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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Animals in Our Days A Book of Stories
Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi’s unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans - water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights. Other stories tell of bear-trainers in India and of the American invasion of Iraq as experienced by a foal, deer, and puppies.
£15.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P A Community of Many Worlds Arab Americans in New York City
New York City's main Arab communities exemplify the continuity and change that has taken place throughout the city's rich history. This is a collection of writings and photographs that document and tell the stories of these communities.
£24.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Kurdish QuasiState Development and Dependency in PostGulf War Iraq
Explains the nature of the Kurdish north transformation, once an isolated outpost for the Iraqi army and local militia, now an internationally recognized autonomous region, and how it has influenced the relationship between the Kurdistan region and Iraq's
£20.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Kurds and the State Evolving National Identity in Iraq Turkey and Iran
Examining Kurdish nationalism as a function of diverse political spaces, this book analyzes the formation of Kurdish national identity. In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, the author shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes.
£25.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Unveiling Men
Moving beyond rigid portrayals of Islamic patriarchy and female oppression, this book analyses debates about manhood in early twentieth-century Iran, particularly around questions of race and sexuality. DeSouza presents the larger implications of Pahlavi hegemonic masculinity in creating racialized male subjects and “productive” sexualities.
£21.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Zanouba A Novel
Set in late 19th and 20th-century Egypt, this novel offers a window on the everyday lives of cloistered women and the way they interact with each other and with male relatives, spouses and other men.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Generations of Dissent
Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa.
£25.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Stepping through Origins
Since the eighteenth century, landscape has played complex psychological and political roles in the narrative of Irishness, entailing questions of memory, family, home, exile, and forgiveness. In Stepping through Origins, Holdridge explores the interplay of these concepts in literature.
£67.00
MP-SYR Syracuse University P God and Juggernaut
By focusing almost entirely on intellectual discourse among the clergy, this text engages the major theoretical discourses of modernity in an attempt to address some of the central theoretical issues involved in and Iran's experience of these issues.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P For the Duration A Lighthearted WAAF Memoir
A rare and entertaining look at Felicity Ashbee's experiences as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P A Yeats Dictionary Persons and Places in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
This reference guide to Yeats' work, uses Yeats' non-poetic writing, the principle Yeats criticism and the writings of his friends and critics to reveal the depth of his meanings. It identifies geographical, historical and literary references from classical antiquity to Irish culture.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P God Man and the World Lectures and Essays
Based on the author's lectures at the Judisches Freies Lehrhaus, these essays include notes for a group of lectures of 1920, ""Faith and Knowledge"", followed by a three-part lecture series of 1922, ""The Science of God"", ""The Science of Man"", and ""The Science of World"".
£33.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Albert Schweitzer
The second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written. These include letters between Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau from the ten years before their marriage.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Literary Drowning Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Writing
The first book of its kind, Literary Drowning explores depictions of the drowned body in twentieth-century Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that reconsiders memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the making of the postcolonial subject and nation.
£24.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Paul Celan
In this poignant memoir, Petre Solomon recalls the experiences he shared with Paul Celan and captures the ways in which Bucharest profoundly influenced Celan's evolution as a poet.
£24.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Mashpee Indians Tribe on Trial
This is a reconstruction of the trial where the Mashpee Indians claimed ownership of the area of Cape Cod that they have occupied for 350 years. Their claim was rejected as they were judged not to be a true tribe, having not survived as an ethnic identity.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Laura Cornelius Kellogg
An organiser, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Laura Cornelius Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination. This book resurrects her legacy and includes Kellogg's writings, speeches, photographs, congressional testimonies, and coverage in national and international newspapers of the time.
£24.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Sy Volume 3A The Sabbath Eve Service
The Sabbath Eve Service, a three-book set, is to date the most comprehensive annotated anthology of authentic musical liturgy of the Eastern European synagogue Friday night Shabbat service. Part of a projected five-volume set, this series is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy of Eastern European synagogue music.
£128.00
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
It has been said that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. This title explores the tension between dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition. It challenges the reader to re-examine notions of translation, bilingualism, and postcoloniality.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Making Space Revisioning the World 14751600
In this work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the 16th century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. In addition, he highlights the role of the occult practices in the new spatial sciences.
