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  • Humanitarianism, War, and Politics

    Solferino to Syria and Beyond

    by Peter J. Hoffman, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international humanitarian law) and organizations (providers of assistance and protection) that comprise it. ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Sword & Salve

    Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises

    by Peter J. Hoffman, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    Arguing forcefully that changing times are a clarion call for new thinking, this book convincingly shows that if humanitarian organizations continue to operate as they have in the past, they will fail to help the very victims whom they try to save. Focusing especially on the emergence of "new wars," Hoffman and Weiss insist that humanitarian organizations must recognize that they live in a ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Back from Africa

    by Corinne Hofmann ...
    Translated by Peter Millar ...
    Corinne Hofmann describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles, with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sacred Trash

    The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

    by Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    **NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter series**One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On A Day Like This

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange GardensOn a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him—but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust? Andreas leaves everything behind ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Seven Years

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hoffman ...
    Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women—and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Reunion in Barsaloi

    by Corinne Hofmann ...
    Translated by Peter Millar ...
    Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Karmic Winds

    Reflections from the "Smartest Guy in Hollywood"

    by Peter M. Hoffman ...
    Karmic Winds is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffman, a Yale-trained lawyer and Hollywood insider who once stood at the center of the independent film boom and later found himself stripped of status, freedom, and certainty. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Agnes

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Peter Stamm's best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in paperback.“Write a story about me,” Agnes said to her lover, “so I know what you think of me.” So he started to write the story of everything that had happened to them from the moment they met.At first, he works with Agnes to create a narrative that is most true to life, but as time passes and he grows more enamored ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Avocado

    Botany, Production and Uses

    by Martín Aluja, Mary Arpaia, Carlos Balerdi, Araceli Barceló-Muñoz, Alejandro Barrientos Priego, Gary Bender, Jay Bost, John Bower, Andre Chanderbali, Jonathan Crane, Ben Faber, E.D. Focht, R. Folgado, C. Fuentealba, M.E. Galindo-Tovar, M. García-Rojas, F.J. Gardiazabal, Lauren Garner, R. Gazis, Pilar Gil, Mark Hoddle, Peter Hofmann, Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza, Emanuel Lahav, Uri Lavi, Richard Litz, Rodrigo López-Gómez, Carol Lovatt, I. Hernández, P. Manosalva, F.J. Mena, José Mercado, Michael Mickelbart, Isabel Narváez, Elena Palomo-Ríos, F. Meza, D. Olivares, Jorge Peña, Fernando Pliego-Alfaro, Clara Pliego, J.G. Ramirez-Gil, Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Allan Woolf, T. Cantuarias-Avilés ...
    Series series Botany, Production and Uses
    The avocado industry is evolving rapidly. Avocado production has almost doubled recently, with significant expansion in areas planted, especially in Latin America, but also in Africa and Asia. Moreover, the global demand for avocado keeps on growing. The Avocado, 3rd edition is a unique and comprehensive source of information for avocado researchers, and covers everything from the history and ... Read more

    $169.19 USD

  • The Road to Eleusis

    Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries

    by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith, Peter Webster ...
    Unlock the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries: A deep exploration of secret rites, psychedelic sacraments, and spiritual revelations that captivated ancient Greek society for nearly two millennia.Uncover the evocative history of The Road to Eleusis. Once held in hushed whispers, the Eleusinian Mysteries were a series of secret rituals and initiations in honor of the goddesses Demeter and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What's Good?

    A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients

    by Peter Hoffman ...
    A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins. What's Good is a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.What goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a difference on the plate, what makes them good in the first place? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook