Amazon.com: The River Swimmer: Novellas (9780802120731): Jim Harrison: Books

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Publication Date: January 8, 2013 Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved and critically-acclaimed authors?on a par with American literary greats like Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. His latest collection of novellas, The River Swimmer, is Harrison at his most memorable: a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity.

In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive?a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years?reluctantly returns to his family's Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal?of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape, and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan.

The River Swimmer is a striking portrait of two richly-drawn, profoundly human characters, and an exceptional reminder of why Jim Harrison is one of the most cherished and important writers at work today.

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• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press (January 8, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802120733
• ISBN-13: 978-0802120731
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches

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Living Wills and Powers of Attorney for California (Living Wills & Powers of Attorney for California): Shae Irving J.D.: 9781413318333: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: January 31, 2013 | ISBN-10: 1413318339 | ISBN-13: 978-1413318333 | Edition: Fourth Edition Create a living will and more with all the forms and information California families need.

Living Wills & Powers of Attorney for California helps families avoid legal problems if they ever become unable to make health care or financial decisions for themselves. Step by step, it takes readers through the creation of a:

. Living Will (known as an "Advance Health Care Directive")
. Durable Power of Attorney for Finance
. Do Not Resuscitate Order

You'll also get a wallet card you can use to alert others to the existence of your advance directive, plus forms you can use if you ever want to revise or revoke a document.

The fully updated 3rd edition of Living Wills & Powers of Attorney for California offers all-new material to walk you through the intricacies of planning final arrangements, along with expanded information on making difficult medical choices. Plus, your pets will be able to get the care they need in an emergency with the updated durable financial power of attorney.

Nolo has dozens of products created just for California residents.

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• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Nolo; Fourth Edition edition (January 31, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413318339
• ISBN-13: 978-1413318333
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Frasch, Hessler, Kutil and Waisman��s Animal Law in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (West Publishing)): Kathy Hessler, Pamela Frasch, Sarah Kutil, Sonia Waisman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

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Topics include animal anti-cruelty laws, industrial and agricultural uses of animals, torts and other claims for harm done to animals, as well as federal, state and local regulation of animal ownership and use, animal rights activism, hunting, fishing and other recreational uses of animals, animals in entertainment, issues arising when animals are the subject of a contract or the intended beneficiary of a will or trust, remedies for harm done to animals, and anticipated future legal developments in the field.

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Amazon.com: Global Environmental Governance (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law Series) (9781781002520): Louis J. Kotze: Books

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Publication Date: January 30, 2013 | ISBN-10: 1781002525 | ISBN-13: 978-1781002520 'This book is a novel, sophisticated, broad ranging and insightful study of the idea of global environmental governance but from a legal dimension and perspective. While recognizing that concepts and ideas used to describe governance are generally abstract, vague and slippery, this project brings clarity to the field by being theoretically informed, contextually sensitive and pragmatically circumscribed. Its conclusions and arguments open up a field of inquiry that has to be genuinely interdisciplinary and in that sense has great potential to contribute to a better understanding of environmental themes and issues. This book is destined to become a landmark for legal academics who will write about environmental governance in that its concern is with the global governance of nature rather than a text that uses the environment as a pretext for understanding governance. It is well written, easy and enjoyable to read and while it traverses through diverse bodies of literature it manages to effectively communicate with a variety of scholarly communities.'
- Afshin Akhtarkhavari, Griffith Law School, Australia

'Fourth generation global environmental regulation attempts to address the complex realities of an interconnected environment, global environmental problems and collective regulatory responses. It merits conceptual clarity. Louis Kotzé reveals the legal contours and content of global environmental governance by chipping away such parts of the conceptual marble block as are not needed. For the environmental lawyer, it is a welcome - and much needed - process of elimination. This book provides a toolkit for lawyers to engage critically with the extra-legal concept of environmental governance. Its scrutiny and careful analysis contribute meaningfully to the environmental discourse.'
- Christine Voigt, University of Oslo, Norway

