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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were wiz (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight?whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as being in a pickle. This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis.As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language from his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names buried in the archives of Harvard's Widener Library, that his own grandfather had been a committed Nazi who despised this language of thieves. Interweaving family memoir with an adventurous foray into the mysteries of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original narrative. In a language born of migration and survival, he discovers a witty and resourceful spirit of tolerance that remains essential in our volatile present.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. As she falls in love with the wildlife biologist whose wolf leads a pack of feral dogs, Alice feels the tug between love's wild power and her desire to domesticate it. From the author of "The Lost Garden, Wild Dogs" strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Prize-winning author Susan J. Douglas calls on women of all ages to join together now to fight against gendered ageism, to secure our countrys financial safety net, and to make a brighter, more welcome future for older women.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik's own goes into free fall.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. A shocking expose of Volkswagens fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.

Hardback. Condición: Good.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. A riveting tribute to Charles Darwin's life and ideas in celebration of his 200th birthday.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations and warnings.

Hardback. Condición: Fair. A riveting tribute to Charles Darwin's life and ideas in celebration of his 200th birthday.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A guide to more than 40 walks and hikes along the New England coast.

Paperback. Condición: Good. The kind of writing that makes us want to read the whole book as soon as possible; a shot of adrenaline that immediately takes us to a new world.David Varno, Words Without Borders.

Paperback. Condición: Good. This propulsive adventure takes readers on a first hunt in the American wilderness-and face to face with the choice to kill or not to kill.

Hardback. Condición: Good. Michael Lesy's portrait of a gruesome era could be fiction but it's not.

Paperback. Condición: Good. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice, this brilliant novel is a shattering study of disaffection and belonging (Bidisha, Guardian).

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.

Paperback. Condición: Good. A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Discover and explore the most fabled venues in American letters.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martín Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whitman called "them the others are down upon": the African slaves who brought their music to Puerto Rico; a prison inmate provoking brawls so he could write poetry in solitary confinement; a janitor and his solitary strike; Espada's own father, who was jailed in Mississippi for refusing to go to the back of the bus. The poet bears witness to death and rebirth at the ruins of a famine village in Ireland, a town plaza in México welcoming a march of Zapatista rebels, and the courtroom where he worked as a tenant lawyer. The title poem pays homage to the immigrant food-service workers who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center. From the earliest out-of-print work to the seventeen new poems included here, Espada celebrates the American political imagination and the resilience of human dignity. Alabanza is the epic vision of a writer who, in the words of Russell Banks, "is one of the handful of American poets who are forging a new American language, one that tells the unwritten history of the continent, speaks truth to power, and sings songs of selves we can no longer silence." An American Library Association Notable Book of 2003 and a 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. "To read this work is to be struck breathless, and surely, to come away changed."?Barbara Kingsolver "Martín Espada is the Pablo Neruda of North American authors. If it was up to me, I'd select him as the Poet Laureate of the United States."?Sandra Cisneros "With these new and selected poems, you can grasp how powerful a poet Espada is?his range, his compassion, his astonishing images, his sense of history, his knowledge of the lives on the underbelly of cities, his bright anger, his tenderness, his humor. "?Marge Piercy "Espada's poems are not just clarion calls to the heart and conscience, but also wonderfully crafted gems."?Julia Alvarez "A passionate, readable poetry that makes [Espada] arguably the most important 'minority' U.S. poet since Langston Hughes."?Booklist"Neruda is dead, but if Alabanza is any clue, his ghost lives through a poet named Martín Espada."?San Francisco Chronicle.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a surprisingly hopeful message: We can solve global warming. And in doing so, we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet--if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better.

Hardback. Condición: Good. In John Dufresne's stories people are caught unawares by trouble and opportunity in the act of going about their daily lives. A romantic woman, involved with her married boss, is proposed to by a Bulgarian on a tourist visa in search of a green card and must choose between a wedding and a love affair. A doctor who has killed two women escorts a flamboyant woman home to tell her about his rage and her foolishness. Four young brothers wander into a man's backyard claiming to be foster children. They share lunch and search for the foster home that doesn't exist. After a man tells his wife that he's leaving her and his children for his new lover, he's found dead in the morning. It's up to our literary hero to solve the mystery murder, he wrote. A cross between William Faulkner (Times-Picayune) and John Irving (Detroit Free Press), Dufresne once again masterfully charts the power of truth and lies and the magic hidden in the mundane.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Chinas single womenare they the source of its future.

Hardback. Condición: Good. An anthropologist examines the nature of religiosity and how it shapes and benefits humankind.

Paperback. Condición: Good. With humor and compassion, Dr. Nicholas H. Dodman explores the complex emotional problems of troubled animals and their (often) equally distressed owners. If Only They Could Speak has become a classic of animal literature, with stories as wise, and almost as human, as the lives of the animals they portray.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. The text introduces students to the core areas of interest in rational-choice scholarship, including rule making, collective-action problems, decision making, strategic behavior, and the role of institutions. Written in clear prose and filled with concrete examples, American Politics: Strategy and Choice provides readers with a thorough understanding of the basic principles of the rational-choice approach and its many applications to American politics. …

Hardback. Condición: Good. Big drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk supplier: Barney and his two women have been savagely murdered?and the murderers, three drug rivals from London, are still in the house. Beau dies quickly at their hands; they let Ralph go?for the moment?but he's a marked man because of what he's seen. When Melanie, Beau's alluring, ruthless girlfriend, learns what has happened, she is bent on revenge and wants Ralph as her partner?all the way. Bill James's latest Harpur & Iles police procedural ratchets up the tension as the cops (the brilliant Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his ungovernable, half-cracked superior, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles) fight the drug barons for control of the city. As a body washes up, and one of the London creeps meets a violent end, the wily Ralph finds himself starting a new, very risky career?and Harpur sorts out what's going on just in time.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. In North America, between 30 and 40 million people purchase bird feed each year. For anyone who feeds birds, this book will be an indispensable companion. This book, based on years of study and surveys, offers more information on the feeding habits of birds than has ever before been available. Here we will find out what species frequent feeders in different parts of North America, how often these species visit feeders, and what they prefer to eat. We learn, for instance, that a red-winged blackbird may not try a novel food until it sees another try it first; that over 150 pygmy nuthatches have been reported roosting together in a single tree cavity; that redpolls can spend adjacent winters in sites over 1200 miles apart; and that crows post sentinels in feeding flocks to watch for danger. Unlike ordinary bird guides, this book focuses exclusively on birds that are likely to appear at your feeder. In addition to fascinating descriptions of each species there are clear, charming illustrations for identification as well as maps that show distribution and frequency of feeder visits. Amateurs and professionals alike will find this an engaging and necessary book.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Browns life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.

Hardback. Condición: Good.