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Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................... 3 CEO, China The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown ...................................................................... 4 Under the Black Flag At the Frontier of the New Jihad by Sami Moubayed ........................... 5 Generation M New Muslims, New Style by Shelina Janmohamed ............................................. 6 Brexit Breakdown of the EU? by Denis MacShane ....................................................................... 7 China and the West Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia by Fokke Obbema ........................... 8 Let 100 Voices Speak How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything by Liz Carter ............................................................................................................................................... 9 Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention by Simon Jenkins ............ 10 Afterlife A History of Life after Death by Philip C Almond ......................................................... 11 Aleppo The Rise and Fall of a World City by Philip Mansel ....................................................... 12 A Short History of the Italian Renaissance by Virginia Cox ................................................. 13 A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael H. Fisher ................................................ 14 A Short History of the Reformation by Helen L Parish .......................................................... 15 The Fall of the House of Speyer The Story of a Banking Dynasty by George W. Liebmann ............................................................................................................................................. 16 Frantz Fanon The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution by Leo Zeilig ................... 17 Churchill and the Islamic World Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter................................................................................................................................... 18 Mafia and Antimafia A Brief History Umberto Santino Foreword by John Dickie ................. 19 Selling Ronald Reagan The Emergence of a President by Gerard DeGroot ......................... 20 Winter is Coming The Medieval World of Game of Thrones by Carolyne Larrington .......... 21 Venice A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard .............................................. 22 Berlin A Literary Guide for Travellers by Paul Sullivan and Marcel Krueger ........................... 23 The Culture of Migration Politics, Aesthetics and Histories Ed by Sten Pultz Moslund Anne Ring Peterson and Moritz Schramm .................................................................................... 25 Adventures in the Lives of Others Ethical Dilemmas in Factual Filmmaking Edited by James Quinn ....................................................................................................................................... 26
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CEO, China The Rise of Xi Jinping Kerry Brown Key Selling Points
The must have book for understanding the new China and its powerful leader The author is one of the few western academics who has met and worked with the leadership in China, and he speaks and reads fluent Mandarin
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CURRENT AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Author Kerry Brown is the Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and former head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House. With 20 years experience of life in China, he has worked in education, business and government, including a term as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing. He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and The Observer amongst others, as well as for many international and Chinese media outlets. His recent book The New Dragons was widely acclaimed.
In CEO China, the noted China expert Kerry Brown reveals the hidden story of the rise of the man dubbed the ‘Chinese Godfather’. Praise for The New Dragons 'A rare example of informed, forensic enquiry... The New Emperors is an essential read.' Isobel Hilton, Observer
'Unique... [Kerry Brown] creates something of a map of power within contemporary China.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Wall Street Journal 'Brown provides a great introduction to the world of elite Chinese politics’ Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times 'An impressive, eye-opening study of the seven men who rule China.' Julia Lovell, The Telegraph
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China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful leaderships modern China has ever seen.
Under the Black Flag At the Frontier of the New Jihad Sami Moubayed Key Selling Points
Headline news story Includes first-hand interviews and accounts Likely to be key story of 2016
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Author Sami Moubayed is a Syrian historian and journalist. From 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. His articles on Middle East affairs have appeared in a variety of newspapers, including al-Ahram Weekly, al-Hayat, Gulf News, The Daily Star, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and Asia Times. He is a blogger with The Huffington Post and an online panelist with The Washington Post.
Praise for the book “Under the Black Flag is particularly good on the blood-soaked history of relations between Islamists and Ba’athists in Syria before 2011, thus helping us to understand why that country’s Arab Spring so quickly morphed into a brutal, sectarian jihad.” Edward Mortimer, Financial Times, 5September 2015 'Sami Moubayed has written a must-read book.’ Hassan Hassan, author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
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The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a significant threat to the region, if not to the wider world. Moubayed, a Beirutbased journalist who has been analysing Syria and the region for 20 years, has unrivalled access to the movement and its participants. His book is the first inside account of an organisation which has dominated the headlines with a dangerous mix of barbarity and military prowess. In looking at the historical background of ISIS: where it came from, how it evolved, where it stands today and what its aims are for the future to reveal, it will provide, for the first time, a fully-fledged picture of what lies at the heart of the Islamic State.
