An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on a [...]

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations - dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought t[...]

Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ry-szard Kapuscinski tries to make journalistic and human sense out of the mass of notes, tapes, and photographs he has accumulated during his extended stay in Iran. Just what happened and how? What did Khomeini have to [...]

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"Named one of "Time" magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year, Tahir Shah's The Caliph's House was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as "A Year in Provence" and "Under the Tuscan Sun." Now Shah takes us deeper into the "real" Casablanca to uncover mysteries hidden for centuri[...]

Collects traditional stories of Morocco that are recounted by an eccentric cast of characters: from master masons who work only at night to Sufi wise men who write for soap operas and Tuareg guides addicted to reality TV.[...]

Chronicles the events leading to the fall of the last reigning monarch of the Peacock Thorne, detailing the excesses of his court, the rise of the Ayatollah, and his abdiction and life as refugee[...]

The Eye of the Shah is the beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. The volume presents some two hundred photographs--the great majority of which have never been seen by the public--taken by [...]

Now in full color and completely updated, the Fifth Edition of this best-selling manual is a reliable quick-reference guide for all clinicians who treat eye disorders. Every disorder encountered in the office, emergency room, or hospital is covered in concise outline format: symptoms, signs, work-up[...]

An Iranian exile and his daughter provide an insider's glimpse of Iran under the Shah, describing his aristocratic upbringing, his role as an oil advisor and a founding member of OPEC, and his life since the fall of the Shah, in an updated edition featuring new information by his daughter. Reprint. [...]

Paperback edition containing both "Exploits of the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin" and "Subtleties of the inimitable Mulla Nasrudin" Available separately in paperback or hardback.[...]