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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. ***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain and how a new settlement may be achieved. Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobile 'achieved' identity of the people from Anywhere, and the marginalised, roots-based identity of the people from Somewhere. This schism accounts for the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, the decline of the centre-left, and the rise of populism across Europe. David Goodhart's compelling investigation of the new global politics reveals how the Somewhere backlash is a democratic response to the dominance of Anywhere interests, in everything from mass higher education to mass immigration. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condición: As new. ix + 172 pp. dj. book.

12. Red orig. cloth. Spine gilt-stamped. Twelfth edition. In one volume. Printed dedication »With my love to the Kinsfolk at 'Mondisfield'«.; Jahr: 1889; Format: Oktav; Anzahl der Seiten: III, 374; Auflage: 12.; Zustand: 3 (Hinge broken. Some pages minor stained. Otherwise good copy.)Shipping costs displayed on some platforms (mainly AbeBooks/ZVAB) may differ from the actual costs for items over 500 grams or in larger formats. If you are affected by this, we will ask you for your consent. PLEASE NOTE US CUSTOMERS: Due to the US government's customs regulations, goods can currently only be shipped to the US as parcels, which costs at least 30,00 USD. 590 gr. III, 374 pages. Hinge broken. Some pages minor stained. Otherwise good copy.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was 'stable' and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the streets calling for freedom, with many dying at the hands of the regime. In Revolt: Eye-Witness to the Syrian Uprising, Stephen Starr delves deep into the lives of Syrians whose destiny has been shaped by the state for almost fifty years. In conversations with people from all strata of Syrian society, Starr draws together and makes sense of perspectives illustrating why Syria, with its numerous sects and religions, was so prone to violence and civil strife. Through his unique access to a country largely cut off from the international media during the unrest, Starr delivers compelling first hand testimony from both those who suffered and benefited most at the hands of the regime. Revolt details why many Syrians wanted Assad's government to stay as the threat of civil war loomed large, the long-standing gap between the state apparatus and its people and why the country's youth stood up decisively for freedom. Starr also sets out the positions adhered to by the country's minorities and explains why many Syrians believe that enforced regime change might precipitate a region-wide conflict. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Although parts of the Western world now appear almost totally secularised, Christianity remains the most potent worldview on earth alongside Islam. In this compelling book, Rupert Shortt gracefully argues that Christianity is a much more coherent, progressive body of belief - philosophically, scientifically and culturally - than often supposed by its critics. Alert to the menace posed by religious fundamentalism, as well as to secularist blind spots, he shows how a self-critical faith is of huge consequence to wider human flourishing, including through promoting peace and environmental sustainability. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Despite its remoteness, Alaska has been part of larger stories - of the movement of Native peoples and their contact and accommodation to Western culture, of the spread of European political economy to the New World, and of the expansion of American capitalism. "Alaska: an American Colony" focuses on Russian America and American Alaska, bringing the history of Alaska up to the present and exploring the continuing impact of the Alaska Native claims settlement, the trans-Alaska pipeline and the Alaska lands act. In contrast to the stereotype of Alaska as a place where rugged individuals triumph over the harsh environment, Stephen Haycox offers a less romantic, more complex history that emphasizes the broader national and international contexts of Alaska's past and the similarities between Alaska and the American West. Covering Alaska's cultural, political, economic and environmental history, the book also includes an anthropology of its Native peoples. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: Good. Eileen Walton Ilustrador. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright, tape marks and lending library stamps endpapers, 184pp. Good unclipped DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Leech Ilustrador. Vol. 1 of a 3 Volume Set, 2 Pages of Ads at Rear, One Illustration at Front with Tissue Guard, Light Edge Wear to the Boards with Fading to the Spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Vol. 2 of a 3 Volume Set, 1 Page of Ads at Rear, One Illustration at Front with Tissue Guard, Light Edge Wear to the Boards with Slight Fading to the Spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Fair hardcover. No DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing and bumped corners. Tears on back strip. Hinge cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a presentation inscription to another author. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; hard cover and dust jacket show small wrinkles and inward turns at the right front corners, and the jacket bears small creases at the spine head, otherwise excellent.; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict. Starting with Ben's first near-death experience--in a Nazi-themed bar in wartime Yugoslavia--High Risk is a whirlwind tour of everything from service in the SAS, combat in Iraq, and encounters with a gambling-obsessed 9/11 hijacker, to veterans blissed out on MDMA, hook-ups in the world of extreme sex, and battling a heroin habit on a remote Scottish island. Ben pursued the rush, and the chase often took him over the edge. Instead of asking why, he asked, why not? Blending confessional narrative, classic reportage and acerbic humour, this memoir takes a gonzo look at terrorists, junkies, soldiers and strippers, through the tale of one extraordinary life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as "child-devouring cannibals" and "bloodthirsty Huns" but it was not long before the Hungarians became steadfast defenders of Christendom and fought heroic freedom struggles against the Tartars, the Turks and, among others, the Russians. Paul Lendvai tells how, despite a string of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, the Hungarians have survived as a nation-state for more than 1000 years. He traces Hungarian politics, culture, economics and emotions from the Magyars' dramatic entry into the Carpathian Basin in 896 to the brink of the post-cold War era. Lendvai brings to life the short-lived revolutionary triumphs of 1848-9 and 1918-19; the traumatic Treaty of Trianon (1920) which deprived Hungary of Transylvania and other historic Magyar lands; and the successive Nazi and Communist tyrannies. These are among the episodes that have formed the consciousness of the Hungarian people. Through anecdotes of heroes and traitors, victors and victims, geniuses and impostors, Lendvai conveys the multifaceted interplay, on the grand stage of Hungarian history, of progressivism and economic modernisation versus intolerance and narrow-minded nationalism. This work is a blend of narrative, irony and humour, occasional anger without taboos or prejudices. It also offers an authoritative key to understanding how and why this corner of Europe produced such a galaxy of great scientists, artists and entrepreneurs. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. There has been an explosion of research into the experiences of British Muslims, but what has been conspicuous by its absence is a proper historical treatment of the phenomenon. This text aims to address this issue. The book is being reprinted with a new cover image in March 2009. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the painstaking reunification of 'the two Germanies', and the Republic's return to the world stage as an economic colossus and European leader. Giles MacDonogh restores these momentous events of world history to their German context, from the food and drink that accompanied them to the deep-rooted provincialism behind the national story. Full of vivid and often whimsical vignettes of German life, this is a Germanophile's homage to the culture and people of a country he has known for decades. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. No Jacket. Owen, Will Ilustrador. First Edition. Illustrations by Will Owen.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global history, but theyve made astonishing contributions to both. Dan Jackson sets out to recover this lost history, exploring the deep roots of Northumbrian culturehard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinitythrough centuries of border warfare and dangerous industry. He explains what we can learn about Northumbrias people from its landscape and architecture, and revisits the Northumbrian Enlightenment that gave the world the locomotive and the lightbulb. This story reaches right to the present day, as this extraordinary region finds itself caught between an indifferent south and an increasingly confident Scotland. From the Venerable Bede and the prince-bishops of Durham to Viz and Geordie Shore, this vital new history reveals a part of England with an uncertain future, but whose people remain as remarkable as ever. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Thus. Light edgewear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardcover book in dust jacket in near Very Good condition, light rubs to jacket, lower outer corners bumped.

