Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi'Ism in Iran, 1487-1565, Paperback - Chad Kia

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The Shah's gradual transition to dictatorship after the 1953 coup in Iran, and its far-reaching consequencesPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(...

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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition - C. S. Lewis

An eyewitness account of one of the greatest-ever battles as a few men under the Knights of St John took on a huge Turkish armada.

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We Are All Weird is Seth Godin's cult classic on celebrating (and marketing to) the individual, now repackaged and relaunchedWorld of Warcrafters, ...

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The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism

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A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the intern...

We are faced today with an anti-Christ movement and with a surge of ungodly legislation, burning of churches and with biblical values being challen...

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This is the first biographical treatment of Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel Prize Winner in Economics. It analyzes his youthful socialist ideals and...

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The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum critically examines the growth of private museums in the 21st century, their impact on public instituti...

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