Author: Stephanie Döpper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783447198066
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Stephanie Döpper
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803274980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This book investigate reuse of tombs in Eastern Arabia from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Sasanian period in order to understand the underlying purposes and social context of this practice.

Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Publisher: Monolith Graphics
ISBN: 9780982489925
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Venture into the gothic realm of Joseph Vargo and discover the passion, mystery and horror that lie in wait deep within the shadows of The Dark Tower. This sequel to the acclaimed anthology Tales From The Dark Tower continues the Gothic saga of the vampire Lord Brom and his battle against the forces that lurk in the citadel of shadows known as The Dark Tower. No one is certain how long The Dark Tower has stood. It is believed to be a place of great evil, haunted by dark angels and spirits of the restless dead. Legends say the Tower was once the ancient fortress of the Dark Queen, Mara, and her infernal legions. Other tales tell of a warrior knight—once a man, but now an immortal creature of darkness—who stands vigil over the fallen queen’s tomb.

Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141393130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.

Author: Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815630555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Most research has accepted stereotypical images of Muslim women, treating their outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive. Muslim women have been depicted as different, and by exoticizing (orientalizing) them—or Islamic society in general—“they” have been dealt with outside of general women’s history and regarded as having little to contribute to the writing of world history or to the life of their sisters worldwide. By approaching widely used sources with different questions and methodologies, and by using new or little-used material (with much primary research), this book redresses these deficiencies. Scholars revisit and reevaluate scripture and scriptural interpretation; church records involving non-Muslim women of the Arab world; archival court records dating from the present back to the Ottoman period; and the oral and material culture and its written record, including oral history, textbooks, sufi practices, and the politics of dress. By deconstructing the past, these scholars offer fresh perspectives on women’s roles and aspirations in Middle East societies.

Author: P. Nick Kardulias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Jenifer Presto
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029922953X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited an intense preoccupation with matters of the flesh. Drawing on poetry, plays, short stories, essays, memoirs, and letters, as well as feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Beyond the Flesh documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of two of the most important Russian Symbolists. Jenifer Presto argues that the difficulties encountered in reading Alexander Blok and Zinaida Gippius within either a feminist or a traditional, binary gendered framework derive not only from the peculiarities of their creative personalities but also from the specific Russian cultural context. Although these two poets engaged in gendered practices that, at times, appeared to be highly idiosyncratic and even incited gossip among their contemporaries, they were not operating in a vacuum. Instead, they were responding to philosophical concepts that were central to Russian Symbolism and that would continue to shape modernism in Russia.

Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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