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Division of Heaven and Earth On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781849046770, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Division of Heaven and Earth" is one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era – a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March 2...
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£14,99
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Gateways to the World Port Cities in the Persian Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849045636, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Persian Gulf region has become home to some of the world's fastest growing, most impressive cities, many of them with global aspirations. "Gateways to the World" presents an in-depth, systematic, and multi-disciplinary appr...
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£25,00
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Guinea Masks, Music and Minerals
ISBN: PB: 9781849043694, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history. Guinea is also exce...
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£25,00
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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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Inside the Islamic Republic Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran
ISBN: PB: 9781849044837, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The socio-political landscape of Iran. Since 1989, the internal dynamics of change in Iran, rooted in a panoply of socioeconomic, cultural, institutional, demographic, and behavioral factors, have led to a noticeable transition...
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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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Ivory Power and Poaching in Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781849046763, Hurst Publishers, November 2016
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in n...
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£20,00
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Saudi Arabia A Kingdom in Peril
ISBN: PB: 9781849047227, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared al...
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£14,99
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Bridge Over Blood River The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners
ISBN: HB: 9781849046817, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? "Bridge Over Blood River's" haunting and subversive evocation of South Afr...
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£17,99
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Understanding Eritrea Inside Africa's Most Repressive State
ISBN: PB: 9781849046916, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to...
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