Jeffrey Goldberg:Prisoners : A Muslim & A Jew Across The Middle East Divide
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New York. 2000. June 2000. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. 0385498012. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 353 pages. hardcover.… Meer...
New York. 2000. June 2000. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. 0385498012. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 353 pages. hardcover. JACKET ILLUSTRATION BY DIEGO RIVERA, 'Women with flowers and vegetables, 1928'. JACKET DESIGN BY AMY C. KING. . keywords: Literature Latin America Women Translated Chile. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act 0f violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt for not having foreseen the tragedy, Josefa feels compelled to tell Violeta's life story - one marked by lost ideals, disillusionment, and grief - which is ultimately Josefa's story, too. Through the interwoven lives 0f these two women, Marcela Serrano explores how the demands 0f a woman s role as mother, wife, lover, and friend are frequently at odds with her own dreams and aspirations, and how easily the fragile bonds of friendship and family can be strained to the breaking point. For Josefa and Violeta, it is only in Antigua, under the watchful eyes 0f ‘the others' - a chorus of female ancestral spirits who testify to the women's defining moments of strength and courage-that Josefa and Violeta will discover that even in the aftermath of violence and betrayal they have control over their destinies and their redemption. Exquisitely crafted and written in beautiful, lyrical prose, Marcela Serrano's unforgettable novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances speaks to every woman who has experienced the wrenching divide between professional ambition and family responsibility, who has been torn between the excitement of illicit passion and the security of marriage, who has craved the thrill of success while yearning for solitude in an often chaotic, invasive world. inventory #33782 ISBN: 0385498012., 0, New York: Arcade Publishing, 2008. First Edition First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 1/2" X 9 1/2. 284 Pages Indexed. Brand new book never opened for use. Green boards with gold spine decoration and lettering. No defects noted to the dust jacket. At the dawn of this .new century, we are entering a biorenaissance as far reaching in science, medicine, and technology as the Renaissance was in art, architecture, and exploration. In the world of medicine, nothing today arouses such passion and controversy as stern cells-the architects of our bodies and repair masters of our tissues and organs. Proponents see in stem cells the promise of dramatically improving our ability to treat, if not cure, a whole host of debilitating and deadly diseases, including heart disease and stroke, which kill over 17 million people a year worldwide; diabetes, from which nearly 200 million suffer worldwide; and Alzheimer's, which affects roughly 5 million Americans, could well triple in the decades ahead, and threatens to bankrupt our health care system. Stern cells could also radically affect the treatment of such diseases as Parkinson's, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, as well as spinal cord injuries. On the other side of the divide, opponents believe that using stern cells from human embryos is the equivalent of committing homicide, which raises the thorny question of when human life begins. There is, too, a dark, hidden side to stern cell research, namely that it could well lead to an international biological arms race, a matter the authors discuss lucidly and candidly. The Stem Cell dilemma will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about stem cells: what they are, how they work, and why their use has become so controversial. We are standing at a scientific crossroads, the likes of which the world has never seen. It is a moment that will change forever the practice of medicine and life as we know it. Contents in Six Chapters: Agents of Hope, Architects of Development, Challengers of Ethics, Barometers of Politics, Objects of Competition, and Harbingers of Destruction., Arcade Publishing, 2008, 5, London: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1984. First American edition. Good/fair. Hiro Kimura. the dust cover of this book is a blue background with the hand holding a glass looking globe of the worldthe cover inside is blue/silver titling. there is no ISBN number, the ones with ISBN number may have the same content I do not know.this is the companion book to the PBS show documentary program in England.the introduction and acknowledgments are dated London 1984. Published byLittle Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1986.it is a Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: some tears on the top of the front if it. . Clean Tight And Square, the book is wonderfully illustrated this with black and white color and drawings. In the Day the universe changed James Burke argues that knowledge is a man-made artifact, and when man's views of reality are changed by knowledge, reality itself changes. Armed with this provocative thesis, he charts a course from the Middle