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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
ISBN 10 : 061815289XISBN 13 : 9780618152896
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. A collection of short tales features characters from society's upper crust who struggle with their consciences, from "All That May Become a Man" in which Ambrose struggles with parental expectations, to "The Heiress," which follows Aggie, who chooses between true love and a marriage of convenience. 10,000 first printing.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004
ISBN 10 : 0618516069ISBN 13 : 9780618516063
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. 0. First published in 1984, this best-selling classic is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses the encouraging movements afoot today for better schools, smaller classes, and fully educated students. Yet, while much has changed for the better in the classroom, much remains the same: rushed classes, mindless tests, overworked teachers. Sizer's insistence that we do more than just compromise for our children's educational futures resonates just as strongly today as it did two decades ago.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0544102576ISBN 13 : 9780544102576
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. A New York Times BestsellerThe amazing story of a very smart Border collie who is redefining animal intelligence.Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them-more than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball, and tree, she has memorized the names of more than one thousand toys and can retrieve any of them on command. Based on that learning, she and her owner and trainer, retired psychologist John Pilley, have moved on to further impressive feats, demonstrating her ability to understand sentences with multiple elements of grammar and to learn new behaviors by imitation.Johns ingenuity and tenacity as a researcher are as impressive as Chasers accomplishments. His groundbreaking approach has opened the door to a new understanding of animal intelligence, one that requires us to reconsider what actually goes on in a dogs mind. Chasers achievements reveal her use of deductive reasoning and complex problem-solving skills to address novel challenges.Yet astonishingly, Chaser isnt unique. Johns training methods can be adopted by any dog lover. Through the poignant story of how he trained Chaser, raised her as a member of the Pilley family, and proved her abilities to the scientific community, he reveals the positive impact of incorporating learning into play and more effectively channeling a dogs natural drives.Johns work with Chaser offers a fresh perspective on whats possible in the relationship between a dog and a human. His story points us toward a new way of relating to our canine companions that takes into account our evolving understanding of the way animals and humans learn.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2024
ISBN 10 : 0618067442ISBN 13 : 9780618067442
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : used. Over the fifteen years that Harvey Cox taught his Harvard undergraduate class Jesus and the Moral Life, the course grew so popular that the lectures had to be taught in a theater usually reserved for rock concerts. The overwhelming response was a clear signal of the hunger for guidance in today's confusing world, where moral guidelines seem to shift daily. How can we ask today "What Would Jesus Do?," when Jesus never had to cope with an unintended pregnancy, or confront a teenage daughter about her drug use, or decide whether to put an ailing parent in a retirement home?In his new book, Cox brings the moral wisdom of Rabbi Jesus into the twenty-first century by way of the questions, arguments, responses, and doubts of centuries of rabbinic and Christian theological exploration, as well as the voices of the thousands of Harvard students who attended his course over the years. Cox shows how we can extrapolate from Jesus' parables and bridge the gap between the ancient and modern worlds. As an example, he recalls his experience while locked in a southern jail during the civil rights movement, when the song "We Shall Overcome" rang from nearby cells. The message he takes is from the story of the Resurrection: transcendent hope rising from the depths of injustice.When Jesus Came to Harvard is not another look at the "historical Jesus," but it considers Jesus' contemporary significance by concentrating on the stories he told and those told about him. For youth and adults, Christian and non-Christian, When Jesus Came to Harvard is urgently relevant.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008
ISBN 10 : 0618606238ISBN 13 : 9780618606238
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.At the heart of The End of Food is a grim paradox: the rise of large-scale food production, though it generates more food more cheaply than at any time in history, has reached a point of dangerously diminishing returns. Our high-volume factory systems are creating new risks for food-borne illness, from E. coli to avian flu. Our high-yield crops and livestock generate grain, vegetables, and meat of declining nutritional quality. While nearly one billion people worldwide are overweight or obese, the same number of people-one in every seven of us-cant get enough to eat. In some of the hardest-hit regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, the lack of a single nutrient, vitamin A, has left more than five million children permanently blind.Meanwhile, the shift to heavily mechanized, chemically intensive farming has so compromised soil and water that its unclear how long such output can be maintained. And just as weve begun to understand the limits of our abundance, the burgeoning economies of Asia, with their rising middle classes, are adopting Western-style, meat-heavy diets, putting new demands on global food supplies.Comprehensive in scope and full of fresh insights, The End of Food presents a lucid, stark vision of the future. It is a call for us to make crucial decisions to help us survive the demise of food production as we know it.Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. He has written about resource economics and politics for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Harpers Magazine, and Rolling Stone, and lectures frequently on business and environmental issues.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0618012672ISBN 13 : 9780618012671
