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• Beginning
• The year 1905
• Roof life
• Sightings
• Stalking food
• Self seen
• After words.

This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Svetlana Alpers had been keeping files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; records of art sold, bought, or seen on her walls; records of foods found in markets and prepared in places where she lived; and records of herself seen in photographs, drawings, and paintings made by others. In solving the question of her father's place and date of birth, she reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago. It was Roof Life that made it all come together. The title refers to what one discovers looking out from high windows with distant and distinctive views. In addition, it refers to the way one's attention is heightened and sharpened by confronting things that are unfamiliar, or that are made to appear unfamiliar by circumstances. It describes the immediacy of distance. Renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers assembles in these pages descriptions of things that mattered in a life that began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, continued in Berkeley, California, and is now lived in New York City. The experience of Europe informs it all.
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A book called "Sefer Shel Benonim" ("Book of Middlemen" or "The Spiritual Middle Class") was published by Shneur Zalman of Liozno 200 years ago, expounding the doctrines of HaBaD Hasidism. This study examines this worldwide movement which blends mysticism and politics, and its mystical rabbis.
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• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (interlude)
• Délire de style à Libreville
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (2)
• Causerie à Nicosie
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (3)
• Rumba pour baccarat à Rabat
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (4)
• Pas d'agape à Prague
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (5)
• Conflit de ladies à New Delhi
• Silence du soir à Dakar
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (6)
• Les pieds dans le plat à Essaouira
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (7)
• Intrigant événement à Téhéran
• On materne à Berne
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (8)
• Faute de comedor à San Salvador
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (9)
• Périls à Brazzaville
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (10)
• Coup de mou à Moscou
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (11)
• Pas de requin à Pékin
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (12)
• En cabane à Copacabana
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (13)
• Alarme à Amman
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (14)
• Avoir les foies à Garoua
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (15)
• Ça bloque à Auckland
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (16)
• Grand bide à Abidjan.

"Il s'en passe de belles sous les dorures des ambassades de France ! Les plafonds s'écroulent, les invités volent l'argenterie, et tandis qu'à Pékin les Chinois essaient de nous rouler sur la propriété de nos propres murs, Monsieur l'ambassadeur demande au colonel, en plein dîner officiel, s'il aime les sculptures d'éphèbes nus... 40 histoires vraies vécues par un jeune diplomate au service de la France. Gabriel Alphand a sillonné les continents pendant quinze ans pour régler les problèmes les plus invraisemblables de nos ambassades. Nommé au Quai d'Orsay, il a nagé dans le milieu feutré de la diplomatie française avec l'agilité de l'anguille, tout en gardant un oeil rieur et distancié sur ce monde parfois étrange..."--P. [4] of cover.

• Camellos en matanzas. Un capítulo inusual en la historia local
• Manuel Santos Parga. Descubridor de la Cueva de Bellamar
• Palenque El Espinal
• El Morrillo. Apuntes para la historia de una fortaleza
• Cuartel Santa Cristina. Una historia centenaria
• La Exposición Canaria de
• 1872. Una evidencia centenaria
• Farmacia San Jorge.

• Warehouse white noise
• The "Palm Springs of Washington"
• Ganas in Carver Country
• Getting out
• Walla Walla walkabouts
• Cold feet
• The arrival
• Tree noodles
• "Indian time"
• La Cruz de Campos
• Glacier dip
• Washington gray
• Goldendale
• An X-Man
• Apache medicine
• Cougar country
• City-slicker natives
• Tlaloc in L.A.
• Southern fire
• Main in the maze
• Running the wrong way
• The devil's coffin
• El chapito
• Deer runners
• Chihuahua
• Touch of treasure
• The rebirth story
• Nayarit
• Mangoes
• Santo coyote
• Hardware store
• Weaving words
• The flying men of Teotihuacán
• Descending eagle
• Oaxaca
• Zapatistas : rebel country
• Acteal
• Guatemala
• Old orchard
• Today

"Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear--dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion--but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Álvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and--against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit--the dream of a liberated future."--Amazon.com