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  • The Return of the Past

    State, Identity, and Society in thePost–Arab Spring Middle East

    by Uzi Rabi ...
    This book argues that the Arab Spring brought to the forefront numerous societal, political, and historical problems in the Middle East that scholars and practitioners throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century have continually glossed over or reduced in their analysis and analytical frameworks when studying the Middle East. These include the prevalent and persistent impact of Islam on ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Yemen

    Revolution, Civil War and Unification

    by Uzi Rabi ...
    Yemen, tucked into the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, has often escaped regional and international attention. And yet its history illuminates some of the most important issues at play in the modern Middle East: from Cold War rivalries to the growth of Islamic extremism in the 1990s, and from the rise of 'Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula' (AQAP) in the post-9/11 period to Obama-era ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring

    A History of Three Egyptian Thawras Reconsidered

    Edited by Uzi Rabi, Mira Tzoreff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    Focused on three Egyptian revolutions—in 1919, 1952, and 2011—this edited book argues that each of these revolutions is a milestone which represents a meaningful turning point in modern Egyptian history.Revolutions are typically characterized by a fundamental change in political and social infrastructures as well as in the establishment of new values and norms. However, it should be noted that ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    The Rise of ISIS

    by Joby Warrick ...
    **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.“Gripping. . . . For readers interested in the roots of the Islamic State and the evil genius of its godfather, there is no better book to begin with ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The 15:17 to Paris

    The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes

    by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone, Jeffrey E Stern ...
    An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear.On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the ... Read more

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  • The Cage

    The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

    by Gordon Weiss ...
    "The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Fall of BaghdadIn the closing days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Hunt for Bin Laden

    by The Washington Post ...
    The long and secret effort to track down Osama bin Laden has been called the biggest, costliest manhunt in history. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post, this reconstruction- compiled from reporting from more than two-dozen Washington Post correspondents and staffers from over more than 15 years- traces the hunt from its beginnings in 1997, during the Clinton administration.THE HUNT FOR ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The State and Revolution

    by Vladimir Lenin ...
    Translated by Robert Service ...
    In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • A City in Turmoil – Dublin 1919–1921

    The War of Independence

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    Dublin was the cockpit of the Irish Revolution. It was in the capital that Dáil Éireann convened and built an alternative government to challenge the authority of Dublin Castle; it was where the munitions strike that crippled the British war effort in 1920 began and it was where rival intelligence organisations played out their deadly game of cat and mouse. But it was also a city where ambushes ... Read more

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  • Frontline Turkey

    The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East

    by Ezgi Basaran ...
    Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades.In 2011 President Erdogan promised to make a deal with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Fair Play

    by James M. Olson ...
    Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of AmericaÆs first spies, said, ôAny kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.ö A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is it really true that any kind of service is ... Read more

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