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Télécharger le livre : Latvia
Latvia
Mara Kalnins
The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust culture and...

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Parution : 2015-01-04
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Télécharger le livre : Why States Recover
Why States Recover
Greg Mills
State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and...

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Parution : 2015-01-03
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Télécharger le livre : Out of Nowhere
Out of Nowhere
Michael Gunter
In mid-2012 the previously almost forgotten Syrian Kurds suddenly emerged as a potential game-changer in the country's civil war when in an attempt to consolidate its increasingly desperate position the Assad government abruptly withdrew its troops from the major...

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Parution : 2014-11-15
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Télécharger le livre : The New Kings of Crude
The New Kings of Crude
Luke Patey
In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the...

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Parution : 2014-10-15
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Télécharger le livre : Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent
Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent
Innes Bowen
Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as theMuslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as...

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Parution : 2014-09-15
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Télécharger le livre : The Pashtun Question
The Pashtun Question
Abubakar Siddique
Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing...

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Parution : 2014-06-15
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Télécharger le livre : The First World War in the Middle East
The First World War in the Middle East
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the...

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Parution : 2014-06-15
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Télécharger le livre : The Country of Football
The Country of Football
Bernardo Buarque De Hollanda , Paulo Fontes
Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians...

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Parution : 2014-06-15
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Télécharger le livre : A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts
A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts
James Copnall
What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was one of the least...

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Parution : 2014-06-01
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Télécharger le livre : Stalin's American Spy
Stalin's American Spy
Tony Sharp
Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their...

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Parution : 2014-05-15
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Télécharger le livre : Reporting Disasters
Reporting Disasters
Suzanne Franks
The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way.The contemporary...

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Parution : 2014-03-01
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Télécharger le livre : The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game
The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game
Bente Scheller
Syrian foreign policy, always opaque, has become an even greater puzzle during theSyrian revolt. Irrespective of the regime's international isolation in the wake of its violent response to domestic protest, it has paid lip-service to international peace plans while...

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Parution : 2014-02-03
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Télécharger le livre : Battles of the New Republic
Battles of the New Republic
Prashant Jha
Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis,...

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Parution : 2014-01-12
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Télécharger le livre : Last King in India
Last King in India
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
The Last King in India is the story of an extraordinary man whose memory still divides opinion sharply today. Was he, as the British described him, a debauched ruler who spent his time with "fiddlers, eunuchs and women' instead of running the kingdom? Or, as most...

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Parution : 2014-01-09
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Télécharger le livre : Madeira
Madeira
Alexander Liddell
Who does not know the phrase "Have some madeira, m'dear"? Madeira is one of the world's greatest wines, with a fascinating history few others can equal. Capable of evolution over decades and with seemingly indefinite longevity, precious centenarian bottles are sought by...

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Parution : 2014-01-09
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Télécharger le livre : Pauperland
Pauperland
Jeremy Seabrook
In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called "Pauperland." More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th...

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Parution : 2013-12-01
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Télécharger le livre : After the Sheikhs
After the Sheikhs
Christopher Davidson
The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing...

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Parution : 2013-10-01
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Télécharger le livre : Critical Muslim 07
Critical Muslim 07
Ziauddin Sardar , Robin Yassin-Kassab
Malaysia and Indonesia are seen as bastions of liberal Islam. Is this really true or simply a widely held misconception about south-east Asian Muslims? What is the contribution of the Muslim archipelago to the world of Islam? What can we learn from Malaysian and...

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Parution : 2013-07-01
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Télécharger le livre : Critical Muslim 06
Critical Muslim 06
Ziauddin Sardar , Robin Yassin-Kassab
Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Martin Munoz is dismayed by the works of the...

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Parution : 2013-04-01
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Télécharger le livre : Critical Muslim 5
Critical Muslim 5
Ziauddin Sardar , Robin Yassin-Kassab
Aamer Hussein takes love to its logical conclusion, Robert Irwin traces the origins of the ghazal (love lyric), Christopher Shackle recites epic Panjabi poems of sacred love and lyrical death, Imranali Panjwani mourns the massacre of Karbala, Martin Rose istaken hostage...

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Parution : 2013-01-01
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