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by Donna Sturgess
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Donna Sturgess, a member of the private network of top-tier business leaders known as the M50, demonstrates how immersion experiences can change a business or a life forever. Transformed by her own experience, she describes how focused mental and physical energy magnifies the imagination and sharpens...
Under the Black Flag
An Exclusive Insight into the Inner Workings of ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a significant threat to the region, if not to the wider world. Moubayed,...
The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf
Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The GCC, made up of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE, is one of the most resilient sub-regional organizations in the world, and the most successful in the one in the Arab world. It has been the forum through which much internal security co-operation in this volatile sub-region...
by Prof. Julián Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama. Not only did it pit countryman against countryman, and neighbour against neighbour, but from 1936-39 this bitterly contended struggle sucked in competing and seemingly atavistic forces that were soon...
A Dance with the Dragon
The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries, artists and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking...
The Shadow Man
At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who recruited promising students deemed ripe for conversion to the communist cause. This perception of him was reinforced...
by George Lane
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarkable century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan marched undefeated from the Pacific Ocean...
Princely India and the British
Political Development and the Operation of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
By the late nineteenth century the traditional royal status of Indian princes was under threat. Weakened by treaties concluded with the East India Company, the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality, accountability...
Race and Power in British India
Anglo-Indians, Class and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company - by this time a hybrid of state...
Sicily
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
"Without Sicily, Italy leaves no image in the soul. Sicily is the key to everything." Goethe, Italian Journey
Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals...
Persia in Crisis
Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterised late Safavid Iran. Persia in Crisis challenges this view.
In this groundbreaking new book, Rudi Matthee revisits traditional sources...
Philip of Spain, King of England
The Forgotten Sovereign
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Spanish armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. however the same Spanish monarch who sent the armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor.
This important book sheds new light on Philip ii...
New Dimensions of Doctor Who
Adventures in Space, Time and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Doctor may have regenerated on many occasions, but so too has Doctor Who. Moving with the times, the show has evolved across fifty years. New Dimensions of Doctor Who brings together experts on the Doctors, on TV brands, bioethics, transmedia, and cultural icons to explore contemporary developments...
The Great Rivalry
Gladstone and Disraeli
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone are without doubt the two most iconic figures of nineteenth century British politics. Their distinctly different personalities and policies led to 28 years of bitter political rivalry. Between 1853 and Disraeli's death in 1881, the two leaders repeatedly...