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Generation M New Muslims, New Style Shelina Janmohamed Key Selling Points FEBRUARY 2016
First comprehensive look at how Islam and Western consumerism interact in contemporary society Highly topical debates – from Halal sex shops to wearing the hijab – and accessibly written Based on original data from extensive research undertaken by Ogilvy and Mather, and written by well-known author with big media following
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Shelina Janmohamed is author of the acclaimed and popular Love in a Headscarf , a novel about the life and loves of a young Muslim woman. She is also a columnist for the Muslim News and EMEL magazine and regularly contributes to the Guardian, the Telegraph, the BBC and Channel 4 as well as appearing on BBCs Newsnight and The Heaven and Earth Show. Shelina also runs the award-winning Spirit 21 blog and is a leading spokesperson on Muslim social and religious trends and Vice President of Ogilvy Noor, the world’s first bespoke global Islamic branding practice for building brands with Muslim consumers.
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What does it mean to be young and Muslim today? There is a segment of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will shape not just the future generations of Muslims, but also the world around them: meet ‘Generation M’. Techsavvy and self-empowered, Generation M believe their identity encompasses both faith and modernity. Shelina Janmohamed, award-winning author and leading voice on Muslim youth, investigates this growing cultural phenomenon, at a time where understanding the mindset of young Muslims, and what drives them, is critical. Exploring fashion magazines, social networking and everyday consumer choices, Generation M shows how this dynamic section of our society is not only adapting to Western consumerism, but reclaiming it as its own. From the ‘Mipsters’ to the ‘Haloodies’, Halal internet dating to Muslim boy bands, Generation M are making their mark. It’s time to get hijabilicious!
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Brexit Breakdown of the EU? Denis MacShane Key Selling Points
Highly topical subject area Extensive events programme planned Important perspective on future of EU
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Praise for the book ‘well worth reading, both as a serious argument about Europe, which is rare enough, and as a personal memoir of his time as a pro-EU MP and Europe minister under Tony Blair.’ John Rentoul, Independent, 21 August 2015
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Denis MacShane was a Labour MP serving in Tony Blair's government as Minister for Europe. He was first elected as MP for Rotherham in 1994 and served until his resignation in 2012. MacShane studied at Oxford and London Universities and has four children. He is a prominent commentator on European issues.
Will Britain leave the EU? Following the Conservative victory in the 2015 General Election, the question of ‘Brexit’ – a British exit from the EU – is high on the political agenda. In this book, former Europe Minister Denis MacShane looks at the history of Britain’s fraught relationship with Europe and shows how the possibility of Brexit has become increasingly more likely. He looks at the key personalities who shaped Britain’s European policy – from Churchill to Heath and Wilson to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron – and the key issues of immigration and the economy which have heightened Eurosceptic feeling in the UK. Touching on one of the most divisive political issues of our times, this book will be essential reading as Britain, now with its post-election Conservative government, moves towards a referendum on Europe and considers its future place in the world.
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China and the West Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia Fokke Obbema Key Selling Points AUGUST 2015 £12.99
The must-have book for understanding the new China, including those dealing with China for business. The author is one of the few western journalists who has decades of experience in China Relevant for politico’s, journalists, historians, analysts and all those interested in the rising superpower
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China sees its relations with the West as absolutely crucial to its future. This wider relationship, between the new world and the old, is changing the global political and economic landscape. But can Europe and China overcome their cultural and political differences to develop a relationship of trust? Here, experienced journalist Fokke Obbema travels through Europe and China and speaks with dozens of entrepreneurs, students, experts and politicians. He shows how mutual relations are affected by a feeling of superiority on both sides, and sheds light on the thousands of interactions between people in finance, politics, economics and education. Above all he shows how a fear of China has permeated the discourse, and that we should instead take a balanced view of the future of China relations, even be excited by the change which is coming. Apart from anything else, the west could be on the brink of another financial disaster - What if the Chinese Don’t Come?
