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Alice Neel
“...perhaps the definitive tome on her life and career." – Nena Hawke, BlackBook "...an important new monograph about Alice Neel, one of the greatest portrait painters of the 20th …
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Bernard Lewis shows that racism was long intertwined with slavery in the Islamic world, as he traces the history of slavery in the region where it lasted longest. This beautifully …
What Went Wrong?
A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.
Middle East
A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subject
Journals of Lewis and Clark
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.President …
Arabs in History
`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab …
Crisis of Islam
The great scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the modern world - a Sunday Times bestseller.
Cultures in Conflict
Bernard Lewis uses the year 1492, a year laden with epic events and riven by political debate, to explore the clash between the Jews, Christendom, and Islam, as well as that …
The Kingly Crown
Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) of Spain was a Jewish philosopher and moralist who is perhaps best known for the beautiful forty-stanza poem Keter Malkhut (The Kingly Crown). …
Symbolic Interaction
This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.
The Secret Lore of London
With a foreword by Iain Sinclair. London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory of these islands. Not …