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The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
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Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters
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Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
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Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future
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After Surfing Ocean Beach
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River Music
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Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate Between Neighbo(u)ring States
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The Violets of Usambara
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Green City: People, Nature, & Urban Places
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Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure
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Saturday Photo: Eight-thirty, Aug. 6, Parc Outremont
Summer twilight: magic time. Although I must add that the kitchen is full of fruit flies from the nectarines I left on the counter. The advantages and disadvantages of the season.
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This book is nearly 20 years old but it has much to say regarding current politics in Algeria and Tunisia. Charrad's focus is on women, their legal protections, and their problems in these countries plus Morocco: it's a book that would have been a us
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“A rise in sea level is not like the filling of your bathtub. If it were, accommodation would be easier and could be accomplished in slow steps that might give people the time to figure out the best way to cope. No, while a barely noticeable rise in water levels continues in the background, the great damage that is done comes more suddenly, when storms whip up waves that magnify high tides, engulfing houses and encampments, eroding cliffs, breaching sandbars, and pushing salt water up rivers and into groundwater.”
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A librarian friend of mine recommended The Library Book by Susan Orleans quite a while ago, but it is only this month that I sat down and started to read it. And a very good read it is. Orleans who had a love affair with libraries from an early age se ...more |
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I first went to India in the summer of 1994, or rather it seems that way to me today. Actually I first set foot on that great subcontinent a decade later when I visited Kerala state, doing research for my book Green City: People, Nature and Urban Pl ...more |
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A friend who is a discerning reader raved to me about Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny. "What she does is amazing," she said. "It's one of the best books I've read in years." Given that kind of praise, you can be sure I quickly went loo ...more |
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| The first sentence of Ann Charney's Dobryd is chilling: "By the time I was five years old, I had spent half my life hidden away in a barn loft." Those words took my breath away when I first read them many years ago. Yet the novel's unsentimental, cle ...more | |
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| The first "chapter book" I ever read was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. It ws a Christmas present when I was in second grade, and it took me to March (yes! that long) to read the first part. But after I got that far, I found myself a committed re ...more | |
“A rise in sea level is not like the filling of your bathtub. If it were, accommodation would be easier and could be accomplished in slow steps that might give people the time to figure out the best way to cope. No, while a barely noticeable rise in water levels continues in the background, the great damage that is done comes more suddenly, when storms whip up waves that magnify high tides, engulfing houses and encampments, eroding cliffs, breaching sandbars, and pushing salt water up rivers and into groundwater.”
― Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters
― Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters
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“To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy”
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― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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Hello, Mary! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Have a wonderful weekend. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Thanks for your friend request. I'm happy to accept. Your review of Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad was very informative. I recently read a long review of several such books and also ordered Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew and Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950�2000. At first I was going to stop there until I saw your review (and since Amazon Marketplace had them used!).