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Violence, Veils and Bloodlines
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 45.00This memoir by an American journalist explores how entrenched notions of self, family, and tribalism dictate human behavior in our modern world. Salome's work as a foreign correspondent, reporting from such places as Belfast, Kabul, Bosnia and Somalia, provided him with a unique perspective on the role nationalism and tribalism play in conflicts... more...
From Our Own Correspondent
Profile 2010; US$ 14.38The flagship Radio 4 programme From Our Own Correspondent gives Britain's most celebrated reporters the chance to describe much more than they can in a normal report: context, history and characters encountered en route. And for the fiftieth anniversary of the programme Profile collected together the programme's best pieces. From Our Own Correspondent... more...
The Marshall Plan
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 38.00Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe. more...
Empires at War
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 31.00Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world?s population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. Empires at War gives a dramatic narrative account of how this ?Modern Asia? came into being. Taking the bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 as its starting... more...
Investments into the Future
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2003; US$ 19.50This book contains the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Gerhard Schroder on 13 May 2003.... more...
Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 79.00Explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. more...
Iron Lady
Michael O' Mara Books 2011; US$ 9.99Published to coincide with the UK release of the film The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. Reveals the private woman behind the leader once dubbed the 'Iron Lady', and offers a valuable insight into the mind of one of the most successful and influential politicians of all time. more...
Das Jahr 1968 - Ereignis, Symbol, Chiffre
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 37.94Hauptbeschreibung Das Jahr 1968 bleibt Gegenstand öffentlicher Debatten und der zeitgeschichtlichen Historiografie zwischen Mythos-Pflege und kritischer Rekonstruktion. Diese Historiografie hat den Anspruch, die 68er-Generation und legitimatorische Strategien pro und contra 1968er-Bewegung aus gegenwärtiger Sicht zu deuten. 1968 steht international... more...
How the Cold War Ended
Potomac Books Inc. 2010; US$ 24.95Examines the debates surrounding the end of the Cold War more...
The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 31.99In both Europe and North America, organizations tracing their origins back to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements have rapidly evolved into multifunctional, richly funded organizations. They now compete to become the major representatives of Western Muslim communities and government interlocutors. Some analysts and policy makers see... more...









