22 Modern History 74957 SKETCHBOOK:


Frank Lloyd Wright by Frank Lloyd Wright A little bit of innovative Wrightian sensibility to inspire you as you doodle away on the pages of this quality blank book. The elegant geometric design on the cover is from May Basket 1927-28 for Liberty magazine but never published. 64 blank sheets of


cream cartridge paper, 8" square softback. $15.95 NOW £2.75


74780 CLASSIC POOH COLLECTION DOOR STOP by Pepper Pot


Based on the A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard design, this quality doorstop is jolly heavy (it would have to be!), measures 5½” x 3" high with little pads beneath to stop slipping, a wedge shape with pretty pink border and design, a small pink delicate butterfly on top with the unmistakeable figure of our favourite Pooh Bear in yellow resting on top gazing at his butterfly friend. Beautifully wrapped and packaged in polystyrene for safe delivery. ONLY £3.75


75528 PAISLEY GIFT WRAP COLLECTION


by Gifted Stationery


Neatly folded into four and easy to tear out of this big softback are ten individual sheets, each with a different pattern measuring, 494 x 694mm. The various paisley designs are the Kashmiri teardrop design or lotus flower repeated with backgrounds of yellow, blue, green, amber or cream with the jewel like colours of the design on top. Very stylish and fantastic value full size wrapping paper. ONLY £5


75529 IRISES GIFT WRAP COLLECTION by Gifted Stationery


A companion to Paisley Gift Wrap code 75528 the Art Nouveau style patterns are not repeated on these ten individual sheets. Each is unique and features either a purple, yellow, amber or multi-floral design on green or yellow backgrounds. Each full size wrapping paper sheet easily tears out from the outsize softback and each sheet measures 494 x 694mm. Suitable for all gift wrapping requirements. ONLY £5


55048 BUDDHAS OF THE CELESTIAL


GALLERY: Postcard Book by Romio Shrestha Rich in decoration and colour here are 24 detachable postcards in a softback featuring a range of depictions of the Buddha by master Himalayan artist Romio Shrestha. Each thangka or spiritual painting depicts the life of the deity in eloquent detail and age-old Tibetan artistic tradition. With much use of malachite, lapis lazuli and marigold, and painted at times with three hairs of a cat’s tail.


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75053 NOTEBOOK: Green and Gold Celtic Fans Design by Alexander Hendry


In gold foil embossed is an Art Deco scrollwork ‘fan’ design on a dark green background decorating the softback cover of this 160 page lined toughened notebook. With green elastic fastener, an ideal gift for gentlemen or ladies and a beautiful notebook or gift idea. 3½” x 5½”. ONLY £3.25


75054 NOTEBOOK: Orange and Gold Foil Fans


Design by Alexander Hendry With burnt orange elasticated fastening strip, gold embossed Art Deco style fan design on a burnt orange background, the softback lined book measures just under 4" x 6" and slips easily into the pocket. 80pp. ONLY £2.75


75060 GRAPHBLOC by Alexander Hendry A companion to Sketchbloc code 75061 is an equally attractive 8" square softback with matching orange and black simple cover design. This time the blank pages are tiny grids of graph paper, unusual to find ever at a bargain price. 64 sheets on which to compile your crosswords if you are a budding crossword setter, draw your trigonometry, practise handwriting, share with your grandchildren or many more uses. ONLY £2.75


75061 SKETCHBLOC by Alexander Hendry Measuring 8" square and in a softback is bright white cartridge paper, ideal for sketches and doodles when out and about or even of good enough quality (should your picture be!) to frame. 32 sheets. ONLY £2.75


75065 SKETCHBOOK: Japanese Red Flower Design by Alexander Hendry


Spiral bound hardback of quality art paper, 80 single sheets easily detachable from this elegant hardback, possibly more suited to ladies with a Japanese red flower and leaf design on a dark green background. Quality stationery first time discounted. ONLY £4.50


75209 BEARY DEVILISH TOY BEAR


by the Boyds Collection A hand made, jointed very cute cuddly brown bear which stands 3" tall, has red devil horns, a red ribbon around his neck, beaded eyes and a small black furry nose. The 16 page colour booklet makes saucy suggestions for a career for your little devil or for someone beary special. Caution - there is wire in the packaging. Not suitable for under threes.


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Mouse Design by Mike Taylor Our lovely customer Mike Taylor donated this very witty artwork in glowing colour, with lime green border with tiny flowers, a lovely tabby cat looking up at a stack of books to a cute grey mouse on top. In the background is an arched window, a church in a rural scene and a mug of tea with ‘I Love Bibliophile’ on it! The stack of books have some really hilarious and punny titles. 2" x approx. 9" quality laminate bookmark. ONLY 10p


61516 BIBLIOPHILE SQUIGGLE PEN by A. Squigley


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wealth from a burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Within a few brief years, virtually every obstacle to his unbridled command was removed and every opposing voice silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave. A chilling account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative manoeuvred his way into absolute and absolutely corrupt power. 314pp. $27.95 NOW £7


76296 SPICER DIARIES by Michael Spicer


Entering Parliament as an MP in the turbulent mid-70s, Michael Spicer held office under Margaret Thatcher, then became chairman of the 1922 Committee where he refereed an accident-prone series of leadership bids by Michael Howard, Iain Duncan Smith and finally David Cameron, who elevated him to the Lords. Spicer is a politician to whom the Conservative agenda is self-


MODERN HISTORY


History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.


- James Joyce, Ulysses 76558 FRACTURED TIMES:


Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm


Arguably Britain’s most respected historian of any kind, Eric Hobsbawm was unrivalled both in his knowledge of detail and in his extraordinary powers of synthesis. His writings were as important to social scientists as to historians. Fractured Times is the last book


from one of our foremost modern-day thinkers. In it, he examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration. These included paternalistic capitalism, globalisation and the arrival of a mass consumer society. As the 20th century wore on, bourgeois fin de siècle culture was forcefully confronted by myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism and the emergence of information technology. Passionate but never sentimental, Hobsbawm ranges freely across his subject, records the passing of the golden age of the ‘free intellectual’, explores the lives of forgotten greats, analyses the relationship between art and totalitarianism, and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, the emancipation of women and the myth of the American cowboy. From Al Qaeda to Frank Zappa and the Amish to Z-Cars, his scope is breathtaking. 319 pages. £25 NOW £8.50


76224 MAFIA STATE: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of The Brutal New Russia by Luke Harding Soon after the start of Luke Harding’s posting as The Guardian’s man in Moscow, an article criticising Putin appeared in the paper under Harding’s name. A few days later he returned to his Moscow flat to find that someone had been in and deliberately left traces in order to


threaten him. On this occasion his children’s window was left open, on later occasions the intruders left woolly toys or even a sex manual. Harding was summoned for interrogation by the F.S.B., the Russian security service, and his own security services gave him lessons in counter-surveillance. His four years of being treated as an enemy of Russia had begun. Chechnya under Kadyrov was a particular location of brutality against dissidents and when Harding attends the funeral of the murdered dissident lawyer Markelov he meets Natasha Estemirova, head of the human rights group in Grozny. Murders of Chechen dissidents are ascribed by the U.S. to the Russian government and soon afterwards Estemirova herself is murdered. Subject to constant harassment, Harding nevertheless keeps up the mockery of Moscow in The Guardian. When Wikileaks promises evidence about corruption at the top of the Kremlin, Harding is on the case and he trawls the documents for material, finally discovering damning evidence about Litvinenko and the F.S.B.’s intimidating home visits. Finally he is expelled, but not before he has shaken up the Russian propaganda machine. 310pp, colour photos. £20 NOW £6.50


76614 MAN WITHOUT A FACE: The Unlikely Rise of


Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen


Chapter headings give a flavour: ‘The Autobiography of a Thug’, ‘Once A Spy’, ‘Insatiable Greed’. Having served as Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg, a brief stint as Director of the Secret Police, the ‘faceless’ creature who Boris Yeltsin and his cronies thought they could


mould, in 1999, Vladimir Putin was chosen by the unpopular President. Suddenly the boy, who scrapped his way through post-war Leningrad schoolyards, was a public figure. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see him in the progressive leader role of their dreams, even though with ruthless efficiency Putin dismantled the country’s media, wrested control and


evidently the right one, especially on Europe. At the end of 1990, with Thatcher’s leadership tottering, he remained loyal and was rewarded by being appointed Minister of State for the Environment, where he immediately moved in on the problem of homelessness, announcing the first ever big grant to help rough sleepers by creating hostels. Meanwhile the Cabinet was in disarray over Europe following German unification, with Nicholas Ridley having to resign following an unfortunate remark about Hitler. Thatcher was doomed but Spicer was no fan of Major and when the time came he supported Michael Howard’s unsuccessful bid to succeed him, though Ann Widdecombe put paid to Howard’s chances by characterising him as a vampire. When Hague resigned, the supporters of Ken Clarke and the ‘Portillistas’ tore each other to shreds and Iain Duncan Smith won by default. On 10 October 2001 Spicer made the best of it by observing that “IDS makes an adequate speech” but worse was to come when Thatcher told a startled Spicer that Railtrack should have been kept in the public sector. Absorbing. 638pp, photos. £30 NOW £7


76341 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE 1945: A Global History


by Professor John W. Young and Dr John Kent


In one accessible and authoritative volume, the authors provide, for all undergraduate students of international relations and world history since 1945, the absolutely


essential text. They explore the impact of the Cold War on world politics and look in particular at the role of the United States, the important regional problems such as the Middle East wars, the development of European integration, and the end of the European empires in Africa and Asia. The text examines the different controversies and debates in the field, and careful attention is paid to the evolution of the global economy and the interplay between international and domestic developments, as well as the growth of ‘interdependence’. Invaluable features of the book are: (a) its simple, easy-to-navigate structure in six chronological sections - each beginning with a chronological overview (b) the useful reference material, including chronologies of events, crucial documents, biographies of major figures and an extensive bibliography (c) its organisation by both region and subject. The Online Resource Centre includes interactive timeline, maps of key regions, further reading guide, important international relations documents and, probably the most useful and vital aspect of all, self-test multiple-choice questions to assess the extent of the student’s learning. For lecturers, PowerPoint slides and a question bank are provided. A gigantic 743 paperback.


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76613 ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS: Why Do


They Fight? Can They Stop? by Bernard Wasserstein Challenging the conventional view of the struggle as driven primarily by irrational ethnic and religious hatreds, Wasserstein focuses on largely neglected forces including population, fertility rates, labour and environmental pressures that have shaped politics in the region over


the past century and which will inevitably determine its future. However much they may wish to, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians can escape the impinging presence and influence of the other. Demographic, economic and social imperatives are driving them towards mutual accommodation. At a time of diplomatic impasse and escalating bloodshed, Wasserstein offers a realistic and persuasive basis for optimism. This is the fullest account yet of Jewish immigration from 1919 to 2002 to Palestine/Israel, looking at the West Bank, Gaza and the Arab economy. 226pp with many maps and diagrams.


