ISBN 10 : 0307421147
ISBN 13 : 9780307421142

“We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now ..

ISBN 10 : 1299266606
ISBN 13 : 9781299266605

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ISBN 10 : 9781402220036
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"In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunni..

ISBN 10 : 9781889283210
ISBN 13 : 1889283215

Born in Iowa and a graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, Leona Choy served with her late husband Ted in mission, church, and educational work in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and..

ISBN 10 : 9781498224925
ISBN 13 : 149822492X

In November 1877, three months after Emperor Meiji's conscript army of commoners defeated forces led by Japan's famous "last samurai," the Reverend Tom Alexander and his new wife, ..

ISBN 10 : 0993148719
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Victor Segalen (1878-1919) was a doctor, a traveller (principally in Polynesia and China), and above all else, a great poet. An admirer especially of Gauguin and Rimbaud, the journ..

ISBN 10 : 9745241393
ISBN 13 : 9789745241398

Provides poignant descriptions of the efforts of simple ethnic tribes-people to forge lives amid the larger struggles of political antagonists, drug lords, foreign interlopers and ..