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Jason Burke Al-Qaeda
London, United Kingdom Penguin Books 2004 0141019123 / 9780141019123 Trade Paperback Very Good Very Good +
0141019123 0141019123 Pages: 384, Jason Burke has produced an account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the "War on Terror". Fully updated with new material on Iraq and Afghanistan. Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the "War on Terror". Fully updated with new material on Iraq and Afghanistan. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Not many reporters have firsthand experience of terrorist camps, but Burke, chief reporter for London's Observer, achieved it during the 2001 war in Afghanistan. His nuanced investigation into Islamic extremist groups benefits as a result; his depth of knowledge is clear as he paints a complex portrait of al-Qaida and related groups. The outfit often called al-Qaida is, he says, actually a loose amalgam of groups that share a similar worldview: a belief in Islamic fundamentalism and antagonism toward the West. This is not new, but Burke writes clearly, and his descriptions of terror camps and religious schools-even a brief description of a bombing campaign in Afghanistan-make his work more lively and powerful than most of the recent books on the subject. Similarly, he shows that Osama bin Laden is less central to the enterprise than Western leaders think; the Islamist movement is longstanding and widespread: "This movement is growing. Osama bin Laden did not create it nor will his death or incarceration end it." As a result, he argues, the U.S. focus on bin Laden and al-Qaida is misguided and ultimately a waste of time-in fact, he says, it will only create more bin Ladens. Only a battle to "win the hearts and minds" of the Islamic world will effectively counteract the terrorist phenomenon. Unfortunately, Burke fails to address how this might be done, but he's made a strong argument that it is the road to take. Maps not seen by PW. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ,Publishers Weekly,07/07/2003 "...more lively and powerful than most of the recent books on the subject." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review "An accurate analysis...an informative book."-- Albert Smith, The Irish Independent "A must-read...Burke's sophisticated view of Al-Qaeda is convincing. Burke's book is the one that will last. It's a triumph."--Giles Foden, The Guardian "This book is an eye-opener... authoritative and detailed"--Hazhir Teimourian, The Literary Review "This young, impassioned journalist has made an important contribution to the growing literature on al Qaeda."-Jeff Stein, Washington Post Book World "He has given us an indispensable guide to the multidimensional reality of Al-Qaeda"-- John Gray, New Statesman "...more lively and powerful than most of the recent books on the subject."--Publishers Weekly "...Burke has taken the time to sort it out...compulsory reading for Rumsfeld and his clique."--Sam Kiley, The Evening Standard (UK) "Fascinating...packed full with totally new material."--Gilles Kepel, author of Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam "...a book which vastly increases our understanding of the Al-Qaeda phenomenon. Burke writes with admirable lucidity and the benefit of his frontline reporting and deep research."--Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. Publishers Weekly : "...more lively and powerful than most of the recent books on the subject." Hazhir Teimourian The Literary Review : " This book is an eye-opener... authoritative and detailed" Jeff Stein Washington Post Book World : "This young, impassioned journalist has made an important contribution to the growing literature on al Qaeda." John Gray New Statesman : "He has given us an indispensable guide to the multidimensional reality of Al-Qaeda" Sam Kiley The Evening Standard (UK) : "...Burke has taken the time to sort it out...compulsory reading for Rumsfeld and his clique." Gilles Kepel Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam : "Fascinating...packed full with totally new material." Peter Bergen Holy War, Inc. : "...a book which vastly increases our understanding of the Al-Qaeda phenomenon. Burke writes with admirable lucidity and the benefit of his frontline reporting and deep research." Jeff Stein Washington Post Book World : "Jason Burke... has made an entirely persuasive case. ...This young, impassioned journalist has made an important contribution to the growing literature on al Qaeda." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Jeff Stein,Washington Post Book World, "This young, impassioned journalist has made an important contribution to the grrowing literature on al Qaeda." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. John Gray,New Statesman, "He has given us an indispensable guide to the multidimensional reality of Al-Qaaeda" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sam Kiley,The Evening Standard (UK), "...Burke has taken the time to sort it out...compulsory reading for Rumsfeld annd his clique." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Gilles Kepel,Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, "Fascinating...packed full with totally new material." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review "An accurate analysis...an informative book."-- Albert Smith, The Irish Independent "A must-read...Burke's sophisticated view of Al-Qaeda is convincing. Burke's book is the one that will last. It's a triumph."-- Giles Foden, The Guardian " This book is an eye-opener... authoritative and detailed" --Hazhir Teimourian, The Literary Review "This young, impassioned journalist has made an important contribution to the growing literature on al Qaeda."-Jeff Stein, Washington Post Book World "He has given us an indispensable guide to the multidimensional reality of Al-Qaeda" - John Gray, New Statesman "...more lively and powerful than most of the recent books on the subject."--Publishers Weekly "...Burke has taken the time to sort it out...compulsory reading for Rumsfeld and his clique." --Sam Kiley, The Evening Standard (UK) "Fascinating...packed full with totally new material." --Gilles Kepel, author of Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam "...a book which vastly increases our understanding of the Al-Qaeda phenomenon. Burke writes with admirable lucidity and the benefit of his frontline reporting and deep research." --Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. "Jason Burke... has made an entirely persuasive case. ...This young, impassioned journalist has made an important contribution to the growing literature on al Qaeda." - Jeff Stein, Washington Post Book World (9/14/03) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description Award-winning reporter Jason Burke shows how the threat from Islamic terrorism comes not from a single criminal mastermind, or even from one group. In this revealing account, he characterizes it is a broad movement with profound roots in the politics, societies and history of the Islamic world. Using hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Burke shows how "Al-Qaeda" is a convenient label applied misleadingly to a diverse, disorganized global movement dedicated to fighting a "cosmic battle" with the West. This is the definitive account of the mysterious organization, retelling its story from scratch and challenging many myths that threaten the very foundations of the "War on Terror." --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Jason Burke is the prize-winning Chief Reporter for The Observer, London. He saw many of the key events described in this book at first hand. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Condition: clean and unmarked; cover slightly bent/crinkled.
