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Painting the Middle East
Ann Zwicker Kerr
These delicate watercolors depict the beauty and peace that exist in a region despite violence and unrest.
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Fugitive Light
A Novel
Mohamed Berrada
An Arabic artist in Tangier grapples with political and erotic issues in this pivotal work by the most celebrated Moroccan author of the past twenty-five years.
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Fatma
A Novel of Arabia
Raja Alem with Tom McDonough
The story of one woman's passionate
odyssey and sophisticated fantasy of Arabia, ancient and modern.
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Voices From Iran
Mahnaz Kousha
Fifteen Iranian women talk intimately about all aspects of their lives from domestic concerns to professional issues.
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No Shame For the Sun
Lives of Professional Pakistani Women
Shahla Haeri
Conversations with Muslim working women challenge notions of the "veiled" woman as being victimized or unproductive.
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Writing Off the Beaten Track
Reflections on the Meaning of Travel and Culture in the Middle East
Judith Caesar
These thought-provoking essays provide insightful reflection on both the experience and the condition of experiencing another culture.
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The Walled City
Esther David
This novel traces the rigid circumscribed lives of three generations of women in an extended Jewish family in the walled Indian city of Ahmedabad.
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Women of Jordan
Islam, Labor, and the Law
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
An incisive study of the past, present, and future of Jordanian and Palestinian women, women and issues of employment, education, human rights, Islamic law, and legal practice.
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Why Me, Lord?
One Woman's Ordination to the Priesthood With Commentary and Complaint
Reverend Betty Bone Schiess
The story of the ordination of the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess-one of the first women priests in the Episcopal Church.
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Christian Women in Indonesia
A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion
Frances Adeney
Revelatory studies capture a moment in Indonesian history: "a leap forward in what may be a major transition from patriarchy to gender equality." |
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Fatal Freedom
The Ethics and Politics of Suicide
Thomas Szasz
In this thoughtful and compelling analysis, the world's foremost critic of coercions of the psychiatric institution defends a patient's right
to choose life or death.
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The Meaning of Mind
Language, Morality, and Neuroscience
Thomas Szasz
In this brilliantly original and highly accessible
work, Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility
of analyzing the mind as a collection of
brain functions.
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Polish Jewish Literature in the Interwar Years
Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
Foremost among a recent wave of Polish
books on Jewish issues, this groundbreaking
work rectifies long-held misconceptions about Polish Jewish writers.
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My War
A Memoir of a Survivor of the Holocaust
Edward Stankiewicz
A unique personal account of Jewish life in
Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and of a young man's determination to prevail in the
face of utter catastrophe.
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Three Homelands
Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel, and America
Norman Salsitz with Stanley Kaish
Compelling recollections of a Jewish boy
in a prewar Polish village, of his incredible
scramble to survive the Holocaust, and of his adventures in America.
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A Reader's Guide to Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Waldhorn
Hemingway scholar Arthur Waldhorn's lively, personal style and his clear-eyed view of Ernest Hemingway makes this book not just an exegesis for the scholar but for general readers as well.
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All One Breath
Selected Poems
Harry C. Staley
This lyrical, autobiographical romp takes the
reader from the poet's childhood, to combat in
WW II, to upstate New York.
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Four Nails
Gaylord Brewer
Winner of the 2001 Snail's Pace Poetry Prize
Gaylord Brewer's poetry is aggressive, lyrical, unflinching, playful, and compassionate.
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Critiquing the Sitcom
A Reader
Joanne Morreale
Choice essays on the TV sitcom lend insights
into shifting cultural modes and methods for television criticism.
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The Literary Werewolf
An Anthology
Edited by Charlotte F. Otten
Twenty-two selected werewolf tales offer an unprecedented look at the mystique of the werewolf in relation to human behavior and varied aspects of the human psyche.
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Covered Bridges of New York State
A Guide
Rick L. Berfield
A stunning and comprehensive guide to the design, evolution, and romance of historic covered bridges extant in New York State.
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Matters of Taste
Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life
Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose
A lavishly illustrated volume that offers a unique approach to both art and culinary history.
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Iroquoia
The Development of a Native World
William Engelbrecht
Drawing on archaeology, historical evidence, oral traditions, and linguistics, this book provides a dynamic view of Iroquois life from the prehistoric period and Owasco sites through the Five Nations.
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Correspondence 1654-1658
Volume XII of the Dutch Colonial Manuscripts
Translated and Edited by Charles T. Gehring
Volume XII of the Dutch Colonial Manuscripts contains the correspondence of Petrus
Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, from 1654-1658. It represents the earliest surviving correspondence, comprising incoming letters from the directors in Amsterdam and the governors of neighboring colonies.
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Intersections
Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels
Edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba
A true "intersection" of Arab women's texts that challenges and rewrites the traditional boundaries of nation, gender, and community.
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Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World
Recasting the Area Studies Debate
Edited by Ali Mirsepassi, Amrita Basu, and Frederick Weaver
These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure "area-based knowledge" to respond to social sciences and globalization.
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2001 Race Odyssey
African Americans and Sociology
Bruce R. Hare
This collection of works is a comprehensive look at the African American way of life, African American scholarship, and African American sociologists.
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The Politics of Landscape in Singapore
Constructions of 'Nation'
Lily Kong and Brenda S. A. Yeoh
This book shows how power relations that define and challenge the concept of ?nation? are played out in and through landscapes.
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