Utilizing a fascinating "chronicle" format that records historical events as if they had just occurred, this book recounts the history of aircraft--a history encompassing less than 100 years--with an exciting immediacy & urgency. Each year begins with a page chronologically summarizing major eve..
“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef’s Egyptian bookstore―the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failure and success are often lovers, the relationship between neighborhoods and books an..