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La Palestine expliquée à tout le monde
By Élias Sanbar. 2013
Berceau des trois monothéismes, la Palestine est sous les feux de son actualité violente, depuis que la création de l'État…
d'Israël en 1948 l'a vue comme une terre sans peuple pour un peuple sans terre. L'histoire de la Palestine contemporaine se souvient de celle des gens de Terre sainte mais commence avec son problème. Et chacun peut sentir plus ou moins confusément que l'équilibre du monde se joue là, sur ces quelques milliers de kilomètres carrés à l'orient de la Méditerranée. À ceux qui disent ne rien comprendre au conflit israélo-palestinien, Elias Sanbar répond en restituant la continuité d'une histoire - depuis le mandat britannique à partir de 1917 jusqu'à aujourd'hui - que tant de commentaires ont souvent faussée ou étouffée. La Palestine, c'est l'histoire d'un pays absent que les Palestiniens ont emporté dans leur exil. C'est aussi le long combat qu'il leur a fallu mener pour retrouver un nom, une visibilité, une existence enfin. La Palestine d'Elias Sanbar est polychrome, terre de pluralité, des origines et des croyances. 2013.Just Jill: the autobiography of Jill Allen-King MBE
By Jill Allen-King. 2010
Jill's autobiography charts her journey from partially sighted child to totally blind adult and beyond, culminating in her being awarded…
the MBE for her many achievements. Just Jill is an important book that raises questions about what it means to have a disability in our society and how we can all learn from the work of Jill Allen-King. 2010.Inner vision: the story of the world's greatest blind athlete
By Gib Twyman, Craig MacFarlane. 1997
Athlete Craig MacFarlane was blinded in an accident at age 2, and grew up to become a champion sprinter, internationally…
acclaimed wrestler, downhill skier, and a regular in the water skiing spectacular at Florida's Cypress Gardens. Craig now makes over 200 appearances a year - everything from children in a classroom setting to 3-time speaker at the Republican National Convention. 1997.Amazing Grace: autobiography of a survivor
By Grace Halloran. 1993
Recounts the life of Californian Grace Halloran, who was diagnosed at age twenty-three with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye disorder…
leading to blindness. Learning that her newborn son could also become blind, Halloran dedicated her life to discovering ways to preserve and strengthen sight. 1993.Images from the dark: the story of Carolyn James
By Andrew Whitehouse. 1990
Carolyn James is a talented painter, especially of landscapes. She is completely blind. In a full and varied life she…
was constantly frustrated by failing sight. Only when her blindness became total did her imagination and her daughter's paint-box free her to make pictures. Within a year her work was exhibited, and soon she appeared on television and radio. She began writing poems, which became song lyrics, and now in her 40s is a creative artist in both media. 1990.A fictionalized biography of William Moon. Unable to enter the Ministry after he became completely blind at the age of…
twenty, he determined that he would devote his life to blind care and welfare. In the course of teaching, he developed the embossed script for which he is famous, and which he used to print books, magazines and pictures. 1992.Journey beyond Samarkand
By Yasushi Inoue. 1971
Jerusalem: the contested city (The modern scholar)
By F. E Peters. 2003
New York University professor F.E. Peters delivers a course that will take you on a journey through the fascinating history…
of Jerusalem. As you explore the myriad contributions made to the city by the Jews, Christians, and Muslims, you'll come to understand why each religion reveres this holy place. 2003.Japan and the world since 1868 (International Relations And The Great Powers Ser.)
