Stories of Illness, Hope and Recovery from Diverse Voices
Eating disorders know no boundaries. They don't discriminate. Every story of living with an eating disorder is unique. Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate brings together thirty-one of them, each tackling the stereotypes and misconceptions about what eating disorders look like and who they impact. Athletes, activists, directors, models, health ......
How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an
Freedoms Furies tells the story of the friendships between three remarkable American novelists--Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand--who stood for individualism against the tides of the twentieth century collectivism, and in the process transformed politics in the United States.
A collection of poems from a changing Bedouin world Bedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashid dynasty-the highwater mark of Bedouin culture in the nineteenth century. Khalaf Abu Zwayyid, ?Adwan al-Hirbid, and ?Ajlan ibn Rmal belonged to tribes based around the area of Jabal Shammar in northern Arabia. A ......
A lushly illustrated collection of Kerry Leishmans artwork as it appeared throughout newspaper publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age over several decades. Includes comments from famous and infamous columnists, as well as select quotes from the articles themselves. Gives a snapshot of the issues at large at the time.
A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Bu?lan, the work ......
Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, ......
Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. Al-Jawbari was well versed in the practices he describes and may have been a ......
The Clay Sanskrit Library, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation, has been created to introduce classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership. This literature combines great beauty, enormous variety and more than three thousand years of continuous history and development.
Football Fans in their own Write invites 29 contributors to write about why they are football fans, from Pope Francis to the Speaker of the House of Commons. The contributors share their favourite teams, journeys into football, and how the game has affected and continues to impact their lives.
Anthology of short excerpts from the writings of more than 50 famous literary and historical figures on the subject of cycling and journeys by bicycle from around the world - Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Hemingway, Jerome K Jerome, DH Lawrence, Dervla Murphy, Eric Newby, Dorothy Sayers, Mark Twain and HG Wells among many others.
Following the success of her Walker's Anthology, Deborah Manley has applied the same formula to the subject of railways and journeys by train, drawing on the writings of more than 50 literary figures from around the world.
A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East The Book of Monasteries takes readers on a tour of the monasteries of the Middle East by presenting the rich variety of poetry and prose associated with each monastery. Starting with Baghdad, readers are taken up the Tigris into the mountains of south-eastern Anatolia before ......
Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for women - from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 - perfect for auditions or class.
A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qur'an
A Sufi scholar's philosophical interpretation of the names of God The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet 'Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani, The Divine Names expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in ......
One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Category Fifty rogue's tales translated fifty ways An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together ......
