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Black Flags of the Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot by Dr Simon Cottee
Booksplease Price: $104.14The Caribbean does not immediately come to mind when we think about ISIS - and yet, in 2017, Trinidad and Tobago ranked first place in the list of western countries with the highest rates of... -
A Short History of the Crimean War by Trudi Tate 9781848858619
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.65The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported... -
The Origins of ISIS: The Collapse of Nations and Revolution in the Middle East by Simon Mabon 9781784536961
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.41The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military... -
On the Religious Frontier by Firouzeh Mostashari 9781784539184
Booksplease Price: $48.67Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the... -
Cities: An Environmental History by Prof. Ian Douglas 9781845117962
Booksplease Price: $36.86Cities are amongst our greatest creations. Yet, with cities now home to over half the world's population, there is increasing concern over their unchecked expansion and the detrimental effect this is... -
The Formation of the UAE: State-Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East by Kristi Barnwell 9781838605278
Booksplease Price: $116.84December 2, 1971 ushered the United Arab Emirates into existence and marked the end of one hundred fifty years of British protection of the Arab states of the Gulf. Today, the UAE projects an image... -
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Volume 2: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide by Mark Levene 9781780763736
Booksplease Price: $37.24Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth-century phenomenon. In The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide, Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins... -
The Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity in the Middle East by Harriet Allsopp 9781784533939
Booksplease Price: $36.86In September 2014, the Kurdish Syrian city of Kobane was subjected to a massive attack by fighters of the movement Islamic State (IS). As a result, the plight of the Kurds of Syria became known... -
The Mission and the Kingdom: Wahhabi Power Behind the Saudi Throne by David Dean Commins 9781784536824
Booksplease Price: $23.45In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden's attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed this conservative interpretation of Islam that is... -
The Poets of Alexandria by Susan A. Stephens 9781848858800
Booksplease Price: $26.70Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most... -
Dance, Diversity and Difference by Rosemary Martin 9781784539795
Booksplease Price: $132.24The countries surrounding the Baltic Sea - Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden - have experienced immense social and political change, from the... -
Reckless Fellows by Edward Bujak 9781784534424
Booksplease Price: $60.99The Royal Flying Corps, later the Royal Air Force, was formed in 1912 and went to war in 1914 where it played a vital role in reconnaissance, supporting the British Expeditionary Force as 'air... -
The Gendered Motorcycle: Representations in Society, Media and Popular Culture by Esperanza Miyake 9781788313544
Booksplease Price: $123.18What happens to gender at 120mph? Are Harley-Davidsons more masculine than Yamahas? The Gendered Motorcycle answers such questions through a critical examination of motorcycles in film, advertising... -
State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia: Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Roman Krakovsky 9781784539146
Booksplease Price: $144.65Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a... -
Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism by John M. Court 9781845117597
Booksplease Price: $35.58Embracing two thousand years of intense and fiery admonition, "Approaching the Apocalypse" offers students of religion, history and politics the definitive handbook to Doomsday. Ideas about... -
The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies by Hugh B. Urban 9781845118747
Booksplease Price: $36.86In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock. For European colonizers, Orientalist scholars and... -
Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition by Lena Larsen 9781784537401
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.12Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice. In Islam, as in... -
A Short History of the American Civil War by Paul Christopher Anderson
Booksplease Price: $24.17The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least... -
Frantz Fanon: A Political Biography by Leo Zeilig
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.65Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century's most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism has been an inspiration to today's decolonization and... -
Irregular War: The New Threat from the Margins by Paul Rogers
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.47The world has changed. Rather than a clash of civilisations, the West now faces revolts from the margins, driven by widening economic divisions, rising global elites and dangerous environmental... -
Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.47Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one which had seismic effects on the politics and constitution of... -
Strolling through Florence: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City by Mario Erasmo 9781780762142
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.95To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the... -
Journalism in an Age of Terror: Covering and Uncovering the Secret State by John Lloyd 9781784537081
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $7.87The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data... -
The World According to Xi: Everything You Need to Know About the New China by Kerry Brown 9781788313285
Booksplease Price: $19.62China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the... -
Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus by Tabitha Morgan 9781784533052
Booksplease Price: $34.31On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonise... -
Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali by Reza Shan Kazemi 9781845115265
Booksplease Price: $33.05Ali b. Abi Talib, son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, first Shi'i imam and fourth caliph, is a monumental figure within the Islamic tradition. But despite the immense importance of Imam... -
Scanderbeg by Harry Hodgkinson 9781850439417
Booksplease Price: $29.23This is the first biography of the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg (1403-1468), published in England for more than four hundred years. The son of a prince of N Albania, he was educated in the... -
Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement by Vanessa Corby 9781845115449
Booksplease Price: $39.78Here is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth century art. Using exciting new feminist approaches and... -
Doctor Who - Twelfth Night: Adventures in Time and Space with Peter Capaldi by Andrew O'Day 9781788313636
Booksplease Price: $34.31Peter Capaldi's Doctor Who - unpredictable, embattled, mercurial - has raised many fresh issues for followers of the Time Lord. In this book, the first to address the Capaldi era in depth,... -
Speedbird: The Complete History of BOAC by Robin Higham 9781780764627
Booksplease Price: $93.94Between 1939 and 1946 BOAC (the British Overseas Airways Corporation) was the nationalised airline of Great Britain - and between 1946 and 1974 as such it exclusively operated all long-haul British... -
Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Michael D. Berdine 9781838604677
Booksplease Price: $47.01The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East. Yet its co-creator, Sir Mark Sykes, had far more involvement in British Middle East strategy during... -
Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights by Derek Conrad Murray 9781784532871
Booksplease Price: $33.05What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of 'blackness' as a set of visual, cultural and intellectual concerns? In Queering Post-Black Art, Derek Conrad Murray... -
From the President's Office: A Journey Towards Reconciliation in a Divided Cyprus by George Vassiliou 9781848854116
Booksplease Price: $79.14When George Vassiliou was elected President in 1988, it was a surprise to many people in the international community, both within Cyprus and abroad. Not affiliated to any political party, despite his... -
The Hare Krishna Movement: Forty Years of Chant and Change by Graham Dwyer 9781845114077
Booksplease Price: $85.49The Hare Krishna Movement is popularly associated with groups of chanting, saffron-robed followers, whose colourful appearance on the streets of western cities became increasingly commonplace after... -
The Fog of Peace: How to Prevent War by Giandomenico Picco 9781780768977
Booksplease Price: $72.41Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals. This book argues that the most important aspect of conflict... -
Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East by Ezgi Basaran 9781784538415
Booksplease Price: $54.64Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed... -
The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought: A Historical Survey of the Major Muslim Political Thinkers of the Modern Era by Abdelilah Belkeziz 9781780766492
Booksplease Price: $35.58In any debate on 'Islam' and 'Modernity', the notion of the state looms large. Abdelillah Belkeziz here charts the development of the concept of 'the state' (al-Dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the... -
Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory by Jacob Lassner 9780755602094
Booksplease Price: $35.58How is the complex history of the ancient Near East and Islamic World brought to bear in contemporary political discourse? In this book, Medieval Near Eastern historian Jacob Lassner explores the... -
Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of 'Post Crisis' by Dion Kagan 9781784534196
Booksplease Price: $131.85A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period commonly called 'The AIDS Crisis'. With the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid '90s, however,... -
The Fog of Peace: How to Prevent War by Giandomenico Picco 9781784536800
Booksplease Price: $23.84Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals. This book argues that the most important aspect of conflict...