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Orientalism
By Edward W Said
Paperback
Published 28-Aug-2003
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Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs.
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Osman's Dream
By Caroline Finkel
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Published 29-Jun-2006
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The enthralling story of a dynamic empire whose impact is felt to this day
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Empire of the Summer Moon
By S Gwynne
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Published 07-Jul-2011
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Traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. This title presents the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
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Our Forgotten Years
By Maggie Smith-Bendell
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Published 30-Oct-2009
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Maggie Smith-Bendell was born on the edge of a pea field near Bridgwater in Somerset in 1941. She and her family are Romani Gypsies and as she grew up Maggie learned the old crafts and customs of the Gypsies' traditional way of life. This autobiography recounts her journey to become a prominent campaigner for Gypsy rights.
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Dreams from My Father
By Barack Obama
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Published 05-Jun-2008
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The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama. This book illuminates Obama's journey.
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Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Published 28-Jun-2007
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They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This autobiography, tells of a young, disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addition, robbery and prison was only reversed by his belief in the rights struggle for black America, and his conversion to the Nation of Islam.
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Bury Me Standing
By Isabel Fonseca
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Published 05-Sep-1996
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Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. This book focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe.
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Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
By Daniel Everett
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Published 06-Aug-2009
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Although the author was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. This title shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world.
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Tall Man
By Chloe Hooper
Hardback
Published 07-Jan-2010
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When Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old member of the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer, he was dead within forty-five minutes of being locked up. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but the pathologist likened his injuries to those received in a plane crash.
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Jews and Words
By Amos Oz
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Published 20-Nov-2012
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Why are words so important to Jews? The authors roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, they tell the tales behind Judaism's most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips.
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