She was Arab, and she taught American literature. She was a little out of place in her own time. For one thing, she was a female academic; further, she was Arab-American. Finally, she taught largely t
Features traditional recipes for Scottish sweets and treats to be served at afternoon teas, including options for cheese pastries, mini quiches, meringues, biscuits, cakes, truffles, and other delecta
The quintessential book on Glasgow. It stays strictly within the bounds of what has always been referred to as 'the City', that is the area resembling a cross. Jack House's seminal work is presented i
PERSONAL, HUMOROUS, ENGAGING, SCHOLARLY, AND MINUTELY PRACTICAL. A splendid guidebook to Irelands spectacular antiquitiesits passage tombs, ring forts, castles, Neolithic settlements, and monastic sit
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
Features Precious who befriends a new boy to her school called Pontsho and his sister Teb, and when she goes to their home, she discovers that they have an unusual pet, a very clever meerkat called Ko
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 BUSY COOKS WHO WANT A TOUCH OF THE LIGHT, BEAUTIFUL CUISINE OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. Following her acclaimed Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume, Silvena Rowe turns her focus to the delicious s
?In this fascinating book, Terry Cudbird reveals the obsession that is long distance walking. His itinerary covered the six sides of the French hexagon. In a years walking he passed through the Pyrene
?The narrator of Always Coca-Cola, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her fathers flower shop. Abeers bedroom wind
?Sarmada, Arabic for perpetuate or the eternally-not-changed, is the novel's fictitious setting. In the title, Fadi Azzam creates a new word (a derivative female form of noun-verb, which does not exis
A frequent writer on visual arts and medieval history and architecture, Mullins offers visitors a guide to surviving Roman features in an area that encompassed today's Provence and Languedoc in southe
Dransart (anthropology and archaeology, U. of Wales) and Wolfe (textiles, British Museum, London) offer design professionals and aficionados a sampling of some 30 rare and beautiful early Andean works
Tells how to grow vegetables and plants in allotments, window boxes, window sills, and gardens. This book also tells how to grow herbs, what to grow when you don't have a garden, and growing plants wi
Four unforgettable characters make up the shifting chambers of the heart of The Geometry of God, the new novel from lauded Pakistani writer Uzma Aslam Khan. They are: paleontologist Amal, her blind s
A survey of Lebanese cooking traditions presents a host of authentic recipes, ranging from eggplant lamb stew and lentil soup to falafel sandwiches, rice pilaf, and stuffed zucchini, accompanied by de
For over six years, Rania Al-Baz was the smiling face of a family program on Saudi television. She was a young, beautiful Saudi TV news anchor - the first woman to have such a job - when her abusive
A travel guide to one of the world's great cities looks at the history of Calcutta, renamed Kolkata in 2001, from its founding in 1690 by East India Company agent Job Charnok to the present day.
This compact book (it measures 5.25x9.25"), presents 100 paintings chosen from nine of the big museums in New York the Brooklyn Museum, the Cloisters, the Frick Collection, Guggenheim, Hispanic Societ
Sarah is on the brink of adulthood in her village in the mountains of Lebanon in the 1930s, a world hesitating on the verge of change. Her father the shaykh is uninterested in anything but the silkwo
As part of Interlink Publishing's On-the-Road Histories series, which links the 50 states of the union to their colorful past, Mississippi covers the history of the Magnolia State from the settling of
Travellers go to Florida for sun, sand, and surf, but increasingly also to explore Florida's incredible natural attractions: stunning subtropical scenery, wonderful hiking and bird-watching trails, ex
The Speyside Way runs for 80 miles from the fishing port of Buckie, on Scotland's Moray Firth, to Aviemore in the foothills of the Cairngorms. Following the lovely valley of the River Spey, you walk
A scholar of children's literature, Bedell has kept the marvelous details of the Icelandic stories, but retained the storyteller's right to fashion them into narratives that appeal today. Translator T
The Tales of the Golden Corpse is a series of traditional Tibetan folk tales. The framing device for the narratives is that a young boy who has killed seven sorcerers in the defense of his master must
This reader-friendly Hawaiian history tells the islands' story from the arrival of the very first Polynesian settlers in the 300s to the most recent strivings for native Hawaiian sovereignty. Learn a
Authentic Indian dishes that are rich in flavor and simple to cook are featured in a cookbook that includes kebabs, Koftas, tikkas, dals, flatbreads, tandoori, rice dishes, viryanies, dosas, and other
Madden (history, Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka) explores Alaska from its native cultures to the issue of the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The well-illustrated book includes a chronolo
The narrator of Si Yussef's ("Mr." Yussef's) story is Lamin, a young university student in Fez. One gloomy day, he encounters the subject of his tale in Ashab's cafe in Tangier. They continue to meet
Fragments of Memory is an autobiographical novel about the life of a boy born to a poor family in northern Syria. Mina sets these personal events against a richly detailed description of events in th
This travel guide-cum-history by a former British ambassador to Greece/historian who lives in Athens focuses mainly on the city that became the modern capital in 1834. But as the Olympics exemplify, t
In July 1870 George Francis Train set out on one of the most famous journeys ever made. He travelled around the world in eighty days, not counting an unavoidable spell in a French prison. It was an ex
In this collection of 41 stories from West Africa, each country is presented by several stories, a map, and country statistics on size, population, ethnic groups, and languages. An introduction explor
