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Author | : Susan Butler |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786745797 |
Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. And her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery. Based on ten years of research, East to the Dawn provides a richly textured portrait of Earhart in all her complexity. It's the perfect complement to the October 2009 movie Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor.
Author | : Steven A. Cook |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190611413 |
In False Dawn, noted Middle East regional expert Steven A. Cook offers a sweeping narrative account of the tumultuous past half decade, moving from Turkey to Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and beyond. The result is a powerful explanation of why the Arab Spring failed.
Author | : Nan Watkins |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2002-04-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781580050647 |
After the death of her son and the end of her 30-year marriage, Nan Watkins decides on her 60th birthday to travel the globe alone. What begins as a trip to renew connections with friends across Asia and Europe becomes a powerful journey of body, mind, and spirit.
Author | : Steven Z. Freiberger |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461730325 |
The most definitive account of the Suez affair to date, based on newly opened archives. Mr. Freiberger argues that the crisis was only the culmination of long American irritation with British imperialism in the Middle East. Commendable...this book breaks new ground. —William B. Quandt, Foreign Affairs
Author | : Dawn Chatty |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-03-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139486934 |
Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East remain even today significant elements of contemporary life in the region. Dawn Chatty's book traces the history of those who, as a reconstructed Middle East emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, found themselves cut off from their homelands, refugees in a new world, with borders created out of the ashes of war and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. As an anthropologist, the author is particularly sensitive to individual experience and how these experiences have impacted on society as a whole from the political, social, and environmental perspectives. Through personal stories and interviews within different communities, she shows how some minorities, such as the Armenian and Circassian communities, have succeeded in integrating and creating new identities, whereas others, such as the Palestinians and the Kurds, have been left homeless within impermanent landscapes.
Author | : Doris L. Rich |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1996-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1560987251 |
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the “What Happened to Amelia Earhart?” myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.
Author | : Irena Cristalis |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848136536 |
Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia 's reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has been struggling for years to rebuild itself from the ashes. The author, one of a handful of journalists to refuse to be evacuated during the nightmarish Indonesian withdrawl, stayed on to report East Timor to the world, and to keep faith with the East Timorese whose story she wanted to tell.Her book is a vivid first-hand account of the lives of individual Timorese during the long decades of Indonesia 's repressive occupation, their often heroic struggle for freedom, and their efforts to cope with the dramatic historic shifts engulfing them and their endeavours to rebuild their homeland. Based on years of research, and lengthy interviews with East Timor 's leaders, priests, nuns, students and guerrilla fighters, this moving and extremely readable book is at the same time also an exploration of the complexities of the country's internal politics.
Author | : Irena Cristalis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2002-09-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This is an account of the lives of individual Timorese during the decades of Indonesia's repressive occupation, their struggle for freedom, and their efforts to cope with the historic shifts engulfing them.
Author | : Maya Jasanoff |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0698137477 |
“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.
Author | : Renée Ahdieh |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0147513855 |
A #1 New York Times Bestseller! “A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story.” - US Weekly Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.