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Armies of the Ottoman Turks, 1300-1744by David NicolleISBN 0850455111 (0-85045-511-1)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Armies of the Ottoman Turks, 1300-1744'Book summary:The birth of the Ottoman state is shrouded in legend. Whatever the truth of its origins, the Ottomans formed an Empire which almost succeeded in bringing Christian Europe to its knees. During the last decades of the 13th century, the ambitious Osman Bey's tiny mountain state took eight frontier castles plus the Turkish town of Eskisehir. In 1299 Osman seized Yenisehir after working up the Kara Su valley. With this as its first real capital, the Ottoman state emerged into history poised above the fertile shores of the Sea of Marmara. [via]
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Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkeyby Andrew MangoISBN 158567334X (1-58567-334-X)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey'Book summary:The first full-scale biography in over twenty years of the controversial founding father of the Turkish Republic
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first president of the new republic in 1923. He fast created his own legend and his own cult, along with much controversy. In Turkey today he is invoked at every turn in domestic politics and a law protects his memory from insult, while foreign visitors find the Ataturk cult unappealing and blame him for his country's ills.
In this definitive new biography Andrew Mango shows the real omplexities of Turkey's first president--his high ideals and ruthless tactics, his championship of women's rights and his inability to sustain an equal relationship with women, his nationalism and his belief in a single universal civilization, his regular drinking bouts and the strange theories they produced. Through Mango's balanced treatment, he reveals a man who, while responsible for some of his country's ills, also transformed the republic from a battle-scarred ruin into a regional power. Mango's biography throws light on matters of great topical interest--resurgent nationalism, religious fundamentalism and the reality of democracy. [via]More editions of Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey:
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999by Misha GlennyISBN 0140233776 (0-14-023377-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999'Book summary:The history of the Balkan states, like that of so much of the world, has for centuries been marked by ethnocidal fracases, savage wars of conquest, and periods of eerie calm. The mountainous region's shifting alliances and divisions have long puzzled outside observers, writes journalist Misha Glenny, the author of The Fall of Yugoslavia: "For many decades, Westerners gazed on these lands as if [they were] an ill-charted zone separating Europe's well-ordered civilization from the chaos of the Orient."
Those outsiders, Glenny suggests, have been the source of much of the Balkans' misery. In only the last two centuries, the territory has been contested by the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, the Third Reich, and the Allies, all of whom exploited and exacerbated existing ethnic conflict. (The Nazi occupiers of Croatia, he writes, even had to rein in the fascist Ustase militia for fear that their campaign against Serbs and Muslims would only strengthen resistance to their puppet government.) And, he continues, attempts to quell the recent conflict in Bosnia have created problems of their own. He argues that war will break out anew the moment international troops are withdrawn and that the Dayton Agreement is too "full of anomalies and frictions" to stand. The intervention in Kosovo has been no better, he adds, and the Allies' misguided efforts are sure to yield only further bloodshed if the only objective is to remove Slobodan Milosevic from power. "Should the West fail to address the effects, not merely of a three-month air war in 1999, but of 120 years of miscalculation and indifference since the Congress of Berlin, then there will be little to distinguish NATO's actions from any of its great-power predecessors," Glenny concludes.
Glenny's provocative book sheds much light on recent Balkan history--and on the region's likely future. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Bellini And the Eastby Deborah Howard, Caroline Campbell, Alan ChongISBN 1857093763 (1-85709-376-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Birds Without Wingsby Louis de BernieresISBN 1400079322 (1-4000-7932-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birds Without Wings'Book summary:Louis de Bernièress last novel, Corellis Mandolin, was met with the highest praise: Behind every page, said Richard Russo, we sense its authors intelligence, wit, heart, imagination, and wisdom. This is a great book. A. S. Byatt placed the author in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. Now, de Bernières gives us his long-awaited new novel. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of lovebetween men and women, between friends, between those who are driven to be enemies.
It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the peopleChristians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descentwhose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial wisdom; KaratavukIskanders sonand Mehmetçik, childhood friends whose playground stretches across the hills above the town, where Mehmetçik teaches the illiterate Karatavuk to write Turkish in Greek letters. There are Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, holy men of different faiths who greet each other as Infidel Efendi ; Rustem Bey, the landlord and protector of the town, whose wife is stoned for the sin of adultery. There is a man known as the Dog because of his hideous aspect, who lives among the Lycian tombs; and another known as the Blasphemer, who wanders the town cursing God and all of his representatives of all faiths. And there is Philothei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherda great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. But Birds Without Wings is also the story of Mustafa Kemal, whose military genius will lead him to victory against the invading Western European forces of the Great War and a reshaping of the whole region.
When the young men of the town are conscripted, we follow Karatavuk to Gallipoli, where the intimate brutality of battle robs him of all innocence. And in the town he left behind, we see how the twin scourges of fanatical religion and nationalism unleashed by the war quickly, and irreversibly, destroy the fabric of centuries-old peace.
Epic in its narrative sweepsteeped in historical factyet profoundly humane and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is a triumph. [via]
The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empireby Alan Warwick PalmerISBN 0719552818 (0-7195-5281-8)
Softcover, J. Murray
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The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empireby Alan R. PalmerISBN 0871317540 (0-87131-754-0)
Hardcover, Evans & Company, Incorporated, M.
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The Drawing of the Darkby Tim PowersISBN 0345430816 (0-345-43081-6)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drawing of the Dark'Book summary:Del Rey's Impact line introduces a list of titles that have "slipped through the cracks and become buried treasure." The re-release of Tim Powers's The Drawing of the Dark (first published in 1979) is indeed worthy of the imprint. It was his third novel and first foray into the fantasy genre.
It is the year 1529 and Brian Duffy, a soldier of fortune, finds himself in Venice. A late-night confrontation with three brothers over a matter of honor convinces Brian to find greener pastures. After a chance meeting with an old monk named Aurelainus, Brian finds himself hired on to be the bouncer at the famous Herzwesten brewery and inn (formerly a monastery) located in Vienna. During Brian's voyage from Venice to Vienna, he crosses the Dolomite Mountains, only to meet assassins who attack him. Dwarves and creatures Brian knew only from mythology assist him in vanquishing his attackers.
The mythical Fisher King is a central character in The Drawing of the Dark, and cameos by the Roman god Bacchus, the Lady of the Lake, reincarnations of King Arthur and Sigmund from Norse mythology, Merlin, and hosts of soldiers, including Vikings and Swiss mercenaries, add to the otherworldly feel. The legendary heroes are allied against legions of soldiers from the Turkish Ottoman Empire under Suleiman and his wizard Ibrahim, who try to repeat the successes of their 1521 and 1526 invasions of eastern Europe by laying siege to Vienna. But just what is their objective? The city or the beer?
Tim Powers does a great job of tying the historical invasion of eastern Europe by the Turks to a rollicking, fun-filled fantasy, which offers its own reasons for the invasion and a wonderful cast of heroes that ultimately repel the invaders. This is a must-read for Tim Powers fans and for readers who have yet to delve into his rich, wonderful worlds. --Robert Gately [via]
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An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire: 1300-1600by Halil InalcikISBN 0521574560 (0-521-57456-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914by Halil Inalcik, Suraiya Faroqhi, Bruce McGowan, Sevket Pamuk, Donald QuataertISBN 0521585805 (0-521-58580-5)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914'Book summary:This book provides a richly detailed account of the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, one of the major empires of modern times. In so doing it spans seven centuries, from the origins of the Empire around 1300 to the eve of its destruction during World War I. In four chronological sections the contributors provide the reader with valuable information on land tenure systems, population, trade and commerce and the industrial economy. This is an essential book for understanding contemporary developments in both the Middle East and the post-Soviet Balkan world. [via]
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The Fall of Constantinople, 1453by Steven RuncimanISBN 0521398320 (0-521-39832-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Felaheenby Jon Courtenay GrimwoodISBN 0553383787 (0-553-38378-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Future of the Middle Eastby Bernard LewisISBN 0297819801 (0-297-81980-1)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of the Middle East'Book summary:A series of predictions about the Middle East in fifty years. [via]
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Gallipoliby Alan MooreheadISBN 1853266752 (1-85326-675-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gallipoli'Book summary:More than ninety years on, the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still famous as perhaps the most disastrous, horrific and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. Masterminded by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its aim was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, allowing the Allies to take control of the eastern Mediterranean. But the campaign went wrong from the start. Ignorant of the terrain, and hopelessly underestimating the Turkish army, the Allies found themselves entrenched on the hillsides for long agonising months, through the burning summer and bitter winter, in appalling, dysentery-ridden conditions. By the time they withdrew in January 1916, the death toll stood at 21,000 British troops, 11,000 Australian and New Zealand, and 87,000 Turkish. First published in 1956, when it won the first Duff Cooper Prize, Alan Moorehead's book is still the definitive work on the campaign. Vivid, analytical and highly readable, with compelling character sketches of the main players, it brings the complex operation to life, showing how and why it went so wrong. [via]
Greenmantleby John BuchanISBN 1406821071 (1-4068-2107-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greenmantle'Book summary:Great Edwardian prose, adventure and political intrigue that is stunningly familiar considering the book was written nearly a century ago [via]
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The Historianby Elizabeth KostovaISBN 0316154547 (0-316-15454-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historian'Book summary:a novel about Vlad the Impaler and the modern world [via]
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 1567312160 (1-56731-216-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Arab Peoples'Book summary:Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutions of Arab history through 13 centuries. [via]
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Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empireby Bernard LewisISBN 0806110600 (0-8061-1060-0)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Kosovo: A Short Historyby Noel MalcolmISBN 0814755984 (0-8147-5598-4)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquestby John V. A. FineISBN 0472082604 (0-472-08260-4)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest'Book summary:[via]"Any further advances in scholarship on the late medieval Balkans will have to begin with this book."
---George Majeska, University of MarylandThe Late Medieval Balkans is the first comprehensive examination of the events of the late medieval Balkan history---events that were as important as they were fascinating.
The period that John Fine examines was an era of significant demographic, political, and religious change in the region. During this time, native populations were supplemented or replaced by the Bulgars and various Slavic tribes, who were to become the Bulgarians, Serbs, and Croats---ethnic identities whose historical conflicts have persisted to this day.
The Late Medieval Balkans is an important source for those who wish to expand their knowledge of this turbulent period and who wish to broaden their understanding of the region.
John V. A. Fine, Jr., is Professor of History, University of Michigan.
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Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakp Sabanc Collection, Istanbulby M. Ugur DermanISBN 0870998749 (0-87099-874-9)
Softcover, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakp Sabanc Collection, Istanbul'Book summary:Letters in Gold accompanies the first international exhibition of Ottoman calligraphic works from the Sakip Sabanci Collection, Istanbul. The seventy-one works constituting the exhibition are discussed and illustrated in color in this volume. Almost every major Ottoman calligrapher working between the fifteenth and early twentieth century is represented. The examples include exquisitely illuminated Qur'ans and prayer handbooks, elegant albums or murakkaalar composed of calligraphic exercises and often decorated with sumptuous marbled paper or ebru, and spectacular, large-scale lettered compositions, called levhalar, which were framed and hung in mosques and homes. The volume also includes eleven royal edicts, beautifully crafted scrolls headed by the tugra, a sultan's imperial monogram. Rich gold letters and delicate blue-and-gold illuminations demonstrate how the written word can be transformed into a work of art. The introductory essay treats the history of Ottoman calligraphy, its tools and materials, the decoration and uses of calligraphy, and the training of calligraphers. The catalogue section focuses not only on the magnificent works in the exhibition but also on the life and education of the calligraphers who created them. [via]
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empireby Jason GoodwinISBN 0312420668 (0-312-42066-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire'Book summary:Jason Goodwin, a young English journalist, writes history as if it were today's breaking news, and with Lords of the Horizon, he delivers an anecdote-filled and breezy account of the long, troubled career of the Ottoman Empire. That empire endured for nearly 600 years and embraced not only a large territory--stretching, at one point, from the border of Iran to the gates of Vienna--but also hundreds of ethnic groups and three dozen nations. United under the banner of a tolerant form of Islam, the Ottoman Turks forged a culture that, Goodwin writes, "was such a prodigy of pep, such a miracle of human ingenuity, that contemporaries felt it was helped into being by powers not quite human--diabolical or divine, depending on their point of view."
