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  • Kaleidoscope

    Three Poets from Israel

    by Racquel Chalfi, Shimon Adaf, Ory Bernstein ...
    Israel is a literary giant in so many ways, as writers from Israel continue to leave their footprints across the world literature. Kaleidoscope brings together three exceptional and significant Israeli poets into one volume, representing three generations in the evolution and development of the nation's poetry. A selection of works by three unique poets: Ory Bernstein, Rachel Chalfi and Shimon ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset

    A Novel

    by Shimon Adaf ...
    Translated by Yardenne Greenspan ...
    Series Book 1 - The Lost Detective Trilogy
    "In Shimon Adaf's Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured." —Lavie TidharAt age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Art & War

    Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction

    by Lavie Tidhar, Shimon Adaf ...
    Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel’s most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum – Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot – the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Detective's Complaint

    A Novel

    by Shimon Adaf ...
    Translated by Yardenne Greenspan ...
    Series Book 2 - The Lost Detective Trilogy
    "In Shimon Adaf's Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured." —Lavie Tidhar, author of By Force AloneIn A Detective's Complaint, the sequel to One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset, Elish Ben Zaken has traded ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Take Up and Read

    A Novel

    by Shimon Adaf ...
    Translated by Yardenne Greenspan ...
    Series Book 3 - The Lost Detective Trilogy
    "In Shimon Adaf's Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured." —Lavie Tidhar, author of By Force AloneIn the summer of 2014, at the height of the Gaza-Israel conflict, Elish Ben-Zaken met the poet and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Lost Wisdom

    Rethinking Modernity in Iran

    by Abbas Milani ...
    In the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today. He offers a wealth of new insights into the thousand-year-old conflict in Iran between the search for modernity and the forces of religious obscurantism. The essays trace the roots of Shiite Islamic ... Read more

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  • Missing Soluch

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    by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ...
    Translated by Kamran Rastegar ...
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  • Letters From The American Desert. Signposts Of A Journey, A Vision.

    by Frederick Glaysher ...
    Twenty years in the making, in Letters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations,pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical work, fully cognizant of the relativism and nihilism of modern life, Glaysher finds a ... Read more

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  • 3rd Grade History: The Egyptian Civilization

    Egyptian Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Learn about the Egyptian civilization like you're actually there! That's the magic of carefully selected images that appropriately depict life way back then. Pictures tell a thousand stories therefore making learning a fun and visual experience. This book is the perfect companion of those text-heavy books used at school. Grab a copy of this interactive book today! ... Read more

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    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

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    Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

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    Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized ... Read more

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