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Leave to Remain
Leave to Remain is Abbas El-Zein's award-winning memoir of his youth in Lebanon and his years of travel between the Arab and Western worlds. It's a clear-eyed and heartfelt examination of the forces that have shaped both his own life and the world in which he grew up.First published in 2009 Leave to Remain won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards - Community Relations Commission Award in 2010. 'An important book ... written in many tones - lyrical sardonic angry heartbroken - but they are all in the key of Abbas El-Zein's compassionate love for war-ravaged Beirut the city of his birth childhood and early manhood.' - Raymond Gaita philosopher and author of Romulus My Father 'The best memoirs illuminate our intellectual blind spots. They leave us wiser and often less certain of our inalienable truths. So it is with Leave to Remain.' - Laurie Steed Readings
Leave to Remain
Leave to Remain is Abbas El-Zein's award-winning memoir of his youth in Lebanon and his years of travel between the Arab and Western worlds. It's a clear-eyed and heartfelt examination of the forces that have shaped both his own life and much of ancient and recent history.First published in 2009, Leave to Remain won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards -- Community Relations Commission Award in 2010.'An important book ... written in many tones - lyrical, sardonic, angry, heartbroken - but they are all in the key of Abbas El-Zein's compassionate love for war-ravaged Beirut, the city of his birth, childhood and early manhood.' -- Raymond Gaita, philosopher and author of Romulus My Fat...
Bullet, Paper, Rock
A story of survival, and a meditation on desire and loss, language and violence In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound -- either tragic or amusing, sometimes both -- between teachers and students, left- and right-wing factions, civilians and militiamen and, not least, French and Arabic, two languages vying for primacy in the post-colonial worlds of Beirut and the Levant, with English coming fast from behind. By the time he graduated from high school, El-Zein had nearly drowned in the Mediterranean, survived the breakout of civil war and lived through the violent death of two close family members. He witnessed Syrian and Israeli soldiers invade his country and, from his bedroom balco...
The Secret Maker of the World
A powerful collection of fiction that lingers long after the last word. A boatman fishes bodies from the Yellow River searching for the one he can claim. A construction worker speeds through the Indonesian jungle to board his plane on time. Playing a terrifying game of cat and mouse, an isolated sniper in Beirut observes the city from his rooftop perch. With profound insight El-Zein's stories cross continents and time zones, effortlessly melding themes of loss and longing with larger questions of power, politics, faith and love. His characters, as provocative as they are diverse, confront issues of violence, justice and redemption with varying degrees of rage, suspense, satire and wit. With a sharp eye for the ridiculous, El-Zein's collection cleverly illuminates stereotypes and contemplates global truths. These are worldly stories in the best sense, and wise ones.
Asset Intelligence through Integration and Interoperability and Contemporary Vibration Engineering Technologies
These proceedings include a collection of papers on a range of topics presented at the 12th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) in Brisbane, 2 – 4 August 2017. Effective strategies are required for managing complex engineering assets such as built environments, infrastructure, plants, equipment, hardware systems and components. Following the release of the ISO 5500x set of standards in 2014, the 12th WCEAM addressed important issues covering all aspects of engineering asset management across various sectors including health. The topics discussed by the congress delegates are grouped into a number of tracks, including strategies for investment and divestment of assets, operations and maintenance of assets, assessment of assets’ health conditions, risk and vulnerability, technologies, and systems for management of assets, standards, education, training and certification.
Plate Stability by Boundary Element Method
1. 1 Historical Background Thin plates and shells are widely used structural elements in numerous civil, mechanical, aeronautical and marine engineering design applications. Floor slabs, bridge decks, concrete pavements, sheet pile retaining walls are all, under normal lateral loading circumstances, instances of plate bending in civil engineering. The problem of elastic instability of plates occurs when load is applied in a direction parallel to the plane of the plate. The deck of a bridge subjected to a strong wind loading, the web of a girder under the action of shear forces transmitted by the flanges, the turbine blade of a machinery undergoing longitudinal temperature differentials, woul...
Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming
Global Warming: Causes, Impacts and Solutions covers all aspects of global warming including its causes, impacts, and engineering solutions. Energy and environment policies and strategies are scientifically discussed to expose the best ways to reduce global warming effects and protect the environment and energy sources affected by human activities. The importance of green energy consumption on the reduction of global warming, energy saving and energy security are also discussed. This book also focuses on energy management and conservation strategies for better utilization of energy sources and technologies in buildings and industry as well as ways of improving energy efficiency at the end us...
Tell the Running Water
As civil war comes to Beirut, the lives of three teenagers--a student, a nurse, and a sniper--become intertwined in a city reduced to a battleground. Rules are made and remade, and everyone is at once victim and perpetrator, helping to keep their landscapes of violence alive.'As timely as today's headline, and as timeless as a Levantine love song, Abbas El-Zein draws on his own experience of Beirut's bitter war to create a novel that is elegant and elegiac. This writer has the rarest combination of gifts: a scientist's precision and a poet's eloquence.' -- Geraldine Brooks, internationally bestselling, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelistAbbas El-Zein has written for numerous newspapers and literary journals including The New York Times, The Guardian, Meanjin, and HEAT Magazine. He is the author of the award-winning memoir Leave to Remain (2009), also in the Untapped Collection, and the short story collection The Secret Maker of the World (2014). His novel Tell the Running Water was first published in 2001.
Arab-Australians Today
The Arab community in Australia is one of the oldest and most established of its immigrant ethnic communities. Together, the various works brought together here cover most aspects of Arab–Australian lives that are of importance today: the history of settlement, attitudes about citizenship, Arab women’s activism, Arab antiracism activism, the position of Arab youth between two cultures, nostalgia and homesickness, everyday life in an Arab “ethnic” suburb, and questions of identity.
Challenges and Innovations in Geomechanics
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of computational geomechanics, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), held in Turin, Italy on August 30 - September 2, 2022. Contributions include a wide range of topics in geomechanics such as: laboratory and field testing, constitutive modelling, monitoring and remote sensing, multiphase modelling, reliability and risk analysis, surface structures, deep structures, dams and earth structures, natural slopes, mining engineering, earthquake and dynamics, soil-atmosphere interaction, ice mechanics, landfills and waste disposal, gas and petroleum engineering, geothermal energy, offshore technology, energy geostructures and computational rail geotechnics.
