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Del 3 - Förhandlaren Amanda Lund
Norr om Beirut
Pocket, Svenska, 2021
99 kr
Smällkall februarinatt och Amanda Lund skickas till Västerbron i Stockholm för att försöka förhindra en självmordshoppare. Personen i fråga, Jonas Wester, visar sig inte ha anmält att hans barn varit försvunna. Däremot uppges Veronika Bark, chef på SIDA, vara saknad. Båda har de kopplingar till en svensk kontakt i Libanon. Parallellt följer vi en utsatt människas farliga resa från Afghanistan och sedan till olika flyktingläger i Europa. Svårtydda händelser runtom i världen, fjärrstyrda av hot om avslöjande hemligheter.
Med en noggrannhet i detaljerna och en självklar auktoritet i berättandet fångar Anna Tell sina läsare från första sidan. "Norr om Beirut" är den tredje, fristående delen i serien om Amanda Lund, förhandlare vid Nationella insatsstyrkan.
Häftad, Svenska, 2007
154 kr
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"Döden i Beirut är en fantastisk idé- och historieresa som emellanåt med närmast poetiska beskrivningar skildrar ett land där de döda 'går igen på de levandes ben." (Rakel Chukri, SDS) Perser, greker, romare, araber, korsfarare, turkar, ryssar, engelsmän, fransmän, syrier, israeler, iranier, palestinier, nordamerikaner - alla har de under årens lopp belägrat Libanons huvudstad Beirut. Efter det långa inbördeskriget 1975-1990, mordet på Hariri och Syriens återtåg 2005, går de levande på de dödas ben. Men också omvänt: Beirut är en stad där det de döda går igen på de levandes ben. Döden i Beirut är en djupt personlig essä om det förflutnas hemsökelser i en stad belägrad av vålnader. Michael Azar är författare och professor i idéhistoria, verksam i Göteborg. "Om den ordinära nyhetsrapporteringen om Mellanöstern snarast ökar ens förvirring så bidrar Azar på ett imponerande sätt till att göra detta dödliga spel något mera begripligt." (Kristina Lundblad, GP) "...en utomordentlig bok, som utöver att vara något så ovanligt som en stilistiskt njutbar essä också förklarar varför ett land som utåt sett kan se ut som ett multikulturellt paradis i själva verket är en krutdurk." (Steve-Sem Sandberg, SvD) "...en tät och kunskapsrik bok, med en djupt personlig botten." (Hans Ruin, DN)
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
160 kr
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The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima, when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott. Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries and photographs, this is the authoritative account of the deadly attack.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
185 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
544 kr
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Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, "Beirut" is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990. Generously illustrated and eloquently written, "Beirut" illuminates contemporary issues of modernity and democracy while at the same time memorably recreating the atmosphere of one of the world's most picturesque, dynamic, and resilient cities.
- 4 för 3
Pocket, Svenska, 2026
99 kr
Arkeologen Lucie Fitzgerald står inför två omvälvande insikter: hennes mamma Polly är döende – och hon har undanhållit något om sitt liv.
I sjuttiotalets Beirut, på gränsen till inbördeskrig, ligger Polly för döden. Det enda hon vill är att dottern Lucie ska hinna hem i tid. Polly har nämligen en sista hemlighet att avslöja innan det är för sent. Hon vill berätta om sin barndomsvän Juno och det spännande liv de båda levde i det färgsprakande och flärdfulla Kairo på trettiotalet.
Så Lucie, arkeolog boende i London, reser skyndsamt hem till Beirut för att vara med sin mor. Under deras sista dagar tillsammans uppdagas sanningen om hennes familj, om Junos viktiga arbete och om deras gemensamma jakt på den största outforskade graven av alla – Nefertitis.
Den gyllene timmen är en historisk roman som tar läsaren med på en resa genom utgrävningar i öknen, skatter och jakten på Nefertitis grav. Från 1930-talets dekadenta kabaréer i krigets Kairo till det bohemiska livet i 1970-talets Beirut, är detta en berättelse som kombinerar äventyr, vänskap och oförglömliga kvinnors öden.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
253 kr
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From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire comes the story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIA’s endless war against Islamic radicalism. On April 18, 1983, a van rigged with two thousand pounds of heavy explosives broke through the security perimeter of the American embassy in Lebanon and exploded, killing sixty-three people and decimating intelligence operations throughout the Middle East. Only one man inside the CIA possessed the courage and skills to rebuild the networks destroyed in the blast: William Buckley. Assigned as the new Beirut Station Chief, Buckley arrived in the war-torn city to find a CIA station in tatters and an intelligence playing-field unlike any other in the world; the veteran of the Cold War would now be learning Beirut rules. A field operative at heart, he delved into Beirut’s darkest corners, developing new sources and handling assets. Then, on October 23, a US Marine Corps barrack was destroyed in a plot masterminded by a young terrorist named Imad Mughniyeh. But even as President Reagan vowed revenge, Mughniyeh eyed a new target: Buckley. Beirut Rules is the pulse-by-pulse account of Buckley’s abduction, torture, and murder at the hands of Hezbollah terrorists. Drawing on never-before-seen US government documents, as well as interviews with Buckley’s co-workers, friends, and family, Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz reveal how the relentless search for Buckley in the wake of his kidnapping ignited a war against terror that continues to shape the Middle East to this day.
