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Author | : Abdullah Anas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1787381803 |
The Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas, 'perhaps the greatest warrior of the Afghan Arabs', fought the Soviet Union for a decade. As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan jihad, he counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of Al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden to Omar Abdel-Rahman, and befriended key Afghan jihadi figures such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir. To the Mountains is an intimate portrait of this brutal war, tracing Anas's involvement in the conflict, as well as his experiences of the Algerian civil war (1992-8) and his sojourn in 'Londonistan'. Brushing shoulders with everyone from Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi to Jalaluddin Haqqani, Anas opted for his own independent route, seeking to persuade the Afghan Arabs that they should not be distracted by attacks on the West. Paradoxically, he remains committed to the broader Islamist movement, believing that jihad will continue till the end of time, yet has also spent years talking to the Taliban, seeking to build a lasting peace in Afghanistan. This is his story. Co-written with investigative journalist Tam Hussein, Anas's memoir will doubtless become a seminal primary source on the rise of global jihadism.
Author | : Suzanne Hensel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Lemmon, Mount (Ariz.) |
ISBN | : |
An in-depth look into the lives and times of the people who shaped the history of the Catalina Mountains. This revised edition includes a section on the 2003 Aspen fires.
Author | : David Guterson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408834758 |
When Dr Ben Givens left his Seattle home he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards, where, on the verges of the Columbia River, Ben had entered the world and would now take his leave of it.
Author | : Ned Morgan |
Publisher | : Aster |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781783253227 |
An exploration of the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time at altitude. Mountains have forever been steeped in poetry, symbolism and mystery, inspiring everyone from the explorers who wish to scale every peak to those who are more interested in the journey or the view. These rooftops of the world encourage determination, resilience, fitness of the body, ingenuity, creativity and awe - all of which are, in their own ways, "good for us". As the world's populations become increasingly urbanised, the need for a healthy relationship with nature is becoming more and more important, both from a psychological wellbeing and physical health point of view. In the Mountains is an awe-inspiring book that takes us on a journey to reveal the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time at altitude, and also teaches how we can be inspired by the research to bring elements of a mountain lifestyle into our everyday, increasingly urbanized, lives.
Author | : Steve Kemp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) |
ISBN | : 9780937207598 |
A family anticipates the things they will see and do on a camping trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Author | : Que Mai Phan Nguyen |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1643750496 |
The International Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice SelectionWinner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship "[An] absorbing, stirring novel . . . that, in more than one sense, remedies history." —The New York Times Book Review “A triumph, a novelistic rendition of one of the most difficult times in Vietnamese history . . . Vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore apart not just her beloved country, but also her family. Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English.
Author | : Yuko Tsushima |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681375974 |
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women—in the hospital, in her son’s nursery—but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.
Author | : Haily Meyers |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1423653181 |
Children experience and explore their favorite parts of nature.
Author | : Tod Bolsinger |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830873872 |
Do you ever feel that you are leading in uncharted territory? Pastor and consultant Tod Bolsinger draws on decades of expertise guiding churches and organizations in this expanded practical leadership resource, offering illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective church leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world.
Author | : Walter Bonatti |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Mountaineering |
ISBN | : 037575640X |
The legendary mountaineer describes his adventures in such ranges as the Alps and Himalayas, and provides details of what really happened during a controversial 1954 Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2.