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A Tudor Turk

Author : Rehan Khan
Publisher : Chronicles of Will Ryde and Awa Maryam Al-Jameel
ISBN 13 : 9781908446978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book A Tudor Turk written by Rehan Khan and published by Chronicles of Will Ryde and Awa Maryam Al-Jameel. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul, 1591: the mighty Sultan Murad III has been robbed! The Staff of Moses, used at the parting of the Red Sea, has been stolen from his private collection of religious artifacts in the Topkapi Palace--and the furious Sultan wants it back. To track down the thieves, an elite band of hand-picked warriors is assembled. Among them is Awa, daughter of a noble family form West Africa, and friend Will--kidnapped from London slums at the age of five and now a seasoned and fearless young soldier. The warriors' task is to bring the Staff home--or not come home at all. Their urgent quest takes them from the domed roofs of Ottoman Istanbul, along the crowded canals of Venice, and all the way to the court of Queen Elizabeth 1--in rainy England--in what becomes a daring Mission (almost) Impossible for the 16th century.

Mapping the Ottomans

Author : Palmira Brummett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107090776
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Ottomans written by Palmira Brummett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.

White Horse

Author : Yan Ge
Publisher : HopeRoad
ISBN 13 : 1908446226
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book White Horse written by Yan Ge and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vivid,—White Horse—mesmerizes from page one as events unfold through the unassuming lenses of a child’s mind. In recounting how young n n is trying to make sense of real life experiences in an adult world, Author Yan Ge weaves a fascinating tale of receptive hearts, rebellious spirits and hidden secrets infused with cultural values in this small Chinese community.” Lema Abeng-Nsah, Publisher and Editorial Director of—Dunia Magazine—Young, innocent n n lives with her widower father in a small town in West China but spends half of her time at her cousin Zhang Qing's house, where they play and hide from the adults. However, n n's world starts to shatter when Quing enters middle school and turns into a rebellious teenager. As all things collide and family secrets begin to unravel, n n is quietly forced into growing up herself. A powerful coming-of-age tale with piercing insights into contemporary Chinese culture, acclaimed novelist Yan Ge's—White Horse—is both a touching and thought-provoking story. REVIEWS:Yan Ge is a master of extreme realism. This is something already recognised in her native country - China - where she has won the Chinese Literature Media Prize. Nicky Harman’s translation has opened up the text for an English speaking audience. Overall White Horse is a typical example of a bildungsroman. It follows n n, via her childish voice, through a quagmire of growing pains. On another level the book is also interesting as a cultural document. For such a short book, Ge certainly manages to take on a wide range of themes. She looks at death, lack of identity, young lesbian experiences, mental illness and social welfare. The novella is a good read as a social study as much as it is a story. (CADAVERINE Magazine)

The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls

Author : Tudor Jenks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls written by Tudor Jenks and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous fictional account of a visit to the World's Columbian exposition illustrated with actual photographs and sketches of the buildings, exhibits, and fairgrounds.

DEMON'S TOUCH

Author : REHAN. KHAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913109158
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book DEMON'S TOUCH written by REHAN. KHAN and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trading Territories

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722336
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Trading Territories written by Jerry Brotton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this generously illustrated book, Jerry Brotton documents the dramatic changes in the nature of geographical representation which took place during the sixteenth century, explaining how much they convey about the transformation of European culture at the end of the early modern era. He examines the age's fascination with maps, charts, and globes as both texts and artifacts that provided their owners with a promise of gain, be it intellectual, political, or financial. From the Middle Ages through most of the sixteenth century, Brotton argues, mapmakers deliberately exploited the partial, often conflicting accounts of geographically distant territories to create imaginary worlds. As long as the lands remained inaccessible, these maps and globes were politically compelling. They bolstered the authority of the imperial patrons who employed the geographers and integrated their creations into ever more grandiose rhetorics of expansion. As the century progressed, however, geographers increasingly owed allegiance to the administrators of vast joint-stock companies that sought to exploit faraway lands and required the systematic mapping of commercially strategic territories. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, maps had begun to serve instead as scientific guides, defining objectively valid images of the world.

Last of the Tasburai

Author : Rehan Khan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781497471382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Last of the Tasburai written by Rehan Khan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tasburai apprentice Adan is training hard to become an elite warrior. He's horrified to discover the Avanist Republic is reshaping the Tasburai order as a tool of persecution. Innocent people are being hunted and imprisoned. He didn't sign up for this.

