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Father of the Stranger: A Story of the Second Military Police Unit at Abu Ghraib by MR Gerit Wasserman 9780692436936
RRP: €17.79€15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692436936Author MR Gerit WassermanFormat PaperbackImprint Gerit WassermanPublisher Gerit WassermanWeight(grams) 281g -
From the Nile to the Tigris: African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Empire by Mattias Karlsson 9789521095108
RRP: €52.30€43.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521095108Author Mattias KarlssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus... -
The Kurds: The Struggle for National Identity and Statehood by Mandana Hendessi 9781788217170
RRP: €29.74€27.68The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. An Indigenous people from the Mesopotamian plains and highlands in what is now Southeast Turkey, Northeast Syria, Northern Iraq, northwest Iran and Southwest Armenia, they are the largest... -
The Conquest and Islamization of Iraq by Hüseyin Gökalp 9781666929270
RRP: €101.15€91.36This book examines the early Muslim conquests that started with the first caliph, Abu Bakr, and accelerated during the reign of the second caliph, Omar. During this time, the Sassanids were destroyed, the political and commercial order of Rome was turned... -
Ur III Texts in the Schoyen Collection by Jacob L. Dahl 9781575067384
RRP: €159.40€139.72Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the population under their jurisdiction. Year after year,... -
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia by Zainab Saleh 9781503607026
RRP: €117.81€100.31With 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: €101.15€93.78The 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
RRP: €7.14€6.94Apologies 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 -
Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Held at Ghent, Belgium, 14-19 July 2013 by Katrien De Graef 9781575068428
RRP: €159.40€139.00Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was organized in Ghent in 2013... -
The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt 9781503613829
RRP: €117.81€100.31A 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: €123.76€113.73This 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: €89.19€78.78In 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: €138.04€117.26Order 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: €105.85€92.26W. 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: €23.79€15.30Apologies 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 -
Only Cry For the Living: Memos from the ISIS Battlefield by Hollie S. McKay 9781942549635
RRP: €22.60€15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942549635Author Hollie S. McKayFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo Publications -
Aramaic Loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 911–612 B.C. by Zack Cherry 9789521095047
RRP: €71.34€61.95Apologies 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)... -
Saddam Hussein and the United States: The Hidden Truth by N a Sohal 9781539346333
RRP: €7.13€6.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539346333Author N a SohalFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Sayfo - an Account of the Assyrian Genocide by Adeb Mshiho Neman
RRP: €107.10€95.89Apologies 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: €35.70€19.65Apologies 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: €96.33€84.14Although 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: €99.90€87.91This 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: €72.53€61.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521095016Author Shigeo YamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of HelsinkiPublisher University of HelsinkiWeight(grams) 567g -
Order out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq by David Siddhartha Patel
RRP: €34.50€29.11Order 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
€33.94The 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: €124.95€111.61Learning 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... -
Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad Alissa Walter 9781503641426
RRP: €33.31€28.31Contested 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: €138.04€117.33Contested 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: €29.75€25.29Land 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: €29.74€25.28Apologies 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