Inventing Laziness. The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society, Hardback - ***

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez...

Explores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic JewsPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Olga BorovayaIllustration(s): 8 b...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Necati (University of Bamberg, Germany) AlkanNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Publisher: Syracuse University PressAuthor(s): Nazan MaksudyanIllustration(s): 16 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Gend...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): B XuNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 216 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul ...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

Are you great at making plans, but often get frustrated when you fail to make them happen? Is procrastination stopping you from reaching your goals...

New insight on the fall of the Ottoman Empire that considers the first Balkan War and its legacy in detail.

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersWe all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in...

DescriptionWhat does it take to manage an organization to success? No matter what industry you are in, an organization is primarily a group of peop...

The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a...

An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy...

Reducere. Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

Traces the history of firearms and edged weapons in Greece and the Balkans during the Ottoman era. This book presents the story of the weapons with...

An exploration of the adolescent brain, and how its idiosyncrasies establish the nature of the adults people become. The science at play has big im...

Reducere. Bartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas championed the rights of the Indians of Mexico and Central America, disputing a widely held belief that they were "beas...

Reducere. When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 per...

Reducere. Never losing sight of his relentless passion for faith, family, and economic empowerment, Salter is focused on what he calls the civil rights issue...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Danut...

Reducere. Former Goldman Sachs Vice President Lisa Endlich draws on an insider's knowledge to bring to life this unique company and the most stunning accompl...

DescriptionThe world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Helen PfeiferIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

Reducere. This book explores business ethics as applied in a modern context including data management, corporate social responsibility, media ethics, and gov...

DescriptionTechnology has revolutionized the business sector. Whether you're an entrepreneur, employee, CEO, or executive, you're likely feeling th...

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 ...

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

UEmit Kurt explores causes and effects of the Armenian genocide in his hometown of Gaziantep, Turkey. He finds that local gentry and ordinary Turks...

Reducere. A Culture of Sufism opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi brotherhoods, the Naqshbandiyya,...

If You Want To Stop Procrastinating, Skyrocket Your Productivity Levels And FINALLY Feel Motivated To SMASH All Of Your Goals Then Keep Reading...D...

An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin...

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Anthony HoldenIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 180Publication date: ...

Reducere. Architects of the Culture of Death, Paperback

This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the 'A Disorder for Everyone!' events - bringing together many of the event speakers with others...

Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

Much more than a drink, wine is a real myth, with one millenary history, a very rich tradition and a vast and articulated system culturally, both a...

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

Proposes a methodology for analysing the social context of writing systems.Illustrations: B/w

Reducere. Have you ever been championed by someone? You have likely had times when people believed in you more than you believed in yourself and told you, "Y...

A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - e...