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Fokke Obbema is a journalist for the influential Dutch daily De Volkskrant and an expert on China and Chinese relations with the West.
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Let 100 Voices Speak How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything Liz Carter Key Selling Points
Relevant for politicos, journalists, historians, analysts Author is a world expert on social media and Chinese society Must-have book for understanding the new China, the world’s largest online country.
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Author Liz Carter is currently the Managing Editor of Tea Leaf Nation, one of the most popular blogs covering China in the West, recently acquired by Foreign Policy, and writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Policy. She has appeared on Al Jazeera and HuffPost Live as an expert on Chinese media and has written for various print publications. Fast becoming one of the ‘go-to’ voices on Chinese developments, especially relating to social media and the internet, she is an expert on Chinese culture and language, and also translates Chinese into English. She has worked as a reporter in China and spent a year at a think-tank in Washington.
Lively, ground-breaking and brilliantly Online China reveals a new side to largest country, and is the must-read future and the future of the state, censorship in the internet age.
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Praise for the book ‘[Carter’s] book offers another valuable window onto these groups [Chinese youth] [...]the author writes with the easy familiarity of someone who routinely watches the same programs, hangs out at the same social-media sites and uses the same digital devices as the young Chinese she is describing.’ Jeff Wasserstrom, Wall Street Journal, 19th August 2015
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From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters, or gossip and satirical jokes, are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo – the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground.
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Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention Simon Jenkins Key Selling Points
SEPTEMBER 2015 £9.99 216 PAGES
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Why do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win? Is it old-fashioned imperialism tainted with a crusader complex? Or is the West a partisan for the helpless?
Author Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author. He writes for the Guardian as well as broadcasting for the BBC. He was political editor of the Economist and has written for and edited the Times and the London Evening Standard. His books include A History of the Portuguese Revolution and the Falklands War and A Study of the Newspaper Industry and an Analysis of the Thatcher Government and its Legacy. He has also written on architecture and chaired the National Trust.
The fall of the Soviet Union left the West aimless. With no conflicting dogma to reinforce its sense of justice the West assumed the role of global policeman - aid graduated from charitable to economic and, finally, military. Ideological struggle was replaced by a vague and confused concept of international justice, shrouded in real-politik. Yet scepticism now pervades the interventionist debate. Simon Jenkins traces the rise of ‘liberal interventionism’ from Kosovo and the ‘war on terror’ to present day conflicts in Libya, Syria and Ukraine, asking: what can we learn from the miscalculations, mistakes, and mendacity of ‘the age of intervention’? As ISIS sweeps through Middle-East, calls for a military solution are increasing. By exposing interventionist rhetoric and highlighting past mistakes, Jenkins gives us an invaluable contribution to the active and essential debate on the West’s role in global conflicts.
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Intervention is a hugely relevant and widely debated topic – especially with recent conflicts in Libya, Syria, ISIS and Ukraine Of interest to readers of international politics, current affairs, history, journalist/media studies and ME studies Simon Jenkins is a prolific writer with years of experience writing on this topic, from Vietnam to Syria
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Afterlife A History of Life after Death Philip C Almond Key Selling Points
Life after death: terrific topic, here explored properly for the first time Philip Almond: proven, bankable author and expert in the history of religion and of ideas No obvious competition: strong potential for literary editor interest
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288 PAGES RELIGION HISTORY OF IDEAS HISTORY
Author Philip C Almond is Emeritus Professor of Religion in the University of Queensland. His previous books include The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession (2008), England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’ (2011, paperback 2014), The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (2012), and The Devil: A New Biography (2014), all published by I.B.Tauris.
