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Vulnerable Observer : Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (96 Edition)
by Ruth Behar Publisher Comments Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar proposes a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology--with the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling....
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Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Vintage Departures)
by Eric Hansen Publisher Comments In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky...
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Even in Quiet Places
by William Stafford Publisher Comments Stafford's 90 poems show his understanding of freedom, social justice and ways to establish harmony in life....
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Art of Drowning (95 Edition)
by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Billy Collins's poetry has been described by Gerald Stern as "heartbreakingly beautiful." Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." The New York Times calls him simply "the...
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Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons : Poems (86 Edition)
by Marilyn Hacker Review "Hacker's impressive technical skills, combined with the sensitivity of her subject and her straightforward diction, prevent the book from becoming the flat diary a lesser poet might have written." Library...
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Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
by Willia Langewiesche Publisher Comments The world's vastest and most forbidding desert is revealed in all its cruelty and wonder in this masterpiece of contemporary travel writing by the author of Cutting for Sign. William Langewiesche crossed the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, determined to...
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Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
by Jessic Douglas Home Publisher Comments Paperback edition of this acclaimed biography of Violet Gordon Woodhouse, the pioneering musician who included Picasso, Diaghilev, the Sitwells, Pound and Eliot amongst her social circle, and attracted passionate devotion from both men and women. Written...
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Last Train To Memphis : the Rise of Elvis Presley (94 Edition)
by Peter Guralnick Publisher Comments From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and...
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How I Came West, and Why I Stayed: Stories
by Alison Baker Publisher Comments This classic Chronicle book remains available as a print-on-demand title. You can purchase it from an online bookseller or by order from your local bookstore....
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It is Hard to Look at What We: Came to Think We'd Come to See (Pitt Poetry)
by Michele Glazer Synopsis Michele Glazer is the author of It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See, which received the 1996 AWP Award in Poetry. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon's Literary Arts, Inc., and the...
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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick Publisher Comments Unrivaled in its scope, detail, authority, and sheer readability, Guralnick's biography of Elvis Presley tells a quintessential American story of one of the most important entertainers of the century....
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The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
by Adrienne Monnier Powells.com Staff Pick This is as good a place as any to confess my elaborate fantasy about living on the Left Bank in the 20's and 30's. While this community of modernists turned out a lot of cultural heavyweights (Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce), the people that...
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Love, Death, & the Changing Seasons
by Marilyn Hacker
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