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Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Afghan Amulet written by Sheila Paine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Afghan Amulet written by Sheila Paine and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500285107
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Amulets written by Sheila Paine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive illustrated study of the use of amulets around the world and throughout history explores not only the substances and symbolism from which amulets derive, but also the people and objects they protect.
Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher : Inner Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9781594770258
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Amulets written by Sheila Paine and published by Inner Traditions. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive illustrated study of the use of amulets around the world and throughout history • Explores not only the substances and symbolism from which amulets derive, but also the people and objects they protect • Explains the differences between and the purposes of amulets, talismans, charms, and fetishes All over the world and throughout history amulets have offered protection against negative forces, whether witchcraft, the evil eye, enemies, sickness, or accidents. Intricately beautiful or starkly simple, they come in an astonishing variety of guises: from stones, shells, and seeds, through animal tails, teeth, and claws, to beads, mirrors, needles, and bells. With over 400 lavish color photographs, this book explores amulets from every angle, including their symbolism and the diverse material used to craft them as well as the people and objects they protect. Sheila Paine traveled all over the world--from Afghanistan, Russia, and Albania, to Cameroon, Tunisia, and Mexico--to research the form, properties, and use of amulets, whether for health and safety or as channels for spiritual or magical powers. Worn as necklaces, sewn to clothing, painted on buildings, or hung in vehicles, amulets guard babies and brides; warriors, hunters, and travelers; livestock, crops, and homes through magical, not physical, means. Malign spirits and hobgoblins at crossroads have been feared since ancient times, but modern dangers--car crashes, new diseases, even cell phones--have ensured an abiding faith in the magical protection that amulets afford us that is still widely evident today.
Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Golden Horde written by Sheila Paine and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845222444
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Golden Horde written by Sheila Paine and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing her adventures in search of the Afghan amulet, Sheila Paine's new travels begin in a Himalayan valley, take her through the disintegrating ex-Soviet Union and end on the Greek island of Karpathos. There, the amulet is still worn by women.
Author : C. Heather Bleaney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900414532X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by C. Heather Bleaney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz, the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and indexed.
Author : John Renehan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698186273
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Valley written by John Renehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time.
Author : Timothy Nunan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107112079
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Humanitarian Invasion written by Timothy Nunan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.
Author : Kazu Kibuishi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545678412
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Escape from Lucien: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #6) written by Kazu Kibuishi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kazu Kibuishi's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues! Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien, a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures, where they search for a beacon essential to their fight against the Elf King. Meanwhile, Emily heads back into the Void with Max, one of the Elf King's loyal followers, where she learns his darkest secrets. The stakes, for both Emily and Navin, are higher than ever.
Author : Ludwig W. Adamec
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878151
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan written by Ludwig W. Adamec and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new fourth edition has been substantially expanded because so much has taken place in such a short period of time. The most important changes, however, have been made to the dictionary section, with hundreds of added or substantially revised entries on important people, places, events, institutions, practices, ethnic and religious groups, political parties, and Islamist movements, as well as significant aspects of Afghanistan's politics, economy, society, and culture.
Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873429877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Linen Goddess written by Sheila Paine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of Sheila Paine’s odyssey takes her through war-torn Eritrea and Somalia, past the ancient rock churches of Ethiopia and the tiny pyramids of Sudan, through Egypt and across the Mediterranean to Greece, ending in the bandit land of Albania. It is an adventure across the fault lines of history and religion too, as the "Linen Goddess" fades and reappears from view. And after a journey through some of the least visited and most dangerous parts of the world, Paine finally catches up with the goddess surprisingly close to home.
Author : Thomas H. Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153814929X
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan written by Thomas H. Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan is an extremely complex and nuanced country that has been one of the centers of imperial conflict at least for 150 years. From the Czarist Russia’s march south in the 19th Century threatening British India, three Anglo-Afghan Wars, the Soviet Invasion and occupation of Afghanistan starting in December 1979 and the resulting anti-Soviet Jihad by the Afghan Mujahideen to Kabul’s and their allies’ (U.S. and NATO) conflict with the Taliban, Afghanistan has been one of the centers of important international and regional conflicts and events. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Afghanistan.
Author : Septimus Smet Thorburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Bannú written by Septimus Smet Thorburn and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bannú, or Our Afghan Frontier is an account of Bannu District in British India (located in present-day northwestern Pakistan). The Bannu Valley was seized by the East India Company in 1848 and the district formed in 1861. The author, Septimus Smet Thorburn, was an official in the Indian Civil Service and the settlement officer in the district. The book is in two parts. Part one, consisting of six chapters, covers the geography, history, and administrative system of Bannu, with emphasis on British rule and its interaction with local traditions, customs, and patterns of authority and land tenure and ownership. Part two, which comprises the bulk of the book, deals with customs and folklore. It includes an introductory chapter entitled "Social Life, Customs, Beliefs and Superstitions of the Peasantry," and separate chapters devoted to "Popular Stories, Ballads and Riddles" and "Pashto Proverbs Translated into English." The final chapter gives the texts of the same proverbs--406 in all--in Pushto. The stories, ballads, and riddles are brief--generally a few paragraphs--and are classed in five categories: humorous and moral, comic and jocular, fables, Marwat ballads (relating to the Pushto Marwat tribe living in Bannu), and riddles. The proverbs are grouped according to the topics to which they relate, for example, begging, boasting, bravery, and so forth, and for many of the proverbs a brief explanation is given of its meaning and application. A short appendix deals with the complicated system of land allotments in the different tappas (traditional subdivisions) of the Bannu region. The book includes a map of the Bannu District with an inset map showing its relationship to the neighboring parts of Afghanistan and the regions of Waziristan, Kashmir, and the Punjab.
Author : Kazu Kibuishi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545675774
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Stonekeeper's Curse: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #2) written by Kazu Kibuishi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kazu Kibuishi's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series is now available in eBook! Emily and Navin's mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod's poison, and there's only one place to find help: Kanalis, the bustling, beautiful city of waterfalls. But when Em, her brother, Miskit, and the rest of the robotic crew aboard the walking house reach the city, they quickly realize that seeking help also means looking for trouble.
Author : Sheila Paine (Expert on textiles)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902793507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Embroidered Visions written by Sheila Paine (Expert on textiles) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a selection of photographs by embroidery specialist Sheila Paine taken during her travels across four continents and twenty-six countries, from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Over three thousand of her photographs are now held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, in addition to a varied collection of her textiles"--Inside front cover flap.
Author : Arsalan Noori
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538178095
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of the Afghan Republic written by Arsalan Noori and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A nuanced and human portrait of a generation of young Afghans who bought into the promise of the international intervention and were caught in the structures of the Forever War"--
