Iran, Paperback

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

A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed London a decade later,...

Publisher: Luath Press LtdAuthor(s): Martin KnightNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 199 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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

Balochistan, the land of the Baloch is a huge land mass stretching from Southeastern Iran to the east bank of River Sindh in Punjab, and from lower...

This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical poin...

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...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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...

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

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

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.Author(s): Kim GhattasNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 33Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

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...

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

Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natura...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kaveh AskariIllustration(s): 54 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 260Collection: Cinema Culture...

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...

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

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...

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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 ...

The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered f...

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

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...

In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, trad...

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

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...

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

This report analyzes four key aspects of US and Iranian strategic competition--sanctions, energy, arms control, and regime change. Its primary focu...

"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...

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

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

Publisher: Encounter Books, USAAuthor(s): Amir TaheriNumber of pages: 424Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 26Cover type: Paperback / so...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 308Collection: Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies SeriesPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 2...

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 ...

This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detai...

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

The story of one Baha'i woman's experiences at the hands of the Iranian Revolutionaries in the 1980s. Amid the escalating program she witnessed fri...

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

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

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...

The first expose of the secret U.S.-Saudi plot that broke OPEC and brought down the Shah of Iran

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

Since the 1979 revolution, the ruling establishment of Iran has developed and articulated a defense strategy reflective of the country's Iran-Iraq ...

Reducere. Although today associated exclusively with Islam, Iran has in fact played an unparalleled role within all the world religions, injecting Iranian id...

A fun, smart-thinking introduction to politics that gives children the chance to run their own country! Learn everything you need to know about pol...

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

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. An aid for anyone who wishes to begin the study of Sorani.This brief book is an aid for anyone who wishes to begin the study of Sorani. Second only...

DescriptionA vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live th...

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...

The Iranian holocaust was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it remained concealed for nearly a century. Using primary sources suc...

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

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, ...

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

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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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

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...

Reducere. Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms ...