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This study seeks to open the way for a better understanding of the environmental conflict, showing how language can be seen to shape our view of what environmental politics is really about and how tho...
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An authoritative text updated to take into account the very latest developments in the Middle East. Serves as an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern history and politics of this fascina...
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Charting the evolution of Arab identity from Ottomanism to Arabism to Islamism, this work covers themes including the conflict between national independence and foreign domination, the Arab-Israeli st...
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A unique and comprehensive analysis of the special nature of political and public leadership in major crises. 1 tablePRIZES:Winner of American Political Science Association Public Administration Secti...
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Talks about one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Intern...
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A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richard Wagner and for the fabulous palaces which he creat...
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The author of the bestselling "The Future of Freedom" describes a world in which the U.S. will no longer dominate the global economy. He sees the "rise of the rest" as the great story of modern times,...
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This textbook, now in its second edition, is designed to equip students with a basic 'conceptual toolkit' for the study of political thought: (i) a basic political vocabulary, (ii) a conceptual vocabu...
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Stewart Brand is a pioneer of the environmental movement. He remains one of our most penetrating and important thinkers. And his brilliant and urgent new book looks to be his most influential - and co...
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At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody political scene was dominated by mercantile families, th...
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The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was th...
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An exploration of how information about performance can be translated into improvements in public services. 6 b/w illus. 14 tables...
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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 involved. Illustrations, maps, ports....
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A report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann that first appeared as a series of articles in "The New Yorker" in 1963. It includes material that came to light after the trial....
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*The autobiography of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century. * re published to coincide with the publication of Anthony Holden's biography coming from HarperCollins Section: 24, b/w...
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An English translation of "Investigations into Magic" that deals not only with magic in all its forms, from the manipulation of angelic and demonic powers to straightforward conjuring and illusion, bu...
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The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his fai...
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Presents the definitive history of the Arab people from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. This title include...
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In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in Indonesia, which was paralysed by the grip of the dictator General Suharto. After the fall of Suharto came the vote of ...
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Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. This book explains how Communism was imposed on these previously ...
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All too often, histories of Civil War battles concentrate on the events of the battle, ignoring the larger campaign and undervaluing the battle's impact on subsequent events. This book reveals and exp...
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The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption....
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On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the da...
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The end of First World War saw old empires swept away and opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. This title overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our vie...
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