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The New Arab Journalist - Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil by Lawrence Pintak
$14.00 NZD
Category: Media | Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies | Reading Level: very good
The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the Middle East, political and societal reform, and relations between the West and the Arab World. Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of repo ...Show more
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
One of the greatest biographies of our time by Edmund Morris the author of Dutch: A memoir of Ronald Reagan.
The Shipwrecked Sailor in Arabic and Western Literature - Ibn Tufayl and His Influence on European Writers by Mahmoud Baroud
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies | Reading Level: near fine
From the ancient Egyptian 'Tale of a Shipwrecked Sailor' through to Sinbad and Robinson Crusoe, the stranded castaway living and philosophising alone on a strange, desert island is a theme which has captured the imaginations of writers spanning cultures and millennia. Most familiar to Western literary h ...Show more
The Song of Songs - The World's First Great Love Poem by Ariel Bloch (Translator); Chana Bloch (Translator); Stephen Mitchell (Foreword by); Robert Alter (Afterword by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: good
"Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs."-The New York Review of Books One of the greatest love poems ever written, The Song of Songs celebrates the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover and the intoxicating experi ...Show more
The Valleys of the Assassins and Other persian Travels by Freya Stark
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: good
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a sing ...Show more
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
Written in the 1880's and not published until 1903 after Butler's death, the semiautobiographical story of the Pontifex family savages the bourgeois Victorian family and its values.
Tono-Bungay by H G Wells
$6.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Modern Library 197 | Reading Level: very good