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Ottoman odyssey : travels through a lost empire

by Alev Scott
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
'library book', travel, Ottoman Empire, Alev Scott, Turkey, Greece, Balkans, Serbia, Dodecanese Islands, Kosovo, Bosnia and Hercegovina — 26 more, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Armenia, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel, Georgia, infidels, millet system, Jews, language, religion, Afro Turks, Druze, Beirut, Christianity, Muslims, President Erdogan, Haifa, Istanbul, Turkey - history, Ottoman Empire - history, Turkey - civilization 1288-1918, Turkey - foreign relations, Memleket, Pegasus Books, Lesbos
Status
Available
Call number
956/.015

The address book : what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power

by Deirdre Mask
Paper Book, 2020
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'library book', street names, street addresses, Deirdre Mask, origins, development, politics, race, class and status, West Virginia, African Americans — 18 more, British Postal Reform, homeless, London, Manhattan, Rome Italy, South Africa, Martin Luther King Drive, Kolkata, Jews, Florida, British street names, America, identity, power, wealth, history, geography, sociology
Status
Available
Call number
388.1

The lost art of Scripture : rescuing the sacred texts

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 2019
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'library book', sacred books, sacred texts, religion, sacred books - history and criticism, religion and culture, religions, scripture, logos, mythos, canon of scripture — 28 more, Israel, India, China, empathy, unknowing, midrash, embodiment, recitation, ineffability, prophets, Quran, sages, Torah, Yahweh, Islam, Jews, Jesus, Jerusalem, Hebrew Bible, Christians, Muhammad, Muslims, extensive notes, world religions, Buddhists, Hindus, comparative religion, Karen Armstrong
Status
Available
Call number
208/.2

Political tribes : group instinct and the fate of nations

by Amy Chua
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
'library book', political science, world politics, identity politics, group identity, nationalism, political culture, exceptionalism international relations, ethnic relations, political ideologies, Donald trump — 21 more, Barack Obama, white Americans, United States, the poor, terrorism, market-dominant minorities, Great Britain, blacks, Jews, African Americans, Afghanistan, immigrants, Iraq, ethnic minorities, racism, working class, 2016 election, Vietnam, Venezuela, women, wealth/wealthy
Status
Available
Call number
327

21 lessons for the 21st century

by Yuval N. Harari
Paper Book, 2018
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'library book', world politics, modern civilization, 21st century, Jews, India, liberalism, information technology, humanity, algorithms, China — 15 more, Christianity, artificial intelligence, immigration, Islam, nationalism, United States, democracy, disillusionment, technological challenge, political challenge, despair and hope, truth, resilience, adapted conversations, Russia
Status
Available
Call number
909.83

The inquisitor's tale, or, the three magical children and their holy dog

by Adam Gidwitz
Paper Book, 2016
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adventure, adventurers, fiction, historical fiction, France, Middle Ages, friars, juvenile, juvenile fiction, persecution, Jews — 21 more, prophets, Louis IX, history, Adam Gidwitz, Hatem Aly, Puffin Books, dog resurrection, Mont-Saint-Michel, peasants, narrator driven, illustrations throughout, illustrated, margin illustrations, line drawings, children, religion, medieval, friendship, saints, fantasy, 13th century
Status
Available
Call number
[Fic]

Streams of living water : celebrating the great traditions of Christian faith

by Richard J. Foster
Music eBook, 1998
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Christianity, spirituality, essential practices, imitatio, contemplative tradition, holiness tradition, charismtic tradition, social justice tradition, evangelical tradition, incarnational tradition, church history — 10 more, African-Americans, St. Augustine, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Billy Graham, Jesus of Nazareth, Jews, John Wesley, Nook, religion, ressourcement
Collection
Nook
Status
Available
Call number
248

The house by the lake : one house, five families, and a hundred years of German history

by Thomas Harding
Hardcover, 2016
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Germany, Potsdam, Berlin, Jews, vacation house, Berlin suburb, buildings, retreat, WWII, historic houses, rehbilitation — 13 more, history, residents, families, lake house, Groß Glenicke, Thomas Harding, DDR, Deutches Theater, Alexander family, Kühne family, Meisel family, Wollank family, Fuhrmann family
Status
Available
Call number
943/.1546

