Product Description: The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan, and including the Ki-Nubi Creole as spoken in Uganda and Kenya...read more

Despite the Israeli authorities' attempt to shut out aid workers and the media from the conflict zone, NORWAC (the Norwegian Aid Committee) succeeded in getting some of its envoys into the heart of Gaza City including two doctors: Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert. For some time, the two were the only Western eyewitnesses in Gaza. This book is an account of their experience during sixteen harrowing days from 27 December 2008 to 12 January 2009. Each chapter covers just one day, as the reader follows the doctors' journey through the ravaged city, treating local Palestinians and hearing their stories. Hailed by the influential Norwegian Newspaper Klassekampen as the 'best book of 2009,' Mads Gilbert's and Erik Fosse's shocking, yet sober account sheds much-needed light on this recent chapter of one of the most prolonged and complex conflicts of our time. Eyes In Gaza is translated from the Norwegian.

A literary and visual narrative on the identity and representation issues being faced by today's African Americans features photographs and poetry to challenge media stereotypes and share insight into twenty-first-century black life.

Product Description: The stories, essays, and poems in this volume concern the effects of war in our time and the shadows they cast, from the Pacific campaigns of World War II to genocide under the Khmer Rouge to hostilities in the Middle East. Soldiers, however, are not in the foreground in most of these works...read more

Product Description: Some of Frank Stewart's opinions about the current state of bridge: The standard of play has declined. There's been an explosion of professionalism in tournaments. An influx of foreign experts is dominating U.S. tournaments. In Bidding, system is supplanting judgement.

Product Description: "The ice is melting in the north," writes Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onanadaga Nation, in an oration to world leaders that begins this collection. His words are a call for humanity to heal a wound in our relationship to the natural world...read more

Product Description: For nearly a century, Britain ruled the SouthAsian subcontinent from the Arabian Seato the Bay of Bengal. After World War II,however, the vast Indian colony becameungovernable from London and the Britishhastily departed, leaving behind conditionsthat led to communal rioting and unfathomableviolence...read more

Product Description: More than two dozen contemporary novelists, essayists, and poets are collected in this remarkable collection of work from Australia, a complex country with a multi layered history. Among these outstanding writers is a growing number of Indigenous authors, whose voices are included here...read more

Product Description: Asian Writers at Work presents authors from celebrated Nobel Prize winners to young, emerging writers. In essays and interviews, they discuss their aesthetics, ethics, backgrounds, working habits, and influences, producing refreshing and fascinating portraits of themselves and of the Asian writer at work...read more

Product Description: Varua Tupu: New Writing and Art from French Polynesia strengthens the ancient ties between Hawai'i and the islands of French Polynesia by translating the voices of an emerging Ma'ohi (Polynesian) literary community into English and showcasing the cultural arts of the region in general...read more

Product Description: Blood Ties features some of the best new writing from around the Pacific, with a special emphasis on China, writers of the Chinese diaspora, and the influences of Chinese literary tradition on contemporary poetry and fiction worldwide...read more

Devotees of the barbecue world are profiled in this culinary portrait of one of America's favorite pastimes, accompanied by fifty taste-tempting recipes for a variety of meats, sauces, and side dishes, including Lady Causey's Overnight Cabbage Slaw, Oklahoma Joe's Brew-B-Q Ribs, and Moonlight Mutton Dip. Reprint.

A humorous cultural study of the art of the barbeque brings readers from the barbecued cow heads of south Texas to the barbecued pig snouts of east St. Louis to the competition circuit events of Memphis and the Big Pig Jig in Vienna, Georgia

Product Description: This volume highlights contemporary literature from throughout the Pacific hemisphere, featuring prose by writers from the Philippines, Malaysia, the People's Republic of China, Korea, and the US, including Native Americans and Pacific islanders.

Product Description: In the 1980s, important contemporary Western works began to be translated into Chinese. Postmodernist Chinese authors began to present their readers with experimental stories that challenged the conventions of culture and ideology...read more

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Product Description: The year 2003 marks the hundredth anniversary of Korean immigration to the U.S. Century of the Tiger gathers work by some of the best and most eloquent Korean authors in Korea and America, past and present, in order to tell the dramatic story of Korean culture in America over the last century and the diverse experiences of Korean Americans today, particularly in Hawai'i...read more