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    Swansea and the Second World War

    Bernard Lewis

    Swansea's port and industries were key targets for the Nazis during WWII. This book is a testament to life in the town over the course of the conflict, including many…

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    Islam in History: Ideas, Men and Events in the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis

    From the first expansion of Islam to the exploits of Saddam Hussein, Middle Eastern society has been fatefully involved with the West. This revised/updated collection of essays covers the present…

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    Facility Manager’s Maintenance Handbook 2E (PB)

    Bernard T. Lewis

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    Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire

    Bernard Lewis

    On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as -the Conqueror, - launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital…

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    Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis

    This collection of essays, written by a Western expert in Islamic studies, gives background on present Middle Eastern conflicts with the West. It also reflects on how this religion -…

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    Race and Slavery in the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis

    From the time of Moses up to the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was the last region to renounce…

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    The Jews of Islam

    Bernard Lewis

    This book examines the relations of Islam and other religions; the formative and classical periods of the Judaeo-Islamic tradition in medieval Islam; the development of the Ottoman Empire; and its…

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    The Assassins: A Radical Set in Islam

    Bernard Lewis

    This book contains the story of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th and 12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word - assassin.

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    The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture

    Bernard Lewis

    Lavishly illustrated with examples drawn from the extraordinarily rich and varied canon of of Islamic art, this authoritative and wide-ranging volume explores every aspect of Islam - its social life…

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    Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems

    Marks a literary milestone. This title collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East which provide an unusual window into Middle Eastern history. These poems…

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    Europe and Islam

    Bernard Lewis

    This pamphlet is the 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture, delivered at the annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2007. The…

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    A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History

    Offering an overview of two millennia of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration, this book contains stories drawn from letters, diaries and histories. Edited by Bernard Lewis, it also contains commentary…

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    The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

    Bernard Lewis

    This scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the modern world

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    The Muslim Discovery Of Europe

    Bernard Lewis

    Professor Bernard Lewis examines the sources and nature of Muslim knowledge of the West. His book explores the subtle ways in which Europe and Islam have influenced each other over…

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    From Babel to Dragomans

    Bernard Lewis

    A collection of essays on past and current history by a prominent western Islamic scholar.

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    What Went Wrong?: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis

    An account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.

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    Wales’ Unknown Hero - Soldier, Spy, Monk

    Bernard Lewis

    The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, joining Special Forces and aiding the French Resistance…

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    The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2, 000 Years

    Bernard Lewis

    Illuminating both the history and the current climate in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis presents an authoritative, accessible examination, within a narrative framework, of the traditions of government; the Islamic…

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    The Political Language of Islam

    Bernard Lewis

    Discuss the Islamic Scriptures that form the basis for its political language, looks at the changes in modern Islamic politics, and analyzes the transformation of political terms.

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    Swansea in the Great War

    Bernard Lewis

    The Great War left an indelible mark on almost every town and village in Britain and this extensively researched book looks in detail at how that war affected the town…

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    Islam, Volume 1: Politics and War

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    With translations from original sources, this documentary history presents a vast and sweeping civilization that covered a huge region, a number of states, and a group of people who, amid…

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    Islam, Volume 2: Religion and Society

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    Drawing on a broad range of Islamic literature, this second volume brings into sharp focus the religion and structure of Islamic society.

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    The Shaping of the Modern Middle East

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    A history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late seventeenth century to the present day. The Shaping of the Modern Middle East sheds light on the Cold War, the disintegration…

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    Behind the Type: The Life Story of Frederic W. Goudy

    Bernard Lewis

    Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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    The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

    Bernard Lewis

    In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in…

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    Anak

    Bernard Lewis Rottschaefer

    Incest, government conspiracy, Biblical giants, coming of age, familial sagas, romance, sex and murder are all melded together into spellbinding suspense.

    A Bethesda pediatrician dies in a suspicious automobile accident…

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    Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century

    Bernard Lewis,Amnon Cohen

    Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian cities–Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed–in the sixteenth-century, Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis consider the numbers, composition, and distribution of the…

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    Islam: The Religion and the People (paperback)

    Bernard Lewis,Buntzie Churchill

    Considered one of the West’s leading experts on Islam, Lewis, with Churchill, has written an illuminating, objective introduction to Islam for those who want to understand the faith and the…

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    Spades and Rednecks

    Bernard K. Lewis

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    Spades and Rednecks

    Bernard K. Lewis

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    Saint Bernard On consideration

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    Caged Bird Syndrome: Life After Life - Volume One

    Dexter Bernard Lewis, Jr

    Caged Bird Syndrome: Life after LIFE is the first of several series featuring a collective work of original mixed media fine art and poetry by Dexter Bernard Lewis Jr., also…

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    Religious Dialogue in the Middle Ages

    Vortr'age gehalten anl'asslich des 25. Wolfenb'utteler Symposions vom 11.-15. Juni 1989 in der Herzog August Bibliothek –Verso of t.p.

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    The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition

    Bernard Lewis

    This landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit…

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    The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. (Princeton University)

    Full of rare and exact information…A distinguished work. -New York Review of Books

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    Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice

    Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. (Princeton University)

    A powerful book. It combines the coolness of scholarship with conclusions that cannot fail to engage the passions. -Saul Bellow

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    Saint Bernard On Consideration. Tr. by George Lewis

    Explore the theological thinking of Saint Bernard, one of the foremost thinkers of the medieval Church. This book is essential for anyone interested in Christian spirituality and the history of…

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    The Chronicle and Historical Notes of Bernard Itier

    The only complete text of Bernard’s chronicle ever published, in Latin and in English translation, and the fullest edition of his historical notes from other manuscripts which complement the chronicle.

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    Con Game: Bernard Madoff and His Victims

    S. Lewis Lionel

    Bernard Madoff’s financial fraud was global, an enormous amount of money was involved, and thousands of people and hundreds of institutions were swindled

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    Con Game: Bernard Madoff and His Victims

    S. Lewis Lionel

    Bernard Madoff’s financial fraud was global, an enormous amount of money was involved, and thousands of people and hundreds of institutions were swindled

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    Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

    Several civilizations have risen, flourished, and fallen in the valley of the Nile, each with its own religion, language, culture, institutions, and style of life. Yet beneath them all a…

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    Bernard Madoff and His Accomplices: Anatomy of a Con

    Lionel S. Lewis

    This is the first detailed study of how Bernard L. Madoff and his accomplices perpetrated a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions-what has been referred to as the con of the…

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    Arabs in History

    Bernard Lewis (Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus, Princeton University)

    In this work Bernard Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national revival which cemented the creation of the Islamic state, and the social and…

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    What Went Wrong?: Approaches to the Modern History of the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis (Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, USA)

    Why did the most advanced civilization in the world lose its power and fall under the domination of others? This book examines how Middle Easterners responded to Western challenges in…

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    Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

    Several civilizations have risen, flourished, and fallen in the valley of the Nile, each with its own religion, language, culture, institutions, and style of life. Yet beneath them all a…

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    Kingly Crown

    Solomon ibn Gabirol

    Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) was a Jewish philosopher and moralist. Hailed by scholars as one of the most important classics of Hebrew literature, his poem, Keter Malkhut (The Kingly Crown)…

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    C. Day-Lewis: The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose

    A selection of the prose writings of the poet and novelist Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72), poet laureate and Oxford professor of poetry, who published more than twenty volumes of poetry in…

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