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Vendeur : Dan A. Domike, Hoquiam, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor corner bumping. Light edge wear to the dust jacket. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy that remains unread. N° de réf. du vendeur 004854
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Vendeur : HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! N° de réf. du vendeur S_473668723
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Vendeur : Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : USED Very Good. N° de réf. du vendeur 382884
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Vendeur : medimops, Berlin, Allemagne
Etat : very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. N° de réf. du vendeur M0159051131X-V
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Vendeur : The Sly Fox, Virden, IL, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Brand new, first printing, full number line no remainder marks. Ships in a box, fast service from a real bricks and mortar independent bookseller open since 1998. N° de réf. du vendeur 010532
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Vendeur : SZ Global, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : New. In April of 2008, Professor Paul Vines commits suicide in his apartment in Berlin. This moment is the culmination of the curiously interwoven stories of three characters: one a criminal psychologist working at Guantanomo Detention Camp Delta, one an FBI agent with a disturbingly familiar detainee locked in an isolation holding cell in JFK airport, and Vines himself, a Georgetown University literature professor working at the American Academy, Berlin. We watch Vines struggle to teach literature to a seminar of bemused German university students, as he is consumed by mistakes made in his post. Bound by guilt to his ex-wife and estranged son, Vines drifts through his life in Berlin and seeks comfort in an affair with on enchanting, though married, student. In Guantanomo, Cuba, Dr. Laura Ivans assists in the humiliating interrogation of a U.S. citizen (a Hispanic ex-felon and erstwhile Muslim convert) who has been declared, on the slimmest evidence, an 'illegal enemy combatant.' Her willingness toparticipate in this assignment sends her into a slow crisis of conscience that she is determined to stave off long enough to reap the fruits of collaboration, the true banality of evil. Meanwhile, at JFK airport, U.S. government agent Michael James Dougherty is assigned to investigate a detained tourist--a 57-year-old former U.S. citizen turned Swedish national. Through a swift chain of errors-on-the-side-of-caution prompted by Patriot Act procedures, the detainee's questioning quickly snowballs into an incarceration where the man finds himself handcuffed and shackled in an isolation cell, and Michael James is his only link to sanity. 'Homeland is both a stimulating narrative that carries thereader through the often unforeseen changes that can completely alter lives and a chilling w. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781590511312
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