'Global Environmental Governance is a truly important book. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines, award-winning environmental law Professor Louis Kotzé masterfully explains the emerging concept of 'global environmental governance' and its elements of globalism, environmental law, regulation, and governance theory. He makes a compelling case that the world has outgrown the 'sustainability' model and moved toward this more all-encompassing approach to environmental regulation. This admirable book makes global environmental governance theory understandable and pertinent so environmental leaders, lawyers, and regulators can engage comfortably with this new vision for an ecologically and economically healthy world.'
- George (Rock) Pring, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, US

This timely book brings much-needed clarity to the concept of 'environmental governance' as manifested in the global regulatory domain. The author argues that despite being used as a fashionable term by many - including economists, political scientists, environmentalists and, increasingly, lawyers - its theoretical contours and conceptual content remain unclear, incoherent, and inconsistent. In addressing this problem, the book begins by describing globalization as a general context of governance. It comprehensively interrogates and clarifies both the governance and global governance concepts, and then explains aspects and components of global environmental governance. Finally it investigates the role of law in global environmental governance.

Providing a much-needed definition of environmental governance and global environmental governance, this comprehensive study will appeal to academics and researchers, post-graduate and under-graduate students, intergovernmental organizations such as UNEP, WTO, IUCN, as well as governments and governmental agencies involved with environmental regulation.

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• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (January 30, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1781002525
• ISBN-13: 978-1781002520
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches

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Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources: Brett M. Frischmann: 9780199975501: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: January 1, 2013 Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish the terms and conditions under which the public receives access, and to determine how the infrastructure and various dependent systems evolve over time.

Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy.

Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions.

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• Paperback: 436 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 1, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0199975507
• ISBN-13: 978-0199975501
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches

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Amazon.com: Arizona Horror Story - Asylum (9781481992893): L A Merendino: Books

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Publication Date: January 16, 2013 The picturesque castle like buildings with the tennants tending to the gardens. Or enjoying a glass of lemonade while playing a hand of go-fish on a summers day behind the reinforced gates of the early to mid 1900s have now turned to hospital annexes. Day rooms and bedrooms. Sleep then eat then meds and watch the t.v. Therapy is not much more than entertainment - possibly in the guise of research - for the behavioural health techs. For the patients - words cannot begin to describe. At 1000$ - 2000$ per day - per patient. It is so very easy to make a patient seem like they need more inpatient treatment. Especially on paper and when every pill under the sun can now be dispensed to the patients. Arizona Horror Story - Asylum will give a glimpse to what is going on inside our behavioural health system. Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children's children. -Deuteronomy 4:9

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• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 16, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1481992899
• ISBN-13: 978-1481992893
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.1 inches

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The Madame Curie Complex: Julie Des Jardins: 9781458761910: Amazon.com: Books

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Release date: December 28, 2012 Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations - limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men - to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences. Exploring the lives of Jane Good all, Rosalind Franklin, Rosalyn Yalow, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson, and the women of the Manhattan Project, Julie Des Jardins considers their personal and professional stories in relation to their male counterparts - Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi - to demonstrate how the gendered culture of science molds the methods, structure, and experience of the work. With lively anecdotes and vivid detail, The Madame Curie Complex reveals how women scientists have often asked different questions, used different methods, come up with different explanations for phenomena in the natural world, and how they have forever transformed a scientist's role.

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• Paperback: 580 pages
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant (December 28, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1458761916
• ISBN-13: 978-1458761910
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Amazon.com: Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment (9781455522477): Katrina Kenison: Books

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Release date: January 8, 2013 "No longer indispensable, no longer assured of our old carefully crafted identities, no longer beautiful in the way we were at twenty or thirty or forty, we are hungry and searching nonetheless."

From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day, this intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery, and growth will resonate deeply with any woman who has ever mourned the passage of time, questioned her own purpose, or wondered, "Do I have what it takes to create something new in my life?"