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. A collection of the very best in mystery writing includes contributions by O. Henry, Dasniell Hammett, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Ellery Queen, James Thurber, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, John Steinbeck, Mickey Spillane, and many, many others. 75,000 first printing.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
ISBN 10 : 0618173870ISBN 13 : 9780618173877
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition, Later Printing. With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history. As the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future. Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED is an astonishing debut.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2024
ISBN 10 : 0618221263ISBN 13 : 9780618221264
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : used. Eugenia Bone was perfectly happy with her life as a New York City food writer, but she knew that her husband, a transplanted westerner, was filled with a discontent he couldn't explain. So when he returned from a fishing trip in the Rockies one day and announced that he wanted to buy a forty-five-acre ranch in Crawford, Colorado (population 255), she reluctantly said yes. Then she loaded imported pasta, artichokes in oil, and cured Italian salami into her duffle bag and headed west with her two young children.At Mesa's Edge is the witty, often moving story of ranch restoration and of struggles with defiant skunks, barbed wire, marauding cows, and loneliness. Eugenia learns to garden in the drought, to fly-fish, and to forage. In the process, she discovers the bounty of the region. She fries zucchini flowers in batter and dips them in cilantro-flavored mayonnaise, grills flavorful T-bones from the local ranchers' grass-fed beef, pan-fries trout, fills crepes with wild mushrooms, and makes cherry pies with thick, sugary crusts. Gradually, she begins to adjust to the rhythms of the land.Partly a memoir, partly a cookbook with 150 appealing recipes, At Mesa's Edge is a transporting tale of rejuvenation, a celebration of everything local, and a reminder that the best food is to be found in our own back yards.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0618059458ISBN 13 : 9780618059454
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. F First Edition, First Printing. In an insightful new novel by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of I Married a Communist, a college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemies who label him a racist. 100,000 first printing.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
ISBN 10 : 061885990XISBN 13 : 9780618859900
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1. From the lit worlds sharpest chronicler of New Yorks past (Rolling Stone), a novel of two Irish brothers who travel from the gangland waterfront to the halls of powerBased on one of the great unsolved murders in mob history, and the rise-and-fall of a real-life hero, The Big Crowd tells the sweeping story of Charlie OKane. He is the American dream come to life, a poor Irish immigrant who worked his way up from beat cop to mayor of New York at the citys dazzling, post-war zenith. Famous, powerful, and married to a glamorous fashion model, he is looked up to by millions, including his younger brother, Tom. So when Charlie is accused of abetting a shocking mob murder, Tom sets out to clear his brothers name while hiding a secret of his own.The charges against Charlie stem from his days as a crusading Brooklyn DA, when he sent the notorious killers of Murder, Inc., to the chair-only to let a vital witness go flying out a window while under police guard. Now, out of office, Charlie lives in a shoddy, Mexico City tourist hotel, eaten up with regrets and afraid he will be indicted for murder if he returns to the U.S. To uncover what really happened, Tom must confront stunning truths about his brother, himself, and the secret workings of the great city he loves.Moving from the Brooklyn waterfront to city hall, from the battlefields of World War II to the beaches of Acapulco, to the glamorous nightclubs of postwar New York, The Big Crowd is filled with historical powerbrokers and gangsters, celebrities and socialites, scheming cardinals and battling, dockside priests. But ultimately it is a brilliantly imagined, distinctly American story of the bonds and betrayals of brotherhood.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006
ISBN 10 : 0618368922ISBN 13 : 9780618368921
