The History of Castles: Fortifications Around the World

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The perfect tour guide to the world's most fascinating castles and strongholds.

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Castles for the Layperson.......2007-05-31

As a result of visits to several castles in Britain and Europe, I have become interested in the way that castles evolved over the centuries. In particular I like to know the reasons for the inclusion of certain features.
There are many books available about castles, but this is the one that best suits my needs. The first chapter deals with the early beginnings of fortifications, which involved only building walls around towns. Subsequent chapters give information on historical advances in design of castles, country by country, covering Britain and the European continent. There are even a few pages on Japanese fortresses, South American fortifications and North American forts.
The production is classy, being printed on quality paper with appropriate and plentiful coloured illustrations. It is large enough to allow sufficient detail for the interested amateur, but is still not too big and heavy to hold comfortably while seated in your favourite armchair.

Excellent!!!.......2003-01-26

I love anything having to do with history and this book is so far the best which I own on castles & fortifications. It's filled with great info & pics/illustrations! I haven't read through the whole thing yet because the pictures are to distracting. I found my self just flipping through the book and staring at all of the cool pics. This book is a definite recommendation! Well worth your time

An absolute must for the medieval castle hunter........2002-01-13

This book is great tour guide to many of the most fascinating castles and fortifications in many parts of the world. The many full color photographs and detailed fascinating and clearing written text shows why and how castles were built in different regions. Covers why and how they were used, construction details, and in some cases, how they were destroyed in battle.
Some castles are described in detail with floor plans, designs, color pictures, construction details and castle history.
The many detailed photographs and illustrations present to the reader the various reasons for building a castle and how castles and other fortifications were constructed and used in different parts of the world.
I found this book to be of great help in understanding the design and construction details of medieval castles. While not detailed enough for one to build a castle from this book, it could be a good starting point for those of us that are builders.
Includes almost 200 full-color photographs, 30 recontructions, glossary, and 70 detailed maps.

Castles and Fortifications from Around the World

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Castles and Fortifications from Around the World
Christopher Gravett
Manufacturer: Thalamus Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages

ASIN: 1902886089

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The best in this category I have seen.

Excellent methods and techniques with limited palate

Watercolorist's Guide to Painting Buildings
Richard Taylor
Manufacturer: David & Charles
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715309277

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Buildings-old and new, ornate or simple-provide an endlessly intriguing subject for watercolorists. Author and artist Richard Taylor gives you all the techniques for capturing perspective, proportion, light and shade, detail and texture. After deciding on the right materials, try your hand at everything from sheds and shacks to classical architecture with formal designs, arches, and elegant frontage. Capture the weathered appeal of a crumbling, ruined boatyard; by using lots of water, and downward vertical strokes with the brush, all the dramatic effects of ageing emerge on the paper. Stone steps leading up to a quiet Mediterranean courtyard shine in dappled light and warm shadows-deep in the interior, leafy branches, potted plants, windows, and a statue catch the eye. Or, paint quadrangles, cloisters; terraced homes, town houses, and street life. Throughout, 120 paintings in various stages of completion, show the effects of color, shadowing, and balance. A Selection of F&W's Book Clubs.

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The best in this category I have seen........2000-06-30

This book is well writen. Author emphasizes on colour value. After reading this book , you will know about howto use warm colours and cold colours to paint a building with a right value. However, this bood isn't a step-by-step book,the author didn't tell much about howto mix colours and howto sketch. It's good for who loves and wants to paint European-style buildings ,and an architect who wants to render his picture with watercolour.

Excellent methods and techniques with limited palate.......1999-05-18

One of the most informative books on watercolor techniques and color theory. It covers all types of building surfaces from weathered wood to bricks and stucco. If you love painting buildings with textures this is the book to buy.

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Following the Napolenoic military campaign in Egypt (1798-1801), Europe rediscovered the ancient Egyptian civilization, and later expeditions deppened and amplified knowledge of the country's archaeological momuments, giving birth to a new science - Egyptology.This volume recounts the era of early Egyptology at the start of the nineteenth century, and presents the ,ost beautiful plates from Rosellini's original work made following the long expedition.

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A Beautiful Glimpse at Lost Art Treasures.......2007-02-02

Rosellini traveled throughout Egypt and Nubia during the early-to-mid 1890s in the company of such illustrious companions as Champollion. They were present for the openings of many Theban tombs and recorded the inner temple paintings of Abu-Simbel before anyone in the West had heard of it.

Rosellini's paintings were originally published in 5 gigantic volumes, so what we have in this book is simply a sampling of his overall work. But what a joy for the eyes and the mind these images are! The colors are brilliant and the images are exactingly reproduced by both Rosellini and the publisher.

The paintings are divided into sections according to subject matter. I found the descriptions of the paintings rather scant, but the majority of the original tomb paintings Rosellini copied are now either devoid of color or, more often, destroyed, thus making this record invaluable. Unfortunately, Rosellini's work is not often reproduced, so don't miss this rare glimpse into the past and the splendid artwork copied when it the originals still looked so fresh and perfect that the artist might have just stepped out for a break.

My only complaint/cry is for more of Rosellini's work to be reprinted in fine, oversized form like this and for a price as reasonable as this book's. There's not much text, but you'll find your friends can't keep their hands off this book, even the ones who are normally bored by Egyptology.

The Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile and the Doomed Monuments of Nubia

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The Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile and the Doomed Monuments of Nubia
Walter A Fairservis
Manufacturer: A Mentor Book/ New American Library
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Egypt Pocket Guide: Abu Simel and the Nubian Temples (Egypt Guides)

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A great book.......
an excellent guide

Egypt Pocket Guide: Abu Simel and the Nubian Temples (Egypt Guides)
Alberto Siliotti
Manufacturer: American University in Cairo Press
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ASIN: 9774245997

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A new series of handy pocket guides for explorers of Egypt's rich past and exciting present, packed with information and brilliantly illustrated with color photographs, maps, plans, and 3-D drawings - all in just 48 pages.

Nubia, in the extreme south of Egypt, is the site of the most spectacular of all Egypt's temples, Abu Simbel, but this guide reveals the other fascinating temples of the region too: Kalabsha, Beit al-Wali, Qertassi, Wadi al-Sebua, Dakka, Maharraqa, Amada, and Derr, as well as the tomb of Pennut and the rocky fortress of Qasr Ibrim.

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A great book..............2004-01-05

My only complaint is that I wish this book was longer.
A very interesting read and great photography.
I look forward to more of Mr. Siliotti's books.

an excellent guide.......2002-10-25

The author discusses the history from the origins to the Unesco Nubian rescue in 1961. He writes about the various temples in Nubia, including Kalabsha, Beit al-Wali, Dakka, Amada, Derr and Qasr Ibrim. The temples of Ramses II and Nefertari are described in avid detail. Completed by beautiful photographs and useful maps, this is a much needed guide, essential for travelers.

Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and Other Sites

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Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and Other Sites

Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Egypt travel magazine. [Offprint]
Rowland Ellis
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Luxor (Thebes) including also Memphis, Sakara up to Nubia: A compact guide book on the monuments and tombs

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Luxor (Thebes) including also Memphis, Sakara up to Nubia: A compact guide book on the monuments and tombs
N. F. Mansfield Meade
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Monuments divers recueillis en Egypte et en Nubie

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Monuments divers recueillis en Egypte et en Nubie
Auguste Mariette
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The monuments of Sudanese Nubia;: Report of the work of the Egyptian expedition, season of 1906-'07, (The Oriental exploration fund of the University of ... Reports to the general director, II)

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The monuments of Sudanese Nubia;: Report of the work of the Egyptian expedition, season of 1906-'07, (The Oriental exploration fund of the University of ... Reports to the general director, II)
James Henry Breasted
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The preservation of the Nubian monuments

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The preservation of the Nubian monuments
Piero Gazzola
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Unesco's international campaign to save the monuments of Nubia: Preliminary reports of the Egypt Exploration Society's Nubian survey

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Unesco's international campaign to save the monuments of Nubia: Preliminary reports of the Egypt Exploration Society's Nubian survey
H. S Smith
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Prince Arn Comes of Age.......2007-09-18

One of the pleasures of the Prince Valiant series is that one gets to see characters age. Through the many volumes of the series, the reader has the oportunity to see the birth of Prince Arn in North America and follow his early childhood in Camelot and Thule. In this volume, Prince Arn is about twelve years old. He experiences his first military campaign and conducts his first forays into royal dipomacy. It is a joy to see Prince Valiant watch his son grow up. One only knows that in future volumes, Prince Arn will grow up to be a fine young man and that his role in the series will only grow. This is one of the better books in the series. Highly recommended.

