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The Humble Seeker of Happiness: Lessons in Joy from the Book of Mormon by Dane C Hurst 9798218325787
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218325787Author Dane C HurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Dane C. HurstPublisher Dane C... -
The View from King Street: An Essay in Autobiography by Christopher Hurst 9781850653257
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.23Providing 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: £116.99Booksplease Price: £110.11Dupuytren'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
Booksplease Price: £23.93As 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
Booksplease Price: £112.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905838472Author Gustav NachtigalFormat HardbackImprint C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdPublisher C... -
America's Covert War in East Africa: Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination by Clara Usiskin 9781849044547
Booksplease Price: £30.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849044547Author Clara UsiskinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers... -
From Grand Duchy to Modern State: Political History of Finland Since 1809 by Osmo Jussila 9781850655282
Booksplease Price: £41.17This 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... -
The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present by Reza Pankhurst 9781849042512
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93While 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... -
Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban by William Maley 9781850653608
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93This 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... -
Languages of Belonging: Islam and Political Culture in Kashmir by Chitralekha Zutshi 9781850657002
Booksplease Price: £19.01Despite 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... -
Parties and Elections in Greece by Richard Clogg 9781850650409
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850650409Author Richard CloggFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers... -
Seychelles Since 1770: The History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society by Deryck Scarr
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24A 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... -
Critical Muslim 28: Narratives by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88How 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?... -
Hizb-ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party by Reza Pankhurst
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Although 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... -
Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East by Gregory Shapland 9781850652144
Booksplease Price: £34.70Intensifying 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... -
In Quest for God and Freedom: Sufi Naqshbandi Brotherhood of the North Caucasus by Anna Zelkina 9781850653844
Booksplease Price: £45.77This 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88This 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,... -
Critical Muslim 24: Populism by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88The 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... -
Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims Since Independence by Mushirul Hasan 9781850653042
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.91This 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... -
God is No Thing: Coherent Christianity Rupert Shortt 9781805261612
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Although 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... -
Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present by Christian C. Sahner
Booksplease Price: £20.10As 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... -
Critical Muslim 49: Scotland by Ziauddin Sardar 9781787389588
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88There 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 27: Beauty by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88How 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... -
Critical Muslim 18: Cities by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849046268
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Hassan 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 22: Utopia by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Hassan 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... -
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism Sean McMeekin 9781911723530
Booksplease Price: £26.07Three 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... -
Critical Muslim 17: Extreme by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Samia 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... -
Heredity and the Ascent of Man by C. C. Hurst 9781107456303
Booksplease Price: £24.64Originally published in 1935, this book was written to provide the general reader with a concise guide to genetics and human evolution. The text begins with a discussion of heredity and genes before... -
Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis by Bruno Macaes 9781805260363
Booksplease Price: £13.11A 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... -
Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent Keir Giles 9781911723486
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defence holiday, outsourcing protection to the United... -
Critical Muslim 31: Climate by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88As 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... -
Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub by Neil C. M. Carrier 9781849044752
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.34Nairobi's Eastleigh estate has undergone pro- found change over the past two decades. Previously a quiet residential zone, the arrival of vast numbers of Somali refugees catalysed its trans-... -
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya by Virginie Collombier
Booksplease Price: £41.17Ten 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: £12.24The 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... -
No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force by Max Smeets 9781805260332
Booksplease Price: £23.93Over the past decade, numerous states have declared cyberspace as a new domain of warfare, sought to develop a military cyber strategy and establish a cyber command. These developments have led to... -
Islam in Inter-war Europe by Natalie Clayer
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.77In the enormous literature on the Muslim world, one of the few gaps in our knowledge is the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, an imbalance this book aims to address. The Muslim population of... -
Africa's Global Infrastructures: South–South Transformations in Practice by Jana Hönke 9781805260226
Booksplease Price: £21.34The boom in South-South relations since the early 2000s has seen a flurry of investment in African infrastructure from emerging markets across the Global South. While the extent to which these... -
Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts by Stefan Wolff 9781850656913
Booksplease Price: £23.93Interest in the study of ethnic conflict has soared over the past decade, partly due to the ethnic conflicts that have erupted violently, especially in central and Eastern Europe after the collapse... -
India's Near East: A New History Avinash Paliwal 9781805260615
Booksplease Price: £32.54India's near east encompasses Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian states of the 'Northeast'--Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. Celebrated as a... -
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century by Barbara Emerson 9781805260578
Booksplease Price: £32.54Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon’s defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the...