Bedouins of the Empty Quarter
This volume describes Bedouins, a tribal pastoral people in eastern Saudia Arabia. This volume documents changes in their way of life, beginning in the 1930s and continuing to the 1960s, when this book originally appeared. The Empty Quarter descri...
Arab. Bedouin of the Syrian Desert
Bedouins, who refer to themselves simply as Arabs (originally, "Arab" was synonymous with "Bedouin"), are nomads who live in the desert, mainly on the Arabian Peninsula, raising sheep, camels and goats. Unencumbered by excessiv...
Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins
The term 'Bedouins' was given to nomads who came from or lived in the desert, and consisted of a sedentary population (from the badia - desert). However, in time, it came to define their social economic essence as: people who raised grazing animal...
The Bedouin of Cyrenaica
Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for anthropologists. He left further significant papers unpublished at ...
Desert, Marsh and Mountain
This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs.
Bedouin of the London Evening
The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.After publishing two extraordinary poetry collecti...
Bedouin Bureaucrats
In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as 'empty.' Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local, imperial, and global scales. As the 'tribe' became a category of Ottoman administration, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts
Lord of the Empty Isles
'A heartwarming - gut-wrenching - and thrilling adventure' Kate Dylan [It] brims with big, fascinating ideas' Julie Leong Winter's Orbit meets The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet in this stunning emotional yet action-packed adult science-fiction novel, perfect for fans of found family and queer-platonic relationships. One curse. Two sworn enemies. Thousands of lives in the balance. Five years ago, interstellar pirate Idrian Delaciel ordered a withering - a death curse - cast on Remy's brother, costing him his life. Now, Remy is ready to return the favour. Only when he casts the withering, it also rebounds onto him. The implications are unthinkable - that Remy is fatebound to his brother's killer. The only way to slow the curse is to close the distance between them, so Remy infiltrates Idrian's criminal crew, hiding his identity as the witherer. But Remy quickly learns that Idrian is the sole provider of life-saving supplies to thousands of innocents. And if he dies, they will perish
Married To A Bedouin
'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedoui...
Fat Quarter Workshop
Turn fat quarters into gorgeous quilts! A great resource for quilters, especially beginners, fat quarters are bundles of colorful, coordinating fabrics so all of the "choosing" is already done for them!¿Fat Quarter Quilt Club¿features 12...
Empty Hours The
Here are three chillers from the files of the 87th Precinct--by the author of the New York Times bestseller Kiss. This trilogy of murder includes "The Empty Hours", "J", and "Storm".
The Empty Room
Connor Lander's dad has been talking for weeks about a big surprise. Finally, it is the big day. Connor is confused when his dad brings him to an unfinished house. Connor and another kid, Max, will be painting a room to get it ready for a homeless...
The Empty Throne
The eighth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, 'like Game of Thrones, but real' (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred . . .' Britain, early tenth century AD: a time of change. There are new raids by the Vikings from Ireland, and turmoil among the Saxons over the leadership of Mercia. A younger generation is taking over. When thelred, the ruler of Mercia, dies, he leaves no legitimate heir. The West Saxons want their king, but Uhtred has long supported thelflaed, sister to King Edward of Wessex and widow of ethelred. Widely loved and respected, thelflaed has all the makings of a leader--but can Saxon warriors ever accept a woman as their ruler? The stage is set for rivals to fight for the empty throne. With this eighth entry in the epic Saxon Tales series, we are reminded once again why New
The Empty Nest
A practical and inspiring guide to adjusting to life after your children leave home.
The Empty Throne
The eighth installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, 'like Game of Thrones, but real' (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. Britain, early tenth century AD: a time of change. There are new raids by the Vikings from Ireland and turmoil among the Saxons over the leadership of Mercia. A younger generation is taking over. thelred, the ruler of Mercia, is dying, leaving no legitimate heir. The West Saxons want their king, but Uhtred has long supported thelflaed, sister to King Edward of Wessex and widow of thelred. Widely loved and respected, thelflaed has all the makings of a leader--but could Saxon warriors ever accept a woman as their ruler? The stage is set for rivals to fight for the empty throne.
Empty the Cave
So, you want to Exit Plato's Cave/the Matrix? It is a very grand quest to take on. However, it might not be what you think it is. Such a quest cannot be defined in words, so nothing in this book can possibly describe it. That is because Exiting the Matrix has nothing to do with 'you,' as it is an Exit of yourself as much as the Cave. Revised December 2024, with more Additional Material
The Empty Ones
1977 was a bad year for Carey: The NYC summer was brutally hot, he barely made rent, and most of his friends were butchered by a cult. He needs a vacation. You know where there's supposed to be a killer punk scene? London. Oh, plus the le...
The Empty Stocking
The Empty Stocking - a brilliantly funny Christmas story by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb. In this fantastically funny and heartwarming story by Richard Curtis, scriptwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually, it's Christmas Eve an...
Where's Sharawrah?
Three articulated trucks load in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: two Volvo 4X2 European road artics and a Mercedes 6X6 desert artic. Their destination is Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. Seven days to travel a thousand kilometers, a third of...
Solem Quartet: Four Quarters
Solem Quartet: Four Quarters [CD]
Empty
An editor at This American Life reveals a decades-old secret. For almost thirty years, Susan Burton has hidden her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentle...
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The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scnes de la Vie de Bohme by highly acclaimed author Henri Murger, originally published in 1851 and produced in play form in 1849, and is one of his most well-known works. Murger's work is largely based on his ow...
Last Quarter of the Moon
'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'. At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, he...
Last Quarter of the Moon
'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them' At the end of the twentieth century an old woman sits among the birch trees and reflects on the joys and trage...
A First Course in Algebraic Topology
This self-contained introduction to algebraic topology is suitable for a number of topology courses. It consists of about one quarter 'general topology' (without its usual pathologies) and three quarters 'algebraic topology' (centred around the fu...
Empty Bottles of Gentilism
In this book-the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought-Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late ...
Empty Country: Empty Country
Former Cymbals Eat Guitars frontman Joseph DAgostinos solo debut is rangier and more intimate than his former band, but taps similar wells of grief and pain.
Empty Country: Empty Country
Empty Country: Empty Country [CD]
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