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The Persian Text with Paraphrase, and the First and Fourth Editions of Fitzgerald's Translation
by E.H. Rodwell
<P>This book, first published in 1931, shows in a simple, sound and lucid manner how the genius of two poets (Omar Khayyam and FitzGerald) brought together by the genius of an Orientalist (Professor Cowell) culminated in a very strange, very ...
ISBN: 9781351668941
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A Concise History of Modern Korea
From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
by Michael J. Seth
<span><span>Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the ...
ISBN: 9781442260481
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Architecture, Landscape, People
by Jay Edwards & Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton
<P>Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultural landscapes. This creolized language -- a unique combination of localisms and ...
ISBN: 9780807146033
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A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People
by Edwards, Jay
<P>Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultural landscapes. This creolized language -- a unique combination of localisms and ...
ISBN: 9780807138328
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by Adem, Seifudein
This book memorialising the life and work of Ali Al?amin Mazrui comprises more than 130 tributes written by people ranging from heads of state to journalists. Presented here are those tributes for which copyright permissions were received from ...
ISBN: 9780992236373
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A History of Persian Navigation
by Hadi Hasan
<P>This book, first published in 1928, is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of Persian maritime exploration. </P> ...
ISBN: 9781351669023
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A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar
by Norman R. Bennett
<P>During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa’s growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves,
ISBN: 9781315411156
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by Zahra Freeth
<P>This book, first published in 1972, describes a Kuwait normally hidden to the eyes of visitors. The author draws upon a vast experience of the country, from both before and after the discovery of oil, and analyses the changes to the physical ...
ISBN: 9781351669924
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Vocabulary and Terminology: Concordance, frequency word-list, statistical survey, Arabic loan-words and Sufi-religious terminology in ?ari?q-ut-ta?qi?q (A.H. 744)
by Bo Utas
<P>This book, first published in 1978, treats methods of describing the total and special vocabularies of a given text and demonstrates a procedure of description of the vocabulary of the Sufi Mathnavi poem ?ari?q-ut-ta?qi?q, composed in the ...
ISBN: 9781351672535
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A Political Economy of Arab Education
Policies and Comparative Perspectives
by Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim
<P>The failure of reform policies in areas of critical importance to Arab populations such as health and education played a central role in igniting the Arab Awakening, yet this policy perspective has been largely absent from recent studies of ...
ISBN: 9781317589297
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A Short History of the Middle East
From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times
by George E. Kirk
<P>This book, first published in 1948, grew out of a series of lectures delivered since the War at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies to British students who required a solid grounding in Middle East history and politics to assist in ...
ISBN: 9781315409122
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by Winzerling, Oscar W.
First published in 1955, Oscar Winzerling's <EM>Acadian Odyssey</EM> has remained unsurpassed as a study of the exodus of 1755.</P> <P>Following their eviction from Nova Scotia by the English, many hundreds of Acadians spent years in various ...
ISBN: 9780807159286
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by Oscar W. Winzerling
First published in 1955, Oscar Winzerling's <EM>Acadian Odyssey</EM> has remained unsurpassed as a study of the exodus of 1755.</P> <P>Following their eviction from Nova Scotia by the English, many hundreds of Acadians spent years in various ...
ISBN: 9780807159293
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by Sall, Ebrima
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, held its 13th General Assembly, 5-9 December 2011, in Rabat Morocco. The theme of the scientific conference was: ?Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first ...
ISBN: 9782869786585
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eBookby Mkandawire, Thandika
Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these
ISBN: 9789988860257
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Africa: Facing Human Security Challenges in the 21st Century
by Mentan, Tatah
Africa?s dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversity?from conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, ...
ISBN: 9789956792368
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African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States
by Wayne G. Marshall, Julie L. McGee, Robin D. Moore & others
<span><span>Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how
ISBN: 9781611495386
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by Gebre,Yntiso, Gebre,Yntiso
African societies have rich histories, cultural heritages, knowledge systems, philosophies, and institutions that they have shaped and reshaped through history. However, the continent has been repeatedly portrayed negatively as plagued by ...
ISBN: 9789956764785
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Deviancy: The Psychology of Being Different
by Freedman, Jonathan L.
Deviancy: The Psychology of Being Different discusses the effects of deviancy on behavior. The book describes the effect of deviancy per se, in no reference to any particular deviant characteristic. The authors explain the methods they used in ...
ISBN: 9781483272085
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Building and Undermining the State
by Nematullah Bizhan
<P>The relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and the effects of aid on weak states depend on donors’ interests, aid modalities and the recipient’s pre-existing institutional and socio-political conditions. This book ...
ISBN: 9781351692656
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