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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
We generally understand "radical Islam" as a purely Islamic phenomenon, but Buruma and Margalit show that while the Islamic part of radical Islam certainly is, the radical part owes a primary debt of inheritance to the West. Whatever else they are, al Qaeda and its ilk are revolutionary anti-Western political movements, and Buruma and Margalit show us that the bogeyman of the West who stalks their thinking is the same one who has haunted the thoughts...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A vivid, often surprising account of South Asia today by the author of An End to Suffering.
In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal. Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the pressures-the temptations-of Western-style modernity and prosperity, and teases out the paradoxes of globalization. A visit to Allahabad, birthplace of Jawaharlal...
9) China on paper: European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Traveling the world, the Crossans noticed a surprising difference in how the Eastern Church considers Jesus resurrectionan event not described in the Bible. At Saint Barbaras Church in Cairo, they found a painting in which the risen Jesus grasps the hands of other figures around him. Unlike the Western image of a solitary Jesus rising from an empty tomb that he viewed across Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Crossans saw images of the...