Otter-Barry Books is an exciting publisher of culturally diverse and inclusive high quality illustrated books for children. Our list includes great read-aloud picture books, non-fiction titles, poetry and graphic novels with fantastic art by some of the top authors and illustrators working today, including Steve Antony, Barroux, Jackie Morris, Joseph Coelho, Yu Rong, Roger McGough, Petr Horacek, Elizabeth Laird and Mehrdokht Amini.
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Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, la maison d’édition d’une des plus grandes universités de recherche au Canada et l’une des plus grandes universités bilingues au monde, proposent un programme d’édition en sciences humaines primé, évalué par les pairs, adapté à une économie du savoir et à la réalité de la mondialisation. Les PUO visent l’excellence en recherche et en édition, y compris en accès libre viable. Son catalogue annuel de 25-30 titres, de 4 revues savantes et de 2 marques (Mercure; Harvest House) avance le savoir et est axé sur les grands débats. The University of Ottawa Press, the publishing arm of one of Canada's top research universities and one of the world's top bilingual universities, offers an award-winning, peer-reviewed HSS publishing program for a knowledge-based, globalized world. UOP is committed to excellence in scholarship and publishing practices, including sustainable OA. Its annual catalogue of 25-30 titles, 4 journals and 2 imprints (Mercury Series; Harvest House) advance knowledge and engage with today’s issues.
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The book explores the place and role of the Cossacks and nobility of Ukraine-Rus’ as well as the Cossack state (Hetmanate) in the European-Ottoman wars. The book’s author depicted the long period of confrontation between the Christian and Islamic civilizations in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, important for the world historical process. The reader's attention is drawn not only to the military actions of the Cossacks against the Ottoman Empire, whose elite unit was the Janissary Corps, but also to the illustration of the peaceful relations of Ukraine with the Ottomans and Girays during the years 1500-1700.
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The novel covers the events in the life of the Ukrainian Roksolana (Hürrem Sultan) - the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, which took place in 1540-1551, when she was at the zenith of glory and power. This woman had a significant influence on the policy of the Ottoman Empire. She mediated the Sultan's man to establish good neighborly relations with the Polish Jagiellonian dynasty, Queen Isabella of Hungary, her mother Bona Sforza, and her brother, King Sigismund II of Poland. The novel is based on Roksolana's love and diplomatic correspondence, archival documents, reports of European ambassadors in Istanbul, Ottoman chroniclers, and information from thorough investigations by Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, German, Italian, and American historians. In the novel, not only the events and characters are real, but even their dialogues, which history has preserved to this day.
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Archaeological research over the past 150 years has identified Jerusalem’s southeastern hill, outside the Old City walls, as the biblical City of David. The growing realization that this hill is indeed the most ancient part of Jerusalem led many scholars to excavate it. Since the first excavation by Charles Warren in 1867 to the present, fourteen archaeological expeditions have dug here, making the City of David hill one of the most excavated sites in Israel. British, German, French, and Israeli teams have dug here under four different governments (Ottoman, British Mandate, Jordanian, and Israeli), producing an impressive quantity of data. Some of these remains are uniquely important, including the Siloam Tunnel, the Warren’s Shaft system, the Siloam Inscription, the Theodotos Inscription, and the Pool of Siloam. Recent excavations at the City of David have uncovered impressive remains of Middle Bronze Age fortifications around the Gihon Spring and remains of the Siloam Pool dating to the Second Temple period. The Siloam Tunnel has now been thoroughly documented and studied. This book begins with a chronological survey of a century and a half of excavation and study of the City of David hill. It then summarizes the history of the hill, from prehistoric times to the end of the Ottoman period. It presents an up-to-date summary of past and recent archaeological discoveries, many of which, presented here for the first time, have dramatically changed our thinking about Jerusalem’s ancient history. Ronny Reich has been excavating and studying Jerusalem’s antiquities for over forty years. From 1969 to 1978 he participated in the excavations directed by Professor Nahman Avigad in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter. Since 1995 he has been co-director of the City of David Excavations. Professor Reich is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Jewish ritual baths in the Second Temple period. Since 1995 he has been a professor of archaeology at the University of Haifa. In 2000 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeological Research. 27 × 22 cm., 382 pages, hardcover, numerous black & white and color illustrations.
