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“debbie blythe”

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  • Turkey and the Armenian Ghost

    On the Trail of the Genocide

    by Laure Marchand, Guillaume Perrier, Debbie Blythe ...
    The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished. Turkey continues to deny the slaughter of over a million Ottoman Armenians in 1915 and the following years. What sets the Armenian genocide apart from other mass atrocities is that the country responsible has never officially acknowledged its actions, and no individual has ever been brought to justice.In Turkey and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”—National ReviewFINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB’S ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Mirror of Heaven

    The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt

    by Robert Bauval, Ahmed Osman ...
    Exposes the many cycles of monument destruction and cultural suppression in Egypt from antiquity to the present day• Details the vandalism of Egyptian antiquities and suppression of ancient knowledge under foreign rulers who sought to cleanse Egypt of its “pagan” past• Reveals the real reason behind Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt: Freemasonry• Shows how the censorship of nonofficial Egyptology as ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Passenger: Turkey

    by The Passenger, Elif Batuman, Burhan Sönmez, Elif Shafak ...
    Series series The Passenger
    Turkish culture and history is explored in the wide-ranging series that is "like a literary vacation" ( Publishers Weekly).The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey ... Read more

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  • A History of the Ottoman Empire

    by Douglas A. Howard ...
    Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolution after the Great War in Europe, this textbook takes a holistic approach, considering the Ottoman worldview - what it was, how it came together, and how it fell apart. Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Come from the Shadows

    The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

    by Terry Glavin ...
    Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners. Instead, this is a book about the Afghanistan that lies "outside the wire," far from the Taliban ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • There Was and There Was Not

    A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond

    by Meline Toumani ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist: A young Armenian-American moves to Istanbul to confront questions of history, loyalty, and loving your enemy.Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this enmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Egypt

    A Short History

    by Robert L. Tignor ...
    A sweeping and colorful account of Egypt’s 5000-year historyThis is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and complex history for general readers, tourists, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922

    by Donald Quataert ...
    Series Book 34 - New Approaches to European History
    The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • From Life Itself

    Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan

    by Suzy Hansen ...
    "Rich and complex . . . [A] beautifully observant book." —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review**“A dizzying tour de force . . . From Life Itself leaves the reader with a sense of wonder.” —Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The IdiotOne neighborhood in Istanbul: a window on a city, country, region, and world in a state of upheaval.**Karagümrük, an Istanbul neighborhood once ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Dönme

    Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

    by Marc David Baer ...
    This book tells the story of the Dönme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of the nineteenth century rose to the top of Salonikan society. The Dönme helped transform Salonika into ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds

    Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Rojava

    by Thomas Schmidinger, Andrej Grubačić ...
    Translated by Michael Schiffmann ...
    In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the “Mountain of the Kurds” (Kurd Dagh) as the area has been called for centuries, had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war.After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army ... Read more

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