With the candor and warmth that have endeared her to readers, Kenison reflects on the inevitable changes wrought by time: the death of a dear friend, children leaving home, recognition of her own physical vulnerability, and surprising shifts in her marriage. She finds solace in the notion that midlife is also a time of unprecedented opportunity for growth as old roles and responsibilities fall away, and unanticipated possibilities appear on the horizon.

More a spiritual journey than a physical one, Kenison's beautifully crafted exploration begins and ends with a home, a life, a marriage. But this metamorphosis proves as demanding as any trek or pilgrimage to distant lands-it will guide and inspire every woman who finds herself asking "What now?"

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• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Lrg edition (January 8, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1455522473
• ISBN-13: 978-1455522477
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.3 inches

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Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War: Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini: 9781459647732: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: January 8, 2013 The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities.
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And although treatment of post - traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and allowed many service members returning from combat to transition to civilian life, the suicide rate for veterans under thirty has been increasing. Research by Veterans Affairs health professionals and veterans' experiences now suggest an ancient but unaddressed wound of war may be a factor: moral injury. This deep - seated sense of moral transgression includes feelings of shame, meaninglessness, and remorse from having violated core moral beliefs. Soul Repair will help veterans, their families, members of their communities, and chaplains to understand the impact of war on the consciences of healthy people, to support the recovery of moral conscience in society, and to restore veterans to civilian life. When a society sends people off to war, it must accept responsibility for returning them home to peace.

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• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant; Large Print 16 pt edition (January 8, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1459647734
• ISBN-13: 978-1459647732
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches

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Dazzling Duct Tape Designs: Fashionable Accessories, Adorable Decor, and Many More Creative Crafts You Make At Home: Tamara Boykins: 9781612431338: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: January 1, 2013 CRAZY CUTE CREATIONS!
With eye-popping colors and exciting designs, duct tape is the most versatile and fun crafting material around. Just fold, cut and stick to make amazing projects including:
? bracelets
? headbands
? sandals
? throw pillows
? party banners
? belts
? purses
? lunch bags
? flower pens

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• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Ulysses Press (January 1, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 161243133X
• ISBN-13: 978-1612431338
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.2 x 9.2 inches

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Kaffe Fassett Quilts Shots and Stripes: 24 New Projects Made with Shot Cottons and Striped Fabrics: Kaffe Fassett, Liza Prior Lucy: 9781617690167: Amazon.com: Books

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Release date: March 5, 2013 In Kaffe Fassett Quilts Shots and Stripes, quilt master Kaffe Fassett and coauthor Liza Prior Lucy present 24 projects—small and large, beginner and advanced—made with iridescent solid-colored cotton fabrics (called shot cottons) and woven striped cotton fabrics, all photographed in and around his weekend home on England's southern coast. Inspired by worldwide travels and a plethora of ethnic textiles, including Amish quilts in America, Japanese indigo patched work clothes, and African weavings, the projects featured include full-size bed quilts as well as smaller pieces that can be completed more quickly, such as throws, wall hangings, table runners, and pillows. With Shots and Stripes, Fassett answers the current call for quilts that make bold graphic statements but are not necessarily as time-consuming as some of the work for which he has been previously celebrated.

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Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design: Alison Smith, Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld, Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn, Diane Waggoner: 9780300194449: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: February 28, 2013

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's first modern art movement, the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision, and imaginative grandeur. Today, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English paintings, and yet they have often been dismissed or misunderstood as Victoriana or escapism. This fascinating book convincingly corrects that view, examining works in a wide variety of media and demonstrating the broad scope of the movement's revolutionary ideas about art, design, and society.

Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites' unflinchingly radical style, inspired by the purity of early Renaissance painting, defied convention, provoked critics, and entranced audiences. Many of their most famous paintings are featured, including Millais's Ophelia and Ford Madox Brown's The Last of England. This book also includes sculpture, photography, and the applied arts, the last of which shows the important role the Brotherhood played in the early development of the Arts and Crafts movement and the socialist ideas of the poet, designer, and theorist William Morris.