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For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. Ranging across time and space, Philip Almond here takes his readers on a remarkable journey to worlds both of torment and delight. He travels to the banks of the Styx, where Charon the grizzled boatman ferries a departing spirit across the river only if a gold obol is first placed for payment on the tongue of its corpse. He transports us to the legendary Isles of the Blessed, walks the hallowed ground of the Elysian Fields and plumbs the murky depths of Tartarus, primordial dungeon of the Titans. The pitiable souls of the damned are seen to clog the soot-filled caverns of Lucifer even as the elect ascend to Paradise. Including medieval fears for the fate of those consumed by cannibals, early modern ideas about the Last Day and modern scientific explorations of the domains of the dead, this first full treatment of the afterlife in Western thought evokes many rich imaginings of Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and Limbo.
Aleppo The Rise and Fall of a World City Philip Mansel Key Selling Points
Philip Mansel is a bestselling author and an expert on Levantine history The first trade history of Aleppo Invaluable to all those interested in the magnificent history of this nowruined city
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MIDDLE EAST HISTORY Author Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Middle East. He has lived in Paris, Beirut and Istanbul, and has frequently returned to Aleppo since his first visit in 1969. In 2012 he won the London Library Life in Literature award, and in 2013 became a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. Aleppo: Rise and Fall of a World City is his third book on mixed cities of the Middle East, after Constantinople: City of the World's Desire (1995), on Istanbul; and Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010), on Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut. In 2015 I.B.Tauris published Mansel’s acclaimed account of the court of Napoleon, The Eagle in Splendour.
Praise for the author 'Philip Mansel, our greatest authority on the civilisation of the Levant, has written a characteristically concise and elegant elegy to one of the oldest, grandest, and most cosmopolitan cities of the region. As tragic as it is timely, Mansel succeeds magnificently in showing why we should mourn the fall of Aleppo.’ William Dalrymple
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Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo - one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world successively Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Seleucid, Armenian, Roman, Ummayyad, Abbasid and Mameluk. During the Ottoman empire it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. Its significance was its position at the end of the Silk Road, at the crossroads of the world's trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest souq in the Middle East and from which sprang some of the world's most enduring food, music and culture. In this, the first history of Aleppo during, Philip Mansel vividly describes Aleppo at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to this once-vital world city.
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance Virginia Cox Key Selling Points
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The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when Italy led the world in painting, building, science, literature and music. As the medieval period exploded into a new era of self-confidence, a rediscovery of classical authors and their philosophical principles coincided with the political and economic rise of Florence, especially under the powerful Medici princes, and the later ascendancy of Venice and Rome. But the Renaissance enjoyed a rich regionality beyond these familiar centres. The author thus explores the arts in Milan, Ferrara, Mantua, Urbino and even Naples. She examines too the impact of rhetoric and performance on key texts like Machiavelli’s The Prince and Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, as well as the role of women, both as patrons of the arts and creative artists in their own right. ‘Renaissance woman’, Cox boldly argues, is as important a legacy as ‘Renaissance man’.
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Virginia Cox is Professor of Italian at New York University. She is the author of The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy, Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 and The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo.
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Top-notch author, a world leader in her field New emphases: women; rhetorical culture; the Italian regions beyond Florence/Venice/Rome Very large general and student interdisciplinary sale
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A Short History of the Mughal Empire Michael H. Fisher Key Selling Points
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The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, preeminence and decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interests conflicted. The empire's significance continues to be controversial among scholars and politicians with fresh and exciting new insights, theories and interpretations being put forward in recent years. This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire.
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Author Michael Fisher holds the Robert S. Danforth Chair in History at Oberlin College and in 2007 was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award for Social Sciences by Oberlin. He has been teaching Mughal history for over 30 years and has published widely on various aspects of the interaction between the peoples and polities of India and the expanding British empire. He is the author of eight books, including Visions of Mughal India (I.B.Tauris) and A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Subcontinent.
