Author: O. James Younessi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621379171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
With more than 500 pages and over 1200 images, "Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Empire of Iran - The Pahlavi Era" is more than just a study of the awards of a proud nation with a glorious past, it is the very first serious attempt at cataloguing the heraldic attributes of Iran with her rich history of mythology and symbolism.
Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Empire of Iran - the Pahlavi Era
Author: O. James Younessi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621379171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
With more than 500 pages and over 1200 images, "Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Empire of Iran - The Pahlavi Era" is more than just a study of the awards of a proud nation with a glorious past, it is the very first serious attempt at cataloguing the heraldic attributes of Iran with her rich history of mythology and symbolism.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621379171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
With more than 500 pages and over 1200 images, "Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Empire of Iran - The Pahlavi Era" is more than just a study of the awards of a proud nation with a glorious past, it is the very first serious attempt at cataloguing the heraldic attributes of Iran with her rich history of mythology and symbolism.
SINCONA Auction 85
Author: SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction AG
Publisher: SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction AG
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Numismatic auction catalogue containing The Kian Collection - Part 1 of Persian coins and medals. Numismatischer Auktionskatalog mit der Kian Collection - Teil 1 mit persischen Münzen und Medaillen. ------------------------------------- SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction is a Swiss auction house for numismatics in Zurich, specializing in coins, medals, banknotes and decorations.
Publisher: SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction AG
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Numismatic auction catalogue containing The Kian Collection - Part 1 of Persian coins and medals. Numismatischer Auktionskatalog mit der Kian Collection - Teil 1 mit persischen Münzen und Medaillen. ------------------------------------- SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction is a Swiss auction house for numismatics in Zurich, specializing in coins, medals, banknotes and decorations.
SINCONA Auction 67
Author: SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction AG
Publisher: SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction AG
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Numismatic auction catalogue containing Persian coins and medals as well as World orders and decorations. Numismatischer Auktionskatalog mit Münzen und Medaillen aus Persien sowie Orden und Ehrenzeichen aus der ganzen Welt. ------------------------------------- SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction is a Swiss auction house for numismatics in Zurich, specializing in coins, medals, banknotes and decorations. SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction ist ein Schweizer Auktionshaus für Numismatik in Zürich, spezialisiert auf Münzen, Medaillen, Banknoten und Ehrenzeichen.
Publisher: SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction AG
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Numismatic auction catalogue containing Persian coins and medals as well as World orders and decorations. Numismatischer Auktionskatalog mit Münzen und Medaillen aus Persien sowie Orden und Ehrenzeichen aus der ganzen Welt. ------------------------------------- SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction is a Swiss auction house for numismatics in Zurich, specializing in coins, medals, banknotes and decorations. SINCONA Swiss International Coin Auction ist ein Schweizer Auktionshaus für Numismatik in Zürich, spezialisiert auf Münzen, Medaillen, Banknoten und Ehrenzeichen.
The Fall of Heaven
Author: Andrew Scott Cooper
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 0805098984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 0805098984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.
Universal Empire
Author: Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
From Threads to Fabric
Author: O. J. Younessi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602642263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ali and Farhang met at kindergarten. They were quite different but instantly befriended each other. The friendship of two boys flourished into that of two teenagers and ultimately endured into adulthood. Setbacks only strengthen such friendships. These stories tell of the setbacks too. After all what makes life sweet is the way we rise above these setbacks. There is no joy without sorrow, no light without darkness, and no sweet without bitterness. It is also exactly that which makes us realize who our friends really are. Farhang had fire in his soul. He was feisty, intelligent, defiant, and out-of-control . Ali was level-headed, clever, rational and had come to be seen as the one element that held Farhang s fire under check. Farhang would set in motion a snow ball that soon became an avalanche! As he stood back to watch the havoc he had wrought it was invariably Ali who saved the day. Their world was about to change. They knew nothing of politics and cared for it even less. That autumn the foliage of the trees of the main school quadrangle had no more chance of resisting change than Iran herself had of avoiding the revolution. These stories tell of these changes. They had one thing else in common. The very Fabric that weaved their destiny together so inseparably: Alborz High School."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602642263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ali and Farhang met at kindergarten. They were quite different but instantly befriended each other. The friendship of two boys flourished into that of two teenagers and ultimately endured into adulthood. Setbacks only strengthen such friendships. These stories tell of the setbacks too. After all what makes life sweet is the way we rise above these setbacks. There is no joy without sorrow, no light without darkness, and no sweet without bitterness. It is also exactly that which makes us realize who our friends really are. Farhang had fire in his soul. He was feisty, intelligent, defiant, and out-of-control . Ali was level-headed, clever, rational and had come to be seen as the one element that held Farhang s fire under check. Farhang would set in motion a snow ball that soon became an avalanche! As he stood back to watch the havoc he had wrought it was invariably Ali who saved the day. Their world was about to change. They knew nothing of politics and cared for it even less. That autumn the foliage of the trees of the main school quadrangle had no more chance of resisting change than Iran herself had of avoiding the revolution. These stories tell of these changes. They had one thing else in common. The very Fabric that weaved their destiny together so inseparably: Alborz High School."
The Five Continents of Theatre
Author: Eugenio Barba
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004392939
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part. The material culture of the actor is organised around body-mind techniques (see A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology by the same authors) and auxiliary techniques whose variety concern: ■ the diverse circumstances that generate theatre performances: festive or civil occasions, celebrations of power, popular feasts such as carnival, calendar recurrences such as New Year, spring and summer festivals; ■ the financial and organisational aspects: costs, contracts, salaries, impresarios, tickets, subscriptions, tours; ■ the information to be provided to the public: announcements, posters, advertising, parades; ■ the spaces for the performance and those for the spectators: performing spaces in every possible sense of the term; ■ sets, lighting, sound, makeup, costumes, props; ■ the relations established between actor and spectator; ■ the means of transport adopted by actors and even by spectators. Auxiliary techniques repeat themselves not only throughout different historical periods, but also across all theatrical traditions. Interacting dialectically in the stratification of practices, they respond to basic needs that are common to all traditions when a performance has to be created and staged. A comparative overview of auxiliary techniques shows that the material culture of the actor, with its diverse processes, forms and styles, stems from the way in which actors respond to those same practical needs. The authors’ research for this aspect of theatre anthropology was based on examination of practices, texts and of 1400 images, chosen as exemplars.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004392939
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part. The material culture of the actor is organised around body-mind techniques (see A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology by the same authors) and auxiliary techniques whose variety concern: ■ the diverse circumstances that generate theatre performances: festive or civil occasions, celebrations of power, popular feasts such as carnival, calendar recurrences such as New Year, spring and summer festivals; ■ the financial and organisational aspects: costs, contracts, salaries, impresarios, tickets, subscriptions, tours; ■ the information to be provided to the public: announcements, posters, advertising, parades; ■ the spaces for the performance and those for the spectators: performing spaces in every possible sense of the term; ■ sets, lighting, sound, makeup, costumes, props; ■ the relations established between actor and spectator; ■ the means of transport adopted by actors and even by spectators. Auxiliary techniques repeat themselves not only throughout different historical periods, but also across all theatrical traditions. Interacting dialectically in the stratification of practices, they respond to basic needs that are common to all traditions when a performance has to be created and staged. A comparative overview of auxiliary techniques shows that the material culture of the actor, with its diverse processes, forms and styles, stems from the way in which actors respond to those same practical needs. The authors’ research for this aspect of theatre anthropology was based on examination of practices, texts and of 1400 images, chosen as exemplars.
