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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 < -
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: £113.26Dupuytren'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: £25.00Booksplease 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
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £112.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905838472Author Gustav NachtigalFormat HardbackImprint -
From Grand Duchy to Modern State: Political History of Finland Since 1809 by Osmo Jussila 9781850655282
RRP: £45.00Booksplease 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... -
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... -
America's Covert War in East Africa: Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination by Clara Usiskin 9781849044547
Booksplease Price: £28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849044547Author Clara UsiskinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
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... -
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 -
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?... -
Languages of Belonging: Islam and Political Culture in Kashmir by Chitralekha Zutshi 9781850657002
RRP: £19.95Booksplease 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... -
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... -
In Quest for God and Freedom: Sufi Naqshbandi Brotherhood of the North Caucasus by Anna Zelkina 9781850653844
RRP: £50.00Booksplease 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... -
Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East by Gregory Shapland 9781850652144
RRP: £37.50Booksplease 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... -
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,... -
Hizb-ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party by Reza Pankhurst 9781849044035
Booksplease Price: £44.36Although 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: £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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 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... -
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... -
The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust Rosie Whitehouse 9781805261629
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73One 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... -
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... -
Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.54Analysis 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... -
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... -
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro Elizabeth Roberts 9781911723332
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly 90 years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first... -
Critical Muslim 14: Power by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Ziauddin Sardar explores the limits of power, Barnaby Rogerson is enchanted with the notion of governance in the life of Prophet Muhammad, Bruce Lawrence deconstructs the idea of AoIslamic State',... -
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya by Virginie Collombier
RRP: £45.00Booksplease 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... -
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... -
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines 9781911723295
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.19'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC’s authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi’s China as... -
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-... -
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History and Society by Ioan Lewis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the... -
Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation by Antonia Finnane
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth-... -
General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat: A New Biography John Kiszely 9781805265924
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24General Lord Ismay's name is little known today, but he participated in, and was witness to, decision-making at the highest level of government, before, during and after the Second World War... -
The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics 1908-14 by Feroz Ahmad
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88This book, first published in 1973, was regarded on publication as the definitive study of the 'Young Turks', or Committee of Union and Progress, the name given to a group of Turkish army officers... -
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...