books about: balfour

books about: balfour

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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

Barbara W. Tuchman

Ballantine Books, 1984

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Author: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. Title: Bible and sword; England and Palestine from the bronze age to Balfour [by] Barbara W. Tuchman. Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls [1968, c1956] Edition Date: 1968 Language: English Notes: "Reprinted without ...

The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror

Natan Sharansky; Ron Dermer

Balfour Books, 2006

Maybe it's time to build more and higher walls?
As the years go by and the Bush administration descends into deeper chaos and confusion, this book becomes even more relevant in understanding the "road map" to current conditions in the Arab world. It's a marvelous advocacy of tough-love in international ...

Lonely Planet Los Angeles Encounter

Amy C. Balfour

Lonely Planet, 2007

Excellent Book
This is an excellent and useful book. I'm a little rusty on LA, but I'm looking to go back soon and this will be the book I take with me. The author is remarkably perceptive and intelligent; I almost feel like I know her. Her judgment is impeccable and discerning ...

Pets
Bragi Olafsson

Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press, 2008

From the bassist for The Sugarcubes comes this hilarious novel of cowardice, comeuppance, and assumed identity. Emil is back in Reykjavik from a trip to London. On the plane ride home he met a beautiful girl named Greta. He's hoping Greta will call--and that she won't call while he's on the phone with his girlfriend, Vigdis. The moment he ...

Black Love Signs : An Astrological Guide to Passion, Romance and Relationships for African Americans (aka ...

Thelma Balfour

Fireside, 1999

excellent book
She outdid herself with this one. I'm an astrology buff, so I know that Venus represents your love signs as well. And I not only read the interactions between sun signs, which represents your personalities, but where Venus was too. My partner at the time had his ...

Castro (2nd Edition) (Profiles in Power Series)

Sebastian Balfour

Longman, 2003

A brief but judiscious look at the Cuban revolution
The author describes how the U.S. had an agreement with its puppet governments in Cuba until 1959 to purchase annually half of Cuba's sugar produce. He shows how this quota could be lowered or threatened to be lowered if Cuba for instance, built flower mills that would ...

Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism--The Jonathan Netanyahu Story

Iddo Netanyahu

Balfour Books, 2003

Yoni, the Hero
Yoni Netanyahu courage at this time, his ability to plan, and lead this rescue has become legendary. The fact that the rescue was carried out without the "unit commander" is a testamony of his great ability. All of Israel knows and the Netanyahu family knows, even more ...

Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film (Alphabet City)

The MIT Press, 2004

Stunning and fascinating
I have just seen an advance copy of this book, and it is gorgeous! The design, the sweeps of colour images, the construction: just an excellent object (Egoyan was the codesigner as well as coeditor, apparently). The collection is unique. Who but Egoyan would think to ...

Unmasking Administrative Evil

Guy B. Adams, Danny L. Balfour

M.E. Sharpe, 2004

The Dangers of Devil Theory
Humankinds's historic efforts to deal with the problem of evil are exemplified by the understandings of evil provided by psychology, as well as by most theologies and ideologies. All of these resort to some variant of Devil Theory: that evil outcomes are the products ...

Black Sun Signs: An African-American Guide to the Zodiac

Thelma Balfour

Fireside, 1996

great book
I've had this book for years, and I'm sorry that it took me so long to review. But this book breaks things down for the sistahs and the brothas. I am glad that she took it upon herself to write a book such as this, because it was needed. I keep this book beside ...

Ataturk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey

Patrick Balfour Kinross, Lord Kinross

Quill, 1992

What you need to know about the making of the Turkish nation
Found by chance in a small bookstore this is one of the best books I have ever read. Finely written, it will give you all the detail you need to understand the last days of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Turkish Nation. Even if you are not that interested in ...

Theism and Humanism : The Book that Influenced C. S. Lewis
Arthur James Balfour, C. S. Lewis

Inkling Books, 2000

In 1962, Christian Century asked the well-known Christian writer, C. S. Lewis, to name the books that had most influenced his thought. Among those that Lewis listed was Arthur J. Balfour's Theism and Humanism (1915). This was no passing whim. Almost twenty years earlier, in 1944, Lewis had lamented in "Is Theology Poetry" that Theism was "a ...

Inquiry Into the Scriptural Import of the Words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna: All Translated Hell

Walter Balfour

Kessinger Publishing, 2003

Intriguing
A book dedicated to the study of "hell." Very interesting from both a theological as well as psychological point of view. Well worth reading.

Vulnerable in Hearts: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Contract Bridge

Sandy Balfour

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Grand Slam
You don't have to be a bridge lover to enjoy this story of a young man's experiences in pre World War II Scotland, England and South Africa. But it helps! As the author's father says "Everyone likes bridge, they just don't know it yet." I highly recommend this ...

Muhammad's Monsters: A Comprehensive Guide to Radical Islam for Western Audiences

Dr. David Bukay

Balfour Books, 2004

Very comprehensive
Despite the shocking and controversial title this book is a very intelligent collection of scholarly work on the subject of radical Islam, radical Islamic treatment of minorities in the Middle east, the challenge of Radical Islam in Europe and the question of what to ...