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  • What Went Wrong?:Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • The Assassins

    A Radical Sect in Islam

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    The history of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th-12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word: assassin.The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a Muslim religious sect - a branch of the Ismailis, and the followers of a leader known as the Old Man of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    Tumble down the rabbit hole in this timeless Children's Fantasy classic, where curious Alice discovers a bizarre world of mad tea parties, wicked queens, and unpredictable magic.

    by Lewis Carroll ...
    Narrated by Emily Addison Bernard ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 33 min

    Fall down the rabbit hole into a mesmerizing realm where logic bends, animals speak, and nothing is ever quite as it seems.On a sleepy summer afternoon, a curious young girl named Alice spots a peculiar White Rabbit rushing by with a pocket watch. Burning with an insatiable desire to know where he is going, she follows him down a dark burrow and plunges headfirst into the surreal and unpredictable ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crisis of Islam

    Holy War and Unholy Terror

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The End of Modern History in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mindfulness: How Being Aware of the Present Moment Can Change Your Life (Embracing Mindfulness and Meditation as a Way of Life with Practical, Daily Techniques)

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    This book is a resource for anyone who spends time with kids and is invested in their success. Stability, awareness, positive self-esteem, and emotional growth may be achieved through mindfulness, especially when the individual learns these habits early.Scientific research has shown that kids exposed to meditation and mental health exercises are more emotionally intelligent than average. Through ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shaping of the Modern Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Fully revised to cover the volatile developments of the last three decades, The Shaping of the Modern Middle East sheds light on ... Read more

    $54.19 CAD

  • Arabs in History

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    `Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history? In this well-established classic, Professor Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • Cultures in Conflict : Christians Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery

    Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis" wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You are in the hands of the Islamic world's foremost living historian." Now this sure-handed guide takes us ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Islam and the West

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. Eminent French historian Robert ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Notes on a Century

    Reflections of a Middle East Historian

    by Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Ellis Churchill ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary lifeAfter September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become number one bestsellers. He was the first to warn of a coming "clash of civilizations," a term he coined in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Notes on a Century

    Reflections of A Middle East Historian

    by Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Ellis Churchill ...
    The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis.After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politics of the Middle East found themselves wondering why there was such rage brewing in the region. Many of them turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation. The world's pre-eminent historian of the Middle East, Lewis was among the first to identify the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD