West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story, Paperback - Tamim Ansary

Reducere. A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflictShortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ans...

Reducere. Road Trips, a memoir by Tamim Ansary, recounts stories from his years as part of the American counterculture of the '60s and '70s, after he arrived...

Reducere. Since 9/11 there has been a cultural and political blossoming among those of the Afghan diaspora, especially in the United States, revealing a vibr...

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From tower clocks to time balls, this richly illustrated work chronicles the history of public clocks in New York City. It discusses the premiere c...

The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, s...

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely differ...

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DescriptionA sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major cultural movements--Confucianism, Islam, Jud...

Reducere. Twenty-three years ago--after the Soviets left and before the Taliban came to power--Kabul was a garden where seven-year-old Qais Akbar Omar flew k...

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Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

This Element compares the adaptations of the 1996 and 2018 versions of West Side Story in detail, illuminating issues encountered when translating ...

Publisher: Prentice Hall PressAuthor(s): Winifred GallagherNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 25Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of...

Reducere. Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has ju...

Reducere. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

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...

Reducere. The severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis resulted in a city falling apart. Broken windows, crumbling w...

Reducere. An ancient Daoist saying tells us "When you are sick, do not seek a cure. Find your centre and you will be healed." The centre it refers to is loca...

Reducere. Award NameParents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007)Award categoryApprovedDiscover how a game of lacrosse led to a victory for the Ojibwatribe again...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Nick HigginsNumber of pages: 400Collection: The MacKenzie and Khan seriesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x ...

Reducere. From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in AmericaAmerica's first Fir...

Publisher: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Translator: Elaine KennedyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 209 x 13Cove...

Reducere. A fascinating account of one of the most ludicrously mismanaged expeditions in the history of warfare. Ideal for readers of Shashi Tharoor, Adam Ho...

Reducere. What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wro...

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...

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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 ...

It was out of medieval Provence Proensa that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provencal troubadours that it found...

Double Cross in Cairo uncovers the heroic exploits of one of the Second World War's most closely guarded secrets.

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean St...

Reducere. In Decolonizing American Philosophy, Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds bring together leading scholars at the forefront of the field to ask: Can ...