Russell A Harris

Samarkand

The Lafayette Studio and Princely India

Maharajas at the London Studios: National Portrait Gallery, London

The Lafayette Studio and Princely India: The Full Feature

Most Wanted Sheep

Welcome to Sleepyville, where counting sheep helps children sleep. Every evening, the sheep clock in at 8 p.m. sharp, ready to be counted. 1...2...3...4...but where is number 5? One sheep is missing! Number 5, Woolard Wooliam Woolbur Smith the fifth, is tired of being counted and has left his flock ...

Essays of the Sadat Era: The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume II

When Naguib Mahfouz quit his job as a civil servant in 1971, a Nobel Prize in literature was still off on the horizon, as was his global recognition as the central figure of Arab literature. He was just beginning his post on the editorial staff of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, and elsewhere in Ca...

The Automobile Club of Egypt

In British-occupied Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 revolution, respected landowner Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen on hard times. Bankrupt, he moves his family to Cairo and takes a menial job at the Automobile Club, a luxurious lodge for its European members, where Egyptians appear only as fearful serv...

Democracy is the Answer: Egypt's Years of Revolution

As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on itand try to push it in productive directionsthan best-selling novelist and political commentator Alaa Al-Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al-Aswany used his...

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the way most of us go about trying to find happiness ends up making us miserable, driving the epidemics of stress, anxiety, and depression. This empowering book presents the insights and techniques of ACT (...

Samarkand by Maalouf, Amin, Russell Harris (1994) Paperback

Trails to treasure (The Ginn basic readers)

His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy (Landscapes of Childhood Series)

British author Philip Pullman's celebrated trilogy for young readers, His Dark Materials [Northern Lights/Golden Compass (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), The Amber Spyglass (2000)], has reached a broad spectrum of readers, from those appreciating his metaphysical imagination and literary depth to th...