The Library of Ancient Wisdom pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipals library... which not only bring kings and queens to life, but also priests, traders...Loe edasi...
With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of black Iranians, many have insisted that race...Loe edasi...
The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States – former fast friends. Despite the US’s relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a formidable power in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza. Its newfound...Loe edasi...
The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and areas of research specialization to celebrate Houchang E. Chehabi, one of the leading scholars in the field of Iran...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674297647)
Linguist Rishi Rajpopat solves an ancient puzzle, showing that Pa ini’s Sanskrit grammar is self-sufficient. Centuries of commentators, having misunderstood it, created tools to overcome its supposed flaws, but to no avail. By reinterpreting some key...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781836740407)
A major history of Zionism and the state of Israel-- Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Papp...Loe edasi...
“Exhaustively researched. . . . Students of Japanese history and culture owe Cryns a debt of gratitude for this impressive achievement.”—Wall Street Journal • “William Adams comes alive in the revelatory In the Service of the Shogun...Loe edasi...
ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDINGAND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jun-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, ISBN-13: 9780878468904)
How artists from Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi to Whistler and Arthur Wesley Dow embraced and transformed Hokusais dynamic style and innovations The great painter, book illustrator and print designer Katsushika Hokusai (17601849) has become the...Loe edasi...
The Japanese MythsmechaMythology remains a living, evolving part of Japanese society. The ways in which the people of Japan understand their myths are very different today even from a century ago, let alone over a millennium into the past. This volum...Loe edasi...
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII.Some of the cruelest deeds of Japans war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in...Loe edasi...
