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Middle East

Audacious Ascetic What Osama Bin Laden's Sound Archive Reveals About Al-Qaeda

Miller Flagg

ISBN: PB: 9781849044677, ISBN: HB: 9781849044844, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. "The Audacious Ascetic" is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic c...

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Asia

Political Science

Fragments of an Unfinished War Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China

Mengin Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9781849044707, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, independence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing m...

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Asia

Business & Economics

Hungry Bengal War, Famine and the End of Empire

Mukherjee Janam

ISBN: HB: 9781849044318, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial...

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World

Political Science

Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to Al-Qaeda

Macrakis Kristie

ISBN: PB: 9780300212600, Yale University Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

"Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies" is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked,...

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Political Science

Polonica

Uncanny Era Conversations between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik

Matynia Elzbieta

ISBN: HB: 9780300204032, Yale University Press, July 2015
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 colour illus.

Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who "...

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Political Science

Second Arab Awakening

Muasher Marwan

ISBN: PB: 9780300212631, ISBN: HB: 9780300186390, Yale University Press, May 2015
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending...

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Political Science

Positive Case for Negative Campaigning

Mattes Kyle, Redlawsk David P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226202167, ISBN: HB: 9780226202020, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 45 tables

Turn on the television or sign in to social media during election season and chances are you'll see plenty of negative campaigning. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that Americans hate negativity in political advertising, and some have even...

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Political Science

Fallout Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture

Mallard Gregoire

ISBN: HB: 9780226157894, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 12 tables

Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis – a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing...

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Law

Political Science

Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash

Magliocca Gerard N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205824, ISBN: HB: 9780300153149, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm

Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach t...

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Political Science

America

Think Tanks in America

Medvetz Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226143668, ISBN: HB: 9780226517292, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 1 map, 12 line illus.

Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are...

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