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River Jordan The Mythology of a Dividing Line
ISBN: HB: 9780226319575, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studi...
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£39,00
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Israel, Jordan, and Palestine The Two-State Imperative
ISBN: PB: 9781611680393, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since 1921, the Zionist movement, the Hashemites, and Palestinian nationalists have been vying for regional control. In this book, Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed...
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£28,00
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When More is Less The International Project in Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849041645, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Astri Suhrke sets out to explain why. She begins with the dynamic of the intervention and its related peace-b...
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£30,00
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Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England
ISBN: PB: 9780300178203, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two so...
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£30,00
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Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb
ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...
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£16,99
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£28,50
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Pakistan-US Conundrum Jihadists, the Military and the People: The Struggle for Control
ISBN: PB: 9781849040105, ISBN: HB: 9781849040099, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Yunas Samad's trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan features five main players: the people, the army, the Islamists, the politicians and the Americans. His book explains how a series of alliances borne of political and st...
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£25,00
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£50,00
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Mobilizing the Faithful Militant Islamist Groups and Their Constituencies
ISBN: PB: 9783593394121, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
260 pp., 22x14 cm
One of the keys to dealing with militant Islamic groups is understanding how they work with, relate to, and motivate their constituencies".Mobilizing the Faithful" offers a pair of detailed case studies – of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya...
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£37,00
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Arab Revolution Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising
ISBN: PB: 9781849041591, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how wrong were the hitherto accepted political alternatives, either dictatorship or Islamism. Yet more lessons are already being learnt from this grass-root process,...
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£14,99
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Red Star Over Iraq Iraqi Communism Before Saddam
ISBN: HB: 9781849041010, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Recent outbursts of sectarian and ethnic violence in Iraq have made many observers question the viability of the state itself. It is said that due to the artificiality of the state and a lack of deep-seated political institutio...
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£50,00
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Imagining Zion Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement
ISBN: PB: 9780300178531, Yale University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientis...
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£25,00
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