Families of the World:Family Life at the Close of the Twentieth Century
- Livres de poche 2025, ISBN: 9780374152161
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New York: Henry Holt and Company; Metropolitan Books, 2007. x, 673 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Translated from the Hebrew. Firm binding, clean inside … Plus…
New York: Henry Holt and Company; Metropolitan Books, 2007. x, 673 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Translated from the Hebrew. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corners bumped. Stated First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967--the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything. Journalist Segev recounts the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the country and the entire region. Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967, showing how economic recession, a full grasp of the Holocaust's horrors, and the dire threats made by neighbor states combined to produce a climate of apocalypse. He depicts the country's bravado after its victory, an era of new possibilities and tragic missteps. He introduces Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Gamal Abdul Nasser, and Lyndon Johnson, and an epic cast of soldiers, lobbyists, refugees, and settlers. He reveals Israel's intimacy with the White House and the political rivalries that sabotaged any chance of peace. Above all, describing a series of disastrous miscalculations, he challenges the view that the war was inevitable. / Tom Segev is a columnist for Haaretz, Israels leading newspaper, and the author of three now-classic works on the history of Israel: 1949: The First Israelis; The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust; and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, which was a New York Times Editors Choice for 2000. He lives in Jerusalem." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Henry Holt and Company; Metropolitan Books, 2007, 4, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner - in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades - but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful. It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank café - a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive. So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, Gopnik walked the paths of the Tuileries, enjoyed philosophical discussions at his local bistro, wrote as violet twilight fell on the arrondissements. Of course, as readers of Gopnik's beloved and award-winning "Paris Journals" in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with day-to-day, not-so-fabled life. Evenings with French intellectuals preceded middle-of-the-night baby feedings; afternoons were filled with trips to the Musée d'Orsay and pinball games; weekday leftovers were eaten while three-star chefs debated a "culinary crisis." As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys - both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. "We went to Paris for a sentimental reeducation - I did anyway - even though the sentiments we were instructed in were not the ones we were expecting to learn, which I believe is why they call it an education." 338 pages. Prev. owners name on Ffep.., New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 2000, 0, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the highly acclaimed bestseller A Good Walk Spoiled, John Feinstein captures the world of professional golf as it has never been captured before. Traveling with the golfers on the PGA Tour, Feinstein gets inside the heads of the game's greatest players as well as its struggling wannabes. Meet superstars like Nick Price, who nailed a fifty-foot putt at the seventeenth to win the British Open, and Paul Azinger, who marked his return from a bout with cancer with an emotional appearance at the Buick Open. Go behind the scenes for Davis Love III's unforgettable come-from-behind victory in the Ryder Cup. In golf, Feinstein eloquently relates, the line that separates triumph from disappointment is incredibly fine. "One week you've discovered the secret to the game; the next week you never want to play it again." 498 pages. Front cover bottom edge is bumped along the edge 1/2" long. 6" and two 1" creases on front cover near the middle.., New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1996, 0, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA, 2001. State first edition. Black boards, silver spine titles, as new. Pages crisp, no writing. Dj fine, classic design; unclipped 19.00, protected in new clear sleeve. In this whimsical Beckettian fable, the narrator lives in a tin house in the windy middle of nowhere. Just about his only amusement is sweeping his doorstep clean. In a setting Samuel Beckett might have found homey lives a man in a house made of tin. He is content. The tin house is well constructed and located miles from the tin houses of his nearest neighbors. Though he seems to have escaped society, however, society finds him. One day, a woman arrives and moves in. Soon a neighbor comes to visit, and then another. Soon, moving figures silhouette the horizon. People dismantling their tin houses and setting off to find a master builder with a revolutionary message. The gravitational pull cannot be resisted. Nor can this novel. Part mystery, part parable, Three to See the King stalks the reader?s imagination and grows inexorably and irresistibly in the telling. 167 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book., Picador USA, 2001, 5, New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2010. BV2 - An advance reading copy paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling, chipping and crease on some cover edges, sides, and corners, tanning and light shelf wear. Rick Moody's masterful novel vividly imagines a low-down, darkly comic future, as inspired by a drive-in movie classic. 9.25"x6", 727 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally - a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives. The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC)., Little, Brown & Company, 2010, 3, Very Good. Ships From Canada. Very slight shelf wear Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Families of the World, VI. Audience: General/trade. From Publishers Weekly This collection of photo-essays comparing living conditions as they affect family life in North and South America is the first volume of a projected series. Canadian ethnologist Tremblay selects one or more families from each of the countriesa total of 46whom she feels represents national characteristics of each nation, having spent on average three days sharing their everyday life. Excellent photos and maps illustrate the author's detailed chronology of their daily routines and attest to the different modes of existence ranging from Amazonian jungle Indians to urban apartment dwellers. While many South and Central Americans inhabit squalid shanty towns or live in isolated rural poverty, conditions of middle-class Venezuelans, Uruguayans and Mexicans compare favorably with their like in the U.S. and Canada. Although her choices may seem a, 3<
