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My Child Is Sick!
Expert Advice for Managing Common Illnesses and Injuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Know when to call your doctorand when it's safe to treat your child at home! Caring for your sick child can be a daunting experience. You want to ensure the best for him or her, but you also know that every illness doesn't require a trip to the doctor's office or emergency room. So how do you know...
The Science of Persuasion
A Litigator's Guide to Juror Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The ability to persuade comes naturally to some people and is completely foreign to others. This new second edition, is your thorough guide to the way jurors make decisions, and how you can use that knowledge to convince them that your story of a case is the correct version. This book was written for...
The Latino Psychiatric Patient
Assessment and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Constituting nearly 12 percent of the US population, Latinos (a term used interchangeably with the term Hispanic throughout the text) are expected to become the second-largest race ethnic group (after non-Hispanic whites) by 2010. This growth emphasizes the increasing importance of understanding the...
Lincoln's Counsel
Lessons from America's Most Persuasive Speaker
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Before Abraham Lincoln was called "Mr. President," he was called "counselor" and "esquire." Some consider him to be one of the nation's greatest attorneys and, at the very least, an enormously persuasive speaker. He spent more years practicing law than any other president,...
Committed to Disillusion
Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment,...
Final Night
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979. Despite this physical and temporal distance from her homeland, much of her material derives from...
by Al-Tahawy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Blue Aubergine tells the story of a young Egyptian woman, born in 1967, growing up in the wake of Egypt's defeat of that year, and maturing into womanhood against the social and political upheavals Egypt experienced during the final decades of the twentieth century. Physically and emotionally scarred...
House of the Wolf
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of its protagonists....
The Lamp of Umm Hashim
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and—of course—Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature,...
The "I Hate to Exercise" Book for People with Diabetes
Turn Everyday Home Activities into a Low-impact Fitness Plan You'll Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
For most people with diabetes, the first line of defense is adding exercise to the daily routine. Everyone with diabetes should be getting some physical activity into their lifestyle. The key to good diabetes self-care is simple: stay active by making the most of the activities that are already part...
The Magic of Turquoise
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Was Nirvana's near-fatal accident at sea simply a case of bad timing, or was it attempted suicide? And what was so important about an unread email that made her jump recklessly into the Mediterranean? As Leila tries to make sense of her aunt's fate, Nirvana embarks on a journey through memories and...
by Henry Habib Ayrout
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and television have brought the larger world into the houses. Government schools have increased educational horizons for the children. Opportunities to work in...
by Fadhil al-Azzawi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
From the Iraqi author of Cell Block Five. This timely, elegant novel's hero is an Iraqi secret police inspector who routinely uses enhanced interrogation techniques, which even he considers torture. Convinced that he is protecting society from anarchy, he is at peace with the world until ordered to...
Mortal Designs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Captain Murad is busy planning for the Afterlife. He dreams of a grand, sunlit mausoleum on the banks of the Nile. To realize his pharaonic folly, the retired captain kindles an unlikely romance between Hazem, a feckless architect longing for immortality, and Asma, an impoverished single mother who...