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...more details Format:Hardback
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:132
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781432558406
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!...more details Format:Paperback Pages:132
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781436702003
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:132
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781616377656
Internationally recognized as one of our greatest historians of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis investigates the motivations behind the September 11 attacks and the larger development of an Islamic holy war against the United States. Over time...more details
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780071358743
This is a complete portable resource for the consistent monitoring of facilities. It offers a logical, systematic approach to developing an in-house inspection program...more details Format:Paperback Pages:428
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780071477864
Learn how to effectively manage procedures and reduce costs at any facility. This practical handbook takes you through the planning, design, and execution of maintenance and operation procedures for structures...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:560
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780070400481
Here are cutting-edge techniques that will boost the productivity and slash the costs of your facility department.
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780195144215
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal )...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780753818718
Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG? and THE CRISIS OF ISLAM...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:464
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780297848844
Bernard Lewis is internationally recognised as an outstanding scholar and historian of Middle Eastern and Islamic history, who has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also...more details Format:Hardback Pages:350
In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780375758379
This book offers a rich overview of two millennia of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. It is a delightful treasury of stories drawn from letters...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780691150109
Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translated into English by Bernard Lewis...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781455890743
Notes on a Century is a great historian's vivid and insightful episodic reflections on his life, from his childhood as a confident, clever little boy to his energetic old age in the present day. He is always at pains to explain the importance of the role of a historian: in contrast to other academic disciplines he unwittingly breaks his own mould...more details Format:CD
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781455890767
Notes on a Century is a great historian's vivid and insightful episodic reflections on his life, from his childhood as a confident, clever little boy to his energetic old age in the present day. He is always at pains to explain the importance of the role of a historian: in contrast to other academic disciplines he unwittingly breaks his own mould...more details Format:CD
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780753800331
The Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East has unsettled the world for over half a century. What are the roots of this violence? Is it simply the 'normal' prejudice found through time between neighbouring peoples of different cultural traditions or ethnic origins...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781844152520
The Swansea Battalion was formed from local men by the Mayor of Swansea in the response to Lord Kitchener's famous appeal for volunteers. This...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781844150564
The Swansea Battalion was formed from local men by the Mayor of Swansea in the response to Lord Kitchener's famous appeal for volunteers. This...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780753817520
President Bush has made it clear that we are engaged in a war against terrorism. But for Usama bin Laden and his followers this is religious war...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780297645481
President Bush has made it clear that we are engaged in a war against terrorism. But for Usama bin Laden and his followers this is religious war...more details Format:hardback Pages:192
With the ending of global strategic confrontation between superpowers, those in the Middle East must adjust to a new reality: to accept final responsibility for their own affairs...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:188
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780415440929
Against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history, Bernard Lewis portrays the Judaeo-Islamic tradition - a cultural relationship parallel to the Judaeo-Christian heritage. He traces its origins in the early Middle Ages...more details Format:Hardback
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780691008073
Examines the Judaeo-Islamic tradition, traces the history of Islam, and describes the reasons for the breakdown in relations between the Jews and the Islamic world....more details Format:Paperback Pages:280
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781842121399
In this readable and wide ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780753808740
Most of the modern states of the Middle East are of recent origin, yet the region is the birthplace of three religions and many civilizations. Bernard Lewis...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9781842121955
Turning the traditional focus of western scholarship on its head, Professor Bernard Lewis, author of THE MIDDLE EAST (Phoenix Press) and one of the world's foremost experts on Islamic history...more details Format:paperback Pages:352
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780226476933
Discuss the Islamic Scriptures that form the basis for its political language, looks at the changes in modern Islamic politics, and analyzes the transformation of political terms....more details Format:Paperback Pages:184
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780753816752
For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Bernard Lewis
ISBN:9780297829294
For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
Anatole France (1844-1924), born Franois-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He studied at the Collge Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a cataloguer at Bacheline- Deflorenne and at Lemerre...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780806110608
On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as "the Conqueror," launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital...more details Format:Paperback Pages:204
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Bernard M Shaw;Robert M Lewis
ISBN:9780801870873
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:400
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Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman
ISBN:9780313248412
The book corrects many misconceptions about 19th century international relations in Western Europe which, the author feels, have been taken for granted...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:228
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780195076196
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780812695182
Recent events have made an understanding of the turmoil in the Middle East more important than ever. In these essays, Bernard Lewis, a leading expert on Islam...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780195050875
This documentary history of Islam from the advent of the prophet Muhammed to the capture of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed, the Conqueror, is concerned with a period that extends from the 7th century to 1453; with a region that stretches from Western Arabia to embrace the Middle East...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780195050882
This second volume examines the religion and structure of Islamic society. Bernard Lewis draws on a broad range of Islamic literature, including books on religious sects...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Lewis Bernard & Churchill Buntzie Ellis
ISBN:9780132230858
Praise for Bernard Lewis "For newcomers to the subject[el]Bernard Lewis is the man." TIME Magazine "The doyen of Middle Eastern studies." The New York Times "No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:237
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Bernard J Lewis
ISBN:9780615387505
Longtime Winchester resident and clinical psychologist, Bernie Lewis, has had a lifelong interest in people, the things they do, and what makes a person unique. The seventeen profiles selected for inclusion represent some of Winchester's most giving members of the community from all walks of life. Their stories and contributions are heartwarming...more details Format:Paperback Pages:182
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780691089287
"Music of a Distant Drum" marks a literary milestone. For the first time in English, poems from four leading literary traditions of the Middle East representing a wide sweep of medieval history appear in a single volume compiled by a single translator. Bernard Lewis...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780195053265
From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780393318395
The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:295
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780465004980
The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists. An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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P M Holt;B Lewis Bernard WLewis
ISBN:9780521291354
First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful for both reference and reading...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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P M Holt;B Lewis Bernard WLewis
ISBN:9780521291361
First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilisation yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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P M Holt;B Lewis Bernard WLewis
ISBN:9780521291385
First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is a most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading...more details Format:Paperback Pages:580
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P M Holt;B Lewis Bernard WLewis
ISBN:9780521291378
First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading...more details Format:Paperback Pages:966
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780812967852
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780679642817
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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Bernard T Lewis;Richard P Payant
ISBN:9780814473627
"Facility managers have to be ready for anything: bomb threats, flooding, labor strikes, workplace violence -- the list goes on and on. Since 9/11...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Bernard Augustine DeVoto;Bernard Augustine Lewis MeriwetherDeVoto
ISBN:9780395859964
In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank -- not only on the map but in our knowledge...more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780684832807
In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780805211184
The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today are of recent origin...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780393321654
The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780195072822
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780060516055
For 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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780195144208
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Bernard W Lewis
ISBN:9780660189703
For centuries, the world of Islam was at the forefront of human achievement in military and economic power, in politics, and in the arts and sciences. Europe...more details Format:CD