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Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The Israeli Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict...
Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt
Two Alien Lives in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This is a highly unusual and beautifully written book. It is the double memoir of a mother and son, Anna and Pierre, and the story takes us from Anna's childhood in Russia and subsequent arrival in Egypt in 1901 to Pierre's enrollment at the American University in Cairo in the late 1930s. It is fascinating,...
Translating Egypt's Revolution
The Language of Tahrir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by American University in Cairo students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented...
Specters of Conquest
Indigenous Absence in Transatlantic Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
This book intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing "America" as not a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of their...
by American Dental Association
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Provides tactics for developing a dynamic dental team, from establishing a unified practice mission and culture to developing communication strategies that work.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Lessons Learned: Stories from Women in Medical Management ©2013, 252 pages Women physicians now comprise 50 percent or more of most U.S. medical school classes. Yet relatively few fill the most senior management positions within the health care system. In "Lessons Learned: Stories from Women in Medical...
Brazilian Cinema Today
Essays by Critics and Experts from across Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
A unique collection of articles by leading film critics, spanning Brazil from Rio Grande do Sul to the northern state of Pernambuco, this volume offers a panorama of current trends and the evolving Brazilian film industry. The compilation is not only a reference tool for the study and debate of Brazilian...
by Adam Frank
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein,...
Art of Being Cool
The Pursuit of Black Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Addressing the challenges facing adolescent black males, this book analyzes and stresses the importance of identity development. It helps educators and parents understand the importance of cultivating a positive black male identity and how this overlooked aspect of childhood development impacts young...
Deconstructing Psychosis
Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Deconstructing Psychosis: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V provides an all-important summary of the latest research about the diagnosis and pathophysiology of psychosis. This volume gives the reader an inside look at how psychotic phenomena are represented in the current diagnostic system and...
by Jacqueline Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
She'd found him-her missing husband
and the father of her child
Only, Dr. Hugh Menton didn't remember anything about Meg Avery or their marriage. Hugh couldn't recall the man he'd been before his accident. Still, he couldn't deny the fact that the little girl with eyes like his own brought...
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt
Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of 'pharaonism'-popular interest in ancient Egypt-as an inspiration in the struggle for full...
Trump's World
Challenges of a Changing America: An Anthology from the Cairo Review of Global Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
An anthology from the pages of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs brings together experts from the Middle East and around the world for a penetrating insight into how maverick tycoon Donald Trump captured the White House and a comprehensive survey of the new America president's domestic and international...
Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers
Two Modern Arabic Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In these two short novels, Bahaa Abdel Meguid displays the impressive range of his narrative imagination. Set in the lower-class Cairo district of Shubra, Saint Theresa tells the story of two young women, Budour and Sawsan, childhood friend who come of age following the 1967 war. Budour marries a...