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Reptar's surprise visit / by Schoberle, Cecile.(CARDINAL)745931; David, Luke.(CARDINAL)653447; Del Carmen, Louie,illustrator.(CARDINAL)652755; Haefele, Steve,illustrator.(CARDINAL)771706; Peters, James(Arabist);

Reptar's surprise visit / Cecele Schoberle -- Oh, Brother! / Luke David.In Reptar's Surprise visit the Rugrats get a visit from one of their favorite television personalities. In Oh brother! the Rugrats learn to help grown ups take care of little babies.

Subjects: Fiction.; Infants; Infants; Rugrats (Fictitious characters); Television personalities;

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America's great game : the CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East / by Wilford, Hugh,1965-(CARDINAL)389095;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1: Pre-game, 1916-1947. Learning the game ; Beginning the quest ; OSS/Cairo ; Great Game redux ; Zion ; The guest no one invites again -- Part 2: Warm-up, 1947-1949. Game plan ; The right kind of leader? Syria, 1949 -- Part 3: Winning, 1949-1956. American friends of the Middle East ; In search of a hero: Egypt, 1952 ; Mad men on the Nile ; Authoring a coup: Iran, 1953 ; From ALPHA ... ; Crypto-diplomacy ; Peacemakers -- Part 4: Losing, 1956-1958. ... to OMEGA ; Increasingly a vehicle for your purposes ; Archie's turn: Syria, 1956 ; Game on: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, 1957 ; Game over."From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability-far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the agency's three most influential-and colorful-officers in the Middle East. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station. The two Roosevelts joined combined forces with Miles Copeland, a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. With their deep knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, the three men were heirs to an American missionary tradition that engaged Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy. Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue, and were eager to play a modern rematch of the "Great Game," the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control over central Asia. Despite their good intentions, these "Arabists" propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would shape the course of U.S.-Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Based on a vast array of declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game tells the riveting story of the merry band of CIA officers whose spy games forever changed U.S. foreign policy. "--"The Central Intelligence Agency's reputation in the Middle East today has been marred by waterboarding and drone strikes, yet in its earliest years the agency was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals how three colorful CIA operatives--Kermit and Archie Roosevelt, and maverick covert-ops expert Miles Copeland--attempted, futilely, to bring the U.S. and Middle East into harmony during the 1940s and '50s. Heirs to an American missionary tradition that taught them to treat Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy, these CIA "Arabists" nevertheless behaved like political puppet-masters, orchestrating coup plots throughout the Middle East while seeking to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would doom U.S.-Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Drawing on extensive new material, including declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game shows how three well-intentioned spies inadvertently ruptured relations between America and the Arab world"--An intelligence historian describes the history of the United States' pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 1950s, headed by the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, and their involvement in the ongoing struggle for control over central Asia by England and Russia.

Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency.;

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Letters from Baghdad [videorecording] / by Krayenbühl, Sabine,film director.; Oelbaum, Zeva,film producer,film director.; Quaintance, Rob,film producer.; Swinton, Tilda,voice actor.(CARDINAL)327024; Letters From Baghdad, Ltd., production company.; Missing in Action Films, production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)309769;

Tilda Swinton (voice of Gertrude Bell).Gertrude Bell is sometimes called the female Lawrence of Arabia. Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist, and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. Advisor to Winston Churchill and critic of colonial policies in Iraq, Bell was considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. The film takes viewers into a past that is eerily current.TV-PG.DVD, region 1 ; stereo.

Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.; Arabists; Archaeologists; Colonial administrators; Travel writers; Women Arabists; Women archaeologists; Women colonial administrators;

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Seven pillars of wisdom: a triumph / by Lawrence, T. E.(Thomas Edward),1888-1935.(CARDINAL)145437;

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935.; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; Arabs; Bedouins; Wahhābīyah; Arabists; Soldiers;

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Warnings : finding Cassandras to stop catastrophes / by Clarke, Richard A.(Richard Alan),1951-author.; Eddy, R. P.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-389) and index.Missed warnings. Cassandra: from myth to reality ; The spook: invasion of Kuwait ; The rebuilder: Hurricane Katrina ; The Arabist: the rise of ISIS ; The seismologist: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster ; The accountant: Madoff's Ponzi Scheme ; The inspector: mine disaster ; The market analyst: the 2008 recession ; The Cassandra coefficient -- Current warnings. The computer scientist: artificial intelligence ; The journalist: pandemic disease ; The climate scientist: sea-level rise ; The weatherman: nuclear ice age ; The engineer: the internet of everything ; The planetary defender: meteor strike ; The biologist: gene editing ; Can you hear her now?"In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many others. Like her, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right? Through riveting explorations in a variety of fields, the authors uncover a method to separate the accurate Cassandras from the crazy doomsayers."--

Subjects: Disasters; Risk communication.; Warnings.; Emergency management.;

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A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert / by Bell, Gertrude Lowthian,1868-1926,author.(CARDINAL)134654; Howell, Georgina,1942-editor.(CARDINAL)370567;

The linguist -- The poet -- The "person" -- The mountaineer -- The archaeologist -- The desert traveler -- The lover -- The prisoner -- The war worker -- The intrusives -- The nation builder -- The kingmaker -- The courtier."A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century and the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I, Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East. As she wrote in one of her letters, "It's a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia." Forthright and spirited, opinionated and playful, and deeply instructive about the Arab world, this volume brings together Bell's letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and travel writings to offer an intimate look at a woman who shaped nations."--Back cover.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.; Travelers; Women travelers; Archaeologists; Women archaeologists; Asianists; Women Asianists; Colonial administrators; Colonial administrators;

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Gertrude Bell : queen of the desert, shaper of nations / by Howell, Georgina,1942-(CARDINAL)370567;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-460) and index.Gertrude and Florence -- Education -- The civilized woman -- Becoming a person -- Mountaineering -- Desert travel -- Dick Doughty-Wylie -- Limit of endurance -- Escape -- War work -- Cairo, Delhi, Basra -- Government through Gertrude -- Anger -- Faisal -- Coronation -- Staying and leavingShe has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and mountaineer. She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert--her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the British government during World War I. As an army major on the front lines in Mesopotamia, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Biographies.; Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.; Women travelers; Women archaeologists; Women Asianists; Colonial administrators; Colonial administrators;

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Gertrude Bell : queen of the desert, shaper of nations / by Howell, Georgina,1942-(CARDINAL)370567;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-460) and index.Gertrude and Florence -- Education -- The civilized woman -- Becoming a person -- Mountaineering -- Desert travel -- Dick Doughty-Wylie -- Limit of endurance -- Escape -- War work -- Cairo, Delhi, Basra -- Government through Gertrude -- Anger -- Faisal -- Coronation -- Staying and leaving.She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and mountaineer. She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert--her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the British government during World War I. As an army major on the front lines in Mesopotamia, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Biographies.; Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.; Women travelers; Women archaeologists; Women Asianists; Colonial administrators; Colonial administrators;

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The Arab of the future : a childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) : a graphic memoir / by Sattouf, Riad,author.(CARDINAL)552459; Taylor, Sam,1970-translator.(CARDINAL)343015;

"In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents; his mother, a bookish French student, is as modest as his father is flamboyant. Venturing first to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State and then joining the family tribe in Homs, Syria, they hold fast to the vision of the paradise that always lies just around the corner. And hold they do, though food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and with locks banned, the Sattoufs come home one day to discover another family occupying their apartment. The ultimate outsider, Riad, with his flowing blond hair, is called the ultimate insult... Jewish. And in no time at all, his father has come up with yet another grand plan, moving from building a new people to building his own great palace. Brimming with life and dark humor, The Arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East, and also introduces a master cartoonist in a work destined to stand alongside Maus and Persepolis"--

Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Autobiographies.; Sattouf, Riad; Cartoonists;

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