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3) Snow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER •Vogue An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist....
Series
Pub. Date
[2006], c2006
Language
English
Description
Painfully familiar with the clash of personal and religious expression, Salman Rushdie can now be seen as a literary sentinel regarding the rise of Islamic extremism. In this program, Bill Moyers talks with the author of Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Shalimar the Clown about the impact of 9/11, about tension between moderate and radical Islam, and about the need to hold the line on fundamentalism even when it leads to personal risk. A reading by...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
Refuting any connection with overt political goals, Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk aims to create stories "as a child, not knowing where I am going next." Yet few writers in the Islamic world are more closely associated with political strife or have sparked as much street-level anger. This program features an interview with the world-renowned author in his Istanbul office, bringing to light his insights into art, oppression, and the...
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 8
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When ISIS plans an attack no one anticipates, one that cannot be defeated by an airstrike, Pike Logan and the Taskforce are America's only hope.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Abir Nasr es un adolescente que presencia, impotente, el asesinato de su familia durante una misión del ejército israelí en el sur de Líbano. Ante los cadáveres de su madre y hermana pequeña, jura que perseguirá a los culpables durante el resto de su vida. Noche tras noche la amenaza de Abir irrumpe en el sueño de Jacob Baudin, uno de los soldados que ha participado en la acción mientras cumplía con el servicio militar obligatorio, enfrentándose...
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English
Description
Once paganism was seen as an antiquated belief system that modern frameworks had made redundant. Now it is claimed paganism is one of the fastest growing religions in the UK and US. Have the pagan gods of nature given us a new haven for spirituality? Or is it a superficial entertainment for lost westerners? The Panel Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics Eileen Barker, philosopher at the University of London Stephen Law, science...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
We assume all events are caused by something. Yet we happily refer to random chance be it a freak accident, or the state of quantum particles. Might causality be a fiction and inexplicable events written into the character of the universe, or with greater understanding could we find an explanation for everything? Sponsored by BBC Focus Magazine. The Panel Templeton prize winning cosmologist George Ellis, Imperial College string theorist Michael Duff...
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