Literature
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We Women of Tehran [Paperback]
Farian Sabahi(Author)
$14.99ISBN: 9788869773266
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
Originally written for the stage, "We, the Women of Tehran" illustrates from a female standpoint the origins and contradictions of the Iranian capital, and the rights of religious minorities and women. It showcases women who have played ... .... Learn More -
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: A Linguistic Approach [Hardback]
Natalia Elvira Astoreca(Author)
$55.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789257434
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: 5
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions ar... .... Learn More -
The Portrait of Abū i-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī [Hardback]
Abū l-Muṭahhar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Azdī(Author); Emily Selove(Editor); Geert Jan van Gelder(Editor)
$150.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781913604042
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
New translation and commentary on the 11th century tale of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan. It is introduced by its author as a microcosm of Baghdad. This work, written in prose but containing numerous poems, is widely hailed among scholars as... .... Learn More -
Memes, Communities and Continuous Change: Chinese Internet Vernacular Explained [Paperback]
Nie Hua(Author)
$85.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781626430181
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
“Chinese Internet Vernacular,” a complex of novel language varieties associated with the Chinese internet, is usually thought to consist of an increasing host of linguistic memes currently or once virally spread. Focusing on the vernac... .... Learn More -
Roman Poetry, Republican and Imperial [Hardback]
Francis Cairns(Editor)
$90.00ISBN: 9780995461222
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Volume: 56
After a long period in which the late Republican and Augustan poets were the main focus of scholarship in Latin poetry, more attention is now being given to earlier Republican literature, and even more to the poets of what used to be called dispar... .... Learn More -
The Story of Katrine [Paperback]
Maliaraq Vebaek(Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9780996748094
Published by : International Polar Institute
The Story of Katrine tells the story of a young Greenlandic woman who falls in love with a Danish craftsman, who works in Greenland over a summer. When he returns to Denmark, Katrine follows him because she thinks they should get married, h... .... Learn More -
Eroi in fiamme: Makuch e gli altri che sfidarono l’Urss [Paperback]
Dario Fertilio(Author); Olena Ponomareva(Author)
$24.00ISBN: 9788856404555
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: VS | Verità Scomode
Volume: 4
Between 1968, a year marked by the invasion of Prague, and the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, some solitary heroes dared to challenge the “red giant” by resorting to the most extreme gesture: the immolation of themselves through fi... .... Learn More -
Arezzo e gli aretini nella Divina Commedia [Paperback]
Stefano Pasquini(Author)
$28.00ISBN: 9788856404609
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Volume: 42
This essay explores the relationship between the Divine Comedy and the Italian city of Arezzo. The author focuses on some of the characters of the poem, reconstructing important events that saw them as protagonists, such as the exploits of ... .... Learn More -
I grani, i pani e i popoli: Le antiche varietà di frumento, le «biade», le «piante esotiche» descritte da Saverio Manetti (1765) con le annotazioni autografe dell’autore [Paperback]
Lucia Bigliazzi(Author); Luciana Bigliazzi(Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9788859621362
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Saverio Manetti (1723-1784), who was one of the founders of the Georgofili Academy, published in 1765 the treatise On the different species of wheat and bread as of bread making (...), divided into ten articles, with the purpose of solving ... .... Learn More -
La forma della scrittura: Studi in ricordo di Elettra Giaconi [Paperback]
Anna Agostini(Editor); Maria Camilla Pagnini(Editor)
$30.00ISBN: 9788859621355
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
The focus of the book is the multifaceted work of the Italian researcher Elettra Giaconi (1930-2020), whose studies concerned subjects as Dante Alighieri and the Florentine Humanism, the work of Giacomo Leopardi, the Futurists, and also artistic t... .... Learn More
