An American Woman in Pakistan: Memories of Mangla Dam
ISBN: 9781604949810 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1962, Irene Aylworth Douglass's husband burst in the door with incredible news. His company had won a bid to build Mangla Dam ... in West Pakistan This would be the world's largest compacted earth dam, in a remote location far from the source of supply. With images of exotic locales and visions of travel in her head, Irene welcomed the opportunity to embark on an adventure. Nothing could have prepared her for the reality of life in Pakistan. Most of the women covered themselves with burqas and did not appear in public. Male superiority and male dominance were so ingrained that Irene...
In 1962, Irene Aylworth Douglass's husband burst in the door with incredible news. His company had won a bid to build Mangla Dam ... in West Pakistan ...
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92,26 zł |
Mirror To Damascus: 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780099532293 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mirror to Damascus is a unique portrait of a city now obscured by recent upheavals, by one of the most indefatigable and popular of travel writers.
Described by the author as simply "a work of love," Mirror to Damascus is an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well as being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, Thubron explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of... Mirror to Damascus is a unique portrait of a city now obscured by recent upheavals, by one of the most indefatigable and popular of travel writ...
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67,53 zł |
The Road to Oxiana
ISBN: 9780141442099 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1933, the author began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. In this title, he presents a record of his adventures.
In 1933, the author began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancie...
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67,53 zł |
The Pilgrim's Guide to the Holy Land: Israel and Jordan
ISBN: 9780953251162 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third edition of this guidebook to the biblical sites in both Israel and Jordan has been revised and rewritten, with new pictures, illustrations, maps, and plans. It contains practical information on both countries.
The third edition of this guidebook to the biblical sites in both Israel and Jordan has been revised and rewritten, with new pictures, illustrations, ...
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The Monuments of Syria : A Guide
ISBN: 9781845119478 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Syria is home to some of the world's richest historical and archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Age through biblical and Byzantine times to the early Islamic and Ottoman periods. Yet even in an age of mass tourism these magnificent monuments are little known and rarely visited--in other words, ripe for discovery by independent-minded and adventurous travellers. The Monuments of Syria is organized as a gazetteer of all Syria's historical sites, with complementary sections on history and architectural influences and comprehensive chronologies and glossaries. This fully... Syria is home to some of the world's richest historical and archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Age through biblical and Byzantine times ... |
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133,77 zł |
Understanding the Arab Culture, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781845282004 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding the Arab Culture is a thoroughly practical crosscultural guide to working with Arab cultures, written with theWesterner in mind.The book focuses more on the key differences than similarities, issues that Westerners will find puzzling, unusual or difficult to cope with. It is based on years of experience of lecturing to Westerners and a long list of frequently asked questions. It addresses Western perceptions and misconceptions of Arabs, Islam and the Arab world as well as some key Arab perceptions of the West. Many practical tips are given on a variety of issues, from... Understanding the Arab Culture is a thoroughly practical crosscultural guide to working with Arab cultures, written with theWesterner in mind.The b... |
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200,98 zł |
In the Levant
ISBN: 9781931956826 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A travel through the Holy Land, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Aegean Islands; with many illustrations. The author is "the most likable of all the later American essayists" (Cambridge History of American and English Literature).
A travel through the Holy Land, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Aegean Islands; with many illustrations. The author is "the mo...
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213,21 zł |
Backpacking in the Middle East and Africa
ISBN: 9781491701898 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martha's desire in life has been to see the world. This book is about her travels to mainly two interesting countries Turkey and Southern Africa. She tells about staying in hostels, her experiences, the people she met and the unusual places she saw. If you like reading about adventures you'll enjoy this book. She has written three other travel books.
Martha's desire in life has been to see the world. This book is about her travels to mainly two interesting countries Turkey and Southern Africa. She ...
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60,64 zł |
The Bro Code of Saudi Culture: Describing the Saudi from Head to Toe
ISBN: 9781532830136 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every culture is governed by an internal code of conduct, and this publication offers the first written code of Saudi culture. The Saudi way of being has long been an oral tradition passed merely verbally from one generation to the next, despite its power to regulate every aspect of public and private lives. Most Saudi norms and values have long been unwritten and only orally communicated among Saudis. As a result, visitors to Saudi Arabia have been unable to read about Saudi norms and values. For this reason, this book spells out Saudi norms and values in bold print, recording the Saudi code...
Every culture is governed by an internal code of conduct, and this publication offers the first written code of Saudi culture. The Saudi way of being ...
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58,79 zł |
Shock and Alarm: What it was really like at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq
ISBN: 9781481202961 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shock and Alarm: What it was really like at the US Embassy in Iraq is a riveting behind-the-scenes expose of daily life at the Baghdad Diplomatic Compound in 2009, providing an insightful look at the culture clash taking place between the Islamic world and the West. This is Hugh Iwanicki's personal story of the eleven months he served as a performance auditor for the Office of the Inspector General at the Embassy. His journal of unforgettable experiences juxtapose the mundane with the bizarre, moving from discussions of constitutional law with Sharia attorneys to several near-death...
