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The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward N. Luttwak
RRP: £25.95£21.04In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest... -
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story by Ramzy Baroud 9780745337999
RRP: £16.99£11.54Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Ordinary Palestinians have... -
Discover Ancient Sumer by Paul Collins
RRP: £5.00£3.80Sumer was a region of the ancient world that today forms the southern part of Iraq. It is a vast, flat land of floodplains formed by the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was here that some of the world's first cities arose and writing was invented... -
I Saw Ramallah by Muraid Barghauthai
RRP: £17.00£12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032662Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Whose Holy Land?: Archaeology Meets Geopolitics in Today's Middle East by Kenneth L Hanson 9781943003402
RRP: £19.99£13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943003402Author Kenneth L HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter... -
Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond by Natalie N. May
£13.52The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute April 8-9, 2011. The purpose of the... -
Militia State: The Rise of Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi and the Eclipse of the Iraqi Nation State by Baria Alamuddine 9781914325168
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914325168Author Baria AlamuddineFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 221mm *... -
The Panjshir Valley 1980-86: The Lion Tames the Bear in Afghanistan by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £15.99£11.61An in-depth look at the struggle between the charismatic rebel commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, 'The Lion of Panjshir', and the Soviet forces who fought to control the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, they... -
A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century by Donald M. Lewis
RRP: £31.99£25.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846979Author Donald M. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *... -
Burning Horizon: British Veteran Accounts of the Iraq War, 2003 by Julian Whippy
RRP: £29.95£21.32Codenamed Operation Telic, the British component of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War. Whilst the British public prepared for the worst as its soldiers were facing weapons of mass... -
Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9781649031617
RRP: £29.99£25.03An innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan DodsonThe spectacular discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 has given him an afterlife... -
The Privatization of Israeli Security by Shir Hever
RRP: £16.99£13.58Between 1994-2014, Israel's security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created 'Occupation Inc.': the institution... -
The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland 9781786941473
RRP: £27.45£24.50This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910), 'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim... -
The Cat in Ancient Egypt by Jaromir Malek
RRP: £10.99£7.40An informative guide to the relationship between humans and cats in the ancient Egyptian world. Cats can be seen in ancient Egyptian homes, temples and adorning the heads of their gods. Cats in Egypt were probably domesticated by around 4,000 BC from... -
KJV, The King James Study Bible, Genuine Leather, Black, Full-Color Edition: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718079895
RRP: £120.00£80.47The full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes, vibrant full-color images, and dozens of study resources to help you grow deeper in your faith. Published in large easy-to-read print type. Standing apart from all other KJV study... -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: £14.99£9.88Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
A Concise History of the Arabs by John McHugo 9780863567421
RRP: £12.99£8.60The key to understanding the Arab world today is unlocking its past. In this authoritative account, John McHugo takes the reader through the political, social and intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. Going... -
Farsi (Persian)-English / English-Farsi (Persian) Dictionary& Phrasebook by Nicholas Awde
RRP: £10.99£8.29Farsi is the official language of Iran, where over 67 million people speak its standard form. This phrase book and dictionary contains all the essential aspects of the language, detailing the alphabet and grammar, as well as listing a number of... -
The Doenme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks by Marc David Baer 9780804768689
RRP: £21.99£19.19This book tells the story of the Doenme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the... -
Colonising Egypt by Timothy Mitchell
RRP: £27.00£21.06Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.About the... -
Armies of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-88 by Stephen Walsh
RRP: £14.99£10.95Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi dictatorship, the Iran-Iraq War would become the largest conventional conflict of the period. Curiously little-known considering its scale and longevity,... -
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren 9780345461926
£12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345461926Author Michael B. OrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Countrysport Press,U.S.Publisher Countrysport Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Social Glimpses of Iraq's Modern History- Iraq from 1920-1924 by Ali Al-Wardi 9781922583314
RRP: £26.99£19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922583314Author Ali Al-WardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Lantern PublicationsPublisher Lantern PublicationsWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)... -
A Long Night in Paris: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger by Dov Alfon
RRP: £10.99£7.78From a former Israeli spy, comes the most realistic and authentic thriller of the year. The Times Number One BestsellerWinner of the CWA International Dagger.A Times, Telegraph and FT pick for Summer Reads 2019, and an FT Thriller of the Year"The year's... -
Nazis on the Nile: The German Military Advisers in Egypt 1949-1967 by Vyvyan Kinross
RRP: £19.95£13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914325229Author Vyvyan KinrossFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 221mm *... -
Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw 9780198793281
RRP: £10.99£7.77Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre. Pygmalion (1912) was a world-wide smash hit from the time of its premiere in Vienna 1913 and it has remained... -
Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £25.00£20.92A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 "An epic account of the British Empire's activities in Africa and the Middle East. . . . An important, indeed tremendous,... -
A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel by Gudrun Kramer 9780691150079
RRP: £30.00£23.69It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth... -
Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman
RRP: £12.99£11.46A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author"A must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces underlying Israeli politics."-Rabbi Robert Orkand, Reform... -
Sea of Pearls: The History of Pearl Fishing in Bahrain and the Gulf by Robert A. Carter 9781911487739
RRP: £45.00£34.71The history of pearling is inextricably linked to the history of Bahrain, the strategically-located Gulf archipelago set amidst one of the richest and most plentiful pearl fisheries in the world. Sea of Pearls tells the story of pearl fishing in the... -
Ibn Taymiyya by Jon Hoover 9781786076892
RRP: £25.00£23.27Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled... -
Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said
£16.52Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in... -
Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System by Jaber Baker 9780755650200
RRP: £25.00£18.88An estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a post on Facebook or for the political activities of a distant relative. They are imprisoned without trial, and... -
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition by Kanan Makiya
RRP: £27.00£21.06First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke out, "Republic of Fear" was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This edition, updated in 1998, has a substantial introduction... -
The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi 9780375714832
RRP: £19.99£17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714832Author Marjane SatrapiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 225mm... -
Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally by Dan Joseph
RRP: £21.99£19.19One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat to stability in the Horn of Africa. Somalis risk retaliation or death if they oppose or fail to comply... -
Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood, Revised and Updated by Tarek Osman
RRP: £12.99£11.46A lively and informed account of Egypt's recent history and current situation In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the... -
History of the Jews: A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World War 2 by Captivating History 9781637161401
RRP: £16.97£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161401Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)... -
The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon by Mr. Bassel F. Salloukh
RRP: £27.99£21.57The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman. However, Lebanon's sectarian system proved immune to the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring. How can... -
Breaking the Miror of Heaven: The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval 9781591431565
RRP: £19.99£12.48Called the "Mirror of Heaven" by Hermes-Thoth and regarded as the birthplace of civilization, science, religion, and magic, Egypt has ignited the imagination of all who come in contact with it since ancient times--from Pythagoras and Plato to Alexander...