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Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849044776, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There is an important if largely unremarked diversity within African Christianity; on the one hand, an enchanted Christianity that views the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, and on the other a disenchanted Christianity th...
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£25,00
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Creating Africas Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land
ISBN: PB: 9781849042581, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. "Creating Africas" investi...
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£35,00
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Psychology of Strategy Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War
ISBN: HB: 9781849043373, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne...
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£45,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 14 Power
ISBN: PB: 9781849044905, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar explores the limits of power, Barnaby Rogerson is enchanted with the notion of governance in the life of Prophet Muhammad, Bruce Lawrence deconstructs the idea of "Islamic State", Kecia Ali surveys sexual politi...
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£14,99
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"We Love Death As You Love Life" Britain's Suburban Mujahedeen
ISBN: PB: 9781849041652, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
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...
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£15,99
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External Mission The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990
ISBN: PB: 9781849045063, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
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...
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£25,00
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Magnificent and Beggar Land Angola since the Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781849042840, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
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...
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£25,00
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Apostates When Muslims Leave Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849044691, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Apostates" is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Mus...
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£30,00
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Arabs at War in Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849044202, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
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...
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£25,00
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Autumn of the Matriarch Indira Gandhi's Final Term in Office
ISBN: HB: 9781849044301, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Indira Gandhi's last years in office as India's prime minister ran from January 1980 to her assassination in October 1984 but until now no book has been devoted to her final term. Among the principal themes discussed in this in...
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