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EAN-13	9781595586445
Product Name	Three Kings: The Rise Of An American Empire In The Middle East After World War Ii
Language	English
Category	Book / Magazine / Publication
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Width	0.7 inches    (convert)
Height	7.9 inches    (convert)
Length	5.2 inches    (convert)
Weight	9.6 ounces    (convert)
Author	Lloyd C. Gardner
Page Count	272
Binding	Paperback
Published	08/02/2011
Features	Used Book in Good Condition
Long Description	In an account of the U.S. role in the Middle East, Three Kings is an erudite, persuasively argued, and lucid” ( Publishers Weekly ) narrative of America’s deep and tangled relationships in the region. Three Kings reveals a story of America’s scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. Deftly weaving together three decades of U.S. moves in the region, Lloyd Gardner delves into early American efforts to support the influence the Saudi regime (including the creation of Dhahran air base, the target of Osama bin Laden’s first terrorist attack in 1996); the CIA-engineered coup in Iran; Nasser’s Egypt; and, finally, the rise of Iraq as a major petroleum power. As American policy makers and military planners grapple with a radically new and rapidly shifting political landscape in this vital region, Gardner uncovers valuable new factual evidence ably guid[ing] the reader through the perilous chess game that has played out in the region since World War II” ( Kirkus Reviews ).
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Each character is made up of 10 elements where 5 are bars and 5 are spaces. You may have seen this described as 9 elements on other sites where 5 are bars and 4 are spaces but there is always a narrow space stripe between characters which means we might as well consider that trailing narrow space part of each character making the total number of elements 10. The final trailing narrow space simply appears to be absorbed into the quiet zone to the right of the final barcode. There is no check digit in this symbology unlike others. The variation between the width of the bars is what define the value of each character.

In the image below you will notice the start and stop block are the same. In most Code39 fonts,this is encoded as the asterisk (*) character although may or may not be displayed under the barcode. The text under the barcode is optional and is for human use only. The start and stop asterisks are not decoded when scanned and may or maynot bedisplayed. Also how the text is displayed depends on the process used to create the barcodes. Often, the text is simply under the barcode without the indent displayed in our sample.

Normally, there are only 43 characters that can be encoded using Code39. But if you want to encode the full ASCII characterset, you can prefix letters with special characters to get the characters you need including lower case and special characters. Although it is possible to encode the full ASCII set, if you actually need to do this it is better to use Code128 because it will produce a smaller barcode.

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