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Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer's New York Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly—and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic , Chapin set the pace for the evening press, the CNN of the pre-electronic world of journalism. In 1918, at the pinnacle of fame, Chapin's world collapsed. Facing financial ruin, sunk in depression, he decided to kill himself and his beloved wife Nellie. On a quiet September morning, he took not his own life, but Nellie's, shooting her as she slept. After his trial—and one hell of a story for the World's competitors—he was sentenced to life in the infamous Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. In this story of an extraordinary life set in the most thrilling epoch of American journalism, James McGrath Morris tracks Chapin's rise from legendary Chicago street reporter to celebrity powerbroker in media-mad New York. His was a human tragedy played out in the sensational stories of tabloids and broadsheets. But it's also an epic of redemption: in prison, Chapin started a newspaper to fight for prisoner rights, wrote a best-selling autobiography, had two long-distance love affairs, and tapped his prodigious talents to transform barren prison plots into world-famous rose gardens before dying peacefully in his cell in 1930. The first portrait of one of the founding figures of modern American journalism, and a vibrant chronicle of the cutthroat culture of scoops and scandals, The Rose Man of Sing Sing is also a hidden history of New York at its most colorful and passionate.James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars , and a historian. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and teaches at West Springfield High School.

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Well Researched but the Title is Somewhat Deceiving.......2006-01-09

Author James Morris has done his research well on his subject, newspaperman Charles Chapin. Chapin was a stern taskmaster with his employees in running the New York World. Chapin probably picked up on this attitude from an early editor named Fred Hall of the Chicago Tribune. Some called Hall a "slave driver" who was, as Chapin related, "a demon for hard work and a slave to his profession and intolerant toward shirkers." Author Morris follows Chapin's career through the years in detail. An interesting anecdote is related when Chapin was firing a reporter because he was, as Chapin said, "too sentimental for your own good." The reorter shot back at Chapin with, "True for you, Chapin! But when I die, there'll be a hell of a lot of people who will come to the funeral." Chapin winced at the verbal retort and turned white and spent considerable time contemplating the remark. Later in life when Chapin was in debt he felt it necessary to kill his wife to spare her of any future difficulties. Chapin felt he would receive the electric chair for his dastardly dark deed. Having been sentenced to Sing Sing prison he found himself the editor of the prison newspaper. It is finally on page 302 that we get to what the title of the book is all about, namely Chapin and his flower gardens on the prison grounds. I found the book to be interesting, but more time could have been spent on what the title of the book leads us to believe it is about.

couldn't pick the book up.......2004-07-16

The book is very well researched, and it does give you a history of journalism in NY at the last turn of the century. However, I found it really lacking in suspense. It was easy to put the book down! In fact, I read up to p. 150 a year ago, and decided to have another go at it recently. The author failed to detail the actual relationship between Mr. Chapin and his wife. Besides the fact that they went on a lot of vacations together, what was their emotional life like together? What were her hopes and dreams? How did she spend her days? Why didn't they have any children? Was she intelligent, funny, warm, outgoing, etc.? Did they fight often; what were her hobbies? Also, when it comes to the actual killing of Mrs. Chapin, it was actually very boring. I thought this would be the climax of the book. For example, Ann Rule would have attempted to bring some drama into this scene, and would have given more details of the actual room in which it took place, and would have gotten into the emotional aspect of this crime. It was a very dry and dull account of what I thought would be a page-turner of true crime. I mean, for God's sake, the man killed his wife! The writer seems like an historian but does seem to have taken all the life out of this true-life story. A sharper editor would have made him condense the newsroom stuff and moved it along at a faster pace. All in all, he's a good writer, but it lacked drama and suspense. Recommended only for history buffs as a history of yellow journalism in NY.

