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Shared Margins
Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt’s second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.
The Nile
Contributors, consisting of historians and other scholars from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, Israel, Sudan, and the US, trace the complex intercultural relations that have revolved around the Nile River throughout recorded history. The volume's 20 articles focus on four themes: peoples and identities in medieval times; the Nile as seen from a distance (such as from Europe and as a gateway for missionary activity); mid-century perspectives; and contemporary views including the Aswan High Dam and revolutionary symbolism in Egypt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Remixing the Civil War
In 1961, the historian and poet Robert Penn Warren remarked that “the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history.” This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren’s claim still holds true. Essays from specialists in art, literature, and history examine how contemporary culture represents and interprets the Civil War. They look at the works of more than thirty artists and writers as well as multiple movements—political and social—to reveal the many and provocative ways in which Americans engage the Civil War today. The book includes chapters on the place of Abraham Lincoln in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, controversies over...
A Saudi Woman's Voice
"A fusion of witty sarcasm and deep dark emotional truths brilliantly woven by Maha Noor Elahi, her poetry speaks on behalf of many silent voices, opening a window to the rebellious, tender, exotic and powerful being that is called a Saudi woman." Mira Khatib; Published author, award winning poet, Editor-in-Chief @arabwomanmag.com "A Saudi Woman's Voice is a collection of poems that span over a decade and across various settings, in which the writer memoirs the world through a woman's eyes, her dreams, silent wishes-- a world full of manipulation and deceit and the struggles women face in a world controlled by men and made to feel plagued by feelings of inadequacy and helplessness. Noor Elah...
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The Voice of the Lord Is Unto All Men
This book provides a most unique approach to understanding the revelations that occurred in the Johnson Home in Hiram, Ohio over the period of less than a year. Nearly half of the sections in the Doctrine and Covenants were received in the 7 years the Church was headquartered in Kirtland, Ohio and surrounding area. The Johnson Home was the third of five homes that served as both living quarters for the Prophet and Emma as well as Church headquarters during the Kirtland period. In this home over a period of about 10 months, the Prophet received 16 revelations recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants, as well as part of another one. Additionally, well over half of the Joseph Smith Bible Translation was accomplished there, i.e., he made nearly 2000 inspired changes in the Bible while living in the Johnson Home. It is no wonder the bedroom he used as an office is often referred to as the Revelation Room. Clearly, no other place in Church history was as saturated with revelation than the year the Prophet and Emma lived there. Together, the revelations and the context in which they were received tell a story about one amazing year of the Restoration.
The Bible Hand-book
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Congressional Record
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The Code Breaker
The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity? Should we be hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease? Should we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance their kids? After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling these even bigger issues. THE CODE BREAKERS is an examination of how life as we know it is about to change – and a brilliant portrayal of the woman leading the way.
