Products and Services --  by Arkadaşlar Members      

Art:

Dale Dapkins (T-16)  An artist working in "stolen art" and have had a recent one man museum show at the Key West Museum of Art.  See his work at: http://web.mac.com/asnewman

David Delthony (T-16)  David Delthony creates wonderful sculpted furniture.  See his work at:
http://www.sculpturedfurnitureartandceramics.com

Chet Dowell (T-8) is a wildlife photographer.  His works can be seen at: www.jubiar.com/chetdowell/about/ 
 

                                                             
Turkey-related non-fiction:

Lowry, Heath W. (T-5)
An Ongoing Affair--Turkey and I
This new book by Rural Community Development volunteer should bring back lots of memories of village life in the mid-1960's.  It describes Heath's two-year stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the village of Bereketli in Balikesir province. Lowry presents a series of candid vignettes of highlights and tragedies of his time in Bereketli, a village he comes to love.

The book is available through www.nettleberry.com  which is the US distributor for Citlembik Publications in Istanbul.  Printed in: English | 1st edition: August 2008 | ISBN: 9789944424530 |



Nadolski, Dora Glidewell (T-1)
The Etatist Turkish Republic and Its Political and Socio-Economic Performance from 1980-1999:  A Developing State Impacted by International Organizations and Interdependence 

This book explores the impact of exogenous forces on the political and socio-economic institutions prior to, during, and after etatism (state controlled enterprises) in the parliamentary Republic of Turkey.  After 1980, Turkey has continued to concentrate on political, economic, and social reforms recommended by the OECD, the World Bank, and the EU.

Pfunder, Malcolm (T-9)
Village in the Meadows  
From Malcolm (Sandy) Pfunder:  Many of you will recall from a couple of years ago our extended swapping of tales from our Peace Corps experiences in Turkey.  A number of people urged me to take my recollections from that time and put them together into a book.  I've done that, and Çitlembik Publications in Istanbul has just released it.  I'd like to tell you that your local Borders or Barnes & Noble, or even Amazon.com, carries it, but they don't yet (we're working on that).  For now, however, it's available online through www.nettleberry.com  at a price of $9.00 per copy (plus $3.00 postage). The book is called "Village in the Meadows," which is the translation of the name of the village where Allen Neill Schauffler and I lived from 1965 to 1967.  The book also describes my impressions from re-visiting my village in 1975, 1999, 2002 and 2004 and has 32 of my photographs from the mid-1960's and my later return visits.

The Table of Contents looks like this:
     Preface
     Peace Corps Training
     Arrival in the Village, Fall 1965
     Winter in the Village, 1965-1966
     Spring and Summer in the Village, 1966
     Our Second Year in the Village, Fall-Winter 1966
     Early Departure from the Village, Winter-Spring, 1967
     A Family Trip to the Village, July 1999
     A Solo Visit to the Village, May 2002
     Back to the Village: A Journal, May 2004
     Reflections
     Afterword
 

Taylor, Gordon (T-8)
Fever and Thirst:  Dr. Grant and the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan
The first Americans in the Middle East were teachers, printers, and missionaries, and one was a country doctor from upstate New York. In June 1835 Asahel Grant, M.D., sailed from Boston with his bride Judith to heal the sick and save the world. Their destination: the town of Urmia, in northwest Iran. Their intended flock: the Nestorian Christians who lived there and in the mountains of Hakkari, across the border in Turkish Kurdistan.

Brosnahan, Tom (T-15)
Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea  (ISBN 0-9767531-0-3, 304 pages, US$15.95).  New humorous travel memoir, tells how Tom got involved with Turkey in the first place (as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in the 1960s), how he became a travel writer, and what it's like to be one (best job in the world?)  It's not just personal adventures. Tom wrote it to include a lot of background information on Turkey and the Turks so that it would be good airplane and end-of-the-day reading for anyone going to, or traveling in Turkey. It also makes a good gift for anyone taking a trip to Turkey.  Can be purchased from your local bookstore or directly from the author at: http://www.brightsunstrongtea.com/   Review by Sandy Pfunder

Lonely Planet Istanbul (2nd Ed) Paperback - 192 pages  (April 1999) List Price: $14.95

Lonely Planet Turkey: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit;  (with Pat Yale)