Pan's Penance
Author: O. James Younessi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602644908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Pan was the ancient Greek mythological god of the shepherds. He is depicted as the lusty half goat-half human seducer of the nymphs. He plied his charms frequently and by all accounts successfully. He failed most notably with Syrinx who was avowed to remain chaste. She was turned into reed to escape his lechery, so Pan cut the reed down and made his famous flute.This book explores the modern versions of the same moral dilemmas the fertile minds of our forefathers grappled with. But one new notion stands out......the notion of Reverse Metamorphosis. A caterpillar metamorphoses into a beautiful butterfly. It is we who love the butterfly and loathe the caterpillar. We get silk and a beautiful butterfly once the metamorphosis is complete. But the silk is not a present the caterpillar gives us. It is a by-product of its natural functions. We can only have it because the worm no longer needs it. It has already become a butterfly! But how many of us realize that the butterfly is still the caterpillar? The metamorphosis has been of its physical appearance not of the soul......then before our eyes, the butterfly becomes a caterpillar again!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602644908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Pan was the ancient Greek mythological god of the shepherds. He is depicted as the lusty half goat-half human seducer of the nymphs. He plied his charms frequently and by all accounts successfully. He failed most notably with Syrinx who was avowed to remain chaste. She was turned into reed to escape his lechery, so Pan cut the reed down and made his famous flute.This book explores the modern versions of the same moral dilemmas the fertile minds of our forefathers grappled with. But one new notion stands out......the notion of Reverse Metamorphosis. A caterpillar metamorphoses into a beautiful butterfly. It is we who love the butterfly and loathe the caterpillar. We get silk and a beautiful butterfly once the metamorphosis is complete. But the silk is not a present the caterpillar gives us. It is a by-product of its natural functions. We can only have it because the worm no longer needs it. It has already become a butterfly! But how many of us realize that the butterfly is still the caterpillar? The metamorphosis has been of its physical appearance not of the soul......then before our eyes, the butterfly becomes a caterpillar again!
A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea
Author: G. Mirfendereski
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230107575
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In a series of short stories that both inform and amuse, this book transports the reader across the windswept shores of the Caspian Sea and provides a provocative view of the wars, peace, intrigues, and betrayals that have shaped the political geography of this important and volatile region. The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the eclipsing of the old Iranian-Soviet regime of the sea have given rise to new challenges for the regional actors and unprecedented opportunities for international players to tap into the area's enormous oil and gas resources, third in size only behind Siberia and the Persian Gulf. This book explores the historical themes that inform and animate the more immediate and familiar discussions about petroleum, pipelines, and ethnic conflict in the Caspian region.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230107575
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In a series of short stories that both inform and amuse, this book transports the reader across the windswept shores of the Caspian Sea and provides a provocative view of the wars, peace, intrigues, and betrayals that have shaped the political geography of this important and volatile region. The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the eclipsing of the old Iranian-Soviet regime of the sea have given rise to new challenges for the regional actors and unprecedented opportunities for international players to tap into the area's enormous oil and gas resources, third in size only behind Siberia and the Persian Gulf. This book explores the historical themes that inform and animate the more immediate and familiar discussions about petroleum, pipelines, and ethnic conflict in the Caspian region.
Dead Men Don't Drive
Author: O. J. Younessi
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781602647664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The satirist is at war with what ails the society. Holding the errant ways of a society or that of a person or a particular cadre of the society to ridicule is the essence of satire. The art is to lay the absurdity of the subject matter bare for all to see. The vehicle with which to do this is satire. But what makes it all gel for the reader is humor. Yet this is not humor for the sake of humor, for that will denigrate the art to the stuff of joke-books. Satire is decorated humor. It is the window through which one beholds the absurd. Satire combines anger with irony and this is what suffuses through each line of the satirist's prose. This is what others have called 'militant irony'... ...If these stories seem to conjure up reality it is probably because they all have some basis in truth! How much truth? Well, you will have to read on...
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781602647664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The satirist is at war with what ails the society. Holding the errant ways of a society or that of a person or a particular cadre of the society to ridicule is the essence of satire. The art is to lay the absurdity of the subject matter bare for all to see. The vehicle with which to do this is satire. But what makes it all gel for the reader is humor. Yet this is not humor for the sake of humor, for that will denigrate the art to the stuff of joke-books. Satire is decorated humor. It is the window through which one beholds the absurd. Satire combines anger with irony and this is what suffuses through each line of the satirist's prose. This is what others have called 'militant irony'... ...If these stories seem to conjure up reality it is probably because they all have some basis in truth! How much truth? Well, you will have to read on...