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  • The Struggle for Iran

    Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954

    by David S. Painter, Gregory Brew ...
    Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War. The nationalization challenged Great Britain’s preeminence in the Middle East and threatened Western oil concessions everywhere. Fearing the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cold War

    An International History

    by David Painter ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years. It shaped the foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and deeply affected their societies, domestic situations and their government institutions. Hardly any part of the world escaped its influence.David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines the origins, course, and end of the Cold War. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Spatial Politics

    Essays For Doreen Massey

    Edited by David Featherstone, Joe Painter ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    This critical engagement with Doreen Massey’s ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking she has helped to shape. It seeks to mark and take forward her compelling contributions to geographical theorizing and political ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

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    The Cold War

    by David Painter ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years. It shaped the foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and deeply affected their societies, domestic situations and their government institutions. Hardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines the origins, course, and end of the Cold War. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Television Dramas and the Global Village

    Storytelling through Race and Gender

    by Saleem Abbas, Gordon Alley-Young, Inna Arzumanova, Nettie Brock, Lorena Caminhas, George Daniels, Patricia Jullia, Hannah Jureller, Frédéric Marty, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett, Newly Paul0, Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez1, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk2, Rosane Svartman3, Mei Zhang4, Ali Zohoori5, Diana I. Ríos7, Carolyn A. Lin9, Karin A. Haberlin0, Elizabeth Fish Hatfield1, Mary Helen Millham2, David Lynn Painter3, Morgan W. Smalls4, Suji Park5, Joseph Boisvere6 ...
    This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexualities, race, cultural values, political systems, and religious beliefs as they analyze how these ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • James and Jude

    by John Painter, Charles Talbert, David deSilva, Mikeal Parsons ...
    Series series Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament
    In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, two respected New Testament scholars offer a practical commentary on James and Jude that is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the texts.This commentary, like each in the projected eighteen-volume series, proceeds by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

    by Daniel Yergin ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Sociology: The Key Concepts

    Edited by John Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.Fully cross-referenced with an extensive glossary, this accessible text also includes:alphabetical listings of key concepts for ease of usesuggestions for further reading to enhance understanding of areas coveredentries on ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • All the Shah's Men

    An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

    by Stephen Kinzer ...
    Hailed as "a very gripping read" by The New York Times and s****elected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Economist, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister and features a brand new preface by the author on the folly of attacking Iran.As zealots in Washington intensify their preparations ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold WarWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Urban Theory

    A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century

    by Alan Harding, Talja Blokland ...
    What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:Relations between urban theory and modernity in key ideas of the Chicago School, spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and ‘radical′ ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Shah

    by Abbas Milani ...
    The definitive, "splendidly detailed" biography of the last Shah of Iran, tracing his dramatic rise, dictatorial rule, and fall from power in 1979 ( Chicago Tribune).Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, the life of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, continues to resonate today. Here, internationally respected author Abbas Milani gives us the definitive ... Read more

    $2.99 USD