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This book explains the aspirations and concerns of Islamist actors in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings by looking at two sets of relationships between Turkey's ruling AKP and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda. It presents a unique analysis of the interplay between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood, characterizing the actors, the structure and the main features of the relationship and thereby illumi...

This book explains the aspirations and concerns of Islamist actors in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings by looking at two sets of relationships between Turkey's ruling AKP and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda. It presents a unique analysis of the interplay between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood, characterizing the actors, the structure and the main features of the relationship and thereby illumi...

Der Essay von Richard David Precht zur neuen Weltordnung Die Welt befindet sich im Umbruch. Von einer von den USA dominierten zu einer multipolaren Weltordnung mit China und Indien als neuen Machtzentren. Das schleichende Ende der Pax Americana stellt die Europäer vor eine enorme Herausforderung: Wie gehen wir mit dem Aufstieg dieser Länder um? Die Gefahr wächst, dass wir es nicht schaffen, auf globaler Ebene auf neue Feindbilder zu verzich...

>Precht< über die internationale Politik im 21. Jahrhundert Die Welt befindet sich im Umbruch. Von einer von den USA dominierten zu einer multipolaren Weltordnung mit China und Indien als neuen Machtzentren. Das schleichende Ende der Pax Americana stellt die Europäer vor eine enorme Herausforderung: Wie gehen wir mit dem Aufstieg dieser Länder um? Die Gefahr wächst, dass wir es nicht schaffen, auf globaler Ebene auf neue Feindbilder zu verz...

This book highlights voices from different developing countries that echo the need for sustainable, enabling, and liberating educational leadership that will stimulate ideas and ideals to usher new ways of looking at old problems of educational leadership.

A genuinely thought-provoking piece of fiction' THE TIMES'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD'Profoundly moving . . . a wonderful and life-affirming love story' JAMES HOLLAND'His greatest novel yet' ANTONY BEEVOR'Original and enthralling' PETER JAMES`A beautifully written novel. On the one hand you have love, kindness, responsibility, on the other monstrous arrogance and indifference to consequences¿ SCOTSMANA CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYT...

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`A brilliant, glittering intelligence¿ Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deservesWritten during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characte...

Neil Blackmore re-imagines a story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice, he uncovers loyalty and above all, love¿ Ian McKellen`An imaginative, layered, clever story¿ The TimesLondon, 1809. By day, minister John Church preaches to a congregation of commonfolk in Southwark. By night, he is drawn to the secretive, alluring world of a molly house on Vere Street. There, ordinary men reinvent themselv...

`Gorgeous . . . contains fascinating insights about working with your hands, the nature of talent, and how to create a meaningful life¿ A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler`Exquisite, purposeful, absorbing . . . a book with much to teach us all¿ Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize¿winning author of Homeland Elegies`People think I¿m a genius because I remember my high school math¿When Mark Ellison left high school, no one thought he would go...

Seances, Ouija boards, table tipping, knocking phenomena - all in a day's work for the First Lady of the Paranormal. Yvette Fielding has nerves of steel when facing down her tormentors in the spirit world. Her living-world personal story also reveals a woman of courage and determination, who built success from nothing, following her passion and lifelong curiosity in search of answers to the unexplained.Yvette was always fascinated with the aft...

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has wit...

In the 1940s, homosexuality was believed to be increasing in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated. Homosexuality became a topic of fierce debate, from newspaper letters' pages to the House of Commons.In a major new anthology, Peter Parker explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period, whether they were famous figures or living lives of quiet - or ...

Riveting . . . a triumph . . . intertwining personal narratives with wider themes of remembrance, loss, courage and blame' Gary Murphy, Irish ExaminerNovember 1983. Early morning in suburban south Dublin. Businessman Don Tidey is snatched from his car and the IRA has its latest kidnap victim. Weeks later he is tracked down to an isolated Leitrim wood, but in saving Tidey's life a recruit garda and a soldier lose theirs.The Kidnapping is a bril...

A young noblewoman must join forces with a rumoured witch to conquer an ancient curse in this devilishly funny and heartwarming sapphic Regency romantasy from TikTok titan and bestselling author of Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall - unmissable for fans of Juno Dawson's Her Majesty's Royal Coven, Sophie Irwin's A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting, and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light.It is the year 1814 and Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry ...

Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in the late 1960s.

Over the past few decades, whilst evading severe governmental restrictions in Iran, the Iranian Evangelical diaspora has grown across Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, the US and the UK. Far from the censorship of the Islamic Republic, Iranian Evangelical pastors and ministers publish Persian-language Christian magazines and online videos with the aim to reach the transnational Iranian Christian community, as well as potential converts in Iran...

A fun-filled rhyming board book story for toddlers with sweet illustrations and push-pull-slide pages. Perfect for bringing calm to busy bedtimes!

A fun-filled rhyming board book story for toddlers with sweet illustrations and push-pull-slide pages. Perfect for bringing calm to busy mornings!