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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean with pencil underlining. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. The binding is tight. 96pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The jacket is in a Mylar covering. The book only one fault is the initials on the front free end paper.Contents are like new. It is 11" X 8". Books are mailed in a cardboard mailer.

fresh attractive copy, like new hardcover with printed covers. CROSS, SHARYL, ed. . Shaping South East Europe's security community for the twenty-first century: trust, partnership, integration. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2013, xx, 225pp., . Edited by Sharyl Cross, associate professor of political science, San Jose State University, USA, Savo Kentera, president, Euro-Atlantic Club of Montenegro, R. Craig Nation, professor of military studies, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, USA and Radovan Vukadinovic president, Atlantic Council of Croatia. - This book brings together leading academic specialists and policy practitioners to explore and develop cooperative approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe and the wider international community. Including a range of contributors from South East European countries, the United States, and other interested regional parties, this book focuses upon trust, partnership, and a striving for more effective regional integration. In antithesis to traditional approaches to national security driven by the illusions of power and national egotism, this collection adopts what has become the dominant approach to security management in South East Europe today - an attempt to conceptualize and realize security in all of its aspects as a cooperative endeavour for the collective good. This book explores transnational challenges that will dominate the international security agenda in the years to come, in South East Europe and beyond. Issues considered include management of weapons of mass destruction, cyber security, transnational organized crime and corruption, violent extremism and terrorism, energy security, maritime security, economic development, and demographic change. - CONTENTS: 1. Shaping the twenty-first century International Security Community in South East Europe and beyond: an introduction / Sharyl Cross and Radovan Vukadinovic -- 2. European missile defense: prospects for cooperation / John C. Reppert, Selmo Cikotic, and Kevin Ryan -- 3. Global challenges for managing cybersecurity in the twenty-first century: enhancing capacity for South East Europe / Kenneth Geers and Savo Kentera -- 4. The challenges of corruption and organized crime / Konstantin Samofalov, Petar Turcinovic and R. Craig Nation -- 5. Security threats of violent Islamist extremism and terrorism for South East Europe and beyond / Dragan Simeunovic and Adam Dolnik -- 6. Energy security in South East Europe / Lidija Cehulic, Alexey V. Kuznetsov, Mitat Celikpala, and Gregory Gleason -- 7. Maritime security challenges in South East Europe / David Belt, Ioannis Chapsos, and Dragan Samard ic -- 8. Security through economic development and strengthening institutional capacity: from the era of transition to an era of opportunity in South East Europe / Valbona Zeneli and Marios P. Efthymiopoulos -- 9. Transnational migration and demographic security challenges / Anna Krasteva, Alberto Cervone, and Frances T. Pilch -- Conclusion / R. Craig Nation. ISBN 9781137010193.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 229 pages. Published in 1994. Retrospective collection of "stand-alone" short stories and other pieces. The author's eleventh book. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents James Ellroy's "Hollywood Nocturnes". Seven grisly, riveting accounts in "short dark riffs, the blues formalized". "Our best living mystery writer. Literate, suspenseful, honest. His pages crackle with manic energy. Ellroy captures the vocabulary, the rituals, the smells, rhythms, and colors of real people living on the edge. Nobody since Chandler has evoked so perfectly the seamy side of LA" (The Austin Chronicle). The defining event in James Ellroy's life was his young mother's murder when he was ten years old. Like Elizabeth Short, the "Black Dahlia", she was ritualistically murdered, and Ellroy has basically been writing about his mother's unsolved murder in one way or another since then, including his memoir about her, "My Dark Places" (1996). While his work is influenced by Raymond Chandler - as well as Jim Thompson -, it is tiresome to be reminded of it. It must also be said that his work is ultimately the exact opposite of Chandler's relentless misogyny, a hatred of women that has marred what is otherwise a great body of work. Ellroy loves women, as incarnated by his (in real life, otherwise exasperating) mother, and realized in the female character-victims he has written about with such grace and beauty. He is THE crime writer of Los Angeles of our time: His work isn't just about LA; he encompasses and embodies it; he is LA Incarnate. An absolute "must-have" title for James Ellroy collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed (initialled/"scrawled") in blue ink-pen on the title page by James Ellroy. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in many subsequent editions, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES ELLROY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1883402549. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xiv, 316, [2] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, and Abbreviations and Archives. Also includes Introduction: Explaining the Liberal Predicament. Includes Part I: The Importance of Being Witty; Part II: The Pink Liberal; and Part III: The Anticosmopolitan Pluralist. Also includes Notes, Bibliography, and an Index, as well as 9 black and white illustrations. This is one of the Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism. This groundbreaking intellectual biography offers a fresh reappraisal of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin, from his childhood to the apex of his career as a scholar and public figure. Applying a "double perspective" that examines Berlin both as an East European Jewish Emigre as well as a British Liberal Intellectual, Arie M. Dubnov illuminates the powerful tensions that defined Berlin's work, stressing the very ambivalent relation between his liberal philosophy and his Zionism. Powerfully relevant to the intellectual and political crises of today, this is a long overdue reassessment of one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century thought. Arie M. Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a historian of twentieth century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the history of political thought, the study of nationalism, decolonization and partition politics, and with a subsidiary interest in the history of Israeli popular culture. Prior to his arrival at GW, Dubnov taught at Stanford University and the University of Haifa. His publications include the intellectual biography Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (2012), and two edited volumes, Zionism - A View from the Outside (2010), seeking to put Zionist history in a larger comparative trajectory, and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-century Territorial Separatism (2019, co-edited with Laura Robson), tracing the genealogy of the idea of partition in the British interwar Imperial context and reconstructing the cross-border links connecting partition plans in Ireland, Palestine/Israel and India/Pakistan. Additionally, he has published numerous articles in leading journals in the field, including Nations & Nationalism, Modern Intellectual History, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Rethinking History, Jewish Social Studies, The Journal of Israeli History and more. Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA (6 June 1909 - 5 November 1997) was a Latvian-born British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy. Born in Riga (now the capital of Latvia, then a part of the Russian empire) in 1909, he moved to Petrograd, Russia, at the age of six, where he witnessed the revolutions of 1917. In 1921 his family moved to the UK, and he was educated at St. Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1932, at the age of twenty-three, Berlin was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. In addition to his own prolific output, he translated works by Ivan Turgenev from Russian into English and, during World War II, worked for the British Diplomatic Service. From 1957 to 1967 he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. In 1966, he played a critical role in creating Wolfson College, Oxford, and became its founding President. Berlin was appointed a CBE in 1946, knighted in 1957, and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1971. He was President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. He also received the 1979 Jerusalem Prize for his lifelong defence of civil liberties, and on 25 November 1994 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Toronto, for which occasion he prepared a "short credo" (as he called it in a letter to a friend), now known as "A Message to the Twenty-First Century", to be read on his behalf at the ceremony. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].