Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives
ISBN: 9780719077463 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The decision to go to war in Iraq has had historic repercussions throughout the world. The editors of this volume bring together scholarly analysis of the decision-making in the U.S and U.K. that led to the war, inside accounts of CIA decision-making, and key speeches and documents related to going to war. The book presents a fascinating case study of decision-making at the highest levels in the United States and Britain as their leaders planned to go to war in Iraq. Just as the Cuban Missile Crisis has been used for decades as a case study in good decision-making, the decision to go to war...
The decision to go to war in Iraq has had historic repercussions throughout the world. The editors of this volume bring together scholarly analysis of...
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455,18 zł |
A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780863564284 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of two titles launching a series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture.
One of two titles launching a series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture.
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53,50 zł |
Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
ISBN: 9781890951849 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 BCE) Iraqi rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that formed the underlying irrational processes of war. In Rituals of War, Zainab Bahrani weaves together three lines of inquiry into one historical domain of violence: war, the body, and representation. Building on Foucault's argument in Discipline and Punish that the art of punishing must rest on a whole technology of... Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 ... |
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160,65 zł |
In Search of Glory
ISBN: 9780595476640 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,62 zł |
In Search of Glory
ISBN: 9780595713202 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,56 zł |
American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945
ISBN: 9780807858981 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium. After documenting the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture, Little examines oil, Israel, and other aspects of U.S. policy. He concludes that a peculiar blend of arrogance and ignorance has led American officials to overestimate their ability to shape events...
Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the ...
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257,03 zł |
The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, C.1850-1920
ISBN: 9780521052733 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods.
This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist period...
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137,31 zł |
Dawn of the Metal Age: Technology and Society During the Levantine Chalcolithic
ISBN: 9781904768999 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By midway through the fifth millennium BCE rapid social change was underway in the southern Levant. One critical dimension of this cultural revolution was a series of profound technological breakthroughs, bringing the dawn of the age of metals. Archaeologists working in the region have discovered a host of sites dating to the Chalcolithic Period (4700-3500 BCE) with material culture reflecting the production and use of copper. This survey will take the reader from the copper mines of the Aravah in Jordan and Israel where the ore was acquired, to the villages of the northern Negev such as...
By midway through the fifth millennium BCE rapid social change was underway in the southern Levant. One critical dimension of this cultural revolution...
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712,22 zł |
Hegemony in the Digital Age: The Arab/Israeli Conflict Online
ISBN: 9780739117729 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the relative benefits which the internet provides to a range of weak and powerful actors in American society. The Arab/Israeli conflict is utilized as a topic holding common interest to all of those considered. Evidence suggests that the Web's exploitation by countless competing interests is contributing to the consolidation of dominant discourses and policies surrounding American Mid-East policy, while exacerbating processes of social fragmentation in civil society.
This book examines the relative benefits which the internet provides to a range of weak and powerful actors in American society. The Arab/Israeli conf...
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471,24 zł |
Studien Zur Komposition Der Mekkanischen Suren: Die Literarische Form Des Koran - Ein Zeugnis Seiner Historizität?
