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The Palm House
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fortunes begin to change when he meets Sandra, a young Austrian woman, who shows him the Palm House. In...
Common Things
Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced—and were influenced by—emerging modern systems of community.
Drawing on the work of Washington...
Christians In Egypt
Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities - Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Drawing on more than four decades of experience studying Christian communities in Egypt, Otto Meinardus offers here a sweeping overview of the principal Christian churches and organizations in Egypt today. For the first time, this wealth of information has been gathered into one volume, making it...
Range and Richness of Vascular Land Plants
The Role of Variable Light
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
This is a research monograph and not a textbook. Here I demonstrate analytically how the observed, opposing, latitudinal gradients in the average range and richness of local vascular land plant species are...
Arab Spring in Egypt
Revolution and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation...
Learning Supportive Psychotherapy: An Illustrated Guide
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Mastering the art of supportive psychotherapy demands years of training and experience -- and Learning Supportive Psychotherapy: An Illustrated Guide paves the way. This book, along with the accompanying DVD, serves as a trustworthy guide to mastering the rudiments of supportive psychotherapy from...
The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance
A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance, by Sylvia R. Karasu, M.D., and T. Byram Karasu, M.D., is a scholarly and critical inquiry into the field of overweight and obesity. Reviewing more than 900 publications, from some of the early classical papers to the most recent...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...
Abusir
Realm of Osiris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis there lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by the more familiar pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, this area has nonetheless been the site, for the last forty years,...
by Francis L. Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
First published in 1903, this book is a compulsively readable theory of cross-examination, enriched with entertaining and enlightening examples drawn from Wellman's own practice and those from the infamous cases of the day. As Professor Michael E. Tigar says in his new foreword to the book. Until I reread...
The Power of Licensing
Harnessing Brand Equity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
As CEO of Beanstalk, a leading, New York City-based global brand licensing agency and part of the Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC), author Michael Stone has worked with companies as diverse as HGTV, the Ford Motor Company, the Coca-Cola Company and AT&T to create highly ambitious and successful strategic...
Kamikaze
A Japanese Pilot's Own Spectacular Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Originally published in 1957, this enduring classic-the first-ever English publication cowritten by a Japanese suicide pilot-remains a touching and insightful look into the world of the kamikaze. This edition, now completely revised, reflects the valuable insight and perspective gained by the author...
Egypt's Desert Dreams
Development or Disaster?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull...
The Dream
A Diary of a Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions. The Dream: A Diary of a Film is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila,...