Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping the world we currently live in? This witty...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Michael Cook
ISBN:9781862076877
This brief book sweeps the whole of human history over the last ten thousand years and addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Why did we first emerge as a species in Africa and why was the ancient Near East the place where civilization took off? Why did civilizations develop...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368
Surveying the whole of human history over the last ten thousand years, Michael Cook addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Why did we first emerge as a species in Africa? How did the great world religions arise and the worship of many gods give way to just one? Zooming in on some of the details of history...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:368
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Michael Cook
ISBN:9780521545723
The key sources for the reconstruction of the early history of Muslim dogma are a group of texts ascribed to authors of the late first century of the Hijra. These texts bear on two major doctrinal controversies...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Michael Cook
ISBN:9780521829137
Michael Cook's magisterial study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:200
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Michael Cook
ISBN:9780521536028
Michael Cook's magisterial study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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Michael Cook
ISBN:9780230113299
Release Date: 07 August 2012 Bringing together essays on topics related to Islamic law, this book is composed of articles by prominent legal scholars and historians of Islam. The authors cover a wide swath of issues...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Michael Cook
ISBN:9780192853448
The Koran has constituted a remarkably strong core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in traditional Muslim culture. Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the Koran as codex...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Michael Cook
ISBN:9780521515368
The New Cambridge History of Islam is a comprehensive history of Islamic civilization, tracing its development from its beginnings in seventh-century Arabia to its wide and varied presence in the globalised world of today. The six volumes reflect the geographical distribution and the cultural...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:4328
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Michael Cooke
ISBN:9780300023039
The copious attention visited on romanticism during recent decades has only rarely resulted in comprehensive theoretical constructions. This new work by Michael Cooke...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:289
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Michael Cook;M A Cook
ISBN:9781417729487
The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction...more details Format:Prebound
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Richard Serra;Michael Cooke LynneGovan
ISBN:9780944521359
Texts by Mark Taylor and Michael Govan. Interview with Lynne Cooke. This book documents a new series of large-scale metal sculptures Torqued Ellipse I...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Napoleon Hill;Michael Cook JulienMcConnohie
ISBN:9781932429299
From the multi-million selling author of "Think and Grow Rich(R) No matter who you are or what you do...every time you meet someone, explain an idea...more details Format:CD
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Michael Cooke
ISBN:9781425973476
Ashleigh Simpson runs away from home to London and becomes an Escort for an agency to work her way through University. Deciding on a career, she eventually moves to Sheffield and on her first day in her new position...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Mike Cook;Michael Cook
ISBN:9780760301654
As with most postwar British sports cars, a large portion of the Triumphs produced in the 1950s and 1960s were exported to the United States. As a result...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Michael G Cooke
ISBN:9780300036244
""For the serious student of black writers and black writing, this book is provocative and challenging, not to mention original. If one's appetite for black literature is large...more details Format:Paperback Pages:242
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Michael L Cook
ISBN:9780735554269
A practitioner's guide to the bankruptcy litigation process, this edition reflects the important trends and decisions in this field. With a focus on business bankruptcy litigation...more details Format:Loose-leaf Pages:1302
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Michael L Cook
ISBN:9780735561960
Serving as a practitioner's guide to the bankruptcy litigation process, this edition reflects the important trends and decisions in this field. With a focus on business bankruptcy litigation...more details Format:Loose-leaf Pages:1374
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Michael A Cook
ISBN:9780521661744
What kind of duty do we have to try to stop other people doing wrong? The question is intelligible in just about any culture, but few of them seek to answer it in a rigorous fashion. The most striking exception is found in the Islamic tradition...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:724
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Lynne Cooke;Juan Govan MichaelMuunoz
ISBN:9780944521397
This book documents two related installation projects by Juan Munoz commissioned by Dia Center for the Arts: "A Place Called Abroad," created at Dia...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Michael L Cook
ISBN:9780814651483
Justice, Jesus, and the Jews centers on our common root, the Hebrew Bible, and the relationship of the Jewish prophet Jesus of Nazareth to his ancestral heritage...more details Format:Paperback Pages:127
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COOK MICHAEL
ISBN:9781580233132
Despite the New Testament's impact on Jewish history, virtually all Jews avoid knowledge of its underlying dynamics. Jewish families and communities thus remain needlessly stymied when responding to a culture deeply Christian. Their Christian friends...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:374
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David Cook;Michael Ckenimkpe MichaelOkenimkpe
ISBN:9780435074302
This is a comprehensive interpretation of all of Ngugi's works. During the last four decades he has proved to be one of the most exceptional writers whose work is meaningful both to the workers of Kenya and to international intellectuals. This book discusses his philosophy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:283
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Michael L Cook
ISBN:9780809134281
A very personal statement of who Jesus is by a theologian who has spent his entire life seeking to deepen his knowledge of Jesus and to express that knowledge....more details Format:Paperback Pages:124
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Michael J Cook
ISBN:9781921005336
For a young man alone in a foreign country, loneliness will often lead to the comfort of romance. This is the story of Jim, Songlee and Jesmai and how their stories unite....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:254
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James W Cook;Michael Glickman Lawrence BO'Malley
ISBN:9780226115078
A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, "The Cultural Turn in U.S. History" takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice. The first of this volume's three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:447
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James W Cook;Michael Glickman Lawrence BO'Malley
ISBN:9780226115061
A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, "The Cultural Turn in U.S. History" takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice. The first of this volume's three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:447
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David M Goldenberg;William Chester Cook MichaelJordan
ISBN:9780691123707
How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking book...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:480
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Michael Leon Cook
ISBN:9781411643925
This book concerns the effective brutality and injustice of the plea bargain system in an age when many effective safeguards of criminal defense have already been disabled or circumvented. In some states modifications to the rules of evidence concerning hearsay...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:444