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Age of Jihad

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration

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Rise of Islam

A Classic title from The Islamic Foundation. This book is an illustrated presentation of how one of the world's greatest religions, Islam, came into e

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Islamic State

Packed full of information, this book offers a unique and indispensable insight into the origins and operations of IS. Atwan, a well-known Arab journa

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Mosul after Islamic State

The book examines the destruction of the architectural heritage in Mosul perpetrated by Islamic State between 2014 and 2017.

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Syrian Jihad

The Syrian Civil War in all its ghastly twists and turns, from initial optimism to barrel-bombing and the rise of Islamic State, are among the subject

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Rise of the Algorithms

Traces the origins and evolution of online video platforms and how their algorithms now engineer human behavior, discussing present challenges and rec

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Rise of State Capital

A comprehensive analysis of the unprecedented rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as diverse as China, Russia and N

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Shadow Wars

Who is to blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic State? The answer lies far closer to home than you might dare imagineÂ…

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Rise of Islamic Political Movements and Parties

Islamic political movements utilise vastly different means to pursue their goals. This book examines why some Islamic movements facing the same socio-

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Islamic State as a Legal Order

This book explores the legal dimension of the Islamic State, an aspect which has hitherto been neglected in the literature. It will be of interest to

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Rise of the Infrastructure State

Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US-China rivalry, and explores what it means for cou

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Rise of the Infrastructure State

Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US-China rivalry, and explores what it means for cou

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Rise of the Civilizational State

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History of Islamic Philosophy

Fakhry discusses Islamic thought and its effect on the cultural aspects of Muslim life. In the final chapters, he examines the rise of pan-Islamism an

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Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of th

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Rise of Corporate-State Tyranny

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Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State

Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentiet

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Medieval Islamic Political Thought

This book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam

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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State (0241299624)

Kniha - autor Graeme Wood, 318 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Trade paperback. A book on the history, psychology, character and aims of the terrorist group 'Islamic State', based on the author's unprecendented access to its supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members.

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Prosecuting Heads of State

The meteoric rise in criminal prosecutions of former heads of state is examined for the first time in this probing and engaging narrative.

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Trust and the Islamic Advantage

This book will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, Middle East politics, religion, and collective action. Examining the rise of Is

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Pimp State

How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First Century's big questions. Should it be legal to pay

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Mad with Freedom

The use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of

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Dangerous Innocence

Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of

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Segregation in the New South

Explores the rise of racial exclusion in late nineteenth-century Birmingham, Alabama. Carl Harris shows that from the beginning of Reconstruction sout

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Making New People

Recounts in detail the rise and fall of Burkina FasoÂ’s revolutionary government, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in mode

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Rise of Athens

The story of the modest city-state that would become the birthplace of democracy

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Rise of China, Inc.

Li reveals how the Chinese Communist Party runs the Chinese state like an organisation that can act as swiftly and flexibly as a firm. The Rise of Chi

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Rise and Fall of Intelligence

Presents the history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence that examines the implications of the fall of the state monopo

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State of Terror - Rodham Clintonová Hillary

Anotace: Take a ringside seat in the high-stakes world of international politics . . .After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in. Secretary of State, Ellen Adams, is determined to do her duty for her country. But she is about to face a horrifying international threat . . .A young foreign service officer has received a baff...

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State of Terror - Clintonová Hillary Rodham

<p>Take a ringside seat in the high-stakes world of international politics . . . After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in. Secretary of State, Ellen Adams, is determined to do her duty for her country. But she is about to face a horrifying international threat . . . A young foreign service officer has received a b...

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America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book investigates the ways in which the war on terror has transformed the postcolonial state in Africa. Taking American intervention in Islamic education in Uganda as the entry point, the book demonstrates how state control over Islamic truth production and everyday Muslim life has increased. A thorough exploration of US foreign policy and Islamic education, this boo...

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New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2, The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

Leading scholars in the field chart the rise and fall, and the political and religious developments, of the various independent ruling dynasties of th

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Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody politi

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War, Capital, And The Dutch State (1588-1795)

An account of the rise and fall of the Dutch Republic, drawn from original-source material and rich in theoretical insights

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Globalization: Perak's Rise, Relative Decline, and Regeneration

This book is a pioneering study of the many economic and social changes in the natural resource-rich Malaysian state of Perak over the last two centur

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Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing - Vaclav Smil

<p>An overview of the state of manufacturing in America—both past and present—and how this sector and the jobs it creates are essential to the American economy “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.” —Bill Gates In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and tha...

