Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam

By John HEATH-STUBBS, Omar Khayyam, Peter Avery, Khayyam Omar

In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his...

Exercises In English Patterns And Usage: Pt. 3

By Ronald Mackin, Peter Avery

History And Literature In Iran

By Ed., Charles, C. P. Melville, Peter Avery, University Of Cambridge. Centre Of Middle Eastern Studies., Melville, International Round Table On Safavid Persia

The historiography of Safavid prefaces The early years of Shah Ismail in the "Afzal al-tavarikh" and elsewhere The iconography of the "Shah-nama-yi Shahi" Kinship ties between the Safavids and the...

Hafiz Of Shiraz

By John HEATH-STUBBS, Hafez, Peter Avery, Ḥāfiẓ, John Francis Heath-Stubbs

"Hafiz--a quarry of imagery in which poets of all ages might mine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Hafiz was born at Shiraz, in Persia, some time after 1320, and died there in 1389. He is, then, an almost e...

History And Literature In Iran

By Peter Avery, Charles Melville

Edited By Charles Melville. Published In Association With The Centre Of Middle Eastern Studies, University Of Cambridge. Reprinted With Corrections In 1998--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical Ref...

The Collected Lyrics Of Hafiz Of Shiraz

By Ḥāfiẓ, Peter Avery, 14TH CENT HAFIZ

Hafiz is honored as the greatest lyric poet of Iran and the D'van-i Hafiz, his collected poetry, is without doubt one of the world's greatest literary achievements. Translated here from the edition...

Thirty Poems Of Hafiz Of Shiraz

By Ḥāfiẓ, Peter Avery

The Economic Impact Of Counterfeiting And Piracy

By Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development. Secretary-General, Peter Avery, Oecd Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development, OECD Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Develop, Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development Directorate For Science, Technology, And Industry Structural Policy Division

Responding to concerns in governments and the business community, the OECD launched a project in 2005 to assess the magnitude and impact of counterfeiting and piracy. The objective of the project w...

Teaching American English Pronunciation - Oxford Handbooks For Language Teachers

By Susan Ehrlich, Peter Avery, Susan Ehrlich; Peter Avery

As an ESL teacher, have you looked at the phonetics textbooks on the market and decided that they don't directly address your needs? Unlike pronunciation books aimed at students of linguistics or a...

Contrast In Phonology

By Peter Avery, B. Elan Dresher, Keren Rice, Peter Avery (Editor), B. Elan Dresher (Editor), Keren Rice (Editor)

This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisit...