In America: Travels with John Steinbeck, Mak, Geert
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: Bridge, The ISBN: 1846551382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846551383 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 768 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Istanbul`s Galata Bridge connects the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants, petty thieves, tourists, fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe. This work presents stories of the bridge`s denizens.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: In Europe ISBN: 0375424954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375424953 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2244 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: Bridge, The ISBN: 009953214X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099532149 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 767 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Istanbul`s Galata Bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe. This book introduces readers to the woman who sells lottery tickets, the cigarette vendors and the best pickpockets in Europe.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: In America ISBN: 184655702X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846557026 Издательство: Random House Цена: 1920 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A major achievement in the field of translation, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Like many pre-modern Arabic anthologies it aims at being both entertaining and informative. It ranges from the early Bedouin poems with their evocation of desert life to refined urban lyrical verse, from tender love poetry to sonorous eulogy or vicious lampoons, and from the heights of mystical rapture to the frivolity of comic verse. The prose contains anecdotes, entertaining or edifying tales and parables, a fairy-tale, a bawdy story, samples of literary criticism, and much more. With this anthology, distinguished Arabist Geert Jan van Gelder brings together well-known texts as well as less familiar pieces that will be new even to scholars in the field. Many recent studies and anthologies of Middle Eastern literatures are primarily interested in Islam and religious matters—an emphasis that leads to the common misconception that almost everything in the region was and is dominated by religion. Classical Arabic Literature instead brings to life the rich variety of pre-modern Arabic social and cultural life, where secular texts happily coexisted with religious ones. This masterful anthology, in English only, will introduce this vibrant literary heritage to a wide spectrum of new readers.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: In Europe ISBN: 009951673X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099516736 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 998 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Poland, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: In America ISBN: 0099578735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099578734 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 998 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1960, John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans. The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books. Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck`s home.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: Island in Time, An ISBN: 0099546868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099546863 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 844 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jowert has more in common with an English village than with Amsterdam, and it`s moving story of neighbours and their efforts to preserve their long established way of life is relevant to the changing face of the countryside everywhere in Europe. In this title, the author returns returns to the Frisian village of his childhood to tell its story.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: In Europe ISBN: 0307280578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307280572 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1410 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Mak, Geert Название: Amsterdam ISBN: 186046789X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781860467899 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 844 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city not only of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. This title - part history and part travel guide - examines the city`s soul.
Описание: An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to 'create more space' in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book. How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists.
