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The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema Michelle Langford 9780755660216
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $70.18A state-of-the-art overview of new research in Iranian cinema, covering documentary, fiction art house and popular films and filmmakers, from a range of interdisciplinary approaches. -
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East Fatma Müge Göçek 9780755660162
Booksplease Price: $81.24What we understand by the 'Middle East' has changed over time and across space. While scholars agree that the geographical 'core' of the Middle East is the Arabian Peninsula, the boundaries are less... -
Franco by Enrique Moradiellos
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $88.74On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the head of a dictatorial regime with the title of 'Caudillo' for... -
Marvel's Mutants: The X-Men Comics of Chris Claremont by Miles Booy
Booksplease Price: $40.37In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn't used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the... -
A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq Liora Lukitz 9781850434153
Booksplease Price: $130.57Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archeologist, traveller and "orientalist". Belonging to the tradition of the great British Middle East enthusiasts of the... -
Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir by Mike Chopra-Gant
Booksplease Price: $58.23This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge... -
Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures by Griselda Pollock
Booksplease Price: $56.90Activists working in post-traumatic societies have tended to resist psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual suffering displaces the collective and political causes of... -
Visitors to Verona: Lovers, Gentlemen and Adventurers by Caroline Webb
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $87.26Even before the advent of mass tourism, Verona was a popular destination for travellers, including those undertaking the popular 'Grand Tour' across Europe. In this book, Caroline Webb compares the... -
Libya's Fragmentation by Wolfram Lacher
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $46.22Shortlisted for the Conflict Research Society's 2021 Book of the Year Prize Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society 2021 Book Prize After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in... -
Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence by Dr Anna Borshchevskaya
Booksplease Price: $42.74"Skillfully lays out Mr. Putin's approach to the Middle East." Wall Street Journal "Detailed and fascinating." Diplomatic Courier Putin intervened in Syria in September 2015, with international... -
Building a New Yemen: Recovery, Transition and the International Community by Noel Brehony
Booksplease Price: $217.72Yemen has faced continuing crises since 2010. The fighting and divisions have destroyed much of Yemen's physical, political and social infrastructure, undermining its tribal traditions and religious... -
The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States: Deploying Aid, Investment and Development Across the MENAP Karen E. Young 9780755646661
Booksplease Price: $42.69This book is a study of a shift in the politics and finance of development from one centered in the institutions and ideas of the post-World War II global political economy to the emergence of... -
Mosul under ISIS: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in the Caliphate by Mathilde Becker Aarseth
Booksplease Price: $51.87The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ruled Mosul from 2014-2017 in accordance with its extremist interpretation of sharia. But beyond what is known about ISIS governance in the city from the... -
History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires by Christoph Baumer
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.16"Magnificent [and] wondrous." The Spectator "Rich and illuminating." Literary Review "Phenomenally accurate." History Today "Stunning." The Morning Star "Sweeping." The New European "A... -
Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.24Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners... -
Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East by Soner Cagaptay
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.40Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the... -
Affirming the Imamate: Early Fatimid Teachings in the Islamic West: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Works attributed to Abu 'Abd Allah al-Shi'i and his Brother by Wilferd Madelung
Booksplease Price: $54.19I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The two sermons edited and translated here for the first time are primary material from the years before the establishment of the... -
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker: Surviving the Great Fire of London by Hazel Forsyth
Booksplease Price: $73.05Hazel Forsyth delvesin to never-before-studied primary sources to shed light on thedramatic aftermath of the disaster and reveal the very personalstories of the people who pieced their lives together... -
Triple-Axis: Iran's Relations with Russia and China by Ariane Tabatabai
Booksplease Price: $46.43The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the... -
The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa by Tony Karbo
Booksplease Price: $53.78The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa. Today, however, the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating... -
Kosovo Divided by Marius Calu
Booksplease Price: $218.65Given the recent revival of nationalism in many parts of the world in tandem with new conflicts and forms of interventionism, this book uses the case of Kosovo to discuss some of key problems around... -
Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond by Wafi A. Momin 9780755645374
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $95.67The past few decades have seen a burgeoning of interest in the manuscript cultures of the Muslim world. The study of manuscripts has brought to light new perspectives on the transmission of texts and... -
Photography after Postmodernism: Barthes, Stieglitz and the Art of Memory David Bate 9781845115029
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $47.54In life after postmodernism our conception of photography is not the same as before. Photography After Postmodernism starts with this conception and explores what changes have affected photography,... -
Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf: State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE by Courtney Freer 9780755644896
Booksplease Price: $52.69Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book... -
A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery by Kenneth Morgan 9781780763873
Booksplease Price: $32.04From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the... -
A Short History of the Etruscans by Corinna Riva 9781780766157
Booksplease Price: $36.54Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans left... -
Europe Reset by Richard Youngs 9781788310574
Booksplease Price: $43.99In the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. In light of this, questions have been raised about... -
Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech by Ronan Lee 9780755602476
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.71The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings... -
The Emperor Jahangir: Power and Kingship in Mughal India by Lisa Balabanlilar 9780755640553
Booksplease Price: $49.96Jahangir was the fourth of the six "Great Mughals," the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj... -
The Shari'a: History, Ethics and Law by Amyn Sajoo 9781788313162
Booksplease Price: $79.852019 Choice Outstanding Academic title I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Why is the term shari?a-the mention of which conjures up images of a politicised religion... -
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Reading "Little Britain": Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television by Sharon Lockyer 9781845119393
Booksplease Price: $46.43'Little Britain' arrived on British TV in 2003 - and was an instant hit. Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote and performed, and their sharp satirical genius created this character-based sketch show -... -
A Venture in Africa: The Challenges of African Business by Andrew Sardanis 9781845112882
Booksplease Price: $128.64This is a vivid personal history of an international business career. "A Venture in Africa" takes the reader through the twists and turns of doing business with African states and leaders in the... -
The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature by Remke Kruk 9781848859272
Booksplease Price: $61.05Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic... -
Ovid by Carole E. Newlands 9781848859302
Booksplease Price: $48.52Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17/18) who has the most enduring legacy... -
Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe by Paul Lendvai 9781860642685
Booksplease Price: $119.55Paul Lendvai, born a Hungarian Jew, was arrested by the Nazis as a teenager, became a young communist activist in post-war Budapest, was arrested by the communists, again survived as one of the... -
Iranian-Saudi Rivalry since 1979: In the Words of Kings and Clerics by Talal Mohammad 9780755634729
Booksplease Price: $231.68The fraught relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is usually attributed to sectarian differences, even by the states' own elites. However, this book shows that in their official speeches,... -
The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso by Elizabeth Prettejohn 9781848859036
Booksplease Price: $55.71What can modern art have to do with ancient sculpture? Surely the excitement of modern art lies in its utter repudiation of classical example? Elizabeth Prettejohn's important and revisionist new... -
People Power: Why We Need More Migrants Giles Merritt (Friends of Europe, Brussels) 9780755606535
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $90.27Migration is one of the fundamental driving forces of change in the modern world. As regions such as the Middle East continue to experience instability, climate change is driving migration from... -
Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean: The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans by Phillip Williams 9781784533755
Booksplease Price: $57.62In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781784534851
Booksplease Price: $119.63Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953. However, in one country - Albania - Stalinism survived...