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Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine
ISBN: 9780719090554 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations. The socio-political, geographical and cultural implications are analysed here through case studies from the global South, namely from French and British colonial territories in Africa as well as from Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine.
The book focuses on the transnational aspects of the garden city, taking into account frameworks and documentation that extend beyond national borders, and includes... This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonia...
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435,54 |
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The Crusades: A Reader, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781442606234 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations. The second edition features an intriguing new chapter on perceptions of the Crusades in the modern period, from David Hume and William Wordsworth to World War I political cartoons and crusading rhetoric circulating after 9/11. Islamic accounts of the treatment of prisoners have been added, as well as sources detailing the homecoming of those who had ventured to the Holy... Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part ... |
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194,71 |
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Surging South of Baghdad: The 3D Infantry Division and Task Force Marne in Iraq, 2007-2008
ISBN: 9781782663232 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With full color maps and illustrations. Center of Military History publication 59-2-1. Global War on Terrorism Series. This first in-depth study of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq during the troop surge examines the war in the Multi-National Division-Center, an area of operations established in the spring of 2007 to focus on the insurgent sanctuaries and supply lines south of the Iraqi capital. It provides a valuable perspective for the ongoing counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With full color maps and illustrations. Center of Military History publication 59-2-1. Global War on Terrorism Series. This first in-depth study of co...
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353,62 |
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Critical Muslim 11: Syria
ISBN: 9781849044516 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Muslim's Syria issue approaches the diversity of this rich culture as it is reborn through revolution, tortured by repression, and traumatised by war.
Thomas Pierret illuminates the varying positions of Syria's Muslims and Islamists; Rasha Omran writes about being an Alawi revolutionary; Robin Yassin-Kassab investigates the revolution's artistic and cultural shifts; Firas Massouh appraises the role of workers and the left inside Syria; Louis Proyect castigates leftists in the West; Nader Attasi examines the successes of the revolutionary committees and the failures of opposition... Critical Muslim's Syria issue approaches the diversity of this rich culture as it is reborn through revolution, tortured by repression, and traumatise...
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102,43 |
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Culture and Circulation: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India
ISBN: 9789004264472 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Culture and Circulation reflects an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social milieus, capturing elements that have eluded traditional literary history. In this book, jointly edited by Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch, Hindi authors rub shoulders with their Persian counterparts in the courts of Mughal India; the fame of Mirabai, a poetess from Rajasthan, travels to Punjab; the sayings of Kabir are found to be as difficult to pin down as the holy men who transmitted them. Drawing on new archives in...
Culture and Circulation reflects an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of lite...
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654,40 |
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A Short History of the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781442606111 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by 70 full-color plates, 46 maps, and 13 genealogies, many of them new to this edition. The fourth edition begins with an essay entitled "Why the Middle Ages Matter Today," and the book now covers East Central Europe in some depth. This edition includes three "Seeing the Middle Ages" features, each discussing a work of art in depth: An Ivory Diptych of Christ and the Virgin,... Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzanti... |
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379,16 |
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The Crusades: A Reader
ISBN: 9781442608948 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations. The second edition features an intriguing new chapter on perceptions of the Crusades in the modern period, from David Hume and William Wordsworth to World War I political cartoons and crusading rhetoric circulating after 9/11. Islamic accounts of the treatment of prisoners have been added, as well as sources detailing the homecoming of those who had ventured to the Holy Land...
Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current g...
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331,01 |
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Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
ISBN: 9781610394734 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan--to American eyes--has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America--to Pakistani eyes--has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military enabler, and is now a threat to national security and a source of humiliation. The countries are not merely at odds. Each believes it can play the other--with sometimes absurd, sometimes tragic, results. The conventional narrative...
The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan--to American eyes--has gone from being ...
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75,44 |
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Die armenische Athanasius-Überlieferung
ISBN: 9783110354492 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschaftigt sich mit dem erhaltenen handschriftlichen Bestand der armenischen Ubersetzungen des Athanasius von Alexandrien und zieht die ersten Ruckschlusse daraus. Die altorientalischen Ubersetzungen zeigen eine faszinierende Rezeption der Kirchenvater auf. Neben dem Syrischen und Koptischen ist auch das Klassisch-Armenische die Sprache, in die sehr fruh, teilweise noch im 5. Jahrhundert, (pseudo-)athanasianische Texte ubertragen wurden. Auerdem sind uber zwanzig Schriften erhalten, die als Athanasiana armeniaca bezeichnet werden konnen. Damit werden... Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschaftigt sich mit dem erhaltenen handschriftlichen Bestand der armenischen Ubersetzungen des Athanasius von Alexand... |
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573,45 |
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Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Six: Indices
ISBN: 9789004265554 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering the entire breadth of the previous five installments, volume VI of Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism is an essential reference guide offering systematized insight into the terminology of this comprehensive work of scholarship.In addition, it presents a dozen articles that are missing from earlier volumes. The rich general index consists of all terms from the past volumes. Each concept term included in the general index is glossed and identified by language (Sanskrit, the Indic vernaculars, Persian, etc.). Moreover, the general index is divided into some two dozen categories,...
Covering the entire breadth of the previous five installments, volume VI of Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism is an essential reference guide o...