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Way of the Strangers

Trade paperback. A book on the history, psychology, character and aims of the terrorist group 'Islamic State', based on the author's unprecendented access to its supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members.

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Revolt of the Masses

This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1961, examines the Western phenomenon of the rise of the ‘mass-man’. Analysing the state of socie

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Revolt of the Masses

This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1961, examines the Western phenomenon of the rise of the ‘mass-man’. Analysing the state of socie

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Making of England

'The Making of England' seeks to challenge the established narrative of the inevitable rise of the unified Christian state. England was not exceptiona

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Field of Glory II: Age of Belisarius

Age of Belisarius expands Field of Glory II forwards from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to 600 AD, a period when the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) army transformed itself from a mainly infantry force to a cavalry army in response to the threats it faced. You can be part of the flowering of the new “barbarian” kingdoms that replaced the Roman Empir...

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Field of Glory II: Age of Belisarius (PC)

Age of Belisarius expands Field of Glory II forwards from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to 600 AD, a period when the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) army transformed itself from a mainly infantry force to a cavalry army in response to the threats it faced.You can be part of the flowering of the new &ldquo;barbarian&rdquo; kingdoms that replaced the Roma...

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Fortunes of Africa : A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour - Meredith Martin

Anotace: In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5,000 years. With compelling narrative, he traces the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms and empires; the spread of Christianity and Islam; the enduring quest for gold and other riches; the exploits of explorers a...

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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state of the art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in internet shopping in particular has placed new demands on urban logistics which require innovative technological and policy responses. Similarly, the necessity for sustainable urban logistics offer...

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Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Legacy of Yangchen (Chronicles of the Avatar Book 4) - F. C. Yee

<p>From the New York Times bestselling author of Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi and Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi comes a thrilling new chapter in the Chronicles of the Avatar series and page-turning follow-up to Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Dawn of Yangchen Common enemies make for strange friends . . . Avatar Yangchen has succe...

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Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines the current state of capitalism in relation to the advance of ICTs, considering the ways in which the rise of the internet has shaped capitalism – or otherwise – and the implications of our increasingly digital society for social capital and the possible forms of resistance to the problematic aspects of capitalism....

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Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II

Anotace: The book´s first chapter contains new revelations about how Oswald was a witting false defector to the USSR in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA. The second volume in a series on the assassination of President Kennedy, "Countdown to Darkness" describes events during a dangerous quickening of the Cold War. The race for a long-range delivery system for n...

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Dead by Daylight - Demise of the Faithful chapter (PC)

Demise of the Faithful&nbsp;is a brand-new Chapter for Dead by Daylight, which includes a new Killer, a Survivor and a Map. Purchasing the Demise of the Faithful DLC will unlock its new Killer, new Survivor, and an exclusive item for the new survivor.Embrace the immense unknown and surrender yourself to the vast inexplicable: that is the oath of the faithful. When sur...

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Dead by Daylight - Demise of the Faithful chapter

Demise of the Faithful is a brand-new Chapter for Dead by Daylight, which includes a new Killer, a Survivor and a Map. Purchasing the Demise of the Faithful DLC will unlock its new Killer, new Survivor, and an exclusive item for the new survivor. Embrace the immense unknown and surrender yourself to the vast inexplicable: that is the oath of the faithful. When surrou...

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Operation Jihadi Bride

A thrilling and highly newsworthy military adventure in the burning rubble of Islamic State.

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Operation Jihadi Bride

A thrilling and highly newsworthy military adventure in the burning rubble of Islamic State.

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Jihad and Death

Everything you need to know about how Islamic State attracts new followers, by a world-renowned sociologist of Islam.

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Iran under Ahmadinejad

This paper looks at the details of the political rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and assesses his presidency to

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Islam

An examination of the rise of Islam, the life of Muhammad, and the Islamic principles of faith. Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair describe the golden ag

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Nomads in the Middle East

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century. This offers a vivid

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Neoliberalism and Neo-Jihadism

Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisation

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May the Tigris Grieve for You

Rural Iraq, during the war against the so-called Islamic State. A pregnancy out of wedlock. The young woman knows her fate is sealed. In crystalline p

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Hezbollah

This detailed analysis follows the rise and evolution of Hezbollah from an Islamic resistance movement to its role as a governing force in Lebanon, ex

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Serbia

A definitive account of the birth, rise and fall of a Balkan nation-state amidst Great Power rivalries.

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