Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

SMITH, Anthony

Smith, Emma

Pets & Animal Care

HarperNorth

The Human Pedigree: Inheritance and the Genetics of Mankind

Science & Math

Evolution

Allen& Unwin

The body

Medical Books

Basic Sciences

158p hardback, many plates, some in colour, very good+

The Dangerous Sort: The Story of a Balloon

Throw Out Two Hands

George Allen Unwin

Wilderness

Beside the seaside

George Allen& Unwin Ltd

The Weather: The Truth About The Health Of Our Planet

Earth Sciences

Arrow Books

<p>This book gives an account of a small Oxford University expedition to Persia in 1950 to bring back specimens of a fish, allegedly white and sightless, which was said to inhabit the underground water-courses of Iran. Though the four young men that made up the expedition failed in their quest, they discovered rural Persia where villagers still led medieval lives. The story includes an account of the qanats - the underground irrigation and tunnels employing ancient technology which still criss-cross the country making life in the desert possible.</p>

Blind White Fish in Persia (Penguin Travel Library)

Penguin??Books

Why do people feel loyalty to a nation, as well as to family, region, class, and religion? When is a healthy sense of national identity transformed into virulent nationalism? What are the ethnic roots of so many contemporary conflicts? Can nations be created by design when colonial or multiethnic empires collapse? And what, exactly, is a nation? Such controversial questions are analysed in this stimulating new text.  Smith asks why the first modern nation-states developed in the West and considers how ethnic origins, religion, language, and shared symbols provide a sense of nation-even to the Basques, Kurds, and Tamils who are without states of their own. He illuminates his argument with a wealth of detailed examples: the divisions in the former Soviet Union, ethnic separatism within Europes, pan-Arab and pan-African movements, the successes and failures of nation-building on every continent. Throughout National Identity Smith stresses the positive as well as the pernicious aspects of strong national allegiances. A provocative final chapter considers the prospects of a post-national world. This will be of particular interest to ethnographers, students of international studies, historical sociologists, and political scientists.

National Identity

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Penguin

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