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This book explores the importance of Mesopotamia as a region of significant geopolitical and historical relevance. Parfit details the challenges and opportunities presented by the region, especially in the aftermath of World War I. This book offers a unique perspective on the Middle East and the role that Mesopotamia has played in shaping global events.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the kn...

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Excerpt from Marvellous Mesopotamia the World's WonderlandMediterranean Sea, which are only feasible from the vilayets of Baghdad and Mosul. It would also be difficult for a Mandatory Power to make the country self-supporting without a large capital outlay, and consequently adequate control of the remunerative mineral and agricultural resources available in the northern parts of Mesopotamia, There would be no advantage to the inhabitants of Me...

Excerpt from Among the Druzes of Lebanon and BashanThe School Children of Ainab greeting the Canon Missioner by singing God save our gracious Canon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original f...

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Excerpt from Mesopotamia: The Key to the FutureThis is the home of the mighty Nimrod, the earliest of hunters, who founded Calneh or Nippur, where I was privileged to see some of the most ancient Assyrian treasures being excavated by American archaeologists. Oft times have I travelled from Busrah on British ships conveying hundreds of Arab ponies to India, when I recalled the fact that horses were introduced into Mesopotamia years ago by the K...

Excerpt from Mesopotamia: The Key to the Future I have never seen it, for, under the Turkish regime, that primitive paradise was unfortunately nowhere to be found. I met, however, in Bagdad a clever impostor, a wily tobacconist, who closed up his shop and travelled extensively through Europe and America, collecting large sums of money from gullible Westerners by posing as the famous "Discoverer of Noah's Ark and the Golden Mountains of the M...

Derek Parfits bahnbrechende Arbeiten zur personalen Identität, zur Metaethik und zur normativen Ethik prägen seit Jahrzehnten die Debatten der praktischen Philosophie weltweit. Seine zentrale Frage lautet: Worauf kommt es eigentlich an? Er beantwortet sie mit einer innovativen Theorie, die eine reduktionistische Auffassung von personaler Identität mit einer objektiven Theorie praktischer Gründe und einer verblüffenden Vereinigung von Kantianis...

This is the second volume of a major new work in moral philosophy. It starts with critiques of Derek Parfit's work by four eminent moral philosophers, and his responses. The largest part of the volume is a self-contained monograph on normativity. The final part comprises seven new essays on Kant, reasons, and why the universe exists.

This is the first volume of a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of 20th-century philosophy. Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and a critical examination of the most prominent systematic moral theories, leading to his own ground-breaking conclusion.

In this personal account of the Great War in the Holy Lands of the Middle East, the author, Canon Joseph Parfit, a cleric based in Jerusalem. Parfit portrays the conflict as a Christian war against an unholy alliance between an aggressive Germany and Ottoman Turkey which stretched from the Balkans, through Egypt to Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia (Iraq). In fifty pages, he offers an overview of a conflict that still has echoes in the same reg...

Excerpt from Marvellous Mesopotamia the World's Wonderland Immediately after the outbreak of war I ventured to draw attention, by means of lectures, articles, and pamphlets, to the importance of Mesopotamia and the significance of Germany's Baghdad Railway schemes. The following pages contain the substance of my lectures, with some additional information more recently available. The different aspects of the country, its relation to current ev...

The heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm.One summer in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a young killer whale called Luna got separated from his pod. Like humans, orcas are highly social and depend on their families, but Luna found himself desperately alone. So he tried to make ...