The Women's Courtyard
The Women's Courtyard

Author: Khadija Mastur

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2025-07-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0143138065

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A feminist classic of Partition literature in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell. A Penguin Classic Set in the turbulent decade of the 1940s, The Women's Courtyard provides an inverted perspective on the Partition. Mastur’s novel is conspicuously empty of the political pondering and large national questions that played out, typically, in the arenas of men. Instead, it gives expression to the preoccupations of the women in the courtyard, fighting different battles with loud voices. The novel follows a Muslim girl, Aliya, and her family, about and around the climax of the Independence struggle. While the national struggle rages on the street, Aliya and the other women in the courtyard are tethered hopelessly to their own problems of life and death. The Women’s Courtyard is an experience in suffocation. Within the strict religious and social framework of a rigid Muslim family, there is a purdah between Aliya and the rest of the world. While the men in Aliya’s family wage politics, get beaten up, and go to jail in the unseen outside, their families back home are forced to wait in deteriorating conditions, trying desperately to hold up the social structure that confines them.

Interior Chinatown
Interior Chinatown

Author: Charles Yu

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0307907198

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes "one of the funniest books of the year.... A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire" (The Washington Post). A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East
Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East

Author: Arthur Segal

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1842178369

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This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. Religious architecture gave faithful expression to the complexity of the Roman East and to its multiplicity of traditions pertaining to ethnic and religious aspects as well as to the powerful influence of Imperial Rome. The source of this power lay in the uniformity of the architectural language, the inventory of forms, the choice of styles and the spatial layout of the buildings. Thus, while temples have an eclectic character, there is an underlying unity of form comprising the podium, the stairway between the terminating walls (antae) and the columns along the entrance front - in other words, the axiality, frontality and symmetry of the temple as viewed from outside. The temples and sanctuaries studied in this volume demonstrate individual nuances of plan, spatial design, location in the sanctuary and interrelations with the immediate vicinity but can be divided into two main categories: Vitruvian temples (derived from Hellenistic-Roman architecture) and Non-Vitruvian temples (those with plans and spatial designs that cannot be analysed according to architectural criteria such as those defined by Vitruvius). The individual descriptions presented focus solely upon the analysis of the external and internal space of the temples of all types and do not involve any cultural or ethnic discussion.

Measure The Pattern - Volume 1
Measure The Pattern - Volume 1

Author: Joseph Good

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-25

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781073761098

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During the process of preparing this book, researchers discovered that the corner buildings around the Inner Courtyard of the Temple were much larger than anyone had previously seen. While researching these four corner buildings, they began to identify different named chambers within each building. This, in turn, gave a new understanding as to how the Temple functioned and the marvel of its design. Also as an added bonus, research confirmed the exact location of the Temple building, as well as many other structures of the Second Temple period. The illustrations have been revised as the research progressed giving a more accurate picture of the Temple and its environs. Due to questions posed by a leading Rabbi in Temple research, Volume I evolved from being a general book on the Temple to one specifically on these four corner buildings and all that had been discovered. In addition, the research uncovered another major building directly behind the Temple building. Even though this structure was well documented from the Tanach, Talmud, and Temple Scroll, it had virtually been ignored in all modern-day layouts of the Temple. This required adding several chapters and revisions to all the illustrations and diagrams contained to reflect these findings. Now we are proud to offer a view of the Temple and its workings as never before seen. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 full-color illustrations and diagrams. This second edition has included additional research and minor corrections made to the Hebrew text for accuracy.

Courtyard Housing
Courtyard Housing

Author: Brian Edwards

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780415262729

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This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past.

The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window

Author: Jeff Gottesfeld

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0385753993

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A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window—and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist—this book introduces her story in a gentle and incredibly powerful way to a young audience. The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace. The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away—and when her father returned after the war, alone. The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace. Its story, and Anne’s story, are beautifully told and illustrated in this powerful picture book.

NLT Life Application Study Bible, Third Edition (Red Letter, Leatherlike, Purple, Indexed)
NLT Life Application Study Bible, Third Edition (Red Letter, Leatherlike, Purple, Indexed)

Author: Tyndale

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 2498

ISBN-13: 1496455215

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Winner of the 2020 Christian Book Award for Bible of the Year! Trusted & Treasured by Millions of Readers over 30 years, the Life Application Study Bible Is Today's #1-Selling Study Bible Now it has been thoroughly updated and expanded, offering even more relevant insights for understanding and applying God's Word to everyday life in today's world. Discover How You Can Apply the Bible to Your Life Today With a fresh two-color interior design and meaningfully updated study notes and features, this Bible will help you understand God's Word better than ever. It answers the real-life questions that you may have and provides you practical yet powerful ways to apply the Bible to your life every day. Study the stories and teachings of the Bible with verse-by-verse commentary. Gain wisdom from people in the Bible by exploring their accomplishments and learning from their mistakes. Survey the big picture of each book through overviews, vital statistics, outlines, and timelines, and grasp difficult concepts using in-text maps, charts, and diagrams--all to help you do life God's way, every day. Features: (Enhanced, updated, and with new content added throughout) Now more than 10,000 Life Application notes and features Over 100 Life Application profiles of key Bible people Introductions and overviews for each book of the Bible More than 500 maps & charts placed for quick reference Dictionary/concordance Extensive side-column cross-reference system to facilitate deeper study Life Application index to notes, charts, maps, and profiles Refreshed design with a second color for visual clarity 16 pages of full-color maps Quality Smyth-sewn binding--durable, made for frequent use, and lays flat when open Presentation page Single-column format Christian Worker's Resource, a special supplement to enhance the reader's ministry effectiveness Full text of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), combining the latest biblical scholarship with clear, natural English The words of Jesus are in red letter.