The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China (B.)(Paperback)

The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China (B.)(Paperback)

The rise of the Arab world and China are part of the same story, once trading partners via the Silk Road. This is a fully revised and updated account of how China is spurring growth in the Arab world, taking into account new developments that have taken place since the first

Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring (Abrams Elliott)(Paperback)

America is turning away from support for democrats in Arab countries in favor of 'pragmatic' deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism. Abrams marshals four decades of expert experience to analyze America's record of democracy promotion and show that deals with tyrants will not

The New Silk Road Leads Through the Arab Peninsula: Mastering Global Business and Innovation (Visvizi Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Building on the tradition, promises and advances brought by the historical Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative launched by Chinese authorities in 2013 has the potential to re-draw the map of checks and balances in the global economy. The New Silk Road leads through the Arab Peninsula: Mastering

Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Giles Keir)(Paperback)

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world--and its place in it--that the West can best meet the Russian challenge.Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that

The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich (Bateman Victoria)(Paperback)

Why did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How 'free' should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and

The Salukis in My Life: From the Arab World to China (Clark Terence)(Pevná vazba)

Sir Terence Clark's The Salukis in my Life is part-memoir, part-travelogue, and explores in lively and unprecedented detail the history and significance of the Saluki across the world. Indigenous to the Arabian peninsula, the desert-bred Saluki has for centuries been revered, and remains as highly

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

A History of the Silk Road (Clements Jonathan)(Paperback)

The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts. For thousands of years its history has been a traveler's history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and

Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair - New Edition with a New Chapter on the Twenty-First-Century Arab World (Dawisha Adeed)(Paperback)

Like a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for inter-Arab divisions, and for words and actions distinguished by their meagerness. But people tend to

New Silk Roads - The Present and Future of the World (Frankopan Peter)(Paperback / softback)

A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads | 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' – Evening Standard | Revised and updated edition | The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the

The New Map : Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations - Daniel Yergin

A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus. Controversial fracking technology has given America unprecedented leverage as the world's leading

Practicing the King's Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give (Rhodes Michael)(Paperback)

The church in the West is rediscovering the fact that God cares deeply for the poor. More and more, churches and individual Christians are looking for ways to practice economic discipleship, but it's hard to make progress when we are blind to our own entanglement in our culture's idolatrous

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (Hopkirk Peter)(Paperback)

The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback)

The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. 'Captivating and compelling.' --The New York Times 'Niall Ferguson has again written a

Covering Islam - How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Fully Revised Edition) (Said Edward W)(Paperback / softback)

From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the World Trade Centre bombing, the West has been haunted by a spectre called 'Islam'. As portrayed by the news media - and by a chorus of government, academic and corporate experts - 'Islam' is synonymous with terrorism and religious

The Insiders (Tijan)(Paperback)

The Insiders is the first in a brand new, page-turning romance trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Tijan Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. But still, normal for her. Then, things happen--a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take

The World Before Us : How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins - Higham Tom

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of

Despot's Accomplice - How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy (Klaas Brian)(Paperback / softback)

Why the West is losing the global battle for democracy and how to start winning it

Marxism and the Muslim World (Rodinson Maxime)(Paperback)

In the wake of the uprisings which rocked the Arab world, Maxime Rodinson's work has taken on a new and powerful resonance. Dating from 1958, the time of his expulsion from the French Communist Party, to 1972, the assembled articles, papers and essays which form this book outline his vision of the

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home (Chung Nicole)(Paperback)

From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration

Far and Away - How Travel Can Change the World (Solomon Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West (Kepel Gilles)(Pevná vazba)

The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisings through the rise and fall of the Islamic State, it has presented key international security challenges. With the resilient jihadi terror threat,

Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World (Easwaran Eknath)(Paperback)

This is the story of Gandhi's spiritual evolution - the turning points and choices that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence.Eknath Easwaran grew up in India and witnessed how Gandhi inspired people of all races, backgrounds, and religions to turn anger

The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (Montgomery Scott L.)(Paperback)

How four revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment shaped today's world This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A