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Book Brother Kemal

Download or read book Brother Kemal written by Jakob Arjouni and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in German as Bruder Kemal, c2012, by Diogenes Verlag AG Z'urich"--Title page verso.

Book Brother Kemal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jakob Arjouni
  • Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
  • Release : 2013-08-28
  • ISBN : 1842439669
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Brother Kemal written by Jakob Arjouni and published by Bedford Square Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth mystery featuring Kemal Kayankaya Valerie de Chavannes, a financier's daughter, summons private investigator Kemal Kayankaya to her villa in Frankfurt's diplomatic quarter and commissions him to find her missing sixteen-year-old daughter Marieke. She is alleged to be with an older man who is posing as an artist. To Kayankaya, it seems like a simple case: an upper class girl with a thirst for adventure. Then another case turns up: The Maier Publishing House believes it needs to protect author Malik Rashid from attacks by religious fanatics at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Rashid has written a novel about, amongst other things, attitudes towards homosexuality in an Arabic country. Kayankaya is hired to be Rashid's bodyguard for three days. The two cases seem to be straightforward, but together they lead to murder, rape and abduction, and even Kayankaya comes under suspicion of being a contract killer for hire.

Book Turkey

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  • Author : Yonah Alexander
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0415441633
  • Pages : 807 pages

Download or read book Turkey written by Yonah Alexander and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do democratic societies maintain the balance between civil rights and security while continuing the fight on global terrorism? This work raises this issue and presents one country, Turkey, and its struggle to implement laws to combat terrorism and comply with the European Union’s civil rights standards. A collection of materials that reflects the legal responses in combating terrorism is an essential volume in any academic and professional collection as it provides a case-specific reference point in the fields of EU politics, law, and international relations. Turkeycontains translations, contextual notes, and explanations from the editors of over 112 Turkish and EU documents ranging from martial law, PKK terror, Turkey-EU relations, human rights, and Turkish reforms. This resource book enables the reader to gauge Turkey’s prospects for success in establishing an effective government that at the same time protects the rights of the individual. This book will prove a valuable source for students and researchers of international politics, international relations and security studies.

Book Blood Bonds

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  • Author : Rosanne Licata
  • Publisher : FriesenPress
  • Release : 2012-06
  • ISBN : 1770975675
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Blood Bonds written by Rosanne Licata and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj, a spirited and rebellious young woman, runs away from what she considers an oppressive home life. On the streets of 10th century Antioch, she catches a glimpse of Bjornolf, a mysterious Northman with secrets of his own. Determined to get to the bottom of this inexplicable affinity she has for him, she disguises herself as a boy and stows away on the caravan he is guiding to Denmark. As magic and riddles come to light one by one along the way, Raj must decide if the dangers to both Bjornolf and herself are worth the risks involved in revealing her true nature to him.

Book Unconditional

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  • Author : Delaney Diamond
  • Publisher : Garden Avenue Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Unconditional written by Delaney Diamond and published by Garden Avenue Press. This book was released on with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are previously published titles combined into one box set. No new material. Princess of Zamibia (Royal Brides series, Book 1) Three years later after his break up with Dahlia, Prince Kofi returns to the United States, and he’s not the same man. He’s bitter and angry and knows he has a son. He’ll do whatever it takes to bring his heir back to Zamibia, even if it means marrying the woman he believes betrayed him. Unforgettable (Johnson Family series, Book 1) Ivy Johnson is stunned when Lucas Baylor makes an appearance at her family’s event in Seattle. She hasn’t seen him in nine years and never expected to again. Avoiding him is a must. She can’t let him uncover her secret, but Lucas won’t be denied. When her deception is revealed, it throws his life into a tailspin and forces them to face the truth of their feelings for each other—feelings they’ve both tried in vain to forget. Fight for Love (Latin Men series, Book 2) Rafael Lopez, former professional wrestler and “Sexiest Athlete Alive,” regrets the lapse in judgment that caused him to lose his wife, Rebekah Jamison. He shows up unannounced one day with some startling news, but he gets a surprise of his own. He finds out he’s a father. To get to know his son, he whisks him and Rebekah off to his home in the Hollywood Hills for the summer. Keywords: secret baby, black romance, interracial romance bwwm, royal romance, black romance novels, box set

Book Gardens of Water

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  • Author : Alan Drew
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2011-06-01
  • ISBN : 1408818167
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Gardens of Water written by Alan Drew and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey, 1999. A devastating earthquake brings Istanbul crumbling to the ground, ripping apart the fragile stability of Sinan's world. His family home becomes a makeshift tent in a camp run by Western missionaries whom he stubbornly distrusts, and he soon finds himself struggling to protect his family's honour and values. As he becomes a helpless witness to his daughter's dangerous infatuation with a young American, Sinan takes a series of drastic decisions with unforeseeable consequences. Cultures clash, political and religious tensions mount, and Sinan's actions spiral into a powerful and heartbreaking conclusion.

