Lives of the Great Languages. Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean, Paperback - Karla Mallette

The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.Publisher: The University of Chicago Pr...

Publisher: Arc Humanities PressAuthor(s): Sarah (University of New Mexico, History) Davis-SecordNumber of pages: 119Collection: Past ImperfectPubli...

DescriptionSometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Arago...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20C...

Reducere. What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?"Wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking. An insightful, modern look at the lives of women ...

Reducere. Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, ...

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a fac...

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 ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 25C...

A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.

This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout ...

A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh KennedyIn this engaging history, world-renowned historian Hugh Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people,...

The various objects chosen by the author tell the story of the conflicts which shaped the nature of the Western World known today, both in spiritua...

A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.

A collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the flu...

The latest book in the series on the treasures of The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Doris Behrens-AbouseifIl...

Exploring the magic of spin bowling through epic stories of Australian masters in the art.

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 314Collection: Urban StudiesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 18Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. 'People do not understand German, but I will not write for them in journalese ...' Karl Kraus (1874-1936) ranks as one the greatest twentieth-centu...

A stunning collection of homes and studios of 15 extraordinary artists, from painter Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiú home and sculptor Isamu Noguchi's J...

The Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard...

On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white ...

With Latin America home to some of the most draconian bans on abortion in the world, abortion rights is one of the most controversial and hotly-con...

First edition published in 2001 in Armond, New York, by M. E. Sharpe

Highlights include the hotel Le Corbusier in the Cite Radieuse, a Le Corbusier building in the residential district of Marseille, built in 1952; Ca...

Achieve your weight loss and fitness goals using the diet inspired by the Mediterranean Sea Are you looking for a diet that will help you reach you...

Throughout history, great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers...

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. Drawing on his extensive experience across traditions in meditation, Daoism, and other forms of self-cultivation, coupled with his background in Ma...

Reducere. The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic o...

Reducere. When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epi...

Reducere. This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and concluding with interviews ...

The Great Irish Famine tells of the last great famine in European history. First-hand accounts and writings by four contemporary real people are us...

Reducere. The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx--"all the economic lore most general readers con...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mark SkousenIllustration(s): 121 Line drawings, black and white; 121 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

An important contribution to the history of photography that approaches the biographies and creations of thirty-eight great photographers from a ne...

Reducere. This new, original translation of Cornelius Nepos's "Lives of the Great Commanders" is the first to appear in many generations. It is also the firs...

Jesse Owens, Katherine Johnson, Sir David Attenborough, Dame Zaha Hadid, Stephen Hawking, Meryl Streep, Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling. Eight people from...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Magna Carta, then keep reading...The Magna Carta is celebrated as one of the most important ...

What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are...