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Hardcover:

9781439123874 | Simon & Schuster, October 6, 2015, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9781439123881 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 25, 2016), cover price $17.00

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By David Rieff (editor) and Susan Sontag

Hardcover:

9781598532555 | Library of America, September 26, 2013, cover price $40.00

Paperback:

9780311461059, titled "LA Mujer En Su Crisis De Media Vida" | Casa Bautista of Pubns, March 1, 1986, cover price $7.75 | also contains LA Mujer En Su Crisis De Media Vida

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Product Description: En las colinas de Bosnia aprendí a odiar pero sobre todo a temer la memoria histórica colectiva. En su apropiación de la historia, que ha sido mi pasión más sostenida y mi refugio desde la infancia, la memoria colectiva logra que la historia misma se parezca más que a nada a un arsenal lleno de armas necesarias para mante...read more

Hardcover:

9788499921198 | Debate Editorial, May 10, 2012, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: En las colinas de Bosnia aprendí a odiar pero sobre todo a temer la memoria histórica colectiva.

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By David Rieff (editor) and Susan Sontag

Hardcover:

9780374100766 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 10, 2012, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781250024121 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, July 30, 2013), cover price $20.00

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By David Rieff (editor) and Susan Sontag

Hardcover:

9780374100742 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 9, 2008, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780312428501 | Picador USA, October 27, 2009, cover price $17.00

By David Rieff (editor)

Hardcover:

9780241144312 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2009, cover price $30.30

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Product Description: Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity...read more

Hardcover:

9780743299466 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, January 8, 2008), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A tribute to writer Susan Sontag and her final battle with cancer, written by her son, relates the human experience of being close to someone who is gravely ill and evaluates the current state of cancer research and treatment.

Paperback:

9780743299473 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, December 30, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer.

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A powerful compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the author's life, offers a series of reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, political activism, the resistance to injustice as an ethical duty, the problems of post-9/11 America, and the work of such diverse writers as Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.
By Paolo Dilonardo (editor), Anne Jump (editor), David Rieff (foreword by) and Susan Sontag

Hardcover:

9780374100728 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 6, 2007, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century.

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The nature of war crimes and the international law that defines them is discussed at length in this collection of mainly journalistic accounts of major violations of the code of conduct military organizations are supposed to follow in war. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)
By Roy Gutman (editor) and David Rieff (editor)

Hardcover:

9780393047462 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The nature of war crimes and the international law that defines them is discussed in accounts of major violations of the code of conduct military organizations are supposed to follow in war

Paperback:

9780393319149 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1999, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The nature of war crimes and the international law that defines them is discussed in accounts of major violations of the code of conduct military organizations are supposed to follow in war

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The nature of war crimes and the international law that defines them is discussed at length in this updated collection of accounts of major violations of the code of conduct military organizations are supposed to follow in war, in a volume that features contributions by experts from the military, media, law, and human rights groups. Original.
By Anthony Dworkin (editor), Roy Gutman (editor), Sheryl A. Mendez (editor) and David Rieff (editor)

Paperback:

9780393328462 | Rev upd edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 5, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The nature of war crimes and the international law that defines them is discussed at length in this updated collection of accounts of major violations of the code of conduct military organizations are supposed to follow in war, in a volume that features contributions by experts from the military, media, law, and human rights groups.

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Product Description: En este inquietante ensayo, David Rieff plantea una serie de cuestiones fundamentales que no podemos ignorar en esta era global. ¿Cuándo se debe intervenir militarmente en los asuntos internos de otros países? ¿Constituyen los derechos humanos y las cuestiones humanitarias razones legítimas para intervenir o es este asalt...read more

Paperback:

9788483067055 | Debate Editorial, March 30, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: En este inquietante ensayo, David Rieff plantea una serie de cuestiones fundamentales que no podemos ignorar en esta era global.

