INTERNATIONAL · book. Over 190 colour photographs; 3 maps 270 x 312mm 212pp, hardback ISBN 978 1...

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CATALOGUE 2011

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Contents

Illustrated Reference 3

Independent Minds 36

Gorilla Guides: business traveller’s handbooks 53

Books for children 62

Key backlist titles 70

Index 77

Ordering information 80

Cover imagesThe cover shows close-ups of the outside of 128 Kensington Church Street,the 17th-century townhouse which, since 1974, has been the offices ofStacey International. These photographs were taken by Khaled Kassem, thephotographer commissioned to work on The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London(page 7). The inside front cover depicts a view over lake Dokan, fromKurdistan (page 19). The inside back cover carries a watercolour by SusanKeeble for Grace Todino-Gonguet’s new book for children, Tina the Turtle(page 62).

SyriaCradle of CivilisationEdited by Jonathan Tubb

The vibrance of modern Syria, as witnessed in its commercial centres likeDamascus and Aleppo, reflects a cultural formalisation of great antiquity.Indeed, Syria is incontestably a fountainhead of ancient civilisation. Syria’sarchaeological sites rival those of ancient Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt.Its history recalls its role in the civilisation of Assyria, Babylon, Persia,Greece, Rome and the Byzantium. The country is a mosaic of culturalinfluences. Given such rich heritage, it is remarkable that today’s Syriaremains relatively undiscovered and underrepresented in contemporarybooks.

Syria, Cradle of Civilisation aims to redress the balance. Through a livelyand informed text – accompanied by both archive and commissionedphotography and maps – this new work provides the definitive illustratedreference on the country’s complex history; it offers an unparalleledinsight into the making of modern Syria.

Jonathan Tubb is an archaeologist and historian at the British Museum. He trained in Levantinearchaeology at London’s Institute of Archaeology and began his field career in Syria.

Contributors to this book include Caroline Cartright, Rupert Chapman, Sam Moorhead, Hugh Kennedy and Gayth Armanazi.

200 colour and b/w photographs270 x 300mm256pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768560October 2011£40

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Anthony Lejeune is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist andauthor. He read classics at Balliol and belongs to several clubs.

400 colour and b/w photographs270 x 300mm296pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768201March 2011£35

The Gentlemen’s Clubs of LondonAnthony Lejeune

Clubland is another country, forever redolent of the past but, its few thousand, often influential inhabitants are an integral part ofEnglish life today, whether luxurious or mainly cosy, full ofserendipitous historical relics and portraiture accumulated down thegenerations, they offer splendid wine and food at various levels ofdelight and mere familiarity.

The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London covers nearly fifty clubs. More than400 photographs and engravings observe interior splendour and quaintdetails. The narrative is a distillation of old records and recollection,published histories and private accounts of individual clubs, and theirmembers. It supersedes Anthony Lejeune’s previous work on thissubject published over 30 years ago.

For those who have never stepped inside clubland’s sanctifiedenvirons, there are many revelations. For clubmen themselves, this is a book to treasure.

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Lucinda Lambton’s Colonial CaribbeanWritten and photographed by Lucinda Lambton

It seems scarcely credible that there are Caribbean islands rich with aBritish architectural legacy that remains unnoticed to the rest of theworld. Yet these are sensational beauties that have been wilfullyforgotten, for their association with the age of slavery.

Here are Palladian sugar factories and slave hospitals, churches,castles and naval forts, all survivors from the 16th, 17th and 18thcenturies. There are also the “Great Houses”.

Whether in picturesque ruin or held up for dear life by crumblingmortar or flowering creepers, these are structures of style and elegancein which today’s islanders take pride.

Lucinda Lambton’s infectious curiosity and roving lens combine hereto create a rarity of a book, which offers an entirely new perspective onthese otherwise familiar islands of Jamaica, Barbados, St Lucia andtheir Caribbean neighbours.

Over 200 colour photographs270 x 312mm224pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768379£35

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ELucinda Lambton is a writer,photographer and broadcaster, workingboth behind and in front of the lens,nosing out architectural flights of fancy.She has written and presented many filmsfor television, and is the author of thebest-selling history of the lavatory,Temples of Convenience.

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OmanSir Donald Hawley Edited by Richard Muir

Oman is a country no visitor forgets. The ancient land of copper andfrankincense, hub of sea and land routes linking India, Arabia and theMediterranean; a country of rich ports, merchant houses and castles,Oman’s heritage has beguiled and intrigued visitors for centuries. Its mountain ranges, fertile coastal strips, vast deserts andincense-bearing hills, once possessed a trading empire of its own.

A century ago, the country was in decline. Only on the accession ofSultan Qaboos in 1970 and the appropriate exploitation of its mineralwealth did the country begin to flower once more. Oman has sinceundergone a dazzling renaissance, economically, socially and culturally.In this acclaimed book – now in its sixth edition – Sir Donald Hawley,Britain’s first ambassador to Oman in the 1970s and an acknowledgedauthority on the country chronicles the remarkable changes that havetaken place in the last 30 years. Since Sir Donald’s death in 2008, hiswork has been updated by the hand of one of his successors.

The many photographs of the land and its people, architecture andarts will inspire the reader, while maps and diagrams amplify the text.

256 pages (hardback)304 x 235mm, portrait348 colour and b/w photographs28 maps and diagramsISBN 978 1 906 768584£35

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AUTUMN 201140th anniversary edition

OMANSir Donald Hawley

40th Anniversary edition

‘No other work on Oman can compare with thiscomprehensive study.’

Middle East Economic Digest

Richard Muir, CMG, editor of thisrevised edition of Sir DonaldHawley's OMAN, is a former Britishambassador to the Sultanate ofOman. A devotee of the country, he is the Chairman of theAnglo-Omani Society, of which active Patron is the Sultan himself.

Jonathan Fryer is a writer andbroadcaster. He is also a lecturer incomparative sociology and the politicsof the Arab world, Africa and Asia atthe School of Oriental and AfricanStudies (SOAS), University of London.

300 photographs; 5 maps270 x 312mm

256pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768188

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KurdistanJonathan Fryer and others

Kurdistan is a success story of today’s Middle East’s great recent successstories. The area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government of newlyfederal Iraq occupies much of what is now northern and north-eastern Iraq.It has distinguished itself by its stability and strong economic growth.

Crisscrossed throughout history by armies of powerful civilisationsinvading from the surrounding plains, the mountainous terrain of theKurdish heartland has in recent years become important in its own rightbecause of its formidable mineral reserves.

Income from oil drilling has assured financial stability for the newlyestablished regional government. The Kurds, meanwhile, have not lost sight of the natural bounty of their land – some of the best agricultural land in the Middle East – and of the importance of encouraging trade beyond itsfrontiers. Erbil, whose citadel lays claim to being the oldest continuouslyinhabited core-city in the world, is increasingly a hub radiating to Turkey, the Levant and the Gulf states to the south.

Kurdistan, A Nation Emerges is the first ever major photographic book on theland and its people. It combines the work of a team of international scholarsto present an authoritative overview of Kurdistan’s long history, its culturalheritage, and modern society and the Kurds’ position in the political world of tomorrow.

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PUBLISHED 2010

SurvivalSaving endangered migratory species

Stanley Johnson and Robert Vagg

Mankind’s mindless exploitation of the natural world has already drivenmany wild animals to the brink of extinction. Among the mostthreatened are many migratory species, whether avian, terrestrial ormarine. Because in most cases these species cross national boundaries,the need for international conservation efforts is particularly great.

Albatrosses and petrels, migratory water-birds and raptors, whales,dolphins and other marine mammals; antelopes and forest elephantsand even gorillas – these are just some of the key species that are thesubject of this meticulously researched and marvellously illustratedbook.

Over 190 colour photographs; 3 maps270 x 312mm212pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768119£29.95

Stanley Johnson is an author, occasionalpolitician and one of the world’s first

environmentalists. The international struggleto counter and then remedy the loss ofbiodiversity is a subject on which he is a

recognised authority.

