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The Ayub Khan Era

Lawrence Ziring

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the study of a decade that completes a cycle, from late 1958 when the army under General Mohammad Ayub Khan took control of Pakistan amidst tu... Lees meer

A Room of His Own

Gloria L Cronin

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men - often intellectuals - who manifest Bellow's unique conception of American masculinity. This work ... Lees meer

Red Shoes for Rachel

Boris Sandler

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• This award-winning collection of three novellas features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, sati... Lees meer

The Whole Matter

Thomas H Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• This is the first comprehensive study of the works of one of lreland's most significant contemporary poets. Thomas Kinsella, who first became well kno... Lees meer

National Elections in Turkey

F Michael Wuthrich

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• What determines voting behaviour in Turkey? While many scholars have argued that elections in Turkey over time can be effectively and simply explained... Lees meer

Mad Scholars

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Perspectives on Disability
• As universities rethink their approach to student and faculty mental health, Mad Scholar showcases academics who proudly embrace the label of the "mad... Lees meer

Making a Scene

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Judaism, women's voices have been silenced, leaving the tradition enriched with only a "half-genius." This collection of seven plays by Jewish wome... Lees meer

The New Country

Henry Goodman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
• An abridged version of a collection originally published in 1961, the 42 stories here are written by Jewish writers of the 20th century, including Sho... Lees meer

Perfectionist Politics

Douglas M Strong

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and Politics
• This work covers the story of an important antebellum reform movement: ecclesiastical abolitionism. Lees meer

Conflict & Cooperation

Peter E Makari

• Hardcover | Engels | Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Egypt is considered the birthplace of modern Islamic movements and is a center of contemporary Islamic thought. It is also home to one of the oldest C... Lees meer

Tenants and Cobwebs

Samir Naqqash

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Literature in Translation
• Nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad. The plot ... Lees meer

When Running Made History

Roger Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian's insight with personal memories. From experiencing the 1948 “Austerity Olympics”... Lees meer

Irish Bridget

Margaret Lynch-Brennan

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• "Bridget" was the Irish immigrant servant girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the... Lees meer

The Wheel of Language

David K Coley

• Hardcover | Engels | Medieval Studies
• In The Wheel of Language, Coley explores representations of speech in English poetry of the later Middle Ages, proposing that the spoken word, both wi... Lees meer

Waiting for America

Maxim D Shrayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Jewish Literature
• In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opul... Lees meer

Minorities and the Modern Arab World

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new tho... Lees meer

Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period

Elizabeth Brownson

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• In this volume, Brownson sheds new light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari'a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Her ex... Lees meer

For the Duration

Felicity Ashbee

• Hardcover | Engels
• In her vivid memoir For the Duration, Ashbee gives a candid, often humorous account of her experiences during World War II as she rose through the ran... Lees meer

From Martyr to Murderer

Meriem Pagès

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ever since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, scholars have attempted to apply Western notions of the exotic Muslim "other" to medieval tex... Lees meer

The Book of New York Firsts

Henry Moscow

• Paperback | Engels | New York State
• Everything you wanted to know about the unusual, arcane, and fascinating in the life of New York City. The term "only in New York" takes on new meanin... Lees meer

Syracuse University

John Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Syracuse University
• Drawing on more than one hundred personal interviews--including Chancellors Corbally and Eggers, and the current chancellor, Kenneth A. Shaw--historia... Lees meer

Invisible Seasons

Kelly Belanger

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution's Title IX coordinator, and a close circ... Lees meer

The War of the Wheels

Jeremy Withers

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells's works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances a... Lees meer

Cooperative Security

• Paperback | Engels | Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Examines the roles of the US, the Russian coalition and the European Community in establishing new world order and monitoring the relations and bounda... Lees meer