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Author: Giovanni Paolo MaranaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy [G.P. Marana] at Paris. Tr. [by W. Bradshaw. Vol.1 only of the 11th ed. of the whole].
![The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy [G.P. Marana] at Paris. Tr. [by W. Bradshaw. Vol.1 only of the 11th ed. of the whole]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/4H4DAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Giovanni Paolo MaranaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A Plea for the Animals
Author: Matthieu RicardPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1611803055
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans--and an eloquent plea for animal rights. Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire. He chronicles the appalling sufferings of the animals we eat, wear, and use for adornment or “entertainment,” and submits every traditional justification for their exploitation to scientific evidence and moral scrutiny. What arises is an unambiguous and powerful ethical imperative for treating all of the animals with whom we share this planet with respect and compassion.
Historical Essays
Author: Edward Augustus FreemanPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Images of Turkey in Western Literature
Author: Kamil AydınPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This text provides a study which focuses on 20th-century images of Turkey in the West, dealing with literature that is mainly in English and drawn from fiction and travel books. The author has previously written on the contemporary American novel.
The Sultan of Vezirs
Author: Theoharis StavridesPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900449233X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Mahmud Pasha Angelovic served as Grand Vezir under Sultan Mehmed II, in the years following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, which were marked by an extensive imperial project, transforming the Ottoman principality into an empire. This book attempts to piece together the available evidence on Mahmud Pasha's Byzantine descent and family network, as well as his multi-faceted contribution to the founding of the new empire, through military leadership, diplomatic practices and architectural and literary patronage, considering also his execution and the creation of a posthumous legend presenting him as a martyr. Using Ottoman, Greek and Western sources, as well as archival material, this study focuses on the period of transition from Byzantine to Ottoman Empire and would be of interest to historians and other specialists studying that period.
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium
Author: Walter E. KaegiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521814591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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The «Voyage D'Outremer»
Author: Bertrandon de La BrocquièrePublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
De la Broquière set off for the Holy Land in 1432 for the purpose of spying out the possibilities of a new crusade to be led by the Duke of Burgundy. He returned overland, through the Turkish Empire, alone. His observations of the land, the people, the rulers, the food and the customs make fascinating reading. There is also a long section on the organization and tactics of the Ottoman Army, and the ways that the Europeans can use to defeat it. De la Broquière is a highly competent spy and a very observant tourist.
The Eunuch of Stamboul
Author: Dennis WheatleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448213886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Moral young Englishman, Swithin Destime, to avoid an international incident, had resigned from the Army; within weeks he was in Istanbul to check on rumours of a planned uprising. But as a spy Destime was an amateur, alone in a city of intrigue and fear, a dark web in whose centre squatted the repulsive form of Kazdim Hari Bekar. Formerly a Palace eunuch, Kazdim was now Chief of the Secret Police – a job which admirably suited his depraved personal tastes
Byzantine Philanthropy and Social Welfare
Author: Demetrios J. ConstantelosPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time
Author: Franz BabingerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691010786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
One of the most important figures in Ottoman history, Mehmed was the architect of victories that inspired fear throughout Europe and contributed to an image of the Turk prevalent in Western art and literature for many years. From the Western viewpoint, Mehmed was seen as the man who gave the death blow to Byzantium, destroying the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire. Not surprisingly, the Turks regard him as the greatest of all sultans, a figure unparalleled in the history of the world for military prowess, statecraft and patronage of the arts and sciences.