Bøger udgivet af Milet Publishing

Vibrant illustrations and clear text help children discover two languages by learning words for a variety of musical instruments.

Children will have fun at Peter's party, where there's crunching, munching, slurping, and burping.

Istanbul is the cornerstone of this culturally significant collection of short stories written exclusively by women. Ranging from ancient Constantinople to the modern capital of Turkey, these 27 short stories show the colorful traces of the people that have lived in that city throughout the ages. Highlighting the rich historical, political, and cultural accents of the city, this compilation provides a unique perspective about this fascinating and global metropolis.

Zarife aspires to leave her poverty-stricken existence and is drawn into the deceptively seedy world of the super-rich. She manages to become one of the wealthiest--and therefore, most respectable--women in Turkey, but does so using a combination of smarts and sex. Complex and self-aware, Zarife masters the rules of the game to get to the top, and makes sure that she wins. Though her success means that any past indiscretions are forgotten, she realizes that her chosen lifestyle has a hollowness to it; maybe she has lost as much as she has gained.

Set is Istanbul and beyond, the stories in this book are filled with Buket Uzuner's remarkable sensitivity and psychological insight, taking us into the memories and imaginations of children and adults, and exploring shared history, love, and attachment - to family, friends, lovers, and places.

"The story of a Turkish journalist, Emel, who is trying to track down Zahide, an old Pakistani friend she met while studying in the United States. In the course of her investigations, she finds out that Zahide has been arrested as part of the CIA rendition program and has in all likelihood been given a new identity in a clandestine program. As the novel reaches its ... climax, Emel's identity begins to disintegrate and we can no longer be sure that the new identity that was given to Zahide was not in fact Emel"--Amazon.com.

Aeolian Visions / Versions is a collection of more than 70 literary works, including poetry, short fiction, essays, and author interviews, translated from Turkish to English. All of the works were translated during the annual Cunda Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature. This exceptionally rich collection reflects the crosscurrents of modern and contemporary Turkish poetry and literature and includes many fresh, exciting, and experimental works, resulting from innovative collaborations between translators and authors and the translators themselves. Designed for academic courses as well as individual reading, the book is the new and essential reader of translated Turkish literature.

Ideal for helping preschool-age children discover a foreign language, this playful and educational series of bilingual books combines rhyming text with colorful illustrations. Each page spread includes the text in both English and the second language in clear, bold print. Suitable for children on their own or in groups, these books are an entertaining way for children to build their language skills. The skin is the focus of this bilingual book about the sense of touch.

Ideal for helping preschool-age children discover a foreign language, this playful and educational series of bilingual books combines rhyming text with colorful illustrations. Each page spread includes the text in both English and the second language in clear, bold print. Suitable for children on their own or in groups, these books are an entertaining way for children to build their language skills. The skin is the focus of this bilingual book about the sense of touch.

Ideal for helping preschool-age children discover a foreign language, this playful and educational series of bilingual books combines rhyming text with colorful illustrations. Each page spread includes the text in both English and the second language in clear, bold print. Suitable for children on their own or in groups, these books are an entertaining way for children to build their language skills. The tongue is the focus of this bilingual book about the sense of taste.

Ideal for helping preschool-age children discover a foreign language, this playful and educational series of bilingual books combines rhyming text with colorful illustrations. Each page spread includes the text in both English and the second language in clear, bold print. Suitable for children on their own or in groups, these books are an entertaining way for children to build their language skills. The nose is the focus of this bilingual book about the sense of smell.

Ideal for helping preschool-age children discover a foreign language, this playful and educational series of bilingual books combines rhyming text with colorful illustrations. Each page spread includes the text in both English and the second language in clear, bold print. Suitable for children on their own or in groups, these books are an entertaining way for children to build their language skills.The eyes are the focus of this bilingual book about the sense of sight.

With a twisting, captivating play on perception, this novel presents a frame story about how it came to be written. Containing two main narrative strands set five years apart, the story within is about Kuzey, a former left-wing militant and now a hotel owner, who is writing a novel called The Disenchanted. Kuzey's romance with a young woman is juxtaposed with his descent into alcoholism and despair. The book is set against the backdrop of a beautiful peninsula in western Turkey where a landscape charged with memories lives outside time, but as neither the landscape nor Kuzey can forget, there is no real escape from the peninsula--and appearances can be deceiving.

A resource for young learners, this series of bilingual visual dictionaries comes in a CD-ROM format to help children add to their vocabulary. Useful, everyday words are grouped into subjects so that children can focus on one set of related words at a time, while games such as word searches, jumbles, and matches help make learning fun. By clicking on a picture, users can hear the word pronounced in two languages, making this an ideal learning tool for both individual use and classroom settings.

Featuring more than 70,000 entries, this mid-sized dictionary includes sample sentences, pronunciations, contemporary words, irregular verbs, idioms, and common names.

When Mamy Wata, the queen of all waters, finds a supposedly frightening monster crying in his cave, she is touched by his tears and wonders how she can make him happy again.

Daisy the Duckling was busy chasing dragonflies and bouncing on the lily pads--when she looked around, Mamma Duck wasn't there any more, and Daisy was all alone.