El: 1026 books
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear,...
Rain over Baghdad
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth,...
The Killer Jaws
The Swamps
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
In the sea there are many stories and legends that tell of tales of sea species that are too gruesome for some of us to even imagine. The elders speak of fish from hell. I'm going to tell you an epic story of a sea monster with killer jaws that live in the swamp, the hidden marshes of Florida; this...
In the Beginning: Hijacking of the Religion of God
Volume 1: Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Preface It was shortly after I had graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1980, with a PhD Degree specializing in fracture mechanics and failure analysis of materials and structures, that I discovered the dire need for this book. This undertaking began to take shape in the early 1980s with...
I Wouldn't Want to Do It Again…
D-Day in Normandy as Seen Through the Eyes of Private Fayette O. Richardson (Pathfinder) and 1st Lt Rex G. Combs, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, US 82nd Airborne Division
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Based on the written testimonies and personal archives of two veterans of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment attached to the famous US 82nd Airborne Division, this book tells the story of two young Americans who unwittingly became actors in one of the greatest crusades against tyranny the world...
by Nawal El Saadawi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body....
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels
God Dies by the Nile, Searching, The Circling Song
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
God Dies by the Nile is Saadawi’s attempt to square religion with a society in which women are respected as equals; Searching expresses the poignancy of loss and doubt with the hypnotic intensity of a remembered dream; while in The Circling Song, Saadawi pursues the conflicts of sex, class, gender and military violence deep into the psyche.
Black Magic
A Modern Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father's gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. Now a hack working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent woman older than himself who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure...
Private Pleasures
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Private Pleasures describes the three-day sex, drink, and drug binge of a thirty-something newsreader in the back streets and crumbling apartments of his native Giza, that pullulating mass of humanity that, like an ugly sister, sits opposite Cairo on the Nile's west bank. Pursued by an unshakable...
Naguib Mahfouz
The Pursuit of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Left Communism to Post-modernism
Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
From Left Communism to Post-modernism addresses issues of the shape and future of the socialist movement and the politics of post-modernism. The author identifies a tradition of socialist thought - left communism - that is separate from socialist orthodoxy, seeking to stage a conversation between...
by Pastor M El Masih
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This is a story of overcoming struggles to achieve success. It is about a poor boy who lived in a mud home of a small village in a third-world country. His life was in poverty and desperation, but once he put his trust in God, his life was completely changed. When you read this book, your life will...
by Ahmed F. El-Sayed
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Aircraft Propulsion and Gas Turbine Engines, Second Edition builds upon the success of the book’s first edition, with the addition of three major topic areas: Piston Engines with integrated propeller coverage; Pump Technologies; and Rocket Propulsion. The rocket propulsion section extends the text’s...
Textual Relations in the Qur'an
Relevance, Coherence and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of linguistics and Qur'anic studies.
The Qur'an contains many long suras covering diverse topics but with no apparent common context within which such variety...