Hurst: 173 books
Bridge Over Blood River
The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book traces the war for control of South Africa,...
by Paul Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Written by a musician and performer with experience since the late 1970's, this is a practical guide with entertainment options for couples getting married or holding a civil partnerships.It includes eight questions to ask any band or performer before you part with any hard-earned cash.Although...
by Paul Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Tips, ideas and suggestions about the different styles of performers, what tends to work (and what doesn't) for themed medieval parties and weddings.Includes links to some suppliers and performers based in the south east of England.
Dissenting Japan
A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Conformist, mute and malleable? Andrews tackles head-on this absurd caricature of Japanese society in his fascinating history of its militant sub-cultures, radical societies and well-established traditions of dissent Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked...
The Rohingyas
Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Rohingya are a Muslim group who live in Rakhine state (formerly Arakan state) in western Myanmar (Burma), a majority Buddhist country. According to the United Nations, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They suffer routine discrimination at the hands of neighboring Buddhist...
by Abdul Salam Zaeef
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. My Life with the Taliban offers a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. Zaeef...
Lost Islamic History
Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa...
A Dark Path to Freedom
Rusi Nazar from the Red Army to the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his life was a series of adventures...
Last King in India
Wajid Ali Shah
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The Last King in India is the story of an extraordinary man whose memory still divides opinion sharply today. Was he, as the British described him, a debauched ruler who spent his time with "fiddlers, eunuchs and women' instead of running the kingdom? Or, as most Indians believe, a gifted poet...
The Mediator
A Biography of Martti Ahtisaari
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Martti Ahtisaari is the world's most renowned and successful mediator in international conflicts. In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lead role in bringing independence to Namibia, Serbia's withdrawal from Kosovo, the decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland and autonomy for...
Crossing the Congo
Over Land and Water in a Hard Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan. Traversing 2,500 miles of the toughest terrain on the planet in a twenty-five year-old...
Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia
Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain...
Defeat is an Orphan
How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that followed Pakistan...
Women of Honor
Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures married to and raising brutal killers....