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Book Report

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2402 pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 2402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Armenia

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  • Author : S. Payaslian
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2008-03-13
  • ISBN : 0230608582
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book The History of Armenia written by S. Payaslian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in the 1990s and the ongoing debate about the genocide - an interest that informs the strong desire of a new generation of Armenian Americans to learn more about their heritage and has led to greater solidarity in the community. By integrating themes such as war, geopolitics, and great leaders, with the less familiar cultural themes and personal stories, this book will appeal to general readers and travellers interested in the region.

Book Residues of Pesticide Chemicals

Download or read book Residues of Pesticide Chemicals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (83) S. 2868, (83) H.R. 7125.

Book The Armenian Genocide  Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors

Download or read book The Armenian Genocide Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors written by Verjine Svazlian and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Svazlian is an ethnographer and folklorist at the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Since the mid-1950s she interviewed Armenian survivors of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians. Those efforts are presented in this volume. It is a courageous work for the most part done in the Armenian S.S.R. and Turkey where Svazlian's inquiries entailed risk to herself and her interviewees. Svazlian also collected the songs these survivors had brought with them from their cities and villages of origin. Many are responses to the Genocide itself.The interviews are short but their very large number and pointedness capture the personal horrors of the gneocide very well. This book makes a unique and invaluable contribution to genocide documentation.C O N T E N T S for Volume 1:ForewordPart One: H I S T O R I C A L S T U D YI.The Genre and Typological Peculiarities of the Historical Testimonies of the Eyewitness SurvivorsII.The Course of the Armenian Genocide According to the Historical Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors BibliographyPart Two: H I S T O R I C A L P R I M A R Y S O U R C E SI. HISTORICAL MEMOIR-TESTIMONIES.Will be continued in volume 2

Book The Road to Home

Download or read book The Road to Home written by Vartan Gregorian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vartan Gregorian's tale starts with a childhood of poverty, deprivation, and enchantment in the Armenian quarter of Tabriz, Iran. As the world reeled from depression into six years of warfare, his mother died, leaving his grandmother Voski as the loving staff of his life. Through unlettered example and instruction, he learned about the first of his many worlds: the strenuousness required for survival, the fairy tale that explained existence, the place and name of his own star in the night sky, how to maneuver as a member of a Christian minority in a benevolent Muslim kingdom, the beauty and inspiration of Armenian Church liturgy, the exciting foreign world of ten-year-old American westerns, the richness of life on the streets. He learned the magic of the innumerable worlds he could find in books -- and he wanted to visit them all. As the spell books cast on him grew more powerful, so did the constraints imposed by his father's indifference to his dreams of redirecting his life through learning. So, one day when he was fifteen years old, he presented himself at an Armenian-French lycee in Beirut, Lebanon, to start the arduous task of becoming a person of learning and consequence. This book tells not only how he reached that school but also about the many people who guided, supported, taught, and helped him on an extravagantly absorbing and varied journey from Tabriz to Beirut to Palo Alto to Tenafly to London, from Stanford University to San Francisco State University to the University of Texas at Austin to the University of Pennsylvania to the New York Public Library to Brown University and, currently, to the presidency of Carnegie Corporation of New York. With witty stories and memorable encounters, Dr. Gregorian describes his public and private lives as one education after another. He has written a love story about life.

Book The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land  1098 1187

Download or read book The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land 1098 1187 written by Jaroslav Folda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 examines the art and architecture produced for the Crusaders in Syria-Palestine during the first century of their quest to recapture Jerusalem. Commissioned by kings and queens, patriarchs and bishops, knights and merchants, who came as pilgrims or settlers to the Holy Land, it is an art of manuscript illumination, fresco painting, mosaics, stone sculpture, metalwork, ivory carving, coins and seals by artists trained in the Latin West, and the Byzantine and Islamic East. Combining the stylistic and iconographic traditions of these regions, Crusader art defies easy categorization: indeed, it is a unique phenomenon within the spectrum of medieval art.

Book Islam

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  • Author : Vartan Gregorian
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2003-05-29
  • ISBN : 0815796021
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Islam written by Vartan Gregorian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, leading western powers focused their attention on fighting the "Red Menace," Communism. Today, as terrorist activity is increasingly linked to militant Islamism, some politicians and scholars fear a "Green Menace," a Pan-Islamic totalitarian movement fueled by monolithic religious ideology. Such fears have no foundation in history, according to Vartan Gregorian. In this succinct, powerful survey of Islam, Gregorian focuses on Muslim diversity and division, portraying the faith and its people as a mosaic, not a monolith. The book begins with an accessible overview of Islam's tenets, institutions, evolution, and historical role. Gregorian traces its origins and fundamental principles, from Muhammad's call to faith nearly 1,400 years ago to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, and the subsequent abolition of the Caliphate. He focuses particular attention on the intense struggle between modernists and traditionalists, interaction between religion and nationalism, and key developments that have caused bitter divisions among Muslim nations and states: the partitions of Palestine, the break up and Islamization of Pakistan, the 1978 revolution in Iran, and the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Today Islamist views range across the entire spectra of religious and political thought, and Islamism is anything but a unified movement. While religious extremists have attempted to form a confederacy of like-minded radicals in many countries, much of the Muslim population lives in relatively modern, secular states. Gregorian urges Westerners to distinguish between activist Islamist parties, which promote—sometimes violently—Islam as an ideology in a theocratic state, and Islamic parties, whose traditional members want their secular political systems to co-exist with the moral principles of their religion. Gregorian emphasizes the importance of religion in today's world and urges states,societies, and intellectuals to intervene in order

Book Armenia in Crisis

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  • Author : Pierre Verluise
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780814325278
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Armenia in Crisis written by Pierre Verluise and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On December 7, 1988, the northwest region of Soviet Armenia, including Leninakan, the republic's second largest city, was devastated by an earthquake which left tens of thousands dead and forced the central government, for the first time in Soviet history, to call for international assistance." "Armenia in Crisis documents the tragic Armenian earthquake and the surrounding political controversies that rocked the Soviet Union and contributed to its collapse. In sparse and gripping prose, Pierre Verluise, a French journalist and Soviet specialist, uses the accounts of survivors and relief workers to tell the story of this catastrophe in its human and political dimensions. Relying on personal interviews and press reports, he recounts the destruction and despair, the emotional reactions of survivors and relief workers, the political struggles between Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Armenians, and the shortcomings in Soviet construction methods and disaster preparedness." "The new epilogue by translator Levon Chorbajian completes Verluise's story of human loss and high political drama, with updates of Armenia's independence, the Soviet Union's demise, and the still uncompleted task of earthquake reconstruction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Hand in Your Pocket May Not be Your Own

Download or read book The Hand in Your Pocket May Not be Your Own written by Levon Chorbajian and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Experience of Crusading

Download or read book The Experience of Crusading written by Marcus Graham Bull and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays focusing on the history and politics of the Latin East.

Book The Truth about the Peace Treaties

Download or read book The Truth about the Peace Treaties written by David Lloyd George and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan

Download or read book The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan written by Vartan Gregorian and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long heralded as a seminal work on the history of Afghanistan, this book traces the evolution of the modern Afghan state by studying the politics of reform and modernization that started in 1880 through World War II. In this reissue, Vartan Gregorian offers a new introduction that places the key themes of the book in the context of contemporary events, addressing questions of tribalism, nationalism, Islam, and modernization, as well as the legacies of the Cold War and the various exit strategies of occupying powers. The book remains as distinctive today as when it was first published. It is the only broad work on Afghan history that considers ethnicity as the defining influence over the course of the country's history, rather than religion. In light of today's ongoing struggle to develop a coherent national identity, the question of Afghan nationalism remains a particularly significant issue.

Book History of Germany

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  • Author : Peter Wende
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-03-21
  • ISBN : 0230212883
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book History of Germany written by Peter Wende and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even a brief glance at the maps of what has, or might have, been called Germany through the ages reveals a kaleidoscope of alterations in shape and composition. Though there are elements of continuity, the history of Germany has been the history of nearly constant change. In this concise introduction to Germany's fascinating past, Peter Wende provides an approachable historical interpretation of the key periods and turning points from Roman times to the present. Wende shows that, throughout the course of 2000 years, German history is actually the history of many Germanies, and that it can be written neither just as the history of a region nor of a political, ethnic or cultural formation. Focussing on key points in Germany's political, social and economic development, this guide is ideal for all those with an interest in the complex and compelling history of one of Europe's main nation-states.

Book Armenian Constantinople

Download or read book Armenian Constantinople written by Richard G. Hovannisian and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Armenian Community

Download or read book The Armenian Community written by Sarkis Atamian and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Poland

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  • Author : Anita Prazmowska
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-07-12
  • ISBN : 0230344127
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book A History of Poland written by Anita Prazmowska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Prazmowska provides a wide-ranging survey of Poland's history; from early settlements, through the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland, to the present day modern state. This expanded second edition has been revised throughout in the light of the latest research, and brings the story right up to date. A new Bibliography also features.