Brothers and Strangers: A German-Iraqi Memoir, Paperback - Junis Sultan

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An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia -and what it means for today's divided worldPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s)...

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By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian Ge...

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An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in ...

What happens when a career Marine officer stops believing in the doctrine of the Corps and the official pretexts for war? This hard-hitting memoir ...

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A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement Whenever I tell people that I am w...

Offering insights into the unique outlook of slave soldiers who created the Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland a...

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Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributaries...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tony MaiettaAuthor: Jerry TorreThe Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is Jerry Torre's touching and at times haunting memoir about...

A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century's bloodiest...

Explores the story of two front line fighter units, one British and one German, during the Battle of Britain.Illustrations: 150 black and white ill...

Ijoma Alexander Mangold is his full name; he has brown skin and dark curly hair. He grew up in Heidelberg in the 1970s. His mother came from Silesi...

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Reducere. There's a revolution going on in northern Syria, one that challenges everything we know about government and society and freedom. With centuries of...

DescriptionWhen a six-week-old baby is stolen from outside a village shop, Detective Inspector Costello quickly surmises there's more to this case ...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Suad AmiryNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 218 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): William L. (Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Harvard University's...

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Reducere. How can the truth about the devastating atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War be reconciled with the...

A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Both parents are deaf but couldn't be more different. Into this unlikely yet ...

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Reducere. When Sir Ray hears that the hero who raised him is dead and returns with Prince Martin to his homeland, he uncovers his shocking family history and...

Spanning the Brothers Grimm to Kafka and beyond, a new collection of the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years Franz ...

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Numerous metallic artefacts, deposited in a hoard in ancient times, came to light by chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Kha...

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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the pe...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation path...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brittany AndrejcinIllustrator: Tay OdynskiA Tale of Two Brothers is a story written with the intention of starting the conv...

A new psychological thriller from bestselling author Catriona McPherson.