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FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE London Book Fair 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS HISTORY AND CURRENT AFFAIRS ........................................................................................................................ 5 IRREGULAR WAR Islamic State and the New Threat from the Margins | Paul Rogers ........ 6 WHO IS HILLARY CLINTON? Two Decades of Answers from the Left | Richard Kreitner . 7 Introduction by Katha Pollitt ....................................................................................................................... 7 CEO, CHINA The Rise of Xi Jinping | Kerry Brown .............................................................................. 8 WHY COLD WAR AGAIN? How America Lost Russia | Stephen F. Cohen ................................ 9 GREECE, THE DECADE OF WAR Occupation, Resistance and Civil War | David Brewer10 ALEPPO The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City | Philip Mansel ........................... 11 THE WINCHESTER An American Icon | Laura Trevelyan ............................................................ 12 A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE OTTOMANS The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts | Suraiya Faroqhi .............................................................................................................................................. 13 I.B.TAURIS SHORT HISTORIES SERIES ................................................................................................. 14 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NORMANS | Leonie V Hicks ............................................................. 15 A SHORT HISTORY OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY | Kenneth Morgan ................................ 16
TRAVEL & BIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................................ 17 GOTHAM RISING New York in the 30s | Jules Stewart Foreword by Amor Towles........... 18 THE ART OF EXILE A Vagabond Life | John Freely .......................................................................... 19 REAGAN | Iwan Morgan .............................................................................................................................. 20 EVITA The Life of Eva Per贸n | Jill Hedges ............................................................................................ 21 BEYOND CONSTANTINOPLE The Memoirs of an Ottoman Jew | Victor Eskenazi.............. 22 VENICE A Literary Guide for Travellers | Marie-Jos茅 Gransard ................................................. 23 SCOTLAND A Literary Guide for Travellers | Garry MacKenzie ................................................. 24 BERLIN A Literary Guide for Travellers | Paul Sullivan and Marcel Krueger ...................... 25 ANDALUCIA A Literary Guide for Travellers | Andrew and Suzanne Edwards ................... 26
RELIGION & CLASSICS ............................................................................................................................................... 27 GENERATION M New Muslims, New Style | Shelina Janmohamed ........................................... 28 CLASSICS series............................................................................................................................ 30
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AFTERLIFE A History of Life after Death | Philip C Almond ...................................................... 29
FILM, TV & CULTURAL STUDIES......................................................................................................................... 31 WINTER IS COMING The Medieval World of Game of Thrones | Carolyne Larrington .... 32 JOURNALISM IN AN AGE OF TERROR Covering and Uncovering the Secret State | John Lloyd.................................................................................................................................................................... 33 EXPERIMENTAL FASHION Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body | Francesca Granata ......................................................................................................................................... 34 ADVENTURES IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS Ethical Dilemmas in Factual Filmmaking | edited by James Quinn ................................................................................................................................. 35
NEW IN PAPERBACK .................................................................................................................................................. 37 THE FOG OF PEACE The Human Face of Conflict Resolution | Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Picco...................................................................................................................................... 38 UNDER THE BLACK FLAG At the Frontier of the New Jihad | Sami Moubayed ................. 39 BOKO HARAM Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War | M.J. Smith............................................................... 40 FRONTLINE UKRAINE Crisis in the Borderlands | Richard Sakwa ........................................... 41 THE DEVIL A New Biography | Philip C. Almond ............................................................................ 42 UNDERSTANDING THE QUR'AN Themes and Style | Muhammad Abdel Haleem .............. 43
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BABYLON Legend, History and the Ancient City | Michael Seymour ...................................... 44
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HISTORY AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
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IRREGULAR WAR
Islamic State and the New Threat from the Margins
Paul Rogers Key Selling Points
224 PAGES
POLITICS | MIDDLE EAST SECURITY
Author RIGHTS SOLD: Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and the Global Security Consultant for the Oxford Research Group. He is a leading expert in the field of international security, arms control and political violence with over 30 years’ experience. Rogers is a regular commentator on global security issues in both national and international media, and is International Security Editor for Open Democracy. He is the author of Why We’re Losing the War on Terror, and Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century.
Description If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in decline; the threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Qaida in Yemen, the chaos in Libya and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan have all shown that to be wishful thinking. Once again the West is at war in the Middle East. Paul Rogers, the distinguished global security specialist, provides a much-needed look at the rise of such global terrorist movements from the margins and presents a new argument as troubling as it is compelling. While Islamic State has taken root in the Middle East and North Africa and has increasing impact across the world as thousands of young men and women rally to its cause, Rogers argues that it should be seen not just as a threat in its own right but as a marker of a much more dangerous world riddled with irregular war.
