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  • The Shadow of the Obelisk

    by Anne Jacob ...
    The Shadow of the ObeliskHow the West Unearthed, Owned, and Reimagined Ancient EgyptThree obelisks stand in Paris, London, and New York. None has faced the Nile in over a century.This book traces two hundred years of Egypt's rediscovery-turned-extraction — from Napoleon's savants and Belzoni's gunpowder to the race science that tried to sever the pharaohs from Africa, the Hollywood curses and ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daughters Of The Nile

    by Anne Jacob ...
    Women of the Nile: The Lives, Rights, Work, and Power of Egyptian Women from the Pharaohs to the Modern AgeFive thousand years of Egyptian history, told through the women who lived it. From prehistoric farmers to pharaonic property owners, from Cleopatra to Cairo's first feminists, Women of the Nile traces a startling legal tradition: Egyptian women could own land, sign contracts, inherit, and ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Piezano Pizza Oven Cookbook

    by Anne Jacob ...
    Discover how to make delicious, crispy homemade pizzas with your Piezano Crispy Crust Pizza Oven. From preparing the perfect dough and flavorful sauces to choosing toppings and mastering the cooking process, this cookbook gives you the knowledge and inspiration to make pizza at home.Explore classic Italian favorites, American-style pizzas, gourmet creations, vegan options, focaccias, calzones, and ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Victorian Novel On File

    Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage

    The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel is a storage medium, cluttered with detail and accumulating more than it can use. The fictional things that have been read as insignificant should be seen instead as vessels of information, embedding the text with potential. This study weaves together ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Becoming Turkish

    Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey 1923-1945

    by Hale Yilmaz ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zainab’s Traffic

    Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders

    by Emrah Yildiz ...
    Series Book 16 - Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
    What is the value—religious, political, economic, or altogether social—of getting on a bus in Tehran to embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine outside Damascus? Under what material conditions can such values be established, reassessed, or transgressed, and by whom? Zainab’s Traffic provides answers to these questions alongside the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Women in the Ottoman Empire

    A Social and Political History

    It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were 'first-class' and 'second class' subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims, adult Muslim males were first-class subjects and all others, including Muslim boys and women, were of the second class. As for the female members of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Good Kings

    Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World

    by Kara Cooney ...
    Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Air Fryer Perfection

    From Crispy Fries and Juicy Steaks to Perfect Vegetables, What to Cook & How to Get the Best Results

    Edited by America's Test Kitchen ...
    Get the best possible results from your air fryer and discover the best ways to use it (not just frying!) with 75 fast, convenient, great-tasting recipes.Air fryers promise crisp fried food without actual deep frying. Was it too good to be believed? And what can you cook in them besides French fries? In truth, air fryers cook food by blasting it with circulated hot air. The method is fast, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Walker

    On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

    From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history.“A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian) ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Turkey

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Andrew Finkel ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew Finkel, who has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for publications such as ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Instant Pot Miracle

    From Gourmet to Everyday, 175 Must-Have Recipes

    This comprehensive Instant Pot cookbook shows home chefs how to get the most out of their miracle kitchen appliance.Everyone from Ruth Reichl to top food bloggers rave about the Instant Pot's efficiency, convenience, and affordability. Now this officially licensed, full-color cookbook helps you master its seemingly endless possibilities.Instant Pot Miracle covers all the functions of the Instant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus