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11 produkter
Alligators May Be Present
A Novel
Inbunden, 2005
333 kr
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While many Jews pick Florida as the perfect place to retire, Matt Glassman has chosen it as the place to begin his adulthood. Perhaps that's because the pressures of life have always reminded him of his grandfather, who mysteriously disappeared from the family twenty years ago. Now, while he tries …
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995
Häftad, 1997
382 kr
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Examines eight Jewish-American writers—Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich—who have "imagined" Israel in their work.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksAnalyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman …
Bitten
My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
E-bok, 2014
184 kr
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When Andrew Furman left the rolling hills of Pennsylvania behind for a new job in Florida, he feared the worst. While he’d heard much of the fabled “southern charm,” he wondered what could possibly be charming about fist-sized mosquitoes, oppressive humidity, and ever-lurking alligators. It wasn’t …
Of Slash Pines and Manatees
A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
E-bok, 2025
299 kr
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Through stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and changeFlorida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida NonfictionFlorida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy AwardWings and talons clatter against a windowpane. …
Of Slash Pines and Manatees
A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
Häftad, 2025
321 kr
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Through stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and change Wings and talons clatter against a windowpane. Foxes den under a deck. Pines stand in quarter-acre lots, recalling a vanished forest. In this book, Andrew …
My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White
E-bok, 2010
459 kr
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Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s, roughly half of Furman’s high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other half were African Americans bused in from the inner city. Los Angeles was embroiled in efforts to desegregate …
World That We Are
Häftad, 2025
307 kr
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In 1837, a young Henry David Thoreau sets out to lead an extraordinary life in Concord, Massachusetts, combating formidable obstacles. He struggles to find work as a teacher, to discover his voice as a writer, and to realize true friendship and romantic love, battling all the while against the “ …
Glideology
Deliberations on Traffic and Reimagining Urban Space
Häftad, 2026
415 kr
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Glideology, an invented word, is meant to evoke memories of gliding downhill on your bicycle as a child or sledding down a hill in the winter. Glideology represents an optimistic outlook for traffic for the near future. It anticipates that common-sense will take hold and urban public space will be …
Bitten
My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
Inbunden, 2014
304 kr
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When Andrew Furman left the rolling hills of Pennsylvania behind for a new job in Florida, he feared the worst. While he’d heard much of the fabled “southern charm,” he wondered what could possibly be charming about fist-sized mosquitoes, oppressive humidity, and ever-lurking alligators.It wasn’t …
My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White
Inbunden, 2010
304 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, roughly half of Furman’s high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other half were African Americans bused in from the inner city. Los Angeles was embroiled in efforts to …
