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Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin
ISBN: PB: 9781849049337, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
208 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders...
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£12,99
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Dreamers How Young Indians are Changing the World
ISBN: PB: 9781849049078, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! 600 million Indians, more than half the population, are under twenty-five. This generation lives between extremes: more connected and global than ever, but with narrow ideas of Indian identity; raised with the cultural values o...
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£14,99
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Longing for Wide and Unknown Things The Life of Alexander von Humboldt
ISBN: HB: 9781849048903, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the hi...
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£25,00
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Syria The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State
ISBN: HB: 9781849048767, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread...
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£20,00
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Hunger and Fury The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans
ISBN: PB: 9781849048927, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tendencies of the region's entr...
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£20,00
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Vintage Humour The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas
ISBN: HB: 9781849048972, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Abu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy,...
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£18,99
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Quicksilver War Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9781849048682, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
240 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Quicksilver War" is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the "Arab Spring" and eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic and constantly shifting...
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£20,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 25 Values
ISBN: PB: 9781849049719, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What are values and how do we define them? Are there specific Islamic values? Do universal core values exist? How do we pass on appropriate values to future generations? This issue of "Critical Muslim" tackles these questions,...
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£14,99
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