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Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide
$19.95 Add to cart‘Clear and concise’ CHOICE
‘A serious and successful book’ Illan Papp?
‘Could not be timelier. Drawing on his deep understanding of politics and religion in Palestine, Hroub expertly answers every impo
- Author: Hroub, Khaled
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745350879
- Language: English
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A Little History of Literature
$15.00 Add to cartA vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels
Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has re- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Sutherland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283415
- Language: English
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A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now
$31.99 Add to cartCollectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, and considered great public benefactors. But collectors have also been seen as dangerous obsessives who love objects to
- Author: Delbourgo, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0393541967
- Language: English
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Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
$40.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of sexual emotion, sexual activity, gender relations, marriage and the family–and how Christianity has interacted with this panorama of human concerns
Few matters produce mor- Author: MacCulloch, Diarmaid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1984878670
- Language: English
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
$30.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn’t consider you fully human.
On October 25th, 2023, a- Author: El Akkad, Omar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217070251
- Language: English
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
$32.00 Add to cartWhite Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
James Achilles Kirkpa
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: April 27 2004
- ISBN10: 014200412X
- Language: English
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Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power
$30.00 Read moreFrom Politico journalist Alex Isenstadt, a fly-on-the-wall account of Trump’s 2024 campaign, through his stunning reelection.
According to his closest confidantes, even Donald Trump was taken aback b- Author: Isenstadt, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538765519
- Language: English
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Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
$22.95 Add to cartSaleh urges us to oppose intervention of imperialist powers in Syria, and reject the tyranny of the Assad regime.
- Author: Al-Haj Saleh, Yassin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 160846850X
- Language: English
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The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped bo… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593319680
- Language: English
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
$18.95 Add to cartScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth centur- Author: Spencer, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0861547306
- Language: English
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Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare
$29.99 Add to cart“Extraordinary. . . Essential reading for understanding Russia and modern warfare.”-CHRIS MILLER, New York Times bestselling author of Chip War and Putinomics
“John Lechner is an amazingly bold repor- Author: Lechner, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639733361
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order: From the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War
$37.99 Add to cartThis book offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order – the set of institutions and international practices created by the USA and its allies after the Second World War
- Author: Strikwerda, Carl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 303163893X
- Language: English
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A Short History of Relations Between Peoples: How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism
$24.99 Read moreA Short History of Relations Between Peoples traces how the cultural attitudes that different peoples and nations had toward each other have undergone a profound and positive change during the last 50… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774053
- Language: English
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
$26.99 Read moreA wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time–listed in accessible and succinct form–by one of the world’s greatest scholars.
From the “Hundred- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0743235533
- Language: English
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Buddhism: A Journey Through History
$40.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day
Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism- Author: Lopez, Donald S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300234260
- Language: English
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping’s China
$29.00 Add to cartAn intimate, deeply reported investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an… [more below]
- Author: Feng, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593594223
- Language: English
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The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Shuster, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063307448
- Language: English
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Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
$29.95 Add to cartA leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine–and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since
- Author: Haslam, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299078
- Language: English
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The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West
$40.00 Add to cartFrom an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world
Heraclitus wrote that “war is the father of all,” and it has formed much o- Author: Murray, Williamson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270682
- Language: English
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Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War
$39.95 Add to cartA group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War
In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading histor- Author: Anderson, Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297674
- Language: English