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Larry Burke; Nancy Burnett Arizona Boonies, The Arizona Even the Zonies Don't Know About
Niche Pub 19980101 0966692500 / 9780966692501 SC Very Good
0966692500 0966692500 Product Description About 80% of Arizona's population live in two large cities, Phoenix and Tucson. The rest live in the small towns and communities lovingly described as the boonies. This book is a compilation of anecdotes about Mr. Burke's experiences living and/or working in these boonies. Primarily written as traveler's book, Arizona Boonies gives readers a personal and historical glimpse of these boonies, which, hopefully, tweaks their curiosity and/or their funny bone. From the Author In my 80 years, I have traveled to most parts of our world for either military, business or pleasure purposes. During the last couple of decades I have used many travel books on these trips, which provide excellent information to tourists. On many of my trips (especially to such exotic locales as Moscow and China) I would have liked (and profited) from another traveler's personal experiences of these places. With this idea in mind, I have written Arizona Boonies in order to fill that gap for the travelers of Arizona's highways and byways.
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William B. Eddy, W. Warner Burke, Vladimir A. Dupre & Oron P. South (Edited by) Behavioral Science and the Manager's Role, Selected Readings Series Nine by William B. Eddy, W. Warner Burke, Vladimir A. Dupre & Oron P. South (Edited by)
NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science Soft Cover Fair
Fair npd., c. 1969, green covers, 320pp., (edge wear, covers rubbed-soiled, small stain upper page ends corner, several pages creased to corners, some crinkling and half moons from page turning, text clean)
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James Lee Burke Bitterroot
Simon & Schuster 0743204832 / 9780743204835 Hardcover Good
0743204832 0743204832 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out
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James Lee Burke Bitterroot
Simon & Schuster 0743214021 / 9780743214025 Hardcover Good
0743214021 0743214021 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out
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James Lee Burke Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Hyperion 1997 0786889187 / 9780786889181 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
0786889187 0786889187 Amazon Review One of Burke's series of crime stories set in the Louisiana bayou country, this story chronicles the difficult mission of Sheriff's Deputy Dave Robicheaux to confirm the guilt of a redneck named Aaron Crown in the killing of a civil rights leader back in the 1960s, and to find out what Crown's recent arrest has to do with an upcoming gubernatorial election. His task becomes mired in the history and inbred politics of New Iberia and thwarted by a ghoulish hit man who crawls out of the swamps to silence police informants. A wild story with enough oddball characters to make it interesting and worthwhile. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly A ripeness of villains, the familiar good guys and some who travel the territory in between comprise the cast of the rich ninth Dave Robicheaux adventure, following Burning Angel. Nearly 30 years after the shooting death of a prominent black civil rights leader, Louisiana redneck Aaron Crown, age 68, is convicted of the crime. Crown, insisting he didn't do it, asks Robicheaux, sheriff's deputy of New Iberia, La., who once found his runaway daughter, to investigate. Meanwhile, others turn the story to their own advantage: Buford LaRose, a wealthy university professor running for Louisiana governor, hopes to ride the sales of his book, pointing to Crown's guilt, to victory; and New York film interests come down to interview Crown. Then in New Orleans, a film writer is brutally executed. Despite a deep reluctance to be involved with the slick LaRose, whose wife he once slept with (and who tempts him still), Robicheaux is drawn into ensuing events. One of three mob-related figures whom Robicheaux suspects of backing LaRose warns him off; Crown escapes; LaRose wins the election; a huge psychopathic hired killer reappears; a mob figure is beaten to death; and a freethinker from the 1960s, now a LaRose family guru, is connected to a Mexican drug operation. Burke delivers more spectacular killings before clearing the 30-year-long thicket of revenge, ambition and blackmail and arriving at the Tara-like ending. The cast's knotted relationships may not always be clear, but Robicheaux's angst and stubborn do-right determination shine as bright as the plastic casing on the replica 1950's Wurlitzer of the title. $250,000 ad/promo; author tour. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Alafair Burke Dead Connection
Henry Holt and Co. 0805077855 / 9780805077858 Hardcover Very Good
0805077855 0805077855 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out
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James Lee Burke Dixie City Jam
Hyperion 0786889004 / 9780786889006 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0786889004 0786889004 Mass Market Paperback, . G. Lite wear, creases otherwise a solid unmarked copy. General Used condition.
