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  • Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013

    Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action

    by Peter Albrecht, Paul Jackson ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since then, however, the UK’s contribution to post-war reconstruction has been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and state-building – particularly of the country’s security and justice institutions.Securing Sierra Leone, 1997–2013 examines how the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Hybridization, Intervention and Authority

    Security Beyond Conflict in Sierra Leone

    by Peter Albrecht ...
    Series series Routledge Private Security Studies
    This book explains how security is organized from the local to the national level in post-war Sierra Leone, and how external actors attempted to shape the field through security sector reform.Security sector reform became an important and deeply political instrument to establish peace in Sierra Leone as war drew to an end in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through historical and ethnographic ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Court Cultures in the Muslim World

    Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries

    Edited by Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Policing and the Politics of Order-Making

    Edited by Peter Albrecht, Helene Maria Kyed ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities in densely populated spaces across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Based on ethnographic research, the chapters analyze this complex with respect to marginalized young men in Haiti, community policing members and national politicians in Swaziland as well as other individual and collective actors engaged in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Here am I free, here do I belong

    Selected Poems German - English Edition

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Albrecht Kienow ...
    Our title Here am I free, here do I belong is well-chosen by us artists these days. Goethe himself used this expression in his Easter Walk under the protection of Duke Carl August, who was brought up in an enlightened spirit and in his service. For us today, in January 2025, it is an expression of freedom for creative artists and all people who live in a liberal democracy today and want to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Corona # Lahn # German Cycle Tour

    The Upper Lahn Valley Cycle Route: from Siegen to the source of the Lahn and back »home«

    by Peter Vornberg ...
    Translated by Albrecht Kienow ...
    What motivated him to write this book, which sketches a number of formative moments in his life, was his fascination with people and nature. Every time we start for a trip, we leave the real world in our homes behind us. We want to forget it while being on the way, want to gain new energy for whatever is awaiting us when being back home again. Since Corona, however, the world looks completely ... Read more

    $8.63 USD

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    by Robert Seethaler ...
    Translated by Charlotte Collins ...
    From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. ... Read more

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  • Worlds at War

    The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent.Worlds At War begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North

    Edited by SJÓN, Ted Hodgkinson ...
    Discover 18 short stories from across Stockholm, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, and more in this epic Nordic short story anthology curated by one of Iceland’s most internationally renowned writers.This exquisite anthology collects the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and ... Read more

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  • Lost Enlightenment

    Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly ... Read more

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  • English 101 Series: 101 Model Answers for Part 1 of the IELTS Speaking Module

    by Mark Griffiths ...
    For each of the 101 topics, a question from that topic is provided along with a model answer to that question. The questions are typical of those asked in part 1 of the IELTS speaking module and the model answers are suitable responses, though candidates are advised to modify the model answers and add to them as appropriate. ... Read more

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  • What Went Wrong?:Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the ... Read more

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