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Richard Jackson: Ain‘t Painting A Pain: Dennis Szakacs, Michael Darling, Jeffrey Weiss, John C. Welchman, Hans Ulrich Obrist: 9783791352268: Amazon.com: Books

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Release date: February 15, 2013 Since the 1970s, Richard Jackson has dramatically expanded the definition and practice of painting. His career began with large-scale, site-specific wall paintings, room-size painted environments, and monumental stacked canvases. He then developed an astonishing series of painting "machines" to pump, squirt, splatter, and deploy paint in increasingly imaginative, complex and demonstrative ways. This volume documents ten of Jackson's major installations, two of which are re-creations of previously destroyed early works, together with smaller-scale projects that extend the performative dimensions of painting, merge it with sculpture, and reposition it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth. Frequently compared to such European artists as Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, and Niki de Saint Phalle, Jackson is considered the heir to Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. This long-overdue book brings together the accomplishments of a provocative artist who has created some of the most daring and important works of his generation.

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• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Prestel (February 15, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3791352261
• ISBN-13: 978-3791352268
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1.3 x 11.4 inches

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Abandoned Ship: An intimate account of the Costa Concordia shipwreck: Benji Smith: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

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On January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia — a thousand foot long luxury cruise ship, twice the size of the Titanic — ventured into shallow water and smashed into the rocks of a tiny island off the coast of Italy, throwing the four thousand passengers and crew members into a state of chaos.

The captain and officers all abandoned ship, leaving a few remaining castaways to fend for themselves as the ship toppled onto its side and water flooded into the passenger decks.

In the wee hours of the night, newlyweds Benji Smith and Emily Lau held onto a rope, clinging precariously to the side of the sinking ship and desperately hoping for rescue. By this point, the lifeboats had all gone. They had been left behind.

This gripping, thoughtful memoir tells the remarkable story of the couple's harrowing escape and their long journey home, as well as their quest to find hope and meaning in the aftermath of a tragedy.

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Alaska Traveler: Dispatches from America‘s Last Frontier: Dana Stabenow: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

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Dana Stabenow was born in Alaska before Statehood, grew up on and around fishing boats, worked for an air taxi service, a cannery, and later, on the oilfields of the North Slope. Today, she's an Edgar-award winning mystery writer with over 25 Alaska-based novels to her credit. Stabenow knows Alaska.

Writing for Alaska Magazine, she revisits old haunts and explores new ones to capture the vital pioneering spirit of her home state. From cruising the Inner Passage to hiking the Chilkoot Trail, bidding on bachelors at Talkeetna's Winterfest, to a behind-the-scenes look at the Iditarod sled dog race, Alaska Traveler collects over 50 of Stabenow's columns about life on America's last frontier. It's Alaska in all seasons—not just the summer months—and in all its quirky, iconoclastic glory.

Travelers planning a trip to Alaska will find much to inspire them, as will those just interested to read more about the state that residents call The Great Land.

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Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road: William Least Heat-Moon: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

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HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Taking us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is a sharply observed, funny, and touching series of uncommon adventures narrated by America's keenest writer of place, people, and sublime connection.

For decades, William Least Heat-Moon's readers have been clamoring for him to gather his shorter pieces; now, that wait is over. A perfect treasury of prose and wry provocation for readers old and new, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is further confirmation of Least Heat-Moon's status as an American master.

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Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road: William Least Heat-Moon: 9780316110242: Amazon.com: Books

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Release date: January 8, 2013 HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Taking us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is a sharply observed, funny, and touching series of uncommon adventures narrated by America's keenest writer of place, people, and sublime connection.

For decades, William Least Heat-Moon's readers have been clamoring for him to gather his shorter pieces; now, that wait is over. A perfect treasury of prose and wry provocation for readers old and new, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is further confirmation of Least Heat-Moon's status as an American master.

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• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 8, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316110248
• ISBN-13: 978-0316110242
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.8 inches

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