3567 results for '"Semin, Gun R.'

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during...

The Yorkshireman Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349) was the first and most immediately influential of the English medieval mystics. His passionate insistence on a personal communion between Creator and...

Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of...

A New Book for Enjoyment and Posterity Joyous, profound, gorgeous and intense, "Dorothy Gillespie" uses 50 large-scale color plates, 35 text illustrations and seven essays to condense this prominent...

Describes the physical features, field identification, habitat, distribution, migration, reproduction, and habits of American species and subspecies north of Mexico

Definitive illustrated catalogue: every medieval ivory in America. Sets new scholarly standard.

(Peeters 1991)

Magical puppies Hocus and Pocus have a new neighbor: Bye-Bye the dragon! Hocus is delighted, but Pocus is nervous about making friends--and about fire breath. A funny and affirming adventure. On a...

So, what do you get an atheist for Christmas? This collection of smart, funny essays, of course—short works by 42 resolutely secular-minded geniuses about how to survive (and even enjoy) the holiday...

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for...

Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist analysis to all forms of culture, defined generously...

What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it?The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the...

The tenth anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways. In 2005, a groundbreaking feature-length movie revealed the great mystery of the universe -- The Secret. In 2006,...

Myers, A.R., Parliaments And Estates In Europe To 1789

This is the first full study of Galen's references to Jews and Christians, three of which are preserved only in an arabic version of a lost Greek Life of Galen. Galen's judgements are remarkably...

Readers eager to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy but intimidated by the task will find in A Passion for Wisdom a lively, accessible, and highly enjoyable tour of the...

Una rassegna sulla fotografia di Stanley Kubrick, uno dei maggiori registi contemporanei, qui presentato per la prima volta in veste di fotografo. Kubrick lavorò giovanissimo, dal 1945 al 1950, per...

This volume represents virtually all of Wilbur's published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los...

In this classic of twentieth-century literature, now with a strikingly beautiful new cover design, Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning from the depths of humankind's fears to the summit of their...