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What? I Could be Allergic to That?!
What? I Could be Allergic to That?! is a casual and fun look at some unusual allergies that people can have! Everyone knows about being allergic to pollen and pets, but did you know that's just the tip of the iceberg? This book contains allergies your doctor may not even know about. When we became allergists and immunologists, we were fascinated by what we were treating every day. Patients were coming in with reactions to the strangest things like water, cold air and even money. We've seen people struggling with symptoms for years without a clear cause, because who would think you could be allergic to yourself? Reach for this book next time you think you're going crazy.
Renaissance Emir
A groundbreaking biography of the mysterious Levantine prince Fakr ad-Din. The year is 1613: the Ottoman Empire is at its height, sprawling from Hungary to Iraq, Morocco to Yemen. One man dares to challenge it: the Prince of the mysterious Druze sect in Mount Lebanon, Fakhr ad-Din. Yielding before a mighty army sent to conquer him, he—astonishingly—takes refuge with the Medici in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. Fakhr ad-Din took along with him a diverse party of Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Levantines on their first visit to the “Lands of the Christians.” During his five-year stay in Italy, he fights to persuade Popes, Grand-Dukes and Viceroys to support a grand plan: a new Crusade to wrest the Holy Land from the Ottomans, giving Jerusalem back to Christendom and himself a crown. This groundbreaking biography of Fakhr ad-Din, Prince of the Druze, is based on the author’s vivid new translations of contemporary sources in Arabic and other languages. It brings to life one remarkable man’s beliefs and ambitions, uniquely illuminating the elusive interface between Eastern and Western culture.
The Downhill Hiking Club
Three men. 470 kilometres. Twenty-one days. Welcome to the Downhill Hiking Club . . . At a boozy, cricket-filled afternoon at Lord's, Dom Joly convinces his two closest friends to agree to the unthinkable: a challenging hike across Lebanon, from the Israeli border in the south, along the spine of the country's mountain range, all the way to the Syrian border in the north. For Joly it is something of a homecoming, having grown up in Beirut. It was a happy childhood, though he did go to school with Osama bin Laden. Arriving in Lebanon armed with copious amounts of Vaseline - and no walking experience, bar taking the dog for the occasional stroll - Dom, Chris and Harry don't quite know what the...
Mariages et identité nationale au Liban
Quels liens existe-t-il entre recomposition identitaire et dynamiques postconflit dans le cas libanais ? Comment se redéploient les frontières de l'identité collective libanaise par rapport aux réfugiés palestiniens depuis le retour à la paix civile en 1990 ? Que nous apprend l'étude des mariages libano-palestiniens sur les changements politiques au Liban ? Au moyen d'une enquête de terrain auprès des acteurs concernés, l'auteur développe un axe original, à la fois historique et sociologique, des relations entre Libanais et Palestiniens depuis 1948. En outre, cette étude montre bien les mutations de la représentation de la problématique des réfugiés palestiniens au Liban et,...
Talk Rx
Details a five-step process for learning how to communicate effectively in order to improve health, strengthen relationships, and reduce stress, while becoming comfortable with having honest exchanges.
Lebanon
This new, thoroughly updated third edition of Bradt’s Lebanon remains the only English-language guide dedicated to the smallest country on the Asian continent. Comprehensively updated throughout to reflect recent economic, political and social changes, it includes revised and new listings for hotels, restaurants, and what to see and do, catering for all types of travellers and budgets. Although only half the size of Wales, Lebanon offers extraordinary diversity. Some of the world’s oldest human settlements, including the Phoenician ports of Tyre and Byblos – two of Lebanon’s five World Heritage sites – sit alongside modern Beirut. The absorbing capital is popular for its world-reno...
A History of Modern Lebanon
-- A stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries --"Skillfully weaving together social, political, cultural and economic history, this deeply informed and penetrating study provides a rich understanding of the vibrant, tragic, but ever hopeful Leban
Liban - identités, pouvoirs et conflits
Au coeur de l’actualité depuis plusieurs décennies, le Liban occupe une place à part sur l’échiquier du Moyen-Orient, position parfois accentuée par les clichés véhiculés par les Occidentaux : « Les Libanais descendent des Phéniciens », « Le Liban était la Suisse du Moyen-Orient », « Le Liban est francophile », « La guerre civile était une guerre de religions », « La présence massive de réfugiés syriens est un danger pour le Liban ». Les idées reçues sont aussi renforcées par le décalage surprenant entre la beauté naturelle de ce pays et la violence de son passé récent, et par la profondeur de son histoire pluri-millénaire alliée à sa proximité culturelle avec l’Europe. Cet ouvrage permet de dépasser ces visions caricaturales pour mieux appréhender ce Liban sur lequel pèsent de nombreuses incertitudes politiques, sociales et économiques, sans parler des tensions régionales liées, notamment à la guerre en Syrie.
The Culture of Sectarianism
Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groups. The religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in 1860, was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it. Makdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social pur...
