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Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change

McKibben, Bill / Rasmussen, Jack
Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change
Painter, photographer and climate activist Diane Burko has long been a prominent advocate in addressing climate change. While continuing to engage the traditions of landscape painting, her increasingly abstract and large-scale images are layered with visual and scientific information about the urgent challenges posed to the planet. This volume presents Burko's large-scale paintings and serial groupings, including her never-before-exhibited, 56...

CHF 51.90

The Heart Knows the Way Home

Distler, Christy
The Heart Knows the Way Home
Sometimes home isn't a place, but a people.As children, Janna Carpenter and Luke Martin lived on opposite sides of Division Highway, and that wasn't the only division in their lives. While he grew up in the gmay-Lancaster County's Old Order Mennonite community-she was the daughter of a single mother who left her in the care of Luke's grandmother. For six years Janna found love with the Martins, until her mother abruptly moved them away.Now, al...

CHF 40.90

A Cord of Three Strands

Distler, Christy
A Cord of Three Strands
2021 American Fiction Awards Winner2021 International Book Awards FinalistBorn to a French trader and a Lenape woman. Reared by Quakers. As the French & Indian War rages, one man strives for peace-between Pennsylvania and its Indian tribes, and between his own heart and mind.As 1756 dawns, Isaac Lukens leaves the Pennsylvania wilderness after two years with the Lenape people. He's failed to find the families of his birth parents, a French trad...

CHF 44.90

On the Front Lines: Following America's Foreign Correspon...

Emery, Michael
On the Front Lines: Following America's Foreign Correspondents Across the Twentieth Century
From Sarajevo in 1914 to Baghdad in 1990 renowned foreign correspondent Michael Emery charts the difficulties facing his American colleagues covering overseas events. He tells the 'stories behind the stories' and the pressures faced by American reporters like Marguerite Higgins and Peter Arnett.

CHF 68.00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Arabic Edition)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York / Campbell, Thomas P.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Arabic Edition)
This completely reconceived and rewritten guide to the Metropolitan's encyclopedic holdings-the first new edition of the guidebook in nearly thirty years-provides the ideal introduction to almost 600 essential masterpieces from one of the world's most popular and beloved museums. It features a compelling and accessible design, beautiful color reproductions, and up-to-date descriptions written by the Museum's own experts. More than a simple sou...

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End of Empire: The Demise of the Soviet Union

Urban, G. R.
End of Empire: The Demise of the Soviet Union
Seven distinguished scholars in dialogue with G.R. Urban discuss the momentous events leading up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the consequences that may follow. In his introduction, Urban explores the hesitations and misconceptions of Western policy-makers in dealing with the Soviet empire over the last 75 years. Contributors include Sidney Hook, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Elie Kedourie, Otto von Habsburg, Adam Ulam, Milovan Djilas, and S...

CHF 67.00

Escaping Prison Myths

Roberts, John G / Morris, Norval
Escaping Prison Myths
This book describes and analyzes the key issues in the history of federal corrections in the United States: the origins and development of the first federal prisons, the role of women in federal corrections, the evolution of inmate rights, inmate classification and rehabilitation programs, prison administration and executive management, and the famous super-maximum security penitentiaries at Alcatraz and Marion. The book also includes a roundt...

CHF 153.00

Poland's Permanent Revolution

Curry, Jane Leftwich / Fajfer, Luba
Poland's Permanent Revolution
This is a history of Poland's post-World War II Communist era, that approaches the transition from Communism to democracy through an analysis of Poland's political crises, beginning with the 1956 uprising and culminating in the 1990 collapse of the former Communist regime.

CHF 153.00

The Volatile Powder Keg

Larrabee, Stephen F
The Volatile Powder Keg
In this work, regional specialists and European security analysts unite in a comprehensive analysis of changes in the Balkans and the security dilemmas they present to Western policy.

CHF 153.00

Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life?

Crum, Gary / McCormack, Thelma
Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life?
If you oppose abortion, are you ethically justified in preventing a pregnant woman from getting an abortion? Why don't anti-abortion politicians devote more energy to helping needy children whose mothers chose not to have abortions? Questions of this sort have generated more emotion than reason for decades. Using medical, legal and public opinion data the authors examine the complex dilemmas raised by the abortion issue. Gary Crum and Thelma M...

CHF 122.00

Abortion

Crum, Gary / McCormack, Thelma
Abortion
If you oppose abortion, are you ethically justified in preventing a pregnant woman from getting an abortion? Why don't anti-abortion politicians devote more energy to helping needy children whose mothers chose not to have abortions? Questions of this sort have generated more emotion than reason for decades. Using medical, legal and public opinion data the authors examine the complex dilemmas raised by the abortion issue. Gary Crum and Thelma M...

CHF 47.90