Her şey vaktini bekler


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“Kalbinde iyilik biriktirenlerin yolu daima açıktır.” Şems-i Tebrizi Şems’in öğrencisi olmak zordur. Kararlılık ister, cesaret ister, disiplin ister, yürek ister... Bu yolda yürümeye razı mısın? Şems doğrudandır, dolambaçsızdır, açıktır, nettir. Kendine karşı yalansız, dürüst ve açık olabilir misin? Şems güneştir; aydınlatır, ısıtır ama insanı yakar kül de eder. Önce kül olmaya, sonra küllerinden doğmaya var mısın? Şems boğmaz, zorlamaz, ısrar etmez, vakti gelince bırakmasını da doğru zamanda gitmesini de bilir. Tutunduğun dalları terk etmeye, vakti gelince gitmeye, bildiklerinden vazgeçmeye hazır mısın? Bu kez Şems’in öğrencisi olmaya çağırıyorum seni. Evet ışıklı ve sımsıcak bir yol ama yakıcı ve kavurucu da... Dürüst olamayan düşer, acele eden kendine çelme takar, aldatan aldanır, vazgeçemeyen unutulur, yorulanın hikâyesi erken biter... Şems’in yolu yanmaya hazır olanların yoludur. İrade, zekâ, mantık, terbiye, saygı, güven, cesaret, disiplin ve azim ister senden. Bunların hiçbirini yitirmedin ve hiçbir şey için hâlâ geç değil. Çünkü her şey zaten vaktini bekler. Belki de doğru zaman şimdidir.




Sen Yola Çık Yol Sana Görünür


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Her Şey Vaktini Bekler. Ne Gül Vaktinden Önce Açar Ne de Güneş Vaktinden Önce Doğar. Biraz Sabret Senin Olan Sana Gelecektir. Mevlana 21. yüzyılda dünyanın başına gelenleri görseydi acaba ne düşünürdü? Bu hız çağında boğuştuğumuz sorunları çözüme ulaştırmak için bize nasıl yol gösterirdi? Hakan Mengüç, kaleme aldığı bu yeni kitabında tam da bu soruların yanıtını arıyor. Büyük düşünür, sekiz yüz yıl öncesinden sesleniyor çağımızın acı çeken ruhlarına... Onlara 21 altın kuralı hatırlatıyor! Hiçbir şeyin çaresiz ve çözümsüz olmadığını, her derdin içinde bir derman saklı olduğunu fısıldıyor. Peki ya o dermanı bulmak mümkün mü? Doğru yere bakınca evet... Doğru yeri bilen gönül gözünü uyandırmanın tam zamanı... Aradığın hazine tam olarak durduğun yerde. Hoş geldin yol arkadaşım.




Rules of Entanglement


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District Attorney Vanessa MacGregor firmly believes that structure and order are the stuff that dreams are made of. Happiness can be planned—and it starts with the seven rules she's laid out for her future. But as she's organizing her best friend's wedding in Hawaii, all of Vanessa's best-laid plans are about to meet their match in a wickedly hot MMA fighter... Jackson "Jax" Maris is focused on surfing, training, and fighting. That is, until he opens up his big mouth and finds himself having to pretend he's engaged to his little sister's best friend, Vanessa. When they're forced to share a romantic bungalow, however, their little charade suddenly takes a turn for the seriously sexy. And while Jax is definitely not part of Vanessa's long-term plan, he has seven days—and seven naughty nights—to turn her seven-rule plan upside down. Each book in the Fighting for Love series is STANDALONE: * Seducing Cinderella * Rules of Entanglement * Fighting For Irish * Sweet Victory




A Strange Woman


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The pioneering debut novel by one of Turkey's most radical female authors tells the story of an aspiring intellectual in a complex, modernizing country. In English at last: the first novel by a Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel. A Strange Woman is the story of Nermin, a young woman and aspiring poet growing up in Istanbul. Nermin frequents coffeehouses and underground readings, determined to immerse herself in the creative, anarchist youth culture of Turkey’s capital; however, she is regularly thwarted by her complicated relationship to her parents, members of the old guard who are wary of Nermin’s turn toward secularism. In four parts, A Strange Woman narrates the past and present of a Turkish family through the viewpoints of the main characters involved. This rebellious, avant-garde novel tackles sexuality, the unconscious, and psychoanalysis, all through the lens of modernizing 20th-century Turkey. Deep Vellum brings this long-awaited translation of the debut novel by a trailblazing feminist voice to US readers.




Teaching Listening Comprehension


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Teaching Listening Comprehension provides a range of activities illustrating techniques appropriate for both adults and children.




Luminous Animal


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Turkish Foreign Policy


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This book explores how Turkey's contested national identity has affected its foreign policysince the late Ottoman era. The book takes a constructivist approach, asserting that identity matters for foreign policy decisions, but it separates itself from statist approaches by bringing identity question into domestic politics.




Islam in the Balkans


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From the earliest times, also, many Balkan Muslim soldiers and bureaucrats, as well as scholars and poets, made an impact on the wider Islamic world, the most prominent being Mohammed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.




Constantinople and its Hinterland


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From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled city and its immediate suburbs. In this volume, containing 25 papers delivered at the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at Oxford in 1993, the perspective has been enlarged to encompass a wider geographical setting, that of the city’s European and Asiatic hinterland. Within this framework a variety of interconnected topics have been addressed, ranging from the bare necessities of life and defence to manufacture and export, communications between the capital and its hinterland, culture and artistic manifestations and the role of the sacred.




I Stand Before You Naked


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