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1	Stranger more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist In this stylistically simple, first-person tale of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." Through Meursault, Camus portrays a man who rejects the beliefs and life styles imposed on him by society. The events that lead to his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Confessions more books like this by Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist One of the earliest autobiographies, as well the paradigm for all subsequent literary "confessions," St. Augustine's 13-volume work is a classic of Christian theology and Western philosophy. In the confessions, St. Augustine addresses God, revealing the details of his life up to his conversion to Christianity and reflecting on a former life of sin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The wretched of the earth more books like this by Frantz Fanon add to wishlist This canonical text on colonialism, history, and the role of violence in each has been influential world-wide--especially in Latin America, where it was required reading for revolutionary movements, and in the United States, where it was a major text for the Black Panther Party. It is also a standard text in universities. Jean Paul Sartre's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.26! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Confessions of Saint Augustine more books like this by Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist One of the earliest autobiographies, as well the paradigm for all subsequent literary "confessions," St. Augustine's 13-volume work is a classic of Christian theology and Western philosophy. In the confessions, St. Augustine addresses God, revealing the details of his life up to his conversion to Christianity and reflecting on a former life of sin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Confessions more books like this by St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist Writing in the last years of the fourth century A.D., St. Augustine of Hippo created what is at once the first true autobiography in Western literature and among the most sophisticated yet accessible theological arguments in the history of Christianity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| SVS
6	Outline of a Theory of Practice more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be ... see all copies from $18.27! new only from $25.29! \| SVS
7	Saint Augustine more books like this by Garry Wills add to wishlist In this short biography, Garry Wills stays close to the life and times of the influential Christian thinker and explicates relevant passages from his works, with special emphasis on THE CONFESSIONS (which he refers to as THE TESTAMENT). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Clea more books like this by Lawrence Durrell add to wishlist Durrell's monumental four-novel exploration of love, character, friendship, and death includes JUSTINE, CLEA, BALTHAZAR, and MOUNTOLIVE. Published between 1957 and 1960, the quartet, which follows the romantic and political fortunes of a group of friends in Egypt, was an international success, and marked Durrell as an important writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	A dying colonialism more books like this by Frantz Fanon add to wishlist An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those same oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $7.76! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Justine more books like this by Lawrence Durrell add to wishlist Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the first) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Toward the African revolution more books like this by Frantz Fanon add to wishlist This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon's landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some of Fanon's greatest ideas -- ... see all copies from $5.51! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Night Train to Memphis more books like this by Elizabeth Peters add to wishlist Vicky Bliss, assistant curator of the National Museum in Munich, is asked by an intelligence agency to join a luxury Nile cruise because information has come their way concerning the planned theft of some Egyptian antiquities. Vicky suspects that the villain concerned is a man she already knows. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Rabbi's Cat more books like this by Joann Sfar add to wishlist Vibrant with the colors, textures, and feeling of a lost world (one where Jews and Arabs easily coexisted) this graphic novel about an unforgettable cat with the gift of speech is populated with wholly believable and endearing people. see all copies from $6.75! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The first man more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist The manuscript to this unfinished novel was found in the wreckage of the car in which Camus perished. It was withheld from publication at the time of Camus' death, as it was believed that it would be savaged by his detractors. THE FIRST MAN is the first volume of Camus's projected epic, WAR AND PEACE, and covers the years of his childhood in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Murder in the Place of Anubis more books like this by Lynda S Robinson, Ph.D. add to wishlist Who has dared to desecrate the sacred place of embalming with a murdererd corpse? Pharaoh Tutankhamun orders Lord Meren, his chief investigator, to find out quickly, before power-mad priests use the incident to undermine his royal authority. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $90.32! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The First Wave: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery more books like this by James R Benn add to wishlist In this meaty, old-fashioned and thoroughly enjoyable tale of WWII-era murder and espionage" ("The Seattle Times"), Lieutenant Billy Boyle must solve a series of murders while trying to rescue the girl he loves, a captured British spy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Confessions of St. Augustine more books like this by St Augustine add to wishlist One of the earliest autobiographies, as well the paradigm for all subsequent literary "confessions," St. Augustine's 13-volume work is a classic of Christian theology and Western philosophy. In the confessions, St. Augustine addresses God, revealing the details of his life up to his conversion to Christianity and reflecting on a former life of sin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.23! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa more books like this by Frederick C Leiner add to wishlist When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria 1955-1957 more books like this by Paul Aussaresses add to wishlist Translated from the French, Aussaresses's memoirs tell of the French-Algerian war in the 1950s through the point-of-view of a French military officer. Aussaresses reveals that he employed torture and political assassinations in his work. see all copies from $4.55! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir more books like this by Ted Morgan add to wishlist In this military memoir, Ted Morgan recalls his service in the French Army during the violent war of independence in what was then the French colony of Algeria. The war is notable for the use of torture and collective punishment by the French side and the use of terrorism by the Algerian side. It became the subject of the film THE BATTLE OF ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 more books like this by Alistair Horne add to wishlist The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a savage colonial war, killing an estimated million Muslim Algerians and expelling the same number of European settlers from their homes. It was to cause the fall of six French prime minsters and the collapse of the Fourth Repbulic and came close to bringing down de Gaulle and - twice - to plunging France into ... see all copies from $8.34! new only from $11.93! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Balthasar more books like this by Lawrence Durrell add to wishlist Durrell's monumental four-novel exploration of love, character, friendship, and death includes JUSTINE, CLEA, BALTHAZAR, and MOUNTOLIVE. Published between 1957 and 1960, the quartet, which follows the romantic and political fortunes of a group of friends in Egypt, was an international success, and marked Durrell as an important writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| SVS
23 view cover	The outsider more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.55! \| first editions
24 view cover	Mountolive more books like this by Lawrence Durrell add to wishlist The intrigues of "Justine" and "Balthazar" multiply and deepen in this third volume of "The Alexandria Quartet". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.47! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Empires of Sand more books like this by David Ball add to wishlist This sweeping debut novel chronicles the love and betrayal that flows between two cousins and the cultures that divide them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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