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Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women

Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women

Marnia Lazreg

Marnia Lazreg, a preeminent authority in Middle East women's studies, combines her own experiences growing up in a Muslim family in Algeria with interviews and the real-life stories of other Muslim women to produce this nuanced argument for ...
Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad

Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad

Marnia Lazreg

This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences.
Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East

Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East

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MARNIA LAZREG IN THIS AGE of economic globalization and greater unequal cultural encounters, citizenship is emerging as the focal point of resistance to the centralizing tendencies of states in the developing world and to protests against ...
The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question

The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question

Marnia Lazreg

Covering both pre-colonial and colonial eras as well as the independence period, this book focuses on the changes that took place in family structure and law, customs, education, and the war of decolonization as they affected gender ...
Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, ...

Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, ...

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For an analysis of Ben Badis's thought, see Marnia Lazreg, The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question (New York, London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 81–88. Lhouari Addi, “Religion et Politique dans le Nationalisme Algerien: le Role ...
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, ...

Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, ...

Marnia Lazreg

Maurice Pinguet, a friend of Foucault's from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, remembers that the Algerian War did not “move” Foucault when he tried to talk to him about it in 1956. By comparison “[May] 1968 excited him.” See Maurice Pinguet ...
Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia

Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia

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Marnia Lazreg. Rural. Women. in. Russia: What. Does. Private. Farming. Mean? Sue Bridger The question of land and farming reform has been one of the most bitterly contested in Russia's economic transformation since 1991. The core issue  ...
Set in Stone

Set in Stone

Catherine Dunne

And she also knows that she must do whatever it takes to protect the most precious thing she has - her family. 'Dunne has a clever knack of turning ordinary lives into compelling fiction' Irish Post
At a Time Like This

At a Time Like This

Catherine Dunne

And one of the four women plans not to be there. At a Time Like This, things can never be the same again . . . ‘Dunne is such a gifted storyteller that she credibly recreates a world that pulls the reader in deep . . . ' Evening Herald
Annie Dunne

Annie Dunne

Sebastian Barry

Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland.
Something Like Love

Something Like Love

Catherine Dunne

A stunning sequel to In the Beginning, Catherine Dunne's first novel, Something Like Love is an astonishing portrait of a marriage, and of how the ties that bind are sometimes there forever.
The Years That Followed

The Years That Followed

Catherine Dunne

Inspired by Greek mythology, The Years That Followed by Catherine Dunne is a compelling tale of two women, thousands of miles apart, whose lives are thrown into turmoil by the power of love - and the desire for revenge.
Missing Julia

Missing Julia

Catherine Dunne

Secrets that illuminate the present in ways he could never have expected. Praise for Catherine Dunne 'A real touch of Jodi Picoult . . . a domestic setting . . . tension . . . and a little bit of darkness' Arena Arts Review, RTÉ Radio 1
The History of the Samuel Jones Family: 1756-1979

The History of the Samuel Jones Family: 1756-1979

Hazel Parker Jones

... Lancaster Co., S. C. For further Gregory family data, see Chapter 31, Allied Family, Gregory, and Willis Gregory Family History, 1785-1968, by Lewis Joel Gregory and Ella Valera Gregory (Mrs. Mark Hannah Mayfield), especially Chapter 22, ...
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

Stefano Harney

In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique.
PET Imaging in the Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors, An ...

PET Imaging in the Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors, An ...

Stefano Fanti

Stefano Fanti, Cristina Nanni, Richard P. Baum. overexpress somatostatin receptors (SSTRs), which enable the diagnosis using radiolabeled somatostatin analogues. Internalization and retention within the tumor cell are important for peptide ...
The New World Dutch Barn: The Evolution, Forms, and ...

The New World Dutch Barn: The Evolution, Forms, and ...

John Fitchen

The Evolution, Forms, and Structure of a Disappearing Icon John Fitchen Gregory D. Huber. REGIONAL / ARCHITECTURE Gregory D. Huber updates the highly acclaimed original edition with extensive new material that relates to the form, ...
The Returns to Participation in the Non-farm Sector in Rural ...

The Returns to Participation in the Non-farm Sector in Rural ...

Stefano Paternostro

Andrew Dabalen, Stefano Paternostro, and Gaëlle Pierre Abstract In this paper, we investigate the differences in outcomes (earnings and consumption) between individuals (households) who participate in the non-farm sector and those who ...
Irish Historical Records

Irish Historical Records

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... (1739-1823) The Maynooth College Archive John McCafferty Hugh Fenning Eamonn Dunne Ed. Hugh Fenning Ed. Mary Purcell Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie Daire Keogh Patrick J. Corish A Ainsworth, John; xxxi, p. 95.
Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

Lois Banner

... Millington Conroy, Patricia Cox, Bennett Daubrey, Janet Desrosiers, Molly Dunne, Felice Early Ingersoll, John Everson, Sondra Farrell, Audrey Franklin, Kayley Gable, John Gilmore, Eric Goddard, Kirk Goddard, Johnny Grant, Larry Grant, ...
How Does the Composition of Public Spending Matter?

How Does the Composition of Public Spending Matter?

Stefano Paternostro

Stefano Paternostro, Anand Rajaram and Erwin R. Tiongson PRMPR and PRMPS The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3555, March 2005 The Policy Research Working  ...
Die Intelligenz der Pflanzen

Die Intelligenz der Pflanzen

Stefano Mancuso

Ein besseres Verständnis der Intelligenz der Pflanzen könnte uns lehren, auf Pestizide zu verzichten, ja bessere Computer und Netzwerke zu entwickeln, meint der renommierte Pflanzenforscher Stefano Mancuso, der uns in diesem Buch ...
David Gregory, Isaac Newton and Their Circle: Extracts from ...

David Gregory, Isaac Newton and Their Circle: Extracts from ...

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Extracts from David Gregory's Memoranda 1677-1708 David Gregory W. G. Hiscock. equations, on condition any one would take the pains, and accordingly hath so done in a letter of his to Mr. Oldenburg of the 18/28 Nov. 1676 from ...
Oceans of Love: The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock

Oceans of Love: The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock

Gregory Battcock

The publication is the first book to present a selection of Gregory Battcock's prefaces and essays (from Minimalism, Idea Art, Why Art?, and other books), as well as columns published in underground newspapers in the 1970s
Motion Practice

Motion Practice

David F. Herr

Gregory P.Joseph, Electronic Discovery, Nat'l L.J., Nov. 24, 2003, at 30. Gregory P.Joseph, Electronic Discovery, Nat'l L.J., Oct. 4, 2004, at 12. Gregory P.Joseph, Privilege Trends, Nat'l L.J., Mar. 29, 2004, at 12. Gregory P.Joseph, Rulemaking ...

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