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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnJack Shuler is the author of three books, including The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, Pacific Standard, Christian Science Monitor, 100 Days in Appalachia, and Los A.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another.Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, The Boundaries of Desire traces the fastmoving bloodsport of sex law over the past century, and challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity.Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the 'sexual revolution' and into the present day (when rape, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), Berkowitz shows how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality.By focusing on the stories of real people, Berkowitz adds a compelling human element to what might otherwise be faceless legal battles. The law is made by people, after all, and nothing sparks intolerance ? on the left and right more than sex. Ultimately, Berkowitz shows the emptiness of sanctimonious condemnation, and argues that sexual questions are too subtle and volatile for simple, catchall solutions. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American Jewish writer, poet, and art collector who spent most of her life in France. Her body of work include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography o.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorLongtime All Things Considered commentator Marion Winik is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and seven other books. Her Bohemian Rhapsody column at BaltimoreFis.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorReza Shah-Kazemi was born in 1960 in London. He was educated at Sussex University, Exeter University, and Kent University. He spent a year in Paris studying French and is fluent in Persian. In 1994 Reza co-launc.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnBerry s remarkable new collection, produced over the past decade, offers poems of remembrance and regeneration, celebrating life s complexities from the domestic to the eternal.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextFor five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell Berry.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnWendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Awa.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell BerryKlappentextrnrnFirst published in A Continuous Harmony in 1972, Think Little is cultural critic and agrarian Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequenc.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, S.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnSergei Dovlatov was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he bega.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorNoria Jablonski is the author of Human Oddities: Stories. She lives in California.KlappentextrnrnIn Human Oddities, by newcomer Noria Jablonski, we meet Siamese twins, newly separ.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorTerese Marie Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Elle, Granta, Mother Jones, Medium, Al Jazeera, the Los Angeles Times, and.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBestselling author Hiromi Kawakami s acclaim for her essays, stories, and novels include the Pascal Short Story Prize for New Writers and the Akutagawa Prize. Her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo was shortliste.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnMichela Murgia was born in Cabras, Sardinia, in 1972 and has worked as a religious studies teacher, a timeshare saleswoman and an administrator in a power plant. Accabadora establishes her alongside Marcello Fo.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnNoy Holland is the author of three story collections, Swim for the Little One First, What Begins with Bird, and The Spectacle of the Body. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowe.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorRed Pine (Bill Porter) was born in Los Angeles in 1943 and attended graduate school at Columbia University. An acclaimed translator, his published works include three major Buddhist texts: The Platform Sutra.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield .

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnMA JIAN was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections, and two essay collections. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since publication.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnMARY ROBISON was born in Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the 2018 Arts and Letters A.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBestselling author Hiromi Kawakami s acclaim for her essays, stories, and novels include the Pascal Short Story Prize for New Writers and the Akutagawa Prize. Her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo was shortliste.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnSet in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for p.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield .

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield .

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorYasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.KlappentextrnrnThe Old .

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnMARY ROBISON was born in Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the 2018 Arts and Letters A.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnJOAN SILBER is the author of eight books of fiction and the recipient of the 2018 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. The most recent, Improvement, is the winner of the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Awar.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnLAURET SAVOY is a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Indigenous ancestry, and the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies & Geology at Mount Holyoke College, where she explores the stories we tell of .

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnThomas Berry (1914-2009), one of the leading environmental thinkers in North America, was the director of the Riverdale Center for Religious Research and founder of the History of Religions Program at Fordham University. H.