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Product Description: How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry...read more

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9781474410311 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, January 1, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world?

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9783869840932 | Bilingual edition (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, June 23, 2015), cover price $48.00

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Product Description: Revered and misunderstood by his peers and lauded by later generations as the father of modern art, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) has long been a subject of fascination for artists and art lovers, writers, poets, and philosophers. His life was a ceaseless artistic quest, and he channeled much of his wide-ranging intellect and ferocious wit into his letters...read more
By Alex Danchev (editor)

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9781606061602 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, October 1, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Revered and misunderstood by his peers and lauded by later generations as the father of modern art, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) has long been a subject of fascination for artists and art lovers, writers, poets, and philosophers.

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By Alex Danchev, Anselm Kiefer (other contributor) and Honey Luard (editor)

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9781906072650 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, July 31, 2013, cover price $50.00

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9780307377074 | Pantheon Books, October 23, 2012, cover price $40.00

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A full-length portrait of the pioneering founder of Cubism places his life against a backdrop of twentieth-century art, covering such topics as his role in bringing about a revolutionary way of seeing, his creative partnership with Picasso, and his boundary-pushing artistic achievements. 12,500 first printing.

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9781611454963 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, July 1, 2012), cover price $24.95
9781559707435 | Arcade Pub, November 15, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A full-length portrait of the pioneering founder of Cubism places his life against a backdrop of twentieth-century art, covering such topics as his role in bringing about a revolutionary way of seeing, his creative partnership with Picasso, and his boundary-pushing artistic achievements.

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9781611451573 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive and buoyant look at this deeply private man, a philosophical artist utterly devoted to his work, who found new ways of understanding nature and perception, dissonance and harmony.
9780141010793 | Gardners Books, March 29, 2007, cover price $30.30 | About this edition: Three men made art modern: Henry Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

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Product Description: This collection of Alex Danchev's essays shows us how works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse.It takes seriously the idea of the artist as moral witness to this realm, considering war photography, for example, as a form of humanitarian intervention...read more

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9780748639151 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $130.00

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9780748642595 | Reprint edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, April 15, 2011), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: This collection of Alex Danchev's essays shows us how works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse.

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9783775719315 | Mul edition (Hatje Cantz Pub, October 30, 2007), cover price $35.00

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Product Description: The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics...read more
By Alex Danchev (editor) and John MacMillan (editor)

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9780415351478 | Routledge, January 31, 2005, cover price $205.00 | About this edition: The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy.

Paperback:

9780415351485 | Routledge, January 1, 2005, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy.

Miscellaneous:

9780203325964 | Routledge, September 15, 2004, cover price $48.95

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Product Description: For most of the Second World War, General Sir Alan Brooke (1883–1963), later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, was Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and Winston Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist, in the inner councils of war...read more

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9780520239029 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: For most of the Second World War, General Sir Alan Brooke (1883–1963), later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, was Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and Winston Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist, in the inner councils of war.

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Product Description: Specialness is semaphor. It needs to be decoded and analyzed. Otherwise it is unintelligible. 'It is special. It just is. And that's that' - Margaret Thatcher, in characteristic mode. Yet scholars have not done much better. Too often in the literature of the special relationship attitude trumps analysis...read more

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9780333699973 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, June 1, 1998, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Specialness is semaphor.
9780312176471 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1998, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: Bringing together specialists from the fields of international relations, history and politics, this work attempts to answer three main questions regarding the 20th century. It considers what the century's salient characteristics have been, what else is ending as the century ends, and whether Churchill was right in calling it a ""disappointing century""...read more
By Alex Danchev (editor)

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9781850439677 | Tauris Academic Studies, October 15, 1995, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Bringing together specialists from the fields of international relations, history and politics, this work attempts to answer three main questions regarding the 20th century.

International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict is a collection of important new work on the conflict by the leading authorities in the field. Unusually, this is an international investigation of an international conflict. The result is stimulating, capacious, original, and authoritative - the most complete and up-to-date guide to the subject yet to appear.
By Alex Danchev and Dan Keohane (editor)

Hardcover:

9780312106515 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1994, cover price $55.00
9780333573266, titled "International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict 1990-91" | Palgrave Macmillan, January 28, 1994, cover price $219.00 | About this edition: International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict is a collection of important new work on the conflict by the leading authorities in the field.

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Product Description: Lord Franks was an exceedingly deliberate man who, paradoxically, embarked upon his various careers--as don, mandarin, diplomat, banker, provost, pillar of state--almost by accident. A moral philosopher by training and inclination, Franks had a hand in the making of both war and peace in the middle decades of the twentieth century...read more

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9780198215776 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 1, 1993, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Lord Franks was an exceedingly deliberate man who, paradoxically, embarked upon his various careers--as don, mandarin, diplomat, banker, provost, pillar of state--almost by accident.

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By Alex Danchev (introduced by) and Franks

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9780712698405 | Trafalgar Square, March 1, 1993, cover price $19.95

This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and the problematic relationship between them. The authors investigate aspects of the conflict from the relevance of Falklands/Malvinas past, through the diplomatic and military crisis of 1982, to shifts in public opinion in both countries. Contributors include Peter Beck, Peter Calvert, Lawrence Freedman, Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, Guillermo Makin and Paul Rogers.
By Alex Danchev (editor)

Hardcover:

9780333525920 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 3, 1992, cover price $189.00
9780312071899 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1992, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine.

Paperback:

9781349219346 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $69.95

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Product Description: Book by Danchev, Alex

Hardcover:

9780080362601 | Potomac Books Inc, October 1, 1990, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Book by Danchev, Alex

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