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"Fu Long Ji" takes the Wuyun Mountain as the diverging point, and contains 12 stories such as "Moving Wood", "Forgetting Vine", "Hua Ren" and "Xue Pu". It tells the story of 12 kinds of strange flowers and herbs on the mountain. For example, in "Snow Puff", it starts from the perspective of the human protagonist "Granny" to tell the story of her getting together with "Snow Puff" because of fireworks. In the second half, it tells the story from the perspective of "Snow Puff" to tell what she thinks and does when she sees the heroine trapped in a fire. This book is not about love between men and women, but about human desires.This book illustrates the author's thoughts on human nature through a deeply interesting story and beautiful illustrations.
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100 years ago, Armenian thought was inspired by European values. First it was socialism, now it is democracy. 100 years ago, and today, the main question remains the same: how to build relations with Russia?At the beginning of the last century, Armenians in the Ottoman, Iranian and Russian empires actively participated in future-oriented ideological discussions. The Caucasian events of 1917 showed the ideological differences of Armenian politicians and intellectuals. The role of the Caucasus was redefined. It was a part of the ancient kingdom of Armenians, therefore the territory of Armenian autonomous existence, and then also the restoration of the state.What were the expectations of the Armenian parties from the tsarist government and then from the Bolshevik government? Why did the fate of Western Armenia divide Armenians into Leninist and Plekhanovian ideological camps? Armenians' ideas about the right to self-determination 100 years ago: what has changed?
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"Rat-a-tat, a little drum turns like a windmill faster and faster. Puff-a-puff, an old man blows a sugar figure harder and harder." As soon as Little Douzi’s grandpa shouts out, the lane is alive with kids coming out. With the passage of time, Litte Douzi grows up, while Grandpa gets old and sick. Little Douzi and Dad carries Grandpa's sugar load, and blows, kneads, pulls and cuts the sugar syrup. Then a sweet sugar figure warms the bleak autumn, cold winter and the sick Grandpa. Love will finally overcome all difficulties.
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The book by Prof. Ihor Shevchenko, a noble intellectual, one of the most prominent specialists in the fields of Byzantine and Slavic history and culture, presents the medieval and early modern history of Ukraine in a broad cultural perspective in the context of the country’s relations with the East (Byzantium, Muscovite/Russian state, the Ottoman Empire) and the West (Poland and Austria-Hungary). The twelve essays that make up the book cover the period from the introduction of Christianity in Kievan Rus to the early 18th Century.
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Turkey facing east is about the importance of Turkey's relations with its Eastern neighbours - Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Soviet Union - during the emergence of the modern Turkish nation-state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The principal strength of this book is that it not only combines historical and theoretical arguments in order to provide a better understanding of the foreign relations of a predominantly Muslim country from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, but it also applies the new approach to the analysis of Turkish foreign policy towards the South Caucasus between 1918 and 1921. Hence, it stands out with its original interdisciplinary approach to the Turkish transition and foreign policy-making that offers perspectives on the extant possibilities for the particular transitional states resulting from the Arab spring uprisings.
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Today, Turkey stands at the center of the world, as it has for millennia. Yet, once again, its position as an international power is ambiguous. It straddles the Occident and the Orient, yet it is neither comfortable with or trusted by either East or West. Beneath its glittering exterior, Turkey is a dormant volcano, ready to explode again, as it has done so many times throughout history. In LEGACY, we meet Turhan Türkoğlu and Abbas Hükümdar, victims of unspeakable poverty and cruelty, each of whom will walk entirely different paths in life. We come face to face with Halide Orhan, one of the greatest heroines of modern literature. In this volume, we witness the death throes of a decaying superpower, the Ottoman Empire, and the beginning of the modern era, marked by the horrors of World War I. Each of these three characters leave their indelible imprint on their Motherland. Published By Pangæa Publishing Group, 2019. 274 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm
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VOLUME TWO, EMERGENCE: 1918 – 1938 In Volume One, LEGACY, we witnessed the death of the Ottoman Empire. The Western Powers, who thought they’d have an easy time dismembering the corpse, somehow never reckoned with the courage and resilience of the Turkish people – or that a leader as great as Kemal Atatürk would grab the Motherland by the scruff of the neck and yank it forward five centuries in the span of fifteen years. The fourth major protagonist in this epic, Nadji Akdemir, scion of generations of military pride, enters the tale when Turkey is at its nadir, and afterward joins Turhan Türkoğlu and Halide Orhan at Turkey’s rebirth and EMERGENCE as the Motherland builds from within. Meanwhile, as the world descends into a nascent holocaust like none other in history, Abbas Hükümdar hitches his yoke to the rising star that is Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich. Published By Pangæa Publishing Group, 2019. Volume Two - 238 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm
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What happened to the Armenians who remained in the Ottoman Empire in 1915? What state policy did Turkey adopt towards them? How did it happen that after 1920 the Soviet Union was studying the treaties of Kars and Sevres and seriously discussing the problem of reclaiming Kars and Ardahan from Turkey? Why did the announcement of Soviet Armenia's immigration appear right in the middle and at the most dangerous point of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Turkey, which is a historical confrontation, but which is being formed with a new political order and methods?A book that was awaited especially by those who noticed the active work of Turkish historians in the archives. In the archives where it is possible to find documents and information about the Armenian Genocide, survivors and descendants. This time, two Armenian Turkologists worked in the archives in detail and with care.They found and presented information about the Armenians who took the path of "escape" from Erg to Armenia, kept under the "strictly secret" file and until now unknown. Why and how they decided, came and stayed: the Armenians of Turkey and their descendants tell the story in this book. From the trauma of the Genocide to the process of ghettoization in Armenia. what the repatriates went through.
