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The Arabs : a short history

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Description: "This fascinating little book, by the world's leading historian of the Arabs, is a perfect introduction for the general reader. It captures all the color and drama of the Arabs' golden age and presents a vivid picture of the Arab empire"--dust jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1943.
Call number: 635958
Creator: Hitti, Philip K (1886-1978)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwards Metcalf, 1992.
Dimensions: 23 cm
Associated people: Dexter, Byron,; Metcalf, Edwards H.
Associated organization: Princeton University Press,

The Arabs : a short history

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Based on the author's History of the Arabs, published by Macmillan and company, London, 1937. Condensed by Mr. Byron Dexter in collaboration with the author.

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The Arabian knight : a study of Sir Richard Burton = ʻAbd Allāh Akājj

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"Seton Dearden has rescued the adventurer from the dusty dullness of his biographers, and restored to human shape a fascinating if paradoxical character"--dust jacket.

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Skywatchers, shamans & kings : astronomy and the archaeology of power

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The author presents "essential sacred places--as well as celestial shrines far off the beaten path," "a fascinating journey to all corners of the world to visit the shrines and temples, tombs and caves where ancient priests and rulers communed with the gods of the sky."--Jacket.

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The game of hearts : Harriette Wilson's memoirs, interspersed with excerpts from the Confessions of Julia Johnstone, her rival

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"Throughout the texts of the Memoirs Miss Blanch has strategically interspersed excerpts from 'The Confessions of Julia Johnstone,' a work by Harriette's arch rival whose accounts of certain events conflict with our author's, thus giving the reader a choice of champagnes"--dust jacket.

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The erotic traveler

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"Burton the sexual anthropologist is the chief concern of 'The Erotic Traveler,' though his adventurous life is also sketched in by Edward Leigh, who, in the form of a continuing narrative, presents Burton's writings on strange rites and sex customs around the world. The remarkable shape of women's breasts in Sind, the various methods of creating eunuchs, and the devices employed in the East to prolong the act of love were all of absorbing interest to Burton. He wrote with authority about the anatomical anomalies of Somali prostitutes in Aden or of pederasty in the male brothels of Karachi. This fascinating book, like its central figure, moves from India and Africa to North and South America, and reveals one of the more intriguing facets of a multifaceted yet singular man"--dust jacket.

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History of industrial gravure printing up to 1920

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"Though there are many histories of printing, in all languages, they deal principally with the printed product. The history of the development of modern printing techniques tends to have been neglected by the historians of technology. Very rare are publications on historical investigations into the technical development of printing processes, printing presses or printing surfaces. In this revised and expanded English version of his book, originally published in German, the author, who is Technical Development Manager to the London Daily Telegraph, provides a fascinating account of the early development of one of the three major printing processes, gravure or intaglio -- industrial gravure, that is to say, as distinct from artists' printmaking"--From dust jacket.

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