ISBN: 9783110192339 / Angielski / Twarda / 449 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Koran, als Text von der Forschung jahrzehntelang marginalisiert, ruckt mit dem Bekanntwerden altester Manuskriptfunde aus San'a wieder ins Interesse der Islamforschung. Angesichts des Fehlens zeitgenossischer Zeugnisse fallt dem Koran als historischem Dokument fur die fruheste Islamentwicklung einzigartige Bedeutung zu - ein Sachverhalt, der jedoch fur die Fruhislamdebatte bisher noch nicht fruchtbar gemacht werden konnte. Denn zum einen sperrt sich der Koran mit seiner schwer zuganglichen Gesamtstruktur gegen eine historische Lekture, zum anderen kann der poetische Text des Koran kann... Der Koran, als Text von der Forschung jahrzehntelang marginalisiert, ruckt mit dem Bekanntwerden altester Manuskriptfunde aus San'a wieder ins Inte... |
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766,98 zł |
Global Security Watch Iran: A Reference Handbook
ISBN: 9780275994839 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains the foreign policy decisions of Iranian leaders, as well as the foreign policy decisions of its neighbors and major world powers. Iran is not treated primarily as a problem to be dealt with by the United States and its friends. There is an effort to understand not only the concerns and policies of the United States and its allies, but also to understand Iranian concerns and policy. Thus, this book is better able than many others to explain the actions, reactions, and interactions of all the relevant actors and to explore the prospects for future war or... This book explains the foreign policy decisions of Iranian leaders, as well as the foreign policy decisions of its neighbors and major world powers... |
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517,35 zł |
The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War with Iraq
ISBN: 9781605280066 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,97 zł |
The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World
ISBN: 9780521066020 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed for nearly a century before it was conquered by the Mongols in 1218. Arriving in Central Asia from China, the Qara Khitai ruled over a mostly Muslim population. Their history affords a unique window onto the extensive cross-cultural contacts between China, Inner Asian nomads and the Muslim world in the period preceding the rise of Chinggis Khan. Using an extensive corpus of Muslim and Chinese sources, Michal Biran comprehensively examines the political,...
The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed for nearly a ce...
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188,18 zł |
Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society
ISBN: 9780521847155 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage, Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property...
High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates...
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249,28 zł |
The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades
ISBN: 9780140455137 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Crusades as seen through the eyes of Muslims
A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and most complete eyewitness account of the Crusades from the perspective of a medieval Muslim writer. Focusing on twelfth-century Arab aristocrat Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation but also including extracts from The Book of the Staff and Kernels of Refinement, this volume offers a strikingly human portrayal of Islamic perspectives on day-to-day existence,... The Crusades as seen through the eyes of Muslims
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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
ISBN: 9781591026020 / Angielski / Miękka / 759 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were brutal, imperialist advances, which spurred waves of Muslims to expropriate a vast expanse of lands and subdue millions of indigenous peoples.
Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were bruta...
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90,14 zł |
The Life and Times of the Shah
ISBN: 9780520253285 / Angielski / Twarda / 740 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individualsincluding high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the oppositionto depict the unfolding of the shah's life against the forces and events that shaped the development of modern Iran. The first major biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly detailed account provides a radically new...
This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 197...
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380,21 zł |
Studien Zu Ritual Und Sozialgeschichte Im Alten Orient / Studies on Ritual and Society in the Ancient Near East: Tartuer Symposien 1998-2004
ISBN: 9783110194616 / Angielski / Twarda / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Band enthaauml;lt die uuuml;berarbeiteten Versionen von Vortragen, die wahrend der ersten funf internationalen Symposien fur Altorientalische Sprachen und Kulturen in den Jahren 1998 bis 2004 an der Theologischen Fakultat der Universitat Tartu, Estland, von Wissenschaftlern aus Deutschland, England, den USA, Finnland und neuerdings auch Russland gehalten wurden. Der Schwerpunkt liegt in der Eroouml;rterung fachspezifischer Probleme der Religions- und Medizingeschichte, Linguistik und Archaologie des Ostmittelmeerraumes.
Dieser Band enthaauml;lt die uuuml;berarbeiteten Versionen von Vortragen, die wahrend der ersten funf internationalen Symposien fur Altorientalische S...
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Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon
ISBN: 9780674030664 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Everyday Jihad plunges us into the sprawling, heavily populated Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, which in the early 1990s became a site for militant Sunni Islamists. A place of refuge for Arabs hunted down in their countries of origin and a recruitment ground for young disenfranchised Palestinians, the camp--where sheikhs began actively recruiting for jihad--situated itself in the global geography of radical Islam. With pioneering fieldwork, Bernard Rougier documents how Sunni... As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Everyday Jihad plunges us into the sprawling, heavily populated P... |
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153,92 zł |
Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine
ISBN: 9780674032019 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast biographical material and complementary evidence, this book describes the social trajectory that Sufism followed.
This is a continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast ...
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90,77 zł |