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Ada war viel allein, als sie klein war. Meistens spielte sie mit ihrer Lieblingskatze Mrs Puff und träumte von Maschinen, die fliegen können. Während einer langen Krankheit verbrachte sie viel Zeit im Bett und studierte Zahlen. Als sie später einen Mathematiker kennenlernte, der eine wundersame Rechenmaschine baute, erfand sie einen Code, der der Maschine sagte, was sie machen soll. Und heute ist dieser Code die Grundlage für unsere Computersprache! Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Schauspielerin, Fußballer oder Bürgerrechtsaktivistin, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen. Für welches Alter sind diese Bücher gedacht? Für Babys das perfekte Geschenk zur Begrüßung in eine Welt voller Träume! Und Eltern werden in schlaflosen Nächten von diesen Büchern dazu ermutigt, das Vorlesen zu einem selbstverständlichen Teil des Lebens zu machen. Kleinkinder werden von den Illustrationen verzaubert sein – sie werden zahlreiche Dinge entdecken. Auch sind die Bücher großartige „Vokabeltrainer“! 3- bis 5-Jährige werden alles, Illustrationen und Texte, geradezu in sich aufsaugen! 6-, 8- und 10-Jährige haben ein ausgeprägteres Verständnis für die Illustrationen und die Bedeutung der Geschichte – es geht nicht nur darum, sich selbst zu akzeptieren und die eigenen Zukunftsträume zu verwirklichen, sondern auch darum, andere so zu akzeptieren, wie sie sind. Später: Die Bücher sind gute Geschenke zu jedem Anlass, denn die Träume der Kindheit können das ganze Leben lang Wirklichkeit werden.
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Adopting the story-within-a-story structure of Arabian Nights, author Osama Alaysa weaves together a collection of stories portraying centuries of oppression endured by the Palestinian people. This remarkable novel eloquently brings together fictional characters alongside real-life historical figures in a complex portrayal of Bethlehem and the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. The common thread connecting each tale is madness, in all its manifestations. Psychological madness, in the sense of clinical mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, finds expression alongside acts of social and political madness. Together, these accounts of individuals and communities provide a gateway into the histories of the city of Bethlehem and Palestine. They paint a picture of the centuries of political oppression that the Palestinian people have endured, from the days of the Ottoman Empire to the years following the Oslo Accords, and all the way to 2012 (when the novel was written). The novel is divided into three sections, each containing multiple narratives. The first section, “The Book of a Genesis,” describes the physical spaces and origins of Bethlehem and Dheisheh Refugee Camp. These stories span the 19th and 20th centuries, transitioning smoothly from one tale to another to offer an intricate interpretation of the identity of these places. The second section, “The Book of the People Without a Book”, follows parallel narratives of the lives of the patients in a psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem, the mad men and women roaming the streets of the city, and those imprisoned by the Israeli authorities. All suffer abuse, but they also reaffirm their humanity through the relationships, romantic and otherwise, that they form. The third and final section, “An Ephemeral Book,” follows individuals—Palestinian and non-Palestinian—who are afflicted by madness following the Oslo Accords in 1993. These stories give voice to the perspectives of the long-marginalized Palestinian population, narrating the loss of land and the accompanying loss of sanity in the decades of despair and violence that followed the Nakba, the 1948 eviction of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. The novel’s mad characters—politicians, presidents, doctors, intellectuals, ordinary people and, yes, Dheisheh and Bethlehem themselves—burst out of their narrative threads, flowing from one story into the next. Alaysa’s crisp, lucid prose and deft storytelling chart a clear path through the chaos with dark humor and wit. The result is an important contribution to fiction on the Palestinian crisis that approaches the Palestinians, madness, and Palestinian spaces with compassion and depth.