Praise for the book ‘successfully engaging...highly accessible and thorough narrative of imperial events’. – Lisa Balabanlilar, Associate Professor of History, Rice University ‘eminently readable’ A. Azfar Moin, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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Mughal Empire is a fascinating subject, widely studied and with much interest for general readers Fisher is a leading authority on the Mughals Includes analysis of important new debates and interpretations
A Short History of the Reformation Helen L Parish
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Powerful and popular topic generating wide general sales Student take-up from both history and religion Exciting new emphases: concentrates on wider attitudes towards sex and on print culture
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When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther’s seismic action, and protest against the sale of indulgences, fragmented the Church and overturned previously accepted certainties and priorities. But it did more, challenging the relationship between spiritual and secular authority, perceptions of the supernatural, the interpretation of the past, the role of women in society and church, and clerical attitudes towards marriage and sex. Drawing on the most recent historiography, Helen L Parish locates the Protestant Reformation in its many cultural, social and political contexts. She assesses the Reformers’ impact on art and architecture; on notions of authority, scripture and tradition; and – reflecting on the extent to which the printing press helped spread Reformation ideas – on oral, print and written culture.
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Helen L Parish is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. Her previous books include Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church (2005) and Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent, Policy and Practice (2000).
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The Fall of the House of Speyer The Story of a Banking Dynasty George W. Liebmann Key Selling Points
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RIGHTS SOLD: Author George W. Liebmann is a lawyer and historian specialising in American and international history. His publications include Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World and The Last American Diplomat: John D Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy (both I.B.Tauris).
Description The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included the Southern Pacific Railroad, the London Underground and the infrastructure of the new Cuban republic. Later, it was the first major banking firm to finance Germany’s Weimar Republic, as well as providing League of Nations loans to Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria. Yet, the firm was doomed by the nationalist passions aroused by World War I. Its English partner was denaturalised and exiled; its American partner enjoyed reduced standing because of his connection to Germany; and the Frankfurt branch closed with the coming of the Third Reich, its German partner fleeing into exile. The firm was dissolved in 1939, a surprisingly anticlimactic end to one of the great international banking companies of modern times. George W. Liebmann here tells the story of the firm and the family – shedding new light on the protagonists of a remarkable dynasty, who came undone in the dramatic years of the early twentieth century.
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Original history of influential international banking firm Unique contribution to twentieth century history – and philanthropy Uses previously unpublished sources, photographs and documents
Frantz Fanon The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution Leo Zeilig Key Selling Points
OCTOBER 2015
Essential perspective on Fanon's work and the context within which he wrote, ideally pitched for students Fanon's work is still a core text for students of post-colonialism and critical theory - this new biography will provide a background to the context in which he wrote
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Frantz Fanon is best known as one of the leading twentieth-century political thinkers and activists against colonialism and imperialism and as the author of the iconic book ‘Wretched of the Earth’. Leo Zeilig here details the life of Fanon - from his upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and work in Europe and North Africa and frames his ideas and activism within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and his politically tumultuous surroundings. The book covers the period of the Algerian War of Independence, national liberation and what Fanon described ‘the curse of independence’. Highlighting Fanon’s role as the most influential theorist of third-world liberation, this book is an essential work for students, academics and general readers.
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Leo Zeilig is Visiting Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand, South RIGHTS SOLD: Africa. He was previously a senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg and holds a PhD from Brunel University.
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Churchill and the Islamic World Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East Warren Dockter Key Selling Points MAY 2015
Books about Winston Churchill always sell well A cutting edge focus which capitalizes on several strong historiographical trends Crossover appeal: Politics, History, Middle East
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Author Warren Dockter is Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He has written widely on Winston Churchill and received his PhD in History from the University of Nottingham. Praise for the book ‘Dockter’s timely and important book has illuminated Churchill’s relationship with the Islamic world which has previously been so misunderstood. Truly a work of monumental scholarship’ BORIS JOHNSON, author of The Churchill Factor
Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, yet he began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book unravels Churchill’s nuanced understanding of the edges of the British Empire. Warren Dockter analyses the future Prime Minister’s experiences of the East, including his work as Colonial Under-Secretary in the early 1900s, his relations with the Ottomans and conduct during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915-16, his arguments with David Lloyd-George over Turkey, and his pragmatic support of Syria and Saudi Arabia during World War II. Challenging the popular depiction of Churchill as an ignorant imperialist when it came to the Middle East, Dockter suggests that his policy making was often progressive when compared to the orientalist prejudices of many of his contemporaries. Above all, the book shows how Churchill left a lasting legacy in the region, which continues to be felt in Middle Eastern politics and British policy today.
