Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus
ISBN: 9781784533052 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders the Black Watch waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonize the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the English imagination and a controversial role in British imperial ambitions.Drawing on largely unpublished material, Tabitha Morgan reflects on why successive administrations failed, so catastrophically, to engage with their Cypriot subjects, and how social segregation, confusion about Cypriot identity...
On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders the Black Watch waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of...
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Oman Since 1856
ISBN: 9780691649801 / Angielski / Twarda / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oman, a state in southeastern Arabia, is a prime example of a country that has not benefited greatly from modernization, but instead has fallen into economic and political insignificance as a result of economic and technological innovations introduced by the West. Prior to the nineteenth century Mr. Landen finds that native Omanis had developed a thriving maritime industry which was responsible for the country's economic health. With the advent of colonialism from the West, Oman's fortunes declined. The changes that took place, the influence of British leaders who directed the political... Oman, a state in southeastern Arabia, is a prime example of a country that has not benefited greatly from modernization, but instead has fallen int... |
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A Song Penned by Alrahman: Aden
ISBN: 9781511786348 / Arabski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A song penned by Alrahman "Aden" a great and wide deferral explain seas petition deferral good of its people, its water, faces, simple dignified living shelter all spectra and religions, consistent song of the Lord of the Worlds sailor vast, parks and wide of do not know, but from where he lived. My top ten of all the brutal tyrant surprise him woe, all of which came out a loser unjust historical fact know it every invader .Aden great as greatness of Mountains Display "shmsan," tanks Aden, Castle Syrah and rich by the richness of the many vast seas, wide by the wideness of their children...
A song penned by Alrahman "Aden" a great and wide deferral explain seas petition deferral good of its people, its water, faces, simple dignified livin...
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Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science Ca. 750-1750
ISBN: 9781780768335 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Dune Rosse: Nella tana del cobra
ISBN: 9781512205824 / Włoski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Il forte interesse e la grande ammirazione verso tutto cio che era Orientale, creo nel XIX secolo uno dei capitoli piu complessi della storia intellettuale europea. Si tratto di un fenomeno assai diffuso a causa dello spiccato interesse per tutto quanto fosse orientale e per alcune caratteristiche in particolare: l'arte, la falconeria, i divertimenti (soprattutto danza del ventre). Si giunse perfino a deporre l'abito europeo per preferire quello orientale. Molte personalita lo fecero: il pittore David, l'archeologo Belzoni, l'avventuriero Laurence d'Arabia, per citarne solo alcuni. Si...
Il forte interesse e la grande ammirazione verso tutto cio che era Orientale, creo nel XIX secolo uno dei capitoli piu complessi della storia intellet...
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The United States and Syria, 1989-2014
ISBN: 9781514402689 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,36 zł |
The United States and Syria, 1989-2014
ISBN: 9781514402696 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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162,68 zł |
The Manners, Norms, and Customs (Rusoom) of the House of Governance In the First Age (Era) of the Abbasid Caliphate 750 - 865AD
ISBN: 9781503599444 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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La civilisation des Arabes
ISBN: 9781514747490 / Francuski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Au point de vue de la civilisation, bien peu de peuples ont depasse les Arabes et l'on n'en citerait pas qui ait realise des progres si grands dans un temps si court. Au point de vue religieux, ils ont fonde une des plus puissantes religions qui aient regne sur le monde, une de celles dont l'influence est la plus vivante encore. Au point de vue politique, ils ont cree un des plus gigantesques empires qu'ait connus l'histoire. Au point de vue intellectuel et moral ils ont civilise l'Europe. Peu de races se sont elevees plus haut, mais peu de races sont descendues plus bas. Aucune ne presente...
"Au point de vue de la civilisation, bien peu de peuples ont depasse les Arabes et l'on n'en citerait pas qui ait realise des progres si grands dans u...
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The Script Unveiled: An epic journey
ISBN: 9781519256393 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1970s, authors Patricia Clark Taylor and Shelvy Snead were neighbors in a Maryland community on the Magothy River. For an entire decade, beginning in 1973, Patricia traveled with her engineer husband to Rome, Riyadh, and later to Israel. These were the years of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, the 1973 Arab Israeli War, the massive build up of Saudi Arabia, and a stronger American-Saudi alliance. These were also the years of peace plans initiated by Egypt's President Sadat followed by Israel's return of the Sinai to Egypt. With the murder of President Sadat, the Middle East fell more and...
In the 1970s, authors Patricia Clark Taylor and Shelvy Snead were neighbors in a Maryland community on the Magothy River. For an entire decade, beginn...