Robert Vagg works at the UN’s EnvironmentProgramme’s Centre for Migratory Speciesin Bonn, where he edits their encyclopædia

listing the world’s migrating fauna.

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Green ChinaHeather Angel

China is one of the most biologically diverse countries on Earth. Her habitats range across the deserts of the Gobi and Taklamakan, forested mountains, a tracery of rivers and lakesand the tropical forests of the far south.

Green China captures the glory of China’s natural worldthrough Heather Angel’s breathtaking photographs, many takenspecifically for this book. These wonderful images are coupledwith an engaging and informed text to take the reader on a journey through a land of immense variety. This, truly, is ‘GreenChina’ – the largely untold story of China in the 21st century.

Throughout, special sections focus on the ancient kinshipbetween man and nature, the role of nature in Chinese art, theextraordinary survival of the Siberian tiger, the other-worldlylandscapes of karst rock formations, the multi-purpose bambooand, of course, China’s treasured emblem, the giant panda. GreenChina is simultaneously a celebration of China’s natural worldand a sharp reminder of what the world stands to lose.

300 colour photographs, 2 maps270 x 312mm 180pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299645£29.50

GREEN CHINA

HEATHER ANGEL

Heather Angel is a biologist andaward-winning wildlife photographer whohas travelled to China more than twentytimes to photograph its wildlife and wildplaces. She is the author of three books

about pandas. A former president of theRoyal Photographic Society, she now

manages her own photographic agency.

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QatarDavid Chaddock

In recent years, Qatar has emerged as a key international player,recognized by the world as a country of substantial financialauthority and great promise politically and commercially.State-of-the-art production of its hydrocarbon resources hasafforded the country new wealth and confidence. In many fields,from industry and commerce to political thinking, Qatar isestablishing precedents.

This beautifully illustrated book, with over 300 speciallycommissioned photographs, coupled with an informed andengaging text, gives the reader a comprehensive survey of this land and her vibrant people.

300 colour photographs; 2 maps254 x 302mm 176pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299904 £39.95

Also by David Chaddock:The Gorilla Guide to Qatar

David Chaddock is an engineer by profession and an internationalbusinessman. He has worked indeveloping markets for more than30 years.

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WINDTOWERAnne Coles & Peter Jackson

Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales

WindtowerAnne Coles and Peter JacksonIntroduced by HRH The Prince of Wales

Windtowers have become the icon of the Gulf ’s cultural heritage.These dramatic structures are not only highly functional, harnessingonshore breezes as a natural mode of air conditioning, but alsobeautiful.

This book is more than a comprehensive architectural study. Buildingupon a detailed survey undertaken by the authors in Dubai between1969 and 1974, Windtower incorporates their latest historical, social andtechnical research into the way of life and culture of the Gulf ’sinhabitants up to the on rush of wealth and change half a century ago.

Architectural plans and diagrams show the windtowers’ workings,and studies the few surviving courtyard houses in Dubai’s old quarter.

Windtower contributes invaluably to the social history of the Gulf.

200 colour and b/w photographs; 12 architectural drawings300mm x 250mm212pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299249£35

Dr Anne Coles is a social geographer wholived and worked in Dubai from 1968 to1971. She is a research associate at OxfordUniversity’s Department of InternationalDevelopment.

Peter Jackson studied architecture inLondon. He is the author of Historic Buildingsof Harare. Since 2002 he has worked as anarchitect and architectural adviser in the UAE.

The Emirates by the First Photographers

William Facey and Gillian Grant

120 b/w photographs285 x 220mm128pp, hardbackISBN 978 0 905 743912

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Richard Boggs is a writer and photographerwho has travelled extensively in Arabia andAfrica. He currently works for the BritishCouncil in Damascus, and is researching anew book on Syria.

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YemenJewel of Arabia

Charles and Patricia Aithie

“Absolutely gorgeous” Sandi ToksvigThe sophisticated traveller is fast awakening to the glories andtreasures of Yemen, the land of the half-mythic Queen of Shebaand the “Arabia Felix” coveted by ancient Rome. Yet the “gloriesand treasures” of Yemen are as much contemporary as they areancient and historic – in the spectacular architecture of its citieswhich until lately have remained beyond the ken – let alone thereach – of the outside world, the dramatic landscape of highlandand coastal Yemen, and in the panoply of its people.

Yemen, Jewel of Arabia’s thorough coverage has provedindispensable to the modern visitor. The authors take the reader from place to place and region to region, combining their outstanding photographic skills with assiduous research.This book, now available for the first time in paperback, waslong in the making, and is now the only photographic work on Yemen generally available to the English market.

200 colour photographs, 4 maps200 x 250mm232pp, gatefolded paperbackISBN 978 1 905 299935£16.95

Charles and Patricia Aithie lived andworked together in the Middle and Far Eastfor more than five years travelling extensivelywith their cameras. They now work fromtheir home in Wales, where they maintain an extensive photographic library.

Yemen EngravedIllustrations by Foreign Travellers 1680-1903

Leila Ingrams

210 b/w illustrations295 x 230mm188pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988704£27.50

Also available:The Republic of YemenDevelopment Challenges in the 20th CenturyMartha Colburn

The Lost World of SocotraYemen’s Island of Bliss

Richard Boggs

The islands of Socotra lie some 190 nautical miles off thesouthern coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden. Their relativeisolation merely hints at their extraordinary foreignness. Like a lesser Galapagos, these islands are home to flora and faunafound nowhere else on Earth. Likewise, the Socotran people have their own language (which lacks a script) and distinctiveculture, cuisine and architecture: neither Arabian nor African, yet strongly and distinctively Socotran.

Richard Boggs spent many months in this remote andother-worldly archipelago, mixing with the Socotran people and capturing in world class photographs the uniqueness of the land and its life.

The Lost World of Socotra brings this remarkable location to a waiting audience and is a journey through lands like no other.

100 colour photographs; 1 map165 x 206mm172pp, gate-folded paperbackISBN 978 1 905 299959£16.95

“[Boggs’] writing is by turnspoetic, jaunty and poignant.His pictures are both a dreamand a reminder of the threatsthat lie just out of shot.”

Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author ofYemen: Travels in Dictionary Land

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The Independent Minds series, launched inautumn 2009 with The Wind Farm Scam presentsthe findings of distinguished scientists and scholarswhose voices have been unheeded amid themuddled clamour of accepted wisdom on major issues.

The series pits common sense and scientificfact against the politically correct receivedwisdom on global issues.

The first four of the six titles of the series since its launch have been reprinted, two of thesetwice. They have led the debate worldwide onthe vital climatic isssues they treat.

The Hockey Stick IllusionClimategate and the Corruption of Science

A.W. Montford

Here is the definitive exposé of the distorted sciencebehind the iconic global warming graph centrallyresponsible for the global panic about climate change.

From Steve McIntyre's earliest attempts toreproduce the Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick graph, tothe explosive publication of his work and the launchof a congressional inquiry, The Hockey Stick Illusion is aremarkable tale of scientific misconduct and amateursleuthing. It explains the complex science of this mostcontroversial of temperature reconstructions inlayperson’s language and lays bare the remarkableextent to which climatologists have been willing tobreak their own rules in order to defend climatescience's most famous finding.

The book also covers the recent leak of the emailarchives of the Climatic Research Unit which has ledto the resignation of its Director, Professor Phil Jones,and exposed the degree to which climate scientists onboth sides of the Atlantic have hidden andmanipulated data to support their claims.

Andrew Montford studied chemistry at St AndrewsUniversity. He is a respected blogger at Bishop Hill where his layperson's explanations of the Hockey Stick debate havewon wide acclaim. He lives in rural Scotland with his wifeand three children.

Climate: The Counter-ConsensusProfessor Robert Carter Introduced by Tom Stacey

The counter-consensus to quasi-scientific hype andinduced panic on climate change is at last assembling.

The argument is not in the first place as to whether or not climate change has been taking place but whetherany recent or anticipated warming of the planet isappreciably anthropogenic or (should it occur) harmful.

