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Pan-Islamic Connections Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849048187, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! South Asia is today the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims – roughly 500 million. In the course of its Islamisation process, which began in the eighth century, it developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilisation th...
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£25,00
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In Their Own Words Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
ISBN: HB: 9781849045728, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated...
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£40,00
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Why Comrades Go to War Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849049085, ISBN: HB: 9781849046527, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara t...
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£18,99
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£35,00
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Biographic: Churchill Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453018, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, August 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...
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£9,99
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Imprint of Congress
ISBN: HB: 9780300215700, Yale University Press, July 2017
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An insightful examination of the imprint of Congress on politics and society throughout American history by a distinguished congressional scholar. A distinguished political scientist and congressional scholar offers an insightful historical analysis...
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£25,00
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Toward Nationalism's End An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn
ISBN: PB: 9781512600872, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his...
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£32,00
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Al-Qaeda 2.0 A Critical Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781849048101, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On 16 June 2011, three days before his sixtieth birthday, Ayman al-Zawahiri was declared the new leader of Al-Qaeda, replacing the fallen Osama bin Laden. The veteran Egyptian jihadist has little of his predecessor's charisma a...
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£25,00
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See it/Shoot it The Secret History of the CIA's Lethal Drone Program
ISBN: HB: 9780300218541, Yale University Press, June 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
An illuminating study tracing the evolution of drone technology and counterterrorism policy from the Reagan to the Obama administrations. This eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: th...
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£30,00
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American Religion, American Politics An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300203516, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history. Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in t...
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£25,00
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Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up
ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...
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£28,00
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