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Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia by Zainab Saleh 9781503607026
RRP: $117.39$101.81With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq-from the U.S. backing of... -
The Seizure of Saddam Hussein's Archive of Atrocity by Bruce P. Montgomery 9781498556972
RRP: $116.10$101.66The Seizure of Saddam Hussein's Archive of Atrocity examines the capture of the Baathist security files and the discovery of an invaluable Iraqi Jewish archive amid the Kurdish uprising and the US-led invasion of Iraq. The events ignited a fierce... -
Inside the Crusader Fortress by Ken Coates 9780851247168
$7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247168Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 2mm -
The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt 9781503613829
RRP: $117.39$101.81A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in the country... -
The Material and Ideological Base of the Old Babylonian State: History, Economy, and Politics by Lukas Pecha 9781498559874
RRP: $140.61$123.29This book describes and analyzes the economic and administrative structure as well as the ideological background of the Old Babylonian state during the rule of the First Dynasty (1894-1595 BC). The study of these issues is based on the analysis of... -
Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia by Alhena Gadotti 9781646021383
RRP: $96.69$86.87In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered... -
Order out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq by David Siddhartha Patel 9781501715419
RRP: $139.32$120.49Order out of Chaos explains why Iraqis turned to the mosque after state collapse. In 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq destroyed the Bathist state. Yet, despite this, the citizens of Basra established predictable routines of daily life and social order... -
Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part One by A. R. George 9781575067339
RRP: $114.75$101.73W. G. Lambert's line drawings of cuneiform tablets from the British Museum, together with his meticulous editions of their contents, form a contribution to Assyriology unrivaled in his generation. Upon his death in 2011, Lambert bequeathed his academic... -
Liberating Iraq: The Untold Story of the Assyrian Christians by Amir George 9781939521002
RRP: $25.79$16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939521002Author Amir GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Strategic Media BooksPublisher Strategic Media BooksWeight(grams) 358g -
Aramaic Loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 911–612 B.C. by Zack Cherry 9789521095047
RRP: $77.34$67.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521095047Author Zack CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)... -
Sayfo - an Account of the Assyrian Genocide by Adeb Mshiho Neman
RRP: $116.10$105.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474447508Author Adeb Mshiho NemanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
RRP: $38.70$22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593536889Author Ghaith Abdul-AhadFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 159g -
Distant Impressions: The Senses in the Ancient Near East by Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
RRP: $104.43$92.79Although we often treat the senses as though they are immutable, fundamental properties of our physiology, the way we parse our sensory experiences is dictated by our cultural context. Accordingly, the essays in Distant Impressions explore the social... -
Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two by A. R. George
RRP: $108.30$96.92This book publishes 323 handcopies of cuneiform tablets found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert (1926-2011), one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Prepared by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi, it completes a two-part edition... -
Neo-Assyrian Sources in Context: Thematic Studies of Texts, History, and Culture by Shigeo Yamada
RRP: $78.63$67.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521095016Author Shigeo YamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus... -
Order out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq by David Siddhartha Patel
RRP: $34.82$30.08Order out of Chaos explains why Iraqis turned to the mosque after state collapse. In 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq destroyed the Bathist state. Despite this the citizens of Basra established predictable routines of daily life and social order as the... -
The Shi'a of Samarra: The Heritage and Politics of a Community in Iraq by Imranali Panjwani
$37.50The assault on Samarra, which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century CE, therefore came to represent for many a symbol of the destructive civil conflict which engulfed Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion. The Shi'a of... -
Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East by Louise Kettle
RRP: $135.45$123.05Learning from history helps states to create foreign and security policy that builds upon successes and avoids past mistakes. Louise Kettle's insightful analysis - drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information... -
IRAQ TODAY by Daniel Whitfield 9781916039612
RRP: $12.90$6.13Iraq's people, cities and countryside remain unknown to most outsiders. With this important book, revealing daily life behind the headlines, photographer and explorer Daniel Whitfield's travels across Iraq bring the country to the reader in stunning... -
The Kurdish War David Adamson 9781032322728
RRP: $36.11$31.32First published in 1964, The Kurdish War presents the firsthand historical account of the aspirations, history, background of the Kurdish nationalists in Iraq. It showcases David Adamson’s 200-mile journey on foot and horseback through the rebel... -
The Kakais of Iraq: History, Beliefs and Culture Maria Rita Corticelli 9780755649259
RRP: $109.65$93.20The Kakais are a Kurdish-speaking indigenous population belonging to the Yarsan religion, originating from the Zagros Mountains in present-day Northern Iraq. There are currently around 200,000 Kakais in Iraq, but due to a history of heavy persecution,... -
Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad Alissa Walter 9781503641426
RRP: $36.11$30.69Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. Interactions... -
Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad Alissa Walter 9781503640580
RRP: $149.64$127.19Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. Interactions... -
Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq Bartle Bull 9781838957858
RRP: $32.25$21.40Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. It is a big topic in another way. More than... -
Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq Bartle Bull 9780802162502
RRP: $32.24$27.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162502Author Bartle BullFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press