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A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine who has spent years at the forefront of some of today's major conflicts presents a series of essays that argue against armed humanitarian and human rights interventions, addressing such topics as the role of the United Nations and the moral ramifications of military intercession. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780684808673 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A contributing writer for 'The New York Times Magazine' who has spent years at the forefront of some of today's major conflicts presents a series of essays that argue against armed humanitarian and human rights interventions.

Paperback:

9780743287074 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, August 1, 2006), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine who has spent years at the forefront of some of today's major conflicts presents a series of essays that argue against armed humanitarian and human rights interventions, addressing such topics as the role of the United Nations and the moral ramifications of military intercession.

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Product Description: En este trágico abecedario de las violencias y los conflictos contemporáneos, los mejores periodistas, fotógrafos y corresponsales de guerra, asociados a juristas y especialistas en derecho militar, definen el contenido de los actos y las conductas de guerra y hacen hincapié en lo que es legal, ilegal o criminal...read more

Paperback:

9788483065563 | Debate Editorial, October 31, 2003, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: En este trágico abecedario de las violencias y los conflictos contemporáneos, los mejores periodistas, fotógrafos y corresponsales de guerra, asociados a juristas y especialistas en derecho militar, definen el contenido de los actos y las conductas de guerra y hacen hincapié en lo que es legal, ilegal o criminal.

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Draws on first-hand accounts from war zones throughout the world to illustrate a growing gap between humanitarian ambition and capability, tracing the histories of major organizations while noting the impact of their advocacy beliefs. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780684809779 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose.

Paperback:

9780743252119 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2003), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Draws on first-hand accounts from war zones throughout the world to illustrate a growing gap between humanitarian ambition and capability, tracing the histories of major organizations while noting the impact of their advocacy beliefs.

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Product Description: "In the book's impressionistic and personal moments, Rieff succeeds in capturing the mood of the city. He is pleasantly open to the place he is exploring and generally maintains a stance of naïveté--the mark of a good travel writer...read more

Hardcover:

9780316744775, titled "Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America" | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the roots of the Cuban, black, white, and Haitian communities in and around the city

Paperback:

9780813017655 | Univ Pr of Florida, February 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "In the book's impressionistic and personal moments, Rieff succeeds in capturing the mood of the city.
9780140110913, titled "Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America" | Penguin USA, August 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Traces the roots of the Cuban, black, white and Haitian communities in and around the city

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A dramatic account of the struggles of humanitarian aid workers in war-torn Bosnia describes their heroic efforts while the American, English, and French governments refused to intervene to stop the war. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780671881184 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Discusses the war in Bosnia, the U.

Paperback:

9780684819037 | Touchstone Books, March 8, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Discusses the war in Bosnia, the U.

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A profile of exiled Cubans living in Miami focuses on their dreams, their feelings about their new country and the one they left behind, and their impact on the town of Miami

Hardcover:

9780671776046 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A profile of exiled Cubans living in Miami focuses on their dreams, their feelings about their new country and the one they left behind, and their impact on the town of Miami

Paperback:

9780671886271 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, August 31, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A profile of exiled Cubans living in Miami focuses on their dreams, their feelings about their new country and the one they left behind, and their impact on the town of Miami

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The author turns his critical eye to the City of Angels, discussing L.A.'s gridlocked freeways, immigrant neighborhoods, posh Beverly Hills, popular culture, health consciousness, and more, and speculates on the city's future

Hardcover:

9780671671709 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author turns his critical eye to the City of Angels, discussing L.
9780671671709 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author turns his critical eye to the City of Angels, discussing L.

Paperback:

9780671792107 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, September 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author turns his critical eye to the City of Angels, discussing L.

Product Description: The articles in this volume cover a wide range of intellectually exciting issues, written by people who were considered at the summit of their fields of enquiry. Though the individual topics addressed are diverse, each article can be taken as representative of 'humanistic understanding' of its stated subject...read more
By David Rieff (editor)

Hardcover:

9780521249713 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 1983), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: The articles in this volume cover a wide range of intellectually exciting issues, written by people who were considered at the summit of their fields of enquiry.

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