Drawing on memoirs by European visitors as well as standard histories of the era, Goodwin traces the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the 14th-century collapse of the Byzantine state to its centuries-long decline and final collapse at the end of World War I. Along the way, he writes of the Ottomans' addiction to wealth (and to hiding their gold in fabulous hoards), the pleasure they took in holding picnics in their lush cemeteries, and the prowess of their elite military both in battle and in organized crime. ("The janissaries were magnificent extortionists," Goodwin notes. "People paid them not to burn their homes and business, then they paid them to come and put the fires out.") Full of vivid detail, Goodwin's narrative makes for an enjoyable introduction to this historically influential, but little understood, culture. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry - Lords of the Horizon: A History of the Ottaman Empire: ISBN 0805063420 (0-8050-6342-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire: ISBN 0756762707 (0-7567-6270-7)
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Me Llamo Rojo / My Name Is Redby Orhan PamukISBN 8466368876 (84-663-6887-6)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Llamo Rojo / My Name Is Red'Book summary:«Encuentra al hombre que me asesinó y te contaré detalladamente lo que hay en la otra vida.» Pamuk ha conseguido una novela total. A la sabiduría de la mejor narración histórica se une el ritmo trepidante de la novela negra y una seductora historia de amor. Me llamo Rojo nos introduce en el esplendor y la decadencia del Imperio Turco, una potencia que llegó hasta las puertas de Viena. Viajamos hasta el siglo XVI, el sultán desea inmortalizar su figura en un lienzo, pero la ley islámica lo prohíbe. La tentación vence y cuatro artistas trabajarán en secreto, elaborando un libro lleno de imágenes nunca antes pintadas. Hasta que uno de ellos desaparece. Después de El libro negro y La vida nueva, el lector en español puede adentrarse en otra novela "un puzzle filosófico y fantástico en el que se cruzan el arte, la religión, el amor, el sexo y el poder" de uno de los autores que despierta más expectación internacional. [via]
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The Middle East: 2,000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Dayby Bernard LewisISBN 0297813455 (0-297-81345-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Middle East: 2,000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day'Book summary:To gain a better understanding of contemporary Middle Eastern culture and society, which is steeped in tradition, one should look closely at its history. Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the Middle East, spans 2000 years of this region's history, searching in the past for answers to questions that will inevitably arise in the future.
Drawing on material from a multitude of sources, including the work of archaeologists and scholars, Lewis chronologically traces the political, economical, social, and cultural development of the Middle East, from Hellenization in antiquity to the impact of westernization on Islamic culture. Meticulously researched, this enlightening narrative explores the patterns of history that have repeated themselves in the Middle East.
From the ancient conflicts to the current geographical and religious disputes between the Arabs and the Israelis, Lewis examines the ability of this region to unite and solve its problems and asks if, in the future, these unresolved conflicts will ultimately lead to the ethnic and cultural factionalism that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. [via]
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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Yearsby Bernard LewisISBN 0684832801 (0-684-83280-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years'Book summary:To gain a better understanding of contemporary Middle Eastern culture and society, which is steeped in tradition, one should look closely at its history. Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the Middle East, spans 2000 years of this region's history, searching in the past for answers to questions that will inevitably arise in the future.
Drawing on material from a multitude of sources, including the work of archaeologists and scholars, Lewis chronologically traces the political, economical, social, and cultural development of the Middle East, from Hellenization in antiquity to the impact of westernization on Islamic culture. Meticulously researched, this enlightening narrative explores the patterns of history that have repeated themselves in the Middle East.
From the ancient conflicts to the current geographical and religious disputes between the Arabs and the Israelis, Lewis examines the ability of this region to unite and solve its problems and asks if, in the future, these unresolved conflicts will ultimately lead to the ethnic and cultural factionalism that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. [via]
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Miss Zukas and the Library Murdersby Jo DereskeISBN 038077030X (0-380-77030-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Zukas and the Library Murders'Book summary:Meet Miss Zukas . . . the very proper, exceedingly conscientious, and relentlessly curious local librarian of tiny Bellehaven, Washington--and one heck of an amateur sleuth!
The Bellehaven police are baffled when a dead body turns up right in the middle of the library's fiction stacks. But Miss Helma Zukas--who never fails to make note of the slightest deviation from the norm of everyday life--is not willing to let this rather nasty disruption stand. Her precious literary sanctuary has been violated, and if the local law cannot get to the bottom of this case, Miss Zukas certainly intends to--with the help of her not-so-proper best friend, Ruth, a six-foot-tall bohemian artist with a nose for gossip and a penchant for getting into trouble. But their research project is bringing them a little too close to a killer . . . who'd like nothing better than to write Helma and Ruth out of the story completely! [via]
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My Name Is Redby Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. GoknarISBN 0375706852 (0-375-70685-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Name Is Red'Book summary:From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novelpart murder mystery, part love storyset amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed, and no one in the elite circle can know the full scope or nature of the project.
Panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, and the Sultan demands answers within three days. The only clue to the mysteryor crime?lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Has an avenging angel discovered the blasphemous work? Or is a jealous contender for the hand of Enishtes ravishing daughter, the incomparable Shekure, somehow to blame?
Orhan Pamuks My Name Is Red is at once a fantasy and a philosophical puzzle, a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex, and power. [via] 
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empireby Caroline FinkelISBN 0465023967 (0-465-02396-7)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Osman's Dream the History of the Ottoman Empire: The History of the Ottoman Empireby Caroline FinkelISBN 0465023975 (0-465-02397-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empireby KinrossISBN 0688080936 (0-688-08093-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire'Book summary:The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was sent into exile by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk).
In this definitive history of the Ottoman Empire, Lord Kinross, painstaking historian and superb writer, never loses sight of the larger issues, economic, political, and social. At the same time he delineates his characters with obvious zest, displaying them in all their extravagance, audacity and, sometimes, ruthlessness.
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The Ottoman Empire: 1700-1922by Donald QuataertISBN 0521547822 (0-521-54782-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Ottoman Empire: 1700-1922: ISBN 0521547822 (0-521-54782-2)
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- The Ottoman Empire: 1700-1922: ISBN 0521839106 (0-521-83910-6)
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The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europeby Daniel GoffmanISBN 0521459087 (0-521-45908-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe'Book summary:Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place apart, inextricably divided from the West by differences of culture and religion. A perception of its militarism, its barbarism, its tyranny, the sexual appetites of its rulers and its pervasive exoticism has led historians to measure the Ottoman world against a western standard and find it lacking. In recent decades, a dynamic and convincing scholarship has emerged that seeks to comprehend and, in the process, to de-exoticize this enduring realm. Dan Goffman provides a thorough introduction to the history and institutions of the Ottoman Empire from this new standpoint, and presents a claim for its inclusion in Europe. His lucid and engaging book--an important addition to New Approaches in European History--will be essential reading for undergraduates. [via]
