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    Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa

    The Exile's Cookbook brings together 480 recipes, including roasts and stews, breads, condiments, preserves, sweetmeats, and even hand-washing soaps. It offers a fascinating insight into the cuisine of Muslim Spain and North Africa in the period – its regional characteristics and historical antecedents, but also its links to culinary traditions in other parts of the Muslim world. This elegant ... Read more

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  • ANIMAL STORIES FROM THE INUIT or Animal Stories from Eskimo-Land

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    The 19 Eskimo, or Inuit, stories in this volume were collected by Dr Daniel Neuman in his travels across Alaska between 1910 and 1921, along with over 3,000 artefacts which now form the Neuman Collection in Juneau Alaska.These stories were extracted from Dr Neuman’s collection, translated and published by Mrs Renee Riggs, wife of then Governor of Alaska Thomas Riggs.More recently governments in ... Read more

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  • Modern Arabic Short Stories

    A Bilingual Reader

    Edited by Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman ...
    The stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already wellknown in the West, such as Idwar al-Kharrat, Fu'ad al-Takarli and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, the collection includes stories by key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East. This bilingual reader is ideal for students of ... Read more

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  • Law and Justice in Song

    Murder Ballads and Popular Music

    by Daniel Newman ...
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  • The Sultan's Feast

    A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook

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  • The Sultan's Sex Potions

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    Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable attention from scholars.Written by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274), one of the leading scientists of the age, The Sultan's Sex Potions is part of a relatively small group of works devoted to ... Read more

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  • Experiences of Criminal Justice

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    Austerity continues to impact the criminal justice process in England and Wales: police numbers are down, the Crown Prosecution Service is in disarray, legal aid has been reduced, courts are closing and magistrates are leaving.Research into the criminal process usually focuses on England, however this book offers a rare insight into South Wales. Drawing on first-hand accounts of lawyers, police, ... Read more

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  • Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon

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    Series series World Citizen Comics
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  • The Million Word Crossword Dictionary

    More than 1,300,000 answers—more than twice as many words as any other crossword dictionary.Meticulously compiled by two crossword professionals with a combined fifty years in the field and based on a massive analysis of current crosswords, there has never been a crossword dictionary with the breadth, depth, and currency of this one. From Jim Carrey to Sister Carrie, Homer Simpson to Homer's Iliad ... Read more

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  • The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence

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  • Modern Arabic Short Stories

    A Bilingual Reader

    Edited by Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman ...
    The stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already wellknown in the West, such as Idwar al-Kharrat, Fu'ad al-Takarli and Nobel Prize winner Najib Mahfuz, the collection includes stories by key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East. This bilingual reader is ideal for students of ... Read more

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