21st Century History: from c 2000

Michael Calveys story starts with a dawn raid on his Moscow apartment by armed FSB agents, following accusations of embezzlement relating to a comm...

'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's wo...

Welcome to a world of tracksuits, Kalashnikovs and organised crime.After the fall of communism, the most dangerous Mafia youve never heard of ran P...

Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject...

This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It exp...

Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating a...

Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taki...

The Wests actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of con...

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a persons soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?Intern...

A History of Modern East Asia illuminates the history of this vast and crucial region over the last two hundred years, exploring its many cultures,...

Hepworth is a genuinely great writer, with a winning turn of phrase Guardian'Reads like a series of rich, fast-paced and immensely funny short stor...

Exploring the divergent aspects of the rule of neoliberalism in Turkey since 1980s, each chapter in this book highlights a specific dimension of th...

Poland is a particularly interesting case of truth revelation and transitional justice in a post-communist country. This is because of the radical ...

There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono...

An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how these classics shape our understanding of the politic...

An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of Americas twenty-first-century wars  Grey Wars is for anyone who wants to understand todays...

A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture p...

2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nonfiction Runner Up The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israels ...

Discussions of Islam in Turkey are still heavily dominated by political considerations and the dualistic paradigms of modern v. traditional, secula...

The September 11th attacks in 2001 and the subsequent 'War on Terror' have had a profound effect on American cinema, and the contemporary Western i...

Some people will have wanted me to give my opinion in this book about Pells guilt or innocence, and on whether the courts got it right or wrong. Bu...

In To Live or to Perish Forever, Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Provinc...