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The Arabists: The Romance of an American Eliteby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0028740238 (0-02-874023-8)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite'Book summary:In this highly original work of social and cultural history, Kaplan relates the intriguing untold story of the expatriate elite who shaped American policy in the Middle East for more than a century. This fast-paced and colorful narrative was featured as a cover article by Atlantic Monthly. Photo insert. [via]
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through Historyby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History'Book summary:From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy.
This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Kaplan travels among the vibrantly-adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century Serbian martyr; Nicolae Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. [via]
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- Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History: ISBN 0333632834 (0-333-63283-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History: ISBN 0312087012 (0-312-08701-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History: ISBN 033361609X (0-333-61609-X)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History: ISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History: ISBN 0333632834 (0-333-63283-4)
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Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warriorby Dick Couch, Robert D. KaplanISBN 0307339394 (0-307-33939-4)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior'Book summary:An unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Armys most elite soldiers.
In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. More than ever, we need men like those of the Army Special Forcesthe legendary Green Berets.
Following the experiences of one class of soldiers as they endure this physically and mentally exhausting ordeal, Couch spells out in fascinating detail the demanding selection process and grueling field exercises, the high-level technical training and intensive language courses, and the simulated battle problems that test everything from how well SF candidates gather operational intelligence to their skills at negotiating with volatile, often hostile, local leaders. Chosen Soldier paints a vivid portrait of an elite group, and a process that forges Americas smartest, most versatile, and most valuable fighting force. [via]More editions of Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior:
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The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold Warby Robert D. KaplanISBN 037570759X (0-375-70759-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War'Book summary:Robert Kaplan warns of a "bifurcated world divided between societies like ours, producing goods and services that the rest of the world wants, and those mired in various forms of chaos." This is a familiar theme for previous Kaplan readers (Balkan Ghosts, The Ends of the Earth). For those unacquainted with Kaplan, however, The Coming Anarchy is a fine introduction to one of the most important voices on the future of society and international relations. Kaplan mixes the intense reportage of a travel writer with the sharp wisdom of a foreign-policy expert to deliver what he calls "an unrelenting record of uncomfortable truths, of the kind that many of us implicitly acknowledge but will not publicly accept." The Coming Anarchy is also a disturbing book: Kaplan's vision of the future is a bleak one, full of ethnic conflict as the world falls away from a cold war that at least provided a kind of stability in even the shakiest of countries. That's gone now, of course, and Kaplan's descriptions of life and politics in Sierra Leone, Russia, India, and elsewhere are keenly troubling. Much of the book--but not all of it--has already seen print, mainly on the pages of The Atlantic Monthly and The Wall Street Journal. It is brief in length but not in importance. --John J. Miller [via]
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasusby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375705767 (0-375-70576-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus'Book summary:The master of the hardheaded travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan returns with a book on what he calls "the New Near East," an area stretching from the Balkans to Central Asia that "might become the seismograph of world politics" in the new century. That doesn't sound like good news: "The pitiless history of the Near East [is] dominated by marauding armies and earthquakes while peace treaties have merely formalized temporary stalemates on the ground." Kaplan has made a career of writing about the world's trouble spots "without illusions"--his books Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth are at once influential and pessimistic.
Eastward to Tartary is a fascinating exploration of places Kaplan has not written about in depth before: "Third World Europe" (Romania and Bulgaria), Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and the confusing conglomeration of countries and peoples in the Caucasus. Smart observations leap off almost every page. "In every Arab city I have ever visited, people were polite and honest, running after you to return a loose coin you have left at a soft-drinks stand," he writes. So why hasn't democracy taken hold in the Islamic world? "The very perfection of the Islamic belief system begot a naive absolutism that made the compromises of normal political life impossible." In an aside on ancient Assyria, Kaplan notes, "The theme is always the same: Highly militarized and centralized states and empires, so indomitable in one decade or generation, hack themselves to pieces or are themselves conquered in another." Then he reminds readers that Assyria once bestrode present-day Iraq and Syria--a "hauntingly appropriate" coincidence. And surprising facts abound: "Turkey represents the most stable governmental dynasty in world history, with the Turkish soldiery able to trace the roots of its power to the Roman emperors." Fans of Kaplan's previous books won't want to miss this one, and neither will new readers interested in this part of the world. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Ends of the Earth : A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Centuryby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0333642554 (0-333-64255-4)
Softcover, Papermac
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Mediterranean Winterby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0099484404 (0-09-948440-4)
Softcover, Random House
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Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures Of History And Landscape In Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia,and The Peloponneseby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375714332 (0-375-71433-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures Of History And Landscape In Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia,and The Peloponnese'Book summary:Artful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world.
Bob Hoover, Pittsburg Post-Gazette
[Kaplan] helps the distant past resonate today. . . . [He] teaches lessons that are informative and concise. The Washington Post Book World
A writer of extraordinary intellect and passion . . . with a wonderfully lucid way of relating history as a living thing. San Francisco Chronicle
Erudite and intrepid. . . . [Kaplan] is a deft guide to wherever he chooses to lead you. The New York Times [via]More editions of Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures Of History And Landscape In Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia,and The Peloponnese:
- Mediterranean Winter : The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese: ISBN 037550804X (0-375-50804-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures Of History And Landscape In Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia,and The Peloponnese: ISBN 0375714332 (0-375-71433-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Mediterranean Winter : The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese: ISBN 037550804X (0-375-50804-X)
Warrior Politics : Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethosby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375505636 (0-375-50563-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Requires a Pagan Ethosby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375726276 (0-375-72627-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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