Book Self Alteration

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  • Author : Jean-Paul Baldacchino
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 1978837240
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Self Alteration written by Jean-Paul Baldacchino and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a practical care—can I change, and how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves, including through religious and spiritual traditions and innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.

Book The Displaced

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  • Author : Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • Release : 2018-04-10
  • ISBN : 1683352076
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book The Displaced written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerful and deeply moving personal stories about the physical and emotional toll one endures when forced out of one’s homeland.” —PBS Online In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. Though the refugee caps have been raised under President Biden, admissions so far have fallen short. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience. Featuring original essays by a collection of writers from around the world, The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors, and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. “One of the Ten Best Books of the Year.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Together, the stories share similar threads of loss and adjustment, of the confusion of identity, of wounds that heal and those that don’t, of the scars that remain.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Poignant and timely, these essays ask us to live with our eyes wide open during a time of geo-political crisis. Also, 10% of the cover price of the book will be donated annually to the International Rescue Committee, so I hope readers will help support this book and the vast range of voices that fill its pages.” —Electric Literature

Book The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies  Volume 2

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies Volume 2 written by Sumanth Gopinath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous. At once a marketing term, a common mode of everyday-life performance, and an instigator of experimental aesthetics, "mobile music" opens up a space for studying the momentous transformations in the production, distribution, consumption, and experience of music and sound that took place between the late nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries. Taken together, the two volumes cover a large swath of the world-the US, the UK, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Mexico, France, China, Jamaica, Iraq, the Philippines, India, Sweden-and a similarly broad array of the musical and nonmusical sounds suffusing the soundscapes of mobility. Volume 2 investigates the ramifications of mobile music technologies on musical/sonic performance and aesthetics. Two core arguments are that "mobility" is not the same thing as actual "movement" and that artistic production cannot be absolutely sundered from the performances of quotidian life. The volume's chapters investigate the mobilization of frequency range by sirens and miniature speakers; sound vehicles such as boom cars, ice cream trucks, and trains; the gestural choreographies of soundwalk pieces and mundane interactions with digital media; dance music practices in laptop and iPod DJing; the imagery of iPod commercials; production practices in Turkish political music and black popular music; the aesthetics of handheld video games and chiptune music; and the mobile device as a new musical instrument and resource for musical ensembles.

Book The Armenian Genocide

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  • Author : Raymond Kévorkian
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2011-03-30
  • ISBN : 0857719300
  • Pages : 1040 pages

Download or read book The Armenian Genocide written by Raymond Kévorkian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armenian Genocide was one of the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century, an episode in which up to 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives. In this major new history, the renowned historian Raymond Kevorkian provides an authoritative account of the origins, events and consequences of the years 1915 and 1916. He considers the role that the Armenian Genocide played in the construction of the Turkish nation state and Turkish identity, as well as exploring the ideologies of power, rule and state violence. Crucially, he examines the consequences of the violence against the Armenians, the implications of deportations and attempts to bring those who committed the atrocities to justice. Kevorkian offers a detailed and meticulous record, providing an authoritative analysis of the events and their impact upon the Armenian community itself, as well as the development of the Turkish state. This important book will serve as an indispensable resource to historians of the period, as well as those wishing to understand the history of genocidal violence more generally.

Book The House of Four  Inspector Ikmen Mystery 19

Download or read book The House of Four Inspector Ikmen Mystery 19 written by Barbara Nadel and published by Headline. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. A family built on lies, secrets and murder... The House of Four is a gripping Istanbul crime thriller featuring Inspector Ikmen, 'the Morse of Istanbul' (Daily Telegraph) from Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Donna Leon and Jason Goodwin. 'Impeccable mystery plotting, exotic and atmospheric' - Guardian Everyone in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Moda knows the Devil's House. A crumbling Ottoman mansion, and once the home of a princess, it is a place associated with ill fortune. The princess's four children, now in old age, still live in separate apartments on different floors and are rumoured never to speak to each other. Then one of them is found dead, stabbed through the heart, and it is discovered that the other three siblings have met an identical fate. There is no sign of forced entry or burglary, and all evidence must be gained from letters and diaries, but as Inspector Ikmen digs into their past it becomes clear they have been harbouring a secret... Meanwhile a young couple are arrested for a series of seemingly random killings on the streets of Istanbul. They claim to have been squatting in the Devil's House. But this fiendish mystery is far from over and it will take Inspector Ikmen to the darkest and most devilish depths of this ancient city What readers are saying about The House of Four: 'The book really brings the colourful and diverse nature of Istanbul alive' 'I have found the whole series compulsive reading and this is one of the best' 'So evocative it makes me long to sit and watch life in the most fascinating city'

