From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. In this book, the author explores how football was influenced by colonialism, the growth of cities, independence, and global capitalism.

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320pp  May 2010

Apart explores why many Western Muslims are disaffected, why others are engaged, and why some seek to undermine the very political system that remains their primary means of inclusion. Based on research conducted in London’s East End and Madrid’s Lavapiés district, and drawing on over 100 interviews with community elders, imams, extremists, politicians, gangsters, and ordinary people just trying to get by, Justin Gest examines young Muslims’ daily existences. Confronting conventional explanations that point to inequality, discrimination and religion, he builds a new theory arguing that alienated and engaged political behavior is distinguished not by structural factors, but by how social agents interpret their shared realities. Gest’s conclusion sounds an unambiguous warning to Western policy-makers, and presages an imminent American experience with the same challenges. Our political futures are likely to be shaped significantly by how government and people discipline their fears the better to understand their Muslim fellow citizens.

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306pp  July 2010

Compact introduction to the nature of war designed to explain today's conflicts

'Like Plato synthesizing Parmenides' world of eternal being and Heraclitus's world of constant change, Coker compels his readers to think through what Clausewitz and Sun called the enduring nature, yet ever-changing character of war. A splendid introduction for specialists and non-specialists alike.' -Professor Karl F. Walling, United States Naval War College

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288pp  August 2010

In 1609, Philip III signed an edict denouncing the Muslims of Spain as heretics and the entire population was given three days to leave, on threat of death. In the exodus, some 300,000 Muslims were deported and by 1614 Spain had successfully implemented the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr's riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain.

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378pp  February 2010

2007 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the murder in South African police detention of Steve Biko (1946-1977), one of Africa's greatest sons, leaders and philosophers. This book presents a collection of writings, both personal and political, that offer tribute to Biko's contribution to the freedom struggle in South Africa.

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288pp  June 2010

Includes an introduction, annotated tactical case studies, and an appendix on the key principles of the hugely successful Surge campaign of 2007 in Iraq. This title is suitable for field officers and for students and the general readers.

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176pp  May 2010

Presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed by accident. This work deals with such issues as land tenure, agricultural practice, grazing rights and livestock migration routes and tribal administration.

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288pp  May 2010

New in paperback

Draws on primary sources and scholarly research in several European and Asian languages to provide an account in English of the history of Xinjiang and its peoples from earliest times to the present. This book discusses Xinjiang's historical role as a commercial entrepot and cultural conduit by which Buddhism, Christianity and Islam entered China.

'[An] excellent ... and invaluable book.' – Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books

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466pp  Mar 2010

This is a history and ethnography of the North-West Frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area of increasing strategic interest to the West.

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256pp  February 2010

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In January 2006 Hamas, an organisation classified by Western governments as terrorist, was democratically elected to govern the Palestinian territories. Drawing on interviews with members of Hamas and its critics, this book offers an analysis of Hamas' understanding of its ideology and the tension between its dual commitment to God and the people.

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320pp  January 2010