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The Ottoman Empire : The Classical Age 1300-1600by Halil InalcikISBN 1842124420 (1-84212-442-0)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700by Rhoads Murphey, Jeremy BlackISBN 1857283899 (1-85728-389-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Ottomansby Andrew WheatcroftISBN 0670844128 (0-670-84412-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ottomans'Book summary:The author teases out those qualities which were uniquely Ottoman - not Turkish, not Middle Eastern or even a shadowy echo of the West, they were born warriors from the steppes of Central Asia who became a singular urban culture. Their legacy still lives on in the Middle East and parts of Europe and the author recovers their long-forgotten and half-understood culture and analyzes their success. [via]
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The Ottomans: Dissolving Imagesby Andrew WheatcroftISBN 0140168796 (0-14-016879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ottomans: Dissolving Images'Book summary:The Ottoman Empire was a "mystery wrapped inside the enigma". This book aims to unravel the mystery in two ways. Firstly, it looks at the Ottomans and their world in terms relevant to an eastern Islamic society, with its own principles and practices that seemed merely barbaric to the West. The book also comes to terms with the West's expectations of the Ottomans. The author's aim is both to tell the story and offer some explanation. The book interprets the Ottomans, to make sense of a society that to Western eyes seemed feckless and utterly corrupt, cruel and craven by turns. It was frequently all of these things but not without reason or cause. [via]
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Pashazadeby Jon Courtenay GrimwoodISBN 0553587439 (0-553-58743-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pashazade'Book summary:Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwoods celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts arent always the same as the truth . . . and murder isnt the worst that can happen.
Its a twenty-first century hauntingly familiarand yet startlingly different from our own. Here the United States brokered a deal that ended World War I, and the Ottoman Empire never collapsed. And lording it over all sits the complex, seductive, and bloodthirsty North African metropolis of El Iskandryia. Almost nothing is what it seems to be in El Isk, and Ashraf Bey is no exception.
Neither the rich Ottoman aristocrat everyone thinks he is, nor the minor street criminal once shipped off to prison when he fell foul of his Chinese Triad employersthe fact is that Raf has as little idea who he is as anyone else.
With few clues and no money, all Raf has is a surname hinting at noble heritage and an arranged marriage to a woman who hates him. But nothing Ashraf al Mansur learns about himself is as unexpectedor as terrifyingas the brutal murder hes accused of committing. Now, as a hunted man with the welfare of a precocious young girl in his irresponsible hands, Raf must race after a killer through an unforgiving city as foreign to him as the truth he'll uncover about himself. [via] -
Pawn in Frankincenseby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0679777466 (0-679-77746-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pawn in Frankincense'Book summary:The fourth title in the LYMOND CHRONICLES series, originally published in 1969. Set in 1552, Frances Crawford is searching for his son, who has been hidden somewhere in slavery. While he searches, his enemy waits with an elaborate plan of humiliation and violence. Follows THE GAME OF KINGS, QUEEN'S PLAY and THE DISORDERLY KNIGHTS. [via]
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A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922by David FromkinISBN 0233983937 (0-233-98393-7)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0805068848 (0-8050-6884-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East'Book summary:This definitive, fascinating account of the creation of the modern Middle East is panoramic, absorbing, highly readable and richly detailed. Depicting the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the states known collectively as the Middle East, Fromkin's descriptions involve some of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century. Chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Best Book of 1989. [via]
