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When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had sat on the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and self-indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed exceptional resilience in the face of dilemmas and vulnerabilities shared by most monarchs of the Islamic world in the nineteenth century.

In this book--the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah--Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran. Nasir al-Din Shah...

Al-Kitaab: Part One develops skills in standard Arabic while providing additional material in both colloquial and classical Arabic. With new video material and revised and updated text and exercises, the bound-in and revised DVD supersedes both the former CD audio set and video DVD previously available only as separate items--making this singular volume a comprehensive whole for those immersed in the early and intermediate stages of learning Arabic.

Providing approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction, parts of this revised edition are updated with...

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?

So was Sara Abbas, when after years of going to doctors to get well, she was still sick and tired. Through over 12 years of research and testing a countless number of healing and wellness methods, Sara took matters into her own hands to get healthy, slim, and feel better than she ever had before. This book detail how Sara used ancient wellness secrets and modern science to get in the best health of her life and stay that way...

Inside Supremely Being, you will learn about The Cleanse and how to strengthen your immune...

This volume highlights the latest developments and trends in advanced non-classical materials and structures. It presents the developments of advanced materials and respective tools to characterize and predict the material properties and behavior. It also includes original, theoretical, and important experimental results that use non-routine methodologies often unfamiliar to the usual readers. The chapters on novel applications of more familiar experimental techniques and analyses of composite problems underline the need for new experimental approaches.

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami - author of three books of original verse - released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 - 1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). This material is presented to English-speaking readers for the first time, in eight volumes: Nima's Water, Hafez's Wine, Saadi's Tears and Rumi's Fire. In 2015, Kiarostami published two further books, the dual anthology entitled...

Le ComtE de Hartwick, dans le Dakota du Sud, signifie un nouveau dEpart pour Mackenzie Redford surnommE « Mack . La vie dans une grande ville n'a pas EtE ce qu'il en attendait, et maintenant il est de retour chez lui oU il officie en tant que shErif.

Brantley Calderone est aussi A la recherche d'une nouvelle vie. AprEs avoir quittE New York et achetE un ranch, il s'installe et s'habitue A vivre A un rythme diffErent - jusqu'A ce qu'il dEcouvre un cadavre sous son porche et se retrouve Etre le principal suspect du meurtre.

Mack et Brantley se rendent rapidement compte de...

This brilliant, original work offers novel formulations of thermodynamic principles for hydrocarbon reservoirs. The book is packed with valuable step-by-step derivations for retrograde phenomena in capillaries, diffusion and convection, stability and criticality in mixtures, precipitation from complex mixtures, and numerous examples that show in detail how to calculate and apply concepts using the most contemporary techniques.

The book is not only a valuable reference for petroleum and chemical engineers, but can be...