Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Money Has No Smell Money Has No Smell Paul Stoller Blending ethnographic description with social analysis, Stoller shows how West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks in New York. Their stories illumi… OL13372974W
Nine Parts of Desire Nine Parts of Desire Geraldine Brooks With a New Afterword. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic uph… OL2011277W
Muslim women's choices Muslim women's choices Camillia Fawzi El-Solh,Judy Mabro This volume counters the prevailing Western views and stereotypes of Muslim women--usually projected through male interpretations--by presenting a cross-cultural perspective of their experiences and … OL20617024W
Saffron versus green Saffron versus green Kanchanmoy Mojumdar On communalism, community tensions between Muslims, and Hindus, and riots as an fallout of the political conditions in Central Provinces and Berar, India in former half of 20th century; a study. OL2317004W
Guests of the Ayatollah Guests of the Ayatollah Mark Bowden A chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah K… OL491851W