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Mafia and Antimafia A Brief History Umberto Santino Foreword by John Dickie
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Mafia is a saleable and newsworthy subject By leading Anti-mafia specialist with intro by bestselling Mafia author Contributes to ongoing debates on organised crime - in Sicily and elsewhere
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The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. It is often seen as a polymorphic organization which encompasses crime, the accumulation of corruptly acquired wealth and power, the cultural code of omertà and consensus. Umberto Santino, one of Italy’s leading mafia experts, here provides a new perspective on the mafia and the movements which strive to fight against its powers. Exploring first-hand the campaigns of civil society organizations like the Centro siciliano di documentazione against the mafia, the author provides a fresh look at the mechanisms – and struggles – of the antimafia movement. With new research into high-profile murder trials, the mafia’s financial activities, international drug-trafficking violations and their secretive codes of conduct, Santino overturns speculation and sensationalised preconceptions on both the mafia and the antimafia – as forces of purely ‘good’ or ‘evil’ – and provides unparalleled insight into the networks of organised crime in Italy and throughout the world.
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HISTORY RIGHTS SOLD: ITALIAN, Author GERMAN, FRENCH Umberto Santino is the founder and director of the Centro siciliano di documentazione in Palermo, which was the first centre for research into the mafia and was established in 1977. He is one of the most authoritative experts on the mafia and has been a leading figure in the antimafia movement over the past few decades. He has lectured at university level and spoken at conferences, seminars and other events in numerous countries. John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London.
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Selling Ronald Reagan The Emergence of a President Gerard DeGroot Key Selling Points
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HISTORY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Author Born in California, Gerard De Groot is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He has written twelve books and dozens of articles on various aspects of 20th Century History. His book on the atom bomb (The Atom Bomb: A Life) was published to considerable acclaim and won the prestigious RUSI Westminster Medal for Military Literature. His iconoclastic history of 1960s, The Sixties Unplugged, won the Ray and Pat Browne Prize for the best single authored book on cultural history. De Groot contributes to national newspapers both in Britain and in the USA, and he has been a regular columnist for Scotland on Sunday amongst others.
How did Ronald Reagan go from being a washed-up Hollywood actor to the most powerful man in America? Running as a ‘celebrity’ candidate for the governorship of California in 1966, Ronald Reagan’s hard-line republican campaign was faltering amongst the student riots in Berkeley and sixties counter-culture. Reagan’s team, young. Hungry and inventive, including two Stanford psychologists, coached Reagan – teaching him to avoid getting caught up in policy detail and to refocus attention towards his natural ease in front of the camera and media-friendly charisma. In doing so Reagan and his team created the first 'modern' politician. With an emphasis on the importance of the sound-bite, the photo-op and Reagan’s personality, they won the California governorship by a landslide, and went on to do the same in the US presidential elections. This is the untold story of Reagan’s California campaign, which was to change the face of American politics, and sheds new light on one of the titans of modern American history.
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From the bestselling author of The Sixties Unplugged The first book to detail the secret campaign to make Reagan the politician he became A major story on the eve of the US Presidential Primaries
Winter is Coming The Medieval World of Game of Thrones Carolyne Larrington Key Selling Points
45 BW INTEGRATED 272 PAGES MEDIEVAL HISTORY VISUAL CULTURE FANTASY & MYTH
Author RIGHTS SOLD: Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford. Her previous books include The Women’s Companion to Mythology; The Poetic Edda; King Arthur’s Enchantresses: Morgan and her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (I.B.Tauris 2006, paperback 2014); Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children’s books (edited with Diane Purkiss); and The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles (I.B.Tauris, 2015).
