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Middle East

Saudi Arabia A Kingdom in Peril

Aarts Paul, Roelants Carolien

ISBN: PB: 9781849047227, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared al...

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Political Science

Military

Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Dissenting Japan A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima

Andrews William

ISBN: HB: 9781849045797, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Following the March 2011 Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan. The pos...

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Military

Selling War A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

Alvarez Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347721, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2016
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier di...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Extraterritorial Dreams European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century

Abrevaya Stein Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226368221, ISBN: HB: 9780226368191, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, "Extraterritorial Dreams" explores the history...

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Middle East

Political Science

Muted Modernists The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rasheed Madawi

ISBN: HB: 9781849045865, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previou...

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America

Sovereignty for Survival American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

Allison James Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300206692, Yale University Press, October 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native...

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Middle East

Political Science

Taliban Revival Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: PB: 9780300216165, ISBN: HB: 9780300178845, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliba...

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America

American Census A Social History

Anderson Margo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195422, Yale University Press, September 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, includ...

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Europe

Psychiatry

On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820

Arnaud Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...

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