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Book Synopsis Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean by : Odile Moreau
Download or read book Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean written by Odile Moreau and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subaltern studies, the study of non-elite or underrepresented people, have revolutionized the writing of Middle Eastern history. Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean represents the next step in this transformation. The book explores the lives of eleven nonconformists who became agents of political and social change, actively organizing new forms of resistance—against either colonial European regimes or the traditional societies in which they lived—that disrupted the status quo, in some cases, with dramatic results. These case studies highlight cross-border connections in the Mediterranean world, exploring how these channels were navigated. Chapters in the book examine the lives of subversives and mavericks, such as Tawhida ben Shaykh, the first Arab woman to receive a medical degree; Mokhtar al-Ayari, a radical Tunisian labor leader; Nazli Hanem, Kmar Bayya, and Khiriya bin Ayyad, three aristocractic women who resisted the patriarchal structures of their societies by organizing and participating in intellectual salons for men and women and advocating social reform; Qaid Najim al-Akhsassi, an ex-slave and military officer, who fought against French and Spanish colonial expansion; and Boubeker al-Ghandjawi, a nearly illiterate trader who succeeded, though his diverse connections, in establishing important relations between the Moroccan sultan and the representative of the British government. Although based on individual and local perspectives, Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean reveals new and unrecognized trans-local connections across the Muslim world, illuminating our understanding of these societies beyond narrow elite circles.
Book Synopsis Mediterranean Mavericks: The Italian's Future Bride / The Greek's Virgin / At the Greek Boss's Bidding (Mills & Boon By Request) by : Michelle Reid
Download or read book Mediterranean Mavericks: The Italian's Future Bride / The Greek's Virgin / At the Greek Boss's Bidding (Mills & Boon By Request) written by Michelle Reid and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediterranean Mavericks
Book Synopsis Mediterranean Mavericks: Greeks by : Jennie Lucas
Download or read book Mediterranean Mavericks: Greeks written by Jennie Lucas and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 4094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of sexy Greek heroes from Mills & Boon
Book Synopsis Maverick Guide to Morocco by : Searight, Susan
Download or read book Maverick Guide to Morocco written by Searight, Susan and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than Tangier and Casablanca, Morocco offers visitors an unparallelled opportunity for an exotic vacation.
Book Synopsis Maverick Military Leaders by : Robert Harvey
Download or read book Maverick Military Leaders written by Robert Harvey and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 16 riveting portraits, bestselling historian Harvey offers the definitive, one-volume account of some of history's most important and surprising battlesand the commanders who won the field. 16 b&w photographs.
Book Synopsis Mediterranean Mavericks by : Michelle Reid
Download or read book Mediterranean Mavericks written by Michelle Reid and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maverick Spy written by Hamish MacGibbon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James's death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear – in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War.
Book Synopsis A Surgeon and a Maverick by : Simon Pearson
Download or read book A Surgeon and a Maverick written by Simon Pearson and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] remarkable journey.”—The Telegraph The incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain. Although at times he clashed with the medical establishment in London, Yacoub pioneered great advances in heart surgery. He was knighted in 1992, and in 2014, he was awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Queen, the Order of Merit. Written with unprecedented access and drawing on extensive interviews and research, the biography recounts how Yacoub transformed the treatment of children with congenital heart disease. He performed some of the first heart transplants in Britain and the first heart-lung transplants in Europe. At London’s Harefield Hospital, he created the greatest heart transplant center in the world. Among his patients are men and women who are still thriving more than thirty-five years after he gave them new hope. This story is also about science, the development of new medical techniques, and a deeper understanding of how the human body works. Today, at an age when most people have long since retired, Yacoub is still pushing the boundaries of scientific understanding and surgical know-how. He is also taking heart surgery to places that until now have had little access to cardiac treatment, developing centers of excellence across Africa, including in Egypt, where his hospital in Aswan has an international reputation, and a new center is rising in Cairo. Yacoub’s life is one of triumph and tragedy, success and failure, fierce criticism and high praise—it is also an enthralling journey through the worlds of scientific research and medical politics and ethics at the highest levels.
