Matokeo ya Utafutaji
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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture
by Louis DupréDupré (religious studies, Yale U.) explores the philosophical, religious, and historical paths leading from the Enlightenment to modernity, finding it more complex than both its adherents and detractors claim. He explains that questions about habitual acceptance of authority, secular and sacred, ar... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2004 -
The Modernization of Inner Asia
by Cyril E. Black • Louis Dupree • Elizabeth Endicott-West • Daniel C. Matuszewski • Eden Naby • Arthur N. WaldronInner Asia - in premodern times the little-known land of nomads and semi-nomads - has moved to the world's front page in the 20th century as the complex struggles for the future of Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, Tibet and other territories make clear. But because Inner Asia as a whole is divided ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1992 -
Memoria
by Louise DupréMemoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1999 -
The Milky Way
Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Translation (French to English) Confident, hardworking, and practical, architect Anne Martin is living the good life in Montreal. Yet one day, high up in her apartment overlooking the city and the river, at the heart of her perfectly controll... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2002 -
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives
by Thomas J. Barfield • Louis Dupree • M. Nazif Shahrani • Richard Tapper • Hugh Beattie • Robert L. Canfield • Jon W. Anderson • Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper • David J. Katz • R. Lincoln Keiser • Bahram Tavakolian • Nancy DupreeWhen originally published in 1984, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provided the first focused consideration of the 1978 Saur Revolution and the subsequent Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. Nearly four decades later, its conclusions remain crucial to understanding Afghanistan t... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2022