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Tough Sell Fighting the Media War in Iraq
ISBN: HB: 9781612349008, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Like the War on Terror, the Media War rages on. More than ever, America's ability to fight and win against ISIS requires that we understand how best to communicate about war in the digital age. Tom Basile takes readers behind the scenes during his ti...
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£25,00
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Near East A Cultural History
ISBN: HB: 9781849047968, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilisation in the fo...
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£20,00
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Lawrence of Arabia's War The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
ISBN: PB: 9780300226393, Yale University Press, April 2017
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., maps
Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first...
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£16,99
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Jerusalem 1900 The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities
ISBN: HB: 9780226188232, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 table
Perhaps the most contested patch of earth in the world, Jerusalem's Old City experiences consistent violent unrest between Israeli and Palestinian residents, with seemingly no end in sight. Today, Jerusalem's endless cycle of riots and arrests appear...
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£34,00
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Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran From Tribal to Global
ISBN: HB: 9781849047081, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since 2002 Sunni jihadi groups like Jaysh al-'Adl have been active in Iranian Baluchistan, yet the region remains relatively stable. Dudoignon's book shows that the key reason for this is Tehran's cultivation of good relations...
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£60,00
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Neoliberal Apartheid Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994
ISBN: PB: 9780226430096, ISBN: HB: 9780226429922, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
In recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Qatar Securing the Global Ambitions of a City-State
ISBN: HB: 9781849043250, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Rarely has a state changed its character so completely in so short a period of time. Previously content to play a role befitting its small size, Qatar was a traditional, risk-averse Gulf monarchy until the early 1990s. A blood...
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£30,00
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