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  • The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures

    The Culture of Love and Languishing

    Edited by Alireza Korangy, Hanadi Al-Samman, Michael Beard ...
    In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject supersede geographical and temporal boundaries, and ideas of nationhood. The book considers the beloved in its ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Paq, Wanderer of Ada Ev

    by Michael C Beard ...
    Series series The Gifted of Ada Ev
    Some journeys begin with a choice. Others begin with a calling that cannot be denied.Paq has spent his entire life longing to answer a restless craving he cannot explain. On the eve of his seventeenth birthday, an irresistible force draws him beyond the only home he has ever known. His mother fears what he is becoming. Paq embraces it.He is a Wanderer.When Paq finally answers the mysterious call, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Design-Build: Planning Through Development

    by Jeffrey L. Beard, Edward C. Wundram, Michael C. Loulakis ...
    Definitive guide to mastering Design-BuildDesign-Build (D-B) -- the project delivery system in which one firm contracts to provide all of the architectural, engineering, and construction services on a project -- is expected to dominate the market by the year 2005. Studded with illustrative case histories, Design-Build: Planning Through Development, by Jeffrey Beard, Michael Loulakis, Esq., and ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Conscience, Leadership and the Problem of 'Dirty Hands'

    by Dr Howard Harris, Michael Schwartz ...
    Series Book 13 - Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations
    This volume contains a selection of papers from the 21st annual 'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics' Conference. It addresses the key theme of Political Leadership, Professional Ethics, and the Problem of Dirty Hands. 'Dirty hands' is a somewhat nebulous concept. It may refer to professions whose objectives are so consequential that some ethical violations are considered ... Read more

    $173.99 CAD

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  • Islam in the Modern World

    Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr ...
    The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world.One of the great scholars in the modern Islamic intellectual tradition, and the acclaimed author of books ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Way of Kings

    Book One of the Stormlight Archive

    by Brandon Sanderson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Stormlight Archive
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive, begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Words of Radiance

    Book Two of the Stormlight Archive

    by Brandon Sanderson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Stormlight Archive
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • What Is Islam?

    The Importance of Being Islamic

    by Shahab Ahmed ...
    A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • The Book of Five Rings (The Way of the Warrior Series) by Miyamoto Musashi

    by Miyamoto Musashi ...
    Along with Sun Tzu's The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings is considered to be one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asia. Composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. For ... Read more

    $0.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreams That Matter

    Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination

    by Amira Mittermaier ...
    Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams related to its shaykh, and ordinary believers who speak of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Ring of Fire (Young Samurai, Book 6)

    by Chris Bradford ...
    Series Book 6 - Young Samurai
    Young Samurai: The Ring of Fire is the sixth book in this blockbuster series by Chris BradfordJACK FLETCHER FACES HIS TOUGHEST CHALLENGE YET.After a snowstorm forces him to take shelter, Jack comes across a village in need of protection from raiding mountain bandits. Torn between moving on or helping, Jack is persuaded to stay and fight the villagers' cause.But Jack is the first and only samurai ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Sufi Narratives of Intimacy

    Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality

    by Sa'diyya Shaikh ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place. Grounding her work in Islamic ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD