Historical Dictionary of Iran

Historical Dictionary of Iran
Author: John Henry Lorentz
Publisher: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

Provides an overview of specific events, movements, people, political and social groups, places, trends, and chronology. Allows for considerable exploration of a number of historical and contemporary topics and issues. The modern period, defined as 1800-present, is covered extensively.

Philostratus

Philostratus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1912
Genre:
ISBN:

Reason, Illusion, and Passion

Reason, Illusion, and Passion
Author: Émilie du Châtelet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781693596483

The amazing scientist, mathematician, philosopher Émilie du Châtelet (1706-49) has widely been hailed as a rare female intellectual in the Enlightenment. At the same time, her own ideas and contributions remain largely unknown and her writings are rarely read. This is unfortunate, since she has interesting contributions to and explanations of physics, metaphysics, religion, translation, the equality of the sexes, and ethics.This book is a selection of du Châtelet's philosophical writings, in new English translations: -Foreword to "Foundations of Physics"-On the Principles of Our Knowledge (From "Foundations of Physics")-On the Existence of God (From "Foundations of Physics")-On Liberty-Translator's Preface to Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"-On the Resurrection of the Dead (from "Examinations of the Bible")-On Happiness

Historical Dictionary of Pakistan

Historical Dictionary of Pakistan
Author: Shahid Javed Burki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

Pakistan is unlike most other countries in the emerging world. It is one of the two nations – the other being the state of Israel – founded on the basis of religion. Although it was created to provide a homeland for the Muslim community of British India, in its original form it was able to accommodate only about half of the people of Islamic faith who lived in the subcontinent. Pakistan’s birth in 1947 resulted in one of the largest movements of people in human history when some 14 million people left their homes, with 8 million Muslims leaving India for what is now Pakistan and 6 million Hindus and Sikhs moving in the opposite direction. This was the first large-scale incidence of ethnic cleansing the world was to witness. --