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The level of domestic abuse has been increasing for years, but often only cases of physical abuse hit the headlines. Hardly anyone talks about the mental, or psychological, abuse that usually precedes a physical or sexual assault. Those affected do not usually recognise the destructive dynamic in their relationship until far too late. In this book, three case histories illustrate the typical forms of mental abuse in relationships. In addition, experts explain the topic from psychological, therapeutic, political and legal perspectives, and the head of a counselling centre for male victims of mental abuse also has his say. An important and startling book.
The history of science represents an important aspect of the history of nations, and reveals to the learner the truth about science and its secrets. Therefore, it is considered an important topic in modern writings, as its study is a study of the development of civilization and the civilization production of nations through which bridges are established between the past and present to recognize the human development process and build the present and future of nations. Here we are dealing with a great book and a long journey through "History of Science among the Ottoman Turks" by Abdülhak Adnan Adıvar, a Turkish physician, politician and thinker. Besides medicine, he studied philosophy, literature and history. At first he authored this book in French, then he wrote it in Turkish in a revised and updated version. It was translated from Turkish by the professor of Turkish language and literature Prof. Adbel Razek Barakat, the former dean of the Faculty of Arts in Ain Shams University. The translation came out in a clear flowery language expressing the great effort exerted in writing such unique historiography. The book handles the Turkish history of science during the Ottoman period between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. It specifically focuses on empirical sciences and discusses the Turkish status of science, its development and the different contributions of scientists. It sometimes tackles the reciprocal relation between authority and knowledge in close or infrequent intervals. It is not confined to the study of scientific movement only within the Ottoman state. However, the author is trying to make comparisons between the scientific life in Turkey under the Ottoman state on the one hand and the scientific life in the west on the other hand. One should possess such a worthy book because its author mastered a number of languages that enabled him to peruse different references in his time. Thus, he was able to document the status of science during this important historical period. In fact, it is a bibliography that includes treasures of publications and prominent authors of Ottoman natural and empirical sciences. It is actually a tour among libraries of both ancient and modern worlds. One feels like wandering between the greatest literature written by the scholars of the country and what was dispersed by the hands of ancient time; between what was entirely left and what was preserved out of the dispersed part. Thus, one can make out the history of the renaissance of empirical science and other sciences in the Ottoman countries. The journey extends over eight chapters through which we tried to rename it so as to facilitate the matter for researchers and present this valuable book in the best possible way. The First Chapter: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries In the first chapter, the reign of Murad I, it is revealed that the sun of empirical sciences shone in the sky of Iznik school which was built by Orkhan Bek in 1330, 1332 AD. The ray shed on the courtyard of this great school started the first steps towards the transformation from depending on the study of traditional sciences into exploring the sciences of nature. Thus, the fourteenth century was the era of the first school and the first book for the children of Ottoman in this respect. There appeared the book entitled Mufradat Ibn Al-Bitar, which was translated by an anonymous person. It is believed to be the only book authored concerning intellectual sciences at that time. The author goes on mentioning the names of the important figures of that time. Prominent among them was Qadhi Zadah, whom Zaki Bek considered the first astronomer and mathematician in the Ottoman State. Thus, it was the age of the first ones and individuals; it was a step towards the sunshine of empirical science in the middle of the Ottoman sky. The Second Chapter: Sultan Muhammad the Conqueror (Mehmed II) and Science: The sunshine of sciences continues in the second chapter, the age of the conqueror by whom God opened what was locked tight in his time. It showed its beauty as a result of his interest in science and scientists. The humming of scholars was heard on the lands of the children of Ottoman. Wrapped in shyness, the sunshine appeared in the hall of the Conqueror's palace. He loved metaphysics, languages and religions. It shone on his seat to shed light over his courtyard which was the assembly room of scientists of his time and the center of many accurate debates on the field of religions and others. Translation flourished at his time and many schools and libraries were built. Certainly, the greatest ones were the Conqueror's school and library, which were the link between the old and the new; between authenticity and modernity. They were two of the greatest edifices of traditional science and the empirical one alike. The Third Chapter: The End of the Fifteenth Century and the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century The sunshine went on slowly in the sky of empirical science in the country of Ottoman's children in the third chapter, the reign of Bayezid II. Attention was paid to empirical sciences after Fatih although it was less than the attention paid to them in Europe. There appeared