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Hugely topical with current events in the Middle East and the rise of ISIS Paul Rogers is an expert in the field Puts ISIS into global and historical context - of interest to general readers and specialists
WHO IS HILLARY CLINTON? Two Decades of Answers from the Left
Richard Kreitner Introduction by Katha Pollitt
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‘She’s a radical feminist. She’s just a wife. She’s Emma Goldman in a pantsuit. She’s a corporate sellout. She’s a liberal. She’s conservative. She’ll move all women forward. Yeah, right: The only woman she cares about is herself.’ from Katha Pollitt’s Introduction
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Author Richard Kreitner is Special Assistant to the Publisher at The Nation. Katha Pollit is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, has contributed to The Nation magazine for several decades. Her most recent book is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014).
Who is Hillary Clinton really? Her identity as a feminist, as a wife, as a woman, as a liberal and as a potential President of the United States has been debated and contested for more than 20 years. Chief amongst these debates, The Nation has, over the years, examined her from every angle from First Lady in 1993, to New York Senator in 2000 to Democratic Presidential hopeful today. This book is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that. A carefullyedited anthology of The Nation’s coverage of Clinton’s career, it’s a rigorous and painstaking study of one of our most enigmatic public figures. It is a history of our time, and a must-read for the 2016 election season, providing perspective on the woman who could become the first female President of the United States.
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Contributors include David Corn, Erica Jong, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Tomasky, William Greider, Ari Berman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chris Hayes, Jessica Valenti, Richard Kim, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Michelle Goldberg, and many more.
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CEO, CHINA The Rise of Xi Jinping
Kerry Brown Key Selling Points
Bestselling author of The New Emperors which was widely reviewed to critical acclaim Must-have book for understanding the new China and its powerful leader
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In CEO China, the noted China expert Kerry Brown reveals the hidden story of the rise of the man dubbed the ‘Chinese Godfather’. Brown investigates his relationship with his revolutionary father, who was expelled by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, his business dealings and allegiances in China’s regional power struggles and his role in the internal battle raging between the old men of the Deng era and the new super-rich ‘princelings’. Xi Jinping’s China is powerful, aggressive and single-minded and this book will become a must-read for the Western world.
Author 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
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'An impressive, eye-opening study of the seven men who rule China.' Julia Lovell, The Telegraph Page
Kerry Brown is the Professor of Chinese Studies at King's College London and Director of the Lau China Institute. He was formerly the Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and 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.
WHY COLD WAR AGAIN? How America Lost Russia
Stephen F. Cohen ESSENTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE NEW EAST-WEST CRISIS FROM RENOWNED RUSSIA ANALYST STEPHEN F. COHEN
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RUSSIAN STUDIES
Author Stephen F. Cohen is a leading scholar of Russia, media commentator and author of several widely acclaimed books. He is Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Politics at Princeton. His books include Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War and The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin (I.B.Tauris).
Praise for The Victims Return ‘Cohen does a good job of rattling the skeletons in its [Russia’s] closet’ The Washington Post ‘Cohen sheds fascinating new light on two former prisoners who, in spite of their suffering, remained committed communists on release, found work in the party's central committee, and used their highlevel access to open Khrushchev's eyes.’ Jonathan Steele, The Guardian ‘Commendable’ The Observer
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The new East-West conflict, which broke out over the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, but which long predated it and soon spread through Europe and to the Middle East, is potentially the worst US-Russian confrontation in more than fifty years — and the most fateful. A negotiated resolution is possible, but time may be running out. In this book, renowned Russia scholar and media commentator Stephen F. Cohen traces the history of this EastWest relationship in the ‘Inter Cold War’ period — the years from the purported end of the preceding Cold War, in 1990-1991, to what he has long argued would be a new and even more dangerous Cold War. Cohen’s historical and contemporary analysis is insightful, thought-provoking and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand relations between the West and post-Soviet Russia.
GREECE, THE DECADE OF WAR Occupation, Resistance and Civil War
David Brewer Key Selling Points
Acclaimed historian of Greece Tumultuous period of Greek history Under-studied area of World War II
FEBRUARY 2016
336 PAGES
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Author David Brewer is the author of Greece, the Hidden Centuries and The Flame of Freedom: The Greek War of Independence, 1821-1833. After studying Classics at Oxford University he divided his working life between teaching, journalism and business before devoting himself to the study of the history of Greece.
During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal. Children starved on the streets of Athens. The Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust. Heroic acts of resistance – performed in concert with the SOE – were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from Nazi rule in 1944, the fractured and embittered nation became engulfed in civil war, as conflict flared between the British and American-sponsored government and communist-led rebels. Acclaimed historian of Greece David Brewer here investigates this tumultuous decade in Greece’s modern history, providing a compelling military and political history.
Praise for Greece, the Hidden Centuries ‘David Brewer's book is by far the best work that I have read on the Turkokrateia, the hidden centuries when what is now Greece was under the rule of the Ottoman Turks.. thoroughly researched and very well written, and it opens up for the general reader a fascinating and little known era of history. Highly recommended.’ John Freely, bestselling author of Strolling through Istanbul ‘a fine achievement’ Times Literary Review
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ALEPPO
The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant 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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Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was 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 ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires.
Author RIGHTS SOLD: Philip Mansel is a historian of T URKISHand the Middle East. He France has lived in Paris, Beirut and Istanbul, and often visited Aleppo. In 2012 he won the London Library Life in Literature Award, and in 2013 became a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. His most recent publication is The Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon (2015). Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City is his third book on cosmopolitan 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 the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war. Praise for the book ‘a magnificent history’ The Spectator '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.’ William Dalrymple ‘An important and outstanding book’ Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs and The Fall of the Ottomans
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THE WINCHESTER An American Icon
Laura Trevelyan Key Selling Points
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TRADE HISTORY MILITARY HISTORY AMERICAN HISTORY
Author RIGHTS SOLD: Laura Trevelyan is an anchor and correspondent for the BBC, based in New York. She has worked for the BBC since 1993, reporting for many radio and television programmes. The great great great granddaughter of Oliver Winchester, the entrepreneur who founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, her interest in the subject began aged 17 when she fired a rifle adapted to shoot tennis balls at the home of her Winchester relatives. She lives with her husband and children in New York. She is the author of A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World (I.B.Tauris, 2006).
The Winchester Rifle, the iconic gun made in New Haven, Connecticut, and sold in its hundreds of thousands around the world, mirrors American expansion at a key period in the young country's history. The lethal repeating rifle became the defining image of America's frontier – and was known amongst Native Americans as 'the spirit gun'. It represented both the pioneering vigour and the brutal force which conquered the West. Laura Trevelyan explores the history of, and the family behind, this renowned representation of American power. The entrepreneurial drive of Oliver Winchester led the rifle to rapidly assume legendary status not long after its release in 1866, gaining endorsements from the likes of Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and President Teddy Roosevelt. This engaging history sheds light on the story and myth of an American legend.
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A weapon with an iconic status plenty of enthusiasts Lots of human interest Well known author and BBC journalist
A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE OTTOMANS The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts
Suraiya Faroqhi Key Selling Points
MAY 2016 £25 40 BW AND COLOUR IN 3X8PP PLATES
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Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and elites and, with this in mind, Suraiya Faroqhi, one of the most distinguished Ottomanists of her generation, has selected 40 of the most revealing, surprising and striking.Each image - reproduced in full colour - is deftly linked to the latest historiography, and the social, political and economic implications of her selections are never forgotten. In Faroqhi's hands, the objects become ways to learn more about trade, gender and socio-political status and open an enticing window onto the variety and colour of everyday life, from the Sultan's court, to the peasantry and slavery. Amongst its faiences and etchings and its sofras and carpets.
Author Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor of History at Bilgi University, Istanbul. She was previously Professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. Among her many publications are The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It, Pilgrims and Sultans and Subjects of the Sultan (all published by I.B.Tauris).
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Definitive look at the Ottoman world through its artefacts Suraiya Faroqhi is the specialist on the Ottoman Empire Combines social history and cultural studies, with beautiful illustrations of rare artefacts brought together for the first time
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INTRODUCTIONS WITH AN EDGE I.B.Tauris Short Histories is an authoritatively written and elegantly presented new series which puts a fresh perspective on the way history is taught and understood in the twenty-first century. Designed to have strong appeal to university students and their teachers, as well as to general readers and history enthusiasts, I.B.Tauris Short Histories aims to bring informed interpretation, as well as factual reportage, to historical debate. Addressing key subjects and topics in the fields of history, the history of ideas, religion, classical studies, politics, philosophy and Middle East studies, the series seeks intentionally to move beyond the bland, neutral ‘introduction’ that so often serves as the primary undergraduate teaching tool. Covering a variety of subjects in a greater degree of depth than is often found in comparable series, yet at the same time in concise and compact handbook form, our Short Histories are ‘introductions with an edge’.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NORMANS Leonie V Hicks Key Selling Points APRIL 2016 £10.99 40 BW INTEGRATED, 5 MAPS, COLOUR PLATES
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Description The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful kingdoms in Europe – in Sicily and France, as well as England – is an improbably romantic idea. In exploring Norman culture in all its regions, Leonie V Hicks places the Normans in the context of early medieval society. Her comparative perspective enables the Norman story to be told in full, so that the societies of Rollo, William, Robert and Roger Guiscard are given the focused attention they deserve. From Hastings to the martial exploits of Bohemond and Tancred on the First Crusade; from castles and keeps to Romanesque cathedrals; and from the founding of the Kingdom of Sicily (1130) to cross-cultural encounters with Byzantines and Muslims, this is a fresh and lively survey of one of the most popular topics in European history.
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Leonie V Hicks is Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at the University of Southampton. She is the author of Religious Life in Normandy, 1050-1300 (2007).
Looks at the Normans globally, for maximum ease of student use Fresh & exciting new perspectives on Norman culture, buildings and architecture Considerable general appeal, and also to military historians
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A SHORT HISTORY OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY Kenneth Morgan Key Selling Points
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HISTORY | POLITICS HISTORY OF IDEAS ETHNIC STUDIES
Author Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University. He is the author of Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (1993), Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 (2000), Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2007) and Australia: A Very Short Introduction (2012).
From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean – the infamous Middle Passage – to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions – and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations – Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade’s systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution. ‘an impressive book by one of Europe’s leading historians of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.’ Simon P Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History, University of Glasgow
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Much-needed in-depth introduction to a vital and timely topic World-leading authority on the subject Wide general interest sale as well as to students of history and their teachers
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GOTHAM RISING New York in the 30s
Jules Stewart
Foreword by Amor Towles Key Selling Points OCTOBER 2016 £20 16PP BW PLATES, 1 MAP 288 PAGES
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Description New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which so defines the city as we know it today – from the Empire State Building to the Pastrami sandwich only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in the city’s 400year history. After the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression seemed to spell disaster for the vibrant city. Yet, in this era, New York underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of the charismatic mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. In culture, this was the age of the Harlem Renaissance championed by writers like Langston Hughes, the jazz age with the advent of Tin-Pan Alley, the Cotton Club and immortals such as Duke Ellington making his name in the Big Apple. Weaving these stories together, Jules Stewart tells the story of an iconic city in a time of change.
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Jules Stewart is a journalist, historian and author. He was born in New York and worked there in various guises – including a yellow cab driver – over the years. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan’s Plains: The Story of Britain’s Afghan Wars (all published by I.B.Tauris); Crimson Snow: Britain’s First Disaster in Afghanistan; The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier; Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya and The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda. He lives in London.
11 million tourists visit New York every year Huge appetite for books on the history of NYC Author is a master storyteller with an eye for detail
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THE ART OF EXILE A Vagabond Life
John Freely Key Selling Points
Bestselling author of over 40 acclaimed travel and history books, including Inside the Seraglio (Penguin) and Strolling Through Istanbul (I.B.Tauris) John Freely is the great populariser of Turkish/Ottoman history A broadly appealing memoir: travel, history
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TRAVEL| AUTOBIOGRAPHY HISTORY RIGHTS SOLD: TURKISH Author John R IGHTS Freely SOLD:was born in 1926 in Brooklyn. In 1944, at the age of 17, heURKISH enlisted in the US Navy and spent T the last two years of World War II serving with a commando unit in Burma and China. In 1960 John and his family moved to Istanbul, where he taught physics and the history of science at Bogaziçi University. Aside from his travels across the world, he has lived there ever since. He is the author of over 40 acclaimed travel and history books, including Strolling through Istanbul, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Venice, Inside the Seraglio, Children of Achilles, Light from the East, Celestial Revolutionary and The Grand Turk (all I.B.Tauris Publishers).
By the time he was six, John Freely had crossed the Atlantic four times. His childhood was spent on the mean streets of 1930s Brooklyn, where he scavenged for junk to sell and borrowed money for books; his first love being Homer's Odyssey. He was 15 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and 17 when he enlisted in the US Navy and embarked on the first great adventure of his life: joining a clandestine unit that helped the Kuomintang fight the Japanese. He served for two years, 96 days in combat and a total of 344 days overseas, which sparked a lifelong passion for travel. Returning home after the war, Freely fell in love with a beautiful girl who sang the blues. His own Penelope. Together they signed a blood pact to spend their life travelling the world. This unforgettable memoir takes the reader from the streets of New York to the corridors of provincial campus life; from World War II in the Pacific to the shores of the Bosphorus and from Ancient Troy to the isles of Dionysus and Ariadne. It is the story of a remarkable odyssey that has spanned nine decades, several continents and one great love. And still the odyssey continues, "as I ponder the meaning of an Ithaka and of exile as an art that takes a lifetime to master."
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REAGAN Iwan Morgan Key Selling Points
Continually interesting figure in modern history Strong interest in this period of foreign affairs Authoritative biography of Reagan
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Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and Head of US Programmes at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He was awarded the British Association of American Studies Honorary Fellowship in 2014 in recognition of his contributions to the discipline over the course of his career. His publications include The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush; Nixon and Beyond the Liberal Consensus: A Political History of the United States since 1965.
Ronald Reagan is one of the most important – and arguably most successful – presidents in modern American history. He is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity in the wake of the most miserable economic era since the 1930s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and doing much to bring about the late twentieth century shift to the right in American politics. In this book, Iwan Morgan presents the first thoroughly-researched biography of Reagan, based on original materials and first-hand interviews. He plots a chronological path through Reagan’s life beginning with his childhood and early years in Illinois, through his Hollywood career, his emergent Republicanism and his election as governor of California, before acceding to the presidency in 1981. In office, Morgan assesses Reagan’s economic and foreign policies, as well as his idealization of the constitution and his nearimpeachment over the Iran-Contra affair.
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EVITA
The Life of Eva Perón
Jill Hedges Key Selling Points
£20 24 BW IN 16PP PLATES 288 PAGES
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Eva Perón remains Argentina’s best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Perón – himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts interest 60 years after her death. From her poverty-stricken upbringing as an illegitimate child in rural Argentina, Perón made her way to the highest echelons of Argentinean society, via a brief acting career and her relationship with Juan. After their political breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning following her death from cancer at the age of just 33. Based on new sources and firsthand interviews, the book will seek to explore the personality and experiences of ‘Evita’ and the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn influenced by her. As the first substantive biography of Eva Perón in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of ‘Evita’.
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Jill Hedges has been Senior Editor for Latin America at Oxford Analytica since 2001 and was formerly Editorial Manager of business information service Esmerk Argentina. She has a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool and is the author of Argentina: A Modern History.
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New perspective on an iconic figure worldwide First authoritative biography
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BEYOND CONSTANTINOPLE
The Memoirs of an Ottoman Jew
Victor Eskenazi Key Selling Points
Vivid portrait of life at the end of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman history is perenially fascinating
MARCH 2016
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"Constantinople in those days represented the bridge between East and West. The navel of the earth. A wondrous and fascinating place to live."
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and raised in Ottoman Istanbul. He travelled throughout Europe in the 1920s, settling in Vienna and Italy. During World War II, he moved to London and worked for the British Intelligence Corps. He died in Milan in 1987.
Victor Eskenazi, a Sephardic Jew from Constantinople, represented an ethnic and religious minority that thrived in the Ottoman Empire. The beginning of the twentieth century was a critical period in Ottoman history, which saw the end of the Empire, defeat in World War I but also a colourful influx of victorious allied armies and White Russians fleeing the Revolution, contributing to the already cosmopolitan nature of the city. Eskenazi breathed the complex air of this budding new Turkey, with its ideals, contradictions and hopes. His extraordinary memoir - which begins in Constantinople and travels across Europe during and after World War II - tells the remarkable story of a family, poignantly capturing a moment in time which now exists only in memory.
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VENICE A Literary Guide for Travellers
Marie-José Gransard Key Selling Points
MARCH 2016 £16.99 30 BW INTEGRATED, 1 MAP 336 PAGES
TRAVEL | LITERATURE HISTORY | GUIDE Author RIGHTS SOLD: 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's literary scene is legendary The first book of its kind on this iconic city Essential reading for all travellers to Venice
Description 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, Bellini and Turner; writers Dickens, Byron, Kafka, Poe, Rousseau, Thomas Mann, Ruskin and Ezra Pound and composers Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Stravinsky. In this riveting guide to literary 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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‘excellently selected’ The Times
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SCOTLAND
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Garry MacKenzie Key Selling Points
No other literary guide to Scotland like this Broadly appealing: tourists, history buffs, armchair travellers, literary buffs Focus on Scotland especially topical and illuminating
JUNE 2016
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With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy urban novels of Irvine Welsh. For Robert Burns, Scotland's iconic poet, the culture of his native country was a fertile ground for his imagination.
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Garry MacKenzie holds a PhD in English from St Andrews, where his supervisors were the Scottish poets Robert Crawford and John Burnside. MacKenzie has also been awarded the Tom Durrheim Prize for ‘exceptional talent in the study of Scottish poetry’ and the St Leonard’s Prize Research Lectures award, through which he gave a series of public lectures based on his PhD research.
This enthralling guide gets under the skin of the country through the writers who lived in or visited Scotland, as well as those who simply imagined it in their work – from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and the Scots ‘Makars’ of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to Keats, Coleridge and Robert Louis Stevenson; from Gaelic bards and anonymous balladeers to the cosmopolitan Hugh MacDiarmid, Jackie Kay, Ian Rankin and Kathleen Jamie. Famous figures sit alongside writers sometimes overlooked by literary travellers, and through their lives and words we experience the rich, fractious and passionate story of Scottish culture and discover how Scotland’s history, landscape and society are brought to life in literature.
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BERLIN A Literary Guide for Travellers
Paul Sullivan and Marcel Krueger Key Selling Points
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
JULY 2016
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TRAVEL | LITERATURE HISTORY | GUIDE Author Paul Sullivan’s journalism and photography work has been published in a variety of international publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, BBC Travel and more. He runs popular Berlin website www.slowtravelberlin.com Marcel Krueger is a writer and translator whose articles and essays have been published in The Daily Telegraph, Süddeutsche Zeitung, CNN Travel, the Matador Network and more, and who also works as a local Berlin expert or ‘Spotter’ for Spotted by Locals.
Located at the epicentre of some of modern Europe’s most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From 19th century authors recording the city’s dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 and the modernist intellectuals of the Weimar period, to the resistance writers brave enough to write during the dark years of the Nazi era and those who captured life on both sides of the divided city, a body of literature has emerged that reveals Berlin’s ever-shifting identity. Since 1989, Berlin has yet again become a crucible of creativity, serving as both muse and sanctuary for a new generation of writers who regularly claim it as one of the most exciting cities in the world. This unique and engaging book functions as an introduction to some of the finest writing in and about the city, as well as a guide to some of its best sights and vibrant neighbourhoods. Spanning more than 200 years of local life and literature, it features German authors as diverse as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph Roth, Jörg Fauser, and Christa Wolf, as well as a slew of famous international names such as Mark Twain, Philip Hensher and Chloe Aridjis.
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ANDALUCIA
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Andrew and Suzanne Edwards Key Selling Points SEPTEMBER 2016
Essential reading for literary buffs, Italophiles, travellers, armchair travellers Over 3 million people travel to Andalucia every year There is no other literary guide to Andalucia
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Andalucia is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is utterly unlike the rest of the country. Its literary history began with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of literary tradition, together with the landscapes and passions of Moorish Spain. Later, Prosper Mérimée, Byron and Washington Irving forged legends of exotic southern Spain that persist to this day and Spanish writers themselves captured the rich passions of Andalucian culture, from Cervantes' Seville to the Cordoba of Baroque poet Luis de Góngora and Lorca's 'hidden Andalucia'. With the advent of the Civil War, a new generation flocked to Andalucia and were inspired to write some of the Twentieth Century's most iconic works of literature, from Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls to Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth. As vibrant and compelling as the region itself, Andalucia: A Literary Guide for Travellers illuminates the very soul of Spain.
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Andrew Edwards is a writer and the translator of two books set in Sicily by the Spanish author Alejandro Luque. Suzanne Edwards is a linguistics graduate and lecturer. They co-authored the acclaimed Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers (I.B.Tauris, 2014).
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RELIGION & CLASSICS
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GENERATION M New Muslims, New Style
Shelina Janmohamed Key Selling Points MAY 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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MIDDLE EAST ISLAMIC STUDIES Author RIGHTS SOLD: 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.
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’. Tech-savvy 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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AFTERLIFE A History of Life after Death
Philip C Almond Key Selling Points
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RELIGION HISTORY OF IDEAS HISTORY | PHILOSOPHY Author RIGHTS SOLD:
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.
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Philip C Almond is Emeritus Professor of Religion in the US 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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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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UNDERSTANDING CLASSICS series Edited by Richard Stoneman, University of Exeter Understanding Classics is a specially commissioned series which aims to introduce the outstanding authors and thinkers of antiquity to a wide audience of appreciative modern readers, whether undergraduate students of classics, literature, philosophy and ancient history or generalists interested in the classical world.
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Each volume – written by leading figures internationally – will examine the historical significance of the writer or writers in question; their social, political and cultural contexts; their use of language, literature and mythology; extracts from their major works; and their reception in later European literature, art, music and culture.
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FILM, TV & CULTURAL STUDIES
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WINTER IS COMING The Medieval World of Game of Thrones
Carolyne Larrington Key Selling Points
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Author 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.
Praise for the author ‘Larrington has impeccable qualifications’ The Guardian
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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
JOURNALISM IN AN AGE OF TERROR
Covering and Uncovering the Secret State
John Lloyd Key Selling Points OCTOBER 2016
Exposé of journalism and intelligence Written by prominent FT journalist John Lloyd Considered analysis in light of Snowden/NSA revelations
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JOURNALISM MEDIA STUDIES CURRENT AFFAIRS
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The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups have prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation permitting collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly empowered secret services. This book is the first to analyse, in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA revelations, relations between two key institutions in the modern state: the intelligence services and the news media. It provides the answers to crucial questions including: how can power be held to account if one of the greatest state powers is secret? How far have the Snowden/NSA revelations damaged the activities of the secret services? And have governments lost all trust from journalists and the public?
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John Lloyd is Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism as well as a contributing editor at the Financial Times (FT), a columnist for Reuters.com, and for La Repubblica of Rome. For the Reuters Institute, he is coauthor of Reporting the EU (with Cristina Marconi) and Journalism and PR (with Laura Toogood).
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EXPERIMENTAL FASHION
Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
Francesca Granata Key Selling Points OCTOBER 2016 £14.99
Places carnivalesque & the grotesque body at the centre of modern fashion Huge online interest in rule breaking Lady Gaga & other pop performers Will appeal to readers interesed in modern fashion, performance & pop culture
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Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga’s raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery’s performance style.
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Francesca Granata examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, she argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. Experimental Fashion explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.
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Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons the New School for Design, New York. She is the editor and founder of the journal Fashion Projects. Her work has appeared in Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and The Journal of Design History, as well as in a number of books and exhibition catalogues.
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ADVENTURES IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS Ethical Dilemmas in Factual Filmmaking edited by
James Quinn
288 PAGES
Sight & Sound magazine
FILM STUDIES MEDIA STUDIES
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PUBLISHED | OCTOBER 2015 £14.99
Author 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.
- Sight & Sound magazine 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.Both accessible and authoritative, the book brings together a range of intimate, candid accounts of the struggles involved in making documentary film and television, from Grey Gardens and Hoop Dreams to Man on Wire, Super Size Me and Benefits Street. Contributors include legends of the documentary world, eminent 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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THE FOG OF PEACE The Human Face of Conflict Resolution
Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Picco Key Selling Points
288 PAGES
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CURRENT AFFAIRS Authors Gabrielle Rifkind is the Director of the Middle East programme at Oxford Research Group. She is a group analyst and specialist in conflict resolution. Giandomenico Picco worked for the UN for over 20 years and served as a UN negotiator on conflicts, focusing on Iran Iraq and Afghanistan. As a UN Undersecretary he led the initiative referred to as the Dialogue Among Civilizations. "
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Description Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals. This book argues that the most important aspect of conflict resolution is for antagonists to understand their opponents, their ambitions, their pains. Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Pico present two very different experiences of international relations – Rifkind as a psychotherapist now immersed in the politics of the Middle East, and Picco as a career diplomat with a successful record as a negotiator at the UN. Developing links between psychology and politics, the authors ask: should we talk to the enemy? What happens if the protagonists are nasty and brutish, tempting policy-makers to retaliate? How do nations find the capacity not to hit back, trapping themselves in endless cycles of violence? Presenting a unique combination of psychological theories, geopolitical realities and first-hand peacemaking experience, this book sheds new light on some of the worst conflicts in the modern world and demonstrates, above all, how empathy can often be far more persuasive than the most fearsome weapons.
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Unique new approach to study international politics Explores the changing nature warfare, and the question intervention – highly topical. Big-name authors with a wealth experience in the field.
UNDER THE BLACK FLAG At the Frontier of the New Jihad
Sami Moubayed ‘He is a brave man, and knows it… In his scandalously under-reviewed but deeply revealing new book, Moubayed details all of ISIS’s cruel and inhuman punishments and executions – war crimes indeed – but is intent on placing them in the context of a very bloody history.’ Robert Fisk, Independent NEW PAPERBACK EDITION
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CURRENT AFFAIRS MIDDLE EAST TERRORISM RIGHTS SOLD: SPANISH, SWEDISH, KOREAN, JAPANESE, SLOVENIAN
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.
‘Under the Black Flag is particularly good on the blood-soaked history of relations between Islamists and Baathists 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 ‘Moubayed’s insider account brings to bear the experience of two decades of analysing Syria and the Middle East.’ Justin Marozzi, The National ‘Moubayed’s book goes straight to the front of the queue as an excellent account of the wider politics that has created the conditions in which ISIS has flourished… Moubayed should be congratulated for the breadth and scope of his interviews and research. He’s put together a must-read on this all too topical and under-researched subject.’ James Denselow, Huffington Post ‘Sami Moubayed has written a must-read book.’ Hassan Hassan author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
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‘[a] superb book, which describes precisely what life is like in the hell on Earth created by the zealots of Raqqa.’ Matthew d’Ancona, The Guardian
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BOKO HARAM Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War
M.J. Smith Key Selling Points
First account of the insurgence in Nigeria Hugely topical subject area Author has on-the-ground journalistic experience
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2016 £18.99 3 MAPS 256 PAGES
AFRICA CURRENT AFFAIRS RIGHTS SOLD: GERMAN, ROMANIAN Author
‘There is certainly an urgent need for a comprehensive yet accessible account of Boko Haram about which much is written but yet little understood. The author is eminently well qualified, especially from his connection with AFP, who have been at the forefront of reportage on the situation of Northern Nigeria, to tackle this subject. The book should find a ready readership among the policy and diplomatic community as well as academics and interested lay readers.' Richard Reid, Professor of the History of Africa, SOAS, University of London
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'The best bits of [Boko Haram] are focused reportage such as the moving tale of Wellington Asiayei... what shines through is [Smith's] measured anger, shared by many Nigerians, about a country battered by empire builders, the curse of oil, the military and a devastating 1967-70 civil war.' Michael Peel, Financial Times
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'Perceptive and fair-minded... eminently readable... Smith's achievement is to demonstrate how Boko Haram arose from the particular conditions of northern Nigeria, where brutal security forces, a corrupt and predatory state, and a long tradition of Islamist radicalism all combine to create a perfect breeding ground for terrorism.' David Blair, The Telegraph
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FRONTLINE UKRAINE Crisis in the Borderlands
Richard Sakwa Key Selling Points
Essential persective and background to recent events in Ukraine and Crimea Author is authoritative commentator on the region Balanced and first-hand perspective Excellent reviews
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HISTORY | CURRENT AFFAIRS RIGHTS SOLD: SWEDISH, HUNGARIAN, RUSSIAN, FINNISH Author Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Recent books include The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession (2011), Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair (I.B.Tauris, 2014) and Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (2014).
