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Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile
ISBN: 9781771991377 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in 1979, Farideh's family was forced to flee. They arrived in Israel as refugees. Farideh's father was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the United States in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir that chronicled the years of his life after exile. Leaving Iran knits together his story of dislocation and loss with Farideh's own experience... In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. While she settled uneasily into American life, the... |
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The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity Through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 Bce-642 Ce
ISBN: 9780520290037 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment--everything from royal cities and paradise gardens, to hunting enclosures and fire temples--to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies over a thousand years of history. Although scholars have often noted startling continuities between the traditions of the Achaemenids and the art and architecture of medieval or Early Modern Islam, the tumultuous millennium between Alexander and Islam has routinely been downplayed or omitted. The...
The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment--everything from royal cities an...
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513,23 |
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Oil and the Kurdish Question: How Democracies Go to War in the Era of Late Capitalism
ISBN: 9781498516662 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oil and the Kurdish Question critiques the conventional narrative of the Iran-Iraq War and the associated Anfal campaign. This narrative claims that in the last two years (1987-88) of the Iran-Iraq War the Ba thists dominated the fighting using gas attacks. According to this narrative, the Ba thists also used gas in a fearsome campaign of extermination against the Kurds of northern Iraq. This book argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the Iraqis trained hard to turn the tables on Iran in the last months of the war and won by superior generalship without the use of gas. Further, it was...
Oil and the Kurdish Question critiques the conventional narrative of the Iran-Iraq War and the associated Anfal campaign. This narrative claims that i...
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429,24 |
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Diplomacy and Reform in Iran: Foreign Policy Under Khatami
ISBN: 9781784533281 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers domestic context as well as analysis of foreign policy during this period.
Offers domestic context as well as analysis of foreign policy during this period.
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616,14 |
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A Prison Story Iran
ISBN: 9781522719533 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of a young woman arrested on a Tehran street for distributing pro-democracy literature in 1981 reveals the workings of a despotic regime in suppressing voices of reason and consolidating power. A Prison Story - Iran, tells a young womans' joining the opposition to the new Islamic regime when her dream of a free society fails to materialize. After her arrest she enters Iran's political dangerous system and endures a physical and psychological brutality that deeply wounds her sense of self. This book is a testimony of bravery and fear, honesty and betrayal and ultimately, hope and...
The story of a young woman arrested on a Tehran street for distributing pro-democracy literature in 1981 reveals the workings of a despotic regime in ...
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59,83 |
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The Fire, the Star and the Cross : Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran
ISBN: 9781784537463 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary political events have generated a strong interest in minorities in the Middle East.
Contemporary political events have generated a strong interest in minorities in the Middle East.
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118,04 |
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Shi'i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality in Film
ISBN: 9781784539450 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,25 |
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Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought
ISBN: 9781107164161 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.
A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.
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449,93 |
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Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran: Transcending Islam for Social, Economic, and Political Order
ISBN: 9781498507585 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists' demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on regional and global orders have raised important questions about the origins of Islamism and the nature of an Islamic state. Beginning with the Iranian revolution of the late 1970s and the establishment of the Islamic Republic to today's rise of ISIS to prominence, it has become increasingly apparent that Islamism is a major global force in the twenty-first century that demands acknowledgment and answers. As a highly-integrated belief system,...
The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists' demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on...
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243,89 |
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Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education During the Cold War
ISBN: 9781501713132 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions of higher education and produced...
Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing H...
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236,19 |
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Mughal Arcadia
ISBN: 9780674975859 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts, whose patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts of the world. Sunil Sharma explores the rise and decline of Persian court poetry in India and the invention of an enduring idea of a literary paradise, perfectly exemplified by the valley of Kashmir.
Mughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts, whose patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts of the world. Sunil Sharm...
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199,99 |
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Love against all Reason : A European Woman Involved in the Kurdish Fight for Freedom in Iran
ISBN: 9783643909220 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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169,39 |
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Psycho-Nationalism: Global Thought, Iranian Imaginations
ISBN: 9781108423076 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psycho-nationalism explores the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments.
Psycho-nationalism explores the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments.
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352,88 |
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Psycho-Nationalism: Global Thought, Iranian Imaginations
ISBN: 9781108435703 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psycho-nationalism explores the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments.
Psycho-nationalism explores the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments.
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103,34 |
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Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah
ISBN: 9781316509463 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the historical context and political philosophy of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the Iranian revolution of 1978-9.
This book looks at the historical context and political philosophy of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the Iranian revolution of 1978-9.
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144,93 |
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Iran and the West: Cultural Perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic
ISBN: 9781784538569 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A timely reassessment of mutual cultural perceptions between Iran and the West.
A timely reassessment of mutual cultural perceptions between Iran and the West.
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513,45 |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
ISBN: 9780316548915 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,46 |
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Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power
ISBN: 9780700625901 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to "Contra" guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our sworn enemy and a state sponsor of terrorism), in exchange for help freeing hostages in Beirut. The profits, it turned out, were going to support the Contras, despite an explicit ban by Congress. In the firestorm that erupted, shocking details emerged, raising...
Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American pl...
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Presidential Elections in Iran: Changing Faces; Status Quo Policies
ISBN: 9781944942045 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presidential Elections in Iran: Changing Faces; Status Quo Policies reviews the past 11 presidential elections, demonstrating that the only criterion for qualifying as a candidate is practical and heartfelt allegiance to the Supreme Leader. An unelected vetting watchdog, the Guardian Council makes that determination. The book makes it clear that in the clerical regime, the president is practically an appointee of the Supreme Leader and not an official elected by the popular vote. Those who participate in the election are essentially limited to vote for the... Presidential Elections in Iran: Changing Faces; Status Quo Policies reviews the past 11 presidential elections, demonstrating that the onl... |
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56,98 |
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Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah
ISBN: 9781107146310 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the historical context and political philosophy of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the Iranian revolution of 1978-9.
This book looks at the historical context and political philosophy of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the Iranian revolution of 1978-9.
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436,01 |
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