David Zimmerman - Böcker

Över mitt ögas dag av David Zimmerman är en långdikt i två delar där förflutet och framtid ständigt graviterar mot och konfronteras med ett lika oförmöget som rasande "nu". Genom lyriska diktsegment och bearbetade fragment ur Vilhelm Ekelunds över...

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"Vidrörd öppnar sig varelsen i glipor och en värld strilar mot hjärtstammen. Blicken man är i ser hjälplöst in i de andra." Hur ska vi vara tillsammans? Hur ska vi hitta vårt fäste i tiden? Ark talar med en stark materiell melankoli som samtidigt ...

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A comprehensive guide to the birds of Kenya and adjoining Northern Tanzania. Kenya is one of the world's great wildlife travel destinations, with a diverse and very large avifauna to accompany the big cats and large herbivores. This book, covering...

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A collection of essays and poems exploring the concept of infinite time and the way it resonates through the emotional, material and spiritual architecture of our own most finite lives. Texts enacting mythic re-contextualisations, light polluted s...

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Discover the unseen assassins that plague humanity. Until recently, most of us went about our daily lives with a false sense of public health security. Epidemics were a thing of the past, the AIDS crisis had diminished, and an annual vaccination k...

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Everything readers ever wanted to know about deadly viruses, killer parasites, flesh-eating microbes, and other lifethreatening beasties but were afraid to askWhat disease, known as "e;the White Death"e; has killed 2 billion people, and co...

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Therapeutic changes occur in many places, and among animals as well as humans. A theory that attempts to explain therapeutic changes should be based on principles that apply not only to those changes occurring during the hour, but also to those ob...

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Therapeutic changes occur in many places, and among animals as well as humans. A theory that attempts to explain therapeutic changes should be based on principles that apply not only to those changes occurring during the hour, but also to those ob...

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A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about seventeen percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelo...

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A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effe...

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Zimmerman traces the early development of the mission from Britain's initial attempts at technical cooperation in World War I and unsuccessful efforts to restart it in the late 1930s. He highlights Winston Churchill's prominent, yet remarkably inc...

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This collection is the first scholarly treatment of the relationship between the Amish and the media in contemporary American life. The essays not only focus on the Amish as subjects in mainstream media-news, movies, TV-but also view them as produ...

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During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States. Fiction writers published scores of novels that exp...

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How are manatees different from human moms? How are they the same. Readers will relate to most of the young manatee's description of its mom.

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By what routes and on what grounds do moral blame and shame for social wrongs fall on individuals, groups, and institutions? To answer this question is necessarily to excite the moral imagination, to envision our moral connection to social, econom...

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The individual bravery and skill of the Battle of Britain pilots and the fighting qualities of their aircraft would have been in vain if they had not been part of a highly complex and sophisticated air defence system based on radar. The developmen...

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