Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling The Invention of the Jewish People,...

Ertugrul Ghazi

Espionage of the Century: An Untold Story by Ambassador Zahid Said

Essays on Muslims and the Challenges of Globalization

'Essential reading for players, fans and coaches' - Steven Gerrard'A cracking read' - Chris Evans'I couldn't put it down' - Joey Barton'I would recommend anybody who loves football to read it from cover to cover' - Gary NewbonLiverpool 4-0 Barcelona 2019Man United 2-1 Bayern...

Established as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in...

Established in 1906, The Bank of India is probably the first Indian bank that was truly of the people, for the people and by the people of India. Never before had so many mercantile communities - Parsee,s Bhatias, Gujarati banias, Bohra Muslims and Jews...

Eurasian Crossroads is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. Forming one-sixth of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Xinjiang stands at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean, and...

Europe - and the question of whether to stay in or leave - has dominated British politics for the last three years. Yet how much doand youand reallyand know about the Continent?From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga,...

Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution from warring peoples to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome, through the Dark...

Even as India and China sign documents with high-sounding words year after year, the distrust between the two countries has grown in recent times. There has been tension over Chinese claims of territory in India's north-east and its intrusions in the region, and actions...

Even if bilateral trade between India and China goes beyond $100 billion in the coming years, China's posture towards India is adversarial and will perhaps remain so in the future, with Beijing viewing New Delhi through the prism of the Dalai Lama and the...

Ever since its independence in 1947, Pakistan has been running away from its roots-directionless-and has consistently traversed a myopic, self-destructive path. It has been overly obsessed with its more powerful neighbour India, which singularly looms large, albeit illogically, in all its politico-strategic formulations. Constantly...

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenzaand pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite aand centuryand of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From pneumonic plague in...

Ever since the beginning of the economic reforms in the early-1990s, Indian cities have been undergoing dramatic transformations. Smart satellite townships, ultra-modern apartment blocks, gleaming office towers and posh hotels have started sprouting up in place of dusty villages and lush paddy fields. The...

Every day, a powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. A new breed of criminals, risen from the post-9/11 political chaos and the fi-asco of the Arab Spring, coupled with the destabilization of Syria and Iraq...

Every part of the human body has a name - and story. But how familiar are you with your arachnoid mater or your Haversian canals? Anatomical Oddities is an artistic and linguistic adventure, taking the reader on a journey to discover the hidden landscape...

Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power.Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship...

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds ofand Lolita, The Great Gatsbyand andand Pride and Prejudice, gradually they come...

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide projectand at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now underand the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories...

Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, little seems to be done to stop them from happening. The...

Every year the 1965 war is celebrated remorselessly to keep under wraps the failures of our leadership at the time. I feel cheated and enraged at the loss of the many gallant men who were martyred believing they were fighting for a sacred cause....

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in the tower, but do you know the tale of the witch who put her there?Enter a world of dark magic, mysterious woods and evil princes. This is the truth they never wanted you to know, as only...

Everyone's favorite curious monkey George learns about height and measurement at an amusement park in this Level Two I Can Read based on theand Curious Georgeand TV show.Curious George can't wait to ride the Turbo Python 3000 with his friends Betsy and Steve at...

Excellent. . . Sellars gives a lucid, easy-to-follow account of what Stoicism as a way of life amounts to, and how you might start to put it into practice' Nigel WarburtonHow can Stoicism inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives?In the past few years,...

Ex-Files is the story of a woman, who despite her best efforts to save her marriage, finds herself facing a divorce petition. But instead of wallowing in self-pity, Vandana picked up the pieces of her shattered life and moved straight on. She not only...

Exiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponizedDuring the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth was then suppressed or forgotten over the coming years.Tens of thousands took...

Expand the scenes in this colorful book to explore some of history's most magnificent buildings!Get ready for an in-depth exploration of incredible big buildings throughout history inand Expandable Explorations: Big Builds! This oversize book features five impressive buildings: the Roman Amphitheater, a Medieval castle,...

Explains the attraction of Muslims to their faith, and discusses the challenges contemporary Islam confronts, and how we might imagine an Islamic theology and identity ready to face tomorrow. Islam is often associated with and limited to the worst of the world-extremism, obscurantism, misogyny,...

Exploitation and Concentrtion Free Fair and Just Distribution of Wealth in Islamic By M Iqbal Patel

Explore Hieronymus Bosch's fantastic illustrations of the afterlife and other religious concepts and narratives. Although Bosch's known works amount to no more than two dozen paintings and a handful of drawings, the artist had an enormous impact on religious imagery during his lifetime and...

Explore the fascinating past, present, and possible future of Elon Musk's SpaceX inand the first comprehensive photographic historyand of the company.The private space industry's consensus leader,and SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaireand Elon Musk, was worth an estimated $187 billion in 2023 while taking on...

Explore the fascinating world of flags!Find intriguing stories and factoids on the design of country, province, state and special flags. Read how these flags are used as heraldic symbols, cultural and national emblems, and how designs and meanings have evolved.The perfect guide to vexillology...

Explore the icy Arctic and search for Polar Bear in this plastic-free touch and feel book. You'll get to meet incredible endangered animals along the way!Take your little cub on a journey through a frozen world to track down the elusive Polar Bear. Discover...

Explore the science innovations as you have never seen them with this visual guide.From the humble beginnings of science, right through to today's information age - go on a journey through the history of science through its people, inventions, and discoveries. This updated 3rd...

Explore the treasures of the Earth - sparkling crystals, vibrant gemstones and age-old fossils - with this illustrated guide that's sure to captivate every rockhound and budding gemmologist.From primeval origins to their astonishing modern-day uses and appeal, this is the ultimate portrait of Earth's...

Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece'and WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A journalistic marvel'and JAMES MEEK'A powerful, unforgettable book'and NADIFA MOHAMMEDFrom Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost IraqThis is the story of a people who once lived...

Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's charactersand - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people. - James Meek'This gripping account is the Russian invasion...

We are offering a high discount due to slightly damage.In his first book on Sufism, written many years ago, Martin Lings wrote, with reference to the Quranic descriptions of the celestial Gardens: 'To speak of the Gardens and Fountains of Paradise, as also of...

Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized meets Alan Weisman's The World Without Us in this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with a range of...

Fabulously entertaining'and Daily Telegraph'Thrilling . . . Yeebo tells the jaw-dropping story of [Ghanaian con artist Blay-Miezah] . . . meticulously researched'and Guardian'Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.'sand Catch Me If You Can'and Publishers WeeklyThe astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian...

FACTFULNESS: the stress-reducing habit of only having opinions for which there are strong supporting facts.Things aren't as bad as we think. Fact.When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many...

Fallout proves that the atomic bomb was not needed, and was made as a result of a series of flawed decisions. The Americans did not tell the UK that the atomic research was compromised by Soviet spies; the British did not tell the Americans...

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Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci,and New Statesman, Books of the Year'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig,and Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in...

Far from simply being a center of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm.and The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and...

Fascinating'and Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by theand New Statesmanand as an essential read for 2022Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it...

'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCan anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia,...

Fashion: The Whole Storyand provides a global history of fashion and traces the evolution of fashion design period by period and trend by trend.- Organized chronologically, covering Greco-Roman draped clothing and the silk court dress of the Chinese Tang dynasty through to contemporary sportswear...