Iran, Paperback

DescriptionA masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventiona...

Considers the factors that have shaped Iran and the Iranian identity through history, providing a reinterpretation of the country's history and pol...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A hugely ambitious, "delightfully readable, genuinely informative" portrait (The New York Times) of the...

This is the story of the real Argo and one of the six Americans who escaped the 1979 capture of the American Embassy in Iran. The author explains w...

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

The forty years of Iran's embattled position, commitment to a nuclear programme, and the speculations that the revolution is running down proving t...

This new, sixth edition of Bradt's Iran continues to provide the most detailed background, history and cultural information available when visiting...

Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry CorbinTranslator: Nancy PearsonAn analysis of interrelated themes in Iranian religion, including the angelology of Ma...

Reducere. Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in tr...

Reducere. What would it be like to live in Iran? How is Iran's culture unique? Explore the sights, traditions, and daily lives of Iranians

Reducere. Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Chri...

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Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Sara PetersohnNumber of pages: 32Collection: World PassportPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 173 x...

DescriptionKate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution...

Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism...

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Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran's leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the US, and her...

Publisher: Spokesman BooksAuthor(s): Donald Newton WilberNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 210 x 149 x 9Cover type: Paperback / ...

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Co, USAuthor(s): Heather C. HudakNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 203 x 254 x 5Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. In that the clerical regime in Iran lacks the military capability to build advanced weaponry, it has resorted to the production of weapons and equi...

Reducere. When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The...

Reducere. "Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals w...

Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Ilona BannisterPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 27Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lec...

In this delightful classic from the one and only Dr. Seuss, Morris McGurk dreams about staging the world's greatest show!Publisher: HarperCollins P...

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 ...

"I'm the Cat in the Hatand it's time that we getto go to a placethat is steamy and wet!"In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat e...

Reducere. 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. BabyGirl's Holiday explores the very foundation of a female's love, the father-daughter relationship. It is from a father that a young girl learns ...

Reducere. A real-life thriller about a CIA contractor who vanished in Iran and the international manhunt to find himIn late 2013, Americans were shocked to l...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Blake AtwoodIllustration(s): 18 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: InfrastructuresPubl...

DescriptionMy Prison, My Home is the harrowing true story of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari's arrest on false charges and subsequent inc...

Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great int...

Reducere. Roots in Iran: Stories of Visionary Women is a collection of stories about fifteen remarkable women with roots in Iran. Divided into two sections, ...

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly...

A challenging historical survey that questions the foundations of modern Islam

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

DescriptionIn a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth cent...

This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one Iranian woman overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a majo...

Reducere. A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran's cr...

"Deeply moving...A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history." -The Wall Street Journal The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolut...

Reducere. Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by Christopher Nelson. Introduction by Kaveh Bassiri. ESSENTIAL VOICES series intends to bridge English-lang...

An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Emp...

Utilizing a historical context, this work underscores the continued struggle within these societies between the hardliners who wish to relegate fem...

Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh ...

An eloquent ethnographic account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians who have grown up in the period since Iran's...

Reducere. Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew ab...

This book sets out how contemporary Iranian scholars have approached the Qur'an during recent decades. It particularly aims to explore the contribu...

Reducere. Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in ac...

A Man of DevotionAs the Minister of Culture and Fine Arts for the last Shah of Iran, Mehrdad Pahlbod's life was entangled with royalty, celebrity, ...

A new translation of the foundation texts of the Zoroastrian religion, the Gathas (songs) composed by Zoraster himself, together with the Liturgy i...

Contributor(s): Author: Orkideh BehrouzanProzak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultura...

'This turbulent history is essential reading.' Justin Marozzi, Sunday Times

Publisher: Mage PublishersAuthor(s): Reza LadjevardianIllustration(s): colour photos & mapsNumber of pages: 14Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 132...

In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story.

Reducere. Reset introduces an astonishing parade of characters: sultans, shahs, oil tycoons, mullahs, women of the world, liberators, oppressors, and dreamer...

More Muslims in Iran have come to faith in Christ in the last thirty years than in the thirteen hundred years that Islam has been in the country. I...

Reducere. International Book Award in "Women's Issues" Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Culture Book" Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Book Cover" Eric Hoffer Award fo...

An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran's citiz...

DescriptionIran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its i...

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist t...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Farzin NadimiIllustration(s): 120 photos, 15 artworks, 5-6 maps & 4-5 diagsNumber of pages: 80Collection: Mid...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Chris McNabIllustration(s): Black & white and colour photos.Number of pages: 64Collection: ElitePubl...

In this comprehensive survey of two hundred years of Iran's political history, Mehran Kamrava examines the rise and fall of the Qajar and Pahlavi d...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was an unmitigated disaster for the women of Iran. That fact is well known. What is less well-known and what Manda Z...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jason Sion MokhtarianNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 20Cover ...

Reducere. This is a historical account of the effort of Morgan Shuster, a young American accountant who, in May 1911, during a period of democratic revolutio...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

This book shows the development of women's status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Ira...

Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) i...