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Things I Left Behind (Paperback)
Shada Mustafa; Translated by Nancy Roberts; Afterword by Shada Mustafa
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"When you read Shada Mustafa's prose, you feel as though you're
walking through a dream. An exquisite novel, Things I Left Behind
escorts you down its magical passageways, but as you go, be on the
lookout for unexpected side doors." Jokha Alharthi, winner of the
Man Booker International Prize, with translator Marilyn Booth, for
her novel Celestial Bodies
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The Longlist (Paperback)
Yassin Adnan; Translated by Raphael Cohen; Abdelkarim Jouaiti; Translated by Mbarek Sryfi; Edited by (editors-in-chief) Samuel Shimon; …
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Hatless (Paperback)
Lateefa Buti; Illustrated by Dunia Al-Khatib; Translated by Nancy Roberts
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This dictionary provides information on the writers, editors,
and publications that have carried on a strong American tradition
of peace advocacy that goes back to colonial times. The only work
of its kind, the dictionary contains entries for some 400
individuals and more than 200 periodicals that represent viewpoints
ranging from radical nonresistance, religious pacifism, and racial
nonviolence, to selective anti-war positions and advocacy of world
government.
Professor Roberts' introduction presents an interpretive
overview of peace advocacy and the various print media that became
vehicles for it, including mainstream magazines and church or peace
movement publications such as tracts, books, and pamphlets. Each
entry summarizes the individual's literary contributions and lists
known affiliations with periodicals, peace organizations, and
religious groups. The bibliographic section documents a
representative selection of periodicals that have sought to promote
peace at various times in America's history. The volume also
includes information on peace organizations and the writers and
editors affiliated with them. The product of meticulous research,
this reference dictionary brings together a rich collection of
material on the writers, social reformers, and publications that
have shaped American pacifist tradition. Of interest for the fields
of American social history, journalism and communication history,
and religion, as well as peace studies.
Set in Palestine, before the creation of the state of Israel, this
lyrical and deftly written novel spans three generations living in
the small village of Hadiya. Reaching back into the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, the immense history of this period
is brought into focus by the very human stories of Hajj Mahmoud,
his son Khaled, and grandson Naji. As the cruel hand of history
hovers above them, their destinies are shaped by outside forces -
first the crumbling Ottoman Empire, then the British Mandate, and
finally the Nakba. Nasrallah's elegant and epic tale is one of both
suffering and survival, heart-break and hope.
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A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh (Paperback)
Hanan Al-Shaykh, Bassam Hajjar, Khalil Sweileh; Translated by Catherine Cobham, Jonathan Wright, …
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This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging
contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which
the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are
internally related to "Being Singular Plural."
One of the strongest strands in Nancy's philosophy is his attempt
to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that
does not ground these ideas in some individual subject or
subjectivity. The fundamental argument of the book is that being is
always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence
is essentially co-existence. Nancy thinks of this "being-with" not
as a comfortable enclosure in a pre-existing group, but as a mutual
abandonment and exposure to each other, one that would preserve the
"I" and its freedom in a mode of imagining community as neither a
"society of spectacle" nor via some form of authenticity.
The five shorter essays impressively translate the philosophical
insight of "Being Singular Plural" into sophisticated discussions
of national sovereignty, war and technology, identity politics, the
Gulf War, and the tragic plight of Sarajevo. The essay "Eulogy for
the Melee," in particular, is a brilliant discussion of identity
and hybridism that resonates with many contemporary social
concerns.
As Nancy moves through the exposition of his central concern,
being-with, he engages a number of other important issues,
including current notions of the "other" and "self" that are
relevant to psychoanalytic, political, and multicultural concepts.
He also offers astonishingly original reinterpretations of major
philosophical positions, such as Nietzsche's doctrine of "eternal
recurrence," Descartes's "cogito," and the nature of language and
meaning.
With irony and poignant teenage idealism, Butterfly draws us into
her world of adult hypocrisy, sibling rivalries, girlfriends' power
plays, unrequited love... not to mention the political tension of
life under occupation. As she observes her fragile environment with
all its conflicts, Butterfly is compelled to question everything
around her. Is her father a collaborator for the occupiers? Will
Nizar ever give her the sign she's waiting for? How will her
friendship with the activist Mays and the airhead Haya survive the
unpredictable storms ahead? And why is 'honour' such a dangerous
word, anyway?
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Being Singular Plural (Hardcover)
Jean-Luc Nancy; Translated by Robert Richardson, Anne O'Byrne
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This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging
contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which
the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are
internally related to "Being Singular Plural."
One of the strongest strands in Nancy's philosophy is his attempt
to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that
does not ground these ideas in some individual subject or
subjectivity. The fundamental argument of the book is that being is
always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence
is essentially co-existence. Nancy thinks of this "being-with" not
as a comfortable enclosure in a pre-existing group, but as a mutual
abandonment and exposure to each other, one that would preserve the
"I" and its freedom in a mode of imagining community as neither a
"society of spectacle" nor via some form of authenticity.
The five shorter essays impressively translate the philosophical
insight of "Being Singular Plural" into sophisticated discussions
of national sovereignty, war and technology, identity politics, the
Gulf War, and the tragic plight of Sarajevo. The essay "Eulogy for
the Melee," in particular, is a brilliant discussion of identity
and hybridism that resonates with many contemporary social
concerns.
As Nancy moves through the exposition of his central concern,
being-with, he engages a number of other important issues,
including current notions of the "other" and "self" that are
relevant to psychoanalytic, political, and multicultural concepts.
He also offers astonishingly original reinterpretations of major
philosophical positions, such as Nietzsche's doctrine of "eternal
recurrence," Descartes's "cogito," and the nature of language and
meaning.
