Beirut on the Bayou

Beirut on the BayouTells the story of Lebanese immigrant Alfred Nicola, the fortune he began building as a peddler in Louisiana, and the family that founded Al Kafaat University, an iconic institution serving the underprivileged and disabled of Lebanon, through two centuries of unrest in the Middle East. Raif Shwayri begins his family's story with his grandfather Habib Shwayri's arrival at Ellis Island in 1902. Having left Beirut, then a harbor city on the Syrian coast

two poets who sparked a revolution in the world of Japanese classical poetry

and sets in context the work of Hill’s prolific later period from 1996 to 2016

as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching out over almost half a century

from Carolingian dynastic politics to the decline of medieval pilgrimage in the sixteenth century

and also elucidate current erosion process modeling technology and areas for future research

whereas this collection successfully intersects many related fields

and contains a wide range of useful primary data

Environmental and food safety concerns are driving potato research towards the development of sustainable practices

perception and hype

fresh and vivid

It covers a wide range of historical events

In July 1989 coal miners throughout the Soviet Union engaged in a massive strike that briefly captured world headlines and inaugurated a movement of strike committees that persisted across the Soviet/post-Soviet divide