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Spear to the West Thought and Recruitment in Violent Jihadism
ISBN: PB: 9781787381308, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
152 pp., 19x12.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! With the seeming defeat of ISIS, has jihadism disappeared from world politics? In this startling new book, Stephen Chan uncovers the ideological foundations that allow ISIS and other jihadi groups to survive, as they propagate...
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£12,99
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Bombay Before Mumbai Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos
ISBN: HB: 9781787381483, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "City of Gold", "Urbs Prima in Indis", "Maximum City": no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay....
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£40,00
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Under Red Skies The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial
ISBN: HB: 9781787381759, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understa...
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£20,00
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Humanitarian Wars? Lies and Brainwashing
ISBN: PB: 9781787382169, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
120 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the eyes of Rony Brauman of Medecins Sans Frontieres, wars are always triggered in the name of morality. Today's "humanitarian" interventions are little more than new moral crusades – and their justifications are based on li...
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£14,99
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Dictionary of Cantonese Slang The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life
ISBN: PB: 9781849046626, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
492 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Providing a description and analysis of Hong Kong vernacular Cantonese speech styles, notably the language of the Triad-dominated criminal underworld, of teenagers and of Hong Kong movies and comics, this reference text is arra...
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£18,99
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America's Covert War in East Africa Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination
ISBN: PB: 9781849044134, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Clara Usiskin has spent eight years investigating the 'War on Terror' and its effects in the East and Horn of Africa, documenting hundreds of cases of rendition, secret detention and targeted killings. As a result of her work e...
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£17,99
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Everything You Have Told Me Is True The Many Faces of Al Shabaab
ISBN: HB: 9781787381247, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Al Shabaab is one of the century's most successful violent jihadist movements. It has governing power, ruling over millions of Somalis and vast swathes of territory, and kinetic power, committing spectacular acts of violence. B...
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£20,00
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Anglo Nostalgia The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West
ISBN: HB: 9781787381414, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
234 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump promises to "make America great again", Xi Jinping calls for a "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people", and a majority of Russians still mourn the Sov...
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£25,00
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Malevolent Republic India Under Modi
ISBN: HB: 9781787380059, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse count...
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£20,00
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Many Rivers, One Sea Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy
ISBN: PB: 9781849048743, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A perennial frontier for Islamic orthodoxy, Bangladesh is witnessing an alarming rise in Islamist-inspired assassinations and terrorist attacks. In July 2016, the world's attention fell upon a cafe in a leafy Dhaka neighbourhoo...
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£17,99
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