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Despite its apparently peripheral location in the Qajar Empire, Kirman was frequently found at the centre of developments reshaping Iran in the 19th century. Over the Qajar period the region saw significant changes, as competition between Kirmani families rapidly developed commercial cotton and opium production and a world renowned carpet weaving industry, as well as giving strength to radical modernist and nationalist agitation in the years leading up to the 1906 Constitutional Revolution.

Kirman and the Qajar Empire explores how these Kirmani local elites mediated...

Von schaurigen Monstern zu niedlichen Amigurumis, mit detaillierten Anleitungen zum einfachen Selberhäkeln. In diesem Buch erfährst du, wie du die gruseligsten Kreaturen supersüß selber häkeln kannst. Mit 40 furchterregenden Klassikern wie Monster Cthulhu, Seeungeheuer Nessie, Mothman, Schlangenmonster Medusa und Slenderman als Amigurumis. Auch Aliens, Zombies, Vampire und Werwölfe dürfen in der schaurig-süßen Amigurumi-Sammlung natürlich nicht fehlen. Durch die verwendeten Grundmaschenarten ist das Buch nicht nur für Profis geeignet, auch Anfänger:innen können schaurig-süße...

Once upon a time, artist Scott Gustafson set out to illustrate classic stories, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Decades later, his immediately recognizable paintings have made bestsellers of Peter Pan, The Night Before Christmas, Classic Fairy Tales, and Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose. Now he gives us Classic Bedtime Stories, a lavishly illustrated, oversized collection of some of his favorite tales.

Stories such as "Sleeping Beauty," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and "Sambha and the Tigers" leap off the page thanks to Gustafson's exquisite...

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

The Russian oil industry--which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply--is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the interdependence among Russia's oil industry, politics, and economy, Thane Gustafson...