Shock and Alarm: What it was really like at the US Embassy in Iraq is a riveting behind-the-scenes expose of daily life at the Baghdad Diplomatic Comp...
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91,06 zł |
Passing Brave
ISBN: 9780982934029 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Travels in Arabia
ISBN: 9781480102668 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Johann Ludwig (also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt (November 24, 1784 - October 15, 1817) was a Swiss traveller and orientalist. He wrote his letters in French and signed as "Louis." He is best known for rediscovering the ruins of the city of Petra in Jordan. This is his account of the discovery and travels.
Johann Ludwig (also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt (November 24, 1784 - October 15, 1817) was a Swiss traveller and orientalist. He wrote...
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104,94 zł |
Don't Forget to Tape the Toilets: The Missing Employee Orientation Manual for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
ISBN: 9780991047628 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don't Forget to Tape the Toilets: The Missing Employee Orientation Manual for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain was written for those going to work or thinking of going to work in Saudi Arabia. Time Out: Bahrain says that this "helpful handbook" is full of "interesting information." Another reviewer wrote, One reviewer wrote, "OK - if you buy ONE book about Saudi Arabia before you go, make sure it's this one The author is American, and writes this employee manual primarily for workers of a company called Yorks, but makes frequent references to Aramco, and has a mine of information about general life...
Don't Forget to Tape the Toilets: The Missing Employee Orientation Manual for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain was written for those going to work or thinking...
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69,51 zł |
Journey to the Orient
ISBN: 9780988202603 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than just an account of his travels in Cairo, Beirut, and Constantinople in 1843, GErard de Nerval's Journey to the Orient is a quest for the unknown. If his narrator seems credulous in his retelling of legends of the origins of the pyramids and the mysteries of the Druzes, it is with this purpose in mind. While the Orientalists of his day were confident of having, in the words of Edward Said, "grasped, appropriated, reduced, and codified" the Orient, Nerval's Orient remains elusive, impossible to grasp. Poignantly dramatized in the thematic centerpieces of the tales of the... More than just an account of his travels in Cairo, Beirut, and Constantinople in 1843, GErard de Nerval's Journey to the Orient is a quest... |
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The Red Sands: My Trip in the Uae Desert
ISBN: 9781496976659 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dedicated to the spirit of the ancestors in the UAE, Oman as well as the spirit of the eternal leadership which well maintained the nation, and overcome all the difficult circumstances as well as the ruthless of the desert, despite the minimalism of their potentials. These spirits who struggle and exerted the utmost efforts without any arrogance or egotism to culminate these hard work with the birth of the UAE, which has given the prominent replica since its existence benevolent the coexistence between all human beings and individuals without race, color or religion distinction or...
Dedicated to the spirit of the ancestors in the UAE, Oman as well as the spirit of the eternal leadership which well maintained the nation, and overco...
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181,47 zł |
A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886: The Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Mo?ammad ?Osayn Farâhâni
ISBN: 9780292776227 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnameh of Mirza Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farahani, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shiʿite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about... Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim wor... |
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252,21 zł |
The Umayyads: The Rise of Islamic Art
ISBN: 9783902782069 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,94 zł |
Pilgrimage, Sciences and Sufism: Islamic Art in the West Bank and Gaza
ISBN: 9783902782106 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,29 zł |
Oman: Stories from a Modern Arab Country
ISBN: 9781496987709 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sultanate of Oman occupies the southeastern part of the Arab Peninsula. The country is beautiful and is full of unspoiled nature. The sun shines almost every day. The temperatures are pleasant during winter, but it is often unbearably hot during summer. The country is as large as Italy but sparsely populated. It has oil, gas, and a variety of minerals. The rapid development of Oman takes place with respect for its cultural heritage. His Majesty Sultan Qaboos and the people of Oman are admired for having transformed Oman from a backwards, non-unified country into a modern, homogenous state...
The Sultanate of Oman occupies the southeastern part of the Arab Peninsula. The country is beautiful and is full of unspoiled nature. The sun shines a...
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157,83 zł |
Oman: Stories from a Modern Arab Country
ISBN: 9781496987716 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sultanate of Oman occupies the southeastern part of the Arab Peninsula. The country is beautiful and is full of unspoiled nature. The sun shines almost every day. The temperatures are pleasant during winter, but it is often unbearably hot during summer. The country is as large as Italy but sparsely populated. It has oil, gas, and a variety of minerals. The rapid development of Oman takes place with respect for its cultural heritage. His Majesty Sultan Qaboos and the people of Oman are admired for having transformed Oman from a backwards, non-unified country into a modern, homogenous state...
The Sultanate of Oman occupies the southeastern part of the Arab Peninsula. The country is beautiful and is full of unspoiled nature. The sun shines a...
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94,35 zł |