Arab Uprisings - The People Want the Fall of the Regime (Bowen Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Arab Uprisings - The People Want the Fall of the Regime (Bowen Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

A penetrating, on-the-ground account of the recent turmoil and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Currently presenting the BBC Radio 4 series 'Our Man In The Middle

The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories (Al-Sumait Fahed)(Paperback)

The uprisings of 2011 have radically altered the political, economic, and social landscapes of the Middle East and North Africa. A clearer view of the recent past now provides greater perspectives on the causes and the consequences of these events. This collection of essays challenges the common

The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Knowr (Gelvin James L.)(Paperback)

In the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged. The Syrian civil war has displaced half the country's population, and ISIS and other jihadi groups thrive in the political vacuum there and in Iraq, setting

Power Systems - Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire (Chomsky Noam)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by US business interests against working people and the poor, the breakdown of mainstream political institutions and the rise of the far

A Spring Aborted: How Authoritarianism Violates Women's Rights in the Arab World (Sidani Yusuf)(Paperback)

The Arab Spring uprisings were not about gender; these were uprisings demanding rights for all. Yet, they presented a rare opportunity for women to let themselves be heard. And, from being some of the most memorable and lasting leaders of these revolutionary protests, female activists were

Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945 (McDonough Frank)(Paperback / softback)

The second volume in a new narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third

Six Days - How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East (Bowen Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliantly compelling new history of the 1967 Six-Day War, by the BBC's distinguished former Middle East

The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval (Gelvin James L.)(Paperback)

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East. Yet, these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this volume, top experts on the region offer wide-ranging considerations of the characteristics, continuities,

History of the Arab Peoples - Updated Edition (Hourani Albert)(Paperback / softback)

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present

After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa (Mako Shamiran)(Paperback)

Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011 accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation? Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did region-wide democratization not occur?

The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East (Lynch Marc)(Paperback)

Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain

Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939 (McDonough Frank)(Paperback / softback)

A new narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime: a twelve-year descent into barbarism, genocide and aggressive war that cost over 50 million

Crusades Through Arab Eyes(Paperback / softback)

Sifts through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. This book retells their stories in their own style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts, and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an

Fractured Lands - How the Arab World Came Apart (Anderson Scott)(Paperback / softback)

A lucid, powerful, and very human account of the transformation of the Arab world in the years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, by the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Lawrence in

Serpent of the Nile - Women and Dance in the Arab World (Buonaventura Wendy)(Paperback / softback)

Features a celebration of female dancers of the Arab world. This book traces the origins of this ancient art, which survived in the face of commercialism, religious disapproval and changing times. It demonstrates how Arabic dance came to be influenced by Western ideas about art and

Bright Young People - The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 (Taylor D J)(Paperback / softback)

The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. This book chronicles England's 'lost generation' of the Jazz

Fall Of The West - The Death Of The Roman Superpower (Goldsworthy Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman

Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Whitehead Annie)(Paperback)

Many people know about Wessex, the 'Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Those interested in the period will surely have heard of Penda, Offa, and thelfl d, Lady of the Mercians, but

People - The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 (Todd Selina)(Paperback / softback)

The twentieth century experienced by over 75% of Britons had little to do with the one we've been taught. The People tells OUR story for the first

Freedom - The End of the Human Condition (Griffith Mr Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Children of the Stones (Burnham Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Arab of the Future - Volume 1: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 - A Graphic Memoir (Sattouf Riad)(Paperback / softback)

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBrimming with life and dark humour, The Arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East, and also introduces a master cartoonist in a work destined to stand alongside Maus and

Bloodlands - Europe between Hitler and Stalin (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. This book gives voice to the testimony of the victims through the letters home, the notes flung from

Fall of the House of Fifa (Conn David)(Paperback / softback)

The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise - and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen. 1904: 'No person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit' - Fifa congress A century later: 'Fifa is a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation (RICO)