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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 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.

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.

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. …

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.

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 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. 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.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. 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.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell Berry.

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 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 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 AutorWendell BerryKlappentext Andy Catlett is the latest installment in Wendell Berry s Port William series, a distinct set of stories that Berry has been telling now for 50 years. Set during .

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 .

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryInhaltsverzeichnisrnrn1. Thicker Than Liquor (1930)rn2. Where Did They Go? (1947)rn3. It Wasn t Me (1953)rn4. The Boundary (1965)rn5. That Distant Land (1965)rn6. Th.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextrnrnIn a rural Kentucky river town, Old Jack Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the ea.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnNoy Holland is the author of three story collections, Swim for the Little One First, What Begins with Bird, and The Spectacle of the Body. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowe.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBestselling author Hiromi Kawakami s acclaim for her essays, stories, and novels include the Pascal Short Story Prize for New Writers and the Akutagawa Prize. Her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo was shortliste.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorYasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.KlappentextrnrnThe Old .