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Fault Lines by David Pryce-Jones
Category: History
Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of the well-known writer and editor of the "Times Literary Supplement "Alan Pryce-Jones and Therese Poppy Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of a family, embodying the faul ...Show more
Signatures - Essays in Fame by David Pryce-Jones
Category: Biography
David Pryce-Jones weaves a vivid life story through vignettes of the many famous authors--friends, acquaintances, interview subjects--who gave him personally inscribed books. In Signatures he offers a window onto the lives and work of these extraordinary people. As a child, Pryce-Jones spent time at Isa ...Show more
The Closed Circle - An Interpretation of the Arabs by David Pryce-Jones
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies. This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-J ...Show more
The Closed Circle : An Interpretation of the Arabs by David Pryce-Jones
Category: History
This edition Out of Print. A new understanding of the Arab and Islamic world The spirit of nationalism and self-determination swept through the Arab nations in the aftermath of WW2, as it did elsewhere in the world. The new men of the Arab world - Nasser, Ben Bella and others - saw a great future ...Show more
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