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Products and Services
-- by Arkadaşlar Members
Turkey-related non-fiction:
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.
The major conclusions are: that
interdependence and pluralism explain Turkey's status in the global
system of competitive states; that joining international organizations
has improved Turkey's institutions; and that Turkey's political
institutions comply with World Bank criteria for effective government.
The prepublication orders can be placed by calling 1-800-462-6420, and
use the promotion code UPREPUB,
www.univpress.com. For additional information, see
http://turkeydemocratized.blogspot.com/. Cost is $25.
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.
Into the next eight years Grant packed ten lifetimes’
worth of danger, traversing deserts and glaciers, tending the sick,
breaking bread with thieves and murderers, and narrowly escaping death
from drowning, disease, and assassination. By 1840 he had lost Judith and
two daughters to disease; yet by the time he died, at age 36, everyone in
the mountains knew his name, and thirty years later Muslims, Christians,
and Jews still spoke of "Hakim Grant" with reverence.
Grant was a walking contradiction: a saint who
neglected his children; a missionary who "converted" only Christians; a
doctor who poisoned himself with his own medicine; an apolitical man whose
very existence bristled with political import. In 1841, amid this
whirlwind life, he became a successful author with his book The
Nestorians; or, The Lost Tribes. Grant is buried in Mosul, Iraq, where
he died in 1844.
http://www.academychicago.com/feverandthirst.html
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)
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).
Other nonfiction:
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.
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
Fiction:
Haruf, Kent (T-8)
Eventide. The author of
Plainsong is back with Eventide, picking up the story of the McPheron
brothers. This new novel focuses again on small town life in Holt,
Colorado.
Omang, Joanne (T-4)
Incident at Akabal Available at
www.Amazon.com
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.
Art:
David Delthony
(T-16) David Delthony creates wonderful sculpted furniture. See his
work at:
http://www.sculpturedfurnitureartandceramics.com/david1.htm
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)
Eden's Garden International Playschool, founded
by Arkadaslar member, Tara Alisbah, is now offering a summer camp
(2006)
in Istanbul for children of all ages. More information.
©Arkadaslar
02/27/08
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