Tom Stacey, in his introduction, investigates theinsistent propensity of Man to ascribe to his owninherent fallibility the misfortunes which may (or may not) confront his existence on earth.

Professor Robert (Bob) Carter, one of the world’s leadingpalaeo-climatologists, assesses man’s ‘worst case’ contributionto carbon emissions taking place naturally (and beneficially) at 3% of 4% (which is 0.12%) and inspects the cycle of theearth’s unpredictable climate change, still insufficientlyunderstood, since the end of the last Ice Age.

The Hockey Stick IllusionISBN 978 1 906 768355£10.99

Climate: TheCounter-ConsensusISBN 978 1 906 768294£9.99

“. . . one of the best science booksin years . . . This book deserves towin prizes.”

Prospect Magazine onThe Hockey Stick Illusion

“Wind power is a swindle . . .Please read this book and find out why.”

David Bellamy on The Wind Farm Scam

“Fearless, fresh, forensic andfunny, Tim Worstall cuts throughall the nonsense and bringssparkling and profound economicinsights to the environmentaldebate. Read this book.”

Matt Ridley on Chasing Rainbows

All titles130 x 195mm200pp,gatefoldedpaperback

LegalizeThe realistic way to combat drugsMax Rendall

From very modest beginnings forty years ago illegal drugshave become a major concern in every country. Led byAmerica, governments have introduced prohibitionist policies,but even the most grotesque legal sanctions have failed tomake any impression on the problem and the streets of our towns and cities remain awash with drugs.

The international drug industry is second only to the armstrade in value, and it pays no tax. It has spawned corruptionwhich threatens the stability of nations, and its scale makes it ineradicable.

Evidence of the failure of prohibition is everywhere.Anybody who wishes to can buy drugs. The price has neverbeen lower. Drug-related criminal activity costs the nationbillions of pounds a year and clogs up the courts and ourprisons. Hundreds of millions of pounds are spent trying toprevent drugs reaching our shores, with very little success, andthe NHS spends millions of pounds on drug-related illness.

Only by taking the money out of the drug trade can theworld hope to make progress, and the only way to take thebusiness away from the criminal gangs is to make drugs legal.Simultaneous international legalization of all drugs, withrobust measures to control access to them, will not be easy to achieve, but it holds out the best chance of taming andcontrolling the menace of drugs.

Max Rendall worked as a surgeon in the NHS until his retirement. He hasfamily experience of drug taking and its treatment and, as a result of a chanceencounter, has worked in an independent clinic for substance abuse for the past8 years. The clinic has pioneered the use of opiate-blocking drugs in the UK.He has extensive first hand knowledge of addicts and their behaviour and hasbecome increasingly drawn into the debate about effective drug policy.

‘. . . it’s a cracker. By the end, you’releft feeling . . . that the scientific caseagainst AGW is so overwhelming thatyou wonder how anyone can stillspeak up for so discredited a theorywithout dying of embarrassment.’

James Delingpole on Climate: The Counter Consensus

LegaliseISBN 978 1 906 768652£9.99

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Chasing RainbowsHow the Green Agenda Defeats its AimsTim Worstall

What if anything should we or need we be doing tocombat perceived environmental ills, not excludingclimate change?

The answer is far from the populist green agenda ofthe back-to-nature, grow-your-own brigade. Indeed, itis the opposite. It is speedier globalisation that will• better contain the birthrate• curtail waste• feed the poor• save lives of tedious labour• minimise contamination of the planet’s atmosphere.

In Chasing Rainbows Tim Worstall demonstrates thatvigorous economic expansion on a global scene andscale is the key to resolving the world’s vaunted woesand forecasts of doom. He shows, by free-thinkingeconomic reasoning, how what we are being told to doin the cause of ‘Saving the Planet’ runs for the mostpart precisely counter to what it seeks.

Chasing Rainbows is the work of an original andprofoundly well informed mind (not averse to a touchof well justified ridicule) which in the name of a greenand pleasant world reconciles Mankind to his mostaspiring instincts of collective, global advancement.

Tim Worstall writes for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily

Express, the Register and many other online sites. He is aFellow at the Adam Smith Institute and is an expert onrenewable energy. He lives in Portugal.

When will the lights go out?Derek BirkettIntroduced by Peter Walker of Worcester

Derek Birkett lays bare the facts of power engineering. He assesses the viability of the Government’s renewableenergy policy and expectations and explains why officialtargets and pronouncements are essentially illusory.

Since the later 1990s the public and political mind hasbeen preoccupied with global warming. In a bid to develop‘renewable’ energy sources the damaging costs alreadybeing inflicted on the electricity consumer, domestic andcommercial, have been obscured. Simultaneously, suchnovel technologies have come to threaten the stability ofthe nation’s electricity supply.

Birkett’s study reveals that the lavish incentives offeredto developers of new technologies are only one of themany costs being passed on to the customer in thecountry’s scramble to meet pledges on reduction ofcarbon emissions. Furthermore, renewable energytechnologies – notably wind power – are creatingwidespread uncertainty in the electricity supply chain,resulting in an ever greater dependency on supplies of gas.Meanwhile, the gratuitous cutting back of nuclear and coalpower generation over the coming decade has the potentialto provoke an economic emergency equivalent to the 2008banking crisis.

Derek Birkett is the former Grid Control Engineer of NorthernScotland. He has a lifetime of experience in electricity supplythroughout Britain and has been involved in the installation andcommissioning of several power stations, whether coal-fired, hydroor nuclear, including Dounreay.

Lord Walker of Worcester – Lord Walker served on all thegovernment cabinets between 1970 and 1990. The posts he heldincluded Secretary of State for the Environment (1970-72) andSecretary of State for Energy (1983-87). He died in June 2010.

Chasing RainbowsISBN 978 1 906 768447£10.99

When Will the Lights go Out?ISBN 978 1 906 768409£9.99

The Wind Farm ScamJohn EtheringtonForeword by Christopher Booker

The spectre of global warming and the political panicsurrounding it has led to the adoption of a power source that is environmentally and economicallycounter-productive. In The Wind Farm Scam DrEtherington argues that wind turbines cannot generateenough energy to reduce global CO2 levels to ameaningful degree.

The intermittent nature of wind power cannotgenerate a steady output, a reality necessitating back-upfrom coal and gas-power plants which significantlynegates any reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to the inefficacy of wind power there areecological drawbacks, including damage to habitats andwildlife. There is the far-from-insignificant aestheticdrawback of the assault upon natural beauty whichwind turbines entail.

Furthermore, wind power is being lavishly financedat the cost of consumers who neither have beenconsulted nor informed that this subsidy is being paidfrom their bills to support an industry that cannot becost efficient nor, ultimately, favour the cause itpurports to support.

Dr John Etherington is Quondran Reader in Ecology at theUniversity of Wales, Cardiff, Thomas Huxley Medallist at the Royal College of Science, and former co-editor of theInternational Journal of Ecology.

Climate: The Great DelusionChristian GerondeauForeword by Nigel Lawson

An internationally renowned engineer exposes the fantasyworld of ‘global warming’ economics, and debunks themythology of carbon-dioxide damage.

Gerondeau demonstrates the absurdity of thecounter-measures to which the G8 countries are nowcommitted. These complex and formidably expensivemeasures: • will be nullified by the actions of China and India,

where such restrictions are economically and politicallyunfeasible

• will have no discernible effect on the carbon-dioxide inthe atmosphere and climate change

• make no sense in the light of the impending exhaustionof hydro-carbon sources within the coming century

• will come to be viewed as a scarcely credible responseto a global delusion amid harmless shifts in climate.

Having sold over 10,000 copies in France, under the titleCO2 Un Mythe Planétaire, the book has been brought fullyup to date for the English edition. The endorsements ofNigel Lawson and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing speak volumesfor the authority of this work.

Christian Gerondeau – A major figure in French scientific andengineering circles, Christian Gerondeau was an adviser toFrance’s Prime Minister Jacque Chaban-Delmas and is President of the National Heritage Fund. He is author of 10 works on theenvironment and related transport issues.

