FRANCIS dzięki swojej przebiegłości i bezwzględnym wybiegom wygrał wszystko, co na scenie politycznej było do wygrania. Dla niego to jednak wciąż za mało. Tylko miesiące dzielą go od tytułu najdłużej ...
The following content was provided by the publisher. Fra Mauro's map of the world--a masterpiece of western cartography, composed around 1450--has until now never been the subject of a modern study, d...
Scholars in the fields of history, theology, art history, and English, most of whom teach in the US (two are in Germany and France), have written the dozen articles that make up this volume on aspects...
Monografia powstała w ramach tematu badawczego Wojskowość starożytnego Iranu na tle porównawczym.
The book tackles significant contemporary problems that each historian of law faces in the light of present decline of philosophical, ethical and ideological canons in the overall context of western c...
Dziedzictwo Łodzi czterech kultur to nie tylko okazałe fabryczne budynki i piękna architektura miejskich kamienic, ale także coś, z czym stykamy się na co dzień ? łódzka kuchnia. Choć nawet przez mies...
Six years after her husband killed himself after being accused of murdering an Indian girl, Diana Ladd relys on a Native American wise woman and a local police detective to protect her and her son fro...
An imprisoned King Conan battles a forgotten evil! Conan, the barbarian king of Aquilonia, has faced many threats to his throne - but none more deadly than a traitorous alliance of usurpers backed by...
As a dedicated covert ops agent, Victoria Morgan follows two rules: accomplish the mission and protect the innocent. When bitten by a werecat—yeah, that was a sucky day—she must investigate beings tha...
At the center of The Rule of Four are four Princeton roommates approaching graduation and an ancient text called the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. It's a 15th-century book written in several languages, a...
To save her sister, she must stop a silent killer. . . . Protecting Atlanta from the off-world criminals of Underground is tough enough, but now Detective Charlie Madigan and her siren partner, Hank,...
Iran is host to some of Asia's most diverse animal wildlife. Its lush Caspian coastline, arid central deserts and fertile plains are the habitat for a vast range of creatures. Eskander Firouz's prize-...
This is the latest book from Cengage Learning on "New Era of Management, International Edition".
Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to...
The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism, a new book from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, assesses the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to acquire and use nuclear weapons, t...
This reissue, with striking new cover, of the V&As bestselling history of fashion book reflects the popularity of the Museum's world famous dress collection. Four Hundred Years of Fashion tells the s...
tells the tender and moving story of the unjustly exiled linen weaver, Silas Marner of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England. It tells of how he is restored to life and his sadness ended by...
Only a few months from his fiftieth year, Nikolas is feeling a distinct wobble in his formidable certainties. Aleksey Primakov appears to have become irrelevant. All he needs, therefore, is to be drag...
This volume identifies the principal issues, social, economic and political, that have shaped and determined Iran's economic performance since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
Providing a detailed annotated bibliography and research guide to the Stieglitz Circle and four of its leading members - Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Max Weber - this sourcebook offer...
Arata Isozaki is one of Japan's greatest architects and a commanding presence in international architecture, as demonstrated in such buildings as The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA),...
This highly original reference tool has been designed in response to the growing recognition that too little is known about the inter-section between entrepreneurship and human resource management. Pa...
The third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age for labor in the advanced industrial countries, characterized by rising incomes, relatively egalitarian wage structures, and reasonable leve...
The Cambridge History of Iran is a multi-volume survey of Iranian history and culture, and its contribution to the civilization of the world. All aspects of the religious, philosophical, political, ec...
In American history, "Reconstruction" is the term applied to the period 1862-1877, when the United States sought to bring order from the tremendous changes wrought by the Civil War. The Encyclopedia i...
In this book, Shirin Ebady, an attorney at law in Tehran, pens a thorough historical analysis of the declaration of human rights provisions in Iran. By clarifying the legal aspects of human rights and...
Leading western and local scholars has for the first time addressed the subject of post-war reconciliation that must eventually take place between Iran and Iraq
One Christmas Eve, Prince Sanruddin Aga Khan gave to his wife a magnificent jeweled box made by Cartier in the 1930s. So began the making of perhaps the most remarkable jewelry collection of a remarka...
Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have all been affected by the focus on gender. With the dismantling of "universal" meaning and the struggle for women's visibility in...
This book presents analyses of several distressed industries in the United States, including the steel, footwear, textile and apparel, paper and publishing, and automobile industries. It particularly ...