By Michael A Barnhart. 1995
This text presents a survey of Japan's foreign relations since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The author describes three searches…
for security: the search for sovereignty; the search for empire and the search for comprehensive security. 1995.Beyond vision: the story of a blind rower
By Victoria Nolan. 2014
Victoria Nolan is a motivational speaker, advocate for people with disabilities, Paralympian and special education teacher. Having wanted to teach…
since she was a young child, her dreams were shattered when she went blind; not because of her disability but because of other people’s preconceived ideas about what she could and could not do. Victoria took up rowing to counter her depression over losing her sight, and made it onto Canada’s National Rowing Team. This is her personal story of triumph over adversity. 2014.I is for infidel: from holy war to holy terror: 18 years inside Afghanistan
By Kathy Gannon. 2005
In 1986 Kathy Gannon headed to Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent, and for the next eighteen years she witnessed its…
tragic opera: the final collapse of communism followed by bitterly feuding warlords being driven from power by the Taliban; the subsequent arrival of Arabs and exiles, among them Osama bin Laden; and the transformation of the country into the staging post for a global jihad. She also observed the terrible, unforeseen consequences of Western intervention, the ongoing suffering of ordinary Afghans, and the ability of the most corrupt of the warlords to reinvent and reinsert themselves into successive governments. Some descriptions of violence. c2005.ISIS exposed: beheadings, slavery, and the hellish reality of radical Islam
By Erick Stakelbeck. 2015
Terrorism expert Erick Stakelbeck pulls back the curtain on ISIS, the violent terrorist organization spreading death and hate in the…
Middle East. The rise of ISIS took the White House by complete surprise: President Obama called the group "JV," then was forced to reassess when ISIS began executing innocent American journalists. Now radicalized Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS's ranks. So who is ISIS? How powerful are they? And are they a threat to the homeland? 2015.Istanbul: a tale of three cities
By Bettany Hughes. 2017
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three…
names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. 2017.Israel: a history
By Martin Gilbert. 1998
Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of…
the world stage this century. Martin Gilbert traces its history, from its beginnings with the dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948, through the many subsequent conflicts and political watersheds. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, the author weaves together all these dramatic events into a seamless narrative. 1998.Iraq (Major world nations)
By J. P Docherty. 1999
Explores the people, history, culture, land, and economy of this Middle Eastern country, once called Mesopotamia, which is considered the…
"cradle of civilization." Also briefly discusses its modern wars with neighbours Iran and Kuwait. Grades 5-8. c1999.Invisible: my journey through vision and hearing loss
By Ruth Silver. 2012
Ruth Silver was a silent, frightened child with undiagnosed vision loss, which she later learned was retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a…
progressive eye disease. Even after losing her hearing, she refused to surrender to the darkness and silence. Ruth founded the Center for Deaf-Blind Persons in Milwaukee, a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping others living with the double disability of deaf-blindness. Includes sex and violence. c2012.Invisible: a memoir
By Hugues De Montalembert. 2010
Blinded in an attack in his New York home in 1978, de Montalembert, then a filmmaker and painter, was violently…
forced out of his intensely visual world. In this raw memoir, he navigates the environs of Manhattan and, not much later, Bali and Greenland, with new confidence and ability. He's also painfully honest about the affects of his blindness, refusing the comfort of standard tropes about spirituality but finding wonder in the kindness of absolute strangers and isolation from those closest to him. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2010.Inventing Japan, 1853-1964: 1853-1964 (Modern Library chronicles ; #11)
By Ian Buruma. 2003
Buruma traces Japan's transformation from an isolated island shogunate into an expansive military empire and then a pacified and prosperous…
democracy. Beginning with Commodore Perry's 1853 naval mission to open Japan to American traders, he follows a century of history, culminating in Douglas MacArthur's remarkable - but flawed - achievement in guiding Japan toward democracy. 2003. (Modern Library chronicles ; 11)Inside the Philippine revolution: The New People's Army And Its Struggle For Power
By William Chapman. 1987
When Corazon Aquino took power in the Philippines, she quickly discovered that she had inherited Marcos' problem of domestic unrest.…
The New People's Army, the communist force in the Philippines, was established 20 years ago, and it controls at least 20 percent of the local political units. 1987.India: a history
By John Keay. 2000
A five-thousand-year overview of the subcontinent from the Harappan people in the Indus Valley around 3000 B.C. to the nineteenth-century…
takeover by the British Raj. Presents a chronology of cultural and political developments that shaped the twentieth-century nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. c2000.