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : used. A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir . Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, its a history of twentieth-century music. - John Guare, Tony Award-winning playwrightArnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive and stunningly beautiful instrument. His story is rich with vivid scenes: the terror inflicted by his early violin teachers, the sensual pleasure involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, the charged atmosphere of high-level competitions. Steinhardt describes Bachs Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and he illuminates, from the perspective of an ardent owner of a great Storioni violin, the history and mysteries of the renowned Italian violinmakers.Violin Dreams includes a remarkable CD recording of Steinhardt performing Bachs Partita in D Minor as a young violinist forty years ago and playing the same piece especially for this book. A conversation between the author and Alan Alda on the differences between the two performances is included in the liner notes.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2023
ISBN 10 : 0618620192ISBN 13 : 9780618620197
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Annotated edition. A proponent of the field of positive psychology offers a close-up study of the positive influence on people's lives of the systematic cultivation of gratitude, explaining how the practice of grateful thinking can increase one's chances for happiness and help one cope more effectively with stress, recover more quickly from illness, enjoy better physical health, improve relationships, and other benefits.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2023
ISBN 10 : 061841911XISBN 13 : 9780618419111
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. February House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war.In spite of the sheer intensity of life at 7 Middagh, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born, bibulously, in Brooklyn. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her Middagh Street bedroom. Auden -- who along with Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war -- presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career.Sherill Tippins's February House, enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, masterfully recreates daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 1983
ISBN 10 : 0899191797ISBN 13 : 9780899191799
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : used. Most of the people who take one of Mr. Mullin's twelve pups want a dog to perform some sort of task for them, but the little boy just wants a pet to love. "Three-color illustrations enlarge upon the simple tale in humorous, entertaining sketches." -- Horn Book IRA/CBC Children's Choice.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2024
ISBN 10 : 0618551069ISBN 13 : 9780618551064
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1. The author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara examines a nineteenth-century court case in which an ambitious crusading attorney, Augusto Barbieri, took on the case of Amalia Bagnacavalli, an impoverished, illiterate young peasant woman from the mountains near Bologna, Italy, who contracted syphilis from the sickly baby she had been forced to wet nurse.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2023
ISBN 10 : 0618689524ISBN 13 : 9780618689521
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Pinkwater, Jill (illustrateur). Reprint. Irving and Muktuk have arrived from Yellowtooth in the frozen North to their new home in the Bayonne, New Jersey, zoo. There they meet another polar bear, Roy, who tells them about his life outside the zoo. Roy goes home every night at six when the zoo closes. After a week of swimming, eating fish and the occasional muffin thrown to them by zoo visitors, playing, and taking naps, Irving and Muktuk feel bored and restless. They decide to explore life outside the walls and go in search of Roy and more muffins. Soon their escape is discovered and the zookeepers, the zoo director, and the police are called. Are these polar bears to be trusted?.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0547985541ISBN 13 : 9780547985541
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Some of us are just naturals when it comes to parenting. But the rest of us wish that parenting came with operating instructions.Now it does. The result of thirty years of scientific research, Alan Kazdins The Everyday Parenting Toolkit will guide you through every developmental stage-from toddler to teenager-and make you a more relaxed, confident, and competent parent. The rigorously tested strategies in this book will not only help change your childs behavior, they will also decrease the stress in family relations, increase your joy in parenting, and help build a more nurturing home life that can directly improve children's mental and physical health and school success.You wont find abstract philosophy here. Youll see every point, every strategy, illustrated with real-life examples. From toilet training to teaching a child to accept no without a tantrum all the way up to struggles over cellphones and curfew; from swiftly and gently correcting problem behaviors to fostering positive character qualities like respect for others, honesty, good friendships, or altruism, The Everyday Parenting Toolkit will surprise you time and again with counterintuitive advice that works.For years parents have been coming to Dr. Kazdins Parenting Center at Yale University for help with the challenges, large and small, of child rearing. With the publication of this book, every reader can gain access to that advice and to parenting know-how that transforms families.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2024
ISBN 10 : 0618249532ISBN 13 : 9780618249534
