Asiens historia

Detta är berättelsen om Jerusalem. Historien om världen från judendomens, kristendomens och islams tillkomst vidare till det brittiska imperiet, USA:s dominerande ställning under nittonhundratalet och skapandet av staten Israel. Här presenterar förf…

När staten Israel den 23 maj 1960 inledde en rättslig process mot den före detta SS-officeren Adolf Eichmann väckte detta uppmärksamhet i hela världen, eftersom Eichmann betraktades som huvudansvarig för genomförandet "den slutgiltiga lösningen av j…

"Boken är skriven med driv och den är både lättläst och lättförståelig, precis som populär historia ska vara. Hägerdal skriver kunnigt och berikar även boken genom att ta med den senaste forskningen om Kinas historia" Sundsvalls tidning "Hägerdals b…

"Boken är skriven med driv och den är både lättläst och lättförståelig, precis som populär historia ska vara. Hägerdal skriver kunnigt och berikar även boken genom att ta med den senaste forskningen om Kinas historia" Sundsvalls tidning "Hägerdals b…

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the Unite…

The heartwrenching "New York Times" bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea's political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as t…

The shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 peopl…

A first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. It puts readers inside the elite, handpicked twenty-four-man tea…

This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? To answer that question Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959. Using fresh archives…

»Fascinerande läsning.» Allt om Resor Japan är världens näst största ekonomi, trots att landet till ytan är mindre än Sverige. När WTO, G 8 eller Världsbanken samlas till toppmöte finns det alltid japaner i främsta ledet. Japans särpräglade och egen…

Aldrig har ögonvittnesrapportering och historieskrivning varit så intimt sammankopplat som i Robert Fisks episka skildring av Mellanösterns historia, en tragisk historia fylld av våld, svek och hopplöshet. Robert Fisk, som har mött Usama bin Laden v…

He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military histor…

I Tro och makt behandlas förhållandet mellan religion och politik i Mellanöstern. Med utgångspunkt i kristenhetens uppdelning mellan "kyrka" och "stat", en egenskap som delvis saknas i islam, visar författaren på grundläggande skillnader mellan den…

Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape ...Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea…

The Cambridge History of Religion in the Classical World provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world in the third millennium BCE to the fourth century BCE.

Hannah Arendt's portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" contains an introduction by Amos Elon in "Penguin Classics". Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's aut…

Syrien är inblandat i alla Mellanösterns kriser, från Palestina till Libanon och Irak, men landets inre förhållanden är relativt okända i omvärlden. Drömmen om Damaskus är den första svenska bok som beskriver Baathpartiets styre och hur familjen Ass…

En nutidsanalys av viktiga teman i det moderna japanska samhället. Här tas ett helhetsgrepp på det Japan som vi möter idag. Tio kapitel tar upp varför det är viktigt att studera Japan och det japanska; dess nationalism och minoriteter och dess etnis…

In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah Shuja on the throne, in reality as their puppet, and ushering in a period of conflict over the territory still unresolved today. In 1842, the Afghan pe…

Sverige är ett lyckligt land. I snart två hundra år har vi levat i fred. Det är svårt för oss svenskar att fatta hur fruktansvärda lidanden andra folk genomgått. Men kunskap om kommunismens brott mot mänskligheten är livsviktig också för oss, på sam…

A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick's "Nothing to Envy" is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows th…

A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick's "Nothing to Envy" is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens "Nothing to Envy "follows the lives of six North K…

Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years-a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine tha…

Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years-a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine tha…

I Pakistan mellan diktatur och korruption berättar Tariq Ali personligt och insiktsfullt landets moderna historia. Pakistan, som är ett av världens folkrikaste land, bildades 1947 i samband med delningen av Brittiska Indien. Det har sedan dess växe…

I Pakistan mellan diktatur och korruption berättar Tariq Ali personligt och insiktsfullt landets moderna historia. Pakistan, som är ett av världens folkrikaste land, bildades 1947 i samband med delningen av Brittiska Indien. Det har sedan dess växel…

While European civilization stagnated in the Dark Ages, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asias vast civili…

