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Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul's
only crime bookshop. She has learned the corrupt ways of her adored
city and soon takes possession of an apartment obtained with the
help of a generous bribe to a government official. All is well
until a man is found murdered in her dream apartment and Kati
becomes the police's primary suspect. In her second novel Esmahan
Aykol takes us to the alleys and boulevards of cosmopolitan
Istanbul, to posh villas and seedy basement flats, to the property
agents and lawyers, to Islamist leaders and city officials - in
fact everywhere that baksheesh helps move things along.
Kati owns Istanbul's only mystery book store and, as usual, gets
involved in a case that is none of her business. Every day, a
beautiful woman lunches alone in the restaurant next to the
bookstore. When the woman is found dead in her apartment, Kati
immediately recognizes the stranger from the restaurant in images
in the newspaper photos. Although the police believe it was an
accident, Kati suspects something more sinister has happened. Sani
Ankaraligil was an attractive young woman, in the middle of a
divorce from her wealthy husband and a politically active
ecologist. So who would benefit from her death? The industrial
companies Sani had accused of polluting the rivers of Western
Turkey, or her jealous husband seeking revenge through an honour
killing, or a Thracian separatist group? The investigation pulls
Kati into the murkiest of waters.
In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on
gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world.
The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender
distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe,
Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some
regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this
volume brings together the totality of the evidence to make it
possible to compare sexual roles and identities from far-flung
cultures of vastly different time periods. Worlds of Gender is an
excellent resource for comparative cultural studies and gender
studies, as well as a useful examination of how gender roles affect
social structures.
A concise, clearly written introduction to the early past of
Britain and Europe from the beginnings up to the twelfth century
AD, which presents archaeological research in a readily
understandable form. Written, and originally published in 1973, for
readers with no specialist knowledge or the subject, a major virtue
of this book is the way in which it brings into focus all the
separate strands of evidence to present a coherent narrative
development. The account starts with a brief survey of human
evolution and a consideration of the evidence of tool-making in the
Old Stone Age. It goes on to describe the origins and spread of
farming and the subsequent development of metallurgy and full urban
civilization and the contribution made by the urban civilization of
Rome to the development of Europe. It looks at the Migration Period
through to the reestablishment of urban culture in northern Europe
concluding with a brief description of conditions in the twelfth
century.
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