East, West: Stories

Reducere. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies betwe...

This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one...

Reducere. "Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey. . . . A collection of triumphs." --Susan Salter Reynol...

Reducere. 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' is a collection of Nordic and Norwegian folklore, edited and collated by Peter Christen Asbj rnsen and J rge...

Reducere. 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' is a collection of Nordic and Norwegian folklore, edited and collated by Peter Christen Asbj rnsen and J rge...

This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections - West, East, North and Southern Africa.

The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series is a collection of some of the best known stories from around the world carefully adapted for chil...

Reducere. Essential writings provide a penetrating introduction to the Indian Jesuit who bridged East and West with his stories and parables.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina McConigleySet in Wyoming and India, the stories in Cowboys and East Indians explore the immigrant experience and colli...

Reducere. Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, cultur...

The debut of a new international star with an outstanding collection of short stories, spiked with homesickness and fizzing with the absurdPublishe...

Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and the other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one o...

Reducere. Milton Keynes, as a new town, is just over 50 years old and in that half century, what was a rural landscape between a triangle of small towns, has...

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and th...

Reducere. Master mythologist Joseph Campbell had a genius for finding the unifying symbols and metaphors in apparently distinct cultures and traditions. In M...

Reducere. This is a collection of stories provided from personal experiences of Stan Stoops. The stories take place on the east and west coasts of the United...

Reducere. Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children's book illustrators of all time, will delight children and adults, with this his masterpiece. The stor...

Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, Berlin has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants...

"Lina's style engaged not only my thoughts and feelings but also my fi ve senses.Each story left me with powerful emotions, an influential refl ect...

Reducere. In American pop art, gangster rap, punk rock, and gay filmmaking, there is a Continental Divide between East Coast and West Coast culture typified ...

A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

Over the decades, countless thousands have traveled to India's Maharashtra State to honor or worship Avatar Meher Baba at His Samadhi in upper Mehe...

Reducere. A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded ...

Reducere. Central Texas is an area as diverse culturally as it is geographically. Bordered by Hill Country in the west, green farmland in the east and Waco a...

Reducere. Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coa...

Reducere. For years, Christians have fled from the horrific conflict in the Middle East. Today, in the land where the church began, less than two percent of ...

Reducere. Fiction. Short Stories. Fleeing communist Budapest by air balloon; a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the ...

Reducere. Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and t...

These Scandinavian fairy tales have had many interpretations through the years, but never have they been so beautifully illustrated as in this sump...

Reducere. Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliati...

DescriptionSub-Saharan Africa is a land of colourful contrasts and diverse cultures. Despite the destructive influences of colonialism and the slav...

Reducere. The internet has long been a hotbed of the creepy and unknown. In the West we have stories like Jeff the Killer or Slender Man that have enthralled...

Why would anyone travel across the American continent on foot? The answer can be found in each of the 27 adventures in this compilation. This book ...

Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices' Observer'A story of our times... Savour it, b...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespe...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in America." But those wh...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in America." But those wh...

DescriptionAn elegantly packaged new edition of a classic Chinese folk tale collection that responds to the contemporary fascination with the ancie...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading...The Roman civilization is probably the single ...

Reducere. These 57 short stories are an entertaining introduction to the history of Cleveland, Ohio, for natives and newcomers alike. They hit the highlights...

Reducere. A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his...

Reducere. The bonds of family are stronger than the Berlin Wall...Berlin, 1961. Sabine can't imagine a life separated from her beloved brother. So when the ...

How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Ch dr n, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others Persona...

Reducere. In this personal, multifaceted memoir, Hala Buck, a professional artist and integrative therapist, reflects on her mixed Muslim and Christian famil...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfian Sa'atForeword by: Isrizal Mohamed Isa--SELECTED BY ELECTRIC LITERATURE AS 1 OF 7 SHORT-STORY COLLECTIONS TO READ THI...

Reducere. The Protevangelium of James tells stories about the life of the Virgin Mary that are absent from the New Testament Gospels: her miraculous birth to...

Reducere. What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tu...

DescriptionA captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In th...

Reducere. Delray Beach lies on Florida's Atlantic coast, nestled between a sea grape-filled beach to the east and rich farmland to the west. Throughout its p...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our liter...

Reducere. The Protevangelium of James tells stories about the life of the Virgin Mary that are absent from the New Testament Gospels: her miraculous birth to...

Reducere. In this beautifully written memoir (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her...

Reducere. A good story is a good story wherever it comes from, and this place is full of them." - from "Charlie's Point of View" Playboy Magazine once called...

DescriptionA city of stories--short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory--Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city ...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Byzantine Empire then keep reading...The Byzantine Empire was founded durin...

Reducere. DescriptionDaisy Kwok's life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and "New" China, in a way that no other did. This book presents st...

Reducere. How does an English, Christian girl grow up to be an acclaimed Tibetan Buddhist Lama? It was a search for Truth and a deep wish to understand the m...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would...

Reducere. In this updated edition of Backroads & Byways of Pennsylvania, David Langlieb takes readers down country roads, through lush farmland vistas, and i...

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been ...

DescriptionGet to know your own mind, stop judging, and be attentive--a Buddhist guide to happiness that's relevant to everyone. Now available in p...

You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable...

Reducere. An illuminating celebration of more than 80 of the world's most important thinkers, this book explores the fascinating stories of their lives, thei...

DescriptionIn the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval ...

Reducere. There are many things that are big in Texas: Wide open spaces, personalities, hair, but above all, there's flavorUnited Tastes of Texas is your geo...

Reducere. Duluth, the beautiful city at the head of the world's largest freshwater lake, has gone from boom to bust to boom and back again. In this richly te...

On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mecca Jamilah SullivanBlue Talk and Love's "voice, despite material that seems frankly contemporary, is paradoxically lyric...

Along with Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Kay (pronounced "kigh") Nielsen was one of a triumvirate of great artists from the golden age of illust...

In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans K ng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power thr...