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
238 kr
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When foreign correspondents Lidia, Mike, and Steve arrive in Beirut in 1982, in the midst of the burning civil war that was consuming the city, they expect danger and chaos. Thrown together inside the legendary Commodore Hotel, they navigate through collapsing frontlines and sudden ceasefires. All three soon realize they have landed in the very heart of a hell created by one of the bloodiest civil wars the world has ever seen. They share cigarettes, arguments, secrets, and the kind of fear that binds strangers tighter than friendship. But when the city falls silent in a way no ceasefire ever brings, the three realize they have missed something terrible, something the soldiers refuse to explain. Forced to flee through a Lebanon split between burning streets and untouched coastal luxury, they escape by sea, carrying with them the smell of smoke and the weight of unanswered questions. A story of war, friendship, longing, and the memories that refuse to fade. This is a book about the people who report history. A history that still echoes today.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
272 kr
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The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima, when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott. Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries and photographs, this is the authoritative account of the deadly attack.
Del 3 - Förhandlaren Amanda Lund
Norr om Beirut
E-bok
Svenska, 202079 kr
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Smällkall februarinatt och Amanda Lund skickas till Västerbron i Stockholm för att försöka förhindra en självmordshoppare. Personen i fråga, Jonas Wester, visar sig inte ha anmält att hans barn varit försvunna. Däremot uppges Veronika Bark, chef på SIDA, vara saknad. Båda har de kopplingar till en svensk kontakt i Libanon. Parallellt följer vi en utsatt människas farliga resa från Afghanistan och sedan till olika flyktingläger i Europa. Svårtydda händelser runtom i världen, fjärrstyrda av hot om avslöjande hemligheter.
Med en noggrannhet i detaljerna och en självklar auktoritet i berättandet fångar Anna Tell sina läsare från första sidan. "Norr om Beirut" är den tredje, fristående delen i serien om Amanda Lund, förhandlare vid Nationella insatsstyrkan.
- Nyhet
E-bok
Engelska, 202699 kr
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When foreign correspondents Lidia, Mike, and Steve arrive in Beirut in 1982, in the midst of the burning civil war that was consuming the city, they expect danger and chaos. Thrown together inside the legendary Commodore Hotel, they navigate through collapsing frontlines and sudden ceasefires. All three soon realize they have landed in the very heart of a hell created by one of the bloodiest civil wars the world has ever seen. They share cigarettes, arguments, secrets, and the kind of fear that binds strangers tighter than friendship. But when the city falls silent in a way no ceasefire ever brings, the three realize they have missed something terrible, something the soldiers refuse to explain. Forced to flee through a Lebanon split between burning streets and untouched coastal luxury, they escape by sea, carrying with them the smell of smoke and the weight of unanswered questions.A story of war, friendship, longing, and the memories that refuse to fade. This is a book about the people who report history. A history that still echoes today.
