Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374225524 ISBN 13: 9780374225520
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her rootsand the roots of life as we know itWhen Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The Harmless People (1959). It has never gone out of print.Back then, this was uncharted territory and little was known about our human origins. Today, our beginnings are better understood. And after a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution.As she displayed in her bestseller, The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas has a rare gift for giving voice to the voices we dont usually listen to, and helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. In The Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is knowledge, not objects, that endure over time, Thomas vividly brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom.The Old Way is a rare and remarkable achievement, sure to stir up controversy, and worthy of celebration. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is the author of seven books, nonfiction and fictionamong them The Hidden Life of Dogs, The Harmless People, and Reindeer Moon. She has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The Atlantic, and lives in New Hampshire. When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for fifteen thousand centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The Harmless People (1959), a book that is still in print. The history of mankind that most of us know is only the tip of the iceberg, a brief stint compared to fifteen thousand centuries of life as roving clans that seldom settled down adapted every day to changes in environment and food supply, and lived for the most part like the animal ancestors from which they evolved. Those origins are not so easily abandoned, Thomas suggests, and our wired, documented, and market-driven society has plenty to learn from the Bushmen of the Kalahari about human evolution. As she displayed in The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. In The Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is "knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom. "Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . . The Old Way is not only a timely work, but also a timeless onea last look back before we decide how to go forward."Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review "Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . . The Old Way is not only a timely work, but also a timeless onea last look back before we decide how to go forward."Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review "It is fascinating to see how Thomas has honed her observational powers over the year . . . and how her notion of 'culture' has broadened."Los Angeles Times "With a perspective honed over the intervening 50-odd years . . . Thomas captures the fascinating customs of a people that had no future as a tribe."The Daily News "A fascinating and rewarding read . . . Marshall proves again and again the full humanity and astonishing sophistication of a people so 'primitive' that she offers them as a link to our earliest Paleolithic forebears, the first humans."Chauncey Mabe, The San Diego Union-Tribune "Part memoir, part anthropolog.
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Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012
ISBN 10: 0374104573 ISBN 13: 9780374104573
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death.In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship.But this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. It was their deep and passionate love, David's extraordinary insight into all aspects of nature, and the tragedy of his early death that inspired Daphne's vast array of achievements, most notably the founding of the world-renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery in Nairobi National Park, where Daphne continues to live and work to this day.Encompassing not only David and Daphne's tireless campaign for an end to poaching and for conserving Kenya's wildlife, but also their ability to engage with the human side of animals and their rearing of the orphans expressly so they can return to the wild, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing a rare insight into the life of one of the world's most remarkable women.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996
ISBN 10: 0374258724 ISBN 13: 9780374258726
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Gathers poems by the early twentieth-century avant garde poet, and offers a brief profile of the enigmatic writer.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 2002
ISBN 10: 0374106770 ISBN 13: 9780374106775
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The English debut of one of Spain's most dazzling younger writers -- a postmodern murder mystery set in ancient Greece.In this brilliant, highly entertaining, and intriguing novel, Jose Carlos Somoza intertwines two darkly compelling riddles, forcing us to confront the ways in which we interpret reality.In ancient Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher Diagoras is convinced the pupil's death is not as accidental as it appears, and asks the famous Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of Enigmas," to investigate. As the death toll rises, the two men find themselves drawn into the dangerous underworld of the Athenian aristocracy, risking their own lives to solve the riddle of these young men's deaths. Simultaneously, a second plot unfolds: that of the modern-day translator of the ancient text, who, as he proceeds with his work, becomes convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning in the text, one that can be interpreted through certain repeated words and images. As the story advances, however, the translator is alarmed to discover references to himself, which seem to address him personally in an increasingly menacing fashion.An original and unsettling literary mystery, The Athenian Murders introduces a beguiling new talent to an American readership.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374220735 ISBN 13: 9780374220730
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A culinary memoir recollects the strange, good, and terrible dramas of the author's life and places them in the context of the realm of food, from childhood mud pies and bridal dinners to the experiments created during an affair.
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Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011
ISBN 10: 0374227349 ISBN 13: 9780374227340
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of todays developing countries-with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man and one of our most important political thinkers, provides a sweeping account of how todays basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins of Political Order begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.Drawing on a vast body of knowledge-history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics-Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents.
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Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2024
ISBN 10: 0374105014 ISBN 13: 9780374105013
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Ram Karan works for the New Delhi school system but supports his widowed daughter and grandaughter by taking bribes for a small time Congress party boss, until his involvement in a terrifying political campaign could cost him his life. A first novel.
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Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World and The Verificationist presents a series of observations about the state of consciousness as it is altered by memories, fantasies, and alcoholism, in a portrait of the author's family that partially comes to terms with the nature of addiction and the limitations of self-healing.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1996
ISBN 10: 0374186901 ISBN 13: 9780374186906
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A biography of the German poet combines detailed interpretations of his life with an intimate reading of his verse and prose and shows how he grew from an ambitious versifier into a great poet.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374292787 ISBN 13: 9780374292782
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 3rd. The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before--creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place. This updated and expanded edition features more than a hundred pages of fresh reporting and commentary, drawn from Friedman's travels around the world and across the American heartland--from anyplace where the flattening of the world is being felt.In The World Is Flat, Friedman at once shows "how and why globalization has now shifted into warp drive" (Robert Wright, Slate) and brilliantly demystifies the new flat world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, he explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; how governments and societies can, and must, adapt; and why terrorists want to stand in the way. More than ever, The World Is Flat is an essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
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Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374283540 ISBN 13: 9780374283544
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reignBetween 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it for its arrogance and ignorance. In this balanced, witty, and multi-faceted history, David Gilmour goes far to explain the paradoxes of the "Anglo-Indians," showing us what they hoped to achieve and what sort of society they thought they were helping to build.The Ruling Caste principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service--each of whom to perform as magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. Gilmour extends his study to every level of the administration and to the officers' women and children, so often ignored in previous works. The Ruling Caste is the best book yet on the real trials and triumphs of an imperial ruling class; on the dangerous temptations that an empire's power encourages; on relations between governor and governed, between European and Asian. No one interested in politics and social history can afford to miss this book.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005
ISBN 10: 0374258546 ISBN 13: 9780374258542
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Lytton Strachey is one of the key figures in the cultural life of the twentieth century and his letters are a literary treasure-trove of the man and his world, as well as a record of the startling and poignant love-affair between himself and the painter Dora Carrington.The breadth of his correspondence is breathtaking, going from precocious childhood letters to those written when he was a member of the secret Cambridge Apostles, and from letters to Leonard and Virginia Woolf, to Maynard Keynes and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, to love letters to Dora Carrington and Duncan Grant. The thousands of letters he wrote retain their vitality to this day, discussing changes in morals, the writing of history, literature and philosophy, politics, war and peace, and the advent of modernism.Strachey believed that one only really comes to know a writer by reading his correspondence, and if these playful, provocative, and eminently sensible letters attest to anything, it is to the soundness of this belief.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010
ISBN 10: 0374105979 ISBN 13: 9780374105976
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who burned like a comet in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of netsuke. Entranced by their beauty and mystery, he determined to trace the story of his family through the story of the collection.The netsuke-drunken monks, almost-ripe plums, snarling tigers-were gathered by Charles Ephrussi at the height of the Parisian rage for all things Japanese. Charles had shunned the place set aside for him in the family business to make a study of art, and of beautiful living. An early supporter of the Impressionists, he appears, oddly formal in a top hat, in Renoirs Luncheon of the Boating Party. Marcel Proust studied Charles closely enough to use him as a model for the aesthete and lover Swann in Remembrance of Things Past.Charles gave the carvings as a wedding gift to his cousin Viktor in Vienna; his children were allowed to play with one netsuke each while they watched their mother, the Baroness Emmy, dress for ball after ball. Her older daughter grew up to disdain fashionable society. Longing to write, she struck up a correspondence with Rilke, who encouraged her in her poetry.The Anschluss changed their world beyond recognition. Ephrussi and his cosmopolitan family were imprisoned or scattered, and Hitlers theorist on the Jewish question appropriated their magnificent palace on the Ringstrasse. A library of priceless books and a collection of Old Master paintings were confiscated by the Nazis. But the netsuke were smuggled away by a loyal maid, Anna, and hidden in her straw mattress. Years after the war, she would find a way to return them to the family shed served even in their exile.In The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal unfolds the story of a remarkable family and a tumultuous century. Sweeping yet intimate, it is a highly original meditation on art, history, and family, as elegant and precise as the netsuke themselves.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992
ISBN 10: 0374291330 ISBN 13: 9780374291334
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Nora and Dora Chance, the twin illegitimate daughters of a British theater legend, ring in their father's hundredth birthday by remembering the special family moments that forged the bond between them.
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995
ISBN 10: 0374159017 ISBN 13: 9780374159016
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. From classical enchantresses to Mother Goose to the Brothers Grimm, a cultural study of fairy tales shows what they reveal about the changing status of women, the ways of men, racial prejudice, and other serious subjects.
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994
ISBN 10: 0374103054 ISBN 13: 9780374103057
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st A. An intimate, detailed portrayal of the lives of four eighteenth-century sisters--great-granddaughters of King Charles II who lived wealthy, public lives--is based on diaries and letters and reveals the joys and tragedies they shared.
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985
ISBN 10: 0374133468 ISBN 13: 9780374133467
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Maurice Sendak (illustrator). First Edition. Juxtaposing a world of not-so-innocent animals and a world of humans, scarcely more intelligent or less brutal, this first translation of the Czech novel recounts the story of the forester Bartos and the vixen Sharp-Ears.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983
ISBN 10: 0374250332 ISBN 13: 9780374250331
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374181004 ISBN 13: 9780374181000
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st American Edition. Examines the short life of nineteenth-century English poet John Keats, stressing the political and social influences that shaped his world and his literature.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1993
ISBN 10: 0374166013 ISBN 13: 9780374166014
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Essays reprinted from "Grant's Interest Rate Observer" explore developments in the world of finance during the past ten years.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1993
ISBN 10: 0374185107 ISBN 13: 9780374185107
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A collection of correspondence from the author of The Sheltering Sky discusses his attempts to record primitive Moroccan music, nature and the craft of writing, the Beat writers, living in North Africa, and other topics.
