Editorial IBTauris
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- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-984-3
EAN 9781845119843
The groundbreaking new concept that reveals the true and hazardous extent of our everyday water consumption. How much water does it take to make a cup of coffee? The answer may shock you: 140 litres! That's the true amount of water used in growing, producing, packaging and shipping the beans you use to make your ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-765-8
EAN 9781845117658
'The present state of the old world is running up like parchment in the fire.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical religious group the Diggers, in mid-seventeenth century England: one of the most turbulent periods in that country's history. As three civil wars divided and slaughtered families and communities, as failing harvests and ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-678-1
EAN 9781845116781
Jean Baudrillard has been a unique intellectual voice in many of the key debates and issues facing an increasingly globalised, media-driven world. Baudrillard Reframed offers the arts student and others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments, as well as extending beyond them to critically engage with his radical notions ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-679-8
EAN 9781845116798
It is frequently commented that Heidegger writes impenetrable texts that are difficult to read and comprehend, but he also, as Barbara Bolt demonstrates in this clear, original guide to his oeuvre, provides an "artists' guide to the world". 'Heidegger Reframed' grounds Heidegger's writings in the critical questions confronting contemporary visual artists and students of art. ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-660-6
EAN 9781845116606
For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) and an object that is able to transform meaning and consciousness. 'Kristeva Reframed' examines key ideas in Kristeva's work to show how they are most relevant to artists, and how ...
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Reset Middle East
Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Iran
- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-765-0
EAN 9781848857650
Peace and democracy in the Middle East have been the aim of world leaders for generations, yet the US, UK or their closest allies in the region have been behind nearly every war in the Middle East in the last century. How did the West get everything so wrong? In this concise and readable book ...
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Islam and Political Violence
Muslim diaspora and Radicalism in the West
- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-197-9
EAN 9781848851979
How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror'? This book presents the debate on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and the West.
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Writing Ancient History
An Introduction to Classical Historiography
- IBTauris, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-958-4
EAN 9781845119584
'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study ...
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- IBTauris, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,30 €
ISBN 978-1-85043-416-0
EAN 9781850434160
In this detailed history of the Kurds from the 19th century to the present day, McDowall examines the interplay of old and new aspects of the struggle, the importance of local rivalries within Kurdish society, the enduring authority of certain forms of leadership and the failure of modern states to respond to the challenge of ...
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- IBTauris, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 22,09 €
ISBN 978-1-86064-980-6
EAN 9781860649806
In 1941 the British and the Russians occupied Iran. After autocratic Reza Shah had been forced to abdicate under British pressure, there followed one of the most turbulent periods in Iranian politics in the twentieth century. Forces and passions, which had been simmering for decades, erupted. Iran became the scene of widespread political activity by ...
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- IBTauris, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-932-4
EAN 9781845119324
Sir Oliver Popplewella's career goes a long way to explode myths and to show what judges are really like: impartial, skilled in the law, above party politics certainly, but essentially human. He was certainly born into a comfortable middle-class family, but his upbringing was (to quote from Stephen Frya's Foreword to this book) "more Betjeman ...
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Nader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, embodied ruthless ambition, energy, military brilliance, cynicism and cruelty. His reign was filled with bloodshed, betrayal and horror. Yet Nader Shah is central to Iran's early modern history. From a shepherd boy he rose to liberate his country from foreign occupation, and make himself Shah. He ...
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Frontline Pakistan
The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto
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- IBTauris, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-782-5
EAN 9781845117825
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had been imprisoned for his Jacobite sympathies and almost bankrupted by his involvement in the South Sea Bubble, Lord Kinnoull had no previous diplomatic experience when he was unexpectedly appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1729. Leaving his wife and ...
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- IBTauris, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-852-5
EAN 9781845118525
Those Germans, such as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who fought the Third Reich from within have often been mythologised as heroes in the fight against tyranny but the truth is far more complex. This seminal book traces the history of the German resistance from the ascent of the Nazi party to the July 1944 attempted ...
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- IBTauris, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-547-0
EAN 9781845115470
Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. "Contemporary Thinkers Reframed" instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas.Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise ...
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Ahmadinejad
The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader
When Ahmadinejad was elected President in June 2005, anxiety replaced election fever amongst many Iranians. To let off steam they told jokes. Why did the new President part his hair so straight? To segregate the male and female lice.But while the laughter died down, the anxiety never went away..."As Iran's nuclear programme accelerates, all eyes ...
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