The Wind Farm ScamISBN 978 1 905 2999836

Climate: The Great DelusionISBN 978 1 906 768416£9.99

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A History of BritainEH Carter and RAF Mears

The original version of this widely admired and successful serieswas released in 1937. Carter and Mears’ A History of Britain tellsthe story of the British Isles as a straightforward chronologicalnarrative. The fast-paced and muscular prose, paired with mapsand illustrations, provides the matrix of British history in acoherent, vivid sequence of cause and effect. It incorporatesrelated events in the world beyond; and the arts, religion andsocial changes.

This series is being edited by the experienced hand of DavidEvans. It is as well suited to today’s young setting forth to studyhistory seriously as to adults – including parents – in need of arefresher course, indeed everybody who seeks properly tounderstand our collective story and to look beyond the randomselection and often contentious teaching that have longdominated the curricula.

The sequence of publication is given on the back cover. Thefinal two books, covering Churchill’s return in 1951 to 1989, thefall of Thatcher and of the Soviet Empire, and from that year tothe present, are in preparation and will adhere to the Carter andMears style and narrative formula.

EH Carter was Chief Inspector of Schools in the 1930s and ’40s.

RAF Mears taught history at WarwickSchool between 1923 and 1933.

David Evans, who edits the restored series, is an historian and former head of History atEton College.

12-15 b/w illustrations per book140 x 220mmAverage extent 168pp, hardback

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“The return of real history”

“1930s textbook fills in the gaps left by PC teaching.” Daily Mail

“Finally, a reminder that these islands do have a proud history.” Peter Hitchens – Mail on Sunday

“The campaign to reintroduce real history in schools,exemplified by the republication of the 1930s textbooks ofCarter & Mears . . . is to be applauded.” Daily Telegraph

The Series in full: I. Celts, Romans and Anglo-Saxons, to 1066 II. The Normans, Magna Carta and the Black Death, 1066-1485 III. The Tudors: Henry VII to Elizabeth I, 1485-1603 IV. The Stuarts, Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution, 1603-1714 V. The Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution, 1714-1837 VI. The Victorians and the Growth of Empire, 1837-1901VII. Liberal England, World War and Slump, 1901-1939VIII. The Second World War and its Aftermath, 1939-1951

Available now:Book III: The Tudors 1485-1603ISBN 978 1 906 768225

Book IV: The Stuarts 1603-1714ISBN 978 1 906 768232

Book II: The Normans, Magna Carta andthe Black Death 1066–1485ISBN 978 1 906 768362

Book V: The Age of Reason and theIndustrial Revolution 1714–1837ISBN 978 1 906 768249

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The Iraqi CookbookLamees Ibrahim

The true riches of life in Iraq have been hidden for many years,obscured by political stress and war. Yet amid the turmoil, Iraq’s popular culture – and not least her cuisine – has endured.

The time has surely come to bring the delights ofMesopotamia’s culinary culture before the eyes and palates of the world.

The Iraqi Cookbook is full of authentic recipes, handed downthrough the generations, over time varied and enlivened withcross-currents from neighbouring cultures and infused withcultures of different eras. Throughout, Lamees Ibrahim confinesher recipes to those ingredients available to a Western reader.

The easy-to-follow recipes are illustrated with finephotography, making this first Iraqi cookbook a feast for both the eyes and the table.

240 recipes150 commissioned colour and b/w photographs255 x 180mm 316pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299690£24.95

The Encyclopædia of the PharaohsPredynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty: c.3300–1069BC

Darrell D Baker

This, the first in a fully comprehensive two-volume edition, is an informed and authoritative guide to the known rulers ofancient Egypt from 3300 to 1069BC. The Encyclopædia of thePharaohs includes an extensive chronology and some 350 entries,listed alphabetically, on the Pharaohs, in addition to a glossary of commonly-used terms, an index of Grecianized names andvariant spellings and a list of apocryphal kings of the FourteenthDynasty and the royal titulary. This work is an indispensableaddition to the desks of all Egyptologists and students of world civilisations generally.

Over 300 entries150 x 235mm 612pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299379 £45

Forthcoming:The Encyclopædia of the PharaohsVolume II

Darrell Baker studied ancient Egyptianhistory, archaeology, and language at theUniversity of California, and has extensiveexperience in field archaeology in Americaand the Near East.

The Garden in Ancient Egypt

Alix Wilkinson

154 x 231mm, 224pp, paperbackISBN 978 0 948 695490 £18.95

Nefertiti and CleopatraQueen Monarchs of Ancient Egypt

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The ConciseEncyclopædia of IslamCyril Glassé

“A miracle: 1,200 readable entries” The Economist“Indispensable” Sunday Times“Erudite, accurate, and comprehensive” Daily Telegraph“A feast of fact and insight” Washington Post

The first edition of this Encyclopædia won worldwide acclaim. As a western scholar of the Islamic faith, Cyril Glassé straddlesboth cultures, and has a respect for and an understanding of both the current Islamic world and its complex past.

This unique single-volume work covers the contemporaryIslamic scene, which includes a substantial entry on the Taliban.This third edition also contains an extensively revisedchronology, which spans the history of Islam from its originsthrough developments in the Muslim world today.

1,300 entries, 2 colour picture sections, 14 maps, 5 diagrams 256 x 175mm, 728pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299683 £39.95

Cyril Glassé is a graduate of ColumbiaUniversity and a practising Muslim. Hispublished work includes a translation ofMargaret Von Berchen’s study of IslamicJerusalem, the Guide to Saudi Arabia, and ThePilgrim's Guide to Mecca. He has lectured oncomparative religion around the world.

Arabic English DictionaryV Grounine & E Rounkova

The result of a ten year research project by a team of scholars at theAustralian Centre for Oriental Studies – 170,000 entries, exhaustivelycross-referenced – larger than any existing one volume Arabicdictionary on the market. Fully up-to-date to include latest vocabularyin both English and Arabic.

This work stands as the only exhaustive up to date dictionary available.The number of people studying Arabic is increasing all the time andthis book will be essential to their work.

150 x 240mmHardbackISBN 978 1 906 768324£75

abcV.Grounine leads a team of specialistacademics and scholars based at theAustralian Centre for Oriental Studies.

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Also available: Very Simple ChineseKim Winfield203 x 104mm, 112pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 905 299478 £6.95

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YASMINE ZAHRAN

BETWEEN REALITY AND LEGEND

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The Lakhmids of HiraYasmine Zahran

Introduced by Dr Robert Hoyland

The first Lakhmids are thought to have emigratedfrom Yemen in the second century. Establishing theirempire across what is now Iraq and Syria, andbordering the lands of the Persians and theOttomans, the Lakhmids became a major forceamong the great pre-Islamic Arab peoples.

Lakhmid culture and learning spread widely, andcarried much influence. Hira, the centre of theLakhmid kingdom, was where the early Arabicalphabet was standardised. In The Lakhmids of Hira,Yasmine Zahran brings her lively yet informed styleto bear on a hitherto unjustly neglected dynasty ofArabia’s history. Introduced by Dr Robert Hoyland,with a chronology and a detailed bibliography, TheLakhmids of Hira is a required addition to the shelvesof any Arabist or Middle East historian.

With the confidence of a true scholar of herperiod, Dr Zahran permits herself the use ofdramatized narrative to bring her history alive.

140 x 220mm190pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768102 £18.95

Looking for DilmunGeoffrey Bibby

Introduced by Dr Harriet Crawford

The quest for the real Dilmun, the lost civilisation ofArabia and the Gulf, began when the author GeoffreyBibby revisited Bahrain half a century ago in order toexplore the thousands of undated burial moundsscattered across the island. A brief season’s digging wasenough to establish the existence of a major civilisationdating from around 2300BC.

Thus began an undertaking to reveal the extent ofDilmun, a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait and as far south asSaudi Arabia.

