Tribes with Flags

Tribes with Flags
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Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : 0871134578
ISBN-13 : 9780871134578
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Tribes with Flags by : Charles Glass

This illuminating portrait of the people of the Levant by former ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent Charles Glass provides much-needed insight into a land so frequently in the news. Tribes With Flags is a chronicle of Glass' journey from the southern Turkish coast to Lebanon, and includes the 62 days he was held captive by pro-Iranian terrorists in Beirut.

Native American Flags

Native American Flags
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0806135565
ISBN-13 : 9780806135564
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Native American Flags by : Donald T. Healy

Presents an encyclopedic look at the flags and histories of 183 Native American tribes throughout the United States.

Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria

Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 9780007500185
ISBN-13 : 0007500181
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria by : Charles Glass

‘Tribes With Flags’ is the gripping story of Charles Glass's dramatic journey through Greater Syria which provides background context to a troubled region once again in the headlines.

The Tribes Triumphant

The Tribes Triumphant
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9780007131631
ISBN-13 : 0007131631
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Tribes Triumphant by : Charles Glass

'The Tribes Triumphant' features the narrative of a journey, once violently interrupted. In the late 1980s, Charles Glass set out from Alexandretta in Turkey for Aqaba. His journey came to an abrupt end when he was kidnapped. Here, he explores modern Israel, and revisits the scene of his captivity.

Red Flags

Red Flags
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780547564517
ISBN-13 : 0547564511
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Flags by : Juris Jurjevics

In the remote central highlands of Vietnam, Army CID officer Eric Rider confronts drug-running and corruption that crosses enemy lines and divides loyalties.

A Flag Worth Dying For

A Flag Worth Dying For
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781501168338
ISBN-13 : 1501168339
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis A Flag Worth Dying For by : Tim Marshall

First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Elliott and Thompson Limited as: Worth dying for: the power and politics of flags.

The Parable of the Tribes

The Parable of the Tribes
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 430
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ISBN-10 : 0791424200
ISBN-13 : 9780791424209
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Parable of the Tribes by : Andrew Bard Schmookler

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war.

The Unconquered

The Unconquered
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 530
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ISBN-10 : 9780307462978
ISBN-13 : 0307462978
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Unconquered by : Scott Wallace

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus in the New World. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe—the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo at the head of a thirty-four-man team that ventures deep into the unknown in search of the tribe. Possuelo’s mission is to protect the Arrow People. But the information he needs to do so can only be gleaned by entering a world of permanent twilight beneath the forest canopy. Danger lurks at every step as the expedition seeks out the Arrow People even while trying to avoid them. Along the way, Wallace uncovers clues as to who the Arrow People might be, how they have managed to endure as one of the last unconquered tribes, and why so much about them must remain shrouded in mystery if they are to survive. Laced with lessons from anthropology and the Amazon’s own convulsed history, and boasting a Conradian cast of unforgettable characters—all driven by a passion to preserve the wild, but also wracked by fear, suspicion, and the desperate need to make it home alive—The Unconquered reveals this critical battleground in the fight to save the planet as it has rarely been seen, wrapped in a page-turning tale of adventure.

Black Flags

Black Flags
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780804168939
ISBN-13 : 0804168938
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Flags by : Joby Warrick

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. With a new Afterword Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.

The Confederate Battle Flag

The Confederate Battle Flag
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 0674029860
ISBN-13 : 9780674029866
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Confederate Battle Flag by : John M. COSKI

In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To some, this piece of cloth is a symbol of white supremacy and enduring racial injustice; to others, it represents a rich Southern heritage and an essential link to a glorious past. Polarizing Americans, these flag wars reveal the profound--and still unhealed--schisms that have plagued the country since the Civil War. The Confederate Battle Flag is the first comprehensive history of this contested symbol. Transcending conventional partisanship, John Coski reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War. He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag's use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for. Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history.