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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxi, 208 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as the world's foremost Islamic scholar (Wall Street Journal ), as a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world (Baltimore Sun ), and as the doyen of Middle Eastern studies (New York Times ), Lewis is nothing less than a national treasure, a trusted voice that politicians, journalists, historians, and the general public...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
645 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"How Our World Lost Its Way. The United States is losing its moral credibility. The European Union is breaking apart. Africa, the Arab world, and the Mediterranean are becoming battlefields for various regional and global powers. Extreme forms of nationalism are on the rise. Thus divided, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment and our health. How did we get here and what is yet to come? World-renowned scholar and bestselling...
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Language
English
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Description
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world's oldest printed book.
The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
479 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
-- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- —Dave Eggers, -- —Ron Charles, -- —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life. Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha"
"'Surprising and richly satisfying' (Megan Marshall); 'Beautifully crafted ... subtle, polished, and poised' (Stacy Schiff); In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvii, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography--were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed....
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