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• Author(s): Xenophon | Rex 1905-1986 Warner • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge b...

• Author(s): Ward Thomas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralMany assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Sherman famous...

• Author(s): Aeschylus • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a d...

• Author(s): Richard Alan Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Persian Gulf War (1991) Between January 17 and February 28, 1991, an international military coali...

• Author(s): Aeschylus • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high a...

• Author(s): Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousThe spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition in a brilliant new translation The longest singl...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): C. S. Nott • Publisher: Toward Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Toward Publishing • BISAC: Islam - SufiAbstract: Mantiq Ut-tair, The Conference of the Birds, was composed in the twelfth century by the Persian poet, Farid ud-Din Attar,...

• Author(s): Sean T. Coughlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military On December 15, 1990, Lieutenant Sean T. Coughlin left Norton Air Force Base, California. His destination: Saudi Ara...

• Author(s): Rebecca Kohn • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Christian - GeneralFor centuries her name has been a byword for feminine beauty, guile, and wisdom. This sweeping, meticulously researche...

• Author(s): Phillip Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia Phillip Thompson had kept a journal for years, from the time he was in college in the 1980s at the Univ...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Peter Sis • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Middle EasternAn award-winning author and illustrator offers a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the beloved Sufi poem Celebrated children's book cr...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Steve Rajtar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Holidays (non religious) Every day of the year, somewhere in the United States, some sort of holiday or special remembrance is be...

• Author(s): Xenophon • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: CivilizationXenophon's epic march into the heart of Persia has stirred the imagination of free men for centuries. Possibly written from diaries compiled ...

• Author(s): Fakhraddin Gorgani • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Middle EasternA classic Persian tale of war and forbidden love in the eleventh century Believed by scholars to be the inspiration for Tristan ...

• Author(s): Abolqasem Ferdowsi • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsThe selected adventures of Persia's Hercules, from Iran's great national epic No understanding of world mythology is complete without ...

• Author(s): Idries Shah • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyFrom the Back CoverThis delightful collection of teaching stories in which Mulla Nasrudin is the main actor is both an outstan...