Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems – natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others – whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteen...

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, "I Speak of the City" c...

In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been limited – freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines – b...

For sale in CIS only! As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellow believers into London on the morning of 7 July 2005 it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at the West's treat...

For sale in CIS only! Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the unbanning of the African National Congress following thirty years during which the ANC...

For sale in CIS only! Based on three years of research in and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, "Magnificent and Beggar Land" is the definitive account of the fast-changing dynamics of this important yet misunderstood African state; a major...

For sale in CIS only! A former senior mujahidin figure and an ex-counter-terrorism analyst cooperating to write a book on the history and legacy of Arab-Afghan fighters in Afghanistan is a remarkable and improbable undertaking. Yet this is what Must...

For sale in CIS only! The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, a high-profile advocate of Turkish – Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently...

For sale in CIS only! Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), "A Revolutionary History" delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed by Chandrashekhar Azad and...

In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used – often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly – as undercover agents inside America and...