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : used. Covering almost ten thousand phrases, including bite the bullet, take the cake, buy the farm, and says who, a unique reference on common American vocabulary and idiomatic expressions defines each entry and provides a contextual sentence. Reprint.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006
ISBN 10 : 0618337180ISBN 13 : 9780618337187
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : used. Sam and Jackson both agreed: nothing beat baseball. The crowds cheering, the bright green grass, the tasty roasted peanuts. Sam was an amazing athlete-very strong and fast, a big-leaguer in the making. Jackson, on the other hand, was not very strong or very fast at all. He could throw very far, but that was about it. When Sam makes the team and Jackson doesnt, he misses having Jackson there on the field with him. And then he sees a poster . . .Tim Egan has crafted a quirky tale of friendship and loyalty, complete with a late-inning nail biter that will keep baseball fans on the edge of their seats!.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
ISBN 10 : 061806026XISBN 13 : 9780618060269
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1. A thought-provoking examination into the implications of reproductive biology reveals that governments, religious groups, and others with ethical and moral concerns will be unable to prevent the technological advances that will lead to the ability to choose certain genes at the embryo stage, allowing parents to custom design their children.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005
ISBN 10 : 061843920XISBN 13 : 9780618439201
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation. The author lyrically evokes his privileged childhood on an Adirondack estate, a colorful uncle who was a pioneer aviator and fighter ace, and his first explorations of the larger world he encountered as he came of age in the tumultuous 1960s. But above all this is a story of a father and his only son and of the unexpected peace finally made between them.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2024
ISBN 10 : 0618154000ISBN 13 : 9780618154005
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Film cover art. Sauron and Gandalf the Grey battle for possession of the One Ring and its evil powers, in the epic conclusion of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (A New Line Cinema film, the third of three feature films based on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, starring Viggo Mortenson, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Bean, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, & Ian Holm).
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008
ISBN 10 : 0618689354ISBN 13 : 9780618689354
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically dividedAmerica may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. This social transformation didn't happed by accident. Weve built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood -- and religion and news show -- most compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. And we are living with the consequences of this way-of-life segregation. Our country has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred, that people dont know and cant understand those who live just a few miles away. The reason for this situation, and the dire implications for our country, is the subject of this groundbreaking work.In 2004, the journalist Bill Bishop, armed with original and startling demographic data, made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves over the past three decades into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by red state or blue state, but by city and even neighborhood. In The Big Sort, Bishop deepens his analysis in a brilliantly reported book that makes its case from the ground up, starting with stories about how we live today and then drawing on history, economics, and our changing political landscape to create one of the most compelling big-picture accounts of America in recent memory.The Big Sort will draw comparisons to Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class and will redefine the way Americans think about themselves for decades to come.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2023
ISBN 10 : 0618152881ISBN 13 : 9780618152889
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1. "This is the most stunning book on prayer that I have ever read. It will become the benchmark for every other work on the subject, present or future. The Zaleskis' massive scholarship, catholicity of interests, and clarity of presentation make this a volume to hold close to both the heart and the head." -- Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine HoursThis landmark book presents prayer in all its richness and variety throughout history, across traditions, and around the globe. Focusing on extraordinary stories of lives changed by prayer and on great works of literature and art inspired by it, Philip and Carol Zaleski map the vast world of prayer from the sacred pipe to the rosary, from Paleolithic cave art to Pentecostal revivals. They reveal the fascinating experiences of such great and sometimes surprising figures as Emily Dickinson, Bill W., Teresa of Ávila, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Samuel Johnson, and J.R.R. Tolkien.Examining prayer as petition, thanksgiving, adoration, contemplation, ecstasy, magic, and sacrifice, the Zaleskis probe the language of prayer, the fruits of prayer, its controversies, and its prospects for the future.Prayer is an informative, accessible, and entertaining narrative that will appeal to an audience of all faiths. The Zaleskis have created a work that will be the standard for years to come.Philip Zaleski is the editor of the Best American Spiritual Writing series, author