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Crossroads of Cuisine
Crossroads of Cuisine offers history of food and cultural exchanges in and around Central Asia. It discusses geographical base, and offers historical and cultural overview. A photo essay binds it all together. The book offers new views of the past.
The Steppe and the Sea
In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on the battlefield. Pearls, valued for aesthetic, economic, religious, and political reasons, were the ultimate luxury good of the Middle Ages, and the Chingissid imperium, the largest contiguous land empire in history, was their unmatched collector, promoter, and conveyor. Thomas T. Allsen examines the importance of pearls, as luxury good and political investment, in the Mongolian empire—from its o...
The Mongol World
Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. Contributing authors consider how intercontinental environmental, economic, and intellectual trends affected the Empire as a whole and, where appropriate, situate regional political, social, and religious shifts within the context of the broader Mongol Empire. Issues pertaining to the Mongols and their role within the societies that they conquered therefore take precedence over the historical narrative of the s...
Gerhard Richter
Talking to art historian Benjamin Buchloh in 1988, Gerhard Richter cited the appearances of Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana at the second Documenta in Kassel in the late 50s as decisive encounters for his then-incipient art. Just a few years later, Richter would style himself as a German "Pop" artist, but in the 80s he returned to pure abstraction for its possibilities of "bitter truth, liberation, and... a completely different and new content... expressing itself." His abstract paintings present a heavily worked surface, blurred and scraped to both veil and expose prior layers. In other words, they manage a tension between depth (layer) and strong horizontal activity (blur). Unlike much h...
Gebrochene Seelen
Die Auszeit von Kommissarin Viveca Brandt währt nur kurz, als sie bei einem Waldspaziergang auf einen orientierungslos wirkenden Jungen trifft. Neben seinen Verletzungen, reagiert er auch nicht auf ihre Ansprache und verhält sich seltsam. Sie lässt ihn in ein Krankenhaus einweisen und beschließt, das Rätsel um den stummen Jungen zu lösen. Noch am selben Tag werden Viveca und ihre Kollegin zu einem mysteriösen Unfall gerufen. Ein Transporter steht verlassen auf einer Lichtung und von der Ladefläche werden vier Leichen geborgen. Die Kommissarinnen müssen nun herausfinden, warum das Fahrzeug zur Todesfalle wurde, aus der es kein Entrinnen gab. Das Team ermittelt mit Hochdruck, um die Identität der Toten und deren Herkunft zu entschlüsseln. Schon bald wird ihnen klar, worum es in diesem Fall tatsächlich geht, und sie müssen die Täter stoppen.
The Persianate World
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre-modern cosmopolitanism, The Persianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical, literary, and social frontiers. From Siberia to Southeast Asia, and between London and Beijing, this book shows how Persian gained, maintained, and finally surrendered its status to imperial and vernacular competitors. Fourteen essays trace Persian’s interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, Punjabi, and other languages to identify the forces that extended “Persographia,” the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages expansion and contraction, The Persianate World offers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of history’s key languages of global exchange.
The Phenomenon of "foreign" in Oriental Art
English summary: In the context of this book, the term 'foreign' can be interpreted in such a way as to consider anything outside one's perceived norm as unfamiliar and therefore strange or even odd. This attitude, however, can change as a result of greater familiarity with foreign culture and art so that the foreign trait might be considered as something exceptional to be admired and therefore desirable or even treasured. The foreign phenomenon in 'Oriental' art can be understood in two ways: either as the approach of Europe towards the Muslim Middle East (including North Africa and Central Asia) and its art or, conversely, as the attitude and reaction of the Middle East towards the Western...
Fischkatz
Äußerst makaber, wenn ein Toter im Englischen Garten auf Münchens Top-Attraktion, der Eisbachwelle, surft. Vor allem, wenn er mit einem Strick um den Hals am Brückengeländer hängt und wie ein Hüpfball auf der Welle reitet. Ein Highlight für Schaulustige und Touristen, ein verzwickter Fall für Kommissar Steinböck und sein Team. Die Spuren führen sowohl zu einer dubiosen Sekte als auch zu einem ungelösten Mord. Und zu all dem kommt die nervige Katze Frau Merkel, die ihre Vorliebe fürs Angeln entdeckt hat ...
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
