Sophie's World

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804270
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Sophie's World by : Jostein Gaarder

Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823251764
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism by : Hala Halim

Download or read book Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism written by Hala Halim and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city's culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity. Halim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres. She reappraises three writers--C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell--whom she maintains have been cast as the canon of Alexandria. Attending to issues of genre, gender, ethnicity, and class, she refutes the view that these writers' representations are largely congruent and uncovers a variety of positions ranging from Orientalist to anti-colonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his Camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas one of which centers on Cavafy. Drawing on Arabic critical and historical texts, as well as contemporary writers' and filmmakers' engagement with the canonical triumvirate, Halim orchestrates an Egyptian dialogue with the European representations.

Clea

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453261443
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Clea by : Lawrence Durrell

Download or read book Clea written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThe final installment of the Alexandria Quartet, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “one of the most important works of our time”/divDIV /divDIVYears after his liaisons with Justine and Melissa, Darley becomes immersed in a relationship with Clea, a bisexual artist. The ensuing chain of events transforms not only the lovers, but the dead as well, and leads to the series’ brilliant and unexpected resolution. /divDIV /divDIVPraised by Life as among the “most discussed and widely admired serious fiction of our time,” Clea carries on Durrell’s assured and unwavering style, and confirms the series’ standing as a resounding masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook contains a new introduction by Jan Morris./div /div

Vogue

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Rogue State

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Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842778272
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (782 download)

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Book Synopsis Rogue State by : William Blum

Download or read book Rogue State written by William Blum and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours. This book is a revised and updated version of the edition Bin Laden referred to in his address.

The Athenaeum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1418 pages
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The Irregulars

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743294599
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Book Synopsis The Irregulars by : Jennet Conant

Download or read book The Irregulars written by Jennet Conant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her bestselling accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, Conant offers a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intrigue in the highest circles of Washington during the tumultuous days of World War II.

Clement of Alexandria - the Instructor

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ISBN 13 : 9781514289990
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Clement of Alexandria - the Instructor written by Clement Alexandria and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pædagogus, or Instructor, is addressed to those who have been rescued from the darkness and pollutions of heathenism, and is an exhibition of Christian morals and manners,-a guide for the formation and development of Christian character, and for living a Christian life. It consists of three books. It is the grand aim of the whole work to set before the converts Christ as the only Instructor, and to expound and enforce His precepts. In the first book Clement exhibits the person, the function, the means, methods, and ends of the Instructor, who is the Word and Son of God; and lovingly dwells on His benignity and philanthropy, His wisdom, faithfulness, and righteousness.The second and third books lay down rules for the regulation of the Christian, in all the relations, circumstances, and actions of life, entering most minutely into the details of dress, eating, drinking, bathing, sleeping, etc. The delineation of a life in all respects agreeable to the Word, a truly Christian life, attempted here, may, now that the Gospel has transformed social and private life to the extent it has, appear unnecessary, or a proof of the influence of ascetic tendencies. But a code of Christian morals and manners (a sort of "whole duty of man" and manual of good breeding combined) was eminently needed by those whose habits and characters had been molded under the debasing and polluting influences of heathenism; and who were bound, and were aiming, to shape their lives according to the principles of the Gospel, in the midst of the all but incredible licentiousness and luxury by which society around was incurably tainted. The disclosures which Clement, with solemn sternness, and often with caustic wit, makes of the prevalent voluptuousness and vice, form a very valuable contribution to our knowledge of that period.

The Red Pyramid

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Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423142497
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Book Synopsis The Red Pyramid by : Rick Riordan

Download or read book The Red Pyramid written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. From the creator of the hit Percy Jackson series.

In Good Faith

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Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1682617939
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Book Synopsis In Good Faith by : Scott A. Shay

Download or read book In Good Faith written by Scott A. Shay and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent atheists claim the Bible is a racist text. Yet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. read it daily. Then again, so did many ardent segregationists. Some atheists claim religion serves to oppress the masses. Yet the classic text of the French Revolution, What is the Third Estate?, was written by a priest. On the other hand, the revolutionaries ended up banning religion. What do we make of religion’s confusing role in history? And what of religion’s relationship to science? Some scientists claim that we have no free will. Others argue that advances in neurobiology and physics disprove determinism. As for whispering to the universe, an absurd habit say the skeptics. Yet prayer is a transformative practice for millions. This book explores the most common atheist critiques of the Bible and religion, incorporating Jewish, Christian, and Muslim voices. The result is a fresh, modern re-evaluation of religion and of atheism. Scott A. Shay is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Signature Bank and a longstanding Jewish community activist. Shay started a Hebrew school, an adult educational program, and chaired several Jewish educational programs. He is the author of Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry and has been thinking about religion, reason, and modernity since wondering why his parents sent him to Hebrew school.

Justine

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143119249
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Justine by : Lawrence Durrell

Download or read book Justine written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Demands comparison with the very best books of our century . . . A truly important writer . . . His people, his places are masterly."― New York Times Book Review Durrell's masterpiece is onne of the world's greatest romances, rich in political and sexual intrigue. This seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt is set in the city of Alexandria once home to the world's greatest library, attracting scholars dedicated solely to the pursuit of knowledge. But on the eve of World War II, the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel find that their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to know-and possess-the other.

The End and the Beginning

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924279
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis The End and the Beginning by : Hermynia Zur Mühlen

Download or read book The End and the Beginning written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An Artist in Egypt

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Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019751626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis An Artist in Egypt by : Walter Tyndale

Download or read book An Artist in Egypt written by Walter Tyndale and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a beautifully illustrated personal account of Walter Tyndale's travels and experiences in Egypt, including descriptions of ancient ruins, landscapes, and cultural traditions. Tyndale's vivid watercolor paintings capture the essence of the Egyptian landscape and the people he encounters on his journey. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in art, travel, and ancient civilizations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Tramp Abroad

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Tramp Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319341022
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41 by : P. E. Caquet

Download or read book The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41 written by P. E. Caquet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41, closely examining the first instance of coordinated Western intervention in the Middle East during the modern era. Readers can explore topics such as how culture, domestic politics, and ideology shaped diplomacy in this landmark crisis, and the importance role played by religion - including, alongside mainstream Christianity, the Protestant Zionist movement. Highly informative and fully researched, this book suggests that the Eastern Crisis - and its associated diplomatic and military efforts - marked the first of many modern-era attempts to “improve” the region by moulding it in a Western image, providing scholars with a new perspective on this period of history.

Confessions of a Belly Dancer; Secrets of the Hieroglyph

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300289317
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Confessions of a Belly Dancer; Secrets of the Hieroglyph by : Raksanna Larcher Gore

Download or read book Confessions of a Belly Dancer; Secrets of the Hieroglyph written by Raksanna Larcher Gore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st - Chicago - Since the dawn of time, women have shared their stories. They share their ambitions and passions, their sorrows and worries, their dreams and their joys.They do this to learn, to teach, to encourage, and to grow. There is freedom in confession.In her travels around the world as a professional oriental (belly) dancer, Raksanna has met women in all stages of life and from all backgrounds. She has collected the confessions of women who all have one thing in common...the dance.Join women from around the world who have experienced first-hand the life changing, transformational power of the ancient art of belly dance. Share their laughter and tears...and who knows, perhaps you too will feel the longing to confess.(Special Commemorative Edition)

The Innocents Abroad

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846051764
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.