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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

by Yi-fu Tuan

Geography On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography. In the twenty years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theatre, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways... (more)

The People on the Street

by Linda Grant

"The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the center of the Middle East and the more I studied these solutions, the more I thought that they depended for their implementation on a population of table football men, painted in the colors of the two teams: blue and white for the... (more)

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

by Keith H. Basso

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people.... (more)

Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel

Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel

by Alon Tal

Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mission to keep the country's remarkable development sustainable amid a century of political and cultural turmoil. The... (more)

Israel: A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Robert Alter

16 stories by Israelis, various trans from Hebrew

The Jerusalem Anthology: A Literary Guide : Jps Jerusalem Collection

The Jerusalem Anthology: A Literary Guide : Jps Jerusalem Collection

A collection of the literature, poetry, songs, and history of Jerusalem from Biblical to modern times. This book contains some of the most beautiful, stirring, and memorable pieces by our most beloved writers. Many pieces are translated for the first time.

The Land of Israel : Jewish Perspectives (Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity, Vol. 6)Lawrence A. Hoffman

The Land of Israel : Jewish Perspectives (Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity, Vol. 6)

by Lawrence A. Hoffman

Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience (Suny Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies)

This volume explores various processes associated with constructing what has variously been called "The Holy Land," "Eretz Israel," "Zion," Palestine," or "Israel". The contributors focus on ways the landscapes of Israel figure in creating and recreating the identity, presence, and history of groups living there. The book critiques the assumptions lying at the base of various spatial practices related to Zionism.... (more)

The Art of Travel

by Alain De Botton

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life , de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow. Even as de Botton takes the reader... (more)

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