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72 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) + 1 wall chart (48 x 80 cm).
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English
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Full-color illustrated photographs describe the history, culture, and people of Ancient Mesopotamia. Includes Mesopotamia clip-art CD-ROM and wall chart (Not included in all editions).
7) Iraq
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48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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An introduction to the geography, history, people, and culture of Iraq.
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A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
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Magic tree house volume 34
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106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.
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English
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This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on the ground in Iraq for The New Yorker. We see up close...
11) The White Zone
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English
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As American bombs fall on Baghdad during the Iraq War, ten-year-old cousins Nouri and Talib witness the growing violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
14) Iraq
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136 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations, and major cities of Iraq.
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A How often do you write or read? Do you live in or near a city? Writing and cities both began in ancient Mesopotamia. Six thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians created tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out where the ancient Mesopotamians lived, what their lives were like, and what happened to them. Discover how they changed the world!
18) Iraq
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144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Home to some of humankind's first great civilizations and the birthplace of many of our most important intellectual achievements, the land that is now Iraq has a long and remarkable history. Readers will discover how Iraq was first settled and how it became the country it is today. They will also find out what life is like for the average Iraqi citizen, from what people eat to where they work and what they do for fun, and learn about the country's...
19) The warriors of Anbar: the Marines who crushed Al Qaeda : the greatest untold story of the Iraq War
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x, 246 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, ; 24 cm
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English
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A riveting account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment--and how the Marines decisively crushed the terrorists.
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224 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"A young Iraqi woman watches her family life collapse amid the country's political turmoil, turning to the seven world-famous paintings hanging in her family's Baghdad villa to make sense of the chaos around her. A work of translated fiction written by an award-winning Iraqi writer and journalist.The novel is set in Baghdad following the 2003 American invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein and unleashed chaos. At the center of the narrative...
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