For sale in CIS only! To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium – a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence....

For sale in CIS only! "Blood Year" is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy, by one of its original architects. As a soldier, counterterrorism official, and Chief Strategist in the US Stat...

For sale in CIS only! When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, few Ottomans anticipated that it would prove to be a watershed moment for the Empire, ending in ignominy, national catastrophe, and the loss of its remaining provinces in the...

For sale in CIS only! Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events,...

For sale in CIS only! James M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football – an arena where struggles for political control, protest and resistance, self-respect and gender rights are played out. Politics w...

For sale in CIS only! The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflec...

For sale in CIS only! In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husb...

For sale in CIS only! In 2014 Crimea shapes the headlines much as it did some 160 years ago, when the Crimean War pitted Britain, France and Turkey against Russia. Yet few books have been published on the history of the peninsula. For many readers,...

For sale in CIS only! Hassan Mahamdallie walks the streets of Detroit – the city America allowed to die; Ziauddin Sardar visits the "first city" at the crossroads of Asia; Boyd Tonkin is shocked at the new gleaming cultural capitals of Dubai and Abu...

For sale in CIS only! Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the "Shabaab", or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ay...