The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue, Hardcover - Marina Rustow

A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an une...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rebecca J. W. (University of Florida, USA) JeffersonIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 288...

DescriptionA bespoke hardcover suite of short fictions set after the events of HG Wells' War of the Worlds A thrilling, timely anthology of short f...

Reducere. Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code in an old Egyptian synagogue--the amazing story of one of the most important discoveries in modern religious ...

Reducere. The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievemen...

Reducere. An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt Around three thousand years ago, the...

A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy This groundbreak...

DescriptionA corrupt police officer trawls the streets of Cairo on the most important assignment of his career: the answer to the truth of all exis...

Reducere. Continuing the story of the Sokoto caliphate after the death of Shehu Usman, The African Caliphate 2 charts the political and intellectual developm...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a tran...

The English novelist E.M. Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during th...

Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, who escaped from the horrors of slavery and became an abolitionist s...

Contributor(s): Author: Jason ThompsonThe discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cul...

The first book devoted solely to William John Kennedy's friendship with Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, an intimate glance at their lives before th...

The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef's troubles a...

The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef's troubles a...

DescriptionThank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet.Whether you decide to go plastic free for an ho...

The first biography of a Scottish socialite who in 1930s Cairo founded a charity to rescue British war horses which lives on to this day as the Bro...

A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 125...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Nadia WassefNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 137 x 208 x 21Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander's time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic ...

DescriptionIn A Complete Examination of Middlesex, New York-based street photographer Bruce Gilden (born 1946) captures the diversity of characters...

Reducere. Evil tree. Bad Apple? Twenty years ago, all the evil villains were banished from the kingdom of Auradon to the Isle of the Lost--a dark and dreary ...

DescriptionArab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Josh FunkIllustrator: Stevie LewisSteadfast Fortitude and curious Patience are waiting every morning to greet visitors of t...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. The pioneering Egyptian architect and teacher Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-74) is best known for his founding in 1951 of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art C...

Reducere. I killed my Kiron.He was my everything and I killed him. He changed our plan too late for me to argue; too late for me to internalize and accept it...

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2012 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JEWISH LITE...

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-color The Gaza Strip is one...

Provides detailed guidance in how to perform the Shabbat table rituals and explanations about their meaning.Publisher: United Synagogue of Conserva...

Publisher: PrestelIllustration(s): 140 ILLUSTRATIONSNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 248 x 308 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. DescriptionJared McGowen's time as a U.S. Marine consisted of some of the most tedious, miserable, exciting, and terrifying days of his life. When ...

The ghastly Iznogoud is now calling upon spectres. . . An obsession, a leitmotiv, the quest of a lifetime. . . That is what it is to Iznogoud - bec...

Reducere. This volume contains new editions of two books. R. Pearson's Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter, originally published in 1942, serves as the introductio...

DescriptionThis book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egy...

Reducere. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune defi...

A richly illustrated guide to the Egyptian temple, its history, and the story of its goddess, Mut, as told by the preeminent archaeologists directi...

Reducere. A beautifully illustrated study of mosaic art in Greco-Roman Egypt The art of the mosaic was developed by the Greeks, notably within the royal cour...

DescriptionThrough the story of Tamara, an abused Native American girl, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan tells the story of the many children livi...

Reducere. Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us fro...

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 ...