the story of Arab civilization -- until now. Albert Hourani, distinguished historian and interpreter, has written a masterwork -- a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab hist... View More...
Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, 304 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Many people's image of the Israelites is shaped by the Bible, and in this way ancient Israel seems far more familiar to a wider public than most other ancient nations. But what do we actually know about the the lives and beliefs of the Israelites? Why was Israel so influential, even though its territory was rich in neither agricultural land nor natural resources? How far does the story told by the Bible match the historical and archaeological record? Dr. Isse... View More...
Octavo, gray boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxii, 331 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: ÔIffat Al Thunayan, spouse of the late King Faysal bin ÔAbdul ÔAziz Al Sa'ud (r. 1964 - 1975), was a pillar of the ruling Al Sa'ud family. Born and raised in Istanbul to an uprooted Sa'udi family, she returned to the Kingdom in 1932, a few months before the founder ruler ÔAbdul ÔAziz bin ÔAbdul Rahman, reinstituted the monarchy. ÔIffat used her influence to infiltrate many progressive ideas into the Kingdom, including significant strides in education for both boys and girls as well as ... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition.
Seller ID: vas754
Octavo, burgundy & cream boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 350 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: It is a place both mythic and all too real, a place thought to be the site of one of our oldest human settlements and known to be a center of ancient cultures and annihilating conflicts. It sits at the bottom of a malarial valley, the lowest place on the surface of the earth -- the overheated, earthen basement of the world, as Robert Ruby describes it. And yet, long before the world's modern religions began scrapping over its bones, Jericho was home to waves of colonization an... View More...
