Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Pierre Anctil and Vivian Felsen
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
Johnny Marr: The Smiths & the Art of Gun-Slinging
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The shimmering, muscular guitar pop of The Smiths shone like a beacon through the eighties as they...
Just One Catch: The Passionate Life of Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid in New York, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to...
Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
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As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that...
Jornalero: Being a Day Laborer in the USA
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The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two...
In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller
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New in paperback, In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller - the story...
Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat?
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Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control...
Ethnobotany in the New Europe: People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra K. Puri
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The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been...
The Ethnic Restaurateur
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Academic discussions of ethnic food have tended to focus on the attitudes of consumers, rather than...
Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944
Sarah Gensburger, Jonathan Hensher and Elisabeth Fourmont
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The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis' greed. The discovery of more than...