This exciting new book for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the complexities of the region, its politics and people. Combining a thematic framework for examining patterns of politics with individual chapte…

Writer and Intellectual George Gilder argues that the reason there is such hatred and crticism of the current state of Israel is because these critics are envious of Israel's sudden rise as a world power. This, he claims, is an inherent quality of J…

The "Tale of the Heike" is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories, now in a major and groundbreaking new translation by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of "The Tale of Genji". First…

Although frequently vilified, Iran is a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and one of the oldest continuing civilizations in the world. Its political impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbors in the Middle East but also thro…

Under femton månader följde Sebastian Junger en pluton amerikanska soldater stationerade i Korengaldalen, en avlägsen dalgång i östra Afghanistan där krigets hårdaste strider just då utspelade sig. Hans mål var både enkelt och ambitiöst: att förmedl…

Under femton månader följde Sebastian Junger en pluton amerikanska soldater stationerade i Korengaldalen, en avlägsen dalgång i östra Afghanistan där krigets hårdaste strider just då utspelade sig. Hans mål var både enkelt och ambitiöst: att förmedl…

The Arab Spring unexpectedly developed in late 2010 with peaceful protests in a number of Arab countries against long-standing, entrenched regimes, and rapid political change across the region ensued. "The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the…

"Military buffs will relish this fast-paced account of youthful yearnings for military service, brutal Ranger training, and page after page of camaraderie, horseplay, grim humor, and vivid nuts-and-bolts action. Even readers lukewarm to military mem…

Följ med sinologen Torbjörn Lodén - en av Sveriges främsta Kinakännare - på en resa genom Kinas dramatiska historia. Introduktionen berättar om kinesisk kultur från tiden innan Kina blev ett land. Lodén belyser vissa grunddrag i den kinesiska kultur…

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, "Wild Swans" has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it i…

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab people from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the pr…

For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immo…

Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one anonymous member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until U.S. leaders…

When "Imperial Hubris" first came out in 2004, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat was to believe - at the urging of U.S. leaders - that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. Th…

An isolated and remote country, unspoiled by mass tourism, Myanmar aka Burma is for the curious traveller, not the average tourist. Odyssey's latest handbook takes readers to the most famous cities and sites as well as beaches and mountains. Travel…

Former State Department advisor for Afghanistan and Pakistan and bestselling author Vali Nasr delivers a sharp indictment of America's flawed foreign policy and outlines a new relationship with the Muslim world and with new players in the changing M…

In this major new biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and the first to appear in English based on Turkish sources, Andrew Mango strips away the myth, to show the complexities of one of the most visionary, influential, and enigmatic statesmen of the…

Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a…

This book analyzes the systematic construction of the image of the Other (that is, non-Muslims) by two radical Islamic Groups, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia. The author documents discourse patterns in the groups' publicatio…

I januari kommer Gitta Serenys bok »Vid avgrunden« ut på svenska. Boken handlar om Franz Stangl, kommendant i Treblinka. Utrotningslägrens verksamhet styrdes av blott fyra män. Franz Stangl var en av dem. Journalisten Gitta Sereny samtalade med hono…

"Midnight in Peking" is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul French. The international bestseller - as heard on BBC radio 4. "A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. Hurtles along from one cliffhanger to the next". ("Spectator"). Peking,…

A father hunts for his daughter's killer in the gripping true story "Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case. On a frozen morning in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted wat…

Their mission: To take out the scuds. Eight went out. Five came back. Their story had been closed in secrecy. Until now. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Iraqi lines on a…

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and em…

For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed wor…

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics-China's politics, it…

This is the paperback edition of Bob Woodward's behind-the-scenes look at the Bush administration and it's allies during the controversial war in Iraq.

Since the 1990s, the world's economies have become ever more globalized and interdependent, but political power has not readjusted. Mahbubani shows why power must shift, reflecting the new global realities, to avoid disunity and conflict in our futu…

Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive insi…

The Green Berets--a legendary corps of soldiers whose exploits made military history. But now, their very identity and role as a fighting force may be forever changed... Until the war in Iraq, Special Forces were the military's counterinsurgency ex…