Description Game of Thrones is a phenomenon. As Carolyne Larrington reveals in this essential companion to George R R Martin’s fantasy novels and the HBO mega-hit series based on them the show is the epitome of water-cooler TV. It is the subject of intense debate in national newspapers; by PhD students asking why Westeros has yet to see an industrial revolution, or whether astronomy explains the continent’s climatic problems and unpredictable solstices (‘winter is coming’); and by bloggers and cultural commentators contesting the series’ startling portrayals of power, sex and gender. Yet no book has divulged how George R R Martin constructed his remarkable universe out of the Middle Ages. Discussing novels and TV series alike, Larrington explores among other topics: sigils, giants, dragons and direwolves in medieval texts; ravens, old gods and the Weirwood in Norse myth; and a gothic, exotic orient in the eastern continent, Essos. From the White Walkers to the Red Woman, from Casterley Rock to the Shivering Sea, this is an indispensable guide to the twenty-first century’s most important fantasy creation.
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Game of Thrones has a huge, increasingly influential and growing fanbase Original and intriguing take on the show: from where does it get its ideas? Strong appeal to anyone interested in history, myth and religion, plus GoT fans
Venice A Literary Guide for Travellers Marie-Jose Gransard Key Selling Points
Venice's literary scene is legendary The first book of its kind on this iconic city Essential reading for all travellers to Venice
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Marie-José Gransard teaches a course, 'Venice in Literature', in Cannaregio and conducts tours of the city. She has worked with Hilary Spurling on her biography of Matisse and with Anthony Holden for his biography of Lorenzo da Ponte. She divides her time between Venice and London.
Venice, 'La Serenissima, is one of the most breathtaking cities in the world. A floating labyrinth; the world's greatest museum, frozen in time; a cultural jewel, slowly sinking into the lagoon from which it rose; tourist-trap, irresistible muse. From its earliest beginings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic centre of trade and culture, wealth and power and has acted as a crossroads for an array of religious pilgrims and refugees, diplomats, crusading armies and merchants. Later, its fabled beauty and reputation as a haven for freedom of expression seduced some of the most celebrated figures in history: artists such as Dürer, Da Vinci, Bellini and Turner; writers Dickens, Byron, Kafka, Poe, Rousseau, Thomas Mann, Ruskin and Ezra Pound and composers Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Stravinsky. In this, the first literary guide to Venice, the author uncovers the city's myriad secrets, revealing how every floating palace, gilded church and bustling square is imbued with the lives and creations of those who were inspired by the city, which still echoes with their voices.
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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Marco Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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Berlin A Literary Guide for Travellers Paul Sullivan and Marcel Krueger
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Berlin - 3rd most popular European destination after Paris and London Authors have excellent media platforms in Berlin and are fully keyed in to the Berlin scene No other literary guide to Berlin
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Since its 'promotion’ from Prussian Hauptstadt to the prime capital of a united Germany in 1871, Berlin has inspired and forged countless such writers, many of whom have attempted to capture the shifting identity of the city even as it has been rocked by the forces of history. It never was a city that looked outwards but always drew writers that loved to observe, to record. It has never possessed one single image or ideal that writers would identify with or flock to, and as such was less a place that generated influential writers than one where artists could meet and discuss the intellectual ideas of the day.
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Marcel Krueger is a writer, translator and blogger whose articles and essays have been published in The Daily Telegraph, Reykjavik Grapevine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Vision Magazine, Le Cool Dublin, the Matador Network and The Dublin Community Blog (Winner Irish Blog Awards 2009) amongst others.
This engaging and unique guide explores the shifting heart of literary Berlin from its early days as the capital of Prussia, to the heady decades of the Weimar Republic when the cultural life of the city exploded; from the silent, underground years of Nazi rule to the Cold War and a city divided and into the 21st century, where Berlin has once again become a crucible of the avant-garde.
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Paul Sullivan is a music and travel journalist whose writing and photos have been published in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, National Geographic Traveller UK, BBC Travel, The National, Time Out and more. He is currently Lead Author on the forthcoming National Geographic Walking Guide to Berlin and runs regular photography workshops and cultural-historical walking tours in Berlin.
