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FW12 catalog

Fall/Winter 2012 e-catalog
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JANUARY BESTSELLERS
 The Book of What Stays The Book of What Stays
James Crews

With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep. And here, in Crews’s finely wrought, deeply felt poems, is their testimony.

 JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH, Pocket Edition (black) JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH, Pocket Edition (black)
Jewish Publication Society, Inc.

Now, for the first time, a pocket version of the JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH is available, with the same text and number of pages as the standard edition.

 Have You Seen Mary?    Have You Seen Mary?
Jeff Kurrus
Photographs by Michael Forsberg

“. . . and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In the blurry confusion, John lost Mary.” So begins Have You Seen Mary?, a fictional account of one sandhill crane’s faithful search during spring migration for his lost mate.

 Jews in America, New Edition Jews in America, New Edition
A Cartoon History
David Gantz

A unique presentation of the history of Jewish life and culture in the United States over the past 500 years Jews in America is a graphic history that uses the comic book format—an artistic expression as American as jazz—to depict five centuries of Jewish life in this country.

 Vanished Arizona Vanished Arizona
Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
Martha Summerhayes

In 1874, when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she "saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords," but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude.

 The Eighteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook The Eighteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook
Edited by Robert A. Spies, Janet F. Carlson, and Kurt F. Geisinger

The most widely acclaimed reference series in education and psychology, the Mental Measurements Yearbooks are designed to assist professionals in selecting and using standardized tests.

 JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH, Deluxe Edition JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH, Deluxe Edition
Jewish Publication Society, Inc.

The JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH features the oldest-known complete Hebrew version of the Holy Scriptures, side by side with JPS’s renowned English translation.

 JPS TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (blue)
            JPS TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (blue)
The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
Jewish Publication Society, Inc.

Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike.

 Pot Farm Pot Farm
Matthew Gavin Frank

Pot Farm details the strange, sublime, and sometimes dangerous goings-on at Weckman Farm, a place with hidden politics and social hierarchies, populated by recovering drug addicts, alternative healers, pseudo-hippie kids, and medical marijuana users looking to give back.

 Speaking to the Rose Speaking to the Rose
Writings, 1912-1932
Robert Walser
Selected and translated by Christopher Middleton

With a brisk preface and a chronology of Walser’s life and work, this collection of fifty translations of short prose pieces covers the middle to later years of the writer’s oeuvre.