Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The worth of a soul The worth of a soul Ayse Hitchins As a child and then as a young Turkish woman, Ayse Hitchen's years were shadowed by turmoil, desperate poverty, depression, and alcoholism. She abandoned her Muslim faith for atheism and Marxist phil… OL16624665W
Between modernity and nationalism Between modernity and nationalism Mushirul Hasan Biography of Turkish woman author and Gandhian follower Halide Edip Adivar, 1884-1964. OL18610575W
Mother Land Mother Land Dmetri Kakmi "Mother Land is a minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet neighbouring cultures. It is an account of how a Greek boy born o… OL20303074W
Lost Anzacs Lost Anzacs Greg Kerr This is a fascinating account of two very different Anzac experiences of World War I. Drawing on letters, diaries, and photographs from his grandfather and great-uncle, Greg Kerr relates the bitter e… OL2871269W
My grandmother My grandmother Fethiye Çetin As a child in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and well respected Muslim housewife. Decades later, her grandmother revealed the truth: she was by birth a Christian Armenian, and … OL28757191W
Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, and Other Essays Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, and Other Essays Krister Stendahl A sharp challenge to traditional ways of understanding Paul is sounded in this book by a distinguished interpreter of the New Testament. Krister Stendahl proposes-in the key title essay-new ways of e… OL467407W