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The View from King Street: An Essay in Autobiography by Christopher Hurst 9781850653257
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.88Providing both personal and professional revelations about the mid- to late-20th century book trade in England, this is the autobiography of Christopher Hurst, director of C.Hurst & Co. Publishers... -
Dupuytren's Disease: A Scientific Review by Lawrence C. Hurst 9780443114878
RRP: $245.68Booksplease Price: $237.85Dupuytren's Disease: A Scientific Review offers consolidated, up-to-date coverage of both the basic normal (nonpathologic) science and cutting-edge science of this progressive disorder. Drs. Lawrence... -
The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949 by C. M. Woodhouse
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-4, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the communist and government sides. Against a background... -
Sahara and Sudan: v.3: Chad Basin and Bagirmi by Gustav Nachtigal 9780905838472
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $236.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905838472Author Gustav NachtigalFormat HardbackImprint -
America's Covert War in East Africa: Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination by Clara Usiskin 9781849044547
Booksplease Price: $60.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849044547Author Clara UsiskinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
From Grand Duchy to Modern State: Political History of Finland Since 1809 by Osmo Jussila 9781850655282
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $86.46This volume traces the political history of Finland from 1809 to 1998, a history that has been dominated by the country's geopolitical situation as a country that lies between Eastern and Western... -
Parties and Elections in Greece by Richard Clogg 9781850650409
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $31.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850650409Author Richard CloggFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint -
Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban by William Maley 9781850653608
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25This study seeks to penetrate the roots of the Taliban movement on Afghanistan, the factors which contributed to its sudden rise to prominence, and the implications of Taliban mobilization for the... -
The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present by Reza Pankhurst 9781849042512
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25While in the West 'the Caliphate' evokes overwhelmingly negative images, throughout Islamic history it has been regarded as the ideal Islamic polity. In the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and the removal... -
Critical Muslim 28: Narratives by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65How do we communicate meaning in the age of fake news? What is the difference between narrative and information; between ideology and political narrative; between 'narrative fiction' and a story?... -
Languages of Belonging: Islam and Political Culture in Kashmir by Chitralekha Zutshi 9781850657002
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $39.92Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, the few reliable works of history that have appeared on Kashmir insist ahistorically on the existence of a unique Kashmir cultural... -
Hizb-ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party by Reza Pankhurst 9781849044035
Booksplease Price: $95.17Although Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamic political party, regularly holds conferences from Jakarta to Ramallah attended by tens of thousands of people, little is known about the... -
Seychelles Since 1770: The History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society by Deryck Scarr
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $40.40A comprehensive history of the Seychelles, this volume traces its periods of colonisation by France and Britain, the immobile years of the twentieth century, the granting of independence in 1976, and... -
In Quest for God and Freedom: Sufi Naqshbandi Brotherhood of the North Caucasus by Anna Zelkina 9781850653844
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $96.12This text reconstructs the history of the Sufi Naqshbandi brotherhood and its impact on the North Caucasus (Chechnya and Daghestan) in the early 19th century. It draws on Naqshbandi Arabic sources to... -
Critical Muslim 23: Bangladesh by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849048989
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65This issue of Critical Muslim focuses on Bangladesh, with articles exploring its history, culture, politics and future trajectories. There will be essays on female victims of the War of Independence,... -
Hizb-ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party by Reza Pankhurst
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $36.73Although Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamic political party, regularly holds conferences from Jakarta to Ramallah attended by tens of thousands of people, little is known about the... -
Critical Muslim 24: Populism by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65The rise of populism in the US and Europe is the focus of this issue of Critical Muslim. It will explore issues and trends that led to Brexit and the emergence of President Trump. There will be... -
God is No Thing: Coherent Christianity Rupert Shortt 9781805261612
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $20.73Although 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... -
Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East by Gregory Shapland 9781850652144
RRP: $78.75Booksplease Price: $72.87Intensifying competition for scarce water resources, the result of rapid population growth and the drive for economic development, has added to the precarious politics of the Middle East and has the... -
Critical Muslim 18: Cities by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849046268
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Hassan Mahamdallie walks the streets of Detroit - the city America allowed to die, Ziauddin Sardar visits the 'first city' at the crossroads of Asia, Boyd Tonkin is shocked at the new gleaming... -
Critical Muslim 49: Scotland by Ziauddin Sardar 9781787389588
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65There is more to Scotland than the intensifying debate on independence. This is a rich land, with a rich culture and past that defy commonly held stereotypes of the Scottish people. But their nation... -
Critical Muslim 22: Utopia by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Hassan Mahamdallie gets spiritual in a commune; Marco Lauri visits Ibn Tufayl's twelfth-century island utopia Hayy Ibn Yaqdan; Malise Ruthven interrogates modernity and Islamic utopias, Nazry Bahrawi... -
Critical Muslim 31: Climate by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65As we teeter on the brink of climate collapse, this issue of Critical Muslim asks how we got here and whether environmental catastrophe can be averted. From the arid plains of Andalusia to landlocked... -
Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims Since Independence by Mushirul Hasan 9781850653042
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $35.51This 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... -
Critical Muslim 27: Beauty by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65How do we identify and judge beauty? Does it distract us from more pressing questions and issues? Is beauty the handmaiden of privilege? Or can it be found in everyday, ordinary things? Whatever... -
Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present by Christian C. Sahner
Booksplease Price: $42.21As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. Among the Ruins blends... -
Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare Gregory Carleton 9781911723639
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $54.75The Crimean War was the greatest international crisis of the Victorian era, and a modernwar of rifles, railroads and telegraphs. As it raged, two writers embedded in the conflict–the young Russian... -
The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust Rosie Whitehouse 9781805261629
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $33.03One 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... -
City of Kashmir: Srinagar, A Popular History Sameer Hamdani 9781911723769
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.28City of Kashmir offers readers a journey into the 2,000-year history of Srinagar, exploring its written history, legends and oral traditions to take a living pulse. In exploring the city's geography,... -
Critical Muslim 17: Extreme by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Samia Rahman argues there is more to the Muslim world than extremism, Anne Alexander wonders at the rise and rise of ISIS, John Sweeney suggests we are living in an age of extremes, Raza Ali... -
Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $68.33Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resistance to democracy. Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges... -
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism Sean McMeekin 9781911723530
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $54.75Three decades since the Soviet Union’s collapse prompted Francis Fukuyama to proclaim the ‘End of History’, things look different. Russia may no longer be Communist, but Stalin is more admired there... -
A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Tex by Kama Maclean
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.82Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), A Revolutionary History delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed... -
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space Bleddyn E. Bowen 9781805266075
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.88An 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... -
Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century by Joshua Craze 9781850659020
Booksplease Price: $123.40"The Kingdom" brings together a fascinating selection of writings on contemporary Saudi Arabia by a diverse group of authors, and includes contributions by such established figures as Madawi... -
Britain and Europe: A Short History by Jeremy Black 9781787381186
Booksplease Price: $60.61Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the... -
Critical Muslim 08: Men in Islam by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849043175
Booksplease Price: $57.31A great deal has been said and written about 'women in Islam' - from how they should behave and dress to their 'duties' and position in society. Muslim men, on the other hand, have escaped all... -
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya by Virginie Collombier
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $86.46Ten years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country--what has happened to inter-community and inter-personal relations, to... -
Newcastle United Stole My Heart: Sixty Years in Black and White by Michael Chaplin 9781805260394
Booksplease Price: $25.70The magnificent story of a writer’s lifelong obsession with his city and its football club. When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of ships in the late 1950s, he looked in vain for... -
Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present by Benedict Carton 9781850659082
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $144.12What does it mean to be Zulu today? Does being Zulu today differ from what it meant in the past? Zulu Identities wrestles with these and many other related questions to show how the characteristic...