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  • Jihad & Co.

    Black Markets and Islamist Power

    by Aisha Ahmad ...
    For two decades, militant jihadism has been one of the world's most pressing security crises. In civil wars and insurgencies across the Muslim world, certain Islamist groups have taken advantage of the anarchy to establish political control over a broad range of territories and communities. In effect, they have built radical new jihadist proto-states. Why have some ideologically-inspired Islamists ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Securing Canada’s Future

    Vital Insights from Women Experts

    Edited by Aisha Ahmad ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    After decades of uncontested dominance, the era of American hegemony is ending and a new multipolar world order is emerging in its place. This transformation is also occurring alongside uncontrolled climate change and the development of volatile new technologies. Together, these factors dramatically complicate the global threat landscape.Securing Canada’s Future offers a comprehensive analysis of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth

    Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity

    by Dr Heather Mendick, Dr Aisha Ahmad, Dr Kim Allen, Dr Laura Harvey ...
    Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youthuses the lens of celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'.Drawing on original data, the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Music in Arabia

    Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation

    by Scheherazade Hassan, Ghazi al-Mulaifi, Jean Lambert, Ahmad AlSalhi, Aisha Bilkhair, Yassine Ayari, Majid H. al-Harthy, Kay Hardy Campbell, Khalid Albudoor, Anne van Oostrum, Musallam al-Kathiri, George Mürer, David A. McDonald, Ruth M. Stone ...
    Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage.Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Has the West Lost It?

    A Provocation

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Future of Power

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **From the scholar who coined the term “soft power,” a bracing examination of what it means to lead in the digital age“Nye is a master of his field at the height of his powers.” —The Washington Post**Power evolves. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, unsurpassed in military strength and ownership of world resources, the United States was indisputably the most powerful nation in the world ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Percussion Ensemble of the Arabian Peninsula

    by Tarek Yamani, Rony Afif ...
    The Arabian Gulf, the largest peninsula in the world, stretches over a little more than three million square kilometers and, despite its harsh desert climate, has managed to remain a home for nomads and settled peoples for thousands of years. This book provides transcriptions of 36 rhythms from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen with the aim to shed light ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • "The Voice of Egypt"

    Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century

    by Virginia Danielson ...
    Series Book 1997 - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
    Umm Kulthum, the "voice of Egypt," was the most celebrated musical performer of the century in the Arab world. More than twenty years after her death, her devoted audience, drawn from all strata of Arab society, still numbers in the millions. Thanks to her skillful and pioneering use of mass media, her songs still permeate the international airwaves. In the first English-language biography of Umm ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • International Security

    The Contemporary Agenda

    by Roland Dannreuther ...
    International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary examples, from the Iraq war to the rise of China, it is an essential guide for students and policy makers seeking to understand the theoretical and empirical debates over the fast-changing nature of international security today.The ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion

    by Max Weiss, Donatella Della Ratta, Shayna Silverstein, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Andreas Bandak, Thomas Pierret ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Security Studies

    An Introduction

    Edited by Paul D Williams, Matt McDonald ...
    Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda.This new edition has been completely revised and updated, to cover major developments such as COVID-19, the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD