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Chaucer's Italy
Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In face, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio (among others),...
14,60 €
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Churchill's Britain
More books have been written about Winston Churchill than any modern historical figure, but Peter Clark's Churchill's Britain does something quite different. It takes the reader the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland to...
16,10 €
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In the Long Run We're All Dead
No one grows up dreaming of becoming an economist. Until the late nineteenth century, economics couldn't even be studied at university and was the preserve of polymathic figures whose radical curiosity drew them to an evolving discipline...
18,60 €
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Trust in Public Life
In her essay 'The Roots of Trust', Anna Rowlands argues that our undoubted loss of trust is not an invention of the last 50 years, but a feature of modernity that we cannot solve by artificial abstract means but only through encounters...
9,90 €
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The Idea of Persia
In 1721 the French philosopher Montesquieu posed the question Comment peut-on être persan? in the title to his famous Persian Letters (Lettres persanes). After centuries of invasion, murder, destruction and authoritarian rule, the decay...
25,80 €
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Power, Resistance, Ideology and the State
The work of Charles Tripp - professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for over three decades - has shaped a distinct approach to the study of Middle East politics: an analytical sensibility that is empirically rich,...
63,10 €
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Mary in the Qur'an
An entire surah of the Qurʾan bears her name. She is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qurʾan indeed; her name appears more frequently than that of either Muhammad or Jesus. From the earliest times to the present day, Mary has...
32,00 €
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Essays of the Sadat Era
When Mahfouz retired from his job as a civil servant in 1971 he took up an appointment as a member of the editorial staff at Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper. Many of his novels were serialised in Al-Ahram; less well known, however, are the...
25,80 €
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Making the Weather
Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized influence on the political life of the UK; an influence greater than that of most prime ministers. Vernon Bogdanor’s cast includes three from...
17,10 €
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On the Back of and Envelope
As one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his career as a journalist on The Times,...
19,60 €
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The Dervish Bowl
Who was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist; traveller, and writer; or a sometime Zionist, inspiration for Dracula’s nemesis, and British secret agent? Vambéry wrote his own story many times over. And it...
19,60 €
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