Hardcover, maps. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First English Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ New. NO notes. No markings of ANY kind. Unclipped, unpriced DJ ; 263 pages.

Trade paperback. Condición: Very good. Signed by author. First edition. 184p.; 20 cm. SIGNED BY AUTHOR! HC 218.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 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 parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers' conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. This is a multidimensional account of the many seemingly discrete yet interlinked campaigns that resulted in one to one and a half million casualties.It details not just their military outcome but relates them to intelligence-gathering, industrial organisation, authoritarianism and the political economy of empires at war. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: New. . hardcover. . Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condición: Fair. Reprint. Worn condition. Page edges browning. Fep missing. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 256pp. A Romance.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Ex-lib reading copy with dust jacket. 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 183pp.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. A bright, clean copy. ; 8.30 X 5.40 X 1 inches; 162 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. B/W Photos Ilustrador. 5th. Revised and enlarged fifth edition; dj w/chipping, tears, clipped price, in mylar; 256 clean, unmarked pages/index; cover has lite staining at foredges, none inside; owner's name.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine, as new, copy in pictorial wraps. Probable 1st paperback edition with no additional printings listed; 8vo., 257 pages.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 'God is no thing, but not nothing.' These words from the renowned thinker Herbert McCabe point to a fallacy at the heart of New Atheist polemics against religion: the deity rejected by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and their followers is not God as taught in classical tradition, but merely a blown-up thing. From this basic error flow many more misunderstandings about Christianity and other creeds. As a result, debate on life's biggest questions has grown vitriolic as well as confused. Although parts of the Western world now appear almost totally secularised, Christianity remains the most potent worldview on earth alongside Islam. In this compelling book, Rupert Shortt gracefully argues that Christianity is a much more coherent, progressive body of belief philosophically, scientifically and culturally than often supposed by its critics. Alert to the menace posed by religious fundamentalism, as well as to secularist blind spots, he shows how a self-critical faith is of huge consequence to wider human flourishing, including through promoting peace and environmental sustainability.'Powerful.an excellent book, spirited, lucid and plainspoken without losing generosity.' Rowan Williams, The Guardian 'Offers a conception of nature which grants us the right to say that it brims over with intimations of the divine.' The Times Literary Supplement 'A meditative exploration of what Christian commitment means in the contemporary world.' Anglican Theological Review 'A case for Faith which will trouble the doubting with reason's light.' A. N. Wilson 'In a line stretching back to C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton . packs a punch.' Church Times 'Deft and timely.' Francis Spufford 'Unflinchingly tackles the philosophically naive parodies of Christian belief.' The Tablet 'An intellectually robust case for Christianity.deserves to be reflected upon and debated by believers and unbelievers alike.' The Catholic Herald This coolly written tract argues eruditely and eloquently for the importance of Christian values in modern life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. no date (c.1948), First Edition, Very Good/no dj, 12mo., 224pp., aqua cloth hardcover, red lettering on backstrip, covers slightly spotted, binding tight, text clean.