21st century history: from c 2000 - books

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War Against the Taliban: Why It All Went Wrong in Afghanistan

War Against the Taliban: Why It All Went Wrong in Afghanistan...

Author: Sandy Gall
ISBN: 9781408822340
Format: Paperback
$19.99

The most comprehensive analysis of the current Afghanistan War yet published, by bestselling writer and legendary...  Read More >>

Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the...

Author: Maxine Berg (Professor of History, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9780197265321
Format: Paperback
$59.51

How do we write about the history of a place, a person, an event or an idea in its context in the world? How do...  Read More >>

The Spirit of Terrorism

The Spirit of Terrorism

Author: Jean Baudrillard ,  Chris Turner
ISBN: 9781781680209
Format: Paperback
$22.99

"Baudrillard sees the power of terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death,...  Read More >>

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September...

Author: Slavoj Zizek ,  Slavoj I Ek (University of London)
ISBN: 9781781680193
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, i ek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating...  Read More >>

The Politics of Timor-Leste: Democratic Consolidation After Intervention

The Politics of Timor-Leste: Democratic Consolidation...

Author: Michael Leach ,  Damien Kingsbury
ISBN: 9780877277590
Format: Paperback
$81.71

The Politics of Timor-Leste explores the critical issues facing the Asia-Pacific's youngest nation as it seeks to...  Read More >>

A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan

A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence...

Author: Abdullahi A. Gallab
ISBN: 9780813044460
Format: Paperback
$50.60

A Civil Society Deferred chronicles the socio-political history and development of violence in the Sudan and explores...  Read More >>

The Politics of Timor-Leste: Democratic Consolidation After Intervention

The Politics of Timor-Leste: Democratic Consolidation...

Author: Michael Leach ,  Damien Kingsbury
ISBN: 9780877277897
Format: Hardback
$382.80

The Politics of Timor-Leste explores the critical issues facing the Asia-Pacific's youngest nation as it seeks to...  Read More >>

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents V2

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents V2

Author: Applewood Books
ISBN: 9781429093279
Format: Paperback
$24.48

This revised edition of the second volume of The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States begins...  Read More >>

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: Volume I

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United...

Author: Applewood Books
ISBN: 9781429093262
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The first volume in the two-volume collection of Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. Outlining...  Read More >>

Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan

Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan

Author: Jerome Klassen ,  Greg Albo
ISBN: 9781442613041
Format: Paperback
$74.99

Spanning academic and public debates, Empire's Ally opens a new line of argument on why the mission has entered...  Read More >>

Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook

Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook

Author: Paul J. Springer (Air Command and Staff College, USA)
ISBN: 9781598847321
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This book provides an insightful introduction to the most important field of military innovation for the 21st century-robotic...  Read More >>

The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East

The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the...

Author: Marc Lynch
ISBN: 9781610392358
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The director of George Washington University's Institute for Middle East Studies recounts how a series of unremarkable...  Read More >>

Tall Ship Odysseys: The Official Operation Sail Fifty Year Anniversary Commemorative Pictorial History of the World's Greatest Windship Gatherings

Tall Ship Odysseys: The Official Operation Sail Fifty...

Author: David A. Taylor ,  Mark Collins
ISBN: 9780979845666
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Placing Poetry

Placing Poetry

Author: Ian Davidson ,  Zoë Skoulding
ISBN: 9789042036147
Format: Paperback
$364.32

The essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking...  Read More >>

From Popular Goethe to Global Pop: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. With a Foreword by Aleida Assmann

From Popular Goethe to Global Pop: The Idea of the West...

Author: Ines Detmers ,  Birte Heidemann
ISBN: 9789042037496
Format: Paperback
$287.76

This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance...  Read More >>

El tránsito vacilante: Miradas sobre la cultura venezolana contemporánea

El tránsito vacilante: Miradas sobre la cultura venezolana...

Author: Patricia Valladares-Ruiz ,  Leonora Simonovis
ISBN: 9789042037649
Format: Paperback
$298.32

El tránsito vacilante plantea un estudio minucioso de las más recientes tendencias estéticas y temáticas en la cultura...  Read More >>

Paroles d’auteurs jeunesse: Autour du multiculturalisme et des minorités visibles en France

Paroles d’auteurs jeunesse: Autour du multiculturalisme...

Author: Michèle Bacholle-Bošković
ISBN: 9789042038097
Format: Paperback
$282.48

Ce livre donne la parole à treize auteurs et à un illustrateur de littérature jeunesse contemporaine: Nadira Aouadi,...  Read More >>

Une femme puissante: L’œuvre de Marie NDiaye

Une femme puissante: L’œuvre de Marie NDiaye

Author: Daniel Bengsch ,  Cornelia Ruhe
ISBN: 9789042037144
Format: Paperback
$348.48

Marie NDiaye s'impose comme l'une des voix les plus intéressantes de la littérature française contemporaine. L'obtention...  Read More >>

Mythes et érotismes dans les littératures et les cultures francophones de l’extrême contemporain

Mythes et érotismes dans les littératures et les cultures...

Author: Efstratia Oktapoda
ISBN: 9789042037625
Format: Paperback
$343.20

This collective volume offers a new reflection on Eroticism by bringing together the erotic and mythology in the...  Read More >>

Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds: Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center

Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds: Harmony and Change...

Author: Glenn E. Schweitzer
ISBN: 9780820344348
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Schweitzer explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow and makes the...  Read More >>

Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives

Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Reuben Makayiko Chirambo ,  J.K.S. Makokha
ISBN: 9789042036758
Format: Hardback
$403.92

Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of...  Read More >>

War in Afghanistan: Strategy, Operations, and Issues for Congress

War in Afghanistan: Strategy, Operations, and Issues...

Author: Catherine Dale
ISBN: 9781482321814
Format: Paperback
$50.13

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States launched and led military operations...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking

Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation...

Author: Marga Munkelt ,  Markus Schmitz
ISBN: 9789042036314
Format: Hardback
$564.96

The sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop and the sites at which they are received have undergone...  Read More >>

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