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Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Greek Culture in the Roman World) by Anthony Kaldellis
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-31 | Author:Anthony Kaldellis [Kaldellis, Anthony]

Hellenism as an Expansion of Moral and Aesthetic Categories Our focus will remain on that part of the literary spectrum that preoccupied itself with classical culture beyond what had been ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 16,2018 )
Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints by Joy E. Stocke & Angie Brenner
mobi |eng | 2012-02-16 | Author:Joy E. Stocke & Angie Brenner [Stocke, Joy E.]

Ömer parks the car on a steep incline in a village of small cement houses perched on a mountaintop above a valley of poplars and lush tea plantations. “This is ...
( Category: Asia April 16,2018 )
The Making of Selim by Cipa H. Erdem;
epub |eng | 2017-04-16 | Author:Cipa, H. Erdem;

Conclusion “THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD. It’s not even past,” wrote William Faulkner.1 For early modern Ottomans, memories of Selīm were neither dead nor part of a long-forgotten past but ...
( Category: Middle East April 16,2018 )
American Constitutional Law by Donald P. Kommers & John E. Finn & Gary J. Jacobsohn
epub |eng | 2010-04-16 | Author:Donald P. Kommers & John E. Finn & Gary J. Jacobsohn

Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell 290 U.S. 398, 54 S. Ct. 231, 78 L. Ed. 413 (1934) In 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, Minnesota enacted ...
( Category: Constitutional Law April 16,2018 )
Islam and the Challenge of Civilization by Meddeb Abdelwahab; Kuntz Jane;
epub |eng | | Author:Meddeb, Abdelwahab; Kuntz, Jane;

CHAPTER 6 The Physics and Metaphysics of Nature The notion of nature does not exist in the Bible, any more than it does in the Koran, where it is assimilated ...
( Category: Middle East April 16,2018 )
Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Douglas E. Streusand
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Douglas E. Streusand [Streusand, Douglas E.]

IMAGE 4.3 Caravanserai at the Ganj ‘Ali Khan Complex (1598-1619), Kerman. Ganj Ali Khan served as Shah Abbas I’s governor of Kerman, Qandahar, and Sistan. A great patron of public ...
( Category: World April 16,2018 )
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:Christina Lamb

Though I spent a lot of time with Karzai that week I found it hard to pin him down on anything serious. All he wanted to do was reminisce about ...
( Category: Asia April 15,2018 )
Nasser by Anne Alexander
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Anne Alexander

There was another side to Nasser’s public persona: his distance from his old comrades was part of his projection of what Ghali Shoukri calls ‘his metaphysical faith in his own ...
( Category: Historical April 15,2018 )
Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224-642 by Kaveh Farrokh
epub |eng | | Author:Kaveh Farrokh

Vanguards, reconnaissance, ambuscades, and traps Vanguards were to pass over flat terrain and take position on elevated heights. Great emphasis was placed on reconnaissance. Scouts would first examine the terrain ...
( Category: Military April 15,2018 )
The Walls of Constantinople AD 324-1453 by Stephen Turnbull
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Turnbull

Water and food supply No matter how strong a city’s walls might be, its population has to be supplied with food and water, and Constantinople was no exception. The original ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
The Arab Awakening: The Story Of The Arab National Movement by Antonius George
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Antonius, George

The Sykes-Picot Agreement is a shocking document. It is not only the product of greed at its worst, that is to say, of greed allied to suspicion and so leading ...
( Category: Middle East April 14,2018 )
Old Testament Parallels (New Revised and Expanded Third Edition): Laws and Stories From the Ancient Near East by Victor Harold Matthews
epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Victor Harold Matthews [Matthews, Victor Harold]

The Annals of Tiglath-pileser I are written in cuneiform using the Assyrian dialect of Akkadian. The inscription was recovered by German archaeologists and is preserved today in the Pergamon Museum ...
( Category: Middle East April 14,2018 )
Philosophy before the Greeks by Van De Mieroop Marc;
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Van De Mieroop, Marc;

CHAPTER 7 The Philosopher-King In the previous chapter I spoke of a history of the legal genre in which the authors of law codes were aware that they participated in ...
( Category: Philosophy April 14,2018 )
Wounded by Ronald J. Glasser
epub |eng | | Author:Ronald J. Glasser

Oaths “How the hell did all this happen?” —WOUNDED MARINE, TET OFFENSIVE, MARCH, 1968 There has been something a bit off about this war from the beginning, that went beyond ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
Generalship of Muhammad by Rodgers Russ;
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Rodgers, Russ;

6 The Surge After the destruction of the Banu Qurayzah in January 627, Muhammad allowed his fighters to take a well-deserved break. It would seem that during this interlude he ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )

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