Book Prisoners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2006-10-03
  • ISBN : 0307265978
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Prisoners written by Jeffrey Goldberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Overcoming their fears and prejudices, the two men began a dialogue that, over more than a decade, grew into a remarkable friendship. Now an award-winning journalist, Goldberg describes their relationship and their confrontations over religious, cultural, and political differences; through these discussions, he attempts to make sense of the conflicts in this embattled region, revealing the truths that lie buried within the animosities of the Middle East.

Book Sacred Justice

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  • Author : Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-10-23
  • ISBN : 1351492187
  • Pages : 585 pages

Download or read book Sacred Justice written by Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered families, friends, and compatriots. Sacred Justice includes a large collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs study of the author's grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans, and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe; Armen Garo, the center of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis. Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims' narratives—the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and how this resistance can promote resilience.

Book Dispute and Settlement in Rural Turkey

Download or read book Dispute and Settlement in Rural Turkey written by Starr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Truth Behind the Smile

Download or read book The Truth Behind the Smile written by Serife Yesilkaya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on real-life story. This is a documentation of the life of a Kurdish girl, which reflects the struggle she faced and the people who were around her. This book is an example how one person with the will to live can overcome all obstacles.When death,rape,and poverty can´t stop your will to live,What will you do Although it seems greater than they are, it is filled with heartbreaking, thrilling, and sometimes impossible situations; it is a book that reveals the hidden secrets of many years of one's life struggle, through a roller coaster of emotions and spirituality. It will affect those that are in the story and compels the ones who read it, Read this book however you want, from the end or the beginning. You can go anywhere with this book or get one for someone special; it will give inspirations. To those who are going through a hard time, there will be several chapters that will relate to your life in some shape or form, or you might have some special interest in love, relationships, family, and friends, anything that you can think of in your life; perhaps you might be going through a rough time and overcoming a loved one's death. Feel free to go there first. Let this story help you grow and develop your mind, and it might help you with your future dreams by associating yourself with the relevant situations in your life. You might be able to make better decisions; for example, take a look at others who make better choices, people that can teach us the greater things about life and direct us to the right path so we can choose our lifestyle wisely. This book is my life. I am so grateful to write the stories of my life to be able help people in hard, crazy times. I am certain that this book will be your best friend; it will carry you through the weakest moments you feel.

Book A Critical Study of the Novels

Download or read book A Critical Study of the Novels written by Dr. Roshan Benjamin Khan and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comparative study of the unaccredited yet formidable five major Indian Muslim women novelists: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossian, Zeenuth Futehally, Iqbalunnisa Hussain, Tara Ali Baig, and Attia Hossian. The book explores their work with regard to themes like patriarchy, feminism, religiosity, nationality, secularity, and above all, liberty. Their contribution to the growth of novel writing in English cannot go ignored as they created a momentum in writing novel using English language as a medium of combined feminist statements with a message to liberate Muslim women from religious conventions, social taboos, and a male-dominated world. The study of their novels also makes us aware of the grit and determination and the sheer hunger of these writers to make their mark, to speak out unequivocally against prejudice, basically to enlighten us how their personalities were shaped and eventually established. Their sensitivities as women give an edge to the entire narrative as does their unprecedented and undaunted dare to the oppressors. In the great tradition of modern and postmodern fiction, our writers use their pen to stand up against inequality of any kind and to undo the stereotypes, leading themselves by example.

Book Turkish Nomad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jayne L. Warner
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-11-13
  • ISBN : 1838609814
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Turkish Nomad written by Jayne L. Warner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey's leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country, and sheds new light on the history of one of the world's great cities. Sumptuously illustrated throughout with evocative period pictures of Istanbul, Turkish Nomad tells the extraordinary life story of this poet, thinker, and diplomat. As a young boy, Halman surveyed the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire, walked through the ruins of Byzantium, and grew up in the modern nation created by the charismatic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Talat S. Halman would go on to serve the republic as its first minister of culture. The more than four decades Halman lived primarily in the United States are not overlooked but are used to discuss how his ideas developed as he taught at leading unversities-Princeton, Columbia, New York University-and introduced Americans to Turkish literature and culture through his translations and public lectures. We In the Turkish Nomad we follow the literary, scholastic, and journalistic journey of a restless writer, who might best be described by the title of one of his books, The Turkish Muse, his 2006 collection of literary reviews tracing the development of Turkish literature during the Turkish Republic.