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	Eyewitness Guide Turkey  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 432 PAGES Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book provides a thorough overview of Turkey, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and maps. (TKY82, $30.00)
	Crescent and Star, Turkey between Two Worlds  •  Stephen Kinzer HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 265 PAGES An insightful anecdotal report on contemporary life, culture and politics in Turkey. Kinzer, who was the New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul from 1996-2000, is especially attuned to the powerful geographic position of Turkey and its multiple identities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. (TKY64, $16.00)
	Harem, The World Behind the Veil  •  Alev Lytle Croutier CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1991 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A fascinating, illustrated look at the culture of the Harem -- particularly the well known quarters at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The author, who was born in the old house of what once was the harem of a pasha, combines interviews, history and a wonderful selection of art in this intriguing book. (ARB23, $25.00)
	Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place  •  Mary Lee Settle TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1991 •  PAPER  • 253 PAGES A cross-country odyssey from the Aegean shores to the Bosporus and interior by an author and poet who lived in Bodrum 20 years before. Settle's captivating travelogue is a richly detailed portrait of contemporary Turkey, its people, monasteries, myths, archaeological treasures and living traditions. Exemplary. (TKY08, $16.99)
	Turkey Map  •   Freytag & Berndt MAP • BEST SELLER A shaded relief map of all Turkey, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts at a scale of 1:2,000,000 with a more detailed map of Western Turkey on the reverse (1:800,000). With a detailed, 32-page index. Two Sides. 35x44 inches. (TKY29, $14.95)

	A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey  •  Mitchell Reddish  •  Clyde Fant   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide to the places, history and archaeology of the journeys of the Apostle Paul across Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus, geared for the traveler. (MED90, $29.99)
	Culture Smart! Turkey  •  Charlotte McPherson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (TKY127, $9.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Istanbul  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to Istanbul features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (TKY86, $25.00)
	Fodor's Turkey  •  Caroli Trefler   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide, from the popular series, is saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and restaurants. (TKY160, $23.99)
	Lonely Planet Istanbul Encounter  •  Verity Campbell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This lively pocket guide is jammed with recommendations, photographs and a pull-out map. (TKY151, $11.99)
	Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook  •  Arzu Kurklu   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  With essential vocabulary for the traveler. (TKY115, $8.99)
	The Western Shores of Turkey, Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts  •  John Freely   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent overview of the ancient sites of the Turkish coast from Gallipoli to Antioch, Pergamum, Ephesus and Halicarnassus. (TKY07, $24.95)
	Turquoise, A Chef's Travels in Turkey  •  Greg and Lucy Malouf   • FOOD • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  The result of the globe-trotting couple's adventures in Turkey, this sumptuous book combines travel, recipes and hundreds of stunning color photographs of the landscapes, people, food and traditions of Turkey. (TKY192, $50.00)
	1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West  •  Roger Crowley   • HISTORY  •  In this well-paced history, Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. (TKY114, $14.99)
	A Short History of Byzantium  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  A richly detailed and evocative narrative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the fifteenth, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery. (TKY18, $17.95)
	A Traveller's History of Turkey  •  Richard Stoneman   • HISTORY  •  An accessible, well-written overview of Turkish history from the Paleolithic to the present. It includes a chronology of major events, a list of native rulers, further recommended reading, and a gazetteer. (TKY13, $14.95)
	Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd   • HISTORY  •  Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara. (TKY43, $26.95)
	Islam, The Straight Path  •  John L. Esposito   • RELIGION • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tome intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader. (MDE22, $42.95)
	Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire  •  Bernard Lewis   • HISTORY • FAVORITE  •  In this slim volume the great Islamic scholar describes the invasion of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks on May 29, 1453, evoking the city at this pivotal moment in its long history. (TKY17, $24.95)
	The Ottoman Centuries  •  Lord Kinross   • HISTORY  •  A richly detailed, engrossing history of the Ottoman Empire from its dawn in 1300 up to the foundation of the modern republic in 1923, enhanced by maps and photos. (ITL54, $18.99)
	The Secret History  •  G. A. Williamson  •   Procopius   • HISTORY  •  This is historical mudslinging only a Byzantine could devise, a withering expose of the scandals, intrigues and infidelities of the splendid empire and the court of Emperor Justinian by none other than its official historian. (TKY11, $15.00)
	Turkey, A Modern History  •  Erik Zurcher   • HISTORY  •  A lively historical account of the Turkish state from 1780 to the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923. Special attention is given to the "Young Turk" movement and Kemil Ataturk in this comprehensive volume. (TKY10, $33.00)
	Turkey, What Everyone Needs to Know  •  Andrew Finkel   • HISTORY • COMING IN JANUARY  •  From the Kurdish question to economic policy, from Turkey's role in Iraq to its quest for EU membership, Finkel illuminates the past and present of this strategically important nation. (TKY230, $16.95)
	Art of the Byzantine Era  •  David Talbot Rice   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic. (TKY22, $21.95)
	Cave Monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia  •  Lyn Rodley   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A professor of Byzantine Studies, Lyn Rodley puts the rock-cut monasteries, hermitages and complexes of Cappadocia into historical context in this well-illustrated account, first published in 1985. (TKY227, $24.95)
	St. Paul's Ephesus, Texts and Archaeology  •  Jerome Murphy O'Connor   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Jerome Murphy-O'Connor transports us back to the ancient city of Ephesus during its heyday, including contemporary accounts from Roman to biblical times, and featuring a guided walk through the city as a center of Paul's teachings. (TKY226, $29.95)
	Istanbul, Memories and the City  •  Orhan Pamuk   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city of his birth, celebrated in his many novels: a magic place of crumbling mansions and Ottoman riches mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences. (TKY99, $16.00)
	Lords of the Horizons  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A wonderful writer and journalist, Goodwin artfully combines his modern travels with scholarship, history and reflection, capturing the outrageous personalities, events and vagaries of the 600-year-old Ottoman empire. (TKY44, $17.00)
	Birds Without Wings  •  Louis De Bernieres   • LITERATURE  •  Louis De Bernieres offers sweeping historical scope, memorable characters, drama, and many new vocabulary words in this stupendous novel set in Anatolia during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. (TKY91, $16.00)
	Pawn in Frankincense  •  Dorothy Dunnett   • LITERATURE  •  Set in and around Topkapi Palace during the time of Suleyman the Magnificent, exiled Scottish nobleman Francis Crawford, under the guise of a mission for the Sultan, searches for his son in the Ottoman Empire. The fourth book in Dunnett's rousing Lymond Chronicles. (SCT97, $17.00)
	The Iliad  •   Homer  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean. We also carry Fagles's translation of The Odyssey. (Item no. GRE45, $17.00) (GRE173, $17.00)
	The Janissary Tree  •  Jason Goodwin   • MYSTERY  •  With beautiful descriptions of Istanbul and its palaces, this engaging and bizarre historical mystery will keep you reading. The Ottoman Empire mysteries continue with The Snake Stone (TKY156, $14.00) and The Bellini Card (TKY191, $25.00), set in 1840s Venice. (TKY125, $14.00)
	The Towers of Trebizond  •  Rose MacAulay  •  Jan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  Mixing high farce, archaeology, history and lively travel writing, MacAulay's impossibly clever short novel follows the adventures of English missionaries traipsing across Turkey. (TKY15, $14.95)

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