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Class 11: My Story Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class
$15.00 A gripping insiderâs look at the post-9/11 CIA In the weeks following the attacks of 9/11, the Central Intelligence Agency received over 150,000 résumés from people wanting to serve their nation. T. J. Waters became one of more than a hundred students admitted into the CIAâs Clandestine Service to become Class 11, the first post- 9/11 training class. Filled with more information ab... |
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
$13.99 This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, Orientalism, a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than fifteen languages. Saids main thesis was that the Western image of the East was heavily biased by colonialist attitudes, racism, and more than two centuries of political exploitation. Although S... |
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$12.22 Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass s... |