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The Italian Submarine Force in the Battle of the Atlantic: Left in the Dark
ISBN: 9781519669346 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Harem Ghosts
ISBN: 9781558766105 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveals about Ottoman culture in its splendid last decades. Woven into the tale are the life stories of the Turkish royals and harem concubines interred in the mausoleum, and the illustrious Ottomans buried in the tomb's garden.
In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveal...
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La civilisation des Arabes
ISBN: 9781523817603 / Francuski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " A mesure qu'on penetre dans l'etude de cette civilisation, on voit les faits nouveaux surgir et les horizons s'etendre. On constate bientot que le Moyen Age ne connut l'antiquite classique que par Arabes; que pendant cinq cents ans, les universites de l'Occident vecurent exclusivement de leurs livres, et qu'au triple point de vue materiel, intellectuel et moral, ce sont eux qui ont civilise l'Europe. Quand on etudie leurs travaux scientifiques et leurs decouvertes, on voit qu'aucun peuple n'en produisit d'aussi grands dans un temps aussi court. Lorsqu'on examine leurs arts, on reconnait...
" A mesure qu'on penetre dans l'etude de cette civilisation, on voit les faits nouveaux surgir et les horizons s'etendre. On constate bientot que le M...
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A Unique Elegy: Standing Up Right
ISBN: 9781943740024 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History repeats. Looking at ours, that's a tragedy. But it doesn't have to. It doesn't have to if we, as individuals, don't let it. A Unique Elegy is about a man who stopped history in its tracks. Across the sands of time, the prince stood up to the tyrant of his time. He paid, and got the greatest return imaginable. It was the most atrocious crime imaginable. An army of tens of thousands of troops committing war crimes of the highest order, including targeting children, attacking innocent women, and plundering the property of women and young girls by force. Outnumbered more than one hundred...
History repeats. Looking at ours, that's a tragedy. But it doesn't have to. It doesn't have to if we, as individuals, don't let it. A Unique Elegy is ...
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Roots of the New Arab Film
ISBN: 9780253031723 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and retained a deep attachment to their homeland. Although these aspiring filmmakers had to seek their training abroad, they witnessed a time of filmic revival in Europe - Fellini and Antonioni in Italy, the French New Wave, and British Free Cinema. Returning home, these filmmakers brought a unique... Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awaren... |
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Think Palestine: To Unlock U.S.-Israelis & Arabs Conflicts
ISBN: 9781524614522 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is clearly obvious that, in the United States, limits are imposed on the Palestinians right to speak, on what the Palestinians could or should not say. Platforms for an impartial Palestinian discourse were extremely narrow to begin with, and when any was available, Palestinians hardly took center stage.
For that purpose, Dr. Effarah kept writing weekly articles in Arabic and English for the last twenty-six years with one objective-"Think Palestine." This third volume includes unpublished articles for the last three years (2012-2015); volume 1 includes the published articles from 2001 to... It is clearly obvious that, in the United States, limits are imposed on the Palestinians right to speak, on what the Palestinians could or should not ...
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Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya's Compendious Commentary on The Paradise of the Egyptian Fathers in Garshuni
ISBN: 9781463205669 / Wielojęzykowe / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya is a seventh century Syriac author of monastic and ascetic literature, a Church of the East monk who was a native of the Qatar region, as his demonym "Qaṭraya" indicates. He belongs to an important group of Syriac writers on spirituality and commentators or exegetes within the Church of the East tradition who all originated from the Qatar region (Beth Qaṭraye) and were educated there. This fact reveals the presence of an important school of education that rivaled in its sophistication the other more well-known schools such as the School of Nisibis or the School of...
Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya is a seventh century Syriac author of monastic and ascetic literature, a Church of the East monk who was a native of the Qatar reg...
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The Formation of Saudi Arabia: The History of the Arabian Peninsula's Unificatio
ISBN: 9781539374947 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading At the conclusion of World War I, a once promised unified Arab state, which was to include the modern Hejaz, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, Jordan and Iraq, did not materialize. Instead, the territories were divided between the French and British, but the British did reward the Hashemites by putting local leaders on the thrones of Iraq and Jordan. In 1924, when the revolutionary government of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk declared Turkey a secular state and abolished the Caliphate, the Sharif (now King) declared...
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading At the conclusion of World War I, a once promised unified Arab st...
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Islam's Militant Prophet: Muhammad and Forced Conversions to Islam
ISBN: 9781536892383 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Uae: Geopolitics, Modernity and Tradition
ISBN: 9781784539306 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai.
The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai.
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604,49 zł |