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Part urban chronicle, part popular history and part critique of current policy, Cole Stangler takes us on a poignant journey through the 'other' Paris. Paris Isn't Dead Yet presents its subject as a complex case study for the next wave of urbanisation.

A deeply moving testimony to resistance, this unique collection is the first to showcase art and writing from the women's protests in Iran.

Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Part urban explorer, part psychogeographer, rambler and flaneur, wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking, why we do it, how it benefits us and, in some cases, how it damages and even destroys us

The Exile's Cookbook brings together 480 recipes, including roasts and stews, breads, condiments, preserves, sweetmeats, and even soaps. It offers a fascinating insight into the cuisine of Muslim Spain and North Africa, its regional characteristics, historical antecedents, and its links to culinary traditions throughout the Muslim world.

A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran and Africa.

A new novel from critically acclaimed British author Maggie Gee. A topical and deeply moving meditation on belonging, set in the near future, against a backdrop of migration pressures, climate change and an increasing isolationist mood in the UK.

Alfred White, a London park-keeper, rules his home with a mixture of ferocity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. When Alfred collapses on duty one day, they rush to be with him. His daughter's partner, Elroy, a black social-worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people.

Highly readable and compelling account of British colonial policy in Palestine and its role in the creation of Israel. New updated edition now available in paperback.

A visceral collection about life on the margins by cult Moroccan feminist icon.

The essential guide to understanding the roots and continuing significance of the Arab uprisings. This edition features a new preface and postscript drawing a balance sheet of the regional uprising's first decade.

Fascinating biography of one of the Middle East's greatest architects whose life story is intrinsically connected to that of Iraq.

A beautifully illustrated, inspirational celebration of women of colour from around the world.

WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2021. Part-memoir, part-conjecture, Joelle Taylor investigates sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate.

The extraordinary story of a marriage between an Indian monarch and an English chambermaid, whose son became an Australian farmer.

Drawing on both Arabic and Western sources, the author describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic world view.

Traces the development of the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. This work reveals how medieval Islamic advances in the study of the heavens, and the design of precise astronomical instruments, led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus and Kepler.

The second in a series offering insight into Arabic advances in science, culture, and the arts.

Combining comment with research abounding in historical and cultural detail, this book tells how from the 16th to the 20th century "The Balkans" have been perceived by west European travellers, many of whom have seen it as part of Asia and sought accordingly to inform their contemporaries of its "exotic", "outlandish" and "primitive" ways.

A biography of Gengis Khan, this book paints a picture of the man whose name is synonymous with terror. The author reveals a deeper side of the despot, showing him to be a strategist and a statesman and offers an insight into 13th-century Mongol society and culture.

Based on theoretical and pedagogical principles, this translation guide aims to concentrate on developing in the students a sensitivity to text-types as well as an understanding of the demand which a given text-type makes on the translator. It also helps them acquire the analytical tools necessary to make comments about translation.

A collection of poems detailing the harrowing experiences endured by Chris Abani and others at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. In the poems, Abani describes the characters that people the dark world of the prison cells, from the inmates to their torturers, the generals.

Al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician, astronomer and geographer. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad during the first half of the 9th century and is considered by many to be the father of algebra. This book deals with algebraic theory, and focuses on the calculation of inheritances and legacies.