In this classic tale of discovery, first published in 1969,renowned scholar Geoffrey Bibby tells his story ofarchaeological detective work with style and humour.Looking for Dilmun is re-issued here for a fresh generationof readers, and introduced by Dr Harriet Crawford, oneof today’s leading archaeologists of the region.152 x 229mm, 286pp, hardback, ISBN 978 1 906 768089 £19.95

Geoffrey Bibby studied Arabic at Cambridge, having decided inhis teens to be a Middle Eastern archaeologist (the curriculumdid not then include Oriental archaeology), and learned aboutthe practical side of excavation while digging at Hadrian’s Wall in the north of England. His first job in the Middle East was with the Iraq Petroleum Company, which sent him to Bahrain.Bibby died aged 83 in 2001.

Arabia FelixAlessandro de Maigret

Introduced by Professor Tony Wilkinson

Arabia Felix is the standard work on the history of thearchaeological exploration of southern Arabia. What isnow Yemen has archaeological treasures enough to tellthe story of a major pre-Islamic civilisation ofinternational significance.

Alessandro de Maigret, doyen of the archaeologistsof the region, sifts through all the research andarchaeological evidence to present a definitive accountof the evolution of a civilisation of high significance.Since its publication in Italian in 1996, this work hasgained an international reputation as a valuable workof scholarship. Arabia Felix is re-issued here with anew introduction by Professor Tony Wilkinson.

“the best synthesis available of the history andarchaeology of South Arabia.” Carl Phillips, UCL

150 b/w illustrations and maps, 152 x 229mm, 384pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768041

£19.95

Alessandro de Maigret’s archaeological discoveries in Yemenhave contributed greatly to our understanding of thatcountry’s early and pre-Islamic history. He has publishedwidely on Bronze Age ruins and artefacts unearthedthroughout the Near East, and is professor of Near EasternArchaeology at the Instituto Universitario Orientale inNaples.

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ZenobiaYasmine ZahranIntroduced by Professor Sabrq Hafez

Yasmine Zahran first encountered Zenobia, the3rd-century Syrian Palmyrene queen who led the revoltagainst the Romans, in 1973 when she was working as ayoung archaeologist in the Levant. So began a lifetime’spreoccupation with the woman who ruled over the Egyptshe conquered and quashed all Roman rule in her wake.

Although she was eventually defeated by the EmperorAurelian in 274, Zenobia’s life is a story of remarkabledrama and achievement. In Zenobia: Between Reality andLegend, Yasmine Zahran explores the blurred line betweenthe woman and the myth, and brings her world and timevividly and thrillingly to life through first-person narrative.

This is history told with the energy of a novel, and theinformed hand of a writer at her peak.

220 x 140mm 4 picture sections224pp, gatefolded paperbackISBN 978 1 906 768386

£14.95

Yasmine Zahran was born in Ramallah and educated atColumbia University and the University of London. She receiveda doctorate in archaeology at the Sorbonne, Paris. YasmineZahran is the author of several books for Stacey International, all focusing on pre-Islamic peoples in Arabia and the Near East.She now lives in Paris.

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NeroVincent Cronin

Nero is history told on a grand and thrilling scale.Rarely has classical history had life breathed intoit so convincingly and so utterly absorbingly. Inthis remarkable new novel, Vincent Cronin, ascholar of the ancient world, and Rome inparticular, re-creates the life and times of thismighty emperor of the Roman Empire.

Interwoven through the plots and intrigue,triumphs and disasters is the implicit notion(widely held by historians) that Nero himselfcaused the Empire’s demise through hismisjudged ruthlessness and towering ego. Thedecline of Rome, the persecution of Christians(including St Paul) and the tragedy of Seneca playout grippingly through these pages, as Nerohimself falls from his apogee to his nadir.

135 x 215mm, 266pp, hardback, ISBN 978 1 906 768140£14.95

Vincent Cronin is the author of two classics on theItalian Renaissance and acclaimed biographies ofNapoleon, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette andCatherine “the Great” of Russia.

Chile RediscoveredVincent Cronin

A geologist, a microbiologist and a town planner take ajourney into the strange regions of Chile’s secret heart.They are exposed to astonishing landscapes and species,and encounter a variety of Chile’s indigenous inhabitants.They are, respectively, a Chilean ex-fugitive from thePinochet regime, a Frenchman, and an Englishman, whorepresents Cronin and reproduces the author’s Chileanjourney in a semi-fictionalised form.

The beliefs and inner convictions of each, and theirprofessional backgrounds, bear upon them as they interpretwhat they encounter in the scarcely habitable Patagonianislands and mainland of the south and the remote northernaltiplano of the Aymaric heartland, thousands of feet abovesea level, shrouded in millennia-old secrets. The three arefriends, yet differ deeply in what they read into theirrediscovery of one of the world’s strangest countries.

Chile Rediscovered is the work of a doyen of English letters.

135 x 215mm, 160pp, hardback, ISBN 978 1 906 768027 £14.95

Vincent Cronin’s book The Last Migration was based on his own journey with the Gashgai of southern Iran. He widened hisreputation with his outstanding biographies A Pearl to India: the Lifeof Roberto de Nobili and The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricciand his Mission to China, and works on the history of Europe.

England’s Greatest Spy: ÉAMON DE VALERA

John J Turi

“John J Turi, in his book, England’s Greatest Spy, presents startlingnew evidence to prove that the man who led Ireland throughoutmost of the 20th century was not a sainted national leader ofhigh purpose and moral principle. Instead, he was an agent forEngland, subverting Irish aspirations while working diligently topromote English interests in Ireland and America. Rather thanlionize de Valera, as a succession of Irish writers have done formore than half a century, Turi puts him in the dock and exposesthe ways and means by which every major decision of the IrishPresident worked to the benefit of England with disastrousresults for Ireland.

In doing so, Turi sets Irish history on its head. He calls for a re-examination of almost the entire pantheon of 20thcentury Irish heroes and villains, saints and sinners. His workquestions almost every article of faith in the Irish historicalcanon and answers questions that heretofore have goneunanswered, and challenges beliefs that have goneunchallenged.” Professor Donald McNamara

England’s Greatest Spy is fascinating reading not only for Irishscholars but also for history and mystery buffs everywhere.

150 x 225mm, 412pp, hardback, ISBN 978 1 906 768096 £19.95

John Turi is a dedicated student of Irish history. Originally intending to write a biography of Irish patriot, Michael Collins, Turi’s pursuit of the truth diverted him into a decade of study of one of Ireland’s mostrespected statesman. As factual evidence accumulated, Turi foundhimself forced to reach an astonishing but definitive conclusion.

The Last BananaShelby Tucker

Shelby Tucker first went to East Africa in 1967,arriving as Vasco de Gama had 469 years earlier, bysea, to visit his Oxford contemporary Marios Ghikaswho then farmed on the slopes of Kilimanjaro.Ghikas’ grandfather had been one of the first ofmany Greeks to settle in what was then German EastAfrica, yet Nyerere’s policy of “returning” land to thewatu (folk) destroyed this community. Three stayedon. Marios was one.

Anticipating nationalisation, he invited Tucker tovisit again to help him spend “the last banana” of his“unremittable fortune”. Tucker returned in 1972,travelling overland. These were the first of 16 tripsspanning 43 years that he has made to Africa. In TheLast Banana Tucker (a descendent of slave owners),contrasts the moral force and fruits of the pioneermissionaries and explorers who brought Christianityto Africa with the triviality of modern travel and thesurrealism of the “democracy” expounded in Africatoday.

24 colour and b/w photographs, 140 x 220mm, 288pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768218 £17.99

Shelby Tucker read law at the University of Oxford, and is awriter and traveller, and the author of the bestselling AmongInsurgents: Walking Through Burma. Tucker is an internationalauthority on modern Burmese history. His acclaimed workBurma, The Curse of Independence, was published in 2001.

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KARL HAMMER

NAZI ART THEFT, CONSPIRACY, AND THE CROWN OF THORNS

THE SECRETOF THE SACRED PANEL

“. . . a book of curious power that provokes raging thoughts even in the mind of one who knows these subjects inside out (or so she thought).”

LYNN PICKNETTauthor of The Templar Revelation

The Secret of the Sacred PanelNazi Art Theft, Conspiracy and the Crown of Thorns

Karl Hammer

In 1934, a panel from Van Eyck’s masterpiece, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, was stolenfrom Ghent Cathedral. It has never been found.

In The Secret of the Sacred Panel, Dutch author Karl Hammer reports the amazing story told tohim by Tom R., an art historian who as a very young man was enlisted to spy for the CIA andMI5 during the Second World War in order to trace the whereabouts of the vast horde of fine artstolen by the Nazis. His search for the missing altarpiece, the sacred panel, led to the greater andmore compelling quest for the Arma Christi, the nails and crown of thorns of Jesus’ crucifixion.

The reader is taken into quite unexpected territory, encompassing Himmler’s obsession withthe occult; the strange adventures of Otto Rahn, the Nazi ‘Indiana Jones’; Jewish mysticism andthe reality of Jesus and his mission; the harsh truth about the Cathar heresy and the KnightsTemplar; and finally the enduringly appealing Rennes-le-Chateau mystery from an entirely new angle.

All of this is supported by Tom R.’s meticulous and wide research into religion, mysticism,and history.

A Dutch version of this book was published in 2006 and attracted unusual interest and hostsof references to The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail and perhaps inevitably The Da Vinci Code.

198 x 130mm, 386pp paperback

ISBN 978 1906768 45 4 £8.99

Karl Hammer is a Dutch investigative journalist, writer andphotographer. After a career as a freelance radio presenterhe went into humanitarian work, founding severalinternational charity organizations and working as a youthcoach. In addition to The Secret of the Sacred Panel, KarlHammer is the author of De tranen van de wolf (The Tears ofthe Wolf), an account of the quest for hidden Nazi Gold.

“Without emulating Dan Brown’s style (after all,this is non-fiction), this book should appeal to aready-made audience of millions already hooked onthis sort of challenge to the historical and religiousstatus quo by The Da Vinci Code. It could easily bejust another Grail hunting book, but it isn’t. It is abook of curious power that provokes raging thoughteven in the mind of one who knows these subjectsinside out (or so she thought). It is an important bookand as many people as possible should be given thechance to discover this for themselves.”

Lynn Picknett, co-author of The Templar Revelationand The Stargate Conspiracy

Gorilla GuidesTravel handbooks for the business jungle

The Gorilla Guides are the only travel handbooks dedicated to theneeds of the business traveller. As such, a Gorilla Guide is the essentialcompanion for any business traveller seeking to gain the upper hand,while being alert to local customs and etiquette.

Every Gorilla Guide author has solid experience of living andworking in the country concerned, and is well versed in the nitty-grittyof day-to-day business in the country’s major cities.

From a succinct overview of the country’s history to how to getthere, from untangling red tape to tips on how to set up a company, theGorilla Guides are both concise and comprehensive companions insometimes unfamiliar places.

15 colour photographs4-6 commissioned maps210 x 125mm212-256pp; gatefolded paperbacks£14.95 each

Business traveller’s handbooks

Gorilla Guides

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Travel handbooks for the business jungle

ChinaISBN 978 1 903 185070

JapanISBN 978 0 955 944703

ThailandISBN 978 0 955 944734

SingaporeISBN 978 1 903 185094

RussiaISBN 978 0 955 944727

KazakhstanISBN 978 0 955 944710

Gorilla Guides

Saudi ArabiaISBN 978 1 905 299263

MalaysiaISBN 978 1 955 944789

QatarISBN 978 1 905 299270

Business traveller’s handbooks

China (revised edition)Navjot Singh

ISBN 978 1 903 185070

JapanIan de Stains

ISBN 978 0 955 944703

KazakhstanMichael Fergus and Vitaliy Krotov

ISBN 978 0 955 944710

MalaysiaPoh Yin Eng

ISBN 978 1 955 944789

Qatar (revised edition)

David Chaddock

ISBN 978 1 905 299270

RussiaChris GilbertISBN 978 0 955 944727

Saudi Arabia (revised edition)Andrew MeadISBN 978 1 905 299263

SingaporeMing E WongISBN 978 1 903 185094

ThailandJohn LeicesterISBN 978 0 955 944734

Pavilions in the AirChristopher Arnander and Frances Wood

Illustrated by Kathryn Lamb

Proverbs, those sage sayings and goblets of wisdom, invariably injectedwith gentle humour, are common to virtually all peoples and cultureson Earth. The Chinese are no exception. Gathered here are gemsgalore, which, while revealing much as to the Chinese national psyche,highlight particular traits and characteristics that span the globe.

We all know Chairman Mao’s infamous ‘It doesn’t matter whatcolour the cat, as long as it catches mice’, but most of us would onlyrecognize an approximate English equivalent of ‘A mighty dragoncannot crush a local snake’ or, ‘A Phoenix might come out of a crow’s nest’.

The beasts and birds of legend and folklore provide the inimitableKathryn Lamb’s pen with a feast of hilarious subjects, not least acertain revolution at one ill-fated dinner party . . .

90 b/w line drawing cartoons213 x 145mm 96pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299676

£9.95

Christopher Arnander is a former banker who worked for many years in theCity and the Middle East. He is the author of a book on banking and is also anenthusiastic cartoon collector.

Frances Wood is head of the Chinese Department at the British Library andauthor of A Companion to China and The Blue Guide to China, among others.

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Don’t Toss Granny in the BegoniasPrimrose Arnander and Marie-Helène Claudel-Gilly

Illustrated by Kathryn Lamb

Continuing the popular series of proverbs from around theworld, each paired with an English equivalent, Don’t TossGranny in the Begonias sheds amusing and often intriguinglight on the perhaps justly notorious rivalry between theFrench and the English. But more than this, Don’t TossGranny in the Begonias highlights as many similaritiesbetween the cultures. Witness ‘Porter l’eau à la rivière’ and‘To carry coals to Newcastle’. Or ‘Quand le chat n’est pas làles souris dansent’ – dancing mice as opposed to the Englishmice, who play in the cat’s absence.

105 line drawing cartoons213 x 145mm 96pp, hardbackISBN 978 0 906 768287

£9.95

Primrose Arnander is the author of Apricots Tomorrow, Unload Your

own Donkey and The Son of a Duck is a Floater, three best-sellingbooks of Arabic proverbs for Stacey International.

Kathryn Lamb has drawn cartoons for The Times, Daily Telegraph,

Guardian and Spectator. She has held several exhibitions and drawntwo books of sheep cartoons. Her cartoons are sold in theCartoon Gallery, London.

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DON’T TOSS GRANNY IN THE BEGONIAS

Faut pas pousser mémé dans les bégoniasand other French proverbs with

English equivalents

compiled byMarie-Hélène Claudel-Gilly Primrose Arnander

with illustrations by Kathryn Lamb

PAVILIONS IN THE AIR空中楼阁

Chinese proverbs and their English equivalents

Frances Wood Christopher Arnander

汉英谚语成语

安难得吴芳思

梁可仁图画

with illustrations by Kathryn Lamb

Apricots Tomorrowand other Arab sayings with English equivalents

Primrose Arnander and Ashkhain SkipwithIllustrated by Kathryn Lamb

105 line drawing cartoons, 213 x 145mm, 96pp,hardback ISBN 978 0 905 743578 £9.95

The Son of a Duck is a Floaterand other Arab sayings with English equivalents


105 line drawing cartoons, 213 x 145mm, 96pp,hardback, ISBN 978 0 905 743417 £9.95

Unload Your Own Donkeyand other Arab sayings with English equivalents


105 line drawing cartoons, 213 x 145mm, 96pp,hardback, ISBN 978 1 900 988360 £9.95

You Can’t Get Blood out of a Turnipand other Italian sayings with English equivalents

Christopher Arnander and Ilia WarnerIllustrated by Kathryn Lamb

90 b/w line drawing cartoons, 213 x 145mm, 96pp,hardback, ISBN 978 1 905 299065 £9.95

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British Olympic Heroes

Kitty Carruthers

Great Britain is one of only a handful of countries to have competed inevery Olympic Games – Winter and Summer alike. Since 1896, nearly500 Britons have won a gold medal. Those 60 whose stories are toldhere, if not always the most famous, are assuredly the most interesting;athletes whose sporting and personal lives have been inspiring,impressive and sometimes downright incredible.

Fully illustrated160 x 170mm132pp, gatefolded paperbackISBN 978 1 906 768157£8

Kitty Carruthers, who has herself shone at football, table tennis, squash,hockey and dressage, is a member of theInternational Society of Olympic Historians.

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Tina the TurtleGrace Todino-Gonguet Illustrated by Susan Keeble

What happens when a turtle cannot dive and stay underwater? For acreature that spends most of its time in the ocean, sometimes stayingsubmerged for up to five hours at a time, it becomes a matter of lifeand death. It cannot feed off the algae and sea grasses that grow on theocean floor. So the reptile swims round and round on the surface,unable to get the nutrients it needs. Getting weaker and weaker, itfinally dies a lingering death. And that’s how workers in Sohar Portfound Tina (literally, “Turtle in Need of Assistance”), a mature femalegreen turtle.

Tina was suffering from “floating syndrome” – a common cause ofdeath among sea turtles. She could have picked up an infection thatmade her sick. But most likely she swallowed a plastic bag that lookedlike a tasty jellyfish – her favourite treat. This is her story.

50 colour illustrations210 x 250mm 60pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768256£12.95

Grace Todino-Gonguet is a travel writerwhose three children asked her to nowwrite something for them; Halimah and theSnake was the result. She lives in Oman.

Susan Keeble’s watercolours have beenexhibited at galleries around the world,including Dubai, where she lived for fiveyears. This is her fourth children’s book.

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Arabian StarJulia JohnsonIllustrated by Henry Climent

When little Ali is washed out to sea on hishome-made raft, who would have thought his lifewould be saved by a passing oil tanker? Graduallythe boy learns about life aboard Arabian Star, thesurveillant crow, the welcoming crew, and the kindCaptain who takes him under his wing as the shipsails down through the Suez Canal.

210mm x 250mm52pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299843£9.95

Henry Climent has been illustrating children’s books formore than 10 years. If he wasn’t an illustrator, Henrywould be a cowboy or a 19th-century sailor.

SalukiHound of the Bedouin

Julia JohnsonIllustrated by Susan Keeble

Hunting with falcon and hound has belonged toBedouin life in Arabia for centuries, and the speed,courage and beauty of beast and bird have beenimmortalised in Bedouin folklore – in poetry and song,in tales both oral and written.

Julia Johnson’s collaboration with the watercolouristSusan Keeble is a captivating story of a Bedouin boy,Hamad, and his Saluki hound Sougha (the GiftedOne). It recounts their mutual devotion and theadventures they share on Hamad’s journey toadulthood.

Julia Johnson has done much to keep alive thestories of the Bedouin and their way of life and tobring them to a younger readership in Arabia andthroughout the world. Saluki, Hound of the Bedouin is,as always, thoroughly researched, and accurately andsensitively illustrated by Susan Keeble.

210 x 250mm 52pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299003£12.50

The Pearl DiverJulia JohnsonIllustrated by Patricia Al-Fakhri

Saeed is going to learn how to dive – his father haspromised to teach him!

It is the start of the pearling season and this is hisfirst trip out on to the waters of the Arabian Gulf.Leaving the rest of his family behind on the shore,Saeed and his father join the crew of a pearling dhowand set out to spend the hot summer months on thehigh seas. He learns how the pearl divers hunt for thetreasures of the seabed, and discovers the secrets anddangers of the sea.

This delightful story, supported by careful researchfrom oral and written sources, some dating back morethan a hundred years, offers a unique insight into theindustry that sustained the Arabian Gulf right up untilthe discovery of oil.

Julia Johnson’s compelling narrative combined with the startling beauty of Patricia Al-Fakhri’swatercolours, make The Pearl Diver an outstanding read for children aged 8 – 12.

210 x 250mm52pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988582£12.50

Halimah and the Snakeand other Omani Folktales

Grace Todino-GonguetIllustrated by Susan KeebleOver the centuries, the travelling tribal peoples ofArabia established a tradition of story-telling. Thesetales of magic and mystery, passed from generation togeneration of Bedouin tribes, spanned the Arabianpeninsula, but were rarely, if ever, written down.

In Halimah and the Snake, Grace Todino-Gonguet hascollected, and re-written for a fresh audience, a handfulof gems from Oman’s folkloric heritage – there aremany more. As with folktales and legends worldwide,the creatures and characters are at times terrifying andfantastic, the stories always enthralling, and invariablyseek to impart some moral guidance to their youngreaders.

In this first collection we discover how threeenchanted birds come to the rescue in the remote desert,learn what happens when a tree can talk, and revel in thesuspense of an Omani equivalent of The Sleeping Beauty.

50 colour illustrations210 x 250mm 60pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299638£12.95

Grace Todino-Gonguet is a travel writerwhose three children asked her to nowwrite something for them; Halimah and theSnake was the result. She lives in Oman.

Susan Keeble’s watercolours have beenexhibited at galleries around the world,including Dubai, where she lived for fiveyears. This is her fourth children’s book.

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Chimes for ChildrenNicolas Hill

The best books for children appeal to all ages andChimes for Children is no exception. Witty, beautifullydrawn and highly original it will surely, likeStruwwelpeter (first published in 1845), remain inprint for many years.

Full colour illustrations210 x 250mm40pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 906 768133

£9.95

Now retired, Nicolas Hill, a grandfather who lives inAldeburgh, Suffolk, recently surprised himself and hisfriends by writing and illustrating a collection of 42 new one-verse nursery rhymes.

The First Dog to be Somebody’s Best FriendWritten down by Tom Stacey and drawn by Angela Landels

This Inquisitive dog-loving Child (of which there are verymany on Planet Earth) knows without being told that theDog is Man’s Best Friend. But how did this come about?

This story was lost in the mists of time … for centuryupon century, until now!

At last, in 2007, Tom Stacey has found out and writtendown the full and Deeply Moving Story, which he hasshared in every detail with Angela Landels. She has drawnthe pictures of what exactly happened.

40 colour and b/w drawings210 x 250mm, 60pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299348£9.95

Angela Landels started illustrating children’s books when she wasstill at school. She went on to become Art Director for majorfashion magazines, and won two awards for design and fashiondrawing. Her paintings, both of portraits and still life subjects, havebeen widely exhibited in Britain and abroad in group shows andthree solo exhibitions. The ethereal, magical qualities that shinethrough the illustrations for The First Dog to be Somebody’s Best

Friend are evidence of a fresh vein of spontaneous talent.

Introducing Musgrove theNanny of Notting HillISBN 978 1 905 299102£6.95

Musgrove and the Easter EggsISBN 978 1 905 299171£6.95

Musgrove, There’s Something in my Shoe!ISBN 978 1 905 299195£6.95

Musgrove in Kensington GardensISBN 978 1 905 299492£6.95

Musgrove

The Musgrove Boxed SetIncludes Musgrove and FatherChristmas; Musgrove and theEaster Eggs; Musgrove, There’sSomething in my Shoe! andMusgrove in Kensington Gardens

150 x 185mm each32pp each, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299607£20.00

Russian-born Ilona Rodgers isan artist and iconographerwhose icons have been shownin London, Paris, Moscow,New York and Dublin. Shelives in Notting Hill with herhusband and two smalldaughters, Hermione – forwhom these stories werewritten – and Laetitia.

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Musgrove and the Giant TurnipIlona Rodgers

In this, the sixth instalment in the escapades ofNotting Hill’s – and everyone’s – favourite rat,Musgrove finds himself battling with a mostunexpected object: a giant turnip.

And this in the somewhat exposed surroundings ofKensington Gardens, where perhaps the magic ofPeter Pan is being cast wide …

Inspired by the old English fable ‘The EnormousTurnip’, Musgrove and the Giant Turnip is delightingthe Nanny Rat’s many fans around the world.

Colour illustrations throughout150 x 185mm 32pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299966£6.95

Christmas withMusgroveIlona Rodgers

Musgrove the nanny of Notting Hill isback in this new Father Christmas talefrom Ilona Rodgers. In their latestadventure, Musgrove and Hermioneventure beyond Notting Hill to spendChristmas in the countryside withMusgrove’s aunt Aurelia. While there,Hermione learns all about Musgrove’seccentric family, especially his cousinReggie, “The Flying Rat” who arrivesin his aeroplane on Christmas Eve . . .along with a Very Special Guest.


Musgrove and FatherChristmas

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James Nicholson

160 colour and b/w photographs214 x 256mm, 176pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988810 £29.95

The Kingdom of SaudiArabia

Prof Sir Norman Anderson

300 colour photographs; 4 maps304 x 257mm, 256pp, hardbackISBN 978 0 955 219306 £35

Travellers in ArabiaBritish Explorers in Saudi Arabia

Eid Al Yahya

120 b/w illustrations275 x 320mm, 156pp, hardbackISBN 978 0 955 219313 £35

Saudi Arabia by the FirstPhotographers

William Facey and Gillian Grant

120 b/w photographs285 x 220mm, 128pp, hardbackISBN 978 0 905 743745 £25

The Emirates of YesteryearThe Best of Ronald Codrai

Ronald Codrai

Over 100 duotone and b/wphotographs, 285 x 220mm, 176pppaperback SBN 978 1 900 988353 £25

Old Oman

WD Peyton

53 b/w and duotone photographs274 x 210mm128pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 900 988148

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SilverThe Traditional Art of Oman

Ruth Hawley

250 colour illustrations240 x 160mm96pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988278

£18.50

Faces of India

Peter Spira

200 colour photographs, 215 x 280mm120pp, hardback, ISBN 978 1 900 988537

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KazakhstanComing of Age

Michael Fergus and Janar Jandosova

300 colour illustrations, 304 x 257mm256pp, hardback ISBN 978 1 900 988612 £35

Lyrics of the Sands

Gloria Kifayeh

100 colour photographs220 x 285mm, 108pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988896£18.50

Origins of Arabia

Andrew Thompson

Colour maps and diagrams127 x 214mm, 108pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 579 582647£25

Oman’s GeologicalHeritage

Ken Glennie

145 colour photographs,17 maps280 x 208mm, 160pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299423 £35

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The Illustrated Encyclodaedia of ArabiaMary Beardwood200 colour illustrations, 210 x 250mm, 120pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299942 £19.95

Elvis the Camel

Barbara DevineIllustrated by Patricia Al-Fakhri

Full colour illustrations280 x 210mm 32pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988391 £9.50

Issa and the Coin

Sean and Shannon Butler

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A Gift of the Sands

Julia JohnsonIllustrated by Emily Styles

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The Cheetah’s Tale

Julia JohnsonIllustrated by Susan Keeble

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The Peacock and the Mermaid

Julia JohnsonIllustrated by Carla Hirst


One Humpy Grumpy Camel

Julia Johnson Illustrated by Emily Styles

40 colour illustrations, 220 x 170mm32pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988759 £8.50

Humpy Grumpy Saves the Day!

Julia JohnsonIllustrated by Emily Styles

60 colour illustrations, 220 x 270mm, 32pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299430 £7.99

A is for ArabiaAn alphabet with a difference

Julia Johnson Illustrated by Emily Styles

Colour illustrations throughout, 220 x 170mm32pp, hardback ISBN 978 1 900 988551 £7.99

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TribeThe Hidden History of the Mountains of the MoonTom Stacey

A TLS Book of the Year “A thrilling adventure” Spectator95 b/w photographs and drawings; 4 maps154 x 234mm 556pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988766 £19.95

ZanzibarIts History and its People

WH Ingrams


Travellers in the Near East

Edited by Charles Foster

60 b/w illustrations153 x 228mm 300pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 900 988711

£18.50

Ivan Meštrovic�The Making of a Master

Maria MeštrovicIntroduced by Christopher Cviic

16 b/w photographs, 229 x 152mm304pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299621 £16.95

PalestinePolitical Reflections 1944-54

Michel Chiha

220 x 140mm, 348pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299546 £25

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Breaking the CycleCivil Wars in Lebanon

Edited by Youssef Choueiri


Sultans of Aden

Gordon Waterfield


Parkinsovski’s Lawand other Russian Rules

Yuri Luzhkov

45 b/w line drawings, 105 x 165mm50pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 905 299133 £6.95

A Face in the CrowdThe Secret Papers of Lebanon’sEmir Farid Chehab OBE, 1942-72

Edited by Youmna Asseily and Ahmad Asfahani

16 b/w photographs, 200 x 186mm208pp, hardback, ISBN 978 1 905299485 £27.50

Bright LevantLaurence Grafftey-Smith


Jeddah: City of Art

Hani MS Farsi

180 colour photographs215 x 285mm176pp, hardbackISBN 978 0 905 743660

£30

Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia

John Topham

100 duotone photographs270 x 312mm192pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988728 £25

From the Lands of Figs and Olives

Habeeb Salloum and JamesPeters

150 colour photographs255 x 180mm, 254pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 566 564144 £12.50

Hartley’s Foreign PhrasesA Dictionary of ForeignExpressions, Words and Phrasesin Current English Usage

JLA Hartley

234 x 170mm 300pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299201 £19.95

The Dictionary of ForeignQuotations (2nd edition)

Anthony Lejeune

Over 3,000 entries in 5 languages234 x 170mm, 332pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299232 £19.95

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The Wilderness of Zin

C Leonard Woolley and TE Lawrence

58 line drawings, 2 maps180 x 210mm, 360pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 988292 £25

Gardening in the Middle East

Eric Moore

200 colour photographs285 x 215mm, 144pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 900 98865 £25.00

Odd Man Out in the Alps

Sir Ron Norman

152 x 228mm 20pp, hardback

ISBN 978 1 905 299881 £16.95

Island Days

Roger Perry

152 x 228mm 320pp, hardback

ISBN 978 1 900 988803 £18.50

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‘O Horrable Murder’The Trial, Execution and Burial of Charles I

Robert B Partridge


Medieval RomeA Portrait of the City and its Life

Paul Hetherington


Greek Legends and Stories

MV Seton-Williams


A Persian Childhood

Pari Courtauld

156 x 234mm, 142pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 905 299737, £12.95

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Bryan Bevan

234 x 156mm 160pp, paperbackISBN 978 0 948 695650 £11.95

Edward II1307-1327

Mary Saaler


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Edited by Paul Tempest


The Bank of EnglandBedside Book

Compiled by Paul TempestIntroduced by Nigel Lawson

Cartoons and b/w line drawingsthroughout152 x 228mm 256pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299898 £16.95

The Arabists of ShemlanVolume I of the MECAS Memoirs1944-78

Edited by Paul Tempest


Ghassan ResurrectedYasmine Zahran16 colour photographs155 x 230mm 180pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299287 £18.50

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What is Islam?

W Montgomery Watt


Social Life Under the Abbasids

MM Ahsan

135 x 215mm 272pp, hardbackISBN 978 9 953 101866 £25

Arab Civilization to AD1500

DM Dunlop


The Origins and EarlyDevelopment of Shi’a Islam

SH Jafri


Frankincense and Myrrh

Nigel Groom


The Arab Conquest of the Western Sahara

HT Norris


The Kazakhstan Way

Nursultan NazarbayevForeword by MargaretThatcher

160 x 240mm, 334pp, hardbackISBN 978 1 905 299614£19.99

After You Prime Minister

James Douglas-Hamilton

12 b/w photographs156 x 220mm280pp, gatefolded paperback

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Tom Stacey (Brassey’s great great grandson)

148 x 210mm 36pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 905 299096 £5

Septimus SeverusCountdown to Death

Yasmine Zahran


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