Book Synopsis Maverick Mathematician by : Ann Moyal
Download or read book Maverick Mathematician written by Ann Moyal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "J.E. Moyal has been pronounced 'one of Australia's most remarkable thinkers'. Yet, he was, essentially, a scientific maverick. Educated in a modest high school in Tel Aviv, he took himself to France to train as an engineer, statistician and mathematician and escaped to England as France fell. It was from outside academia that he entered into communication with the 'high priest' of British theoretical physics, P.A.M. Dirac, challenging him with the idea of a statistical basis of quantum mechanics. Their correspondence forms the core of this book and opens up an important and hitherto unknown chapter for physicists, mathematicians and historians of science. Moyal's classic paper, 'A statistical basis for quantum mechanics', also reproduced here in full, has come to underlie an explosion of research and to underpin an array of major technological developments."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Maverick's written by Matt Warshaw and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With heart-stopping photography and a driving text, "Maverick's" tracks the five most dangerous days in the break's history. Surf journalist Matt Warshaw weaves into this vivid record the complete, unconventional history of big-wave surfing, from its Hawaiian origins through to the modern drama of tow-in surfers. More than 130 color and b&w illustrations.
Book Synopsis Musings of a Military Maverick by : Yoginder Sharma
Download or read book Musings of a Military Maverick written by Yoginder Sharma and published by Prowess Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Maverick’s Musings’ start with a tender tribute to a soul-mate. The young officer (YO) who had wooed and won the heart of a girl from an alien land shares his ‘Jab We Met’ (when we met!) moments of 1958. There was little in common between them except their humanity and core values of two ancient civilisations. They overcame impossible odds to create a relationship that lasted for 55 years. It is a heartwarming story that triggers emotions at a deeper level. The ‘episodic’ narrative then follows a linear timeline. It runs on two intertwined tracks. The personal thread follows his life from infancy to an awkward adolescence. Fortunately he finds a more confident life partner. The Greek girl uproots herself in pursuit of love and finds a new family in the warm folds of Indian military-life. Their life together matures into a well-rounded family. On the professional track the YO becomes a General in 30 years, after a series of trials and triumphs. The challenges include a resignation, a traumatic war injury, sadistic seniors, a cadet’s suicide and so on. He survives and succeeds. The family goes through phases of agony and ecstasy. Their ability to roll with the punches lies in their inner strength which this narrative shows in flashes- that source may be explored later!
Book Synopsis The Economy of Modern Malta by : Paul Caruana Galizia
Download or read book The Economy of Modern Malta written by Paul Caruana Galizia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the Maltese economy in the modern era, from colonialism to European Union membership. It sets arguments about growth and development, and the impact and legacy of colonization, against detailed histories of agriculture, manufacturing and trade, and different economic policy regimes. It is based on volumes of newly collected archival evidence and the latest thinking in economic history. By extending coverage up to the present, the book explains how one of the world's smallest nation-states achieved lasting economic development, quintupling its per capita income level since 1970, when many other postcolonial and advanced economies stagnated.
Book Synopsis Mediterranean Mavericks by : Lynne Graham
Download or read book Mediterranean Mavericks written by Lynne Graham and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride - Lynne Graham The last thing Gaetano Leonetti wants is to be shackled in marriage but, to become CEO of his family's bank, his grandfather has decreed Gaetano must find a nice, ordinary woman to wed. Convinced his grandfather is mad, Gaetano sets about proving him wrong with outspoken housekeeper Poppy Arnold. But it's not long before self-sacrificing Poppy charms his grandfather and Gaetano's stuck with a union he didn't want and a bride he sinfully craves! Having set her up to fail, can he really take the precious gift of her virginity? Inherited By Ferranti - Kate Hewitt It's been seven years since Sierra Rocci left Marco Ferranti on the eve of their convenient wedding. Now she's back in Sicily to collect her inheritance – only to find out everything that bears her name belongs to Marco! Marco thought revenge would taste sweeter, but it's not as sweet as the memory of Sierra's shy kisses. He should turn his back on her this time, but Marco needs Sierra to help with his latest business venture. Soon having his runaway bride back by his side isn't enough... making Marco determined to claim the wedding night that never was! Best Man For The Bridesmaid - Jennifer Faye Planning her sister's Italian wedding only reminds Jules Lane how far away she is from finding her own true love. And worse, she's doing it alongside the brooding, mouth-wateringly handsome best man, Stefano DeFiore! Having seen the destructive power of love, Stefano has no time for weddings, but Jules's smile is captivating! Making her feel like the most beautiful woman in the world is one thing, but can he give this blushing bridesmaid a happily-ever-after of her own?
Book Synopsis Maverick Guide to Oman by : Peter J. Ochs, II
Download or read book Maverick Guide to Oman written by Peter J. Ochs, II and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the endorsement and assistance of the Omani government, the only guide to Oman has been thoroughly updated for the second edition. For naturalists, the rock formations, minerals, and fossils of Oman are textbook-quality, and the variety of flora and fauna is awe-inspiring. For adventurers, there is wadi bashing, hiking, camping, and rock climbing. The landscape ranges from desert to oasis to mountain to coast, and the Omani people are among the most hospitable in the world. This guide utilizes the familiar Maverick format to communicate everything a first-time traveler needs to know. The author lives in Oman and has made many of the treks he writes about. He gives insight into the customs, history, and culture of the country, as well as how to get along with the Omanis in the best possible fashion. Advice is given on everything from asking permission to take pictures, to what type of vehicle to drive in certain areas, to which forts are open to the public, to what kinds of clothes to wear.
Download or read book Maverick written by Vincent Cordon and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tayos Gold written by Stan Hall and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976, Scottish engineer Stan Hall organised a landmark expedition to the caves of the Tayos Indians in Ecuador, involving a dozen institutions, joint Special Forces, and astronaut professor Neil Armstrong as Honorary President and participant. Hall was driven by curiosity about Erich von Daniken's report of a Metal Library allegedly found in the caves by investigator Juan Moricz in the mid-1960s (published in von Daniken's 1972 blockbuster Gold of the Gods). This idea was considered unorthodox in the absence of any ancient written script in South America. In Hall's odyssey into the heart of global enigmas he researches: the origins of mankind; Atlantis; Ptolemy's lost city of Cattigara; and, the sudden rise and fall of wonder civilisations. This journey ended with his identification of Atlantis and Cattigara, and the entrance to the Metal Library along the Pastaza River in Ecuador. Imagination, action and danger combine explosively in the story of this spectacular British-Ecuadorian expedition to the Tayos Caves of Ecuador.
Download or read book The Maverick written by Luke Johnson and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight years between 1998 and 2006, Luke Johnson wrote a regular column as 'The Maverick' in The Sunday Telegraph. His short, pithy essays tackled subjects ranging from rich lists to bankrupt companies, from high finance to investment techniques, from philanthropy to trophy wives, bringing a practitioner's eye to the commercial world and the people in it. The Maverick quickly developed a cult following among readers who wanted to understand the blunt truth about investment, entrepreneurs, business history, and corporate life. This book brings together 84 of the best articles, with updates, in a single volume. What makes them unique is that Luke Johnson is not just a first-class writer, he is also one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs. He made his name with PizzaExpress, has run and owned businesses in many different sectors, and now takes stakes in fast-growing businesses through his company, Risk Capital Partners. He is also Chairman of Channel 4. The diversity of his experience enables him to write with insight and perspective about the very serious matter of making and losing money. If you are in business, you will find The Maverick entertaining, informative and inspiring. If you are not in business, you will discover what makes business people tick, the hurdles they have to overcome to succeed, and the substantial benefits they bring to society. www.lukejohnson.org