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Jan Burke Flight
Pocket Books 2002 0743439775 / 9780743439770 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
0743439775 0743439775 Amazon Review Jan Burke is best known as the author who gave life to Irene Kelly, the sassy, slightly hard-edged southern California journalist with a Pandoran penchant for getting herself into sticky situations. Her latest novel, however, perches adroitly on a tangential narrative branch: Burke focuses on Kelly's husband, Las Piernas Detective Frank Harriman, and in doing so turns her narrative color wheel several notches to the darker side. Flight is really the story of two men, Harriman and Philip Lefebvre. Ten years ago, when businessman Trent Randolph and his daughter were murdered, Lefebvre was the officer in charge of the case. Moody and isolated, he became not only investigator but guardian angel to Randolph's young son Seth, left clinging to life after the attack. His colleagues and the community were convinced Whitey Dane, a local mobster with grand ambitions, was behind the murders, but when Seth was killed in his hospital bed and both Lefebvre and all the evidence against Dane disappeared, the department was left reeling in the wake of crooked-cop iniquity. But now Lefebvre's apparently sabotaged plane has been discovered in the mountains, along with his bones. Frank Harriman must ease through a maze of anger and recrimination as he pursues the possibility of Lefebvre's innocence. But if this cop was innocent, that means another one wasn't--and that individual will stop at nothing to protect his guilty secret. The novel's opening chapters, which place the original murders in stark relief and reveal the trap slowly closing around Lefebvre, are as good as anything Burke has written--maybe better. Their intensity is difficult to match, but Harriman's investigation still has plenty of surprises, including a nifty twist at the very end. Flight's solid writing, deftly nuanced relationships, and delicate bad-guy balance between chilling and camp are as on target here as elsewhere. Here's to Irene and Frank; long may they take turns at the wheel. --Kelly Flynn --This text refers to the Unknown Binding edition. From Publishers Weekly Like Burke's Edgar-winning Bones (1999), this ambitious, if overlong, suspense novel focuses on an intense search for a pathological killer. In Las Piernas, Calif., newspaper reporter Irene Kelly, Burke's series heroine, takes backseat to her husband, prickly, tenacious homicide detective Frank Harriman. Ten years earlier, when brilliant police detective Philip Lefebvre disappeared in the middle of a triple homicide investigation, the cops believed he'd sold out to the suspected killer, drug lord Whitey Dane. When Lefebvre's 10-year-old corpse and sabotaged airplane are found in the San Bernadino Mountains, Frank reopens the case, suspecting that both Lefebvre and Dane were wrongly accused. Irene knew Lefebvre, but, except for a clunky plot device that places her in peril at the finale, this is Frank's book, as he exactingly unearths new evidence and uncovers a possible cover-up. Burke delves into the mind of the real murderer, still at large and unsuspected. The reader gradually identifies this frightening individual, but waits in suspense too long for Frank to do likewise. Burke's strength is her understanding of personal relationships and motivation, plus the memorable characters she creates, notably the murderer, who is so crazy he passes for sane. The author's thorough research is praiseworthy but it often slows down the story, and she isn't a great stylist. Unfortunately, that combination produces a book that takes too many pages to come to the point. Agent, Lowenstein-Morel. (Mar. 6)Forecast: The publisher is behind this title in a big way, with a 50,000 first printing and a 17-city author tour, and Burke's shelf-full of awards for previous books will draw many readers to this new one. This isn't the author's strongest outing, though, and in the long run, sales may not meet the publisher's expectations. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Unknown Binding edition.
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Jan Burke Flight
Pocket Books 0743439775 / 9780743439770 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0743439775 0743439775 Mass Market Paperback. Good. Lite wear, creases otherwise a solid copy. General Used condition.
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