The Language of Baklava: A Memoir (Abu-Jaber Diana)(Paperback)

Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir (Abu Sitta Salman)(Paperback)

Salman Abu Sitta was just ten years old when the Nakba-the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948-happened, forcing him from his home near Beersheba. Like many Palestinians of his generation, this traumatic loss and his enduring desire to return would be the defining features of his life from that

Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (Johnstone Diana)(Paperback)

Diana Johnstone is an astute and longtime analyst on global affairs, whose highly readable memoir is peppered with insights on the world events she experienced, reported on and sometimes participated in--from the Viet Nam War to today's Yellow Vest movement in France. This mixture of autobiography

Brother & Sister: A Memoir (Keaton Diane)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When they were kids in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best friends and companions. But as they grew up, Randy became troubled, then reclusive. Before he was thirty, he was divorced, an alcoholic, a man who

The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Koh E. J.)(Paperback)

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds

The Book of Certainty: The Sufi Doctrine of Faith, Vision and Gnosis (Siraj Ad-Din Abu Bakr)(Paperback)

'To express in the language of Sufism, that is, Islamic mysticism, some of the universal truths which lie at the heart of all religions'--this is the book's avowed purpose. It came into being because the author was asked by a friend to set down in writing what he considered to be the most important

Al-Ghazali on the Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration: Book XXIX of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Al-Ghazali Abu Hamid)(Paperback)

The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration is the first translation into a European language of chapter twenty-ninth of The Revival of the Religious Sciences, a monumental work of classical Islam written by the greatest theologian-mystic of Islam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111). Perhaps the most

Windows: Fenetres (Pontalis J. -B)(Paperback)

At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private 'vocabularies' that develop between analyst and

The Book of Revenue: Kitab Al-Amwal (Sallam Abu Ubayd)(Paperback)

Kitab al-Amwal (The Book of Revenue) is the work of a brilliant legal mind. Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam provides us with an accurate record of legal precedents laid down in the first two centuries of Islam, in particular those pertaining to the sources of revenue and the avenues of public

Abstraction and Calligraphy (English): Towards a Universal Language (Ottinger Didier)(Pevná vazba)

This catalogue accompanies the latest in the Louvre Abu Dhabi's exciting series of exhibitions charting the relationship between Eastern and Western artistic

The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Koh E. J.)(Pevná vazba)

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds

Al-Ghazali on Love, Longing, Intimacy & Contentment (Al-Ghazali Abu Hamid)(Paperback)

The Book of Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment is the thirty-sixth chapter of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Revival of the Religious Sciences. This was the first treatise which established not merely the possibility but the necessity for the love of God. Ghazali argues that all the virtues and

Intermediate English Reading and Comprehension (Engelhardt Diane)(Paperback)

Take your skills to the next level and get more meaning out of the English language Reading English texts that are created especially for ESL students like you is a critical part to learning the language, but that does not mean you have to be bored with the subjects Created by expert ESL

Broken Music: A Memoir (Sting)(Paperback)

'Sting's gift for prose and reverence for language, nearly the equal of his musical gifts, shine on every page. Even when Broken Music addresses the quixotic life of an aspiring rock & roller, it reads like literature from a more rarified time when adults didn't condescend to the vulgarities of pop

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons. 'I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew

Al-Ghazali on the Manners Relating to Eating: Book XI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Al-Ghazali Abu Hamid)(Paperback)

Lost In Translation - A Life in a New Language (Hoffman Eva)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural

A Natural History of the Senses (Ackerman Diane)(Paperback)

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. 'Delightful . . . gives the

Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique (Al-Jabri)(Paperback)

The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and

Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (Abu-Lughod Janet L.)(Paperback)

In this important study, Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots not in the sixteenth century, as is widely supposed, but in the thirteenth century economy--a system far different from the European world

After Diana: Irreverent Elegies (Merck Mandy)(Paperback)

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the deepest mourning of the twentieth century. Two and a half billion people worldwide watched the funeral on television, floral tributes flooded London's royal parks and sprung up, too, in small towns in Texas, conspiracy theories ricocheted around

Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence - Book XXXIV of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (al-Ghazali Abu Hamid)(Paperback / softback)

Working with Children's Language: A Practical Resource for Early Years Professionals (Williams Diana)(Paperback)

This revised and updated second edition of Working with Children's Language has been created to support practitioners who work with young children with delayed language acquisition. Rooted in a developmental theory of language learning, it covers topics such as attention control and listening, the

African Titanics (Kahal Abu Bakr)(Paperback)

The untold tale of the African boat people and their desperate exodus to the merciless shores of the Mediterranean. The novel follows the adventures of Eritrean migrant Abdar as he journeys north, connecting today's migrants with legendary adventurers of the

Diane Arbus: A Chronology, 1923-1971 (Arbus Diane)(Paperback)

Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus' extensive correspondence with friends, family and colleagues, personal notebooks and other