Hurst: 173 books
Sweden's Dark Soul
The Unravelling of a Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation....
A Hero's Curse
The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
A Hero's Curse is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simón Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez. For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolívar, to stir popular...
Queen of the Sea
A History of Lisbon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing--in 1755 the city was devastated by the largest earthquake ever to strike modern...
Stalin's American Spy
Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced...
by Ed Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
As with all previous civilizations and cultures in human history, the West is collapsing. As you might expect, just about anything Western in character will also be left behind. That includes Western Christian religion. Even as organized religion wanes, spirituality has grown. If we understand that...
Ivory
Power and Poaching in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similar alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade. The huge rise in poaching and...
For Humanity Or For The Umma?
Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In the wake of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror', transnational Muslim NGOs have too often been perceived as illegitimate fronts for global militant networks such as al-Qaeda or as backers of national political parties and resistance groups in Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet clearly there is...
A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts
Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was one of the least developed places on earth,...
The Country of Football
Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the...
The Near East
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilization in the fourth millennium BCE until modern times. It provides an historical outline...
"We Love Death As You Love Life"
Britain's Suburban Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellow-believers into London on the morning of July 7, 2005 it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at the West's treatment of Muslims worldwide, ideas fed to them by foreign extremists, and...
Cycle of Fear
Syria's Alawites in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In early 2011 an elderly Alawite shaykh lamented the long history of oppression and aggression against his people. Against such collective memories the Syrian uprising was viewed by many Alawites, and observers, as a revanchist Sunni Muslim movement and the gravest threat yet to the unorthodox Shi'a...
Surviving Biafra
A Nigerwife's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In 1961, Rosina 'Rose' Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves caught up in Nigeria's Civil War, which followed the 1967 secession of Eastern...
The Costliest Pearl
China's Struggle for India's Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them in a bid to extend the Celestial...