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  • Russian-Arab Worlds

    A Documentary History

    Edited by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, Margaret Litvin ...
    The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer's diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Sightlines

    Beyond the Beyond in Ireland

    by Eileen Kane ...
    It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and save the Irish language by supporting small factories in the Gaeltacht, traditional Irish-speaking villages in remote western areas. But is the plan working?With her signature humor and charm, Eileen Kane transports the reader to County Donegal with a ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Trickster

    An Anthropological Memoir

    by Eileen Kane ...
    A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown—Youngstown, Ohio—to study an "exotic" group, the Paiute Indians of Nevada. This is 1964; she'll be "the expert," and they'll be "the subjects." The Paiute elders have other ideas. They'll be "the parents." They set themselves two tasks: to help her get a good grade on her project and to send her home quickly to her new bridegroom ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Russian Hajj

    Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca

    by Eileen Kane ...
    In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a liability ... Read more

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  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history."A dramatic work of history that reads like a thriller." —Michael Bobelian, Los Angeles TimesIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Making Uzbekistan

    Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR

    by Adeeb Khalid ...
    In Making Uzbekistan**, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution.** He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies ... Read more

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  • The Gospel According to Blindboy in 15 Short Stories

    by Blindboy Boatclub ...
    The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and visual art exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Covering themes ranging from love and death to sex and politics, there's a story about a girl from Tipp being kicked out of ISIS, a van powered by Cork people's accents and a man who drags a fridge on his ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Modern History in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best British Short Stories 2015

    by Rebecca Swirsky, Matthew Sperling, Joanna Walsh, Jenn Ashworth, Tamar Hodes, Bee Lewis, Uschi Gatward, Emma Cleary, Jim Hinks, Jonathan Gibbs, Neil Campbell, Hilary Mantel, Alan McCormick, Alison Moore, Helen Marshall, Julianne Pachico, Helen Simpson, Charles Wilkinson, Nicholas Royle, K. J. Orr, Tracey S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    "Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …"Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thugs

    How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder

    by Micah D. Halpern ...
    An incisive look into the lives, politics, and horrible deeds of fifty-six of history's most notorious world leaders—and how they shaped our world for the worst.For the most notorious leaders in the history of the world, evil is more than just a moment of weakness—it's a way of life.For every noble king, righteous emperor, and peace-loving president, history seems to serve up a double portion of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is Russia Up To in the Middle East?

    by Dmitri Trenin ...
    The eyes of the world are on the Middle East. Today, more than ever, this deeply-troubled region is the focus of power games between major global players vying for international influence. Absent from this scene for the past quarter century, Russia is now back with gusto. Yet its motivations, decision-making processes and strategic objectives remain hard to pin down.So just what is Russia up to in ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"

    A History of the Armenian Genocide

    by Ronald Grigor Suny ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million people. A ... Read more

    $18.69 USD