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In the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on a Germanic king named Karl. Thus, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Transporting readers far beyond Europe to the glittering palaces of Constantinople and the streets of medieval Baghdad, this far-ranging book shows how the Frankish king and his wise counselors built an empire not only through warfare but also by careful...
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The history of Sai Gon - Ho Chi Minh City with the truth and hidden corners through 250 water color paintings and little stories.
The book is created as a picture script of history of Sai Gon - Ho Chi Minh City through four periods:
Chapter 1: The war is over. The difficulties of post-war period
Chapter 2: The pre-Doi Moi (pre-renovation) period. The difficult period.
Chapter 3: The DoiMoi (renovation) period.
Chapter 4: Rising blue dragon....
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In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East describe the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised...
4) Egyptian Art
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A great read for Egyptologists who like to read and see what the general consensus was in the field's early stage of thought. It was written 1912. (Goodreads)
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Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, political, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's creative class toward increasingly original forms of artmaking not meant for official venues. Instead, these art forms appear in private homes with "trusted"...
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Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, and large-scale economic developments have reshaped the region, this cohort of cultural producers has also found themselves at the center of intergenerational debates on the role of art in society. Central to these cultural debates is a steady stream of support from North American and European funding...
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Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa. Born of the contributors' research on dissidence and state co-option in a variety of artistic and creative fields, the volume's core themes reflect the notion that the recent...
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Partez à la découverte de l'Anatolie avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
La région anatolienne, qu'occupe l'actuelle Turquie d'Asie, constitue une sorte de promontoire avancé de l'Asie occidentale que les historiens ont coutume de considérer comme un passage naturel entre ce continent et l'Europe...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus sur l'Anatolie
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Women have consistently been left out of the official writing of Lebanese history, and nowhere is this more obvious than in writing on the Lebanese Civil War. As more and more histories of the war begin to circulate, few include any in-depth discussion of the multiple roles women played in wartime Lebanon. Fewer still address the essential issues of women's work and their creative production, such as literature, performance art, and filmmaking.⍾⍾Developed...
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Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics-one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements.
Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital...
11) The Homoerotics of Orientalism: Mappings of Male Desire in Narratives of the Near and Middle East
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One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with 'deviant' male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that...
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On sait la fascination que l'Égypte exerce sur les Français et combien le mythe napoléonien est resté vivace. On pouvait donc prédire le succès — au demeurant mérité — de l'exposition Il y a 200 ans, les savants en Égypte, que la Grande Galerie du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de...
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Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia...
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Il reste toujours difficile de se faire une image précise de ce que furent la civilisation séleucide et surtout celle des Parthes en Iran même ; il n'y existe guère de fouilles de grande envergure sur un site parthe ; les documents demeurent rares et sont ordinairement mal datés. L'art parthe, don’t on a tant parlé, nous apparaît le mieux à travers les découvertes faites en Mésopotamie, à Séleucide du Tigre, Assour, Hatra, Doura, Palmyre...
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This authoritative reference contains a vast amount of information about Oriental rugs. Oriental Rugs: A Complete Guide is the first large volume on the subject to be printed in the past forty-five years is meant for the individual who is interested in purchasing his first Oriental Rug, as well as the collector, museum, and rug importer. The volume is divided into three main parts. Part I, entitled "General Discussion devotes one chapter to each of...
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In Egypt's Thousand Days of Revolution, author Alexander Murray provides a vivid and fascinating eyewitness account of Egyptian life in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. A Scotsman and confirmed Egyptophile, Murray first arrived in Cairo just weeks before the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and has returned to the country for many extended visits, since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. In his remarkable book - part travel guide, part personal memoir,...
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"...The subject looking in the mirror is ego. Opposite ego is the self, whose thinking has a different rhythm and order. The initial 'mirror encounter' ego observes passively and the encounter offers an opening for ego to use its cognitive understanding, to make decisions and act. Ego observing the image in the mirror illustrates the expression that the ego looks into the depth of the soul. Ego looks at the true self, which resides in the soul, in...
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The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem-and a granddaughter's search for his legacy.
Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light and beckon the eye. These colorful wares-known as Armenian ceramics-are iconic features of the Holy City. Silently, these works of ceramic art-art that also graces homes and museums around the world-represent...
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This personal and well-informed selection and description of the most interesting towns and individual buildings and archaeological sites in Turkey is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveler. The author has been visiting Turkey for nearly fifty years and is the perfect companion for those who want to know about more than the obvious attractions. This book will immeasurably enhance any thoughtful traveler's visit, but can also be read...
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An innovative translation of one of the oldest literary texts in the world, 'The Instructions of Shuruppak', inscribed on clay tablets and dated to at least 2600 BCE. With 89 illustrated pages where Sumerian symbols, their meanings and the translated lines have been laid out side by side in the manner of a bilingual book, it offers a hitherto unknown version of ancient history, The translation uncovers compelling evidence of a unique source in deep...
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