Step it Down


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Gathers traditional baby games, clapping plays, jumps and skips, singing plays, ring plays, dances, outdoor games, songs, and stories




Turkey's Alevi Enigma


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This volume, written by specialists, be they political scientists, historians or anthropologists, is a convenient handbook on the origins and history of Turkey's Alevis - an important group that is largely unknown in the West. It examined their ethnic identity, cultural representation, political life, and relations with the Turkish State, The Turkish Left and the Kurdish National Movement.




StoryCraft


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While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.




Made in Turkey


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Made in Turkey: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of Turkish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars of Turkish music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Turkey. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Turkish popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Turkey, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: Histories, Politics, Ethnicities, and Genres.




Selected drama. Second edition


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“Избранная драма” (второе издание) – сборник любительских пьес для любителей драмы на английском языке, постановка которых была осуществлена студентами-языковедами одного из ведущих университетов Казахстана.




The Turkey


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“Talking turkey” about the bird you thought you knew Fondly remembered as the centerpiece of family Thanksgiving reunions, the turkey is a cultural symbol as well as a multi-billion dollar industry. As a bird, dinner, commodity, and as a national icon, the turkey has become as American as the bald eagle (with which it actually competed for supremacy on national insignias). Food historian Andrew F. Smith’s sweeping and multifaceted history of Meleagris gallopavo separates fact from fiction, serving as both a solid historical reference and a fascinating general read. With his characteristic wit and insatiable curiosity, Smith presents the turkey in ten courses, beginning with the bird itself (actually several different species of turkey) flying through the wild. The Turkey subsequently includes discussions of practically every aspect of the iconic bird, including the wild turkey in early America, how it came to be called “turkey,” domestication, turkey mating habits, expansion into Europe, stuffing, conditions in modern industrial turkey factories, its surprising commercial history of boom and bust, and its eventual ascension to holiday mainstay. As one of the easiest of foods to cook, the turkey’s culinary possibilities have been widely explored if little noted. The second half of the book collects an amazing array of over one hundred historical and modern turkey recipes from across America and Europe. From sandwiches to salmagundi, you’ll find detailed instructions on nearly every variation on the turkey. Historians will enjoy a look back at the varied appetites of their ancestors and seasoned cooks will have an opportunity to reintroduce a familiar food in forgotten ways.




Rakı: The Spirit of Turkey


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Ödüllü Rakı Ansiklopedisi’nin yayın yönetmeni Erdir Zat, rakıyı hem bir içki hem de Türkiyeli bir “muhabbet kültürü”nün temeli olarak tüm dünyaya tanıtan bir kitap kaleme aldı. Murat Belge, Raşit Çavaş, Bahattin Yücel ve Vefa Zat’ın içerik danışmanlığını yaptıkları kitabın önsözünü de yine Murat Belge yazdı. Mey İçki’nin desteğiyle Overteam Yayınları tarafından yayınlanan Rakı: The Spirit of Turkey İngilizce’ye Bob Beer tarafından tercüme edildi. Rakı hakkında kaleme alınan ilk İngilizce kitap olma özelliği taşıyan Rakı: The Spirit of Turkey, beş bölümden oluşuyor. Rakı Culture başlığını taşıyan ilk bölümde rakı içilen mekanlar, tarihin ünlü rakı severleri, rakının Türkiye’nin kültürel hayatında nasıl bir önemi olduğu özetleniyor. The Origins of Rakı başlıklı bölümün konusu rakının tarihi kaynakları. The Meyhane başlığı altında, rakı içilen mekanların karakteristik özelliklerinin ve ünlü temsilcilerinin yanı sıra, rakıya ilişkin yasal düzenlemelerle, bu düzenlemelerin gündelik hayata nasıl yansıdığına dair anekdotlar yer alıyor. The Çilingir Sofrası‘nın konusu kaçınılmaz olarak mezeler… Rakı etrafında şekillenen mutfak kültürünün özellikleri ve özgünlükleri tanıtılıyor bu bölümde. Rakı as a Spirit bölümünün konusu ise rakıyı benzersiz kılan üretim ve sunum inceliklerinin yanı sıra, bu içkinin ticari tarihi… İngilizce bilen okura, rakıya dair bilmek isteyebileceği her şeyi yine rakıya yaraşır bir dille aktarmayı hedefleyen Rakı: The Spirit of Turkey, Türkiye’nin kültürel tarihine ve gündelik yaşam bilgisine dair derinlikli bir perspektif sunuyor. Yüzlerce kaynaktan derlenen anekdotlar ve kullanılan bol miktarda görsel malzemeyle kitap, Türkiye hakkında eğlenceli bir rehber olarak da okunabilir.




Turkish Metal


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Turkish Metal journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. The book applies an ethnographic approach in order to study social and cultural change in a Muslim society that is stricken with conflict over the, by turns, religious or secular nature of the state. Turkish Metal explores how Turkish metalheads, against all odds, manage to successfully claim public spaces of their own, thereby transforming the public face of the city. The book raises the question of how and why the young dare to rebel against the prevalent social and moral restrictions in Turkish society; and it examines whether they succeed in asserting their individual freedom in a society that is still well-known for sanctioning any kind of behaviour deviating from the norm. Above all, the book investigates the Turkish metal scene's potential for contesting Islamic concepts of morality, its relevance within the field of female emancipation, and its capacity to foster social relations that cut across national, religious and ethnic boundaries.




Glasgow and Its Clubs


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