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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: £10.27Apologies 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
Booksplease Price: £24.08Providing 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: £110.35Dupuytren'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: £23.78As 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: £113.04Apologies 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: £29.10Apologies 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: £41.08This 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: £23.78While 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: £14.56Apologies 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... -
Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban by William Maley 9781850653608
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78This 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: £18.85Despite 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... -
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?... -
Seychelles Since 1770: The History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society by Deryck Scarr
Booksplease Price: £18.88A 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... -
Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East by Gregory Shapland 9781850652144
Booksplease Price: £34.60Intensifying 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 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... -
Hizb-ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party by Reza Pankhurst
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.14Although 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... -
In Quest for God and Freedom: Sufi Naqshbandi Brotherhood of the North Caucasus by Anna Zelkina 9781850653844
Booksplease Price: £45.72This 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,... -
Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present by Christian C. Sahner
Booksplease Price: £19.19As 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 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 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... -
Croatia: A History by Ivo Goldstein 9781850655251
Booksplease Price: £18.88When the Roman Empire split in the 4th century AD into the Western and Eastern empires, the boundary between the two stretched from the Montenegrin coast up the river Drina to the confluence of the... -
Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims Since Independence by Mushirul Hasan 9781850653042
Booksplease Price: £16.58This 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: £9.59Although 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... -
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... -
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... -
Heredity and the Ascent of Man by C. C. Hurst 9781107456303
Booksplease Price: £23.65Originally 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... -
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya by Virginie Collombier
Booksplease Price: £41.08Ten 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: £11.95The 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... -
Battle for the Museum: Cultural Institutions in Crisis by Rachel Spence 9781787387751
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.89Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient times—in the case of exhibits and collections, now more than ever. Protests force out patrons and curators, and pressure museums to abandon fossil... -
Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub by Neil C. M. Carrier 9781849044752
Booksplease Price: £21.18Nairobi'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-... -
Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare Gregory Carleton 9781911723639
Booksplease Price: £25.94The Crimean War was the greatest international crisis of the Victorian era, and a modernwar of rifles, railroads and telegraphs. As it raged, two writers embedded in the conflict–the young Russian... -
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism Sean McMeekin 9781911723530
Booksplease Price: £25.94Three 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... -
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult by Raphael Cormack 9781805262749
Booksplease Price: £23.78The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered... -
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History and Society by Ioan Lewis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.89Ioan 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-... -
City of Kashmir: Srinagar, A Popular History Sameer Hamdani 9781911723769
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10City of Kashmir offers readers a journey into the 2,000-year history of Srinagar, exploring its written history, legends and oral traditions to take a living pulse. In exploring the city's geography,... -
Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis by Bruno Macaes 9781805260363
Booksplease Price: £12.81A 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: £18.89Who 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...