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  | | Covering Islam(Updated) How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Professor Edward W. Said, Luann Walther, Unknown Unknown Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75890-7, ISBN: 0-679-75890-9 "In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world. From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade Center, the American news media have portrayed "Islam" as a monolithic entity, synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. At the same time, Islamic co ..." |
 | | Representations of the Intellectual(Reprint) The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76127-3, ISBN: 0-679-76127-6 "Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns. Said suggests a recast ..." |
 | | The Question of Palestine(Reprint) by Edward W. Said Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73988-3, ISBN: 0-679-73988-2 "This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied--as well as in t ..." |
 | | The Edward Said Reader(1st Edition) by Professor Edward W. Said, Moustafa Bayoumi, Andrew Rubin, Edward William Said Paperback, 472 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70936-4, ISBN: 0-375-70936-3 "Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal study Orientalism, have influenced not only our worldview but the very terms of public discourse.The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all ..." |
 | | Orientalism(1st Edition) by Edward W. Said Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1979 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-394-74067-6, ISBN: 0-394-74067-X "More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "othe ..." |
 | | The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006 by Edward W. Said, Moustafa Bayoumi, Andrew Rubin Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56531-4, ISBN: 0-525-56531-0 "The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era’s most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source. The Selected Works includes key sections from all of Said’s books, including his groundbreakin ..." |
 | | Covering Islam(1st Edition) How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 1981 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-394-74808-5, ISBN: 0-394-74808-5 "An unusually sharp look at the way in which the U.S. press and experts have dealt with the crisis in the Middle East and Iran." |
 | | Culture and Imperialism by Professor Edward W. Said, Edward William Said Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75054-3, ISBN: 0-679-75054-1 "Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western f ..." |
 | | I Saw Ramallah(1st Edition) by Mourid Barghouti, Ahdaf Soueif, Edward W. Said, Edward Said, Murīd Barghūthī Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-6927-5, ISBN: 0-7475-6927-4 "In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many Palestinians living abroad, was denied entry into his homeland. Thirty years later, he was finally allowed to visit Ramallah, the city he had grown up in. A rickety wooden bridge over a dried up river connects the West Bank to Jordan. It is the very same bridge Bar ..." |
 | | Public Intellectuals(Updated) An Endangered Species? (Rights & Responsibilities) by Alyssa Bowditch, Amitai Etzioni, Contributor-Lewis Coser, Contributor-Theodore Draper, Contributor-Merle Kling, Contributor-Patrick Saveau, Contributor-Alan Wolfe, Contributor-Tevi Troy, Contributor-Paul Berman, Contributor-Ellen Cushman, Contributor-Joseph Epstein, Contributor-Edward Said, Contributor-Frances Ferguson, Contributor-Russell Jacoby, Contributor-Irving Howe, Howard Young, University Ellen Cushman, Daniel C. Brouwer, Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sidney I. Dobrin, Mr Joseph Epstein, Professor Frances Ferguson, Professor Paul Berman, Professor Russell Jacoby, Irving Howe Comp, Professor Edward W. Said, Richard A.Posner, Catherine R. Squires, J. Hillis Miller, C. Wright Mills, Elshtain/Etzioni/Jac Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4254-9, ISBN: 0-7425-4254-8 "Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies, this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic and political climates. At a time when many argue th ..." |
 | | Musical Elaborations(Reprint) by Edward Said, Professor Edward W. Said Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 1993 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-07319-6, ISBN: 0-231-07319-4 "The two experiences are interdependent and overlap with each other. ... so in order that the enabling conditions of performance and their connection with the sociocultural sphere can be seen as a coherent part of the whole experience? Now the connection between modern or new music and contemporary Western society has been the subject of Theodor Adorno's extremely influential theoretical reflections and analysis. ... from the social ..." |
 | | Culture and Resistance(Reprint) by Edward W. Said, David Barsamian Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-313-8, ISBN: 1-60846-313-3 "Edward W. Said discusses the importance and centrality of popular resistance in the framework of culture, history, and struggle. He reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism and the invasion of Afghanistan. On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he lays out a compelling vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East. He proposes a radical solution that cuts through the current impasse with a promise of reconciliation and pe ..." |
 | | Orientalism(25th Edition) by Edward W. Said, 爱德华·萨义德 Paperback, 396 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118742-6, ISBN: 0-14-118742-5 "For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colo ..." |
 | | Henry James(Updated) Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America) by Jr. James Henry, Jean Strouse, David Bromwich, John Hollander, Denis Donoghue, Vance L. William, Professor Edward W. Said, Edward Said Hardcover, 896 Pages, Published 1999 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-883011-64-2, ISBN: 1-883011-64-7 "Sometimes overshadowed by his work as a novelist, Henry James’s short fiction is an astonishing achievement, a triumph of inventiveness and restless curiosity. This Library of America volume (the third of five volumes devoted to his short fiction) includes among its seventeen stories some of James’s greatest masterpieces.“The Aspern Papers” is a stunning novella about emotional ruthlessness in the service of literary scholarship. “The P ..." |
 | | Kim - Kipling, Rudyard - Paperback by Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1987 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043281-7, ISBN: 0-14-043281-7 "One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: Though he was burned black as any native; though ..." |
 | | Mimesis(Reprint) The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics) by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said, Willard R. Trask Paperback, 616 Pages, Published 2013 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-16022-1, ISBN: 0-691-16022-8 "More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, neve ..." |
 | | The Edward Said Reader by Edward W. Said Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2012 by Granta ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-598-6, ISBN: 1-84708-598-9 "The 'Edward Said Reader' presents key selections from Said's works, from his groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad, through 'Culture and Imperialism', to the recent critically acclaimed memoir 'Out of Place'." |
 | | From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap (Paperback) by Edward W. Said Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-7662-4, ISBN: 0-7475-7662-9 |
 | | Parallels and Paradoxes(Updated) Explorations in Music and Society by Daniel Barenboim, Edward W. Said, Ara Guzelimian Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-6385-3, ISBN: 0-7475-6385-3 "Israeli Daniel Barenboim, one of the finest musicians of our times, and Palestinian Edward Said, eminent literary critic and leading expert on the Middle East, have been close friends for years. "Parallels and Paradoxes" is a series of discussions between the two friends about music, politics, literature and society, Barenboim and Said talk about, among other subjects, the differences between writing prose and music; the compromising po ..." |
 | | Acts of Aggression by Noam Chomsky, Edward W. Said, Ramsey Clark Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1999 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-005-4, ISBN: 1-58322-005-4 "Through three separate essays, this book provides an in-depth analysis of U.S.-Arab relations, the contradictions and consequences of U.S. foreign policy toward "rogue states", and how hostile American actions abroad conflict with U.N. resolutions and international law. Noam Chomsky compares U.S. foreign policy to that of the "rogue states" which the United States identifies as its enemies. Ramsey Clark argues that U.S. sanctions and mi ..." |
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