Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (Allan Diana)(Paperback)

Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (Allan Diana)(Paperback)

During the 1948 Palestine war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Israeli occupation. Voices of the Nakba collects

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba (Abdo Nahla)(Paperback)

In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the

Palestine Memories of 1948: Photographs of Jerusalem (Alcantra Altair)(Pevná vazba)

Seventy-one years ago, in 1948, the Nakba--the 'catastrophe'--overturned life in Palestine, forcing three-quarters of Palestinians into exile, depriving them of their land, their homes, their belongings. Today, those who can bear witness to that period are becoming rare. From different social

Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (Khalidi Rashid I.)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of Palestine told from the

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba (Abdo Doctor Nahla)(Pevná vazba)

In 2018, Palestinians mark the seventieth anniversary of the Nakba, a mass eviction that saw more than 70,000 people uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the

The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Poe Edgar Allan)(Paperback)

The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short

A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba (Alshaer Atef)(Paperback)

The Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948 saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dispossessed from their land to create the state of Israel, creating a refugee crisis that is still ongoing today. This trauma is a central theme in much of the writing from Palestine, whose writers have been the vanguard

A History of Scotland (MacInnes Allan I.)(Paperback)

This illuminating and insightful guide offers a comprehensive overview of Scottish history, from the kingdom's genesis in the ninth century to the independence debates of the present day. Considering both internal dynamics and international horizons, Allan Macinnes asserts Scotland's heritage as

Joan of Arc (Stanley Diane)(Paperback)

Against the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a

The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel from Palestine (Ashour Radwa)(Paperback)

Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known. She had not left her village before, but she would never return. Now an old woman, Ruqayya looks back on a long life in exile,

The Republic of Plato (Bloom Allan)(Paperback)

The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed translation by Allan Bloom was the first to take a strictly literal

A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Allen Lori)(Paperback)

Palestine +100 - Stories from a century after the Nakba (Maarouf Mazen)(Paperback / softback)

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the

History of Fairground Transport - From Horses to Artics (Ford Allan)(Paperback / softback)

A lavishly illustrated look at the world of fairground

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Awad Sumaya)(Paperback)

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.Through an internationalist,

English Civil War - A People's History (Purkiss Diane)(Paperback / softback)

This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those

The Question of Palestine (Said Edward W.)(Paperback)

This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the

Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Hazkani Shay)(Paperback)

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Alexievich Svetlana)(Paperback)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in

The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain (Massie Allan)(Paperback)

'Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history.' --The Wall Street JournalIn this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's

Auricula: History, Cultivation and Varieties (Guest Allan)(Pevná vazba)

A guide to the history, development and cultivation of the Auricula with descriptions of more than 200 varieties both old and

Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule - Katherine Pangonis

Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by

Mozipedia - The Encyclopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths (Goddard Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Steven Patrick Morrissey is one of the most original and controversial voices in the history of popular music. Morrissey authority Simon Goddard has interviewed almost everybody of any importance, making Mozipedia the last word on Morrissey and The

Son of the Circus - A Victorian Story (Norry E. L.)(Paperback / softback)

Voices: Son of the Circus - A Victorian Story explores the life of a young mixed-race boy, Ted, living with his mother and poorly younger brother in Victorian