£21.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Pipe Bible and Peyote among the Oglala Lakota A Study in Religious Identity
Describes the beliefs of the religious groups among the Oglala Lakota: traditional Lakota religion; the Native American Church; and the Body of Christ Independent Church. Steinmetz discusses the interdynamics of pipe, Bible and peyote, and offers a model for understanding Oglala religious identity.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Ceremonial Chemistry
In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labelling and prohibiting certain drugs as ""dangerous"" substances and incarcerating ""addicts"" in order to cure them.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Picturing Disability Beggar Freak Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric
Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. In Picturing Disability, Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented and exploring the contexts in which they were photographed.
£45.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Scottish Connection The Rise of English Literary Study in Early America
A historical record of the introduction of English literary study into the curricula of American colleges and universities from the early 18th century to the mid 19th century.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P America in the Sixties
Goes beyond the cliches of the '60s and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. It sketches the well-known players of the period, bringing each to life with subtle detail; introduces readers to lesser-known incidents of the decade; and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Persistence of Orientalism
Although decades of scholarship have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in Arab studies, the narrative of 1798 symbolizing the coming of the modern west to the rescue of the static east endures. This book takes stock of this dominant paradigm, interrogating its origins and the ways in which scholarship perpetuates it.
£21.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Voices From Iran
In this volume, 15 Iranian women talk intimately about all aspects of their lives, from domestic concerns to professional issues. The women - the eldest of whom is in her 50s, the youngest, 38 - explore their relationships, reflect on courtship and marriage, and address childcare and employment.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Tabernacle of Hate Seduction into RightWing Extremism Second Edition
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Autocratic Parliament Power and Legitimacy in Egypt 18662011
Contrary to the prevailing opinion that autocratic parliaments are meaningless, token institutions, Weipert-Fenner's long-term analysis shows that parliament can be an indicator, catalyst, and agent of change in an authoritarian regime.
£25.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Aislinge Meic Conglinne The Vision of Mac Conglinne
An accomplished and original eleventh-century satiric narrative poem, this is the first time this text is available as a stand-alone translation. The volume includes an introduction that places the romance in its rich historical and literary context, and extensive notes that illuminate the wealth of references found in the text.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Disaster and the Millennium
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Disability and Mothering Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge
Focuses on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word ""liminal"" calls attention to the book's focus on the transitional moments and spaces where the personal and social, inside and outside, self and other converge.
£24.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Who Will Die Last
A translated collection of author David Ehrlich's short stories originally written in Hebrew. The translators are writers, teachers, activists, doctors, or rabbis and they all bring a unique voice to stories of life and the search for meaning within it. Ehrich is the author of two short story collections and his bookstore Tmol Shilshom is a haven for avant-garde artists and writers.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Poetry Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland
Provides a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island’s jurisdictions. This volume is the first in the growing field of law and literature to monograph exclusively on modern Ireland.
£24.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas An Interdisciplinary Approach
Offers an overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion and music.
£33.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh Sholem Aleichem and I. L. Peretz
£15.15
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Wars Other Voices Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P A Millennium of Turkish Literature
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P KhulKhaal Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Correspondence 16471653
This volume is a collection Petrus Stuyvesant's correspondence from 1647 to 1653, the first six years of his tenure as director general of New Netherland. These letters show how the young Stuyvesant handled major problems in his administration and confronted the challenges laid before him.
£64.00
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Making Miss India Miss World
Miss India competition has become a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. Through the lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, the author examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by political, economic, and cultural developments.
£22.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Tayeb Salih
Undertaking a sustained interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories, this study focuses primarily on the ways in which his work depicts the clashing of Arab ideologies - that is, questions of tradition, modernity, imperialism, gender and political authority.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P A Traveler Disguised The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
In an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 19061911
Providing an account of the British involvement and support of the Iranian constitutional and national struggle of 1906-1911, this book examines the role of the Persia Committee, a lobbying group founded in 1908 for the purpose of changing Britain's policy towards Iran. It also covers how Edward Grey's policy towards Iran was shaped.
£49.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P National Symbols in Modern Iran Identity Ethnicity and Collective Memory
Taking an innovative approach to the study of Iranian nationalism, Merhavy examines the way symbols from Iran's past have played an important role in the struggles between political, religious, and ideological movements over legitimacy in the last five decades.
£25.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Does the Land Remember Me A Memoir of Palestine
Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey.
£15.05
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Rise of the Rich A New View of Modern World History
Presents a model of analysis based on the rise of the rich. This book identifies a history of resolving conflicts through negotiations among the wealthy classes of various regions.
£21.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Emirate Egyptian Ethiopian Colonial Experiences in Late NineteenthCentury Harar
In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ben-Dror tells the story of Turco-Egyptian colonial ambitions and the processes that integrated Harar into the global system of commerce.
£58.00
