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It is the summer of 1967. There is acid on t he streets and darker things are on the move. Peter is an ap prentice sorcerer with an occult sect. His diary follows his quest for a virgin to seduce and sacrifice. '

Finally available again in the United States, The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt. Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities--having the girls over for coffee, tidying the house, making dinner--it becomes increasingly clear that her sanity is unraveling at an alarming rate. Irwin is at his creative best here, as he describes Marcia's conversations with Mucor, the "mouthpiece for the Dirt, the Empire of Decay and Ruin, the Principle of Evil," as well as such scientists and artists of the past as William Blake, Charles Dickens, Leonardo da Vinci, and Charles Darwin.

Jahrelang hat der junge Prinz Orkhan im »Käfig« des kaiserlichen Harems gelebt, jederzeit eines plötzlichen Todes gewärtig. Dann öffnen sich eines Tages die Tore, und Dutzende von Eunuchen und Konkubinen begrüßen ihn voller Demut als den neuen Sultan des Ottomanischen Reiches. Aber bald zeigt sich, daß die intrigante Welt des Harems böse Blumen hervorgebracht hat, und während Orkhan noch ganz im Wahn lebt, tatsächlich der Gebieter über Dutzende schöner Leiber zu sein, gerät er immer tiefer ins Gefängnis der eigenen Lust »Eine elegante, ironische und erotische Erzählung im orientalischen Stil ... Der Autor trägt seine Kenntnisse der arabischen Welt mit leichter Hand und vermeidet jeden übertriebenen Ernst zugunsten einer ebenso komischen wie perversen Empfindsamkeit, wobei er einen äußerst übermütigen Erzählstil mit üppigen pornographischen Schwindeleien verbindet.« (Times Literary Supplement) Robert Irwin hat Arabistik studiert und gelehrt und bisher vier Romane und zwei Sachbücher geschrieben.

Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II) The Alhambra has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In his absorbing new book, Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its history and allure. The Alhambra is the only Muslim palace to have survived since the Middle Ages. Built by a threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, it was preserved as a monument to the triumph of Christianity. Every day thousands of tourists enter this magnificent site to be awestruck by its towers and courts, its fountained gardens, its honeycombed ceilings and intricate tile work. It is a complex full of mysteries--even its purpose is unclear. Its sophisticated ornamentation is not indiscriminate but full of hidden meaning. Its most impressive buildings were designed not by architects, but by philosophers and poets. The Alhambra, which resembles a fairy-tale palace, was constructed by slave labor in an era of economic decline, plague, and political violence. Its sumptuously appointed halls have lain witness to murder and mayhem. Yet its influence on art and on literature--including Orientalist painting and the architecture of cinemas, Washington Irving and Jorge Luis Borges--has been lasting and significant. As our guide to this architectural masterpiece, Robert Irwin allows us to fully understand the impact of the Alhambra.

The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Many people are familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet few people have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is. This companion seeks to remedy this. schovat popis

Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this collection provides an insight into the vitality of Classical Arabic literature. It explores such traditional themes as lovesick yearning and fated doom, and considers subjects as the etiquette of falling in love with slave-girls and the terrors of the sea.

'Robert Irwin vividly and brilliantly blends the fictional life and all-too-real times of a film star of the Nazi era in this a narrative of diminishing options and the advance to death and destruction. Cultured, clever and funny at times, in a grim Charles Adams way, Robert Irwin's novel is engrossing and enveloping.From a dull Dutch childhood in Dordrecht and a waitressing job, sexy Sonja Heda, cigarette in hand, wangles her way on to the film sets of various independent production companies making the films of the Weimar and Nazi eras. From The Blue Angel, The Gypsy Baron, Jew Suss, Habanera and Munchausen she lands the starring role in the Nazi screwball comedy Bagdad Capers.Although German cinema became a key part of the Nazi war effort, the film industry continued to produce commercial films appealing to the varying film tastes of German filmgoers. Joseph Goebbels at the head of the Ministry of Propaganda propagated Nazi supremacist ideology and indoctrinate the population of Germany though film and radio, not unlike the way reality TV and social media are used today by populist politicians in the US and UK.'Georgia de Chamberet in Ten Books for Independent Minds from Bookblast

'The bride then came surrounded by her slave girls like the moon among stars or a matchless pearl set among others on a string.'When the beautiful Shahrazad gives herself to the bloody-handed King Shahriyar, she is not expected to survive beyond dawn. But using her wit and guile, she begins a sequence of stories that will last 1001 nights: stories of 'ifrits and money-changers, prices and slave girls, fishermen and queens, and magical gardens of paradise. This volume also includes the well-known tale of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'.Along with this landmark new translation, Robert Irwin's introduction discusses the many cultures The Arabian Nights has drawn on and the elaborate structure of the story-within-a-story that defines the collection, as well as the importance to the Nights of locked doors, sex, and the recurring themes of money, merchants and debts. This edition also contains suggestions for further reading, a glossary, maps and a chronology.

This undergraduate textbook critically examines the prevailing psychiatric model of psychopathology, challenging traditional perspectives. It presents alternative approaches by integrating psychosocial factors with neurobiological and biopsychological insights, encouraging students to explore a more comprehensive understanding of mental health. The text aims to foster critical thinking and provide a balanced view of the complexities surrounding psychological disorders.