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For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty

Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.

In this exploration of the relationship between Iran and the world since the Shah was overthrown in 1979, Takeyh shows that behind the famous personal

Long plagued by poverty, India's recent economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging powers, but what kind of power it wants

Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. Long plagued by endemic

A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local media,

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In False Dawn, noted Middle East regional expert Steven A. Cook offers a sweeping narrative account of the tumultuous past half decade, moving from Tu

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A collection of the writings of Sallust, renowned in the latter half of the first century BC for his prose. The volume contains the text of two of his

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1

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Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries is an innovative introduction to key concepts in international relations, exposing the myths of the discipline, a

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A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today

For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders

Frans Hals was naast Rembrandt en Vermeer een van de drie grote schilders van de zeventiende eeuw. Bovenal was hij de beroemdste portretschilder van z

Why do many social programs have such a poor track record? What can we do to maximize a program's chance of success? If a program shows promise, how c

This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a fourteenth-century French medieval woman accused of poisoning her husband to death. As Bednarski points out