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  • All the Shah's Menby Stephen Kinzer

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 14.95

    This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports) that have now been declassified. Stephen Kinzer's compelling narrative is at once a vital piece of history, a cautionary tale, and a real-life espionage thriller. more...

  • A History of Modern Iranby Ervand Abrahamian

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00

    A radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, tracing its traumatic journey across the twentieth century. more...

  • The Asian Military Revolutionby Peter A. Lorge

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00

    Explores the impact of the Chinese invention of gunpowder on the surrounding Asian region. more...

  • Is Australia an Asian Country?by Stephen FitzGerald

    Allen & Unwin 1997; US$ 15.96

    The author shows what can be done to change Australia into a society which will hold an honoured place in the region: a small, independent nation contributing as an equal partner to a community of Asian nations. more...

  • Asian Nationalismby Michael Leifer

    Routledge 2000; US$ 59.95

    This book features completely up-to-date analysis written by high profile contributors, and is invaluable for upper-level undergraduates and researchers in Asian Studies and Politics. more...

  • Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulfby Hooshang Amirahmadi; Nader Entessar

    Routledge 1992; US$ 170.00

    The social, political and economic patterns of interaction between the Gulf states. The authors consider the role of the superpowers and of religion, and offer their own policy prescriptions. more...

  • Armies of the Caliphsby Hugh Kennedy

    Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95

    The first major study of the relationship between army and society in the early Islamic period, which reveals the pivotal role of the military in politics and offers a timely reassessment of the early Islamic State. more...

  • New Politics of Islamby Tahir Amin; Naveed S. Sheikh

    RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 39.95

    This timely study of Islam's international relations details both the theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan from the colonial period to the present day. more...

  • Iran's Persian Gulf Policyby Christin Marschall

    RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 200.00

    This book examines the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Persian Gulf states from 1979 to 1998. more...

  • Persian Mirrorsby Elaine Sciolino

    Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 12.99

    No American reporter has more experience covering Iran or more access to the private corners of Iranian society than Elaine Sciolino. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, she has reported on the key events of the past two decades. She was aboard the airplane that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Tehran in 1979; she was there for the Iranian revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the rise of President Mohammad Khatami, and the riots of the summer of 1999. In Persian Mirrors, Sciolino takes us into the public and private spaces of Iran -- the bazaars, beauty salons, aerobics studios, courtrooms, universities, mosques, and the presidential palace -- to capture the vitality of a society so often misunderstood... more...