The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, Paperback

Reducere. As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What's more important--self-sacrifice or self-definition? D...

Reducere. "Beautifully written and--extraordinarily moving."--The Sunday Times (London) From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a hau...

Reducere. I watched in awe as Miz Rosa stopped those men on the bus with her clear, calm "no" and I thought about that word. What if I said no? What if I ref...

"A warm, lively collection of narrative vignettes chronicling the day-to-day relationship of two women who also happen to be part of a successful m...

Reducere. This book, Education Emergency is necessary because urban education is in a state of crisis. The endless cycle of teachers abandoning our urban you...

Reducere. In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For ...

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to t...

Notwithstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age - that women are...

A wonderful range of art objects from Byzantium and Mamluk Egypt during the crusading periods, which inform debates about East and West interaction...

Reducere. This story speaks to children who are close to a child with autism; a brother, sister, cousin, friend or classmate. It explains how we are all diff...

Reducere. DescriptionThis story speaks to children who have autism, and explains to them what it means in a way that leaves them feeling empowered and able t...

Reducere. When the council that controlled the world-spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): J MillsNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 216 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period.

Adopts a rigorous approach to measuring and quantifying progress in the level of inclusion and empowerment of marginalised groups across countries ...

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

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Peggy Orenstein, now available in paperback--the acclaimed New York Times Magazine contributor and author of...

Reducere. Asta's father gives her to a talking white bear in exchange for wealth and she is taken away to the bear's castle. But is there more to this bear t...

- Jamy Yang's design work covers a wide range from glasses, suitcases, airplane cabins, and home products to intelligent hardware- Home-grown Chine...

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

Reducere. In this dazzling opener to a new fantasy series that Danielle Page, author of Dorothy Must Die, calls "inventive, gorgeous, and epic, " a girl caug...

Reducere. An inside look at sex magic in Eastern and Western Mystery traditions - Details the sex magic practices of P. B. Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Austin...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 220 colour illusNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 221 x 275 x 22Cover type...

How the East stayed East and the West stayed West.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Agata PyzikNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2014Di...

Luce Irigaray reflects on three critical concerns of our time: the cultivation of energy in its many forms, the integration of Asian and Western tr...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

Publisher: Harbour Books (East) LtdAuthor(s): Lesley ChamberlainNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 138 x 211 x 14Cover type: Pap...

Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Pers...

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

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ricardo PadronIllustration(s): 35 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. Former Dean of the Yale School of Art, Richard Benson has been a photographer for more than four decades, but until now his art often took a back s...

The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Charles (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA) ThepautNumber of pages: 272Collection: ...

Reducere. In Bridging the Gap, Glen Williams takes readers on a police officer's journey from optimistic rookie to jaded veteran and shares traumatic events ...

Reducere. The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global pov...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigIllustration(s): 266 colourNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 315 x 281 x 23Cove...