Syrian Folktales, Paperback

Reducere. This delightful book relates folktales from various regions of Syria. Each folktale is located on a regional map and is accompanied by a local, rel...

Reducere. The Syrian Hamster is known for its size and is one of the largest among the species preferred as pets. These hamsters are extremely docile and are...

Jonas' surprisingly quotidian existence as a spy is turned on its head by the kidnap of his father by ISIS - a state-of-affairs that leads Jonas to...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Tom CooperIllustration(s): 119 colour photos, 27 colour profiles, 4 maps, 1 diagram, 4 tablesNumber of pages:...

Reducere. Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with...

Reducere. Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. A...

Reducere. The Complete Owners Guide packed with facts and information all about Syrian Golden hamsters including care, food, diet, cages, pregnancy, breeding...

Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.

The special magic of the Irish imagination shines forth in these fourteen authentic folktales.Illustrations: 77 Illustrations, black and white

A blistering first-hand account of the conflict in Homs, by the internationally acclaimed author of }The Kindly Ones{. In the tradition of the clas...

To coincide with a major V&A exhibition: the best shoe stories from around the world

Reducere. Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "...

Sibert Honor Medalist ∙ New York Public Library Best of 2018 ∙ The Horn Book Fanfare 2018 ∙ Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018 ∙ YALSA Excellence in...

Reducere. Chosen as one of the New York Times s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place amo...

Reducere. Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius ...

This beautifully illustrated volume contains 12 of the best Japanese folk tales, presented in both English and Japanese. The Japanese versions of e...

Kassem Eid's memoir of growing up in Syria under al-Assad's regime offers a personal slant to the story of the regime's violent suppression of the ...

The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages--from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished Americ...

Reducere. Rromane Paramicha is a unique collection of folktales and legends that bring alive the rich cultural and religious traditions of the Roma. Hedina T...

Reducere. This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana....

Nordic Viking tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard...

Reducere. Patrick Chamoiseau first became known to the international literary world with Texaco, the vast and demanding novel that won France's prestigious G...

West African traditions and folklore delight in tales of animals and tricksters. From Nigeria to Benin, to the cunning spider Anansi, animals teach...

Publisher: Cune Press, USAuthor(s): Bruce McLarenNumber of pages: 170Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 229 x 154 x 11Cover type: Paperback / softba...

This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a re...

Reducere. DescriptionThe author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Pa...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sharif KanaanaNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 35Cover type: P...

An exploration of twenty-five of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, considering their meaning and role in the development of human consciousness.Publi...

Written as the decade-long Syria conflict nears an end, this is the first book-length treatment of how the Syrian war has changed international law...

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. What is particularly exciting about this book is that many of the stories, in their oral form, are almost as old as Africa itself. Most of them wer...

Reducere. Saint Isaac of Syria was an ascetic, a mountain solitary, but his writings are universal in scope. They are addressed not just to the desert but to...

Policymakers, academics and the media have claimed that climate change causes conflicts. This study presents an innovative framework to evaluate th...

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 ...

Reducere. A collection of twenty-five African-American folktales focuses on strong female characters and includes Little Girl and Bruh Rabby, Catskinella, an...

Reducere. This volume presents for the first time in the Fathers of the Church series the work of an early Christian writer who did not write in either Greek...

Reducere. DescriptionSt. Ephrem the Syrian (306-379) is perhaps one of the most prolific Fathers of the Eastern Church, composing four-hundred liturgical hym...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter standing for over 7, 000 years, Aleppo's ruin came overnight. Separated from his family during the night the rebels attacked the c...

A collection of intriguing and eccentric Norfolk folklore reworked for children, carrying a sense of the quirks of the people, the places and the d...

Enjoy a rich collection of folktales, myths and legends from all over South Asia, re-told for young readers. This book includes traditional favouri...

The school for wizardry that keeps its pupils prisoner. A forest which springs up from a single thorn, and a loch that grows out of a drop of water...