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A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B Edwards 9780981928425
£30.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981928425Author Amelia B EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Norton Creek PressPublisher Norton Creek PressWeight(grams) 839g -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £12.99£9.34WINNER OF THE BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman StoneThe Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big, previously... -
Empress of the East: How a Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce
RRP: £12.99£8.80Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the... -
The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective by John Quigley 9780822335399
RRP: £23.99£21.16John Quigley brings a necessary international law perspective to bear on the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this updated edition of his important book. Since 2000, the cycle of bloodshed and retribution has spiraled increasingly... -
Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement by Cole M. Bunzel
RRP: £35.00£27.95An essential history of Wahhabism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and... -
Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: £20.00£16.13When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself--would reign... -
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals (Mythology) by Donna Jo Napoli 9781426313806
RRP: £19.99£14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426313806Author Donna Jo NapoliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)... -
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi 9781851685820
RRP: £12.99£8.41At a time when a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of the longest-running conflict in the Middle East is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid... -
Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 by Jerome Slater
RRP: £26.49£23.25The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but... -
Yeats Now: Echoing into Life by Joseph M. Hassett 9781843517788
RRP: £13.00£11.19W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living. His poems fashion into memorable words the sometimes puzzling emotions that hover over important life events. Yeats's remarkable work can clarify our own thinking about similar... -
NKJV, Chronological Study Bible, Hardcover, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £40.00£28.04Take a journey through the history and culture of the Bible with the only study Bible that unfolds in historical order.The NKJV Chronological Study Bible presents Scripture in chronological order-the order in which the events happened-with notes,... -
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren 9780195151749
RRP: £31.49£22.29In 1967 the future of the state of Israel was far from certain. But with its swift and stunning military victory against an Arab coalition led by Egypt in the Six Day War, Israel not only preserved its existence but redrew the map of the region, with... -
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk 9780571309696
RRP: £9.99£6.90Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction'Turkey's foremost novelist . . . A first-rate storyteller.' Times Literary Supplement'Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate.' Independent'One of... -
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany
RRP: £32.49£27.11A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, priestesses, merchants, bricklayers, and others In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes readers on a gripping journey from... -
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel Ilan Pappe 9780300184327
RRP: £12.99£11.46A vivid and incisive analysis of the complex relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens written by an acclaimed Israeli historian For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the... -
Contemporary Security Studies by Alan Collins 9780198862192
RRP: £41.99£40.48With unrivalled coverage of a wide range of issues - from terrorism, inter-state conflict and nuclear deterrence, to environmental security, health, and transnational crime - Contemporary Security Studies is the definitive introduction to Security... -
Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire by Raphael D. Marcus 9781626166110
RRP: £32.00£24.02The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the... -
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jonathan Schneer 9781408809709
RRP: £16.99£12.47In the middle of the First World War, the British War Cabinet approved and issued a statement in the form of a letter that encouraged the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Signed by the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the Balfour... -
The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine by Bernard Regan 9781786632487
RRP: £10.99£9.18On November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.' This short note would be one of the most... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: £16.99£12.47The Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. A movement for democratic change has dissolved into chaos and bloodshed. States are collapsing. Out of a wave of sectarian fervour unleashed by these changes has emerged the merciless cruelty of Islamic... -
GCSE Spanish by RSL: Volume 2: Reading, Writing, Translation by Matt Lim 9781914127090
RRP: £14.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914127090Author Matt LimFormat PaperbackImprint RSL EducationalPublisher RSL Educational -
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East Jeremy Bowen 9780743449694
RRP: £10.99£7.21The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never... -
Balfour's Shadow: A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel by David Cronin
RRP: £19.99£13.35This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day. Written by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, the Declaration stated 'His... -
InDesign in easy steps Robert Shufflebotham 9781840789362
RRP: £11.99£8.22Master the essentials of Adobe's InDesign, and then enjoy the full creative potential of this popular desktop publishing software - in easy steps. Written by an industry professional with over 30 years' experience of training in electronic publishing... -
Mecca: The Sacred City Ziauddin Sardar 9781408835609
RRP: £16.99£12.47Mecca is the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction towards which Muslims turn when they pray and the site of pilgrimage which annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet Mecca's importance goes... -
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein 9780520295711
RRP: £30.00£26.15Gaza is among the most densely populated places in the world. Two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half the population is under eighteen years of age. Since Israel occupied Gaza in 1967, it has systematically de-developed the economy... -
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition by Leila H. Farsakh
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The quest for an inclusive and independent state has been at the center of the Palestinian national struggle for a very long time. This book critically explores the... -
Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City by Hilary Sumner-Boyd
RRP: £18.99£14.81'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The Times Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best. This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic... -
The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy by Diana Darke
RRP: £30.00£20.40'Exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated, this delightful book brings five centuries of Ottoman culture to life. Diana Darke constantly amazes the reader with fascinating facts and points of relevance between the Ottoman past and the present day' -... -
The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization by Stephen Bourke 9780500294451
RRP: £19.99£14.35The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization synthesizes the latest research and information from a range of disciplines to tell the compelling story, from the Neolithic period through to the Arab conquest, of how a group of linguistically disparate,... -
Istanbul: Memories and the City (The Illustrated Edition) by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: £30.00£20.70Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Orhan Pamuk's bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.Since the publication of Istanbul, Pamuk has continued to... -
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert
RRP: £32.99£29.16The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and... -
The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux
RRP: £39.95£38.91From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of... -
The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom by Mark Durie 9780980722307
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980722307Author Mark DurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Deror PressPublisher Deror PressWeight(grams) 426g -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: £16.99£11.71The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains.This is the first book to tell the... -
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history... -
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi 9780062844927
RRP: £18.99£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062844927Author Yossi Klein HaleviFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan by Linda L. Layne 9780691194776
RRP: £35.00£27.95In this provocative examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups. Who is a "true" Jordanian? Who is a "true"... -
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi
RRP: £16.99£12.28Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights... -
In Foreign Fields: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan In Their Own Words Dan Collins 9781906308070
RRP: £7.99£5.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308070Author Dan CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 343g