New York University Press
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Impostures
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1479810568
- Language: English
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Avidly Reads Theory
$18.00 Add to cart“Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.”
As an avowed “theory head,” Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradictio- Author: Stein, Jordan Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1479801003
- Language: English
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The Book of Charlatans
$19.00 Add to cartUncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East
The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth centu- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #82
- Author: Al-Jawbar?, Jam?l Al-D?n ?abd Al-Ra??m
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1479813249
- Language: English
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The Book of Travels
$19.00 Add to cartThe adventures of the man who created Aladdin
The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #86
- Author: Diy?b, ?ann?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1479820016
- Language: English
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Avidly Reads Poetry
$17.00 Add to cart“Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world”
Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing “The Hill We Climb” before the nation at Joe Biden’s Presidential inauguration, to poems regu- Author: Ardam, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1479813583
- Language: English
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Impostures
$48.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800848
- Language: English
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A Hundred and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartA luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
- Author: Fudge, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1479873233
- Language: English
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The Principles of Sufism
$19.00 Add to cart‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, ‘A’ishah received a thorough religious educ
- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #4
- Author: Al-B???niyyah, ???ishah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1479829242
- Language: English
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The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volumes One and Two
$20.00 Add to cartKnown as “one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature” (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-‘Ala’
- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #29
- Author: Al-Ma?arr?, Ab? L-?al??
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1479834947
- Language: English
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Mission to the Volga
$17.00 Add to cartThe earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic
Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #28
- Author: Fa?l?n, A?mad Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1479899895
- Language: English
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Avidly Reads Screen Time
$16.00 Add to cartWhat happens when screen time is all the time?
In the early 1990s, the phrase “screen time” emerged to scare parents about the dangers of too much TV for kids. Screen time was something to fret over,- Author: Maciak, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1479820571
- Language: English
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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
$24.00 Add to cartA charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known “City” section of the New York Times
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The- Author: Rosenblum, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0814775721
- Language: English
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Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Work-Life Balance
$24.00 Add to cartA step-by-step guide to reestablishing work-life balance
Americans love a hard worker. The employee who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a- Author: Robinson, Bryan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1479818852
- Language: English
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Gödel’s Proof
$18.00 Add to cartAn accessible explanation of Kurt G?del’s groundbreaking work in mathematical logic
In 1931 Kurt G?del published his fundamental paper, “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica a- Author: Nagel, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0814758371
- Language: English
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Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I- Author: Long, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1479818496
- Language: English