Brings an Era to Life.......2004-03-03

For those who loved the novel Ragtime or Caleb Carr's potraits of New York at the turn of the 19th century, The Rose Man of Sing Sing is a real treat: a behind-the-scenes peek at murder and mayhem in the Gilded Age. The detail is extraordinary, the writing fluid and engaging, and the psychological portrait of Charles Chapin acute. A book that is very hard to put down.

A Newspaper Legend's Crime and Redemption.......2004-02-25

If you looked at the January 1925 issue of that arbiter of domestic taste, _House and Garden_, you would have seen a photo layout of a rose garden that would have been the envy of any socialite or country club. The garden was tasteful, with fountains, a pool of water lilies, and blue spruce trees in addition to thousands of roses. Besides the obvious beauty of the garden, there was one other thing that made it unique. At one end of the garden was an old execution chamber. The garden was in the middle of the infamous prison, Sing Sing, in New York. It was the creation of a prisoner who, before he murdered his wife, was a legendary newsman who worked directly for Joseph Pulitzer, and often himself handled coverage of society murders. The term of Charles Chapin as city editor of the _New York Evening World_ was full of spectacular tabloid stories, and James McGrath Morris, himself a former journalist, has brought back Chapin's forgotten story and explained how the press worked in the early parts of the twentieth century in the astonishing book, _The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism_ (Fordham University Press). It is a story at times as lurid, melodramatic, and spectacular as any of the stories Chapin himself published.

Chapin started delivering the local paper at age fourteen. He was determined to get himself an education, and although he could not attend school, he read ravenously and well. A kindly editor selected books for the boy, classics that Chapin drew upon all his life. He was thrilled to become a reporter in Chicago, but eventually made his lasting mark in New York, where at the _Evening World_, he presided over a technological revolution. The new telephone allowed Chapin to give orders to reporters in the field, and to shape the stories. Field reporters would call in the details of a story, and the new "rewrite reporters" would write it up for the paper. As a result, Chapin gave the _World_ unrivaled immediacy in reporting New York's news. Especially fascinating is the story of how Chapin got the news about the sinking of the _Titanic_. Chapin was recognized as the best of city editors, but he was not easy to work for. He was merciless on himself, and extended this treatment to his reporters. His abilities made them tolerate working for him. He was devoted to his wife, and seems sincerely to have wanted to put her out of prospective misery when his investments failed; he had planned a murder suicide, but only killed her, and turned himself in. He was convicted of murder in 1919 and given twenty years to life. In Sing Sing, the warden took particular interest in him, which is not surprising given how different Chapin must have been from the usual criminals there. Chapin had never been a gardener, but began to cultivate a small plot; he became obsessed with his plants, solicited donations from those he knew in the business world, and commanded inmate assistants with the same fervor he had used on reporters. Ladies clubs came to take the tour of the grounds, as did celebrities like Booth Tarkington and Houdini.

Chapin thus proved to be a model prisoner, and applied for pardon, but no pardon ever came. He was involved in two mostly postal romances with women on the outside, neither of which ended well, mostly because of his lifelong inability to see or accept ambiguity; it was as if he expected a well-chosen headline to cover all the underlying details. He died a convict in 1930, and was buried, according to his wishes, with the wife he had murdered twelve years before. This story, never told before in full, is full of engrossing detail about the competitive working press of the time. Chapin's life, that of a brilliant and limited man who eventually found horticultural redemption, is almost operatic in its sweep, and makes an unforgettable story.

WASHINGTON POST SAYS:.......2004-01-24

"Morris, a former journalist, a historian and teacher, has done fine work recovering the melodramatic story from a variety of contemporary sources. . . Morris foreshadows Chapin's tragedy skillfully in the first chapter, then drops back and sticks to chronology. He keeps the narrative crisp with telling bits from the journals of the day and Chapin's own writing. . .
James McGrath Morris has done journalism -- and armchair psychiatry -- a fine service by rescuing this melodramatic tale."

