Xaviera's amorous adventures on the Costa del Sex took her from the arms of a middle-aged Romeo into those of a young Spanish gardener--who soon found a special use for his hose. "Knights in the Garden of Spain" is a coruscating cavalcade of cocksure cavaliers and knaughty knights--with lances outstretched. It tell's of Xaviera's first visit to the country that is now, for part of the year, her home, and of her sizzling adventures with Antonio, Fernando, Carlos, Juan--or was that Jaime...?

"This work is a compilation of life stories of twenty Turkish Jews, born and raised in Turkey, and who have settled in new homelands. They now live in the United States, Canada, France, Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Through their stories the reader will be able to have glimpses of their lives before and after leaving Turkey and understand the resasons that pushed them to emigrate." -- back cover.

"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both Muslim and non-Muslim Turks went to try their luck in the New World. [...] Drawing upon eyewitness testimony, Rifat N. Bali tells the story of a century of Turkish immigrants to the USA."--Back cover.

Worn edges and covers and may have small creases. Otherwise item is in good condition.

Memoirs of a Jew who was born in Warsaw ca. 1920. In 1939 he went to study in Lvov. Describes the Nazi occupation in 1941, the pogrom by Germans and Ukrainians which followed, the anti-Jewish laws, and life in the ghetto, where Stankiewicz became a forger of papers. In spring 1943 he escaped from the ghetto and fled to Ukraine, posing as a German soldier; however, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald. A friend helped him obtain classification as a Pole, thereby improving his conditions in the camp. He was liberated in April 1945 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949.

Edgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this 'holographic history' Vidal's story, and that of his family, carries within it the flowering, decline, and death of Jewish culture in Spain, the passage from Empires to Nation States, the complex relations between Jews and Gentiles, between East and West, and, ultimately, the history of the twentieth century itself. Morin's work ranges from the great sweep of global historical events to the everyday details of individual lives, letters, feelings, reflections, and experiences. Vidal was born in 1894 in the Ottoman Empire's great Macedonian port. His great-grandfather came from Tuscany and spoke Italian. His mother tongue was fifteenth-century Spanish. He learned French and German as a child. When he was an adolescent, he dreamed of living in France; he was deported there as a prisoner, and then liberated by the French Prime Minister. He lived through the Balkan wars, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and two World Wars. Vidal cannot be isolated from his family. And as Edgar Morin explains, "this book also tells the stories of the men and women in his immediate family When, as his son, I inevitably come into his story... I describe him as objectively as possible. The reverence that inspired me did not call for a work of edification; it implied that I should attempt to write a truthful book. For this reason, the book is not in the least respectful, or at least not in the usual sense of the word. Vidal felt that loving someone meant being able to tease him. The author of these lines, who has inherited something of this trait, does not think it disrespectful to tease or make fun of the people he loves."

This book details the background to the Kingitanga and also tells the story of the first king, Potatau Te Wherowhero. It details all the momentous events of Te Wherowhero's life from around 1775 to his death in 1860, including his status as Lord of the Waikato and the famous battles and conflicts with other tribes, his raising up as the First Maori King, and Mana Motuhake, the Maori Kingship, set apart as the symbol of the spiritual and cultural life of the Maori. Pei Te Hurinui's biography of King Potatau tells this story in a Maori voice employing waiata, poetry and whakapapa as well as prose text in English and English translations so that the book is accessible to both Maori language speakers and those with no knowledge of Maori.

"About a family, a city, and its people"--Cover.