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Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnJack Shuler is the author of three books, including The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, Pacific Standard, Christian Science Monitor, 100 Days in Appalachia, and Los A.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American Jewish writer, poet, and art collector who spent most of her life in France. Her body of work include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography o.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextrnrnFirst published in A Continuous Harmony in 1972, Think Little is cultural critic and agrarian Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequenc.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnWendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Awa.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorRed Pine (Bill Porter) was born in Los Angeles in 1943 and attended graduate school at Columbia University. An acclaimed translator, his published works include three major Buddhist texts: The Platform Sutra.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextrnrnUnfortunately, on occasions too frequent and destructive to enumerate, the teachings of Christ have been either ignored or distorted by the very people calling themselves.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another.Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, The Boundaries of Desire traces the fastmoving bloodsport of sex law over the past century, and challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity.Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the 'sexual revolution' and into the present day (when rape, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), Berkowitz shows how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality.By focusing on the stories of real people, Berkowitz adds a compelling human element to what might otherwise be faceless legal battles. The law is made by people, after all, and nothing sparks intolerance ? on the left and right more than sex. Ultimately, Berkowitz shows the emptiness of sanctimonious condemnation, and argues that sexual questions are too subtle and volatile for simple, catchall solutions. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorLongtime All Things Considered commentator Marion Winik is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and seven other books. Her Bohemian Rhapsody column at BaltimoreFis.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorReza Shah-Kazemi was born in 1960 in London. He was educated at Sussex University, Exeter University, and Kent University. He spent a year in Paris studying French and is fluent in Persian. In 1994 Reza co-launc.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnKATE CHOPIN (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. The major works include the novels The Awakening and At Fault and the story collections Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnBerry s remarkable new collection, produced over the past decade, offers poems of remembrance and regeneration, celebrating life s complexities from the domestic to the eternal.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, S.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnWendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Awa.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextrnrnNo one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over forty y.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorNoria Jablonski is the author of Human Oddities: Stories. She lives in California.KlappentextrnrnIn Human Oddities, by newcomer Noria Jablonski, we meet Siamese twins, newly separ.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnSergei Dovlatov was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he bega.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextrnrnA poetic novel of despair, hope, and the redemptive power of work deepens an award-winning author s grand Port Williams literary project. After losing his hand .

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnWALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) is considered one of the greatest American poets of the last century. His major works include Ideas of Order, The Man With the Blue Guitar, Notes Towards a Supreme Fictio.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextFor five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell Berry.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnWendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Awa.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextSet against the turmoil of the World War II, A World Lost is just one of the classic chapters in Berry s Port William series. The summer of 1944 finds nine-year-o.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorGina BerriaultKlappentextrnrnBroaching a taboo deeply embedded in the human psyche, this haunting story tells of a woman who desires something more, as if something more had been promised her that .