Author: Brian Herbert
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076533254X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
After solving the environmental problems of the United States, dictator Chairman Rahma must fight off new weapons being deployed by the corporations and deal with unsettling reports of mutants.
The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma
Author: Brian Herbert
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076533254X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
After solving the environmental problems of the United States, dictator Chairman Rahma must fight off new weapons being deployed by the corporations and deal with unsettling reports of mutants.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076533254X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
After solving the environmental problems of the United States, dictator Chairman Rahma must fight off new weapons being deployed by the corporations and deal with unsettling reports of mutants.
The Story of Islamic Spain
Author: Syed Azizur Rahman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The author of this book, feels that only a few books cover the entire period of eight centuries of Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula. This book attempts to cover the entire period from Tariq s landing in Spain to the expulsion of the Muslims in the first decade of the 17th century. Part II of the book covers in detail the Hispano-Muslim culture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The author of this book, feels that only a few books cover the entire period of eight centuries of Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula. This book attempts to cover the entire period from Tariq s landing in Spain to the expulsion of the Muslims in the first decade of the 17th century. Part II of the book covers in detail the Hispano-Muslim culture.
In the Light of What We Know
Author: Zia Haider Rahman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power. In the Light of What We Know takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope--from Kabul to London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton--and explores the great questions of love, belonging, science, and war. It is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other. The visitor, a man desperate to climb clear of his wrong beginnings, seeks atonement; and the narrator sets out to tell his friend's story but finds himself at the limits of what he can know about the world--and, ultimately, himself. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, this surprisingly tender novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class and culture as they struggle to tame their futures. In an extraordinary feat of imagination, Zia Haider Rahman has telescoped the great upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare intimacy and power.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power. In the Light of What We Know takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope--from Kabul to London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton--and explores the great questions of love, belonging, science, and war. It is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other. The visitor, a man desperate to climb clear of his wrong beginnings, seeks atonement; and the narrator sets out to tell his friend's story but finds himself at the limits of what he can know about the world--and, ultimately, himself. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, this surprisingly tender novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class and culture as they struggle to tame their futures. In an extraordinary feat of imagination, Zia Haider Rahman has telescoped the great upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare intimacy and power.
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
Museum of Foreign Literature and Science
The Abd-Al-Rahman Mandate
Author: José Miguel Roig
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467891533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
It tells the story of Carlos Lopez, a Latino journalist who on assignment in Baghdad for The Miami Herald, buys from a street vendor an inexpensive copy of the Koran and on his flight back to the US, he finds inserted in its pages an old parchment. It has a text written in an unknown language. He consults with a professor of classical languages that he knows from his university days atFloridaUniversity. The professor informs him it is a very valuable Byzantine document whose text could influence the Islamic world. The professor is murdered and the parchment disappears. There are several probable culprits: a Belgian antiquarian and Iranian, Saudi Arabian and Pakistani agents, all possible murderers and all eager to get hold of the parchment. Carlos Lopez has kept a copy of the parchment. The resolution of its text takes him first to Cairo, where he joins a Coptic policeman, and together they set out to search for the meaning of the parchment. Pursued and threatened by the antiquarian and the agents, Lopez and the Coptic policeman travel toDamascus, then Yemen and finally to Morocco, where the enigma is solved. This document could be Mohammed's testament. It holds the "solution" to the antagonism between the Shiites and the Sunnites.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467891533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
It tells the story of Carlos Lopez, a Latino journalist who on assignment in Baghdad for The Miami Herald, buys from a street vendor an inexpensive copy of the Koran and on his flight back to the US, he finds inserted in its pages an old parchment. It has a text written in an unknown language. He consults with a professor of classical languages that he knows from his university days atFloridaUniversity. The professor informs him it is a very valuable Byzantine document whose text could influence the Islamic world. The professor is murdered and the parchment disappears. There are several probable culprits: a Belgian antiquarian and Iranian, Saudi Arabian and Pakistani agents, all possible murderers and all eager to get hold of the parchment. Carlos Lopez has kept a copy of the parchment. The resolution of its text takes him first to Cairo, where he joins a Coptic policeman, and together they set out to search for the meaning of the parchment. Pursued and threatened by the antiquarian and the agents, Lopez and the Coptic policeman travel toDamascus, then Yemen and finally to Morocco, where the enigma is solved. This document could be Mohammed's testament. It holds the "solution" to the antagonism between the Shiites and the Sunnites.
A. R. Rahman
Author: Kamini Mathai
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184758235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A.R.Rahman is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and singer. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won twenty five Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, two Grammys and two Academy Awards. Working in India's various film industries, international cinema and theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sol...d more than 100 million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide, and sold over 200 million cassettes, making him one of the world's all-time top selling recording artists. Time Magazine has referred to him as the "Mozart of Madras" and several Tamil commentators have coined him the nickname Isai Puyal
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184758235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A.R.Rahman is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and singer. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won twenty five Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, two Grammys and two Academy Awards. Working in India's various film industries, international cinema and theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sol...d more than 100 million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide, and sold over 200 million cassettes, making him one of the world's all-time top selling recording artists. Time Magazine has referred to him as the "Mozart of Madras" and several Tamil commentators have coined him the nickname Isai Puyal
The Story of the Church of Egypt
Author: Edith Louisa Butcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music
Author: Nasreen Munni Kabir
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9380070144
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
When composer A.R. Rahman's first film Roja was released in 1992, his astonishing music with its other-worldly melodies, tonal texture, pulsating rhythms made an instant impact in India. His abundantly flowing talent has given life to the scores of over a hundred films, including Dil Se, Bombay, Lagaan, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, 127 Hours and Jodhaa Akbar. According to a recent estimate by the BBC, 150 million copies of his albums have sold worldwide. A.R. Rahman has won a host of awards, together with a Golden Globe, a Bafta, two Oscars and two Grammys for his score in Slumdog Millionaire. In 2010, he received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour, awarded by the Government of India. Despite all his great success, Rahman remains a deeply private person, shying away from the glitz and glamour of show business. A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music is in the form of biographical conversations between the composer and Nasreen Munni Kabir in which we hear of Rahman's amazing journey from modest beginnings to an assured place in world music history.
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9380070144
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
When composer A.R. Rahman's first film Roja was released in 1992, his astonishing music with its other-worldly melodies, tonal texture, pulsating rhythms made an instant impact in India. His abundantly flowing talent has given life to the scores of over a hundred films, including Dil Se, Bombay, Lagaan, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, 127 Hours and Jodhaa Akbar. According to a recent estimate by the BBC, 150 million copies of his albums have sold worldwide. A.R. Rahman has won a host of awards, together with a Golden Globe, a Bafta, two Oscars and two Grammys for his score in Slumdog Millionaire. In 2010, he received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour, awarded by the Government of India. Despite all his great success, Rahman remains a deeply private person, shying away from the glitz and glamour of show business. A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music is in the form of biographical conversations between the composer and Nasreen Munni Kabir in which we hear of Rahman's amazing journey from modest beginnings to an assured place in world music history.