Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore. Through Tom and his charismatic boss, Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances, which leads him to a reckoning with his past.
Free & Eazy Circles: Magic Ballz & Other Foundation Follies
Stack, slice, and stitch whimsical, free-form circle quilts. Jan Mullen has been making quilts since 1991, and publishing her own patterns for a decade. A sought-after teacher and designer, Jan travels the world to share her unique style and techniques.
The Follies of Globalisation Theory: Polemical Essays
Rosenberg argues that fashionable preoccupations with spatiality have generated deep intellectual confusions among globalization theorists: the more clearly they attempt to articulate their arguments the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become. After first looking at the broad field of international relations, Rosenberg submits Anthony Giddens's influential The Consequences of Modernity to a thorough, often highly entertaining interrogation, and concludes by drawing out the implications of his critique for globalization theory in general.
