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DescriptionArt is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship. This may be by the Church to guard against moral degeneration, by the St...

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...

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

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

For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all...

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...

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...

DescriptionViolent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines...

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

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

Reducere. Spaghetti Westerns is the major critical exploration of the European Western. Christopher Frayling approaches the Westerns produced at Cinecitta St...

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

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half ...

Reducere. Timely and wide-ranging, ""Art and Architecture"" explores the proliferation of recent work by both artists and architects that seeks to blur tradi...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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-...

The great river civilization of the Oxus is one of the forgotten jewels of the ancient world. In history, this grand arterial 1, 500-mile waterway ...

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

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

DescriptionDuring states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the ...

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

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...

Reducere. The fourth volume of the Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with one of the richest and yet least known periods of philosophical life in Persi...

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

Reducere. Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were...

No other European city can claim to have experienced such division and togetherness as Berlin. This volume of essays attempts to address the questi...