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Everyday Iran

A Provincial Portrait of the Islamic Republic

by Clarissa De Waal
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Iran is a country which, despite its extensive coverage in the media, is often regarded as 'mysterious', 'exotic' and 'other-worldly'. This attitude often stems from a focus on the rhetoric of controversial figures in Iranian politics, rather than looking at the everyday lives of Iranians themselves....

Allies with the Infidel

The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century

by Christine Isom-Verhaaren
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011

In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation, under the command of Admiral Barbarossa, came in response to a request from François I of France for assistance from Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in France's struggle against...

Spiritual Quest

Reflections on Quranic Prayer According to the Teachings of Imam Ali

by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

The Qur?an is the sacramental foundation of prayer in Islam. Its inspirational power is perpetually renewed through being recited and meditated upon by Muslims on a daily basis throughout their lives. This succinct monograph provides a unique contemporary insight into the spiritual, intellectual and...

The Church in the Modern Age

The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church

by Jeremy Morris
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007

Given the diversity and complexity of developments in the twentieth century, a history of the Christian Church in the modern period is in some ways the most challenging volume of all to write. But Jeremy Morris succeeds in presenting a coherent account of the Church. He emphasises the changing relationship...

Running into the Dark

a blind man’s record-setting run across America

by Jason Romero
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

After a successful career as an attorney and business executive, Jason Romero hit rock bottom when he found himself divorced, unemployed, and in a deep depression after a degenerative eye condition rendered him blind with limited light perception.  Feeling a calling to run across America,...

Strong Beauty

POWER UP the Champion Within

by Karen Furneaux
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

***Strong Beauty: Power Up the Champion Within ***is an Olympic athlete’s journey to harness the POWER of self-belief and appreciate the beauty in us all. Karen Furneaux, world champion, Sports Hall-of-Famer and international speaker, shares her deepest insights and the golden nuggets that...

Connecting Paradigms

A Trauma Informed & Neurobiological Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation

by Matthew S. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

Connecting Paradigms: A Trauma-Informed & Neurobiological Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation provides an innovative approach to helping those struggling with past trauma to make critical life changes and heal from their pain and suffering. Scientific understanding of the brain,...

The Politics of Development in Morocco

Local Governance and Participation in North Africa

by Sylvia I. Bergh
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017

Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this. Here, Sylvia Bergh investigates the dynamics of popular participation and local governance, testing the extent to which the current structure builds local...

The Coming of the Aerial War

Culture and the Fear of Airborne Attack in Inter-War Britain

by Michele Haapamäki
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration. In the age of H.G. Wells and Biggles, the opening up of the air to balloons and planes - the Royal Flying Corps was founded in 1912 - appealed to concepts of courage and bravery...
by Jonathan M. Eden-Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

Tom Blair is a recently divorced, well-known New York-based writer who has gone to his country home in Grant Falls, in the Adirondack mountains to find inspiration for his next book.  While there he begins to speculate on the nature of reality and wonders why none of his characters have ever complained...
by martin adamson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019

When she came across the dead body of her sister who's been missing for quite a while, she was extremely heart broken. Trying to unravel the wicked act only set her on a course of struggle for her own life, but whatever it might take, the killers must be brought to justice.
by Nida Chenagtsang
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 24, 2011

El arte tibetano de los sueños trata de la interpretación de los sueños y nos explica qué son en realidad los sueños, cuál es su función en nuestra vida, qué experiencia podemos extraer de ellos, cómo solventar desequilibrios energéticos y emocionales y cómo aumentar nuestra energía. Este...

Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust

British Attitudes towards Nazi Atrocities

by Russell Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014

In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica, shaped the mass-politics of the age. Similarly, alleged German atrocities in World War I against the Belgians and the French had led to campaigns in Britain for donations...
by Raúl de la Rosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2013

Este libro es el resultado de años de estudio e investigación sobre la mente, la conciencia y el comportamiento humano. En él se explican los procesos mentales que favorecen el desarrollo de las capacidades psíquicas innatas en cada persona.
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