This book is the writer"s first book and this novel is narrated from the viewpoint of an ambitious and self-made man.

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of religion available in paperback

This book is about a hard life of Helen Huntington and her brutish, drunkard husband.

In 1862, at the of fifty-one , Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, Japan"s ancient imperial capital.

The author gives the description of Egyptian, Persians-providing an invaluable social record.

This book is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic Law. In recent years some Islamist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria have reintroduced Islamic law in place of Western criminal codes. This was after the abolition of Islamic criminal law in the nineteenth and twentieth centures. Peters gives a detailed accounts of the classical doctrine and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Ottoman period to the prsent day. The accounts of actual cases which range from theft to banditry, murder, fornication and apostasy shed light on the comlexities of the law, and the sensitivity and perspicacity of the qadis who implemented it.

It is the description of glamorous affairs in young man"s life.

The book is about problems of the today"s Arctic, strategy of development of this Region.

The report contains the statistical annex of the least developed countries. The report assesses the relationship between international policies that can make trade a more effective mechanism for poverty reduction in these countries.

As with the rest of the series, this volume presents a sort of "gallery" of simplified portraits, presaging perhaps a more comprehensive historical study that includes the parts of Europe only mentioned in passing or even ommited. A study which provides more complete answers to the questions raised here, to the original struktures and the transformations and dispersion of early collections of drawings, and to their deeper cultural significance.