Cultural Region/Turkey
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Turkey – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
At first glance, Turkey may seem Westernized and entirely “modern”–but appearances can be misleading. It is above all a land of contrasts, a heady mi
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: McPherson, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1787023184
- Language: English
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
$19.00 Add to cart“Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” –Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Narra- Author: Bellaigue, Christopher de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872480
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- Language: English
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$19.99 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1401308503
- Language: English
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Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden
$24.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the megalithic complex at G bekli Tepe, who built it, and how it gave rise to legends regarding the foundations of civilization
– Details the layout, architecture, and exquisite carv- Author: Collins, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1591431425
- Language: English
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Cold Nights of Childhood
$16.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE
“A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.”–Kirkus Reviews
The Bell JarGood Morning, Midnight, by one of
- Author: Özlü, Tezer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1945492694
- Language: English
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The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride Through Europe and the Middle East
$17.95 Read moreOne woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery.
In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle
- Author: Lowe, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1914613287
- Language: English
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The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales
$15.95 Read moreOne of Turkey’s most celebrated writers explores themes of violence, otherness, and exile through a thrilling hybrid of poetry and prose that paints a vivid picture of Turkey’s conflict-torn lands.
In- Author: Edgü, Ferit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376768
- Language: English
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Dawn
$20.00 Read moreA searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended, and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindness
“Like Pamuk’s Snow, Dawn is the Turk… [more below]- Author: Soysal, Sevgi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1953861385
- Language: English
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The First Crusade: The Call from the East
$24.00 Read more“The most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation.”
“Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense
–Mark Whittow, Times Literary Supplement- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0674970780
- Language: English
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Ottoman Armies 1820-1914
$20.00 Read moreThis book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire’s long spiral of decline.
During the so called ‘long 19th century- Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) #551
- Author: Esposito, Gabriele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 147285537X
- Language: English
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Stone and Shadow
$18.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Award
This gorgeous, haunting saga tells the story of modern Turkey and its diverse communities through the life of a gravestone maker. In the city of Mardin, near T- Author: Sönmez, Burhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422779
- Language: English
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Snow
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense–a masterful novel of “political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir” (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between sec… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Pamuk, Orhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0375706860
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA hundred years after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate on November 1, 1922, enough time has passed to reexamine the Ottomans and reassess their legacy. This illustrated volume, by critically acc
- Author: Darke, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252661
- Language: English
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The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy
$8.99 Read more“Anyone with an interest in archaeology or in liars and braggarts will be drawn in by this slim biography of the hyper-imaginative Schliemann.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred … [more below]
- Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0763665045
- Language: English
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It’s Not Turkey for Dinner, It’s Turkey the Country! Geography Education for Kids Children’s Explore the World Books
$17.99 Add to cartWelcome to Turkey! Studying the geographic truths about Turkey will help you to understand its local cultures and traditions, which would you to communicate effectively with its people. It doesn’t hav… [more below]
- Author: Baby Professor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1541915852
- Language: English
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Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands
$40.00 Add to cartIn the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discr… [more below]
- Author: Green, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1773271539
- Language: English
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The Armenian Genocide: A Captivating Guide to the Massacre of the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Armenian Genocide, then keep reading…
During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480426
- Language: English
