Author: Jenny White

Winner of the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology The emergence of an Islamist movement and the startling buoyancy of Islamic political parties in Turkey–a model of secular moderni …

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of …

This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam …

Loony has been ying all over the lake looking for Buck, but he is nowhere to be found. Where can he be, and who are the un-caring, garbage bearing, paper tearing, debris smearing, mess making, bottle …

Junior was so excited that he forgot to be careful like Papa asked him to be. As he attempted to hop over a broken branch lying on top of the snow, he tripped and fell down into a deep, narrow hole. …

A powerful blend of murder mystery and romance set in the Ottoman Court A gripping tale of murder in nineteenth-century Istanbul ?The naked body of a young English woman washes up in the Bosphorus we …

19th-century Istanbul: a conspiracy to steal an ancient reliquary; a secret which could change the world.The Ottoman Empire is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches that, within …

‘An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric.’—Sarah Graves Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entru …

‘A wonderful read…. An historical novel of the highest quality.’ —Iain Pears Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Em …

‘A deftly plotted and clever tale of intrigue, duplicity, and violence.’—Booklist, starred review January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul’s streets, unawa …

A powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey’s descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflict Turkish Kaleidoscope tells the st …

Junior was so excited that he forgot to be careful like Papa asked him to be. As he attempted to hop over a broken branch lying on top of the snow, he tripped and fell down into a deep, narrow hole. …

While listening to the tour guide, Junior suddenly became aware of hands reaching out to him. The touch startled him, and he jumped but he lost his footing and fell into the water! The hands that had …

When Semaj and his sister went out to play, he noticed a little girl next door sitting on her steps with a brand-new bike. He went over, introduced himself and asked if he could ride her bike. She sa …

Junior had been listening to the tour guide and not paying much attention to anything else. Suddenly he felt a hand touch him and it startled him enough to make him lose his footing and fall into the …

Junior was so excited that he forgot to be careful like Papa asked him to be. As he attempted to hop over a broken branch lying on top of the snow, he tripped and fell down into a deep, narrow hole. …

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a gra …