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Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were wiz (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight?whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as being in a pickle. This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis.As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language from his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names buried in the archives of Harvard's Widener Library, that his own grandfather had been a committed Nazi who despised this language of thieves. Interweaving family memoir with an adventurous foray into the mysteries of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original narrative. In a language born of migration and survival, he discovers a witty and resourceful spirit of tolerance that remains essential in our volatile present.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. As she falls in love with the wildlife biologist whose wolf leads a pack of feral dogs, Alice feels the tug between love's wild power and her desire to domesticate it. From the author of "The Lost Garden, Wild Dogs" strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Prize-winning author Susan J. Douglas calls on women of all ages to join together now to fight against gendered ageism, to secure our countrys financial safety net, and to make a brighter, more welcome future for older women.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik's own goes into free fall.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. With this innovative book Kenneth Bowers provides an unusually clear and coherent introduction to a puzzling and elusive subject. Organizing his presentation around the major questions surrounding this often paradoxical phenomenon-Are hypnotic effects genuine? What is hypnotic suggestibility and the hypnotic state? Can anyone be hypnotized?-the author takes the reader systematically through the pivotal experiments in the field. And more, his evenhanded approach brings to light those critical studies that do and do not support theories of hypnosis. The author concludes his accountwith a look at the clinical applications of hypnosis.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A thorough and balanced resource for parents facing decisions about their children.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Covers everything from the first spark of inspiration to the final draft. Writers will see how a series of careful questions will lead them to the messages of their reports, and will learn how to let those messages drive the structure of the piece. From this foundation they will be able to create a paragraph-by-paragraph plan of their entire report. A final chapter explains the author's techniques for editing reports of any length.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A guide to more than 40 walks and hikes along the New England coast.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The kind of writing that makes us want to read the whole book as soon as possible; a shot of adrenaline that immediately takes us to a new world.David Varno, Words Without Borders.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Draws with literary aplomb the correlation of what and how we eat to who we are.Austin Chronicle.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Reveals the beauty and wonder of one of America's most familiar yet least appreciated waterways and shorelines.-Ruth Messinger, former Manhattan borough president.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This propulsive adventure takes readers on a first hunt in the American wilderness-and face to face with the choice to kill or not to kill.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Organized in an innovative format, it dispenses information and advice according to themes including Eat, Play, and Learn. As one of the few guidebooks devoted to weekend escapes from Chicago, Great Escapes: Chicago appeals to residents of Chicago and its metropolitan region desiring quick and inexpensive vacations and reignites interest in nearby Chicago.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Michael Lesy's portrait of a gruesome era could be fiction but it's not.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Awarded the 2009 Silver Medal in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: the first and only travel book devoted solely to immersion travel-volunteering, living, and learning trips within the United States.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Brother Sebastian, nee Michael Lamb, runs away from a bleak reformatory, taking with him twelve-year-old Owen Kane, the media and the police call it a kidnapping. For Lamb, though, it is a rescue of a formerly abused boy from a place of no hope, a last grasp at an elusive happiness. But as the outside world closes in, as time and money run out, Lamb finds himself moving towards a solution that is as shocking as it is loving.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Discover and explore the most fabled venues in American letters.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a surprisingly hopeful message: We can solve global warming. And in doing so, we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet--if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than award-winning economist Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Times columns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named America's most important columnist by the Washington Monthly and columnist of the year by Editor and Publisher magazine. A major bestseller, this influential and wide-ranging book has been praised by BusinessWeek as Krugman's "most provocative and compelling effort yet," the New York Review of Books as "refreshing," and Library Journal as "thought-provoking.even funny." The American Prospect put it in vivid terms: "In a time when too few tell it like it is.[Krugman] has taken on the battle of our time." Built from Paul Krugman's influential Op-Ed columns for the New York Times, this book galvanized the reading public. With wit, passion, and a unique ability to explain complex issues in plain English, Krugman describes how the nation has been misled by a dishonest administration. In this long-awaited work containing Krugman's most influential columns along with new commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unraveled: how exuberance gave way to pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals, how fiscal responsibility collapsed. From his account of the secret history of the California energy crisis to his devastating dissections of dishonesty in the Bush administration, from the war in Iraq to the looting of California to the false pretenses used to sell an economic policy that benefits only a small elite, Krugman tells the uncomfortable truth like no one else. And he gives us the road map we will need to follow if we are to get the country back on track. The paperback edition features a new introduction as well as new writings.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A rollicking tale. --Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. In this modern age, why do we carry on that most traditional of all traditions: marriage? When Kate Cohen decided to marry her longtime boyfriend, it seemed like a natural choice. But why? In an age of widespread cohabitation and divorce--when marriage is no longer the master key to sex, a shared home, or security--what reasons did she have for marrying? With charm and honesty, A Walk Down the Aisle addresses our desires to wed traditionally, and also to break with tradition. Illuminating familiar wedding customs by showing us those from other cultures and eras, and enlisting the ideas of figures from John Milton to Lyle Lovett, Cohen looks at how we wed today, how we find a true love, or how we find a china pattern. We join her during the summer before she walked down the aisle, and with her we face the questions her restless mind encountered--including the most troubling and, finally, exhilarating ones: What does that walk mean? And why does it feel so right.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. "(A) collection of hilarious outtakes from courtroom situations. . . . The humor derives from laypersons--prisoners, witnesses, jurors--who produce a wealth of banalities and faux pas, or from lawyers and judges, whose pomposity and long-windedness beg to be deflated".--Booklist.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. At last, an indispensable guide to the unique needs of the 2.5 million dogs adopted every year in America.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In John Dufresne's stories people are caught unawares by trouble and opportunity in the act of going about their daily lives. A romantic woman, involved with her married boss, is proposed to by a Bulgarian on a tourist visa in search of a green card and must choose between a wedding and a love affair. A doctor who has killed two women escorts a flamboyant woman home to tell her about his rage and her foolishness. Four young brothers wander into a man's backyard claiming to be foster children. They share lunch and search for the foster home that doesn't exist. After a man tells his wife that he's leaving her and his children for his new lover, he's found dead in the morning. It's up to our literary hero to solve the mystery murder, he wrote. A cross between William Faulkner (Times-Picayune) and John Irving (Detroit Free Press), Dufresne once again masterfully charts the power of truth and lies and the magic hidden in the mundane.…