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Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374288410 ISBN 13: 9780374288419
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A collection of essays gathers pieces written over more than twenty years, including examinations of Caribbean culture and commentary on some of the world's great writers.
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Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
ISBN 10: 0571207081 ISBN 13: 9780571207084
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. An invaluable set of career-length interviews with the German genius hailed by Franois Truffaut as "the most important film director alive"Most of what we've heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. The sheer number of false rumors and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog's body of work is one of the most important in postwar European cinema.His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, The Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog cast in the lead a man who had spent most of his life institutionalized, and two years later he hypnotized his entire cast to make Heart of Glass. He rushed to an explosive volcanic Caribbean island to film La Soufrire, paid homage to F. W. Murnau in a terrifying remake of Nosferatu, and in 1982 dragged a boat over a mountain in the Amazon jungle for Fitzcarraldo. More recently, Herzog has made extraordinary "documentary" films such as Little Dieter Needs to Fly. His place in cinema history is assured, and Paul Cronin's volume of dialogues provides a forum for Herzog's fascinating views on the things, ideas, and people that have preoccupied him for so many years.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374303800 ISBN 13: 9780374303808
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Kleven, Elisa (illustrator). 1. Lizzy loves the big apple tree in her yard more than anything. So when the first day of school comes, she picks a beautiful apple, turns it into a makeshift doll she names Susanna, and takes it along to keep her company. But her teacher tells her that dolls aren't allowed at school. Even worse, her sister says that Susanna won't last forever. Then Lizzy's mom shows her a way to turn Susanna into a real apple doll. And with the help of Susanna the Apple Doll, Lizzy overcomes her shyness at school and makes plenty of new friends to bring home to play in her beloved apple tree.Detailed, delightful collage illustrations accompany this sweet story about one girl's success in bringing together her home world and her school world. Instructions for making an apple doll just like Susanna are included!.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1960
ISBN 10: 0374140618 ISBN 13: 9780374140618
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. These essays explore the coming together of the active and the contemplative life and the relationship of individuals to society. Mertons writing is both lively and profound as he leads the reader through the hard questions of modern existence. Merton was.one of the most prophetic Catholic writers of our time (New Republic). Preface by Father M. Louis.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011
ISBN 10: 0374256322 ISBN 13: 9780374256326
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Atherton, William (illustrator). A memorable book about making a renowned garden workIn Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden, the acclaimed author and garden designer Page Dickey writes of the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and myriad pleasures of the twenty-nineyear-long process of creating her own remarkable garden, Duck Hill, in upstate New York. This winning book details the evolution of one especially loved and cared-for space: its failed schemes and realized dreams, and the wisdom gained in contending with an ever evolving work of art. The author shares her very personal views on what contributes to a gardens success-structure, fragrance, the play of light and shadow, patterns and textures, multiseasonal plants. She writes of gardening with a husband, with wildlife, with dogs and chickens. And she grapples with how to adapt her garden-as we can adapt ours-to change in the years ahead.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374282390 ISBN 13: 9780374282394
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. From the author of Becoming Mae West-an in-depth look at the Silver-Screen legend who forever changed Americas idea of the leading manTango pirate, gigolo, powder puff, Adonis-all have been used to describe the silent-film icon known as Rudolph Valentino. From his early days as a taxi dancer in New York City to his near apotheosis as the ultimate Hollywood heartthrob, Rudolph Valentino (often to his distress) occupied a space squarely at the center of controversy. In this thoughtful retelling of Valentinos short and tragic life-the first fully documented biography of the star-Emily W. Leider looks at the Great Lovers life and legacy, and explores the events and issues that made him emblematic of the Jazz Age. Valentinos androgynous sexuality was a lightning rod for fiery and contradictory impulses that ran the gamut from swooning adoration to lashing resentment. He was reviled in the press for being too feminine for a man; yet he also brought to the screen the alluring, savage lover who embodied womens darker, forbidden sexual fantasies.In tandem, Leider explores notions of the outsider in American culture as represented by Valentinos experience as an immigrant who became a celebrity. As the silver screens first dark-skinned romantic hero, Valentino helped to redefine and broaden American masculine ideals, ultimately coming to represent a graceful masculinity that trumped the deeply ingrained status quo of how a man could look and act.
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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987
ISBN 10: 0374154856 ISBN 13: 9780374154851
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The author recounts her childhood experiences living in a tenement, looks at her relationship with her mother, and describes the lives of women bound to husbands they didn't love.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023
ISBN 10: 0374187711 ISBN 13: 9780374187712
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The inspiring story of the Jubilee singers follows a group of singers--all former slaves--on a grueling journey from Nashville to New York City, where they would introduce thousands of whites to Negro spirituals. 15,000 first printing.