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Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone that operates as a breeding g...

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist...

Reducere. China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of an...

On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the surprise of many across the globe. Now that Trump is Commander-in-...

Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the st...

The Islamic State movement (ISIS/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian R...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Cyclades are the quintessential Greek isles, renowned for the beauty of their seascapes, their historical monuments, and a unique wa...

Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish l...

Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one which had seis...

DescriptionThe conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between ...

DescriptionThis beautifully illustrated book is intended as background reading for travelers on one of the most popular sections of the Silk Road--...

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and...

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization o...

DescriptionWhether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the ven...

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to b...

DescriptionIn 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, removed her veil in Cairo's train station, she created what became a land...

Reducere. 'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced hist...

Britain is facing big security challenges in the 2020s. The decade to come will not be as favourable as the two past decades. For a country as 'glo...

Reducere. The Qur'an is the sacramental foundation of prayer in Islam. Its inspirational power is perpetually renewed through being recited and meditated upo...

Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys...

On the 29th of June 2014 ISIS declared the establishment of a caliphate stretching across territories in Iraq and Syria. In response, Operation Inh...

Description'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especi...

Reducere. The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines it...

DescriptionIn 1981 a young semi-professional footballer - known as Imam Beckenbauer' for his piety and his dominant style of play - has his career ...

DescriptionBrexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind?Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one whic...

DescriptionAt an auction in Edinburgh in 2010, the sale of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one...

The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone an...

Rupert Murdoch's extraordinary career has no parallel. His control of Fox news, which so successfully supports the Trump presidency, is a key force...

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-198...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized power. Countless local factions carved up th...

In 1479, the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini arrived at the Ottoman court in Istanbul, where he produced his celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed ...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standard...

Reducere. The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlig...

Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career ...

DescriptionAs the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent de...

The world is currently witnessing an Arctic Scramble as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to b...

What do ""Abu Sindi, "" ""Timothy Sean McCormack, "" ""Saro, "" and ""Commander Avo"" all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian...

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most co...

Contributor(s): Author: Tim MurithiAuthor: Tony KarboThe African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security, and development in ...

DescriptionIn this lavishly illustrated work, Zeina Maasri tells the tumultuous story of the struggle for Lebanon through the poster wars which rag...

In his writing on the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan describes the female body as lacking: a mere symptom of man, an obj...

Here is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth centu...

Reducere. George VI was the man not born to be king. He nonetheless rescued the British monarchy in the aftermath of the abdication crisis and cemented its p...

DescriptionDark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of C...

DescriptionRome - Urbs Roma city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imp...

DescriptionSent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the Kin...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapit...

DescriptionWhen I had finished the old lady spoke softly: "It takes great strength to open such a heavy door." At the start of the twentieth centur...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationOf profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is almost completely unkno...

Reducere. Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every l...

DescriptionSouth Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African me...

Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in fron...

This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard Stoneman""How can a man become a god?"" So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did ...

In 1974 the Greek colonels ousted the Greek-Cypriot leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of...

Reducere. The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew a...

The Christian faith has the allegiance of one third of the human race. It has succeeded in influencing civilization to such a degree that we now ta...

DescriptionThis is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves ...

Reducere. Human civilization will be forever indebted to the great thinkers of Jewish philosophy's golden age. Moses Maimonedes, Levi Gersonides, Judah Halev...

DescriptionVivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of th...

Reducere. Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after repeat...

Reducere. The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most remarkable peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capit...

Reducere. A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural tra...

Reducere. DescriptionNader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, embodied ruthless ambition, energy, military brilliance, cynicism and cruelty. His reign ...

Reducere. Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism,...

Reducere. In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, incl...

DescriptionThe vast military campaigns in Africa during World War I were among the most ambitious of the Great War. Many histories, however, have r...

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...