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Egypt - Culture Smart!
Kuperard 2013; US$ 9.95This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo?s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship of the Arab Spring revolts. The uprising resulted in a political effervescence, with new parties, movements, and groups all jostling for space... more...
A Month by the Sea
Eland Publishing 2013; US$ 21.86Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Through reported conversations she creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment of self-governing Palestine. Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is... more...
Notes For Travellers In Egypt
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 415.00This encyclopedic work on all aspects of ancient Egypt was specially commisioned by Thomas Cook for their tours of ancient Egypt. Today, it has not been bettered as a general and reliable source for anyone interested in any aspect of Egypt up until the turn of the nineteenth century. more...
All About
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 6.99This fantastic book, filled with amazing facts and photographs, describes what life was like for ancient Egyptians. It gives an in-depth account of all aspects of life and people of the time - including sections about the pharaohs, mummies, the pyramids, hieroglyphics and much more!The 'All About' series is an educational collection of books... more...
Walking Palestine
Interlink Publishing 2012; US$ 15.00A Passionate and practical guide to exploring the natural beauty of Palestine With the images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is the one activity probably least associated with the West Bank region. But Stefan Szepesi?s book wanders well off the beaten track of Palestine as only a synonym for occupation... more...
No Tigers in the Hindu Kush
Hodder & Stoughton 2012; Not AvailableThe exhilarating first-hand account of an expedition to conquer the peaks of the Afghan Hindu Kush; the mighty backbone of Asia. more...
No Tigers in the Hindu Kush
Hodder & Stoughton 2012; US$ 18.11The exhilarating first-hand account of an expedition to conquer the peaks of the Afghan Hindu Kush; the mighty backbone of Asia. more...
The Pharaoh's Shadow
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 14.57In a ruined temple on the Nile, Anthony Sattin sees a woman praying to the gods of ancient Egypt to bless her with a child. Later in central Cairo he experiences the exuberant celebrations of a saint?s day and hears their stony condemnation by an Islamist. The ancient continues to rub up against the modern just as dramatically as when Flaubert wrote,... more...
The Dune's Twisted Edge
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 18.00“How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures . . . trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once known with mingled affection and wariness as Levantine?” So begins poet Gabriel Levin in... more...
A Crack in the Earth
Argo-Navis 2012; US$ 4.99The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And for a quarter of a century it has been part of the biography of Israeli writer... more...