Editor from hell: can a newsroom boss actually have no redeeming qualities?(Book Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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Editor from hell: can a newsroom boss actually have no redeeming qualities?(Book Review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Bruce Porter
Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
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ASIN: B0008GFFYM
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1371 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Editor from hell: can a newsroom boss actually have no redeeming qualities?(Book Review)
Author: Bruce Porter
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 42 Issue: 5 Page: 57(2)

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The meanest editor of them all.(Book Review): An article from: American Journalism Review

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The meanest editor of them all.(Book Review): An article from: American Journalism Review
Carl Sessions Stepp
Manufacturer: University of Maryland
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 973 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The meanest editor of them all.(Book Review)
Author: Carl Sessions Stepp
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 25 Issue: 8 Page: 79(1)

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I had a wonderful, albeit long review written by Liam Wilson of Oslo, Norway on my book "Single in Saidi" It has been deleted and I would really like it to be reinstated as it was very favorable. Can this be done? Thank you, Jan Stowe

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Review of "Single in Saudi".......2007-08-19

This book was a self-serving account of one woman's journey to The Kingdom. I was hoping to get more of an account of healthcare and cultural aspects of Saudi. Instead the author (who obviously thinks very highly of herself) goes on and on about how every guy she meets falls in love with her and how she can't resist the temptation to sleep with them. All the men are handsome to her and all of them are "passionate" lovers. By 2/3 of the way into the book, I found it difficult to keep track of who she was sleeping with in whatever chapter I was reading. I found it hilarious how she judged the character Johnnie for her lifestyle when the author had revealed she has little moral fiber of her own.

Two-faced narrator to be taken with a grain (or shaker) of salt.......2007-08-17

It's a self-published book, first of all. So don't expect ANY copy-editing at all. The prose is poor, the spelling just awful, but the story is kind of entertaining on a superficial level, though I do have to say I find the constant undercurrent of bigotry hard to take. She has no problem going from bed to bed with all these men, using them as much as they're using her, all the while saying bad things about them and their culture. She puts on airs as though she's such a sophisticated jet-setter and it comes off as phony. It's too bad, because somewhere in this mess of a narrative is a good story.

Single in Saudi.......2007-06-11

I worked in all aspects of Saudi Arabia for more than ten years. I found this book poorly written and extremly outdated. The book bore very little resemblence to Saudi Arabia today. No wonder the Sadui's think all western women are whore's. Genia proved them right and made life on decent women working in Saudi that much harder. Save your money. There are better written and much more interesting books on Saudi out there.

We can learn much from "Single in Saudi" .......2006-11-16

I loved "Single in Saudi" in its many perspectives.

At one level it's a sexy romp through high-walled compounds inhabited by some of the world's richest men. At another it's full of sad insights into the degradation thrust on Saudi women by their countrymen.

Genia writes a unique and illuminating book about herself as a blonde, blue-eyed American woman living in Saudi under a veil and obaya, the long, hooded, black robes that Saudi women are required to wear in public.

As Americans we can learn much from "Single," because at some point the American-led coalition will have to decide whether fighting the war, or insurgency, or keeping the peace, or whatever we may be doing in Iraq, is worth expending our blood and treasure for a nation of ingrates and incompetents and worse.

And that decision will in part be based on our view of those who people the nations of the Middle East, including the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a regime of hypocrites that Genia indulged without apology.

I commend the book to you.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY.......2006-10-01

I'm a Saudi. I was born and raised in SA, and I read this book upon arriving the US to pursue my studies (August 2005). I've found this book very outdated. If you would like to know about modern SA don't read this book. This book doesn't represent SA nowadays. When I was reading this book I thought I was reading about another country! Not the one I'd just come from. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY.

The Tree & Other Stories (Interlink World Fiction)

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The Tree & Other Stories (Interlink World Fiction)
Abdallah Al-Nasser , Dina Bosio , Christopher Tingley , and Abd Allah Muhammad Nasir
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Abdallah al-Nasser's attractive collection reveals the art of the short story in all its variety: vivid description is found alongside social satire, political reflection, traditional humorous anecdote and complex allegorical writing. A number of the stories explore, in sometimes subtle and unexpected ways, life in the author's Saudi homeland, considering both traditional aspects and the effect on these of a modern world imposing itself with often bewildering speed. Others reflect on issues in the wider Arab world, and others still deal with timeless elements of the human condition.

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