The rivers of paradise : Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as religious founders

by David Noel Freedman
Hardcover, 2001
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religion, religious founders, Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad, kingdom of God, comparative religion, Jews, Shakyamuni — 2 more, Torah, Max Weber
Status
Available
Call number
291.6/3

Heirs to forgotten kingdoms : journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East

by Gerard Russell
Paper Book, 2014
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'library book', religion, religious minorities, Middle East, Mandeans, Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Druze, Samaritans, Copts, Kalasha — 10 more, Detroit, Pythagoras, Muslims, Jews, Mirza Ismail, Harranians, Nadia Gattan, Palestinians, Christians, Gerard Russell
Status
Available
Call number
200.956

Notes on a century : reflections of a Middle East historian

by Bernard Lewis
Paper Book, 2012
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'library book', autobiography, Middle East, history, historiography, 20th century, Egypt, Islam, Israel, Bernard Lewis, Jews — 7 more, Middle Eastern studies, Muslim World, United States, Turkey, Soviet Union, life of a scholar, academia
Status
Available
Call number
956.0072/02B

A troublesome inheritance : genes, race, and the rise of the West

by Nicholas J. Wade
Paper Book, 2014
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human evolution, genetics, Western civilization, sociobiology, Africa, China, Europe, Jews, hunter-gatherer societies, natural selection, population — 6 more, races, social behaviors, tribalism, genes, signed by author, Nicholas Wade
Status
Available
Call number
599.93/8

How civilizations die (and why Islam is dying too)

by David P. Goldman
Paper Book, 2011
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'library book", civlization, history, civilization - regression, Islamic civilization, theopolitics, David P.Goldman, Arab civilization, Islam and culture, religion and civilization, United States - civilization — 6 more, Europe, Middle East, Jews, modernity, democracy, Muslims
Status
Available
Call number
909/.09767

The son also rises : surnames and the history of social mobility

by Gregory Clark
Paper Book, 2014
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social mobility, status, Nook, England, United States, Sweden, India, China and Taiwan, Japan and Korea, educational attainment, surnames — 6 more, history, high status, intergenerational correlations, Jews, physicians, attorneys
Collection
Nook
Series
The Princeton Economic History of the Western World (2014)
Status
Available
Call number
305.5/1309

Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world

by James Carroll
Paper Book, 2011
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'library book' Jerusalem, James Carroll, description, history, travel, religion, ethnic relations, violence, Bible, Judaism, Christianity — 9 more, Islam, cities, holy cities, God, crusades, Israel, Jews, sacrifice, Jerusalem Temple
Collection
Do Not Own
Status
Available
Call number
956.94/42

Do Jews, Christians, & Muslims worship the same God?

by Jacob Neusner
Paper Book, 2012
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religion, Kindle, Jacob Neusner, interfaith, Christians, Muslims, Jews, God, Abrahamic religions, one God, monotheist religions — 3 more, religious boundaries, identity of God, Ethiopian's dilemma
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
201/.5

Highlanders : a journey to the Caucasus in quest of memory

by Yo'av Karny
Hardcover, 2000
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quest, Caucasus, Caucasian Mountains, Chechens, Armenians, Azerbaijan, Islam, North Caucasus, memory, Imam Shamil, Sufism — 5 more, Kunta Haji, Jews, Daghestan, zikr, ethnic relations
Status
Available
Call number
305.8/009475

Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 1996
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Jerusalem, Israel, interfatih, history, zion, temple, Jesus Christ, Haram al-Sharif, King David, Christians, Aqsa Mosque — 3 more, Jews, Muslims, Yahweh
Status
Available
Call number
956.9442

Pilgrims to the Holy Land; the story of pilgrimage through the ages

by Teddy Kollek
Book, 1970
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pilgrimage, Israel, Holy Land, interfaith, Jerusalem, illustrated, Jews, Christians, Muslims
Status
Available
Call number
291.4/2

Holy days : the world of a Hasidic family

by Lis Harris
Hardcover, 1985
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Judaism, Hasidic, family life, Lubavitcher, religion, New York, Hasidim, Jews
Status
Available
Call number
305.8/924/073 19

Living stones: A Jerusalem seminar journal & reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

by Lucinda Allen Mosher
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Israelis, Palestinians, Christians, Muslims, Jews, occupation, Jerusalem, Lucinda Mosher, religion, peace process
Status
Available

Poor Cousins

by Andre Manners
Paperback, 1976
Tags
Jews, history
Status
Available
Call number
301.451
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