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| Author | : Salim Tamari |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2008-11-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520942426 |
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This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. These essays present an integrated cultural history that illuminates a watershed in the modern social history of the Arab East, the formulation of the Arab Enlightenment.
| Author | : Ray Nayler |
| Publisher | : MCD |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2022-10-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374605963 |
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*WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE “The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of the most exciting new voices I’ve read in years.” —Blake Crouch, author of Upgrade and Dark Matter Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. She travels to the islands to join DIANIMA’s team: a battle-scarred securityagent and the world’s first (and possibly last) android. The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves. But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it. A near-future thriller, a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and an eco-logical call to arms, Ray Nayler’s dazzling literary debut The Mountain in the Sea is a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy.
| Author | : Grace Lin |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2009-07-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316052604 |
Download Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection! A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.
| Author | : Daniel Wilkinson |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780822333685 |
Download Silence on the Mountain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
| Author | : Jack King |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2015-10-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781518766947 |
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"Where Mountain Meets the Sea" is a magical, Native American inspired journey celebrating brave choices that will enchant readers of all ages! It is set on the top of a grand mesa in the four corners region of America's southwest where Sani, a very old and very wise Navajo man, prepares his adopted granddaughter, Topangah, a young Tongva lady of twelve winters, to take her very special place among the people. With the help of a few friends (Eagle, Buffalo, Bear, Sasq'ets, Wolf, Turtle, and Beaver), Sani introduces Topangah to the great teachings of the Anishinabek's Seven Grandfathers to help her learn compelling lessons about life, love, and leadership, lessons certain to move every reader to the core of their being through the simple beauty contained within these pages.
| Author | : Mandy Turner |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2019-04-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1498582885 |
Download From the River to the Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of ‘Peace’ provides original analyses of how different coping strategies were developed as well as new forms of political expression, interaction, and mobilization since the 1993 peace deal between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Its premise is that an historical realism is essential in order to develop a route out of the post-Oslo impasse that extended and solidified the power imbalance under the auspices of ‘peace’. The book includes chapters from experts across the disciplines of anthropology, economics, law, political science and sociology to map out and critically assess the impacts and responses to this ‘peace’ in different geographical and political settings. These innovative analyses also investigate processes that might enable a future to be built based on greater equality and an end to the oppression and violence that currently exists between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (and beyond).
| Author | : Salim Tamari |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2017-08-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520291255 |
Download The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introduction : Rafiq Bey's public spectacles -- Arabs, Turks, and monkeys : the ethnography and cartography of Ottoman Syria -- The sweet smell of holy sewage : urban planning and the new public sphere in Palestine -- A scientific expedition to Gallipoli : the Syrian-Palestinian intelligentsia divided -- Two faces of Palestinian orthodoxy : Hellenism, Arabness, and the Osmenlilik -- The farcical moment : narratives of revolution and counter-revolution in Nablus -- Adele Azar's notebook : charity and feminism in WWI -- Ottoman modernity and the biblical gaze : the war photography of Khalil Raad
| Author | : Salīm Tamārī |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Jamie Marina Lau |
| Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2020-09-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1566896002 |
Download Pink Mountain on Locust Island Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fifteen-year-old Monk drifts through a monotonous existence in a grimy Chinatown apartment with her “grumpy brown couch” of a dad, until she meets high school senior Santa Coy ([email protected]). For a moment, it looks like he might be her boyfriend. But when Monk's dad becomes obsessed with Santa Coy's artwork, Monk finds herself shunted to the sidelines as her father and the object of her affections begin to hatch a scheme of their own. To keep up, Monk must navigate a combustible cocktail of odd assignments, peculiar places, and murky underworld connections. In Jamie Marina Lau's debut novel, shortlisted for Australia's prestigious Stella Prize when she was nineteen years old, hazily surreal vignettes conjure a multifaceted world of philosophical angst and lackadaisical violence.
| Author | : Miroslav Penkov |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2016-03-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374712824 |
Download Stork Mountain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Stork Mountain tells the story of a young Bulgarian immigrant who, in an attempt to escape his mediocre life in America, returns to the country of his birth. Retracing the steps of his estranged grandfather, a man who suddenly and inexplicably cut all contact with the family three years prior, the boy finds himself on the border of Bulgaria and Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains. It is a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, the boy reunites with his grandfather. Here in the mountain, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts, in the name of faith and doctrine, blaze anew. Stork Mountain is an enormously charming, slyly brilliant debut novel from an internationally celebrated writer. It is a novel that will undoubtedly find a home in many readers' hearts.
