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The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century
by Kaplan, Robert D
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679431489
- ISBN 13
- 9780679431480
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1996. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition stated with publisher's correct number line denoting first printing. In black boards with brown spine cloth and gilt to type. Boards bound upside down, but does not affect book. Sharp corners clean interior and tight binding. Jacket is unclipped with some light fading to spine.
Synopsis
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos . He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for more than a quarter-century. In 2011 and 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.
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- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB006910RK
- Title
- The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century
- Author
- Kaplan, Robert D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First US Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679431489
- ISBN 13
- 9780679431480
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
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