‘Cool, balanced and well sourced… Sakwa gives the best analysis yet in book form.’ Jonathan Steele, The Guardian ‘The great merit of Richard Sakwa’s book is its willingness to challenge the prevailing wisdoms about the Ukraine crisis and to explain how its origins lie in the West’s failure to create an equitable political and security order in Europe after the collapse of communism. It is essential reading to understand the causes and complexities of the Ukraine crisis.’ Angus Roxburgh author of The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and The Struggle for Russia (I.B.Tauris, 2012) ‘An intelligent, well-researched and thoughtful attempt to explain the major crisis of our time. Anybody, whatever he or she might think of the issue, would benefit from reading it.’ Peter Hitchens, The Daily Mail
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Frontline Ukraine is a formidably powerful, well-argued and thoroughly sourced attempt to correct world opinion on the Ukrainian conflict. Even those who cannot accept Professor Sakwa’s underlying case – that the Ukrainian disaster has been brought about more by Western post-Cold War triumphalism than by President Putin’s supposed “imperialism” – will find invaluable data and perceptions in this brilliant and hard-hitting book.’ Neal Ascherson
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THE DEVIL
A New Biography
Philip C. Almond Description The Devil has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan, Belial or the Adversary (in Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has throughout the ages and across civilizations been a compelling and charismatic presence.
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RELIGION | HISTORY PHILOSOPHY VISUAL CULTURE RIGHTS SOLD: DUTCH 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) and The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (2012), all published by I.B.Tauris.
Praise for the book ‘Lucid.. coolly analytical… As Almond points out, in popular culture the Devil still repeatedly rides out.’ The Times ‘Almond tells this complicated story succinctly and clearly, taking us through all the twists and turns with an unwavering eye.’ Tablet ‘Scholarly, subtle and readable; God should have such a good biographer.’ Fortean Times ‘Any future biographies will have to be measured against this latest excellent work by Philip C. Almond… A fascinating examination of the role of the Devil through human history.’ Catholic Herald
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This rich and multi-textured biography follows the history of the Devil from his birth to his ultimate defeat and banishment to Hell after the end of time. It shows that the Prince of Darkness, in all his incarnations, and in his many different manifestations (whether Lord of the Flies, Leviathan or the Great Red Dragon), remains an irresistible subject in history, religion, art, literature and culture.
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UNDERSTANDING THE QUR'AN Themes and Style
Muhammad Abdel Haleem Key Selling Points
An essential guide to the Qu'ran Gives the background history of the development of the Qu'ran itselt Author is an acknowledged expert in Qu'ranic studies
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RELIGION ISLAMIC STUDIES
Author Muhammad Abdel Haleem is King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His major new English translation of the Qur’an, with parallel Arabic text, was published in 2010.
The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines its recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, water and nourishment - and for the first time sets these in the context of the Qur'an's linguistic style. Professor Haleem examines the background to the development of the surahs (chapters) and the ayahs (verses) and the construction of the Qur'an itself. He shows that popular conceptions of Islamic attitudes to women, marriage and divorce, war and society, differ radically from the true teachings of the Qur'an.
Praise for the book ‘Understanding the Qur’an is a priceless book, and I use it enthusiastically for my classes. For many of my students, Muhammad Abdel Haleem’s introduction is their first contact with Qur’an interpretation, so it is really important to be able to assign them such an excellent piece of scholarship that is so easily readable and accessible.’ Natana J. DeLong-Bas, Lecturer in Theology, Boston College, and Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Brandeis University
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BABYLON Legend, History and the Ancient City
Michael Seymour Key Selling Points
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First cultural history of one of the ancient world's most enigmatic and fascinating civilizations Considerable general and crossdisciplinary appeal Offers new insights into the history of Babylon, based on the latest excavations
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Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury and wickedness. ‘By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept’, wrote the psalmist, ‘as we remembered Zion’. One of the greatest cities of the ancient world, Babylon has been eclipsed by its own sinful reputation. For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on, engorged on accounts of its own destruction. Why has Babylon so creatively fired the human imagination, with results both good and ill? Why has it been so enthralling to so many, and for so long?
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In exploring answers, Michael Seymour’s book ranges extensively over space and time and embraces art, archaeology, history and literature. From Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, via Strabo and Diodorus, to the Book of Revelation, Brueghel, Rembrandt, Voltaire, William Blake and modern interpreters like Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino and Gore Vidal, the author brings to light a carnival of disparate sources dominated by powerful and intoxicating ideas such as the Tower of Babel and the city of sin.
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Michael Seymour is a Research Associate in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He is co-author (with I.L. Finkel) of Babylon: Myth and Reality (2008).
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