age ~62
from Pearl River, NY
“A first-rate update on the state of the long-fought hemispheric ‘war on drugs.’ It is particularly timely, as the perception that the war is lost and needs to be changed has never been stronger in Latin and North America.”—Paul Gootenberg, author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug “A ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
464
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN #
0813060680
EAN Code
9780813060682
ISBN #
26
Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His paren...
Author
Jonathan Rosen
Binding
Paperback
Pages
389
Publisher
Picador
ISBN #
0312424272
EAN Code
9780312424275
ISBN #
12
We are all birdwatchers.Over cities and jungles and open plains, the sky is animated by the flight of birds, and their presence reminds us of the wild element of life on earth that can never be suppressed. In The Life of the Skies, Jonathan Rosen explores the significance of this timeless pursuit, c...
Author
Jonathan Rosen
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Picador
ISBN #
0312428197
EAN Code
9780312428198
ISBN #
11
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine beco...
Author
Bernard Malamud
Binding
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN #
0374504849
EAN Code
9780374504847
ISBN #
6
Ruth Simon is beautiful, smart, talented, and always hungry. As a teenager, she starved herself almost to death, and though outwardly healed, inwardly she remains dangerously obsessed with food. For Joseph Zimmerman, Ruth's tormented relationship with eating is a source of deep distress and erotic f...
Author
Jonathan Rosen
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Picador
ISBN #
0312424361
EAN Code
9780312424367
ISBN #
5
Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behavior and freedom of individuals. This raises important questions about how these institutions ought to function, and the extent to which actual systems of government succeed or fail in me...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
464
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0192892789
EAN Code
9780192892782
ISBN #
4
The Talmud and the Internet, in which Jonathan Rosen examines the contradictions of his inheritance as a modern American and a Jew, is a moving and exhilarating meditation on modern technology and ancient religious impulses. Blending memoir, religious history and literary reflection Rosen explores t...
Author
Jonathan Rosen
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
Picador
ISBN #
031242017X
EAN Code
9780312420178
ISBN #
2
This title is a wonderful way of exploring why animals live where they do and they reasons for why they do it.
Author
Jonathan Rosen
Binding
Paperback
Pages
24
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
ISBN #
1681918234
EAN Code
9781681918235
ISBN #
24
Author
Jonathan Rosen
ISBN #
0374272387