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Following Rick's self-guided tours, you'll experience the wonders of East and West in this fascinating city- the capital of two great empires. Explore one of the world's largest domed churches, haggle with merchants in the exotic Grand Bazaar, and discover the secrets of the sultan's harem in Topkapi Palace. Wander through monumental mosques, shop along sophisticated avenues, and watch whirling dervishes in action. Cruise the Bosphorus for a quick...
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"Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics. Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia. Author Rick Antonson...
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"Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul -- "the center of the world" -- and is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a traditional mildly alcoholic Turkish drink) on the...
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311 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm
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'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away ...' Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory - growing up with her father and his two wives...
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488 pages ; 20 cm
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A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkey's war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy. A terrifying attack. Southern Turkey. Business intelligence operative Iain Black, having survived the hotel bombing that killed his friend and partner, vows to find out who was responsible then make them pay. A past that won't stay buried. Historian Karin Visser, who also lost friends in the blast, teams up with Iain to uncover secrets hidden deep within...
9) Turkey
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702 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 20 cm.
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Offers maps, helpful recommendations, authoritative background information, and up-to-date coverage of things to see and do, for travelers of every budget.
10) Istanbul
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255 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm + 1 pull-out color map
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3D features on the two biggest sights, Aya Sofya and the Topkapi Palace; Features great insider tips; Includes full-colour, pull-out map; Expanded planning section.
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When a brutal murder shocks Istanbul's rundown Jewish quarter, the Turkish police force unleashes their best weapon, the chain-smoking, brandy-swilling Inspector Cetin Ikmen, husband to a strict Muslim woman (who disapproves of his drinking) and loving father of eight (with another on the way).
With a colorful, multi-layered setting and a delicious labyrinthine plot, Barbara Nadel's Belshazzar's Daughter is a stunning and evocative crime debut, and...
12) The red room
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399 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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"In the newest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson, John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable and often incompatible duo, team up again, this time in the exotic 'city between two worlds,' Istanbul. What's it like to see yourself in a picture you never knew was taken? John Knox is an expert at surveillance and delicate, international dealings. So he is understandably thrown when David 'Sarge' Dulwich, his...
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Centers of civilization volume 9
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xiii, 189 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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Administration, society and intellectual life of the Turkish Empire during the two centuries that followed the capture of Constantinople in 1453.
15) Turkey
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46 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm.
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Focusses on issues which arise from Turkey's economic success and move away from its traditional industries of farming and textiles. Turkey must decide whether it looks east or west in the future, while retaining its own identity and political stability in a region torn by conflict.
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"On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before, not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend...
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Filmed over five years, "Polluting paradise" chronicles the struggles of the inhabitants of Çamburnu, Turkey with the government authorities who have turned their seaside village into a depository for municipal waste.
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xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness...
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