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A Land On Fire: The Environmental Consequences Of The Southeast Asian Boom

By: Fahn, James; Fahn, James David

Price: $27.46

Publisher: Basic Books: 2003-04-01

Seller ID: A4-2001s

ISBN: 0813340535

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist based in Bankok, James Fahn spent a decade grappling with the challenges facing the region's mega-cities, tropical forests, coastlines, and societies dashing toward modernity. In A Land on Fire, he shares his findings - the profound implications for global issues such as climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the greening of world trade. He explores Southeast Asia's environmental bat...
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The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, As Seen by Contempor

By: Garraty, John A.

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Harcourt: 1986-10-01

Seller ID: B11-607w

ISBN: 0151369038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket has light wear and tear. In mylar protective cover.
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The New York Times Century of Business

By: Norris, Floyd; Bockelmann, Christine

Price: $9.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: 1999-09-23

Seller ID: H3-700L

ISBN: 0071355898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The New York Times presents in this account the greatest business events of the 20th century. Drawing on contemporaneous headlines and photographs from its vast archives, this retrospective features the most important developments in business and technology as well as captains of industry.
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The New York Times Century of Business

By: Norris, Floyd; Bockelmann, Christine

Price: $13.86

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: 1999-09-23

Seller ID: H10-402ri

ISBN: 0071355898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (Americans and the California Dream)

By: Starr, Kevin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1997-05-08

Seller ID: E3-514w

ISBN: 0195100794

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Writing throughout book.
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The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939

By: Stein, Kenneth W.

Price: $42.20

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: 1984-01-01

Seller ID: T6-3018f

ISBN: 0807815799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging and suprising.

Stein contends that Zionists were able to purchase the core of a national territory in Palestine during this period for three reasons: they had the single-mindedness of purpose, as well as the capital, to buy the land; the Arabs, economically impoverished, politically fragmented, and socially atomized, were wil...
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