Landscape, Seascape, and the ECO-Spatial Imagination
Simon C. Estok, Jonathan White and I-Chun Wang
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Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging...
Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition
Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Kari Vogt
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Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and...
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
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Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic...
A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410
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The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle. Traditionally, in the year 312,...
The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court
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After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When Marie-Louise, the...
The Painted Queen
Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
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Egypt, 1912—Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once...
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most...
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring
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"Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem."...
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
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Described as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the...
Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
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The definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and...
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