Oxbow books jun 2014 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These poems are freighted with longing and doubt but they are never naive. Passionate, unflinching family stories and personal loss are here, and yet the will to love breaks all molds.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates life on the ground in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens-natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers-coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly diverse group of people into a homogenous whole. She investigates the efforts to make Hebrew the lingua franca of Israel, the uses of humor, and the effects of a constant military presence, along with such familiar aspects of daily life as communal dining on the kibbutz, the nightmare of trying to board a bus, and moviegoing as a form of escapism. In the process Helman shows how ordinary people adapted to the standards and rules of the political and cultural elites and negotiated the chaos of early statehood.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain's foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A study of the mutual plasticity of girls and digital images.