Lonely Planet Turkey : A Lonely Planet Travel Atlas (ATLAS); Tom Brosnahan (Editor)

Holm, Susan McHenry  (T-13)
Susan has a piece published in The Expat Harem.   See more information about Susan and her contribution to the book at:
http://expat-harem.blogspot.com/2007/12/expat-harem-contributor-susan-holm-is.html

Magnarella, Paul J (T-2)
Anatolia's Loom: Studies in Turkish culture, Society, Politics and Law  (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1998). Includes archeological research articles: "The People of Turkey's Eastern Black Sea Region" and "The Hemshin of Turkey: Yayla, a Pasture above the Clouds." The Hemshin are Muslim Armenians living in several Black Sea region villages.

Bir Koyun Seruveni. Turkiye'deki Gurculer arasinda Gelenek, Goc, ve Degisim.  (A Village's Adventure: Tradition, Migration and Change among Georgians in Turkey, in Turkish).  Istanbul: Sinatle Press, 1997.

Human Materialism: A  Model of Sociocultural Systems and a Strategy  for Analysis.  University Press of Florida, 1993. (Containing chapters on Turkey).

The Peasant Venture: Tradition Migration and Change among Georgian Peasants in Turkey.  Boston: G.K. Hall / Cambridge: Schenkman , 1979.

Tradition and Change in a Turkish Town.  Cambridge: Schenkman/ N.Y.: John Wiley, 1974  (revised ed. Schenkman, 1981).
 
EDITED COLLECTION
  The Middle East and North Africa: Governance, Democratization, and Human Rights. A volume in the Third World in Contemporary Perspectives Series.  England: Ashgate Publishing, 1999.  (Containing a chapter on Turkey).
 

McCarthy, Justin (T-15)
Death and Exile   The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims 1821 - 1922
Recounts the fate of millions of Muslims who were driven from the Balkan lands, the Middle East, southern Russia, and the Caucasus in the context of the imperialism, nationalism, and ethnic conflicts of the times.  Accounts of the expansion of the Russian Empire and the creation of new nations in the Balkans have traditionally been told from the standpoint of the nations that were carved from the Ottoman Empire.  Death and Exile tells those stories from the standpoint of the Turks and other Muslims who were caught up.  Professor McCarthy’s book also presents an important framework for understanding today’s disputes over what happened to Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.  Originally published in 1995,  Death and Exile is in its fifth printing.  It’s available from Amazon for $35.  See also: http://www.darwinpress.com/Books/Death%20and%20Exile%20(978-0-87850-094-9)/main.html

Peirce, Leslie (T-4)
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire.   It's about how women of the Ottoman household (concubines and others) wielded a lot of power.  Available at www.amazon.com

Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab. Life in 16th century Ainab (Gaziantep).
(review)

Other nonfiction:
Finn, Robert P (T-15)
Building State and Security in Afghanistan.   Edited by Wolfgang Danspeckgruber with Robert P. Finn with contributions by President Hamid Karzai.  Published 2007 by Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Published 2007 by Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Paperback, 305 Pages, ISBN: 9780977354443, ISBN-10: 097735444X, List Price $24.95.

Christian Hansen, Christian, MD, MPH  (PC Doctor 1962-64)
In The Name of The Children  Note: editor cut out the chapter about his time in Turkey as a Peace Corps doctor because he wasn't taking care of children then.  For more information: www.inthenameofthechildren.com.

Kouzes, Jim (T-15)
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003)
Credibility is about how leaders earn trust and confidence of their constituents. It’s about what people demand of their leaders and actions leaders must take in order to intensify their constituents’ commitment to a common cause. Credibility is the result of intensive investigation involving over 15,000 people from around the world. The inescapable conclusion from all this research is that credibility is the foundation of leadership. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. As a result of reading this book, you will learn the qualities that constituents look for and admire in leaders, the foundation of leadership and of all working relationships, the principles and disciplines that strengthen leader credibility, the actions you can take immediately to apply the practices to your own leadership initiatives, and the struggles leaders face in living up to their constituents' expectations.
Credibility is available in paperback on Amazon.com or direct from the publisher. Hardcover list price is $19.95. You can learn more about it by visiting Jim and Barry's website, www.leadershipchallenge.com .

