Salafi-Jihadism. The History of an Idea, Hardback - Shiraz Maher

Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of salafi-jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist insurgenc...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Shiraz MaherNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 201 x 139 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Benoit Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuryPublisher: Yale University ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cosimo (University of Salento, Italy) PerrottaNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x...

A worldwide survey on the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction.

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state env...

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

Reducere. Ever since John Winthrop told his fellow colonists in 1630 that they were about to establish a City upon a Hill, the idea of having a special place...

From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of ...

A powerful dissection of a core American myth.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ian TyrrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date:...

Reducere. "Thurston has written the definitive history of Boko Haram. By weaving a complex tapestry of politics and religion, he explains the peculiarity and...

Reducere. The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democra...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Tyler StovallIllustration(s): 31 b/w illus.Number of pages: 440Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 24...

Reducere. "In many ways, this is The Phoenix Project for the PowerShell world."Introduced in 2006, Microsoft's PowerShell made an immediate, positive impact ...

This book tells the story of Al Qaeda and its development in the West.Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Jytte (Lawrence A. Wien Professo...

``The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work.``--Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The H...

A history of the Circe myth.Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Judith YarnallNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 2...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher J. LebronStarted in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLiv...

Reducere. Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the ...

Publisher: ArchetypeAuthor(s): HafizTranslator: Peter AveryNumber of pages: 604Collection: Classics of Sufi Poetry SeriesPublication date: 2007Dime...

Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of lonelines...

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to b...

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Raihan (Australian Research Council DECRA fellow and a Senior Lecturer, Australian Research Counci...

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. Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants' at...

Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. Geor...

Reducere. Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years an...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Barbara E. FrankIllustration(s): 391 Illustrations, color; 12 Maps; 8 Tables, black and whiteNumber o...

Reducere. Description"A riveting reimagining of a true tale of forbidden love."--People Now in paperback, the captivating novel following the exploits of Kat...

Reducere. In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's...

Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Kerri MaherPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul...

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra EderIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ryan O'FarrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 204 x 263 x 44Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

This charming rhyming story tells the legend of The Children of Lir, who were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother and forced to wander acr...

Reducere. The hard work of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants in Waterbury helped place the city on the map as the Brass Capital of the World. In the early ...

Publisher: New Village PressAuthor(s): Aviva RahmaniIllustration(s): 12 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication dat...

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. DescriptionTogether, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, repres...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aaron Rock-SingerIllustration(s): 1 b-w illustrationNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2022D...

Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature Together, Hafez, a gi...