Middle East

The map of a city is a palimpsest of its history. In Cairo, people, places, events, and even dates have lent their names to streets, squares, and bridges, only for those names often to be replaced, and then replaced again, and even again, as the city and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768286468Author Opal Palmer AdisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Ian Randle PublishersPublisher Ian Randle PublishersWeight(grams) 333g

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes...

Although there is a wealth of guidebooks to Cairo, this is the first to specifically target the needs of families with children. Cairo: The Family Guide provides all families living in Cairo-expatriate and Egyptian alike-with the resources and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951404277Author Eric BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Guy SalonikiPublisher Guy SalonikiWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

The drama of history and the confluence of geography and climate have made Egypt one of the most sought-after travel destinations in the world. But what is that elusive something that makes it unlike anywhere else on earth? In Egypt Inside Out, Trevor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949445077Author Najmieh BatmanglijFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 2755g

A mountain peak above the Monastery of St Catherine in Egypt, Mount Sinai is best known as the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments in the biblical Book of Exodus. This book brings this rich history to light, exploring the ways in which the...

Thousands of remarkable monuments and relics fill the land of Syria from the coast of the Mediterranean to its desert borders, dating back to the dawn of human history. The sites include: Bronze Age ruins, Roman temples and necropolises, churches and...

The essential companion, fully revised and updated, to the Australian battlefields on the Western Front, this new edition features:- Fully updated tour itineraries, including a new dedicated Villers-Bretonneux tour- Information about new memorials and...

"Sarah Tuttle-Singer brings Jerusalem's Old City to life like no writer before her?penning a ferocious love letter that will infuriate zealots and enthrall most everybody else. . . .Ultimately a plea for Jerusalem, as she puts it, not to be 'ripped to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953251162Author Raymond GoodburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pilgrim Book Services LtdPublisher Pilgrim Book Services LtdWeight(grams) 170g

When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety. Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book...

A portable, easy-to-use map guide that locates over 700 hundred Islamic-era monuments in historic Cairo using the most sophisticated Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologyThis portable, easy-to-use map guide helps you locate over seven hundred...

This book, available for the first time in English, is an exhilarating journey through Turkey s history and a perceptive look at the interactions between secularism, religion, and multiethnicity. Without a guide and driven only by his own curiosity,...

No matter where we come from, we all have our unique local expressions and proverbs that raise confused eyebrows when translated literally. These phrases usually carry humor and wisdom at their core, but are only fully understood in their native language...

The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool presents the unexpected face of Syria. Based on five journeys, undertaken over as many years, Kociejowski's book is entirely concerned with the slow journey towards friendship. So we learn nothing about coups or...

Jerusalem is truly unique in almost every way. For 3,000 years, people have fought over this city, destroyed it, and rebuilt it again. It is a place of great spirituality and beauty, and also of prophecy, historical intrigue and violence. It has been a...

Cairo contains the greatest concentration of Islamic monuments in the world, and its mosques, mausoleums, religious schools, baths, and caravanserais, built by prominent patrons between the seventh and nineteenth centuries, are among the finest in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975961957Author Judith Galblum PexFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Cladach PublishingPublisher Cladach PublishingWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114006Format PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 250g

Life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no party ... or so we thought. In Saudi Arabia Undercover, expat Harper Walsh busts this myth with true stories of homemade alcohol, pill popping, parties staffed by pretty Ethiopian girls in expat gated compounds,...

Morocco is a country that has been much invaded, much traveled though, and much written about in many languages. Positioned at the entrance to Africa-or the entrance to Europe-it has seen deep cultural cross-fertilization and the emergence of a very...

Acclaimed travel writer Pam Mandel's thrilling account of a life-defining journey from the California suburbs to Israel to the Himalayan peaks and back. Given the choice, Pam Mandel would say no and stay home. It was getting her nowhere, so she decided...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566567084Author Guy BucklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)...

"From Cairo to Beirut" is an illustrated travel memoir of the author's journey to retrace a 200-year-old route of Scottish artist David Roberts. Shinde traveled a route through Cairo, Sinai, Petra, Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon -- ancient lands steeped...

HOW NATURE MATTERS presents an original theory of nature's value based on part-whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419613517Author Israel ShamirFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787169791Author Andrey TaranovFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint T&p Books Publishing LtdPublisher T&p Books Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936315171Author Shusha GuppyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint StarhavenPublisher Starhaven

In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental " of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ...

Ancient even to the ancients, Egypt was a great nation a thousand years before the Minoan civilization was established in Crete. It was viewed by the Greeks and Romans of 2,000 years ago with the same awe with which we view ancient Rome and Greece today...

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...

Get everything you need to prepare for a successful career as a pharmacy technician in one easy-to-read textbook! Useful from day one through graduation, Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition includes comprehensive information...

A visual journey through the streets and the history of the Mother of the WorldCairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world, its alleys, mosques, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787169289Author Andrey TaranovFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint T&p Books Publishing LtdPublisher T&p Books Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this...

In the early spring of 1358, Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli, a leading military and political figure of Visconti Milan, to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pleased at the invitation, Petrarch nevertheless declined to...

A comprehensive guide to the various coasts of Turkey, offering practical information on topics ranging from anchorage areas and marinas, to weather forecasts, to the local cuisine of some of the most intriguing coasts of the world.ReviewsThis...