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Von Händler/Antiquariat, VELMA CLINTON BOOKS.
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good-. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover; Fourth Printing. 9780307266514 . This is a thick, heavy book and is not eligible for Priority, Air or International shipping under standard fees. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Gift note on front pastedown. Contents are almost as new. No DJ. ; 9-1/2" Tall, ***III + 650pp. Light brown boards, mediuim brown spine , bright gold spine lettering. HISTORY. "The history of Jerusalem is the chronicle of an often penurious provincial town amid the Judaean hills. Jerusalem was once regarded as the centre of the world and today that is more true than ever. The city is the focus of the struggle between the Abrahamic religions, the shrine for increasingly popular, Christian, Jewish and Islamic fundamentalism, the strategic battlefield of clashing civilizations, the front line between atheism and faith, the cynosure of secular fascination, the object of giddy conspiracism and internet myth-making, and the illuminated stage for the cameras of the world in the age of twenty-four-hour news. This is a history of Jerusalem as the centre of world history. This work is a synthesis based on a wide reading of the primary sources, ancient and modern. I have been fortunate to uncover some new or rarely used sources. I am here to recount the history of what happened and what people believed. There have always been two Jerusalems, the temporal and the celestial, both ruled more by faith and emotion than by reason and facts. " Eleven Maps. Five family trees: The Maccabees, The Herods, The Prophet Muhammad, Crusader Kings of Jerusalem, and the Hashemite (Sherifian) Dynasty. Scores of b/w illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The book has nine Parts: Judaism; Paganism; Christianity; Islam; Crusade; Mamluk; Ottoman; Empire; Zionism. .

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In these powerful, often funny, sometimes lyrical, and down-to-earth poems, Marge Piercy writes of her "crooked inheritance"--physical and personality traits from wildly mismatched parents, and in a larger sense the marvelous half-broken world we inherit. Even her hometown Detroit provides a double legacy--a slum girlhood that breeds in her both wild ambition and, where you would least expect it, a love of nature, which she discovers in the city's elms, "the thing of beauty on grimy smoke-bleared streets." Some of Piercy's strongest poems have always been political, and here are important new verses raging against the war in Iraq, the abandonment of Katrina's victims ("People penned to die in our instant / concentration camps, just add water"), and the ongoing attempts to suppress women--their rights, their bodies, their minds, their very being: "The CIA should hire as spies / only women over fifty, because we are the truly invisible." Other poems are about her life on Cape Cod, where she finds sanctuary in the long natural rhythms of the year's cycle--gardening, making pesto, hearing coyotes in the winter "yelping in chorus after a kill," a place where after weeks of rain and snow, the "sun gives birth to rosebushes," and "everything revealed is magical, splendid in its ordinary shining." Here, too, are wonderful love songs, about friends, lovers, a beautiful day, animals, making bread. Deep connections to Jewish life and ritual reveal themselves in poems about her Lithuanian grandmother, about holidays, about the peace in a time of war that ceremony can bring, "an evening of honey on the tongue . . . a puddle of amber light . . . faces of friends . . . darkness walling off the room from what lies outside." These marvelous poems remind us anew of the breadth and strength of Marge Piercy's poetic vision. A superb collection to read and treasure.

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The Crooked Inheritance: Poems Piercy, Marge, In these powerful, often funny, sometimes lyrical, and down-to-earth poems, Marge Piercy writes of her "crooked inheritance"--physical and personality traits from wildly mismatched parents, and in a larger sense the marvelous half-broken world we inherit. Even her hometown Detroit provides a double legacy--a slum girlhood that breeds in her both wild ambition and, where you would least expect it, a love of nature, which she discovers in the city's elms, "the thing of beauty on grimy smoke-bleared streets." Some of Piercy's strongest poems have always been political, and here are important new verses raging against the war in Iraq, the abandonment of Katrina's victims ("People penned to die in our instant / concentration camps, just add water"), and the ongoing attempts to suppress women--their rights, their bodies, their minds, their very being: "The CIA should hire as spies / only women over fifty, because we are the truly invisible." Other poems are about her life on Cape Cod, where she finds sanctuary in the long natural rhythms of the year's cycle--gardening, making pesto, hearing coyotes in the winter "yelping in chorus after a kill," a place where after weeks of rain and snow, the "sun gives birth to rosebushes," and "everything revealed is magical, splendid in its ordinary shining." Here, too, are wonderful love songs, about friends, lovers, a beautiful day, animals, making bread. Deep connections to Jewish life and ritual reveal themselves in poems about her Lithuanian grandmother, about holidays, about the peace in a time of war that ceremony can bring, "an evening of honey on the tongue . . . a puddle of amber light . . . faces of friends . . . darkness walling off the room from what lies outside." These marvelous poems remind us anew of the breadth and strength of Marge Piercy's poetic vision. A superb collection to read and treasure.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, betterworldbooks.
Hardcover, Label: Alfred A. Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-10, Studio: Alfred A. Knopf.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, -betterworldbooks-.
Book by Marge Piercy, Relié, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Studio: Knopf.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bear Books Spain.
Book by Marge Piercy, Tapa dura, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Libro, Studio: Knopf.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, -Daily Deals-.
Hardcover, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2007, Studio: Knopf, Verkaufsrang: 15067381.

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Crooked-Inheritance~~Marge-Piercy, The Crooked Inheritance, Hardcover.