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76619 MERCHANT, SOLDIER, SAGE: A History of


the World in Three Castes by David Priestland Effortlessly moving between new York, Tokyo and Berlin, from the Reformation to the 2008 economic crisis, this timely volume is a sparkling analysis of how the world works. In it, a noted Oxford scholar proposes a radical new approach to understanding the modern balance


of power, focusing on the rise of the merchant, and the resulting threat to the global, political and economic order. He argues for the predominance in society of one of three broad value systems - that of the merchant,


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who is commercial and competitive, the soldier, who is aristocratic and militaristic or the sage who is bureaucratic and an expert. These ‘castes’ struggle for power and, when one of them achieves control over the economic or political system (as the soldier did in Europe prior to the First World War or the merchant did in the Anglo- American world of the 1920s) it can have such a powerful hold over us that it is almost impossible to imagine life outside its grip. As the world saw in 1918 and 1939, if one caste becomes predominant, there does come a point of drastic change. The result is economic crisis, war or revolution and, eventually, a new alliance of castes takes over. According to the author, we are now in the midst of a period with all the classic signs of imminent change, and there is good reason to be fearful of the forces that the likely failure of the merchant caste may unleash. A thought-provoking 343 pages. $27.95 NOW £7


76622 ON SAUDI ARABIA: Its People, Past, Religion,


Fault Lines and Future by Karen Elliott House From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has spent the last 30 years writing about Saudi Arabia - as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal - comes an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded kingdom: its tribal past, its


complicated present and its precarious future. She navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped, and reveals the mysterious nation that is the world’s largest exporter of oil, critical to global stability and a source of Islamic terrorists. In an eye- opener of a book, House reveals the, to Westerners, shocking facts that women are still forbidden to drive and are barred from most jobs, although they can now have an ID card that gives them an identity independent from their male guardians. With unparalleled access to Saudis, from key religious leaders and dissident imams to women at university and impoverished widows, from government officials and political dissidents to young successful men and those who chose the path of terrorism, she argues that most Saudis do not want democracy, but nevertheless do seek change. They want a government that provides basic services without subjecting citizens to the indignity of begging for hand-outs from princes with an average age of 81 years, a government less corrupt and more transparent in how it spends hundreds of billions of annual oil revenue, a kingdom ruled by law, not by royal whim. A riveting 308 rough cut pages with map, illus.


$28.95 NOW £7 71747 JFK IN IRELAND: Four Days that


Changed a President by Ryan Tubridy The idolised, handsome and glamorous John Fitzgerald Kennedy, great-grandson of Irish immigrants, was the first and only Irish-Catholic American to be elected President of the USA. Here is the story of JFK’s memorable four day trip to his homeland in June 1963, five months before he was tragically assassinated. Tubridy captures the affection Kennedy felt for his fellow Irishmen and his Irish heritage and portrays how these sentiments were reciprocated by a nation enchanted by the young President. There was his much-vaunted visit for lunch with distant family in Dunganstown, the garden party that descended into chaos, formal speeches to the Dáil, and the casual encounters as he stopped to shake the hands with the waiting public. 302pp paperback, colour illus.


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74566 UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST by Tim Harford


Written by the presenter of TV’s ‘Trust Me, I’m an Economist’, this entertaining volume answers such frequently asked questions as: ‘Who pays for your coffee? Why are poor countries poor? Why is it so difficult getting a foot on the property ladder? The witty and knowledgeable author exposes the forces that shape our day-to-day lives, and reveals how supermarkets, airlines and coffee chains - to name just a few - are vacuuming money from our wallets, often without our being aware of it. 368 paperback pages. Updated. £9.99 NOW £2.50


74623 GREEN PHILOSOPHY by Roger Scruton Subtitled ‘How to Think Seriously About the Planet’. The environment has long been the territory of the political Left, however here Roger Scruton argues that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. He shows that rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and to affirm ourselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of Conservative politics. There is a path to ensure the future safety of our planet and our species. 457pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £2.50


74682 BURNED BRIDGE: How East and West


Germans Made the Iron Curtain by Edith Sheffer


Both East and West Germans became part of and helped to perpetuate the barriers that divided them. The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Professor Sheffer focuses on Burned Bridge, the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany’s largest divided population outside Berlin. She demonstrates that, as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War, townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. She describes how smuggling, kidnapping, rape and killing during the early post-war years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides, long before East Germany fortified its 1,393 km border with West Germany. 357 pages, illus, maps. £18.99 NOW £4.50


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