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Persian Pursuit
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Author : Iris Leigh
language : en
Publisher: Iris Leigh
Release Date : 2022-06-15
Persian Pursuit written by Iris Leigh and has been published by Iris Leigh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with Fiction categories.
A vacant home. A new neighbor. A desperate cat. A one-time job. I’m Kat Jones, and no matter what anyone tells you, I don’t work for cats… unless it’s the only option. The vacant home in my neighborhood has been vandalized. But that’s not the worst of it. If the new neighbors don’t move in, the cat they adopted has to go back to the shelter. I can’t let that happen. Someone is out to get them. It’s my job to find out who and why. Then, that’s the last time I let myself get hired by cats. keywords: cozy mystery, cosy mystery, cozy mysteries, cosy mysteries, cat book, cozy animal mystery, cozy cat mysteries, cosy animal mystery, cosy cat mysteries, humorous mystery, funny mysteries, cozy mystery series. cosy mystery series, animal cozies, humorous cozy mystery, humorous cosy mystery, amateur sleuth, women sleuth, funny cozies, murder mystery, cozy murder mystery series, cosy murder mystery series, whodunnit, cozy murder mystery books, cosy murder mystery books, cozy murder mysteries, cosy murder mysteries, small town, small town mystery, small town mysteries, clean read, murder mystery books, female sleuth, peculiar mysteries, cozy mystery series starter, cosy mystery series starter, women detective, talking animals
The Pursuit Of Pleasure
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Author : Rudi Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
The Pursuit Of Pleasure written by Rudi Matthee and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with History categories.
From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphaël du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave them a "kick," got them into a good mood. By tracing their historical trajectory and the role they played in early modern Iranian society (1500-1900), Rudi Matthee takes a major step in extending contemporary debates on the role of drugs and stimulants in shaping the modern West. At once panoramic and richly detailed, The Pursuit of Pleasure examines both the intoxicants known since ancient times--wine and opiates--and the stimulants introduced later--tobacco, coffee, and tea--from multiple angles. It brings together production, commerce, and consumption to reveal the forces behind the spread and popularity of these consumables, showing how Iranians adapted them to their own needs and tastes and integrated them into their everyday lives. Matthee further employs psychoactive substances as a portal for a set of broader issues in Iranian history--most notably, the tension between religious and secular leadership. Faced with reality, Iran's Shi`i ulama turned a blind eye to drug use as long as it stayed indoors and did not threaten the social order. Much of this flexibility remains visible underneath the uncompromising exterior of the current Islamic Republic.
The Persian Night
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Author : Amir Taheri
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2010-10-19
The Persian Night written by Amir Taheri and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with Political Science categories.
Who really rules Iran today? Are the men in official positions merely puppets activated by hidden hands? How are decisions made in a system that appears so chaotic at first glance? Is the current political structure doomed to conflict? These are some of the questions that Amir Taheri addresses in this riveting and timely book. An anatomy of one of the most secretive regimes in the contemporary world, The Persian Night traces the historical, religious, cultural, and political roots of the Khomeinist revolution and analyzes the way it has grown into a pseudo-religious ideology over the past three decades. Taheri dissects a regime that has hijacked a nation of seventy million people and mobilized its resources for global “holy war” against the United States and its allies. From Khomeini’s “divine mission” to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s messianic campaign in the name of the “Hidden Imam,” Iran is on a trajectory towards war. The Persian Night looks into the actual links between the Islamic Republic and terrorist networks including al-Qaeda and Hezballah; the reality of the Iranian nuclear program; the Islamic Republic’s war-making capabilities and strategies; and the origins of the three Khomeinist phobias—women, Jews, and the United States. But as Taheri demonstrates, Khomeinism is not Iran. Today there are two competing Irans: the one manifested in the negative Khomeinist energies that have dragged the nation into its dark night; the other drawing from the long and celebrated history of Persian culture while extending a friendly hand to the West. Successive U.S. administrations, along with most European governments, have failed to understand the reality of the Khomeinist regime and at times have even aided its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear arsenal. Taheri provides a set of imaginative suggestions for more effective ways of dealing with Iran.
