Author: Fernao Mendes Pinto
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: pinto, mendes, travels
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 1990-05-29
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0226669513
ISBN-13: 9780226669519

This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo’s work in exciting Europe’s imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto’s odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary, and continues to overwhelm questions about its source with the sheer enjoyment of its narrative."[T]here is plenty here for the modern reader. . . . The vivid descriptions of swashbuckling military campaigns and exotic locations make th

Author: marcel georges mendes
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: healer
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2010-06-30
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1449962491
ISBN-13: 9781449962494

After the fall of the Empire of GHANA, two stars are appearing in the West African’s sky. SOUNJATA the prodigy child, and SOUMAHORO: the king sorcerer. The first one is destined to lead his people to greatness, and the second one to their perdition. Soumahoro who preceded Sundjata sets out to destroy his enemy with the help of powerful black magicians. Only one man is able to stop them: OUSMAN KONATE. A young soldier, Ousman’s main goal was to reconnect with AMINATA; his beautiful soul mate. In a twist of fate, Ousman is introduced to ELIAS; a spiritual teacher who mak

Author: Candido Antonio Mendes de Almeida
Publisher: Graduate School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany : distributed by State University of New York Press
Keywords: populism
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1977
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0873958039
ISBN-13: 9780873958035

Authors:Emilia Mendes, Nile Mosley,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: engineering, web
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2005-12-22
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3540281967
ISBN-13: 9783540281962

Authors:Amy de la Haye, Valerie Mendes,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: fashion, century
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-11-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0500203210
ISBN-13: 9780500203217

From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to the bumster and bustier of today, this comprehensive survey explores all the significant developments in fashion in a century that has witnessed a growing preoccupation with personal appearance and clothing. Written by two experts in costume from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, it explores movements and innovations in style for both men and women through the work of the most original and influential designers and couturiers. Organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events, the book places exciting, even revolutionary,

Authors:Nathan Rotenstreich, Paul Mendes-Flohr,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: faith
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1998-05-28
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0226728757
ISBN-13: 9780226728759

The concept of faith has remained inscrutable to thinkers for centuries. The late Nathan Rotenstreich believed that faith was such a difficult topic for so many because of its inextricable links to theology and religion. On Faith, Rotenstreich’s last work which was edited and prepared for publication by Paul Mendes-Flohr, attempts to detach the concept from its religious underpinnings and consider it in its own right, as a human phenomenon and cognitive attitude. Faith, Rotenstreich contends, should not be confused with its historical manifestations. By making faith a philosophical rathe

Author: Marianna D. Birnbaum
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: mendes, gracia, journey
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2003-12
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 9639241679
ISBN-13: 9789639241671

The historical biography of a true Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. Born in 1510 in Portugal, the book details this woman’s extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in Constantinople (today’s Istanbul). Her life exemplified a perseverance by the Jewish culture to survive and triumph even in the worst of conditions. As a young girl, Gracia secretly married successful Jewish spice trader, Francisco Mendes. But at age 27 she became a widow, yet she went on to raise her children and run the family business all on her own. Her travels led her through Antwerp, Venice,