Ages to today, examining those critical periods in history when the ideas, institutions that have transformed man's understanding of the world were born. The day the universe change takes as a starting point to read discovery of the teachings of classical Greece in the 11th century, which stimulate passion for scientific learning and divided the medieval world from the modern world. Later chapters consider the rediscovery of perspective geometry in Renaissance Florence and its relation to the notion of individualism, the development of the printing press and the birth of propaganda,, the study of canon trajectories, that led to the discovery of the wall of gravity, the religious, agricultural and economic causes of the Industrial Revolution, the pairing of medicine with statistics in revolutionary France allowed man to study himself and society and the origins of evolution and its application in America,Nazi Germany and Soviet societies finally Burke considers Heisenberg's fearful uncertainty principle, which challenged the rational Newtonian view and suggests that the true nature of the universe may forever elude us......thrift shop, my books are priced so after everyone else gets theirs, I make it least a small profit to cover my time, and costs and efforts. Sometimes an amazingly small profit... This would be Shipped Media mail via USPS I like shipping to P.O. boxes or APO, since we use the United States Post to fulfill your order, keeping it all in the Postal Family......, it comes from the Los Angeles Area at whatever PO is closest to my errands or my life that day since I carefully pack your book then have to hop on the Vespa and visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system... Your purchase helps a middle aged college girl buy more books and the occasional pedicure. .. a dental visit or two .In addition, I need to downsize my personal library built over the years. dust jacket may appear different than ones with ISBN number there is no ISBN number on this book, Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1984, 2.25, Bloomsbury Circus, 2021. 464, illus. 197x129mm. PB. NEW. . The vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day.<i>The Book of Trespass</i> takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. By trespassing the land of the media magnates, Lords, politicians and private corporations that own England, Nick Hayes argues that the root of social inequality is the uneven distribution of land.Weaving together the stories of poachers, vagabonds, gypsies, witches, hippies, ravers, ramblers, migrants and protestors, and charting acts of civil disobedience that challenge orthodox power at its heart, <i>The Book of Trespass</i> will transform the way you see the land.Robert Macfarlane: 'What a brilliant, passionate and political book this is . . . It tells - through story, exploration, evocation - the history of trespass (and therefore of freedom) in England and beyond, while also making a powerful case for future change. It is bold and brave, as well as beautiful; Hayes's voice is warm, funny, smart and inspiring. The Book of Trespass will make you see landscapes differently'. [9781526604729], Bloomsbury Circus, 2021, 0, Paperback / softback. New. No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers. In this enlightening, even-handed study, Rosemary Horrox builds a complex picture of a king who by any standard failed as a monarch. He was killed after only two years on the throne, without an heir, and brought such a decisive end to the House of York that Henry Tudor was able to seize the throne, despite his extremely tenuous claim. Whether Richard was undone by his own fierce ambitions, or by the legacy of a Yorkist dynasty which was already profoundly dysfunctional, the end result was the same: Richard III destroyed the very dynasty that he had spent his life so passionately defending., 6, Picador, UK, 2008. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. 312 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Picador, UK, 2008. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Island to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent him to serve as a prison guard at Ketziot, the largest jail in the Middle East. Realizing that among the prisoners were the future leaders of Palestine, and that this was a unique opportunity to learn from them about themselves, he began an extended dialogue with a prisoner named Rafiq. This is an account of life in that harsh desert prison and of that dialogue - the accusations, explanations, fears, prejudices and aspirations each man expressed - which continues to this day. Prisoners is a remarkable book: spare, impassioned, energetic, and unstinting in its candour about both the darkness and the hope buried within the animosities of the Middle East. 'The book is full of a refreshing self-deprecatory wit and much insight' Sunday Times 'A lucid, layered memoir' The Scotsman 'A vivid account of the passions and prejudices, the tensions and terrors that exist in every camp, and every household, in today's volatile Middle East' Oprah Magazine (US) *** Quantity Available: 20. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780330488181. 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