From Pearls to Oil

From Pearls to OilThis book is about the experiences of the pioneers who visited the Trucial Coast on behalf of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) subsidiary in the years between the two World Wars. With rare photographs and maps alongside the author's narrative, it will be essential reading for scholars, residents and visitors interested in the history of the UAE.

The Egyptian influence and Nubia's prosperity are clearly depicted in the burials

with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments

a New York-based design consultant

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happiness and well-being

Objects then were not just markers of fashion and taste

This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ‘Abbasid and Buyid periods (8th–10th centuries)

A joint publication of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and ACT Alliance

The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians

and photographs

his cumulative volume is a celebration of the days of old Hawaii and the stories that have lived through the ages

Literary Studies