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Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas. to provide his fellow Iranians a memoir in story form of traditional Islamic life in Iran before westernization. Originally...

First published in 1967Book InformationISBN 9780415760270Author Frederick Julius PohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 408g

Opening Chicagoscapes places the reader amid the breathtaking grandeur and warm humanity of one of the world's great cities, a metropolis both lavish with its pleasures and as hard as weathered steel, a prairie-bound Oz that demands commitment from those...

In the cultural and social formations of the past, practices exist for the generation and integration of moments having and giving sense with the objective of strengthening the cultural and social cohesion. Such practices and processes have a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062298560Author Dan HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 880g

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138993754Author Immanuel NessFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Based on extensive research in government archives and private papers, this book analyzes the secret debate within the Eisenhower administration over the pursuit of a nuclear test-ban agreement. In contrast to much recent scholarship, this study...

While many studies of religion in the West have focused on the region's diversity, freedom, and individualism, Todd M. Kerstetter brings together the three most glaring exceptions to those rules to explore the boundaries of tolerance as enforced by...

The South African War (1899-1902), also called the Boer War and Anglo-Boer War, began as a conventional conflict. It escalated into a savage irregular war fought between the two Boer republics and a British imperial force that adopted a scorched-earth...

The treatment of destitute widows, jilted brides, and illegitimate children in antebellum IllinoisBook InformationISBN 9780252073397Author Daniel W. StowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois...

Fences across the American West are a symbol of the hard work and perseverance of working cowboys and cowgirls. David Stoecklein's images in this volume of the ever-expanding Cowboy Gear series depict the fences that snake across the varying terrain of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062441553Author Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1312Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680537413Author Orlando Gutierrez-BoronatFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Academica PressPublisher Academica PressWeight(grams) 152g

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empire for any boy to attend. This book looks at how the schools worked, how they changed over time, and who promoted them and why. Over...

In what Beatriz Sarlo calls six "episodes," ranging from the proto-science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto Arlt through the development of mass media, tales of inventors and inventions, and an...

Winner of the 2008 Duke d'Arenberg History Prize for the best book of a general nature, intended for a wide public, on the history and culture of the European continent.At once a book about Oxford and Heidelberg universities and about the character of...

The National Reform Association (NRA) was an antebellum land reform movement inspired by the shared dream of a future shaped by egalitarian homesteads. Mark A. Lause's Young America argues that it was these working people's interest in equitable access...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580376273Author Heidi M C DierckxFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mark Twain MediaPublisher Mark Twain MediaWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 269mm *...

Prepare to feel queasy. Are you suffering from a life-threatening illness? Do you possess chronic fatigue, sexual dysfunction, severe mental impairment, or have to endure constant, debilitating pain? If not, then you might do so after reading this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682966006Author Stephen Collins FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 999Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred Music

In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have become increasingly clear. Within and Without the Nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390652600Author Nina Mukerjee FurstenauFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & CoWeight(grams) 140g

" First published in 1978, The Klan is considered the best book on the grandfather of all extremist hate groups. Now, in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and other domestic terrorist activities that are the legacy of Klan violence, it is more timely...

Sir Robert Peel dominated political life for more than two decades and has been described as the 'founder of modern conservatism.' This book analyzes the career of Sir Robert Peel in relation to the development of the Conservative Party in the early 19th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788476009901Author M B BennassarFormat PaperbackImprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal Ediciones

In this compelling portrait of interracial activism, Mark A. Lause documents the efforts of radical followers of John Brown to construct a triracial portion of the Federal Army of the Frontier. Mobilized and inspired by the idea of a Union that would...

Jesuit Letters From China, 1583-84 was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...

He was known first as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring...

For two centuries, according to Alain Dieckhoff, the Jews were remarkable experimenters. Reacting to the challenge of modernity, Jews followed two, often torturously contradictory paths-the path of assimilation (bourgeois or socialist) and that of...

Lamoy's work is a delightful account of a memorable childhood in the mountains.Book InformationISBN 9780925168528Author Victor LamoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682966013Author Stephen Collins FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 999Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788876536151Author Jospeh SieversFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Pontificio Istituto BiblicoPublisher Pontificio Istituto Biblico

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118167649Author Nancy R. ReaginFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and...

Paul Adelman seeks to explain the Liberal Party's dramatic transformation in political fortune. This clear, objective up-to-date account of the history of the Liberal Party covers the key period, 1910-1931. Focusing on liberal decline and drawing upon...

The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross but persistent stereotype: a swarthy "Italian" armed with a bloody knife or revolver and bred to violence...

Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and...

They Call Me Sacagawea is rich and classic storytelling. The history of the astounding expedition of Lewis and Clark leaps off the page when told here by their teenage Shoshone interpreter--Sacagawea. Readers learn about this young mother's extraordinary...

A photographic history of the city on the Yellowstone, this is a photographic history of the city on the YellowstoneBook InformationISBN 9780964872806Author Lois CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Rowman &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171495211Author Steven RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book Trust