Search Results - "distortion"

Tell me lies propaganda and media distortion in the attack on Iraq /

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Islam and Bosnia conflict resolution and foreign policy in multi-ethnic states /

Table of Contents: “…No fire in a vacuum : distraction, disinterest, distortion, and disunity in formulating western policy towards the former Yugoslavia /…”
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The last Jews in Baghdad remembering a lost homeland / by Rejwan, Nissim

Table of Contents: “…In old Baghdad -- The Rejwan tribe -- Mother and the placebo effect -- Naʻīma -- Early initiations -- Schooling -- The great crash and US -- Hesqail Abul ʻAlwa hires a helper -- Living in sexual deprivation -- Idle days -- Distorted visions -- Rashid ʻAli's coup and its aftermath -- Bookshop days -- A deepening friendship -- The start : movies, book reviews -- Out in the cold -- Disposing of a library -- End of a community -- Farewells and reunions.…”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Mapping European security after Kosovo

Table of Contents: “…": virtuousness, virtuality and virtuosity in NATO's representation of the Kosovo campaign / Andreas Behnke -- Of models and monsters: language games in the Kosovo war / Mika Aaltola -- "War is never civilised": civilisation, civil society and the Kosovo war / Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen -- Chechnya and Kosovo: reflections in a distorting mirror / Christoph Zürcher.…”
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Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg / by Weisberg, David B.

Table of Contents: “…: ancient near eastern texts and the study of the Bible -- A centennial review of Friedrich Delitzsch's "Babel und Bibel" lectures -- Delitzsch in context -- Babel und Bibel und Bias : how anti-Semitism distorted Friedrich Delitzsch's scholarship -- On reading archival texts : M. …”
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