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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 2386
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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 2386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 1164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mansour Ajami
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0595359604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Mansour Ajami was born during World War II in Saghbine, a poverty-stricken Lebanese village that had remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages. His autobiography, The Book of Generations: A Reunion with Memory, traces his adaptation to the culture and thought of twenty-first-century America. With a humorous, offbeat perspective, Ajami presents the inevitable culture clashes that shaped his intellectual evolution. He recounts ancient folklore and medieval church practices, the discovery of luscious and accomplished Western women, and the ways of poor fathers and obdurate donkeys. Whether he is beguiling American university students with seemingly preposterous snake stories or dealing with the tragic loss of his first child, Ajami's humor and emotion translate universally. The Book of Generations ends with a soliloquy on a possible future in which he sees himself alone in the world, musing on the necessity of inventing spaceships, computer chips, and potato chips, and on the avoidance of long johns and obtuse grammar. The magically realistic and easy-to-understand stories in The Book of Generations: A Reunion with Memory, from peasant cures for illness to the hustle and bustle of modern society, provide Ajami's perception of the human condition.
Author: Mounir R. Sa'adah
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781420844290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJESUS, THE SON OF MAN imaginatively melds the little that is known about the life of Jesus with historical fiction. The result is a beautiful story of the life and times of Jesus Christ. Mounir Sa''adah has lived a good deal of his life in the lands so beloved to Jesus. His life has been steeped in Christianity. His creative mind transitions back and forth so skillfully from what is known to what might have been that the reader is unaware of the transfer. The result is a lovely story that should warm the heart of its readers. It will reward all those who read its pages. Robert H. Linnell, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California former Professor, American University of Beirut. Lebanon
Author: Clifford A. Wright
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1999-10-20
Total Pages: 844
ISBN-13: 0688153054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking culinary work of extraordinary depth and scope that spans more than one thousand years of history, A Mediterranean Feast tells the sweeping story of the birth of the venerated and diverse cuisines of the Mediterranean. Author Clifford A. Wright weaves together historical and culinary strands from Moorish Spain to North Africa, from coastal France to the Balearic Islands, from Sicily and the kingdoms of Italy to Greece, the Balkan coast, Turkey, and the Near East. The evolution of these cuisines is not simply the story of farming, herding, and fishing; rather, the story encompasses wars and plagues, political intrigue and pirates, the Silk Road and the discovery of the New World, the rise of capitalism and the birth of city-states, the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition, and the obsession with spices. The ebb and flow of empires, the movement of populations from country to city, and religion have all played a determining role in making each of these cuisines unique. In A Mediterranean Feast, Wright also shows how the cuisines of the Mediterranean have been indelibly stamped with the uncompromising geography and climate of the area and a past marked by both unrelenting poverty and outrageous wealth. The book's more than five hundred contemporary recipes (which have been adapted for today's kitchen) are the end point of centuries of evolution and show the full range of culinary ingenuity and indulgence, from the peasant kitchen to the merchant pantry. They also illustrate the migration of local culinary predilections, tastes for food and methods of preparation carried from home to new lands and back by conquerors, seafarers, soldiers, merchants, and religious pilgrims. A Mediterranean Feast includes fourteen original maps of the contemporary and historical Mediterranean, a guide to the Mediterranean pantry, food products resources, a complete bibliography, and a recipe and general index, in addition to a pronunciation key. An astonishing accomplishment of culinary and historical research and detective work in eight languages, A Mediterranean Feast is required--and intriguing--reading for any cook, armchair or otherwise.
Author: Andrew Exum
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-06-03
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1101216646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first combat memoir of the War on Terrorism: the gripping story of a young man’s transformation into a twenty-first-century warrior. Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum enrolled in Army ROTC to pay for his Ivy League education. Shortly after graduation in 2000, he joined the infantry, then endured the grueling rigors of Ranger School before becoming a platoon leader with the storied 10th Mountain Division. He thought that perhaps, if he was lucky, he and his men would see action on a peacekeeping mission. Then came the fateful events of September 11, 2001. Called to action as a twenty-three-year-old, he led his troops into Afghanistan to root out the hard-core remnants of Osama bin Laden’s forces. Thrown into the maelstrom of modern war, Exum contended with Afghani warlords, cable news correspondents, and the military bureaucracy while hunting a desperate enemy in a treacherous land—and on a mountain ridge in the Shah-e-Kot Valley he would confront and kill an al-Qaeda fighter. After returning home, Exum struggled to come to terms with the media coverage and public perception of the war while seeking to make peace with the man he had become. By turns harrowing and reflective, this powerful memoir gives voice to a generation of soldiers that has risen to confront the threats of a dangerous new world.
Author: Dan Tschirgi
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781685856601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEminent scholars focus on the political, economic, social, and theoretical implications of the Gulf War.
Author: Claudia Roden
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781862054813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoden vividly communicates the pleasure of cooking and eating the Mediterranean way. The book features 150 recipes, collected in the course of extensive travels in France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and the Lebanon.