Persians Are The Best

Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761364250
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persians Are the Best! written by Elaine Landau and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces Persian cats, discussing their physical characteristics, behavior, history, and how to care for them.

Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 076137244X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persians Are the Best! written by Elaine Landau and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's that cat with the stocky body, short legs, and flat face? It's the Persian! Persians are fancy felines with glamorous long coats, and their personalities are just as appealing as their looks. Their owners think they are the best cats ever—and it’s easy to see why. If you're a Persian fan, you'll want to learn all about this breed, from its status as America's most popular cat to its history as a pretty pet in Persia. You'll also want to find out how to care for the Persian. So check out this go-to guide for Persian lovers—and learn all about why Persians are the best breed there is!

Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541600355
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persians written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned supreme for centuries until the conquests of Alexander of Macedon brought the empire to a swift and unexpected end in the late 330s BCE. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled. Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art, and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower—one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance. This is the definitive history of the Achaemenid dynasty and its legacies in modern-day Iran, a book that completely reshapes our understanding of the ancient world.

Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300121186
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persians written by Homa Katouzian and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons—its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state. Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Saadi—and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term thinking dominate. A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background to the role of Iran in the contemporary world.

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307386988
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Fire written by Tom Holland and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.

Author : Gene R. Garthwaite
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557868602
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persians written by Gene R. Garthwaite and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-01-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. Traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revoltuion on 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic. Uses the most recent scholarship to examine Iran's political, social and cultural history. Focuses on rulership as a central theme in Iranian identity. Also shows how land, language and literature relate to Iranian identity.

Author : Mana Kia
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503611965
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persianate Selves written by Mana Kia and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541922107
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Persians Go to War: War Book Best Sellers | Children's Ancient History written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did you have to learn about wars, especially one that happened centuries ago. Well, you can learn from the cause and effect relationships of how the decisions of a few leaders caused the heartaches of thousands of people. In Greek and Persian Wars, what effects do you think have the biggest impacts?

Author : Elaine Sciolino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743217798
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Mirrors written by Elaine Sciolino and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sciolino goes behind the headlines for an intriguing, in-depth look at Iran's complex people and culture. photos. 1 map.

Author : Parvaneh Pourshariati
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786729814
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire written by Parvaneh Pourshariati and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation It proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so quickly and disastrously to the all-conquering Arab armies of Islam? Offering an impressive appraisal of the Sasanians' nemesis at the hands of the Arab forces which scythed all before them, the author suggests a bold solution to the enigma. On the face of it, the collapse of the Sasanians - given their strength and imperial power in the earlier part of the century - looks startling and inexplicable. But Professor Pourshariati explains their fall in terms of an earlier corrosion and decline, and as a result of their own internal weaknesses. The decentralised dynastic system of the Sasanian empire, whose backbone was a Sasanian-Parthian alliance, contained the seeds of its own destruction. This confederacy soon became unstable, and its degeneration sealed the fate of a doomed dynasty.