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“joseph sassoon”

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  • The Global Merchants

    The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

    by Joseph Sassoon ...
    The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. This book reveals the secrets behind the family's phenomenal success: how a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Humanist Society

    The Social Blueprint for Self-Actualization

    by Joseph Sassoon ...
    What accounts for the rise and fall of so many civilizationsespecially when some of them held more political power than their rivals? Author Joseph Sassoon tackles this question and many others in this, his second volume on self-actualization. As a missionary for humanism, he explores the social conditions that are necessary for the greatest number of people to achieve self-actualization. In ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party

    Inside an Authoritarian Regime

    by Joseph Sassoon ...
    The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Trying for Peace

    Self-Actualization and World Federalism

    by Joseph Sassoon ...
    Trying for Peace: Self-Actualization and World Federalism is the third book in a trilogy on what the world needs to do to save a political system that could collapse at any moment. The first book, Self-Actualization: Theory and Technology, contained an entirely new discovery to explain how self-actualization is achieved. The second book, The Humanist Society, dealt with the social demands that are ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics

    by Joseph Sassoon ...
    By examining the system of authoritarianism in eight Arab republics, Joseph Sassoon portrays life under these regimes and explores the mechanisms underpinning their resilience. How did the leadership in these countries create such enduring systems? What was the economic system that prolonged the regimes' longevity, but simultaneously led to their collapse? Why did these seemingly stable regimes ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Economic Policy in Iraq, 1932-1950

    by Joseph Sassoon ...
    First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation. His views are consistent and orthodox and yet he has been consistently misunderstood - especially in relation to his views on contemporary society, public morality and the common good.In this, the final published work of his Archepiscopate, Dr Williams has assembled a series of chapters on matters of immediate public ... Read more

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  • Good Without God

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    In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the ... Read more

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  • The Prize

    The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

    by Daniel Yergin ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important ... Read more

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  • The Last Kings of Shanghai

    The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

    by Jonathan Kaufman ...
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  • What I Believe

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    Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported ... Read more

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