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Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place by Mike Martin 9781787389625
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.49In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in... -
New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them by Amrita Narlikar 9781849040778
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.85Being the new kid on the block is seldom easy at any level, and it is certainly not easy in the anarchical world of international politics. New powers such as Brazil, China and India have to tread a... -
The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State by Abdulbasit Kassim 9781849048842
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.53Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing... -
In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan by Asma Faiz 9781787383234
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23Sindhi nationalism is one of the oldest yet least studied cases of identity politics in Pakistan. Ethnic discontent appeared in Sindh in opposition to the rule of the Bombay presidency; to the... -
Critical Muslim 48: Saliha by Ziauddin Sardar 9781805260684
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Saliha, translated, means 'virtuous'. A question becomes timeless not because it lacks an answer, but also because it requires revisiting as contexts change. So, in our ever- changing, post-normal... -
Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements by Samy Cohen 9781787380240
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.40What has become of Israel's peace movement? In the early 1980s, it was a major political force, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets; but since then, its importance has declined amid... -
Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey by Stanley B. Alpern
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86History is rife with tales of fighting women. More often than not, these stories prove more legend than history. Dating back to the Amazons of ancient Asia Minor, myths of fierce, autonomous women of... -
The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic' by Michael H. Fisher 9781849040006
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93The descendant of German and French Catholic mercenaries, a Scots Presbyterian subaltern, and their secluded Indian wives, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre defied all classification in the North Indian... -
Critical Muslim 33: Relics by Ziauddin Sardar 9781787383326
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24The sacred and the revered, the divine and the musealised, relics have long been integral to Islamic practice. Wahhabisation has cast a modernist spectre over celebrated traditions such as the... -
What is a Refugee? by William Maley
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond. What is a Refugee? puts these developments into... -
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla 9781849049955
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73For nearly 40 years, Ronald Reagan's vision--small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism--has remained America's dominant political ideology. The Democratic Party has offered no... -
A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things: The Life of Alexander von Humboldt by Maren Meinhardt 9781849048903
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the... -
Saving Lives and Staying Alive: The Professionalisation of Humanitarian Security by Michael Neuman 9781849046510
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid organisations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the security of their personnel and assets. The management of... -
Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market by Torkel Brekke 9781849046367
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows... -
'Eat the Heart of the Infidel': The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram by 9781849045582
Booksplease Price: £22.42Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious years its cadres have all but severed parts of... -
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story by Gabriele Vom Bruck 9781849049030
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.54Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the... -
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99War in the post-9/11 world is far different from what we expected it be. Counterinsurgency and protracted guerrilla warfare, not shock and awe, are the order of the day. David Kilcullen is the... -
Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf by Mehran Kamrava 9781849042109
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £26.07In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their... -
History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America by Bruno Macaes
Booksplease Price: £13.11Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilisations have always lasted... -
We Are Pilgrims: Journeys in Search of Ourselves by Victoria Preston 9781787383036
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Each year, 200 million of us embark on a pilgrimage of some kind. We have been making ritual journeys for millennia, ever since our ancient ancestors followed migrating animals, coming together to... -
Reading the Qur'an by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849043670
Booksplease Price: £13.11Few books have had a more profound impact on human history than the Qur'an. It shapes the beliefs, lives and behaviour of over 1.5 billion Muslims, who regard it as the Word of God, revealed to the... -
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics by Faisal Devji
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as... -
Pakistan: A New History by Ian Talbot
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.28If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country - the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth - it must face the deterioration of its social and political... -
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot 9781787386044
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.58In 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... -
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86Blood Year is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy and the subsequent rise of Islamic State. As a soldier, counterterrorism official, and... -
When More is Less: The International Project in Afghanistan by Astri Suhrke 9781849041645
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Suhrke sets out to explain why. She begins with the dynamic of the intervention... -
Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising by Stephen Z. Starr
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was 'stable' and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands... -
To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan by Abdullah Anas
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin... -
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.28What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind?... -
The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History by David Lloyd Dusenbury 9781805260288
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem. To this day, Christians of all churches confess that Jesus died... -
From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule by Jeronim Perovic 9781849048941
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.40This book is about a region on the fringes of empire, which neither Tsarist Russia, nor the Soviet Union, nor in fact the Russian Federation, ever really managed to control. Starting with the... -
Faith, Unity, Discipline: The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan by Hein G. Kiessling 9781805260349
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services... -
Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain by Jeremy Seabrook
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain.Yet despite... -
Bluster: Donald Trump's War on Terror by Peter Neumann
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73A sharp condemnation of Trump's counterterrorism policy as a dangerous failure. Donald Trump promised to defeat terrorism, but there is no easy way to make sense of his war on terror. Is it a... -
Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 by Matt Carr
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes... -
Season of Rains: Africa in the World by Stephen Ellis
Booksplease Price: £13.11Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often, it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more... -
How Long Will South Africa Survive?: The Looming Crisis by R. W. Johnson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73In 1977, Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of... -
Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain by Brian A. Catlos 9781787384101
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of... -
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict by Mike Martin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73'An Intimate War' tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined... -
The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam by Roger Hardy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86'We fail to understand Islam,' writes Roger Hardy in the introduction to this book, 'and we are paying a high price for our failure.' "The Muslim Revolt" explains, in layman's language, a phenomenon...