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  • The Alchemy of Happiness

    by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali, Elton D. Daniel, Claud Field ...
    Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1058-1111) is one of the most important religious figures in Islamic history. He is particularly noted for his brilliant synthesis of mysticism and traditional Sunni Islam. Ghazzali's "The Alchemy of Happiness", written toward the end of his life, provides a succinct introduction to both the theory and practice of Sufism (Islamic mysticism). It thus offers many ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The History of Iran

    by Elton L. Daniel ...
    Series series The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
    This comprehensive survey of Iran's historical development covers everything from its origins in ancient empires to its status as a modern nation-state.Iran is a vast country with a storied, ancient past, a great diversity of cultures and ethnicities, and a location in arguably the most unstable area of the world. Iran's history over the last two centuries—developing as a modern nation-state, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886

    The Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Mo?ammad ?osayn Farâhâni

    by Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn Farâhâni ...
    Translated by Hafez Farmayan, Elton L. Daniel ...
    Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World

    by Malcolm Anderson, Frederick Baker, Richard W. Butler, Cheng Dalin, Norris Clement, Timothy J. Dallen, Daniel J. Dzurek, Catherine Elton, Brian Erskine, David Fitzgerald, Thomas L. Friedman0, Paul Ganster1, John Gay3, Roger Gibbins4, Pascal O.Girot5, J D. Hargreaves6, Michael Ignatieff7, Pirjo Jukarainen8, Robert Mattes9, David A. McDonald0, Anssi Paasi1, Alan Sweedler2, Fion de Vletter3, John J. Wilkes4, Lovemore Zinyama5, Professor Kirk Bowman7 ...
    Series series The World Beat Series
    Borders represent an intriguing paradox as globalization continues to leap barriers at a vigorous pace, merging economies and cultures through world trade, economic integration, the mass media, the Internet, and increasingly mobile populations. At the same time, the political boundaries separating peoples remain pervasive and problematic. Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World offers a ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

    by Charles S. Elton, Daniel Simberloff, Anthony Ricciardi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Elton sought to articulate more explicitly his vision of an entire field of invasion science. The 1958 book, aimed at an educated lay audience, was almost wholly descriptive, dominated by striking examples of the nature and scope of particular invasions beginning with the seven examples detailed in Chapter 1. From the materials in the proof copy and other sources, we can imagine a new edition ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • Destiny Disrupted

    A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

    by Tamim Ansary ...
    “A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • World on Fire

    How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

    by Amy Chua ...
    The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Pakistan: A Hard Country

    by Anatol Lieven ...
    DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 20122011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTIn the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to look further than the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Third Wave

    Democratization in the Late 20th Century

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Arabs

    A History

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Violent Borders

    Refugees and the Right to Move

    by Reece Jones ...
    **This engaging analysis of the refugee crisis explores how borders are formed, policed—and used to inflict violence on the poor.“In an era of terrorism, global inequality, and rising political tension over migration, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse, not better.” —Boston Globe**Forty thousand people have died trying to cross between countries in the past decade, and ... Read more

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  • A History of the Middle East

    4th Edition

    by Peter Mansfield ...
    Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book, fully updated to 2009, follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of modern nations, the Palestinian question and Islamic ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD