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  • Illusion Of Progress in the Arab World

    A Critique of Western Misconstructions

    by Galal Amin ...
    Translated by David Wilmsen ...
    With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west. Amin deconstructs in his own inimitable style the language and underlying assumptions with which the west habitually assails Arab countries and politics. He applies his sharp wit and powers of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arabic Language and Linguistics

    by Reem Bassiouney, E. Graham Katz, Nizha Chatar-Moumni, Kamel A. Elsaadany, Salwa Muhammed Shams, Ali Farghaly, Youssef A. Haddad, Sarah Ouwayda, Usama Soltan0, Hana Zabarah1, Elena Canna2, Ahmed Fakhri3, Gunvor Mejdell4, Catherine Miller5, Karin C. Ryding6, Yasir Suleiman7, David Wilmsen8 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today’s political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whatever Else Happened to the Egyptians?

    From the Revolution to the Age of Globalization

    by Galal Amin ...
    Translated by David Wilmsen ...
    At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million. At the end of 2002, it stood at 69 million, and was growing at a rate of 1.33 million a year. What happens to a society that grows so quickly, when the habitable and cultivable land of the country is strictly limited? After the success of Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?, Galal Amin now takes a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

    Edited by Karin Ryding, David Wilmsen ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Arabic linguistics encompasses a range of language forms and functions from formal to informal, classical to contemporary, written to spoken, all of which have vastly different research traditions. Recently however, the increasing prominence of new methodologies such as corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics have allowed Arabic linguistics to be studied from multiple perspectives, revealing key ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

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  • Reefer Madness

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  • Arabic Grammar (Speedy Study Guides)

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    Series series Learning Arabic Edition 2
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  • Washington

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    by Ron Chernow ...
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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

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  • Arabic vocabulary for English speakers - 9000 words

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    T&P BOOKS vocabularies are designed to help you learn, memorize, and review foreign words. This bilingual dictionary contains about 9000 commonly used words, arranged thematically.This revised edition includes 256 topics: Greetings, Numbers, The most important verbs, Colors, Opposites, Weekdays, Months, Seasons, Human anatomy, Clothing, Headwear, Footwear, Food, Restaurant, Family members, ... Read more

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  • Meaning of Internationalization

    Practical Advice for a Connected Planet

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  • Green Against Green – The Irish Civil War

    A History of the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923

    by Michael Hopkinson ...
    Michael Hopkinson's Green Against Green is the definitive study of the Irish civil war, putting in perspective a bitter and passionate conflict, the legacy of which still divides Irish society today. Widely praised and frequently cited as the most authoritative work on the subject, it continues to hold its place as one of the finest works on modern Irish history. Unlike the Easter Rising and the ... Read more

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