Product Description: Covering common problems, likely failures and their remedies, this is an essential on-site guide to the behaviourof a building’s structure. Presented in a clear structure and user-friendly style, the book goes through all the structural aspects of a building and assesses the importance of the different components...read more

Product Description: Whose side are you on? Civil War is encompassing the entire Marvel Universe, and the effects of the war are being felt by every hero, villain and civilian. Wild cards like Venom, Ant-Man, Iron Fist, U.S. Agent and even Howard the Duck must take a stand, while the Sentry is confronted with a past he can't leave behind - and one of Marvel's greatest heroes must face their own fearful future! Whose side will Marvel's top superhuman lawyer, She-Hulk, fi ght for, when the Civil War threatens the rights of every American super hero?COLLECTING: CIVIL WAR: THE INITIATIVE, CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES, CIVIL WAR: THE RETURN, SHE-HULK 8, WHAT IF: CIVIL WA...read more

Product Description: THE BOOK OF BIDEL DEHLAVI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Mirza Abdul-Qader Bidel (1644-1721) is one of the most respected poets from Afghanistan. In the early 17th century, his family moved from Balkh to India, to live under the Mughul dynasty...read more

Product Description: THE ARABIC QASIDA An Anthology Translations & Introduction Paul Smith The qasida is a form of praise poetry that dates from pre-Islamic Arabia and was still composed by Sufi and other poets in Arabic up to today. Here is the largest anthology of this epic form of poetry in the Arabic language spanning 13 centuries...read more

Product Description: TWO GREAT ARABIC SUFI POETS IBN AL-FARID & ‘AISHAH AL-BA‘UNIYAH Their Qasidas in the Rhyme of ‘T’ Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Umar Ibn al-Farid, an Egyptian poet (1181-1235), is considered to be the undisputed master of Islamic mystical or Sufi poetry into Arabic...read more

Product Description: ANGELUS SILESIUS THE CHRISTIAN-MYSTIC SUFI POET A Selection of Rhyming Couplets from the Cherubinic Wanderer Translation and Preface by Paul Smith Angelus Silesius was a mystic of the Counter-Reformation. He was born Johannes Scheffler in 1624 in the province of Silesia, Poland...read more

Product Description: THE BOOK OF LESSER-KNOWN URDU SUFI POETS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Some of the greatest and most memorable spiritual poems of all time have been composed in the Urdu language apart from Mir, Nazir, Ghalib, Iqbal, by their lesser-known Sufi poets and most are contained in this anthology...read more

Product Description: MIR: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Mir Taqi Mir (1723 - 1810) was the leading Urdu poet of the eighteenth century and one of the pioneers of Urdu. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi school of the Urdu ghazal...read more

Product Description: THE BOOK OF MIR Selected Poems of Mir Taqi Mir Translation and Introduction Paul Smith Mir Taqi Mir (1723 - 1810) was the leading Urdu poet of the eighteenth century and one of the pioneers of Urdu. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi school of the Urdu ghazal...read more

Product Description: Swords and sorcery, mutant style! When Kulan Gath strikes, the X-Men, Avengers and Spider-Man find themselves in the middle of a barbarian nightmare! Can they defeat the sorcerous villain and restore the world? Things are no less mystical for the X-Men and Alpha Flight when the trickster god Loki offers a gift to the people of Earth...read more

Product Description: Tell a young person what to do–play fair, be yourself, stick to the task at hand–and most will tune you out. But show them how choices and consequences play out in the real world, with real people, and the impact will be far more profound...read more

Product Description: Tell a young person what to do–play fair, be yourself, stick to the task at hand–and most will tune you out. But show them how choices and consequences play out in the real world, with real people, and the impact will be far more profound...read more

Product Description: GHAZALS INSPIRED BY THOSE OF THE GREAT SUFI POETS Paul Smith In 1974 Australian poet Paul Smith began a 12 year journey translating his acclaimed Divan of Hafiz (many ‘greats’ say the world’s finest poet). To do this he had to master in English the ancient form of the ghazal in which Hafiz was considered the ‘Master’...read more

Product Description: THE QASIDA IN SUFI POETRY An Anthology Translations, Introduction by Paul Smith The qasida is a form of praise poetry from pre-Islamic Arabia. It was later inherited by the Persians, the Turks, the Afghans and Urdu Poets where it was developed immensely by Sufi, court and tribal poets...read more

Product Description: The Persian Masnavi An Anthology Translations & Introduction Paul Smith The masnavi is the poetic form used in Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic and other languages to write epic ballads, romances and Sufi mystical stories and is essentially a Persian invention...read more

Product Description: ~THE SUFI MASNAVI~ An Anthology Translations & Introduction Paul Smith The masnavi is the poetic form used in Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic and other languages to write epic ballads, romances and Sufi mystical stories and is essentially a Persian invention...read more

Product Description: ~THE KEY~ OVER FIFTY YEARS OF FREE-FORM POEMS Paul Smith Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1945, Paul Smith began composing poems in the ancient Persian form of the ghazal at the age of 6 on his way to school. Here are most of his free-form poems composed over the past 52 years...read more

Product Description: HAFEZ The Long Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Persia’s greatest exponent of the ghazal Hafiz (1320-1392) who was small, fat and ugly became a Perfect Spiritual Master (Qutub), was twice exiled from his beloved Shiraz for his criticism of rulers and false Sufi masters and hypocritical clergy...read more

Product Description: ~FAL NAMA~ Divination Book of Hafez of Shiraz Translation, Introduction, Interpretations Paul Smith Hafez’s Divan of poems has been used as an Oracle successfully by millions of people from all walks of life for the past 600 years...read more

Product Description: CRADLE MOUNTAIN & VIETNAM INTERVENTION by Paul Smith Illustrations – John Adam In 1970 an Australian poet, Paul Smith, read in a newspaper of the death of a young fellow-poet on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. He was deeply touched by the young man’s fate and immediately began writing a poem in praise of the poet, Stephen Baxter...read more

Product Description: HAFIZ AND THE BOOK OF THE WINEBRINGER (SAQI-NAMA) Anthology of this Genre in Sufi Poetry Translations & Introduction Paul Smith The Saqi-nama or ‘Book of the Winebringer’ (Cupbearer) is a genre of poetry where the poet or drinker or seeker or devotee calls upon the saqi (sometimes spelt saki) or winebringer or cupbearer or waiter or waitress or spiritual master to bring wine whether in the material sense of juice from the grape or in the spiritual sense of it symbolising Truth, Love, Grace, Knowledge...read more

Product Description: SAQI-NAMA (Book of the Winebringer) Allama Iqbal Translation & Introduction Paul Smith (Sir) Muhammad (often called Allama) Iqbal was born in 1877 Sialkot within the Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan). During his study in Europe, Iqbal began to write poetry...read more

Product Description: ANTHOLOGY OF RUBA’I (QUATRAIN) IN SUFI POETRY OF THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The ruba’i form of mystical poetry has a long, wonderful history of a 1000 years in the Sufi poetry of the Indian sub-continent, second only to Persia...read more

Product Description: THREE GREAT ABBASID SUFI POETS Ibn al-Farid, Ibn ‘Arabi & al-Busiri Lives & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Abbasid Caliphate that ruled the Islamic world was the golden age of Islamic culture. It ruled from 750 to 1258 AD, making it one of the longest and most influential of the Islamic dynasties...read more