Appreciation post

What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post reveals how Instagram shifts long-established ways of interacting with images. Tara Ward argues Instagram is a structure of the visual, which includes not just the process of looking, but what can be seen and by whom. She examines...

Approaches to death and dying: bioethical and cultural perspectives

A catalogue of works devoted to end-of-life themes. The volume consists of eleven articles arranged in four parts corresponding to a broad range of issues: law, ethics, philosophy, and cultural studies. The arrangement of the book is thus constructed around various perspectives upon which any ref...

Approaches to teaching and teacher education

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter The three ISATT 40th Anniversary Yearbook volumes celebrate the contributions of ISATT members over time and offers current scholarly research to inform current and future teacher education and teaching.

Approaching you in english

A broad selection from the Israeli poet's seven volumes of Hebrew writing.

Appropriate, negotiate, challenge

Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focu...

Appropriate/an octoroon: plays (revised edition)

Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative writers. In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a...

Appropriating history

Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian popular cultures.

Apsara engine

By turns fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story collection with South Asian roots is immersed in questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity.

Aquaponic gardening

The beauty of aquaponics lies in its simplicity. A combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponics is an innovative method for growing fish and plants together in an integrated ecosystem. Aquaponic Gardening provides all you need to know to create an aquaponics system capable of yielding h...

Aquarium

An Indie Next Pick for MarchAn Amazon Editors’ Best Book of the Month“Gripping, painful, but ultimately hopeful, Aquarium is a coming-of-age story that explores the limits of love and forgiveness. Vann submerges you so deeply in Caitlin’s world, you’ll be gasping for breath when you finally surf...

Aquatic environments

Insights into the rich tradition of Latin American literature set in aquatic environments.

Aquatic photosynthesis

Aquatic Photosynthesis is a comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition, thoroughly revised to bring it up to date, describes how one of the most fundamental metabolic processes evolved and transformed the surface c...

Arab and middle eastern sport

This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa, illuminating and legitimizing the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regio...

Arab berlin

This book discusses Arab culture in Berlin to shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research.

Arab cinema

Since it was first published, Viola Shafik’s Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has become an indispensable work for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East. Combining detailed narrative history—economic, ideological, and aesthetic—with thought-provoking analysis, Arab Cinema pr...

Arab human development in the twenty-first century

With its emphasis on the primacy of change, this study arrives at a particularly auspicious moment, as the Middle East continues to be convulsed by the greatest upheavals in generations, which have come to be known as the Arab Spring. Originally prepared as the tenth-anniversary volume of the UND...

Arab modernism as world cinema

Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

Arab nationalism in the twentieth century

Like a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for inter-Arab divisions, and for words and actions distinguished by their meagerness. But people tend t...

Arab seafaring

In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries. The book comprises a brief but masterly h...

Arab social life in the middle ages

Guthrie's vivid portrait of everyday life in the medieval Arab world draws on thirteenth-century miniatures from collections as far a field as St Petersburg and Istanbul. An essential read for Arabs and non-Arabs alike.

Arab society and culture

Essential reading for Middle Eastern studies students and anyone interested in Middle Eastern literature and culture.

Arab spring, libyan winter

The world watched as the bud of the Arab Spring was buried under the cold darkness of the Libyan Winter.

Arab women in the middle ages

Arab women writers

Arab women’s writing in the modern age began with ‘A’isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study—first published in Arabic in 2004—looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab wo...

Arab youth

A definitive multi-authored guide examining youth culture across the Arab world.

Arabia without sultans

First published in the 1970s, this work retains its vitality as it analyses the Arabian Peninsula and Iran within the global context of western post-colonial strategy and the political economy of oil in an ambitious, encompassing and entertaining manner.

Arabian nights

"A master image maker and an original voice."--Choice

Arabian nights

A Queer Film Classic on Pasolini’s 1974 film, an exploration of human sexuality based on “One Thousand and One Nights.”

Arabian nights

A bright new version of a backlist classic, immensely popular with schools and amateurs.

Arabic a language map

Whether you’re venturing to the souk to purchase souvenirs or buying a falafel from a street side vendor, you’ll want access to the local language and ARABIC a language map is the answer! This unique guide gives you exactly what you need at a glance with the most essential words at your fingerti...

Arabic folktales for language learners

Learn about Arabic culture while improving your language skills!This fascinating book presents 28 traditional Arabic tales in parallel English and Arabic versions on facing pages.The stories all have charming black & white illustrations, and include: The Blue-Eyed Yamamah: The story of a leg...

Arabic for beginners

A complete beginning language course for Modern Standard Arabic!This is an ideal introductory textbook—quickly teaching you everything you need to get started learning this beautiful and popular language. Spoken by over 400 million people, Arabic is the world's 5th most spoken language.Each of th...

Arabic glitch

Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, ...

Arabic in 10 minutes a day

Whether you’re planning a trip to Morocco, Egypt, or any of the 25 exotic countries where Arabic is spoken, you’ll want to bring along your language skills and “ARABIC in 10 minutes a day” is just the ticket! With a focus on practical words and phrases which every traveler needs, the book and in...

Arabic literature: postmodern perspectives

A highly readable collection that maintains that Arabic literature reflects the Western postmodern condition without denying its own traditions.

Arabic picture dictionary

A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning Arabic—whether you're 5 or 100!This illustrated dictionary presents the 1,500 most useful Arabic words and sentences that beginning learners need to know. The vocabulary is organized into 38 thematic sections. Each section presents 25-3...

Arabic short stories

An alleyway of Tangier as seen through the eyes of a prostitute, the price paid by a sophisticated Cairene philanderer for his infatuation with a young bedouin girl, the callous treatment a young wife receives from the man to whom she has been married. These are some of the themes of the twenty-f...

Arabic stories for language learners

Arabic Stories for Language Learners—a language learning experience for beginner to intermediate students of the Arabic language. The traditional stories of a country are invaluable at providing insight into understanding the culture, history and language of a people. A great way to learn Arabic,...

Arabic-english/english-arabic dictionary & phrasebook ..

This combination Arabic phrasebook and two-way Arabic-English dictionary is an essential reference for visitors to the Middle East and North Africa. The Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebook series allows you be a traveler, not a tourist, by connecting with the local culture and people in their ...

Arabicity

Beautifully produced volume, including over 150 artworks by 50 contemporary Arab artists, whose ground-breaking works reflect the pulse of region

Arabs and young turks

Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Otto...

Arachnomania

In praise of spiders in all their inspirational glorySpiders are often found lurking in dusty corners, where we can observe them with interest or brush them away with disgust—or make a run for it, as the agitated Miss Muffet does. They are just as prevalent in our cultural landscapes, starring in...

Arafat's war

Offering the first comprehensive account of the collapse of the most promising peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, historian Efraim Karsh details Arafat's efforts since the historic Oslo Peace Accords in building an extensive terrorist infrastructure, his failure to disarm the extr...

Arcadia

“It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”—Tom Stoppard, ArcadiaIn a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of ...

Arcana

A black, gay Poundian in Boston, Stephen Jonas is a crucial missing piece of the postwar American poetry puzzle.