Literary Guides for Travel Literary Guides for Travellers is a pioneering new series which blend history, literature, art and travel to transport the reader into the lives and works of writers who have lived, worked, travelled through or been inspired by the history, culture and landscape of a place. The books in the series are produced as beautiful, portable hardbacks, embellished with photographs and with easy-to-follow practical maps that the traveller can use to discover the houses, cafes, palaces and gardens where some of the greatest works of literature were written. These books are not anthologies; they are all marked by their readability and strong narrative flow, threaded with plenty of human interest, historical and literary anecdote and evocative descriptions of people and place.
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Forthcoming titles in Literary Guides for Travel series... SCOTLAND: A Literary Guide for Travel by Garry MacKenzie - October 2016 GREECE: A Literary Guide for Travel by Michael Carroll – October 2016
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ANDALUCIA: A Literary Guide for Travel by Andrew and Suzanna Edwards – December 2016
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The Culture of Migration Politics, Aesthetics and Histories Ed by Sten Pultz Moslund Anne Ring Peterson and Moritz Schramm
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Migration is a very timely topic Makes an important contribution to the emerging cross-disciplinary field of migration studies Contributions by renowned and emerging scholars such as Mike Bal, Nikos Papastergiadis, Roger Bromley and Edward Casey
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Sten Pultz Moslund is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Studies of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. Anne Ring Petersen is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
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Moritz Schramm is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Studies of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.
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Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history but today, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globalization, a higher percentage of people than ever before live outside their country of birth. Increased international migration has resulted in more movement of information, traditions and cultures. Migration thus acts as a catalyst: not only of social change, but also for the generation of new aesthetic phenomena. The Culture of Migration explores the ways in which culture and the arts have been transformed by migration in recent decades – and, in turn, how these cultural and aesthetic transformations have contributed to shaping our identities, politics and societies.
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Adventures in the Lives of Others Ethical Dilemmas in Factual Filmmaking Edited by
James Quinn
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TV & film top professionals speak of how they make ethical choices in practice Candid insiders’ stories by producers, makers, editors & chief execs All contributors big names including Nick Broomfield and Penny Woolcock
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James Quinn is an awardwinning documentary filmmaker and executive producer. He has occupied senior positions at several industry-leading independent production companies, including Head of Special Projects at Oxford Film & Television and Head of Factual Television at October Films. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a PhD in philosophy. His other books include This Much is True, a landmark volume on the art of directing documentaries.
Putting readers into the shoes of film and TV professionals, Adventures in the Lives of Others is a gripping insider's account of ethics, problem-solving and decision-making at the cutting edge of documentaries and factual television. It brings together a range of intimate, candid accounts of the struggles involved in making documentary film and television, from Hoop Dreams and Grey Gardens to Super Size Me and Benefits Street. Contributors include legends of the documentary world, filmmakers at the top of their game, emerging directors and producers, and some of the world's most powerful and respected executives. In specially-commissioned pieces, they explore the ethical dilemmas involved in uncovering secrets and breaking taboos, accessing closed and dangerous worlds, fighting injustice, filming raw sex and violence, documenting acts of evil, and the many challenges of turning real life into compelling entertainment.
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Being Gorgeous Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual Jacki Willson Key Selling Points
Explains a new politics of feminised & feminist performance New, 21st century feminist ideas have a big general & student following Accessibly, punchily written with gorgeous examples
JUNE 2015
240 PAGES GENERAL INTEREST FEMINISM CULTURALGENDER & FASHION STUDIES FILM STUDIES
Author Jacki Willson is a Cultural Studies Lecturer for Fashion, Textiles and Jewellery students at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She is the author of The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque (I.B.Tauris, 2008).
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play – a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first century. Jacki Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture. By referring to a wide spectrum of examples, including Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Matthew Barney, Dr Sketchy’s, Audacity Chutzpah, Burly Q and Carnesky’s Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by inappropriately re-appropriating femininity. ‘Makes an important, timely and provocative intervention into debates about performance & objectification…Jacki Willson has a way of making hugely original statements that make sense of what have felt like intractably complex & polarised debates.’
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Debra Ferreday, author Online Beginnings
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