God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, Paperback

The seminal reference book which started the literature on Islam and the West. This classic study by Norman Daniel explores the political and relig...

DescriptionThis book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer move...

Reducere. From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond ...

Explore the full richness and diversity of Islamic history with Meetings of Minds.

DescriptionLittle is known about Arabia in the sixth century, yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched fro...

Reducere. In this work, Christopher Dawson concludes that the period of the 4th to the 11th centuries, commonly known as the Dark Ages, was not a barren prel...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Judith HerrinNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 135 x 196 x 36Cover type: Paperback / sof...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

Reducere. A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded ...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the ...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- ...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Odd Arne Westad

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Mark (Professor of English, Pace University, USA, Pace University, USA) HusseyNumber of pa...

Reducere. Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-ce...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Nada MoumtazIllustration(s): 2 tablesNumber of pages: 304Collection: Islamic HumanitiesPublicat...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Michelle JonesIllustration(s): 61 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, ...

Reducere. The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuri...

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

Reducere. Within a "Nation of Laws, " come to the birthplace of America's industrial might, and see a Nation, testing and being tested by its Laws--in city s...

Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Reducere. A "Philadelphia Inquirer "Best Book of the Year A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A detailed account of Ant Farm's 1975 Media Burn performance, a legendary act of consumerist critiqueThis book examines the complex set of cultural...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of fema...