of The Recollected Heart, and coeditor, with Carol Zaleski, of The Book of Heaven. He is a senior editor at Parabola and a research associate in religion at Smith College.Carol Zaleski is the author of Otherworld Journeys and The Life of the World to Come, and coeditor of The Book of Heaven. She contributes a monthly column to Christian Century and is a professor of religion at Smith College."Prayer: A History is not only a fabulous, very readable, immensely informative and (I would even say) 'inspirational' volume. It is, to my mind, simply unmatched in the vast literature on what lies, after all, at the heart of the religious life. The Zaleskis range over history (even prehistory), art, literature, theology, and comparative religion -- a real tour de force. But throughout, they engage any reader -- specialist or not -- and never flaunt their impressive learning. They help us understand the unending human quest for meaning at its deepest level." -- Harvey Cox"Prayer is simply a wonderful book -- intelligent, beautifully written, important, inclusive, and completely useful. I wish every world leader would read it word for word today. We'd all be better for it. Carol and Philip Zaleski have been making extraordinary contributions to religion and spirituality for many years, and now they have outdone themselves." -- Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul"Everybody prays. Whether with faith-filled discipline or in the unanticipated aspiration, prompted by despair or ecstasy, calling out to the Unknown, everybody prays. Everybody who is serious about prayer will be grateful to the Zaleskis for this inspired and inspiring book." -- Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, editor in chief of First Things.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2024
ISBN 10 : 0618551050ISBN 13 : 9780618551057
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. A theoretical physicist and author of The Life of the Cosmos describes the evolution of modern-day string theory, the flaws in the attempt to formulate a "theory of everything" to explain all the forces and particles of nature and the origins of the universe, and their repercussions for physics and the need to get science back on track.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2023
ISBN 10 : 0618128069ISBN 13 : 9780618128068
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. F First Edition. A biography of the legendary art collector and culture maven offers insight into the childhood, self-education in the ways of art and artists, and sexual appetites of Peggy Guggenheim, in a portrait of a woman who transformed the art world of the twentieth century.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0618001999ISBN 13 : 9780618001996
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007
ISBN 10 : 061891966XISBN 13 : 9780618919666
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Reprint. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year Finalist for the Story PrizeAt once expertly crafted and undeniably moving, these ten stories deftly explore our immutable connection with nature. The centerpiece of the collection is the arresting title story, in which a woman alone in her mountain cabin confronts a terminal illness. In the equally remarkable Her First Elk, the same character recalls her most memorable and significant hunting experience. Set in locations ranging from Montana to Texas to Mississippi, the remaining stories further illuminate the consequences of our attitudes toward the environment and each other. This masterly collection lays bare the essentials of life with unparalleled passion and grace.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2023
ISBN 10 : 0618706038ISBN 13 : 9780618706037
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. PAP/CDR. An illustrated guide, in both book and CD-ROM, of landscapes seen from commercial airplane windows across the United States.This is a guide to what an airline passenger sees from his seat while flying over the United States. Through its ingenious construction and a map of preferred flight paths, it's easy to find those pages that correspond to whatever flight a passenger happens to be on, and then to identify features that can be seen from the air. The book marries geology, natural history, and human history for a glorious portrait of the continent, from the Atlantic City Boardwalk to Mount St. Helens.Each two-page spread features an aerial photo with captions identifying features passengers will see and an essay interpreting the features. Each chapter is a Flight Corridor, with pages sequenced to follow a trip from takeoff to landing. Because many flight paths overlap, the fifteen corridors cover the forty most heavily traveled flight segments in the continental United States, plus many others. In many regions of the country, readers will have a new page to read about every twenty minutes. The entire book is also on the included CD-ROM, which can easily be used on a laptop in the air.
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Edité par Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0618082328ISBN 13 : 9780618082322
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Softcover. Etat : Good. None. Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience, given Hitler a posthumous victory, tacitly endorsing his definition of Jews as despised pariahs? Does the Holocaust really teach useful lessons and sensitize us to atrocities, or, by making the Holocaust the measure, does it make lesser crimes seem "not so bad"? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, there is no museum of American slavery?.
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