Yazar: Jonathan Wright

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In this haunting and controversial novel, Youssef Ziedan confronts issues as vital today as they were nearly two millennia ago. Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a …

Everything you need to start eating clean Whether you’ve lived on white carbs and trans fats all your life or you’re already health conscious but want to clean up your diet even further, Eating Clean …

Everything you need to start eating clean Whether you’ve lived on white carbs and trans fats all your life or you’re already health conscious but want to clean up your diet even further, Eating Clean …

Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War recreates the way in which the revolutionary changes of the last phase of the Cold War were perceived by fifteen of its leading figures i …

The author shows a clear connection between the amount of energy a person has and the amount of aging he or she does, pointing out that, in medical terms, aging refers to a loss of functioning, not c …

Elevated homocysteine is a powerful, independent risk factor in more than 100 major medical conditions, including heart disease, strokes, and Alzheimer’s disease. The authors discuss factors that con …

Riyadh is a city of masks, a city ‘like a pressure cooker that’s about to explode, ‘ a city that sleeps on a pile of words that no one dares utter. Saudi society has split into two camps, one adoptin …

In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25 January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind popul …

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a Ph D on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough problems with his family’s high expectations and …

A sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt and Winner of the 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo’s Tahrir Square when a heavy hand la …

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION A SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN SET IN MODERN-DAY BAGHDAD, BRILLIANTLY CAPTURING THE HORROR OF A CITY AT WAR From the rubbl …

An authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations.In this book of extraordinary journeys and epochal …

Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitl …

Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitl …

An important work of contemporary Islamic thought argues against the programmatic use of Islamic religious texts to support fundamentalist beliefs First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Musli …

Introduction to Forest Genetics examines some of the basic genetic concepts typically used in forestry and tree improvement studies, including Mendelian and population genetics. It also describes tec …

From the author of Heretics comes this ‘;informative and enjoyable glimpse at the travails and achievements of emissaries over thousands of years’ (Booklist). We think of ambassadors as simply diplom …

A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world’s most powerful religion. From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to mo …

Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole. Wright explains that support rose and fell, but, neverthel …

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This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the n …

This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the n …

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young …

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019A brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks like from a c …

The First Amendment is categorical and concise on religion and the state: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Nevertheless, t …

This tour of the American church/state issue revisits past controversies and personalities in the hope of enlightening present-day debates.Examining an issue that has been a matter of controversy sin …

“Code Name Excalibur”, the first of three books in the Excalibur Series, is an exciting triumphant account of how a young boy transforms into one of the world’s great “spy masters”. His “outside of t …

A sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt and Winner of the 2019 Prix de la Littrature Arabe Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairos Tahrir Square when a heavy hand land …

‘An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage.’—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise Mysterious men are rounding up street children and enro …

‘An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage.’—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise Mysterious men are rounding up street children and enrolling …

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WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE A BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB) A “spare, well-crafted and compelling” (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace …

A "spare, well-crafted and compelling" (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he expected, winner of the N …

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Hi my name is Jonathan Wright. I decided to write this book for a few reasons. Over the last 25 years I have had a lot of people ask me questions about bodybuilding, nutrition and especially steroids …

Iraqi Said Jensen, living in Norway, is forever haunted by the ghost of his father, killed by the Iraqi regime before he was born, and nightmarish visions. On being called to Baghdad where a mass gra …

On 25 January 2011, bestselling Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany joined a million protestors in Tahrir Square calling for President Hosni Mubarak’s departure. This was the moment he and other pro-dem …

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Punk rock culture in a preeminently average town Synonymous with American mediocrity, Peoria was fertile ground for the boredom- and anger-fueled fury of punk rock. Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett …