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Book Traded to the Sheikh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Darcy
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2006-04-01
  • ISBN : 1552544311
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Traded to the Sheikh written by Emma Darcy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will she succumb to the sheikh? Who dares trespass on Sheikh Zageo's palace on the exotic island of Zanzibar? Zageo demands that the intruder be brought before him! Emily Ross is appalled to find she's the sheikh's prisoner. To prove her innocence she needs Zageo's help. If the price is giving herself to him, then it's one she'll have to pay....

Book Traded to the Desert Sheikh

Download or read book Traded to the Desert Sheikh written by Caitlin Crews and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You belong to me." In the desert, Sheikh Kavian's word is law. So the defiance of his promised queen, Amaya, who flees after their betrothal ceremony, is intolerable! Kavian's already tasted her sweetness--perhaps his reluctant bride-to-be needs reminding of the pleasure he can give... Once Amaya is back in his kingdom, Kavian commands her total sensual surrender in the secluded harem baths. Amaya fears such all-consuming lust makes her weak, but she's proven she can match his desire. Kavian needs a queen who can endure everything about him--can Amaya face his dark past and embrace her desert destiny?

Book Traded to the Sheikh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Darcy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-02
  • ISBN : 9780263847864
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Traded to the Sheikh written by Emma Darcy and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sheikh s House at Quseir al Qadim

Download or read book The Sheikh s House at Quseir al Qadim written by Katherine Strange Burke and published by Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of a thirteenth-century dwelling on Egypt's Red Sea Coast draws on multiple lines of evidence--including texts excavated at the site--to reconstruct a history of the structure and the people who dwelt within. The inhabitants participated in Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade, transported Ḥāǧǧ pilgrims, sent grain to Mecca and Medina, and wrote sermons and amulets for the local faithful. These activities are detailed in the documents and fleshed out in the botanical, faunal, artifact, and stratigraphic evidence from the University of Chicago's excavations (1978-82). This compound eventually consisted of two houses and a row of storerooms and became the center of mercantile activity at Quseir al-Qadim. Over time, as the number of named individuals who received shipping notes addressed to the "warehouse of Abū Mufarij" increased, living rooms and storerooms were added to accommodate this expansion of commerce. While most merchants were dealing in textiles, dates, and grains, additional commodities traded included perfumes, gemstone-decorated textiles, resist-dyed textiles, and porcelains. Specialist studies by Steven Goodman on the avian faunal remains and Wilma Wetterstrom on the macrobotanical finds reveal that the compound's occupants enjoyed a diet of chicken and Nile Valley produce such as grapes and watermelon, and they were supplemented by high-priced imports: nuts and fruits from around the Mediterranean, along with medicinal plants from as far away as India, indicate the wealth and status of this family of merchants. The evidence from this small portion of Quseir al-Qadim yields a rich local story that is a microcosm of Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade under the last Ayyubid sultans of Egypt.

Book The Sheikh Collection

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  • Author : Emma Darcy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780733597992
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Sheikh Collection written by Emma Darcy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traded to the Desert Sheikh

Download or read book Traded to the Desert Sheikh written by Caitlin Crews and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amaya disappeared the day after her engagement ceremony. Her mother had called to warn her that her fiancé, Sheikh Kavian, kept a harem of women. She was shocked and determined not to repeat her mother’s painful experiences—her mother, unable to accept her husband’s harem, had decided to forfeit a life of luxury to raise Amaya on her own. But six months after Amaya’s disappearance, Kavian has tracked her down…and he’s determined to show her the harem she fled.

Book An Imperialist Love Story

Download or read book An Imperialist Love Story written by Amira Jarmakani and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.

Book Lectures on International Trade  second edition

Download or read book Lectures on International Trade second edition written by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998-09-28 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest strength of this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Lectures on International Trade is its rigorous algebraic and geometric treatment of the various models and results of trade theory. The authors, who now include Arvind Panagariya, offer both policy insights and empirical applications. They have added nine entirely new chapters as well as new sections to several existing chapters (e.g., a greatly expanded treatment of the growing theory of preferential trade agreements).

Book Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance

Download or read book Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance written by Amy Burge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.

Book Modern Romance September 2015 Books 5 8  Traded to the Desert Sheikh   A Bride Worth Millions   Vows of Revenge   From One Night to Wife

Download or read book Modern Romance September 2015 Books 5 8 Traded to the Desert Sheikh A Bride Worth Millions Vows of Revenge From One Night to Wife written by Caitlin Crews and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Romance September Books 5-8 TRADED TO THE DESERT SHEIKH by Caitlin Crews

Book Traded to the Desert Sheikh

Download or read book Traded to the Desert Sheikh written by Caitlin Crews and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amaya disappeared the day after her engagement ceremony. Her mother had called to warn her that her fiancé, Sheikh Kavian, kept a harem of women. She was shocked and determined not to repeat her mother’s painful experiences—her mother, unable to accept her husband’s harem, had decided to forfeit a life of luxury to raise Amaya on her own. But six months after Amaya’s disappearance, Kavian has tracked her down…and he’s determined to show her the harem she fled.

Book Going the Distance

Download or read book Going the Distance written by Ron Harris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business was organized in family firms, merchant networks, and state-owned enterprises, and dominated by Chinese, Indian, and Arabic traders. However, around 1600 the first two joint-stock corporations, the English and Dutch East India Companies, were established. Going the Distance tells the story of overland and maritime trade without Europeans, of European Cape Route trade without corporations, and of how new, large-scale, and impersonal organizations arose in Europe to control long-distance trade for more than three centuries. Ron Harris shows that by 1700, the scene and methods for global trade had dramatically changed: Dutch and English merchants shepherded goods directly from China and India to northwestern Europe. To understand this transformation, Harris compares the organizational forms used in four major regions: China, India, the Middle East, and Western Europe. The English and Dutch were the last to leap into Eurasian trade, and they innovated in order to compete. They raised capital from passive investors through impersonal stock markets and their joint-stock corporations deployed more capital, ships, and agents to deliver goods from their origins to consumers. Going the Distance explores the history behind a cornerstone of the modern economy, and how this organizational revolution contributed to the formation of global trade and the creation of the business corporation as a key factor in Europe’s economic rise.

Book Sold to the Sheikh

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  • Author : Miranda Lee
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2010-09-01
  • ISBN : 1426877234
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Sold to the Sheikh written by Miranda Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sheikh will have her—no matter what the price! When Australian supermodel Charmaine donates herself as a prize at a charity auction, the winning bidder is Prince Ali of Dubar. Now she has to be his dinner partner—he's paid five million dollars for the privilege! The Prince Ali makes her another outrageous offer: five hundred million dollars to be paid to her favorite charity if she agrees to spend a week with him. But Ali isn't paying for just her company…he's paying for her to grace his bed!

Book Bought by a Billionaire

Download or read book Bought by a Billionaire written by Kay Thorpe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonie rejected Vidal's first proposal because of his arrogance, his womanizing — and his powerful sexuality, which left her trembling. Now the Portuguese billionaire is back in her life — and this time he has a hold over her. He will settle her father's debt, and make her his legal mistress. But Vidal doesn't want a mistress. He wants marriage. And he's determined to possess Leonie — in every way....

Book Is smuggling welfare improving  Evidence from avocados in Costa Rica

Download or read book Is smuggling welfare improving Evidence from avocados in Costa Rica written by Metivier, Jeanne and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does smuggling improve economic welfare? This paper provides a theoretical model of illegal trade and determines the impact of smuggling on economic welfare. We focus on Costa Rica's recent prohibition of avocados imported from Mexico. Using unique data on trade, production, and the price of Costa Rican and Mexican avocados, we find that the quantity of avocados smuggled into Costa Rica on an annual basis ranges from 4,668 to 10,232 metric tons, representing up to four times the quantity of locally produced avocados. Furthermore, we demonstrate that smuggling is necessarily welfare-improving compared to the ``no-smuggling situation''. Compared to the ``free-trade situation'', smuggling does not always compensate for the negative effects arising from the restrictive trade measure. In most cases, welfare is lower after the prohibition and smuggling than prior to the implementation of the prohibition. In some cases, however, smuggling results in a gain in terms of trade that offsets the harmful effects associated with the trading cost of smuggling. We find that such situations occur when the trading cost of smuggling is low, and thus when enforcement of the prohibition by public authorities is weak.

Book Proceedings of the Ninth International Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference

Download or read book Proceedings of the Ninth International Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference written by Colin A. Hope and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the Oasis Papers series marks the 40th anniversary of archaeological fieldwork in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert under the leadership of Anthony J. Mills and presents a synthesis of the current state of our knowledge of the oasis and its interconnections with surrounding regions, especially the Nile Valley. The papers are by distinguished authorities in the field and postgraduate students who specialise in different aspects of Dakhleh and presents an almost complete survey of the archaeology of Dakhleh including much unpublished, original material. It will be one of the few to document a specific part of modern Egypt in such detail and thus should have a broad and lasting appeal. The content of some of the papers is unlikely to be published in any other form elsewhere. Dakhleh is possibly the most intensively examined wider geographic region within Egypt.

Book Woman in a Sheikh s World

Download or read book Woman in a Sheikh s World written by Sarah Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the playboy crown prince’s bride runs away, he might fall for the wedding planner in this classic contemporary romance. With a client list hotter than the Zubran desert, wedding planner Avery Scott shouldn’t be surprised that her latest client is Crown Prince Malik of Zubran—the man who once lit her body on fire . . . before steamrollering over her heart. Determined to ignore Malik’s lethal charm, Avery makes a very personal not-to-do list: 1. Not being Malik’s intended, our relationship must remain 100 percent professional. 2. His arranged bride might have run away, but I mustn’t distract him—for the kings of Zubran, duty always comes first. 3. However luxurious the Bedouin tent—and smoldering the tension—pride dictates the touch I crave stays strictly forbidden. Originally published in 2012.