Showing posts with label #stephendrus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #stephendrus. Show all posts
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Shoah: The Complete Text Of The Acclaimed Holocaust Film Paperback – August 22, 1995 by Claude Lanzmann (Author), Simone de Beauvoir (Introduction) (Da Capo Press)

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A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally ...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements by Richard T. Antoun Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism The term “fundamentalism” comes from a series of pamphlets entitled The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the...
Friday, January 5, 2018

Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart. Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie and Simon Winlow (eds). Policy Press. 2017.

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In Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart, editors Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie and Simon Winlow ma...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

First Time Ever: A MemoirOct 24, 2017 by Peggy Seeger Hardcover (Faber & Faber)

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First Time Ever by Peggy Seeger  – a memoir of folk royalty,She was from the American music establishment, he was born of Scottish socialism...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

200th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau.....Henry David Thoreau: A LifeJul 7, 2017 by Laura Dassow Walls Hardcover (University of Chicago Press) ;

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This year, the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, has occasioned publication of the first Thoreau biography in 50 years—Lau...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State. Iza R. Hussin. University of Chicago Press. 2016.

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The field of Islamic studies has been of late in a state of renaissance. Not only have remarkable young scholars emerged in virtually all...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

The Story: A Reporter’s Journey By Judith Miller Published 2015-04-07 Simon & Schuster 400 Pages

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In the epiloque of her memoir, The Story: A Reporter’s Journey, Judith Miller declares that she has “tried to review [her] mistakes, to corr...
Friday, December 1, 2017

A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 Paperback – November 3, 2009 by Annie Leibovitz(Random House Trade Paperbacks)

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Photographs are an “inventory of mortality,”  Susan Sontag  wrote in “On Photography.” They “state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Hardcover – January 5, 2016 by Cal Newport (Grand Central Publishing)

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One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary ...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Literary St. Petersburg A Guide to the City and Its Writers By Elaine Blair (The Little Bookroom) (IBRChildrensbooks)

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Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers living there. This uniqu...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Louise Bourgeois Retrospective : Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, September 24, 2017–January 28, 2018 Catalog of the exhibition by Deborah Wye. MoMA, 248 pp., $55.00 Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois by Robert Storr Monacelli, 828 pp., $150.00,Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois Hardcover – March 1, 2016 by Amy Novesky (Author),‎ Isabelle Arsenault (Illustrator) ( Abrams Books for Young Readers);Louise Bourgeois: Life as Art Paperback – July 2, 2003 by Penelope Vinding (Author),‎ Poul Erik Tojner (Author),‎ Louise Bourgeois (Author),‎ Julie Sylvester (Contributor),‎ Anders Kold (Editor),‎ Michael Juul Holm (Editor) (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art)

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After we’re done shaking our heads at what they had to endure, we project onto our long-lived women artists a mystique that’s as old ...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Financial Turmoil in Europe and the US: Essays. George Soros. Public Affairs. 161 pages

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. Financial Crisis in Europe and the US: George Soros Essays presents a collection of Soros’ writings from January 2008 until late 2011. Con...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Babatha’s Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold by Philip F. Esler (Oxford University Press,) 288 pp., $45

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Sometime toward the end of the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132–135 C.E.), a Jewish woman named Babatha, daughter of Shimon, fled Ein Gedi with a ...