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Israel in the Middle East Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780874519624, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2007
650 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This timely anthology, completely revised and updated from the original edition in 1984, provides convenient access to the most significant documents of the Zionist movement since 1882 and of Israel's domestic and foreign policy issues between 1948 a...
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£36,00
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Ashen Sky The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius
ISBN: HB: 9780892369003, Getty Publications, November 2007
40 pp., 21.5x19 cm, 16 detailed relief engravings
Pliny the Younger (61-112 AD) was a Roman official and writer. He has become famous for his two letters to the historian Tacitus, which detail his eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD which took the life of his uncle, Pliny...
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£14,99
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Pots and Plays Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.
ISBN: HB: 9780892368075, Getty Publications, November 2007
304 pp., 28x28 cm, 76 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.
Greek painted pottery from the fourth century BC is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. "Pots and Plays" is a thorough and insightful re-evaluation of over 100 Greek vases – mostly from...
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£60,00
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
ISBN: HB: 9780226293257, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
260 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour plates
Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U. S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as l...
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£28,00
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Iraq of Its Regions Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?
ISBN: PB: 9781850658757, Hurst Publishers, November 2007
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime may have marked a watershed in Iraqi history, but to the majority of Iraq s eighteen governorates, the most dramatic challenges may lie ahead. With the formation of federal entities south of...
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£40,00
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Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9781850658733, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Announcements of an impending victory over the Taliban have been repeated ad nauseam since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, particularly after the Presidential elections of 2004, which were said to have marked the 'm...
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£22,00
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Elusive Compromise A History of Interwar Yugoslavia
ISBN: PB: 9781850658641, ISBN: HB: 9781850658511, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
310 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian,...
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£45,00
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Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe A Report on the Disturbances in Matebeleland and the Midlands, 1980-88
ISBN: PB: 9781850658900, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! It is ten years since the original publication of "Breaking the Silence: A Report on the Disturbances in Matebeleland and the Midlands". In conjunction with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and the Legal Resources...
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£35,00
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Playing Politics with Terrorism A User's Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781850658634, ISBN: HB: 9781850658474, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
334 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While governments are obliged to protect society and bring terrorists to justice, their effectiveness in tackling terrorism without undermining the support of the population for law and order or jeopardising basic liberties is...
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£17,99
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£45,00
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German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940
ISBN: HB: 9781851243563, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
80 pp., 17x11 cm, 12 maps, 24 black&white illus.
"I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it" – Adolph Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a pl...
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