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The Palestinian Tourist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

The Palestinian Tourist

Embark on a riveting journey with Adria Arafat as she shares her extraordinary tale of courage, resilience, and unwavering love in The Palestinian Tourist. Leaving behind the comfort of a small town in northern Utah, Adria and her family dove headfirst into the heart of the first intifada in Gaza. But this daring move wasn’t impulsive; it was preceded by two pivotal trips that laid the groundwork for their life-changing decision. As Adria navigates the unfamiliar terrain of a foreign land, she faces daunting challenges alone, grappling with language barriers while tackling essential tasks like enrolling her children in school and securing employment. Her husband’s delayed arrival only ad...

Civilian Jihad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Civilian Jihad

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12-07
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East using case studies and analyses of how religion, youth, women, technology and external actors have influenced the outcome of civil resistance in the region.

The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 559

The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-17
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The first in-depth study of the field in more than 20 years analyzes the role of various metals in the context of Greek economic life, politics, culture and art, traces the movement of metal from ore to finished objects, including works of art, and shows the relations between the regions where metals were extracted and the centres of metalworking, the structure of the workshops and the connections between them and the role of the workshops in economic life at different stages in Greek history. In doing so it adopts a multidisciplinary approach, defining the role of metals in the history of Greek society using the widest possible variety of sources: the excavated remains of workshops and hoar...

The World Wheat Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1285

The World Wheat Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Lavoisier

It is ten years since Volume 1 of The World Wheat Book was completed and the intervening years have seen many changes in the world economy, in agriculture in the countries where wheat is grown, and major developments in the techniques of wheat breeding.This second volume therefore updates, but does not replace, the first volume by adding to the countries discussed, giving an update on agronomy and cropping practices, and reviewing the technological advances in wheat breeding techniques.The opening chapters summarise the history of wheat growing, the development of wheat breeding, and the current status of breeding in the countries covered. The next set of chapters looks at agronomy and cropp...

Young Miles
  • Language: en

Young Miles

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-07-01
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  • Publisher: Baen

IT ISN'T EASY, BEINGVOR... Being a Vor lord on the war-torn planetBarrayar wasn't easy. Being an officer in Barrayar's military wasn't easy. Andbeing the leader of a force of spaceborne mercenaries w

Athens and the Cyclades
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Athens and the Cyclades

This volume examines the history and economy of the Cyclades during the late sixth to late fourth centuries BC. While certain aspects of geography in the Cyclades remained constant, the islands were able to adapt to changing conditions and hegemony, imposed from outside the region, in order to increase their levels of economic prosperity.

Naked in Paradise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Naked in Paradise

The original new age nudist movement in Switzerland.

Dying to Win
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Dying to Win

Includes a new Afterword Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scientist Robert Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide terrorist attack in the world from 1980 until today. In Dying to Win, Pape provides a groundbreaking demographic profile of modern suicide terrorist attackers–and his findings offer a powerful counterpoint to what we now accept as conventional wisdom on the topic. He also examines the early practitioners of this guerrilla tactic, including the ancient Jewish Zealots, who in A.D. 66 wished to liberate themselves fro...

The Global Political Economy of Israel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

The Global Political Economy of Israel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-08-20
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  • Publisher: Pluto Press

The debate about globalisation and its discontents

YOUMARES 9 - the Oceans: Our Research, Our Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

YOUMARES 9 - the Oceans: Our Research, Our Future

This open access book summarizes peer-reviewed articles and the abstracts of oral and poster presentations given during the YOUMARES 9 conference which took place in Oldenburg, Germany, in September 2018. The aims of this book are to summarize state-of-the-art knowledge in marine sciences and to inspire scientists of all career stages in the development of further research. These conferences are organized by and for young marine researchers. Qualified early-career researchers, who moderated topical sessions during the conference, contributed literature reviews on specific topics within their research field. .