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001			ASIN1610390946
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008			150819s2012 xxu eng d
020			_a1610390946 (hardcover) _c$27.99
020			_a9781610390941 (hardcover)
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100	1		_aAnsary, Tamim.
245	1	0	_aGames without rules : _bthe often-interrupted history of afghanistan / _cTamim Ansary.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bPublicAffairs, _c2012.
300			_a416 p. ; _c24 cm.
520			_aToday, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out, and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation undermined by its own demons while, every 40 to 60 years, a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made. Told in conversational, storytelling style, and focusing on key events and personalities, Games without Rules provides revelatory insight into a country at the center of political debate.
650		0	_aAfghanistan
650		0	_aAmericans
650		0	_aBritish
650		0	_aMilitary occupation
650		0	_aPolitical science
650		0	_aRussians
650		0	_aStrategic aspects of individual places
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1610390946/chopaconline-20
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