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Salonica, City Of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims And Jews, 1430-1950by Mark MazowerISBN 0375727388 (0-375-72738-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Seven Pillars of Wisdomby T. E. Lawrence, Angus CalderISBN 1853264695 (1-85326-469-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'Book summary:This is the exciting and highly literate story of the real Lawrence of Arabia, as written by Lawrence himself, who helped unify Arab factions against the occupying Turkish army, circa World War I. Lawrence has a novelist's eye for detail, a poet's command of the language, an adventurer's heart, a soldier's great story, and his memory and intellect are at least as good as all those. Lawrence describes the famous guerrilla raids, and train bombings you know from the movie, but also tells of the Arab people and politics with great penetration. Moreover, he is witty, always aware of the ethical tightrope that the English walked in the Middle East and always willing to include himself in his own withering insight. [via]
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumphby T. E. LawrenceISBN 0385418957 (0-385-41895-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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The Siege of Viennaby John StoyeISBN 1841580678 (1-84158-067-8)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescentby John StoyeISBN 1933648147 (1-933648-14-7)
Hardcover, Pegasus Books
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The Stone Womanby Tariq AliISBN 1859843646 (1-85984-364-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Suleyman and the Ottoman Empireby John AddisonISBN 0899080138 (0-89908-013-8)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr
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The Sultan's Haremby Colin FalconerISBN 1400083125 (1-4000-8312-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sultan's Seal: Library Editionby J. B. WhiteISBN 0393329208 (0-393-32920-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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La Historia De Los Arabes / a History of the Arabsby Albert HouraniISBN 8466615385 (84-666-1538-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La Historiadora / The Historianby Eduardo G. Murillo, Elizabeth KostovaISBN 8495618877 (84-95618-87-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Me Llamo Rojo/my Name Is Redby Orhan Pamuk, Orhan PamurISBN 8466313516 (84-663-1351-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Llamo Rojo/my Name Is Red'Book summary:In 16th-century Istanbul, master miniaturist and illuminator of books Enishte Effendi is commissioned to illustrate a book celebrating the sultan. Soon he lies dead at the bottom of a well. How he got there is the crux of this novel. Narrators give & the reader not only a nontraditional murder mystery but insight into the mores and customs of the time. & Description in Spanish: Me llamo Rojo nos introduce en el esplendor y la decadencia del Imperio Turco. Viajamos hasta el siglo XVI, el sultán desea inmortalizar su figura en un lienzo, pero la ley islámica lo prohíbe. La tentación vence y cuatro artistas trabajarán en secreto, elaborando un libro lleno de imágenes nunca antes pintadas. Hasta que uno de ellos desaparece. Pamuk ha conseguido una novela total. A la sabiduría de la mejor tradición histórica se unen el ritmo trepidante de la novela negra y una seductora historia de amor. [via]
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Benim Adm Krmzby Orhan PamukISBN 9754707111 (975-470-711-1)
Hardcover, Iletisim
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2006 Nobel Edebiyat Ödüllü Orhan Pamuk 100'ü askin ülkede 46 dilde okunuyor.
Orhan Pamuk'un "en renkli ve en iyimser romanim", dedigi "Benim Adim Kirmizi", 1591 yilinda istanbul'da karli dokuz kis gününde geçiyor. iki küçük oglu birbirleriyle sürekli çatisan güzel Seküre, dört yildir savastan dönmeyen kocasinin yerine kendine yeni bir koca, sevgili aramaya baslayinca, o sirada babasinin tek tek eve çagirdigi saray nakkaslarini saklandigi yerden seyreder. Eve gelen usta nakkaslar, babasinin denetimi altinda Osmanli Padisahi'nin gizlice yaptirttigi bir kitap için Frenk etkisi tasiyan tehlikeli resimler yapmaktadirlar. Aralarindan biri öldürülünce, Seküre'ye asik, teyzesinin oglu Kara devreye girer. istanbul'da bir vaizin etrafinda toplanmis, tekkelere karsi bir çevrenin baskilari, pahalilik ve korku hüküm sürerken, geceleri bir kahvede toplanan nakkaslar ve hattatlar sivri dilli bir meddahin anlattigi hikayelerle eglenirler. Herkesin kendi sesiyle konustugu, ölülerin, esyalarin dillendigi, ölüm, sanat, ask, evlilik ve mutluluk üzerine bu kitap, ayni zamanda eski resim sanatinin unutulmus güzelliklerine bir agit.
"Genç Türk Romancisi Orhan Pamuk, Avrupa'ya roman nasil yazilir, gösteriyor."
- Frankfurter Allegemeine, Almanya
"Orhan Pamuk'u herkes okumali."
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