Author: Tom Brosnahan
Publisher: Travel Info Exchange, Inc.
ISBN: 0976753170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Summer of Love in Hippy Istanbul 1968: hippies, beads, beards, sex & drugs, Soviet & American spies, terrorists, and a plot to obliterate of one of the world’s greatest architectural monuments.
Istanbul Love Bus & the A-Bomb Surprise
Author: Tom Brosnahan
Publisher: Travel Info Exchange, Inc.
ISBN: 0976753170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Summer of Love in Hippy Istanbul 1968: hippies, beads, beards, sex & drugs, Soviet & American spies, terrorists, and a plot to obliterate of one of the world’s greatest architectural monuments.
Publisher: Travel Info Exchange, Inc.
ISBN: 0976753170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Summer of Love in Hippy Istanbul 1968: hippies, beads, beards, sex & drugs, Soviet & American spies, terrorists, and a plot to obliterate of one of the world’s greatest architectural monuments.
Inside Out in Istanbul
Author: Lisa Morrow
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482063455
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Planning to travel to Istanbul and want to know what adventures will await you? Already been and want to know more? "Inside Out In Istanbul" is a collection of short stories about life in Istanbul by author Lisa Morrow. Lisa first went to Turkey in 1990, where she stayed in the small village of Göreme for three months during the Gulf War. Since that time she has travelled back and forth between Turkey and Australia many times, living and working in Istanbul and Kayseri in central Turkey, before finally settling for good in Istanbul. The stories in this collection take you beyond the world famous sights of Istanbul to the shores of Asia, to an Istanbul that is vibrantly alive with the sounds of street vendors, wedding parties, weekly markets and more. Come behind the tourist façades and venture deep into this sometimes chaotic, often schizophrenic but always charming city.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482063455
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Planning to travel to Istanbul and want to know what adventures will await you? Already been and want to know more? "Inside Out In Istanbul" is a collection of short stories about life in Istanbul by author Lisa Morrow. Lisa first went to Turkey in 1990, where she stayed in the small village of Göreme for three months during the Gulf War. Since that time she has travelled back and forth between Turkey and Australia many times, living and working in Istanbul and Kayseri in central Turkey, before finally settling for good in Istanbul. The stories in this collection take you beyond the world famous sights of Istanbul to the shores of Asia, to an Istanbul that is vibrantly alive with the sounds of street vendors, wedding parties, weekly markets and more. Come behind the tourist façades and venture deep into this sometimes chaotic, often schizophrenic but always charming city.
Know Thine Enemy
Author: Edward Shirley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042971114X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book gives an account of Shirley's trip into Iran as a spy to provide an insight into Iranian character. It is a vivid, firsthand portrait of the clash of Western and Muslim civilizations. The book portrays Iranians in a way different from what the most Americans know about them.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042971114X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book gives an account of Shirley's trip into Iran as a spy to provide an insight into Iranian character. It is a vivid, firsthand portrait of the clash of Western and Muslim civilizations. The book portrays Iranians in a way different from what the most Americans know about them.
Social Media in Southeast Turkey
Author: Elisabetta Costa
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634522
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, Elisabetta Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life. Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented possibilities for private communications between genders and in relationships among young people – Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people’s everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context.neoliberalism and political events.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634522
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, Elisabetta Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life. Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented possibilities for private communications between genders and in relationships among young people – Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people’s everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context.neoliberalism and political events.
Skagboys
Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393088731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393088731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
A Stolen Life
Author: Jaycee Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451629192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A revelatory memoir about a young woman whose life was stolen when she was kidnapped in 1991 and remained an object of captivity for 18 years.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451629192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A revelatory memoir about a young woman whose life was stolen when she was kidnapped in 1991 and remained an object of captivity for 18 years.
The Last Train to Zona Verde
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 061883933X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 061883933X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.
Sons of the Conquerors
Author: Hugh Pope
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715636053
Category : Turkic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Hugh Pope provides a vivid picture of the Turkish people, descendants of the nomadic armies that conquered the Byzantine Empire and dominated the region for centuries.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715636053
Category : Turkic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Hugh Pope provides a vivid picture of the Turkish people, descendants of the nomadic armies that conquered the Byzantine Empire and dominated the region for centuries.