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ISBN: 0745314236
Publisher: PLUTO PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: JOHN R. CAMPBELL
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| Weight | 0.46 kg |
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| ISBN | 0745314236 |
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| Publication Date | 1999 |
| Pages | 306 |
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This remarkable record of Marcel Kurpershoek expedition and encounters in the Saudi Arabian desert in the late 1980s details his search for the living chronicle of Saudi Arabia—the oral poetry of the Bedouins. In the vast desert, Kurpershoek discovered poets who composed verses celebrating bravery and feats of arms, especially those of the poet ad-Dindan—proof of the authenticity of the pre-Islamic tradition in Arabian oral poetry. Part travelogue, and part book of poems, this book offers valuable insight into contemporary and traditional Saudi society.
ISBN: 0863568092
Publisher: SAQI BOOKS
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Author: MARCEL KURPERSHOEK
ISBN: 0520224736
Publisher: CALIFORNIA
Subtitle: HONOR AND POETRY IN A BEDOUIN SOCIETY
Author: LILA ABU-LUGHOD
In this broad introductory volume, Ralph Magnus and Eden Naby detail Afghanistan’s physical situation, human environment, and modern history, as well as the rise and fall of competing internal forces, most recently the Taliban. The authors offer analytical insight into Afghanistan’s political position within the restructured Central Asian region, the ethnic relationships that complicate its political history, and the potential for stability.
ISBN: 0813340195
Publisher: WESTVIEW PRESS
Subtitle: MULLAH, MARX, AND MUJAHID
Author: RALPH H. MAGNUS & EDEN NABY
We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind’s extraordinary history – from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age – and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world ‘It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it!’ Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel.
Author: YUVAL NOAH HARARI
ISBN: 9780099590088
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
Author: YUVAL NOAH HARARI
ISBN: 0415045215
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: AIMS, METHODS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Author: JOHN BEATTIE
ISBN: 9780521290050
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: JACK GOODY
How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light?
Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter goes on to chart how — through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon — ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. He shows how the body moved center stage in the eighteenth century, writing brilliantly on the ways in which men and women flaunted, decorated, tanned, and dieted themselves: activities that we find familiar but that a Puritan divine would have considered Satanic. And Porter explores how, at the end of the century, the human soul took on a new significance in the works of Godwin, Blake, and Byron.
ISBN: 0393050750
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: THE MODERN FOUNDATIONS OF BODY AND SOUL
Author: ROY PORTER
ISBN: 8189011405
Publisher: ABD PUBLISHERS
Subtitle: ORACLES AND HEALERS IN THE KARAKORAMS
Author: H. SIDKY
