This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

A profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Reporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-old conflict transformed into a completely new war. The West has learned a lot about asymmetrical war in the past decade. At the same time, many strategists have missed that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become one of them. This book shows the importance of applying these hard-won lessons to the longest running, most closely watched occupation and uprising in the world.
The entire conflict can seem irrational -- and many commentators see it that way. While raising their own family in Jerusalem at the height of the violence, Myre and Griffin look at the lives of individuals caught up in the struggles to reveal how these actions make perfect sense to the participants. Extremism can become a virtue; moderation a vice. Factions develop within factions. Propaganda becomes an important weapon, and perseverance an essential defense. While the Israelis and the Palestinians have failed to achieve their goals after years of fighting, people on both sides are prepared to make continued sacrifices in the belief that they will eventually emerge triumphant.
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<li>This book goes straight to the heart of the conflict: into the minds of suicide bombers and inside Israeli tanks. We hear from Palestinian informants who help the Israeli military track down and kill Palestinian militants. Israeli settlers in isolated outposts explain why they are there, and we hear the frustrations of a Palestinian farmer who has had his olive grove cut in half by Israel's security barrier</li>
<li>Shows the important lessons that can be learned by viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an example of modern, asymmetrical war</li>
<li>Authored by long-time reporters on the Middle East, the book provides a balanced and detailed look at the fighting based on first-hand experience and hundreds of interviews</li>
<li>Explains how the landscape of the conflict changed and why the traditional approach to peacemaking is no longer valid</li>
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With a new perspective on what's really going on in Israel and the Palestinian territories, The Familiar War is a book that will inform the debate on the Middle East and the future of the peace process, as well as our understanding of other conflicts around the world.

Biographies & Memoirs

Myre, Greg

Griffin, Jennifer

Historical

Turner

This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America

Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrongStock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the U.S.-from the agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and music festivals). Along the way, Grim discovers some surprising truths. Did anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak years ago? Did our Founding Fathers-or, better yet, their wives-get high just as much as we do?
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<li>Traces the evolution of United States's long and twisted relationship with drugs</li>
<li>Gives surprising answers to questions such as: how did heroin become popular, when did the meth epidemic peak, and has LSD gone the way of Quaaludes</li>
<li>Based on solid reporting and wide-ranging research-including surveys, reports, historical accounts, and more</li>
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Not since Eric Schlosser ventured underground to marijuana's black market in Reefer Madness has a reporter trained such a keen eye on drugs and culture. A powerful and often shocking history of one of our knottiest social and cultural problems, This is Your Country on Drugs leads you on a profound exploration of what it means to be an American.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Grim, Ryan

Addiction & Recovery

Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked.
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<li>Explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster</li>
<li>Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto's creators and detractors</li>
<li>Offers inside details on key episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous ""Hot Coffee"" sex mini-game incident, and more </li>
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Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it, or just want to understand the defining entertainment product of a generation, you'll want to read Jacked and get the real story behind this boundary-pushing game.

Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto

Computers & Technology

Kushner, David

Games & Strategy Guides

A collection of 16 animal robots - animals represented as complex machines - which mimic their counterparts in the natural world. Fact boxes and artwork of the real-life creature are provided for comparison. A 4-page illustrated glossary gives an overview of the animals' systems and structures.

The Robot Zoo

KELLY, JOHN

Dinotopia Lost

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Foster,Alan Dean

Fantasy

Lovers

Linda Sunshine

The World of Beer Memorabilia: Identification and Value Guide

The World of Beer Memorabilia: Identification and Value Guide

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

(From the introduction) Collectively, these quilts and their stories tell the story of the women of Texas-hardships endured and overcome, friendships made, churches, schools, and communities established, of births, marriages, deaths-all the myriad experiences of mothers, daughters, sisters who created from whatever resources available, a bit of beauty in their quilts...These "treasures" are a reflections of their creative and indomitable spirit!

Texas Quilts: Texas Treasures

History

Americas

Dyer, TN Community

Hardcover, Christian County Genealogy Society 1986. Turner Publishing Company. Book is in very nice condition, doesnt appear to have been used extensively. Binding sturdy, pages inside clean and unmarked. Copy #665 of 2500.

Christian Co, KY - Vol I

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