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Android Dreams The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9781849048712, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google...
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£17,99
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Before Intelligence Failed British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya
ISBN: HB: 9781849043007, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term 'intelligence failure' became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the...
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£55,00
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Colonial Violence European Empires and the Use of Force
ISBN: HB: 9781849048071, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped by geogr...
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£20,00
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Art of Creating Power Freedman on Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9781849045810, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
308 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Art of Creating Power" explores the intellectual thought and wider impact – on military affairs, politics and the universities – of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, confl...
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£30,00
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Beyond Sunni and Shia Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849048149, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how pol...
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£25,00
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Republic of Islamophobia The Rise of Respectable Racism in France
ISBN: PB: 9781849046886, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Islamophobia in France is on the increase. Muslims are being subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Racist acts and rhetoric are increasingly common. Leading public figures, meanwhile, continue to c...
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£14,99
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Reporting the Retreat War Correspondents in Burma, 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781849047173, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 precipitated the longest retreat in British military history and the onset of its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the beginning of the end...
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£20,00
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Ugly Food Overlooked and Undercooked
ISBN: HB: 9781849046862, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why don't we eat more octopus? Cheeks and feet are good value and delicious, so why do people prefer fillet or chops? What about rabbits and squirrels? And what's wrong with ugly vegetables? The food industry, like the fashion...
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£25,00
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Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849048026, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjold and his UN team crashed into dark...
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£14,99
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New Turkey' and its Discontents
ISBN: PB: 9781849045667, ISBN: HB: 9781849045650, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Turkey of today little resembles that of recent decades. Its economy has expanded hugely, new political elites have emerged, and the once powerful Kemalist military is no longer a potent and dominant political player. Meanw...
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£14,99
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£50,00
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