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Literacies, Power, and the Schooled Body

by Kerryn Dixon

This book examines how children's bodies are trained in time and space to produce schooled, literate individuals. Moving from theory to practice, examples of real classroom events show how teachers' practices...


Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World

by Francesco Cavatorta & Vincent Durac

This book examines civil society in the Arab world and how authoritarian constraints impact on democratization. It includes case studies from across the region and analyses the divisions between Islamist organizations...


Politics in Morocco

by Anouar Boukhars

Democratization and the process of political reform is a critical issue in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. This book looks at the situation in Morocco and examines the role of the monarchy and...


Surviving the Holocaust: A Life Course Perspective

by Ronald J Berger

Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland.? One brother, the author's father, endured several concentration camps, including...


Democracy in Turkey

by Ali Resul Usul

This book examines the impact of European political conditionality on the process of democratization in Turkey over a twenty year period. Employing theoretical and conceptual approaches to the issue of EU conditionality,...


Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

by Yaacov Yadgar

Offering a fresh approach to the study of contemporary Jewish identity, the author explores the implications of this identity from the perspective of traditionism, covering issues of religion, tradition, modernity...


Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey

by Marlies Casier & Joost Jongerden

This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, focusing in particular on the issues of nationalism, the Kurds and political Islam.


China's Rise - Threat or Opportunity?

by Herbert S Yee

This book presents a comprehensive overview of how China's rise is perceived in a wide range of countries and regions; these include China's neighbours, other world powers, the parts of China not part of mainland...


The Kurds and US Foreign Policy

by Marianna Charountaki

This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US-Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between...


The Emperor's Adviser

by Lesley Connors

Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated...


Public Management in Israel

by Itzhak Galnoor

As government management in Israel is gradually replaced by private sector management, this book provides a timely analysis of the machinery of government in Israel. It highlights the inadequacy of the...


Sustainability Accounting and Accountability

by Jeffrey Unerman & Jan Bebbington

This exciting book is one of the first textbooks in this fast growing field. Contributed to, and edited by an impressive array of internationally renowned authorities, it draws on real life examples and case...


From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa

by Sebouh David Aslanian

Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from...


Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War

by David. A. Nichols

A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis...


Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

by Geoffrey Wawro

An unprecedented history of American involvement in the Middle East.

In this definitive and revelatory work, noted historian Geoffrey Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a fundamentally new...


A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present

by Jason Thompson

In A History of Egypt, Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the...


The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

by Jim al-Khalili

A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.

Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science...


Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War

by Annia Ciezadlo

A luminous portrait of life in the Middle East, Day of Honey weaves history, cuisine, and firsthand reporting into a fearless, intimate exploration of everyday survival.

In the fall of 2003, Annia Ciezadlo spent...


The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda

by Peter Bergen

TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq—only to move into Afghanistan, where the ten-year-old fight...


The Scorpion's Tail

by Zahid Hussain

The war in Afghanistan has raged on longer than any war in U.S. history, and far from suppressing the insurgency being waged by radical Islamic militants, it has led to stronger alli­ances among al Qaeda, the...