Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried their village names, memories, and possessions with them into the diaspora, transforming their lost past into local histories in the form of "village memorial books". Numbering more than 100 volumes in print, these books recount family histories, cultural traditions, and the details of village life, revealing Palestinian history through the eyes of Palestinians. Through a close examination of these books and other commemorative activities, Palestinian Village Histories reveals how history is written, recorded, and contested, as well as the roles that Palestinian conceptions of their past play in contemporary life. Moving beyond the grand narratives of 20th century political struggles, this book analyzes individual and collective historical accounts of everyday life in pre-1948 Palestinian villages as composed today from the perspectives of these long-term refugees.

History

Davis, Rochelle

Middle East

Stanford University Press

Good Cooking Starts with Good Food Do you want to enjoy the best food nature has to offer? It's easier than you might think with Fresh Choices: More Than 100 Easy Recipes for Pure Food When You Can't Buy 100% Organic, the indispensable cookbook that helps you bring the best food possible to the table--even when organic isn't an option. Packed with more than 100 inspiring and satisfying dishes, Fresh Choices confronts the issues consumers face when they want to know where their food comes from. Whether you're planning a special occasion or preparing a quick weeknight dinner, you'll find all your meals are more refreshing with flavorful dishes like Jamaican Pork Chops with Pineapple Black Bean Salsa, Sautéed Chicken with Sage and Gingered Plums, or Thai Fettuccine Primavera. And you'll be delighted to see how the freshest fruits and vegetables are paired to produce truly exceptional results like Mesclun Salad with Pears and Apricot Balsamic Vinaigrette or Caramelized Nectarine and Blueberry Galette. Also included are lists for buying seasonal produce, a valuable resource section, and all the information you need to buy the purest and safest meats, poultry, seafood, and dairy products.

Fresh Choices : More than 100 Easy Recipes for Pure Food When You Can't Buy 100% Organic

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Joachim, David

Cooking Methods

Rodale Books

How did a coloring book spend 14 weeks on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list??? The year was 1962. America was in love with the young family in the White House, speaking of them with awe and reverence. Then the JFK Coloring Book was released, and punctured all that. Conceived by publisher Alexander A. Roman, with drawings by Mad Magazine’s master caricaturist Mort Drucker and text by his Mad cohort Paul Laikin and Ratfink Room comedian Jackie Kannon, the book used the form of a coloring book supposedly crafted by four year old Caroline Kennedy to poke fun at the whole Kennedy clan, their friends and their fellow players on the political scene, including every one from Frank Sinatra to Jimmy Hoffa. The publication of this unique volume lead off a whole Kennedy comedy stampede, with things like Vaughn Meader’s First Family albums coming in its wake. Comedy was replaced by tragedy with JFK’s assassination, and the Coloring Book which had once had print runs in the hundreds of thousands disappeared from bookstore shelves, not to return for over half a century. Now the time has come to remember Kennedy and his family not just as tragic figures, but as the way they were and the way we saw them then. As an added bonus, this edition also includes Political Wind-ups, another book full of Drucker caricatures, with text by Roman and Rochelle Davis, taking a look at the political figures of the day (Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, and many more) and asking a vital question: if this person were a wind-up toy, what would it do when you wound it up? Annotations have been included for both of the books, to educate those who are too young to have lived through the times and to remind those who may no longer remember the details. Since the release of this new edition, the JFK Coloring Book has been discussed on NPR's On The Media and in the pages of the New Republic. It's a book the world is clearly ready for again!

JFK Coloring Book

Humor & Entertainment

Roman, Alexander A.

Laikin, Paul

Kannon, Jackie

Humor

About Comics

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