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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: Fall Flames...
September is the time of change, when the landscape can change overnight to be something quite different from what you'd been enjoying for weeks. These sumac leaves are a harbinger of what is to come. The first flames of fall.... Read more of this blog post »
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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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| This summer I read two page-turners, novels that sucked me in and kept me reading late into the night. One is Cailin Mullen's Heather, which could be classed as a police procedural in which a young woman chief of police in a small New Jersey town tri ...more | |
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| This week's selection is a direct follow-up of Orbital, Samantha Harvey's space pastoral. As I noted earlier, she said J.L. Carr's book A Month in the Country inspired her to write a tale in which no dramatic events take place, but where context and ...more | |
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| The past couple of weeks have been wonderful for star-gazers. There was the complete eclipse of the sun that swept across the North Atlantic and Europe, a grand show of the Perseid meteor shower, a rare planetary alignment visible (so it is said) a b ...more | |
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Libraries are among my most favourite places, and I've long been curious about Andrew Carnegie who financed hundreds of them in the US, Canada and abroad at the turn of the 20th century. (The photo is of the original Carnegie Library in Walla Walla W ...more |
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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.”
― Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters
― Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters
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― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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“In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.”
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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!).