Inbunden, Svenska, 1997
362 kr
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Asmahan skriver brev, desperat, vältaligt, fängslande för att ge mening åt sitt liv och kasta lite glans över det. Men hon skriver också för att belysa kriget som söndersliter hennes land och återkalla sina minnen av det forna Beirut arkitekturen, lukterna, folket, prakten innan det bleknar bort. I dessa stämningsmättade, sensuella, pregnanta och roliga brev frambesvärjer hon med avväpnande öppenhet en kvinnas liv och lustar i en krigshärjad stad och hennes känsla av att vara gisslan i sitt eget land. Medan hon skriver till en vän i exil, till sina älskare, till sin idol Billie Holiday, till sin älskade mormor växer den ena berättelsen ut ur den andra. Kärleksfullt registrerar hon de förbluffande detaljerna i sin tillvaro, umbärandena, de riskabla kärleksaffärerna, den svarta humorn, den småaktiga missunnsamheten i en delad stad och sin ambivalens inför den nya ordningen där feodalismen ersatts av vapenhandel och fruktodlingarna av opium. Till slut frestas hon att lämna staden med Jawad som hon har blivit ohjälpligt förälskad i, och i det sista brevet finner vi Asmahan på flygplatsen... Beirut Blues är en storartad roman: ett närgånget och gripande porträtt av en lidelsefull kvinna och en oförglömlig skildring av ett land vid korsvägen.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
291 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
191 kr
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On a ravaged street overlooking a cemetery in a Christian enclave in war-torn 1970s Beirut, we meet Pavlov, the son of a local undertaker. When his father dies suddenly, Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society—an anti-religious sect that arranges secret burial for outcasts denied last rites because of their religion or sexuality. Pavlov agrees to take on his father’s work for the society, and over the course of the novel he becomes a survivor-chronicler of his embattled and faded community at the heart of Lebanon’s civil war.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
306 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2023
397 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2000
251 kr
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Del 4 - Shake Davis
Beirut File
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
211 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1998
193 kr
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A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman’s stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award.‘If you’re only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.’ Seymour HershIn this lucid, incisive and memorable book, acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, Friedman reaches deeper into the traumatic and complex recent history of the conflicts in the Middle East than any previous writer.For this new edition, Friedman has added a further two chapters that bring the book up to 1995 and the unfolding – and stalling – of the Middle Eastern peace process.From Beirut to Jerusalem is wonderully shrewd, surprisingly funny and indispensable to anyone seeking a fuller understanding of the political causes and psychological effects of the seemingly endless strife which besets this embattled region.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 20052 365 kr
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Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab cosmopolitanism and cultural effervescence but also for its tragedies of destruction. This book examines the historical formation of Beirut as a multiply contested Mediterranean city. Fin de Siecle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature in Ottoman studies, in Arab cultural history and on Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory, particularly Henri Lefebvre's work on cities and capitalism, with postcolonial methodology, the central thesis of this book is that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. The city of Beirut was at once the product, the object, and the project of imperial and urban politics of difference: overlapping European, Ottoman, and municipal civilising missions competed in the political fields of administration, infrastructure, urban planning, public health, education, public morality, journalism, and architecture. Jens Hanssen offers a comprehensive, original account of the emergence of modern Beirut out of an economic shift away from Acre in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. He argues that the Ottoman government's decision to heed calls for the creation of a new province around Beirut and grant it provincial capital status in 1888 paved the way for fundamental urban and regional reconfigurations long before colonial policies during the French Mandate period. This new Ottoman province came to constitute the territorial embodiment of regional self-determination for Arab nationalists in Beirut until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen's book traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. The transformation of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Beirut and the concomitant policies of urban management is vividly set against the devastating civil war in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 581 kr
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Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab cosmopolitanism and cultural effervescence but also for its tragedies of destruction. This book examines the historical formation of Beirut as a multiply contested Mediterranean city.Fin de Siècle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature in Ottoman studies, in Arab cultural history and on Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory, particularly Henri Lefebvre's work on cities and capitalism, with postcolonial methodology, the central thesis of this book is that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. The city of Beirut was at once the product, the object, and the project of imperial and urban politics of difference: overlapping European, Ottoman, and municipal civilising missions competed in the political fields of administration, infrastructure, urban planning, public health, education, public morality, journalism, and architecture.Jens Hanssen offers a comprehensive, original account of the emergence of modern Beirut out of an economic shift away from Acre in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. He argues that the Ottoman government's decision to heed calls for the creation of a new province around Beirut and grant it provincial capital status in 1888 paved the way for fundamental urban and regional reconfigurations long before colonial policies during the French Mandate period. This new Ottoman province came to constitute the territorial embodiment of regional self-determination for Arab nationalists in Beirut until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I.Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen's book traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. The transformation of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Beirut and the concomitant policies of urban management is vividly set against the devastating civil war in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
1 080 kr
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Diab examines the social repercussions of Beirut's role as a financial, trade, and banking center in the Middle East during Lebanon's post-independence years (1943-1975). He investigates the development of Beirut and its early financial involvement in the region, particularly through the introduction of the cash crop, silk, to Mount Lebanon. He examines the impact of such involvement on steering the Lebanese social structure and economy to meet the needs of capitalist expansion into the Middle East. As capitalist interests sought to transform Beirut into the Switzerland of the Middle East, social and regional disparities increased. Professor Diab presents statistics and other data to show the magnitudes of the disparities that plagued the country and led to increased social unrest.By highlighting the social burden that Beirut's role placed on the Lebanese social structure, Diab exposes the limitations of current developmental strategies that aim to revive Beirut's earlier role in the Middle East, and he asks what are the social costs involved in insisting on restoring Beirut to its previous role? What can be done to prevent the current predicament from producing the kinds of socioeconomic disparities that plagued the post-independence years? An important revisionist study, this will be of particular interest to scholars and students of social, economic, and political change in the Middle East.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
601 kr
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Since the American University of Beirut opened its doors in 1866, the campus has stood at the intersection of a rapidly changing American educational project for the Middle East and an ongoing student quest for Arab national identity and empowerment. Betty S. Anderson provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of how the school shifted from a missionary institution providing a curriculum in Arabic to one offering an English-language American liberal education extolling freedom of speech and analytical discovery.Anderson discusses how generations of students demanded that they be considered legitimate voices of authority over their own education; increasingly, these students sought to introduce into their classrooms the real-life political issues raging in the Arab world. The Darwin Affair of 1882, the introduction of coeducation in the 1920s, the Arab nationalist protests of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the even larger protests of the 1970s all challenged the Americans and Arabs to fashion an educational program relevant to a student body constantly bombarded with political and social change. Anderson reveals that the two groups chose to develop a program that combined American goals for liberal education with an Arab student demand that the educational experience remain relevant to their lives outside the school's walls. As a result, in eras of both cooperation and conflict, the American leaders and the students at the school have made this American institution of the Arab world and of Beirut.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
222 kr
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Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of the war was an unstable situation Sawalha considers "a postwar state of emergency," even as the state strove to restore normalcy. This ethnography centers on various groups' responses to Beirut's large, privatized urban-renewal project that unfolded during this turbulent moment.At the core of the study is the theme of remembering space. The official process of rebuilding the city as a node in the global economy collided with local day-to-day concerns, and all arguments invariably inspired narratives of what happened before and during the war. Sawalha explains how Beirutis invoked their past experiences of specific sites to vie for the power to shape those sites in the future. Rather than focus on a single site, the ethnography crosses multiple urban sites and social groups, to survey varied groups with interests in particular spaces. The book contextualizes these spatial conflicts within the discourses of the city's historical accounts and the much-debated concept of heritage, voiced in academic writing, politics, and journalism. In the afterword, Sawalha links these conflicts to the social and political crises of early twenty-first-century Beirut.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
286 kr
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Since the American University of Beirut opened its doors in 1866, the campus has stood at the intersection of a rapidly changing American educational project for the Middle East and an ongoing student quest for Arab national identity and empowerment. Betty S. Anderson provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of how the school shifted from a missionary institution providing a curriculum in Arabic to one offering an English-language American liberal education extolling freedom of speech and analytical discovery.Anderson discusses how generations of students demanded that they be considered legitimate voices of authority over their own education; increasingly, these students sought to introduce into their classrooms the real-life political issues raging in the Arab world. The Darwin Affair of 1882, the introduction of coeducation in the 1920s, the Arab nationalist protests of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the even larger protests of the 1970s all challenged the Americans and Arabs to fashion an educational program relevant to a student body constantly bombarded with political and social change. Anderson reveals that the two groups chose to develop a program that combined American goals for liberal education with an Arab student demand that the educational experience remain relevant to their lives outside the school's walls. As a result, in eras of both cooperation and conflict, the American leaders and the students at the school have made this American institution of the Arab world and of Beirut.
E-bok
Engelska, 2013118 kr
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With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world''s foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level.The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the chaos surrounding the heroine, Asmahan, as she futilely writes letters to her loved ones, to her friends, to Beirut, and to the war itself--letters of lament that are never to be answered except with their own resounding echoes. In Beirut Blues, Hanan al-Shaykh evokes a Beirut that has been seen by few, and that will never be seen again.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 494 kr
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Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 1960s.Positing the Cold War as a globalized conflict, fraught with different political ideologies and intercultural exchanges, this study asks how these historical circumstances shaped local debates in Beirut over artistic pedagogy, the social role of the artist, the aesthetics of form, and, ultimately, the development of a national art. Drawing on a range of archival material and taking an interdisciplinary approach, Sarah Rogers argues that the genealogies of modern art can never be understood as isolated, national histories, but rather that they participate in an ever contingent global modernism.This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, Cold War studies, and Middle East studies.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
653 kr
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This volume is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of Taurus of Beirut, and provides a long-awaited analysis of his texts and their first English translation. Through close examination of the extant witnesses, Petrucci gives a new account of Middle Platonism based on a fresh approach to the theological and cosmological view of Taurus. In this way, the book contributes substantially to the debate on Post-Hellenistic Platonism from the point of view of both exegetical methods and philosophical doctrines, and offers a starting point for a new understanding of many aspects of ancient thought.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010225 kr
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This revised edition of the number-one bestseller and winner of the 1989 National Book Award includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author''s new, updated epilogue.One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his ten years of experience reporting from Lebanon and Israel to write this now-classic work of journalism. In a new afterword, he updates his journey with a fresh discussion of the Arab Awakenings and how they are transforming the area, and a new look at relations between Israelis and Palestinians, and Israelis and Israelis. Rich with anecdote, history, analysis, and autobiography, From Beirut to Jerusalem will continue to shape how we see the Middle East for many years to come. "If you''re only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it."--Seymour M. Hersh
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
346 kr
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