Persia In Crisis
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Author : Rudi Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Persia In Crisis written by Rudi Matthee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with History categories.
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterised late Safavid Iran. "Persia in Crisis" challenges this view. In this ground-breaking new book, Rudi Matthee revisits traditional sources and introduces new ones to take a fresh look at Safavid Iran in the century preceding the fall of Isfahan in 1722, which brought down the dynasty and ushered in a long period of turbulence in Iranian history. Inherently vulnerable because of the country's physical environment, its tribal makeup and a small economic base, the Safavid state was fatally weakened over the course of the seventeenth century. Matthee views Safavid Iran as a network of precarious alliances subject to perpetual negotiation and the society they ruled as an uneasy balance between conflicting forces. In the later seventeenth century this delicate balance shifted from cohesion to fragmentation. An increasingly detached, palace-bound shah; a weakening link between the capital and the outlying provinces; the regime's neglect of the military and its shortsighted monetary policies combined to exacerbate rather than redress existing problems, leaving the country with a ruler too feeble to hold factionalism and corruption in check and a military unable to defend its borders against outside attack by Ottomans and Afghans. The scene was set for the Crisis of 1722. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of Iranian history and the period that led to two hundred years of decline and eclipse for Iran.
Persian Fire
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Author : Tom Holland
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-04-21
Persian Fire written by Tom Holland and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-21 with History categories.
Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC 'Magisterial... told with great authority and a novelistic colour and verve' Books of the Year, Independent 'Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama and the telling anecdote' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph 'An unequivocal argument for the relevance of ancient history' Observer 'Holland brings this tumultuous, epoch-making period dazzlingly to life' William Napier, Independent on Sunday In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the most powerful man on the planet is as heart-stopping as any episode in history.
The Persian Adventurer
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Author : James Baillie Fraser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830
The Persian Adventurer written by James Baillie Fraser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with Voyages and travels categories.
Missing Persians
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Author : Nasrin Rahimieh
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2001-10-01
Missing Persians written by Nasrin Rahimieh and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-01 with History categories.
Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity—complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change. Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation's history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history. Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.
Which Path To Persia
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Author : Kenneth M. Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Which Path To Persia written by Kenneth M. Pollack and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Political Science categories.
Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque political system, it is no wonder that the United States has not yet figured out the puzzle that is Iran. With the clock ticking on Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities, solving this puzzle is more urgent than ever. In Which Path to Persia? a group of experts with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings lays out the courses of action available to the United States. What are the benefits and drawbacks of airstrikes? Can engagement be successful? Is regime change possible? In answering such questions, the authors do not argue for one approach over another. Instead, they present the details of the policies so that readers can understand the complexity of the challenge and decide for themselves which course the United States should take.
Persian Pursuit
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Author : Iris Leigh
language : en
Publisher: A Cat Aunt Cozy Mystery
Release Date : 2022-06-15
Persian Pursuit written by Iris Leigh and has been published by A Cat Aunt Cozy Mystery this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with categories.
A vacant home. A new neighbor. A desperate cat. A one-time job. I'm Kat Jones, and no matter what anyone tells you, I don't work for cats... unless it's the only option. The vacant home in my neighborhood has been vandalized. But that's not the worst of it. If the new neighbors don't move in, the cat they adopted has to go back to the shelter. I can't let that happen. Someone is out to get them. It's my job to find out who and why. Then, that's the last time I let myself get hired by cats. I swear.
Pearl Of The Persian Gulf
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Author : Irandokht Sarrafi
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-10
Pearl Of The Persian Gulf written by Irandokht Sarrafi and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10 with Fiction categories.
Regarding the present book Irandokht says: After my first children s storybook was published, I planned to publish my other storybooks in turn. But I started hearing heart-wrenching stories from around the world about young women who had escaped from Iran. I received this news on the radio, on TV, in printed press, and from friends and family who returned from visits to Tehran. Each night I would go to bed with a heavy heart and on one of those nights the Pearl of the Persian Gulf was born and Sara, the main character, became the embodiment of all those heroic young women who ran away in pursuit of freedom.