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1283,30 |
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Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant
ISBN: 9780226105611 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communities of Styleexamines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and style, and their role in collective memory.
Marian H. Feldman brings her dual training as an art historian and an archaeologist to bear on the networks that were essential to the movement and trade of luxury goodsparticularly ivories and metal worksand how they were also central to community formation. The interest in, and relationships... Communities of Styleexamines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200600 BCE)....
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307,44 |
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Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising
ISBN: 9781849044509 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was stable and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the streets calling for freedom, with many dying at the hands of the regime. Stephen Starr delves deep into the lives of Syrians whose destiny has been shaped by the state for almost fifty years. In conversations with people from all strata of Syrian society, Starr draws together and makes sense of perspectives illustrating why Syria, with its numerous sects and religions, was so...
In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was stable and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and ...
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76,81 |
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Migrationen Im Mittelalter: Ein Handbuch
ISBN: 9783050064741 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We think of immigration as prototypical of our globalizing world, but migratory movement has long characterized human history. For the first time, this study seeks to examine the migrations that occurred during the medieval millennium. The volume will become an indispensable reference work for all who are interested in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the world at large. We think of immigration as prototypical of our globalizing world, but migratory movement has long characterized human history. For the first time, ... |
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169,76 |
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Three Hellene Cypriots: A Personal Journey and Commentary on Cyprus Modern History to 1950
ISBN: 9781497449510 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cyprus is a Mediterranean island located at the intersection of three continents and across from the Suez canal. Thus, it occupies a strategic geopolitical position. Its Greek (Hellenic) character dates to about 1600 B.C. Rather remarkable is the connection of Cyprus with rather different and apparently dissimilar topics. That is, Massachusetts Patriots, the Spirit of the Marathon, Greek liberation wars, British Empire, Ottoman Turkish Empire, Crimean War, Jewish homeland, self determination and love of freedom. The Cyprus-born, United States educated author puts all that together in his...
Cyprus is a Mediterranean island located at the intersection of three continents and across from the Suez canal. Thus, it occupies a strategic geopoli...
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The Ecology of Coexistence and Conflict in Cyprus: Exploring the Religion, Nature, and Culture of a Mediterranean Island
ISBN: 9781614513445 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the significance of sustainable resource management for the functioning of Mediterranean island societies? How do human-environment relations reflect in a multi-ethnic religious landscape? This book poses these questions in the context of the Ottoman, British, and modern history of Cyprus. It explores the socio-ecological dimension of the Cyprus Conflict and considers the role of local environmental practices for historical coexistence and modern division. The book synthesizes theoretical approaches from the research on 'religion and ecology' with the anthropology of Cyprus, with... What is the significance of sustainable resource management for the functioning of Mediterranean island societies? How do human-environment relatio... |
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658,43 |
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Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
ISBN: 9780199373031 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study of everyday religious culture in early modern Syria and Palestine, James Grehan offers a social history
that looks beyond conventional ways of thinking about religion in the Middle East. The most common narratives about the region introduce us to the separate traditions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, highlighting how each one has created its own distinctive traditions and communities. Twilight of the Saints offers a reinterpretation of religious and cultural history in a region which is today associated with division and violence. Exploring the... In this study of everyday religious culture in early modern Syria and Palestine, James Grehan offers a social history
that looks beyond convention... |
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On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined
ISBN: 9781782382843 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first time in the history of the Ottoman Empire? How can we explain the Rwandan genocide occurring in 1994, after decades of relative peace and even cooperation between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority? Addressing, for the first time, the question of how the risk of genocide develops over time, this book helps us to better understand why genocide occurs when it does. It provides a comprehensive historical analysis of the factors that led to the 1915...
Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first time in the ...
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506,25 |
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Der geistige Widerstand gegen Rom in der antiken Welt
ISBN: 9783110013351 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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467,22 |
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Der Imam Al-Qasim Ibn Ibrahim Und Die Glaubenslehre Der Zaiditen
ISBN: 9783110000863 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients / Studies in the History and Culture of the Islamic Orient (STIO) ist die Reihe der "Beihefte" zur Zeitschrift Der Islam. Beide werden von der Abteilung fur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universitat Hamburg herausgegeben. Die Abteilung wurde im Jahre 1908 noch vor der Universitat Hamburg gegrundet. Sie war unter ihrem ersten Direktor C. H. Becker das erste wissenschaftliche Zentrum in Deutschland, in dem die Lehre und Forschung sich auf die historischen und... Die Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients / Studies in the History and Culture of the Islamic Orient (STIO) ist die Re... |
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467,22 |
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War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
ISBN: 9780813571133 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On July 23, 2004, five marines, two soldiers, and one airman became the most unlikely of antiwar activists. Young and gung-ho when they first signed up to defend their country, they were sent to fight a war that left them confused, enraged, and haunted. Once they returned home, they became determined to put their disillusionment to use. So that sultry summer evening, they mounted the stage of Boston's historic Faneuil Hall and announced the launch of Iraq Veterans Against the War. War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers' antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it...
On July 23, 2004, five marines, two soldiers, and one airman became the most unlikely of antiwar activists. Young and gung-ho when they first signed u...
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