The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007)
The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done in organizations. It’s about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards. The fundamental purpose of The Leadership Challenge is to assist people—managers and individual contributors alike—in furthering their abilities to lead others to get extraordinary things done. The book describes The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, explains the fundamental principles that support these leadership practices, provides actual case examples of real people who demonstrate each practice, and offers specific ideas throughout on what you can do to make these practices your own and to continue your development as a leader. The principles and practices described in The Leadership Challenge are based solidly in research. The book has its origins in an ongoing research project that began in 1982 when the authors wanted to know what people did when they were at their “personal best” in leading others. The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, has been extensively updated with the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new stories of real people achieving extraordinary results.
The Leadership Challenge is available in hardcover and paperback on Amazon.com or direct from the publisher. Hardcover list price is $29.95. You can learn more about it by visiting Jim and Barry's website, www.leadershipchallenge.com .

A Leader's Legacy The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006)
In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique challenge and explore the question of leadership and legacy. They examine in twenty-two chapters the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a lasting impact. These powerful essays are grouped into four categories: Significance, Relationships, Aspirations, and Courage. In each essay the authors consider a thorny and often ambiguous issue with which today’s leaders must grapple issues—such as how leaders serve and sacrifice, why leaders need loving critics, why leaders should want to be liked, why leaders can't take trust for granted, why it’s not just the leader’s vision, why failure is always an option, why it takes courage to “make a life,” how to liberate the leader in everyone, and ultimately, how the legacy you leave is the life you lead.
A Leader's Legacy is available in hardcover on Amazon.com or direct from the publisher. Hardcover list price is $24.95. You can learn more about it by visiting Jim and Barry's website, www.leadershipchallenge.com .

Magnarella, Paul J (T-2)
Justice in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide, Its Courts, and the UN Criminal Tribunal.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2000. (Recipient of the Association of Third World Studies ‘Book of the Year 2000’ Award; also nominated for the Raphael Lemkin book award).

Schliff, Henry and Michal (T-16)
Meet Me at the Orange Blossom  A cookbook by the proprietors of the Orange Blossom Bakery in Buxton, on Hatteras Island, North Carolina.  For copies of the cookbook, write to P.O. Box 250, Buxton, NC 27920 or order from Amazon.

Twice the Joy by Henry Schliff (Paperback - May 2008) Simple, Delicious Recipes for Healthful Living





Strane, Susan (T-10)
A Whole-Souled Woman: Prudence Crandall and the Education of Black Women
In 1833, Prudence Crandall opened the first private boarding school for black girls in New England. The village vigilantes resorted to violence and forced the school to close in 1834, whereupon Crandall "took to the prairie"--a dramatic story of one woman's incredible courage.  Available from alibris.com and from Amazon.



Fiction:
Finn, Robert (T-15), translator
Orpheus by Nazli Eray.  Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphée makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Eray's surrealistic version takes place in a hot resort town in contemporary Turkey. The setting of an archaeological dig gives a connection to the past and literally to the underworld. Found in the dig is a statue of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who proceeds to offer an unusual perspective on modern life and values through mysterious letters carried by a messenger pigeon. Eray also comments on modernity, as the city of Ankara emerges as a character in the novel's fantasy. Set in junta-ruled Turkey of the 1980s, the novel takes its place as a crucial slice of Turkish literary history.
     Resonating with haunting references to the film Last Tango in Paris, the novel evolves as a mystery story with a humorous bent. Thus Eray illuminates her insatiable curiosity about other cultures, particularly those of the West. Finally, the style of the translation is simple and clear, with crisp dialogue. Sibel Erol, professor of Turkish literature at New York University, has written an introduction that places this fantastic plot in a literary context, as well as in understandable terms that relate to the reality of today's Turkey.
     Nazli Eray is a well-known writer with a large following in Turkey today. She has been a member of the Turkish parliament and is active in literary and political circles. As a young writer, she participated in the Iowa International Writers Program.
     Robert Finn is currently Ertegun Visiting Professor in the Near Eastern Studies Department of Princeton University. He worked with the author on this translation when he was a diplomat in Turkey.  ISBN: 978-0-292-71409-0, $13.95, paperback, 33% website discount: $9.35

Haruf, Kent (T-8)
Plainsong. The story of the McPheron brother and life in a small town in Holt, Colorado.

Eventide.  The author of Plainsong is back with Eventide, picking up the story of the McPheron brothers. This novel focuses again on small town life in Holt, Colorado.

The Tie That Binds. Check out the rave reviews on www.amazon.com!

Where Once You Belonged



Omang, Joanne (T-4)
Incident at Akabal     
This novel explores the reasons some people turn to violence in rebellion against a government, the reasons others turn to violence in defense of that government, and the reasons still others get caught in the middle. Set in Guatemala of the 1980s (where the author was a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post), its protagonist is the poor mountain village of Akabal and its mayor, its priest and its indigenous families, whose lives hang in the balance.  
     A bomb explodes in an army barracks, and the shock waves follow the fleeing culprit, Miguel, back to Akabal. An army unit led by a disillusioned lieutenant tracks him there, and forces the villagers to make a bloody choice by dawn the next day: turn over one of their own, or be slaughtered. It is an agonizing dilemma as old as war and as current as today's headlines.
   
 "...a fine and complex account of people trying for a middle road between absolutes where no such path exists, accidentally thrust into the front lines of a fight they want no part of..."   The Washington Post

"...a compelling, absorbing effort that brings to mind the work of Graham Greene or Andre Malraux."   Chicago Tribune

"...more than a first-class thriller based on a wonderful premise. With frequently beautiful writing, the novel reveals a community struggling to do the right thing, to be true to itself, to survive."   Boston Globe 

"Omang's fine book illuminates the plight of Central American Indians the way The Grapes of Wrath explained displaced American farmers. It could become as much of a classic."   Knight-Ridder Newspapers 

"Authentic in its details, unflinching in its portrayals, Incident at Akabal is a rich, unforgettable tapestry of language and lives, a book hat speaks ultimately to the power of individuals against the brutality of imposed history."    Philadelphia Inquirer 
 Houghton-Mifflin 1992, 320 pages  ISBN 0-395-58840-5.  Available used or new from Amazon.com, alibris.com or the author: 3016 Tilden St. NW, Washington DC 20008.

Rosenberg, Robet (Friend of Turkey, RPCV-Kyrgyzstan)
This is Not Civilization.  The novel takes place largely in Istanbul just prior to the 1999 earthquake and is possibly the first major work of fiction in the U.S. to explore that devastating tragedy.

Taylor, Gordon (T-8)
Place of the Dawn.  Novel in which main character is a former Turkey volunteer who has stayed on, living in Istanbul.  Published in 1975, it is out of print but is available from 25 different used-book sellers via the "alibris" web site.

Turner, Tom (T-9)
Petals.  A young San Francisco reporter and his graphic-designer girlfriend investigate a series of suspicious murders and then become targets themselves. Available from Lulu.com.

Other:

Beauport Inn on Clay Hill, P.O. Box 941,Ogunquit, Maine 03907
Location: 339 Clay Hill Road.  E-mail: gwilson6@maine.rr.com
Phone: 1-800-646-8681 or 207-361-2400.  Website: http://www.beauportinn.com.
This fun "Turkish decor" B&B is run by former PC-Turkey staffers George Wilson and his wife (PC Turkey 1965-67) in southern Maine.  "Lobsters are always in the steam pot."   Photos 


Eric Janus (T-16) and his wife are part owners of a house near Napflio, Greece.  Located in a non-tourist village about 5 km from town but close to the beautiful and unspoiled beaches of Epidaurus and Myceane.  It's about 2-2.5 hours from Athens, has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, full kitchen, two patios, and stone grill.  For information on renting contact Eric Janus at ejanus@wmitchell.edu.  Or, visit their website at www.greekhomes.net


Bookseller  www.bookfinder.com  T-13 Volunteer Tom Schantz is a professional bookseller. When looking on line for out of print books, go to this site.  It lists books from more dealers than any other single site. Unlike other companies, this one doesn't just buys books from another dealers and then forward them on to you. That process takes longer and can cost more when you add in handling charges.


Turkey Travel Planner 
Excellent site for planning your travel in Turkey by our own Turkey-15 Tom Brosnahan, author of several travel guides on Turkey. (www.turkeytravelplanner.com)