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  • Whose Life Is Worth More?

    Hierarchies of Risk and Death in Contemporary Wars

    by Yagil Levy ...
    Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against those of civilians on both sides. The first of its kind, Whose Life Is Worth More? reveals that how these decisions are made is much more nuanced than conventional wisdom suggests. When these states are entangled in prolonged conflicts, hierarchies emerge ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Civil–Military Relations in Israel

    Essays in Honor of Stuart A. Cohen

    by Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Aharon Kampinsky, Oren Barak, Amichai Cohen, Asher Cohen, Ronald Krebs, Yagil Levy, Tamir Libel, Amiram Oren0, Yoram Peri1, Orna Sasson-Levy2, Yehudit Sher3, Bernard Susser4, Eliav Taub5, Arial Vainer6, Eyal Ben-Ari7, Reuven Gal8 ...
    This book, a collection of essays in honor of Stuart Cohen, examines a variety of issues in civil-military relations (CMR) in Israel and abroad. Beyond honoring Cohen’s work, this collection makes a substantial contribution to the field for a number of reasons. First, it brings together prominent scholars from different disciplines in the field, from both Israel and abroad, sketching its ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Israel’s Death Hierarchy

    Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy

    by Yagil Levy ...
    Series series Warfare and Culture
    2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel StudiesWhose life is worth more?That is the question that states inevitably face during wartime. Which troops are thrown to the first lines of battle and which ones remain relatively intact? How can various categories of civilian populations be protected? And when front and rear are porous ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

    by Amin Maalouf ...
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    European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms. The memory of this greatest and most enduring ... Read more

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  • Six Days In June

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    SIX DAYS IN JUNEHow Israel Won the 1967 Arab-Israeli WarEric HammelMilitary historian Eric Hammel becomes the first chronicler of the 1967 Six Day War to unite the story of development of Israels bold brand of military training and planning with a detailed narrative account of her breathtaking victories in Sinai, Jerusalem, The West Bank, and the Golan Heights. Unlike earlier accounts of the 1967 ... Read more

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  • Maimonides

    by David Yellin & Israel Abrahams ...
    Moses ben-Maimon, commonly referred to as Maimonides, was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and scholar of the Torah during the 12th century. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish philosophers of the Medieval Era. Born in Cordoba Spain in 1135, Maimonides and his family were forced out Cordoba by the conquering Almohads. Maimonides briefly lived in Morocco, and then settled in Egypt. ... Read more

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  • The Palestine-Israeli Conflict

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Dawoud El-Alami ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    An updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the conflict.With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its roots, and the possibilities for the future. New material outlines recent developments, while an updated conclusion consists of a direct debate between ... Read more

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  • Anonymous Soldiers

    The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947

    by Bruce Hoffman ...
    Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardWinner of the Washington Institute Book PrizeOne of the Best Books of the YearSt. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kirkus ReviewsIn this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in... ... Read more

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  • No Room for Small Dreams

    Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel

    by Shimon Peres ...
    In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new state as prime minister, president, foreign ... Read more

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  • One Palestine, Complete

    Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate

    by Tom Segev ...
    Translated by Haim Watzman ...
    Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardNamed a Best Books of the Year by The New York TimesNamed an Editors' Choice Best Book by The New York Times“The best single account of Palestine under the British mandate . . . This will doubtlessly become the authoritative text for the pre-state history of Israel.” —The New York Times Book ReviewRich ... ... Read more

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  • Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Volume 3

    Conflict Without End?

    by Alan Hart ...
    Conflict Without End, Volume III of Hart’s multi-volume work, ZIONISM, THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS takes the story from the 1967 war and the creation of Greater Israel to the present and the question: Will President Obama be allowed to deliver an acceptable amount of justice for the Palestinians in order to achieve peace for all, and, if he can’t deliver, is a final round of Zionist ethnic ... Read more

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