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Parties and Elections in Greece by Richard Clogg 9781850650409
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850650409Author Richard CloggFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint -
God is No Thing: Coherent Christianity Rupert Shortt 9781805261612
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $18.75Although parts of the Western world now appear almost totally secularised, Christianity remains the most potent worldview on earth alongside Islam. In this compelling book, Rupert Shortt gracefully... -
The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust Rosie Whitehouse 9781805261629
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $29.89One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death... -
Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims Since Independence by Mushirul Hasan 9781850653042
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $32.13This book unfolds the recent history of over one hundred million Muslims living in India, details their fears and anxieties, delineates their main currents of thought and examines their responses to... -
Japan: The Burden of Success by Jean-Marie Bouissou 9781850655695
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $31.56On publication in France, Bouissou's depiction of modern Japan was acclaimed as `the best of its kind', and this translation has been updated to cover events up till 1999, and augmented by an... -
Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World Elle Hardy 9781787385894
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $26.20A fascinating exposé of the global revolution you’ve never heard of: a deep-pocketed, tech-savvy Christian movement reshaping our societies from within. How has a Christian movement, founded at the... -
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines 9781911723295
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.06'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC’s authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi’s China as... -
Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis by Bruno Macaes 9781805260363
Booksplease Price: $24.91A sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and climate breakdown usher in a new ‘survival of the fittest’. How well have different cultures and societies responded, and could this become a... -
Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation by Antonia Finnane
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $31.50Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth-... -
Muslim Women and Misogyny: Myths and Misunderstandings by Samia Rahman 9781911723011
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $26.58Muslim women are among the most fetishised and objectified groups in society today. Much is assumed and imagined about their lives, and it is all too easy to succumb to orientalist myths. For too... -
Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century by Hugo Slim 9781911723301
Booksplease Price: $24.91War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk of great-power conflict. Humanitarian response is also evolving... -
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States John Zubrzycki 9781805263098
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $28.23The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India’s last Viceroy, Lord Louis... -
The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares by Phil Tinline 9781805260356
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $28.23Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist... -
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space Bleddyn E. Bowen 9781805266075
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $31.56An eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare. Space technology was developed to enhance the killing power of the state. The Moon landings and the... -
Madagascar: A Short History by Solofo Randrianja
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $33.23Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An island twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the... -
Hope and Despair: Israel's Future in the New Middle East Michael A. Horowitz 9781805265986
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $31.56A frank assessment of Israel’s uncertain place in a region scarred by conflict and insecurity. Where can the country and its people go from here? Days before his country signed a deal to normalise... -
Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity by Faisal Devji
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $26.58The militant Islam represented by Al-Qaeda is often described as a global movement. Apart from the geographical range of its operations and support, little else is held to define it as 'global'... -
Animism: Respecting the Living World by Graham Harvey
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.88Animism' is now an important term for describing ways in which some people understand and engage respectfully with the larger-than-human world. Its central theme is our relationship with our... -
Critical Muslim 39: World Order by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $23.81It is a tragedy that we only appreciate what has already been lost-this is where the concept of a 'world order' first arises in historical memory. The ordering of the world has been a notion observed... -
Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril by Paul Aarts
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $28.23The 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... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $38.23***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased... -
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $63.35In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a... -
The Paradox of German Power by Hans Kundnani
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $29.89A 'German Europe' seems to have emerged from the euro crisis. During the last few years, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Hitler in the European media and on the streets of European... -
Emirati Women: Generations of Change by Jane Bristol-Rhys
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $31.56The discovery of oil in the late 1960s catapulted the people of Abu Dhabi out of the isolating poverty into which it had plunged in the 1930s and onto the global stage. Massive construction projects... -
This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime by Stephen Ellis
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $36.56Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a... -
Critical Muslim 34: Artificial by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $17.39It's not just intelligence that's going artificial! Numerous elements of our everyday life reek of inauthenticity. Even the grass we walk on and the plants we decorate our homes with demonstrate how... -
Critical Muslim 42: Liberty by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $23.81We are often led to believe that liberty is synonymous with freedom--but is that really so? And what does it entail? In this issue of Critical Muslim, we explore who defines the liberty we are told... -
Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $30.84To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in... -
The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture and the Beautiful Game in Brazil by Paulo Fontes
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $30.93Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little... -
I-Muslims: Rewiring the House of Islam by Gary R. Bunt 9781850659501
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $28.23The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. While these electronic interfaces... -
A Person of Pakistani Origins by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $29.89What does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or... -
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past by Firas Alkhateeb
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $21.51Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires... -
Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon by Barry Hatton 9781849049979
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.86Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was... -
Women of Honour: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in Italy's Mafias by Milka Kahn
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $29.89The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade:... -
Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-22 by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Booksplease Price: $24.91Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's 'Great Idea' and of great power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the... -
Crisis in Greece by Peter Siani-Davis
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $32.13Few countries experienced the period of turbulence surrounding the global financial crisis as intensely as Greece. The country topped the global news agenda as images of mass protests in Athens... -
The Invisible Muslim: Journeys Through Whiteness and Islam by Medina Tenour Whiteman 9781787383029
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $31.22Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place-not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In... -
Cyril Ramaphosa: The Path to Power in South Africa by Ray Hartley
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $30.93For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid... -
Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $29.89What does it mean to be Muslim in Britain today? If the media is anything to go by, it has something to do with mosques, community leaders, whether you wear a veil, and your views on religious... -
Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era by Finn Fuglestad
RRP: $104.50Booksplease Price: $95.15The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing...