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Communications in Africa, 1880-1939, Volume 4 by David Sunderland
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and... -
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin 9780691197098
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in... -
The Unfinished Leader: Balancing Contradictory Answers to Unsolvable Problems David L. Dotlich 9781118455098
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.59With the demands of technology, transparency, and constant connectedness, and calls for higher performance, leaders from the front line to the C-suite face complex dilemmas that cannot be easily... -
Dongola: A Novel of Nubia by Idris Ali 9781557285317
Booksplease Price: £25.56The University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation, 1997In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated, Awad Shalali, a Nubian worker in modern Egypt, dreams of Dongola-the... -
Metro: A Graphic Novel by Magdy El Shafee 9780805094886
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.01When Shihab runs afoul of a loan shark, all avenues of salvation in Mubarak's corrupt, oppressive Egypt are closed to him but one: robbing a bank. Things go wrong: In their blow against their... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together... -
Intersections: Art and Islamic Cosmopolitanism Melia Belli Bose 9781683401971
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.62This richly illustrated volume highlights the history of Islamic cosmopolitanism as documented through works of art from the eighth century to the present; from the Mediterranean, North Africa, South... -
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt by Hibba Abugideiri
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration... -
Mass Culture, Popular Culture, And Social Life In The Middle East by Georg Stauth 9780367155292
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book presents a collection of papers having a common theme in the question of modernity and mass culture. Two papers discuss aspects of this theme in a general, global context, all the others... -
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History by Craig Perry 9780691263571
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry... -
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Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas 9780007173549 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.32A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old... -
Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential by Heba Gowayed
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequalityAs the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon... -
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan 9780691166780
Booksplease Price: £74.20In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim... -
Unnatural Leadership: Going Against Intuition and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts David L. Dotlich (CDR International Consulting Firm) 9780787956189
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £23.89Written by David Dotlich and Peter Cairo-- two of the country's top executive coaches and educators-- Unnatural Leadership debunks the common notion of the natural leader as a flawless figure. The... -
Egypt: A Short History by Robert L. Tignor 9780691153070
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.70This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and... -
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini 9780691144870
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.17In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in... -
Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor: During the Years 1817 & 1818 by Charles Leonard Irby 9781850770824
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.54'On the 14th August, 1816, the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles, Commanders in the Royal Navy, left England with the intention of making a tour on the continent. This journey they were led... -
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 by Peter Cole
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and... -
Dark Water by Parker Bilal 9781408864517
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89'A wonderfully written, compelling thriller that gives an exhilarating depiction of contemporary Egypt' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent When Marcus Winslow appears at Private... -
Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700 by Ron Harris
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporationBefore the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was... -
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.12In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim... -
Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East by Christopher M. Schroeder 9781137279446
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Despite the world's elation at the Arab Spring, shockingly little has changed politically in the Middle East; even frontliners Egypt and Tunisia continue to suffer repression, fixed elections, and... -
Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech?... -
The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats: Volume 1 Travis Elborough 9780711268722
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £7.88Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Some truly remarkable works of literature... -
Where the World Was by Rosemary Sullivan 9781773102818
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76"As a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that . . . you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their... -
City of Gold by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'A superb example of Deighton's craft' Robert HarrisJanuary 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German... -
The Day of Ahmed's Secret by Florence Parry Heide
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Ahmed drives his donkey cart through the streets of Cairo, delivering butane gas cylinders to his father's customers. He knows everyone and has a part to play in the life of the city. He is proud to... -
Integrating GIS, Remote Sensing, and Mathematical Modelling for Surface Water Quality Management in Irrigated Watersheds: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis by Amel Moustafa Azab
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39The intensive use of limited water resources, the growing population rates and the various increasing human activities put high and continuous stresses on these resources. Major problems affecting... -
Robert Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer (from 1923 to 1938) by Israel Katz 9789004431959
Booksplease Price: £117.59Robert Lachmann's letters to Henry George Farmer, from the years 1923-38, provide insightful glimpses into his life and his progressive research projects. From an historical perspective, they offer... -
New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey Bulent Batuman (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9781138953291
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in... -
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of... -
Gender in the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Budin
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Gender in the Ancient Near East is a wide-ranging study through text and art that presents our current understanding of gender constructs in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the... -
Mosquito Intruder Pilot: A Young Pilot s WW2 Experiences in Europe and the Far East by Walsh, Jeremy 9781399084772
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Ben Walsh lied about his age to join the RAF, determined to play his part in the Second World War. He volunteered to be an intruder pilot, flying low level operations in the dark. Initially flying... -
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in... -
The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement - Updated Edition by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.99Following the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rise and dramatic fall for the future of democratic... -
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939 1945 by Edwards, Bernard
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and... -
Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment by Heba Allah Essam E. Khalil 9780367377816
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment is a study of energy crisis, urbanisation, and climate change, as well as a discussion of how to combat these global challenges. With a special focus on... -
The Animals of Ancient Egypt Then and Now Richard Hoath 9781913679828
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The Animals of Ancient Egypt Then and Now provides a simultaneous guide to some 60 species of mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and invertebrate recorded in modern Egypt and also portrayed... -
Guard of the Dead: A Novel George Yarak 9789774169106
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Abir scrapes a living in a Beirut hospital morgue by night, stealing from both the bodies he tends and his bosses. But he has a dark history that continues to haunt him. Earlier in the civil war, he... -
Prisoner of the Levant: by Darina Al Joundi by Darina Al Joundi 9781802078756
Booksplease Price: £57.29“I had a dream that women, all women, will hold their heads high, that women will work, that in their eyes we will no longer see fear or defeat or humiliation. That women will never again be shackled...