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English
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An award-winning journalist takes us deep into the Appalachian Mountains where the last truly quiet town of America exists and where its residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity, challenging us to rethink the role of tech in our lives.
Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned. It is home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the...
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 292 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Efforts to achieve a "two-state solution" have finally collapsed; the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. As Israel and its advocates lurch toward greater extremism, many ask where the struggle is headed. This book offers a clear analysis of this crossroads moment and looks forward with urgency down the path to a more hopeful future.Ali Abunimah is the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli Palestinian Impasse,...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 93
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
87 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. The DayI missed the day on which it was said others should...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 122
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
70 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chaos is the New Calm expands the parameters of the sonnet form, putting rhymes in unusual places, inventing new stanza structures, and addressing a variety of subject matter ranging from travelogue to inner monologue, from social commentary to solitary musing. These poems are alive with sound, rhythm, and lyric insights into the world. Wyn Cooper's poem "Fun" was adapted by Sheryl Crow for her hit song "All I Wanna Do." He collaborates on music and...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sunshine State offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues haunting our nation.
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English
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Looking to buy some medieval armour? In the mood for an orchestra of typewriters? Perhaps you'd like to sift through handcrafted cashmere scarves while chatting up Indiana Jones' lovely co-star? Know where to find America's oldest baseball diamond, New England's smallest town, or Grover Cleveland's impossibly-young (and spitting-image) grandson (think about it)?
New England Notebook offers the answers to these questions and
...9) Copia: poems
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 144
Publisher
BOA Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Started as a VQR documentary-project, Copia examines the now-bankrupt city of Detroit, once the thriving heart of the American Dream. "--
"This is a volume of original American poetry"--
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Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 399 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent, and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vi, 395 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This anthology--bringing together political scientists, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, economists, and journalists--provides a serious and sophisticated theoretical and historical analysis of the state of the Latin American Left. The central thematic issues are addressed, followed by a number of case studies written by the most astute radical Left observers of the contemporary setting"--
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming--both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality--to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature,...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 414 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity.
This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape.
Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1965]
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This classic study of antebellum Southern society demonstrates how slavery was the bedrock of the region's social order and cultural identity.
In The Political Economy of Slavery, Eugene Genovese argues that slavery gave the South a distinct class structure, political community, economy, ideology, and a set of psychological patterns. As a result, the South grew away from the rest of the nation and became increasingly unstable during the nineteenth...
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