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Scripts of Terror The Stories Terrorists Tell Themselves
ISBN: HB: 9781787380172, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book explores terrorism as a strategic choice – one made carefully and deliberately by rational actors. Through an analysis of the terrorist groups of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, it charts a series of different strategi...
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£35,00
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Buddhism and the Political Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe
ISBN: HB: 9781849048385, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores trad...
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£35,00
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Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea A History of the Comoros
ISBN: HB: 9781787381469, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous economic system that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros th...
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£45,00
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Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949
ISBN: PB: 9781787380264, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-1944, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the communist and government sides. Against a background of conflicting communist...
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£18,99
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Myanmar's "Rohingya" Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849049047, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims has made global headlines in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, amidst serious allegations of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against...
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£20,00
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Cauldron NATO's Campaign in Libya
ISBN: HB: 9781849048828, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without troops on the ground; it also...
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£40,00
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Political Islam in Tunisia The History of Ennahda
ISBN: PB: 9781787380332, ISBN: HB: 9781849048262, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Political Islam in Tunisia" uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Al-Nahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-2011 and the overthrow of Ben Ali'...
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£18,99
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£30,00
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Singapore, Singapura From Miracle to Complacency
ISBN: HB: 9781787380103, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighbourhood. Now, this...
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£20,00
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Spies in the Congo The Race for the Ore that Built the A-Bomb
ISBN: PB: 9781849049528, ISBN: HB: 9781849046381, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
400 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is the true story of American spies in Africa in the Second World War, which until now has never been researched or told. It is set against the background of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the war – Americ...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Skull of Alum Bheg The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857
ISBN: HB: 9781849048705, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in south-east England. The handwritten note found inside revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who had been blown from a cannon for his role in...
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£25,00
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