Search Results: Armenia & Armenians from KALAMOS BOOKS

New York: Arkady, 1939 Book. Near Fine. Cloth. The faith and endurance which allowed some Armenians survive the Turkish massacres movingly described in a novel. 482p. Red Cloth .

Toronto: Armenian National Committee of Canada, 2011 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 2nd.ed... "Anyone who has followed the Armenian national struggle to earn international recognition of the Genocide of Armenians is familiar with the Ankara propaganda machines boilerplate denials. Ms. Hajinians book, in addition to documenting the Genocide, lists thirteen of the most notorious distortions deployed by the Turkish side and then proceeds to demolish them, exposing them as patent falsehoods. Thus the litany of Turkish propaganda spins such as 'historians dispute the veracity of the Genocide of Armenians" 'its up to historians to decide what happened' 'the UN didnt acknowledge the Armenian Genocide,"the Armenian Genocide was not state planned," "the Turkish archives are open; Armenian archives are not, "Armenian deaths were a result of communal violence" and "Armenians collaborated with Turkeys enemies" are dissected and tossed into the rubbish heap… Read More

University of Utah Press, 2005 Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition.. [Utah Series In Turkish And Islamic Studies ] In 1915, the Ottoman government, then run by the Young Turks, deported most of its Armenian citizens from their eastern Anatolian lands. According to reliable estimates, close to forty percent of the prewar population perished, many in brutal massacres. Armenians call it the first genocide of the twentieth century. Turks speak of an instance of intercommunal warfare and wartime relocation made necessary by the treasonous conduct of their Armenian minority. The voluminous literature on this tragic episode of World War I is characterized by acrimony and distortion in which both sides have simplified a complex historical reality and have resorted to partisan special pleading. The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey examines the rich historical evidence without political preconceptions. Relying on archival materials as well as eye-witness testimony, Guenter Lewy avoids the sterile… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin, 2007 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families . in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the 'bastard' of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. When Armanoush secretly flies to Istanbul in search of her identity, she finds the Kazanci sisters and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is uncovered… Read More

Toronto: Hellenic Canadian Federation of Ontario, 2000 Book. As New. Soft cover. Uncorrected Galley Proofs. Programme for a Conference on Human rights sponsored byThe Hellenic Canadian Federation of Ontario to be held in Toronto May 19-21 2000. 8p..

Toronto: Hellenic Canadian Federation of Ontario, 2000 Book. As New. Soft cover. Uncorrected Galley Proofs. The Hellenic Canadian Federation of Ontario. sponsored this conference held in Toronto Canada May 19-21 2000.set includes [1] Copy of the Conference agenda 8p. together with {2] The conference proceedings with papers on topics such as the Greeks of Pontos, the Armenian Genocide, Cyprus, Greeks in Albania, Albanians in Kossovo and other problems of ethnicity and human rights, with some useful bibliographies. 180p illus. [Only ONE copy found in WorldCat].

Toronto: Hellenic Canadian Federation of Ontario, 2000 Book. Good - Very Good. Soft cover. Uncorrected Galley Proofs. The Hellenic Canadian Federation of Ontario. sponsored this conference held in Toronto Canada May 19-21 2000.thie set includes [1] Copy of the Conference agenda 8p... . together with [2] The conference proceedings with papers on topics such as the Greeks of Pontos, the Armenian Genocide, Cyprus, Greeks in Albania, Albanians in Kossovo and other problems of ethnicity and human rights, with some useful bibliographies. 180p. NOTE this literally IS an uncorrected proof copy direct from the printer so, although the text appears complete, the sequence of the pages is mis-bound inside the paper covers.Needs re-biding, but contents still useful. 180p.Illus. bibliographies,[Only ONE copy found in WorldCat].

New York: D Van Nostrand, 1977 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Review Copy.. "With compliments stamp on title page, else fine. 114p. .

Toronto: Albert Edward Safarian, 2010 Book. New. Soft cover. First Edition.. The author is a Professor at the University of Toronto. The book records his early impressions on visits to Soviet Russia, Armenia and Central Asia, and his later experiences after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the social and economic changes he observed.vi, 123 p. maps [ 4 copies found in WorldCat].

Kingston, ON: Blue Heron Press, 1999 Book. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st Can Ed.. Stories about Armenian-Canadians and their wide diaspora and the kinds of loss and displacement still felt by exiles even generations after the genocide in Turkey. 239p..

Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1986 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st.Can Ed... A collection of thirteen papers given at a conference held at the University of Toronto in May 1985. covering the varied experiences of immigrant women in Canada, As a pioneering enterprise in this area, it has indicated the richness of the field. A beginning has been made; much remains to be done. Includes : Polyzoi, Eleoussa " Greek immigrant women from Asia Minor in pre-war Toronto - the Formative Years" pp.107-124 ; Petroff, Lillian "Contributors to ethnic cohesion : Macedonian women in Toronto to 1940" pp125-138; Kaprielian, Isabel "Creating and sustaining an ethnocultural heritage in Ontario: the case of Armenian women refugees. pp 139-153. 245p. bibliographies..

New York: Random House, 1990 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. Moving and evocative novel about a young girl "caught between generations, between American and Armenian cultures.".

Moscow: Progress Publishers., 1984 Book. Illus. by Trans. Percy Ludwick. Fine. Hardcover. Comprehensive survey of Armenia - from ancient times to the Soviet Union - covering history, culture,geography,economy etc. under communist rule. 97 p.+ 72p.of plates255p. illus (some col.) maps..

London: John Murray., 1954 Book. Good - Very Good. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed... This book is the story of a journey though Asia Minor in 1951. It ficuss on the new Turkey that emerged at the end of World War II. "It aspires to pick up, if only in superficial fashion, a few of those threads which the nineteenth-century travellers so assiduously gathered and which were then so abruptly dropped" 192p. illus [B & W] Text clean, neat and tight but the cloth cover slightly worn. Interesting donor inscription on ffep.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982 Book. Illus. by Translated by Sh. Wakefield.. Fine. Laminated HC. First Thus. Informative illustrated guidebook for visitors. English translation by Y Brodsky. 94p + 48 pages of plates[Some col.] maps, index.

New York: Avon, 1999 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Reprint.. "As this alternately comic and heatbreaking novel unfolds - beginning with Zabelle's survival of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey, and her subsequent emigration to America - an unforgettable character emerges.".