Written from a perspective deeply embedded in the couture industry, this is a history of the portions of the fashion industry derived directly from French couture. This is the first translation into E
Best friends Jamilla and Ameena, children of Muslim immigrants in England, leave the country and join the Islamist cause in Syria where they witness poverty and violence.
Rogers, formerly affiliated with the U. of London and with the British Museum, surveys the Mughal school of miniature painting, which flourished in northern India in the 16th and 17th centuries. Featu
It is 1971, and Nigeria is under military rule - though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will
Drawing on his own experiences of living and working in the Caribbean, Howard (human geography, U. of Edinburgh) provides an insider's guide for travelers to Jamaica's capital city. Following an histo
The Wind in My Hair is the memoir of Salwa Salem, who was just eight years old when she and many other Palestinians were uprooted by the Zionists in the Nakba. After her family fled, she spent the res
"The Putin Mystique takes the reader on a journey through the Russia of Vladimir Putin, named by Forbes magazine in 2013 as the most powerful man in the world. It is a neo-feudal world where iPads, WT
In this updated edition of Capitalism Hits the Fan, Professor Wolff explains why capitalism's global crisis persists, why bank bailouts and austerity policies fail, and why deepening economic inequali
The Conference of the Birds is a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The story of the quest for a king undertaken by the birds of the world, it also describes the Sufi (or mystical Islamic) path to
For travelers interested in wildlife, Beletsky, a wildlife biologist and zoology instructor, provides descriptions of the ecology, behavior, and conservation of about 400 species of amphibians, reptil
In the first American edition, a Jerusalem-based sociologist and teacher of Middle Eastern dance, presents aspects of the traditional but eroding cultures of Arab countries unknown to most Westerners.