timidly the interest in writing books. There was an increase in building hospitals. Under the sun of these sciences in that century, there shone Bairam Jelbi, the most important astronomer and mathematician at that time and the grandson of Qadhi Zadah and so did Muzafar El-Din Al-Shirazi. The Fourth Chapter: The Sixteenth Century and Maritime Geography The sun steps steadily in the forenoon of the sixteenth century in the fourth chapter, the reign of Al-Qanooni. It sheds light over the surface of the world. The country expands and more attention is paid to maritime geography, which is a useful instrument for the army to achieve more power and triumph. However, no attention is really paid to pure empirical science according to the state's orientation at that time. Poets were warmly welcomed in the courtyard of Al-Qanooni's palace. Thus, verses of poets went side by side with the interest in maritime geography. Like a maritime and geographical minaret, the marine scientist Piri Reis shone. He drew the most important world map then, and authored a book entitled Bahriya (Book of Navigation). Within the procession of the sea fleet, we find the geographer and sailor Sidi Ali Bin Hussein, the author of The Mirror of Kingdoms with its legends and nice jokes about his voyages. He also wrote The Ocean, which is considered his most important book. From the sea, the Ottomans looked at the sky with a gentle touch of the rise of empirical science and the exuberances of news coming about it from Europe. In a request submitted to Murad III, a historian called Sa'ad El-Din Efendi suggested the construction of an Ottoman observatory, which was built and demolished at the same time pursuant to a fatwa of Sheikh El-Islam Ahmad Al-Din Efendi" The sky became cloudy and its bodies and planets disappeared for a while. At that time, translation of major encyclopedias from Arabic and Persian flourished. Physicians started being tested in order to get permission to practice their job. Three of the great scholars of that time were executed in painful and tragic incidents. The Fifth Chapter: the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Katib Gelbi The sun of sciences went on at the forenoon of the eighteenth century in the fifth chapter, the reign of Muhammad IV. It almost faded. That century witnessed a time of general recession that made renaissance advocates cry and complain bitterly. The scientific movement then depended on copying, quotation and translation. However, there was still a glimpse of hope and a glint of life when a great polymath scientist appeared. That was Hajji khalifa, who was known as Katib Gelbi, the author of encyclopedias and compilations. He authored a book entitled Revealing Doubts. He says, "it is a brief useful history of science and philosophy in Arabic". He is considered the first Turkish man that authored a brief book on the history of science. The Sixth Chapter: The Eighteenth Century and the Printing Press In the sixth chapter of the book, the reign of Sultan Ahmad III and Grand Vizier Ibrahim Basha, the sun of knowledge returned to rise in the middle of Ottoman sky of sciences. It enlightened the way for the Ottoman printing press. Thanks to Asad Bin Ali "Ibrahim Mutafarika" and his dissertation "The Means of the Printing Press", Grand vizier Ibrahim Basha strongly advocated the establishment of the printing press. Sheikh Ul-Islam issued a fatwa that permitted only the printing of intellectual and empirical sciences, yet he banned the printing of revelation sciences. The Grand vizier did not enforce that fatwa to a great extent. He showed great consideration for scientific life and its men. So, compilation and translation flourished. Ottomans continued paying attention to geography. However, medicine remained traditional as it was although some like Omar Shifa'ey achieved renown as a physician and an author. The Seventh Chapter: Medicine and Mathematics at the End of the Eighteenth Century The sunlight of knowledge becomes greater and brighter in the seventh chapter at the end of the eighteenth century. Science spread widely in the state of Ottoman's children and the activity of scientific renaissance flourished due to the footsteps of horses' hooves, the sound of gunpowder and the sailing of ships. During the reign of Mustafa III, mathematics developed and achieved tremendous progress. The school of maritime engineering was established to develop the army and the military institution. The Eighth Chapter: The Movement of Revival in the Nineteenth Century The western influence on scientific life became manifest. Selim III brought teachers from the west and paid great attention to scientific life. So, he established the Royal school of engineering where empirical and intellectual sciences and languages were taught. The second printing press was established at that time and the light of science shone on the land of Ottoman's children. Finally, the book presents the Ottoman Turkish history of science in a historical descriptive method. Firstly, it was presented to the western community. However, we believe that the book was in dire need of a time plan and a historical method which were more accurate. The book was included in the category of sciences' history, not the bibliography. It represented a very rich material in that category. However, it influenced the accuracy of the historical narrative method since it depended on mentioning compilations without really considering the circumstances of the development of sciences and knowledge. As a whole, it is a worthy book and a great effort was exerted in compiling it. The critical perspective of the compilations mentioned within the book represented a great advantage on various levels. Prominent among them was the benefit of historians. Through his comments, the translator presented a complete idea about most of the book’s contents. They are the comments of someone mostly involved in the Turkish inheritance and literature.