Last Train from Kummersdorf

Author : Leslie Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057132133X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Last Train from Kummersdorf written by Leslie Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Germany in 1945, this is the story of a boy, Hanno, and a girl, Effi. Hanno is on the run, having just seen his twin brother killed. Effi is streetwise. She has learned the hard way that she must keep her secrets to herself - and she's even less keen to trust Hanno when she finds out he is a policeman's son. But there are far more dangerous people on the road, Russian soldiers, German deserters - and Major Otto, who likes to play games with people before he kills them. This new edition of an exceptional tale of courage, ingenuity, and the remarkable bonds formed during wartime will keep you gripped right up to the very last page.

Distracting Ourselves to Death

Author : Rehan Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922456625
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Distracting Ourselves to Death written by Rehan Khan and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel exhausted by the constant intrusion and demands of technology? Do your days pass by in a blur of emails, text messages, and social media notifications? You're not alone. And it's no accident: our digital lives have been designed to keep us distracted. While we're preoccupied by trivial distractions, we drift through life without purpose or meaning. In Distracting Ourselves to Death, author Rehan Khan explains why we have become so distracted, how we can manage our distraction, and how we can transform our lives into productive and meaningful ones. In this fascinating book, you'll: - Understand the true impact of digital distraction. - Discover how to manage your attention, habits, and environment. - Learn useful ways to actively counteract distraction, overcome procrastination and set boundaries. - Transform your professional and personal life with new habits and meaningful pursuits. Full of practical exercises and productivity hacks to tame distraction, Distracting Ourselves to Death is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a happier, contented, and more rewarding life in a distracted world.

The Sultan and the Queen

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110624
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Sultan and the Queen written by Jerry Brotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth’s secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps We think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the fringes of Europe, confronting the combined power of the papacy and of Catholic Spain. Broke and under siege, the young queen sought to build new alliances with the great powers of the Muslim world. She sent an emissary to the Shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Murad III, with whom she shared a lively correspondence. The Sultan and the Queen tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunes—and reveals how Elizabeth’s fruitful alignment with the Islamic world, financed by England’s first joint stock companies, paved the way for its transformation into a global commercial empire.

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071506
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Black Jews in Africa and the Americas written by Tudor Parfitt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.

The King at the Edge of the World

Author : Arthur Phillips
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812985508
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The King at the Edge of the World written by Arthur Phillips and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Elizabeth’s spymasters recruit an unlikely agent—the only Muslim in England—for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from “one of the best writers in America” (The Washington Post) “Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carré and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE WASHINGTON POST The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queen’s spymasters—hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism—fear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family’s Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe? It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of England’s religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James’s soul. Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. The perfect man for the job, Ezzedine is the ultimate outsider, stranded on this cold, wet, and primitive island. He will do almost anything to return home to his wife and son. Arthur Phillips returns with a unique and thrilling novel that will leave readers questioning the nature of truth at every turn.

The Secret Keeper

Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439152810
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Keeper written by Kate Morton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

Useful Enemies

Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192565818
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Useful Enemies written by Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards Islam. Yet there was also much curiosity about the social and political system on which the huge power of the sultans was based. In the sixteenth century, especially, when Ottoman territorial expansion was rapid and Ottoman institutions seemed particularly robust, there was even open admiration. In this path-breaking book Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion. Useful Enemies shows how the concept of 'oriental despotism' began as an attempt to turn the tables on a very positive analysis of Ottoman state power, and how, as it developed, it interacted with Western debates about monarchy and government. Noel Malcolm also shows how a negative portrayal of Islam as a religion devised for political purposes was assimilated by radical writers, who extended the criticism to all religions, including Christianity itself. Examining the works of many famous thinkers (including Machiavelli, Bodin, and Montesquieu) and many less well-known ones, Useful Enemies illuminates the long-term development of Western ideas about the Ottomans, and about Islam. Noel Malcolm shows how these ideas became intertwined with internal Western debates about power, religion, society, and war. Discussions of Islam and the Ottoman Empire were thus bound up with mainstream thinking in the West on a wide range of important topics. These Eastern enemies were not just there to be denounced. They were there to be made use of, in arguments which contributed significantly to the development of Western political thought.

God's Traitors

Author : Jessie Childs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199392358
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book God's Traitors written by Jessie Childs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.

Oakshaw

Author : William Turner Coggeshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oakshaw written by William Turner Coggeshall and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dew Angels

Author : Melanie Schwapp
Publisher : HopeRoad
ISBN 13 : 190844620X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Dew Angels written by Melanie Schwapp and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner ‘Literary Classi Seal of Approval' Dew Angels, is the deeply moving and powerful story of Nola Chambers, a young girl born with black skin into a fairskinned family.Because of the colour of Nola's skin she is subjected to cruel treatment by those within her family and the village in which she lives. Even Nola's father physically and verbally abuses the young girl who has been exposed to prejudice and bigotry her entire life. 'An incredible read’ (Off The Shelf) ‘One awesome book’ (Shelf Life)