This book/software package brings the tools and excitement of
modeling to pre-college teachers, to researchers involved in
curriculum development, and to software developers interested in
the pre-college market.
Ghostwriters Nancy Roberts and Taryn Plumb spin fascinating tales
about 26 haunted houses all over America. Based on stories told by
first-hand witnesses, these stories of ghostly goings-on will keep
you on the edge of your seat-and possibly up all night! Read about
San Diego's Whaley House, whose former residents maintain an active
presence, as does Yankee Jim, a hanging victim over whose gallows
the house was built. Learn about the house in Massachusetts that
once belonged to eccentric millionaire and brilliant inventor John
Hammond, Jr.-whose practice in spiritualism, say some, continues
long after his death. And relive the terrifying battle that claimed
the lives of 1,700 Confederate soldiers whose battlefield became
their final resting place on Tennessee's Carnton Plantation.
Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this novel is set in an
idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by
Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003
US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world
scene with the life dramas of its protagonists. The story opens
with the pivotal character, Mubarka Badr, now a grandmother and
matriarch, wanting to dictate a letter to God for her grandson to
send to the Almighty by email. We are then ushered back in time to
Mubarka's fiery adolescence and her painfully aborted romance with
Muntasir, son of the village's deceased but legendary strongman.
The shifting fortunes of the Deeb clan affect every aspect of its
members' lives, from their sexual vulnerabilities to the grief of
loss, the uncertainties of a changing world, and the heartaches
borne of betrayal and love unfulfilled.
As the author of twelve ghost story collections, Nancy Roberts may
certainly be considered an expert on the subject of the
supernatural. In this book, she turns her attention to Georgia,
capturing over fifty chilling stories from the Peachtree State.
Perhaps no other city in this country is as haunted as Savannah.
Beneath this city's romantic façade, lies a multitude of eerie
tales. Here, Roberts describes the pirates that still reside in the
Pirates' House Restaurant, the angry spirit who haunts the Shrimp
Factory restaurant, the strange happenings in the house of Jim
Williams—the central character in the book Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil—and many other spooky stories. The ghost
stories of Savannah are only the beginning, though,
for Georgia Ghosts takes you on a supernatural tour
throughout the state. On St. Simons Island, you will shiver at the
account of the ghost who haunts the island's lighthouse. In
Atlanta, you'll hear of the ghost who now resides in the "Uncle
Remus" House. In Fayetteville, you'll learn why the legendary
gunslinger "Doc" Holliday still waits outside the home of a lost
love. And you will wonder about the identity of the mysterious man
responsible for Georgia's own version of Stonehenge located near
Elberton. From haunted college towns and opera houses to tales of
werewolves that roam the countryside, no other collection covers
the contemporary and classic ghost stories of the state as
completely as Georgia Ghosts. Nancy Roberts, a popular
Southern writer and storyteller, was the acclaimed, award-winning
author of more than twenty-five books where she blended suspense,
mystery, and history with a talent for finding true stories of the
supernatural. She was aptly proclaimed the "Custodian of the
Twilight Zone" by Southern Living magazine, and was
frequently introduced as the "First Lady of Folklore." She was the
featured speaker or teller at the North Carolina Museum of History;
Thalian Hall in Wilmington, North Carolina; Kiawah Island Resort,
South Carolina; University of Illinois at De Kalb; and at many
schools and libraries throughout the southeast. She passed away in
the fall of 2008.
This book introduces the concepts contributing to healthcare
organizational excellence and is designed to
aid organizations seeking to embed a culture of excellence
through a variety of established programs. The book
focuses on identifying organizational excellence as derived
from the literature, high reliability organizations (HROs),
and nationally recognized programs, including the ANCC Magnet
Recognition Program®, ANCC Pathway to Excellence® Program,
and Accreditation programs. The authors explore concepts that are
relevant to achieving organizational excellence and provide
tools to help analyze gaps and determine steps forward in the
pursuit of organizational excellence.
Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan's
powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave
woman and her white master. We meet Atiqa as a grown woman, happily
married with two children and working. When her cousin Ali
unexpectedly enters her life, Atiqa learns the true identity of her
parents, both long deceased, and slowly builds a friendship with
Ali as they share stories of their past. We learn of Atiqa's
childhood, growing up in the "slave yards," a makeshift encampment
on the outskirts of Benghazi for Black Africans who were brought to
Libya as slaves. Ali narrates the tragic life of Atiqa's mother,
Tawida, a black woman enslaved to a wealthy merchant family who
finds herself the object of her master's desires. Though such
unions were common in slave-holding societies, their relationship
intensifies as both come to care deeply for each other and share a
bond that endures throughout their lives. Shortlisted for the 2017
International Prize for Arabic Ficiton, Bin Shatwan's unforgettable
novel offers a window into a dark chapter of Libyan history and
illuminates the lives of women with great pathos and humanity.
Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on
literature, written across three decades but, for the most part,
previously unavailable in English. More substantial than literary
criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature's
relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues such questions as
literature's claims to truth, the status of narrative, the relation
of poetry and prose, and the unity of a book or of a text, and he
addresses a number of major European writers, including Dante,
Sterne, Rousseau, Hoelderlin, Proust, Joyce, and Blanchot. The
final section offers a number of impressive pieces by Nancy that
completely merge his concerns for philosophy and literature and
philosophy-as-literature. These include a lengthy parody of
Valery's "La Jeune Parque," several original poems by Nancy, and a
beautiful prose-poetic discourse on an installation by Italian
artist Claudio Parmiggiani that incorporates the Faust theme.
Opening with a substantial Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabate that
elaborates Nancy's importance as a literary thinker, this book
constitutes the most substantial statement to date by one of
today's leading philosophers on a discipline that has been central
to his work across his career.
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