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This book details the dramatic history of the weaponization of avant-garde art as propaganda, from its violent origins selling the idealistic communis...
Barcelona, 1912. A city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopular...
atmospheric historical crime from an award-winning author
'Sheer fun' The Times Trieste in 1906 is of vital strategic importance and one of the world's greatest seaports. But assorted nationalist movements ar...
The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly strange circumstances while attempting to swim the Dardanelles Straits, the pass...
This title is set in Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlor...
The third exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearces Dead Man series. Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to somewhere so exotic as North Africa?...
It's World War I. Britain has ruled Egypt since 1881 under a shadow government headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of E...
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Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbour. One of them comes down in the water but no one is hurt - except that the balloonist di...
Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensabl...
A Mamur Zapt Mystery
The murder of an Italian man in backstreet 1912 Cairo spells trouble for Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police, as he un...
A classic historical mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, set in the Egypt of the 1900s. When gang violence strikes the city, the inimitable...
A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, which sees the Mamur Zapt investigate a series of suspicious kidnappings in the Cairo ...
From the award-winning Michael Pearce comes an engrossing murder mystery set in the Cairo of the 1900s. After a series of attacks on public officials,...
Captain Owen, "Mamur Zapt", the head of Political CID in Edwardian Cairo, is called in when a dog's body is found in a Coptic tomb, the ultimate Mosle...
A classic historical mystery from award-winning Michael Pearce, in which the body of a young woman washes up in the Nile and the Mamur Zapt is drawn i...
Praise for The Men Behind... "Pearce deftly captures the intertwined political, cultural, and religious tensions of his colorful locale and turbulent ...
With the 1914 outbreak of war in Europe, Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, must round up enemy aliens in Egypt, but his mission is undermined by the desecr...
Kriminalroman....
For millennia, Egypt has depended upon the waters of the Nile. Its annual floods fertilize the land. By the time Britain extends its dominion over Egy...
This book delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art, skewering th...
In this engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt finds himself under threat from a campaign to discredit Cairo's senior...
Praise for The Donkey-Vous... "Pearce hits his stride with this third tale of Gareth Cadwallader Owen, the Mamur Zapt of the Anglo-Egyptian political ...
Praise for The Night of the Dog... "Each scene is sharply rendered with local color, and Pearce explains often complex social and political behavior t...
In the Cairo of 1908, the city lives--and dies--by its cafi culture. But for all restaurant businesses, then and now, the protection rackets pose a pr...
Why was the body put on the line? Chance? Or did someone want to halt the progress of the new electric railway out from Cairo to the city of Pleasure ...
The second in the delightfully witty and diverting new crime series set in Tsarist Russia from the award-winning Michael Pearce....
Cairo, 1910. Captain Owen, The Mamur Zapt, is the head of Egypt's Political CID in the heyday of British Rule. He is ultimately responsible for law an...
Captain Cadwallader Owen, the Mamur Zapt or Head of the Political Police in 1908 Cairo, must investigate when two tourists are apparently kidnapped fr...
Cairo, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists th...
A Transnational Story
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the...
In WWI Egypt, a murdered girl and her runaway sister lead the Khediveโs head investigator to an underground slave trade in this โdeftly plottedโ...
In this classic mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, a powerful politician is murdered in Cairo in the 1900s and the Mamur Zapt is called in...
Naples, 1913. Sun-baked, blue-skied, and with its amazing bay, one of the most beautiful spots in Italy - but also, one of the most backward. Into tha...
Sinister happenings are afoot in Edwardian Cairo, involving a Snake Catchers Guild and allegations of police corruption. Mamur Zapt, head of Cairo's s...
โA lovingly detailed portrait of Egypt during the Great War. The result is a bit like a police procedural reimagined by Douglas Adamsโ Kirkus Revi...
Winner of the CWA Last Laugh Award, an irresistible historical mystery in which the Mamur Zapt investigates the illegal trade of antiquities in the Ca...
How To Develop and Execute a CRM Strategy
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In the Cairo of 1908, the city lives-and dies-by its caf๏ฟฝ culture. But for all restaurant businesses, then and now, the protection rackets pose a pr...