Download or read book Nine Nights Djerba written by Alexis Debary and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under-cover agent Monica is on Djerba, in Tunisia, to trace down the mastermind behind the recent 4/11 terror attack, when the dead body of a tourist woman washes up and she's torn into a mesh of black magic, romance, and international intrique that are all connected to the Djerba Nights, the most exclusive nightclub on the holiday island. Alexis Debary's debut work of fiction is based on the 4/11 terrorist blast on Djerba, in 2002. The author studied Islamic Studies and German Literature at the University of Hamburg and has travelled extensively in Arabic speaking countries. She binds first-hand experiences with action and vibrant imagery while playing with the cultural prejudice that began with 9/11.
Download or read book Element of Blue written by Alexis Debary and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under-cover agent Monica is on Djerba, off the North African coast, to trace down the mastermind behind the recent 4/11 terror attack, when the dead body of a British tourist washes up and she's torn into a mesh of black magic, tragic romance, and international intrique that are all connected to the Djerba Nights, the most exclusive nightclub on the Tunisian holiday island. Alexis Debary's debut work of fiction is based on the 4/11 terrorist blast on Djerba, in 2002. The author studied Islamic Studies and German Literature at the University of Hamburg and has travelled extensively in Arabic speaking countries. She binds first-hand experiences into two time-lines with precise action and vibrant imagery while playing with the cultural prejudice of the immidiate post 9/11 era.
Download or read book Crest of a Wave written by Denis Montgomery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a trans-African journey by Landrover from north to south in 1965. This grand safari by the author and his companion was undertaken when most African countries were newly independent, riding on the crest of a wave. Published now, its descriptions and commentary have historical significance.
Download or read book Demystifying the Odyssey written by Zlatko Mandzuka and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odyssey is considered to be the most beautiful literary work of the Western civilization, and Homer the first and the greatest poet ever. The book Demystifying the Odyssey is interpreting Homers epic in a unique and completely new way. For the first time in literature, this book explains the events and phenomena that Odysseus saw and experienced, and which were considered so far as a result of the Poets rich imagination. So, this book reveals how Odysseus went to Hades kingdom of the dead souls; what are in reality Scylla and Charybdis; who were the sirens; how the Island of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, actually floated; how Circa turned Odysseuss sailors into pigs and other. Besides that, this book also reveals the fallacy two and a half millennia long, dating back from the first historians Herodotus and Thucydides, according to which Odysseus was wandering the Mediterranean sea. It further provides numerous proofs that Homers hero was actually wandering the Adriatic. For all those readers who are familiar with the ancient Greek literature this book will be great news and quite a surprise. On the other hand, for those who have not been quite aware of the old Greek world it will provide great knowledge on the first European civilization. In any case, this will surely be an interesting reading for all of them.
Download or read book Homer s Secret Odyssey written by Kenneth Wood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.
Download or read book Homer s Odyssey written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Wouldn t Start from Here written by Andrew Mueller and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a jaded rock journalist doing dodging landmines to talk to mercenaries and terrorists? And what kind of conversation can a man who prefers hunting for perfect three-minute pop songs and tubes of beer have with devotees of fasting and ferocity? Sarajevo. Jerusalem. Kabul. Belfast. Kosovo. Gaza. Basra. New York City. Every place where recent history advertises the stubbornness, intolerance, bloodlust, and cowardice that sully our collective record, there the intrepid Andrew Mueller goes, skidding around the globe from failed state to ravaged war zone to desolate no-man’s-land to try to unpick why we humans seem so prone to plucking war from the jaws of peace. En route, he meets various influential panjandrums (Al Gore, Gerry Adams, Bono, Paddy Ashdown), any number of assorted warlords and revolutionaries, and a sprinkling of peacemakers and do-gooders. He also manages to get shot at, locked up, and taken on a tour by one of the world’s most infamous terrorist organizations. It’s like a Bond film with much, much less sex, and might appear for that and other reasons to be substantially a story of disappointment. Yet it’s a surprisingly sunny book given the mire in which he finds himself.
Download or read book Ulysses Airborne written by Mauricio Obregón and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailing written by Michel Deshors and published by Booksales. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 240 photographs, this comprehensive book explores the exciting world of sailing, from sailboats of the past to present state-of-the-art equipment, as well as detailed accounts of competitions and regattas from around the world, complete with diagrams of maneuvers and illustrated course maps.
Download or read book The Secret Code of the Odyssey written by Gilbert Pillot and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Carousel written by Nelson Algren and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren's beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collection, not just Algren's intensity but his diversity are revealed and celebrated.
Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of World Events Being a Chronological Record of the Second World War Photographically Reproduced from the American and Foreign Newspaper Dispatches as Reported Day by Day written by John Appleton Haven Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of World Events Being a Chronological Record of the Second World War Photographically Reproduced from the American and Foreign Newspapers Despatches as Reported Day by Day Including Maps Pictures Cartoons Anecdotes Official Messages Reports and Declarations and Congressional Acts written by John Appleton Haven Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dear Girl written by Aija Mayrock and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share. Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood to womanhood through poetry It is the search for truth in silence The freeing of the tongue It is deep wounds and deep healing And the resilience that lies within us It is a love letter To the sisterhood
Download or read book Connected Stories written by Mohamed Meouak and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts such as influence, imitation, emulation, transmission or plagiarism are transcendental to cultural history and the subject of universal debate. They are not mere labels imposed by modern historiography on ancient texts, nor are they the result of a later interpretation of ways of transmitting and teaching, but are concepts defined and discussed internally, within all cultures, since time immemorial, which have yielded very diverse results. In the case of culture, or better Arab-Islamic cultures, we could analyze and discuss endlessly numerous terms that refer to concepts related to the multiple ways of perceiving the Other, receiving his knowledge and producing new knowledge. The purpose of this book evolves around these concepts, and it aims to become part of a very long tradition of studies on this subject that is essential to the understanding of the processes of reception and creation. The authors analyze them in depth through the use of examples that are based on the well-known idea that societies in different regions did not remain isolated and indifferent to the literary, religious or scientific creations that were developed in other territories and moreover that the flow of ideas did not always occur in only one direction. Contacts, both voluntary and involuntary, are never incidental or marginal, but are rather the true engine of the evolution of knowledge and creation. It can also be stated that it has been the awareness of the existence of multidimensional cultural relations which has allowed modern historiography on Arab cultures to evolve and be enriched in recent decades.
