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È l'estate del 1923 quando in due stanze in un sobborgo di Berlino una nuova coppia dà inizio al suo futuro comune. Lei si chiama Dora Dymant, lui Franz Kafka, e quello è l'ultimo anno della sua vita. Prima di allora ci sono state altre due brave ragazze ebree nella vita di Kafka, Felice e Julie, poi la passionale, anticonformista Milena. Ma lui è già «sposato con l'angoscia a Praga» e un altro matrimonio non ci sta. È solo con la giovane Dora che Kafka, avvicinandosi alla fine, riesce a svincolarsi dalla città nativa e a pensarsi, seppur per poco, libero di amare. E se fosse sopravvissuto alla tubercolosi che lo condusse a morte precoce? Se addirittura fosse scampato all'olocausto che si prese tutte le sue sorelle, rifugiandosi all'estero, magari in America, magari in un'accogliente comunità ebraica? Cosa sarebbe accaduto se il cantore di ogni forma di assoggettamento, vincolo, coercizione fosse riuscito a sfuggire? Quali inediti appagamenti il Nuovo Mondo delle mille possibilità avrebbe potuto riservargli? Philip Roth immagina per noi lo scenario e, incrociando quell'orizzonte letterario e umano al proprio, dà vita a una piccola gemma di lucidità critica e insieme di spassoso estro narrativo.

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Time Zones provides the reader with the principles of Kabbalistic Astrology and its power in helping us overcome the struggle between failure and success. It gives us the precise knowledge about the best time to begin a marriage, start a new business, or engage in any new enterprise in our lives. Every significant date in Judaism is an astrological event. Armed with this knowledge, we learn how to gain the advantage in every situation we face, every day of every year.

Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work. Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture. From forty-seven musical transcriptions, Titon derives a grammar of early downhome blues melody. His book is enriched with the recollections of blues performers, audience members, and those working in the recording industry. In a new afterword, Titon reflects on the genesis of this book in the blues revival of the 1960s and the politics of tourism in the current revival under way.

The only account in print of the origins of May Day, with highlights of its first century from around the world. 21 illustrations. Notes. Index.

Part I: The condition of black workers in the south. Introduction ; Blacks testify before the Senate Committee on Relations Between Labor and Capital, 1883 -- Part II: Should blacks join the ranks of labor? Introduction ; Conflicting views ; A black leader's advice to Negro working men -- Part III: Black labor militancy and the Knights of Labor. Introduction ; Black labor unrest in the south ; The Knights organize southern blacks ; Black workers and Knights of Labor strikes, 1885-1886 -- Part IV: The Knights of Labor Convention in Richmond, 1886. Introduction ; Terence V. Powderly, Frank J. Ferrell, and the integrated convention in Richmond, 1886 -- Part V: Suppression of the black Knights. Introduction ; Opposition to the Knights of Labor in South Carolina ; An overview of the Knights' 1887 Sugar Strike in Louisiana ; Congressional reaction to the Louisiana Sugar Strike -- Part VI: Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly and the black worker. Introduction ; Correspondence relating to the black worker in the Powderly papers -- Part VII: Race relations within the Knights of Labor. Introduction ; Relations between black and white Knights from the 1886 Convention to 1889 ; Deportation : the Knights' solution to the problems of the black worker -- Part VIII: Black farmers organize black alliances. Introduction ; The Colored Farmers Alliance and Cooperative Union, 1890-1891 ; The 1891 Cotton Pickers' Strike -- Part IX: Other expressions of black labor militancy. Introduction ; The Savannah Wharf Workers' Strike, 1891 ; Black and white unity : the Chicago Cullinary Alliance.

In 1947, at the time of completing Volume I of the History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner reflected on the role of a Marxist historian of labor. Foner summed up the role this way: to present an "historical view which will enlighten our present struggles, will stimulate the foresight of labor's thinkers and leaders, and give to the great mass of our workers the clarity, courage and determination to forge ahead for the attainment of their immediate ends, and for the accomplishment of the historical mission of the working class: the abolition of the exploitation of man by man." In Volume XI Foner remained true to this goal. The book radiates enlightenment for current struggles and encouragement for those fighting for a socialist future.

Creates A Warm And Vivid Portrait Of Lee, The Man, As Well As Of Lee The General.

Gift note and Book plate inside, No real damage to book, DJ has some edgeware but is all there. Wonderful detailed sketches of live action Civil War.

No Dust Jacket. Boards edgeworn. Spine title rubbed. Endpapers yellowed. Former owner's sticker on ffep.

Poetry. Though known today mostly as an essayist, Phillip Lopate worked seriously as a poet for fifteen years during the 1970s and 1980s. As Henri Cole writes: "Phillip Lopate may be an American ambassador of nonfiction, but he is also a youthful, taciturn, love-seeking New York poet, whose poems--plainspoken, personal, darkly humorous--quietly gather strength while confronting the beautiful and ugly in city life. I admire their vitality and honesty."

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A wonderful tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. This is an analysis of the causes of Japan's post-war industrial supremacy. It examines the West's reluctance to acknowledge this and claims that underhand practices and cultural differences are attributed to Japan's success. Because of this, the West does not see Japan as a model to studied or emulated and thus misses out on the opportunity to learn from Japan's success. The author puts forward the view that by discarding prejudices, the West will be able to reform and meet the Japanese challenge.

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LETTERS TO A YOUNG FEMINIST is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it, and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism, and the economics of power, providing guidance to the generation to come.

The bestselling author of "Women and Madness" offers a revolutionary look at aggressive relationships between women of all ages that continues the dialogue of recent bestsellers "Odd Girl Out" and "Queen Bees and Wannabees." Includes a new Introduction by the author.