Brandeis University Press
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Hydrangea Happiness: Planting, Pruning, and Blooming
$27.95 Read moreA comprehensive, easy-to-use, illustrated guide to hydrangeas for novice gardeners and experienced horticulturists.
With large, long-lasting flowers that range from showy pinks to heartbreaking shades- Author: Fornari, C. L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: April 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1684583101
- Language: English
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Lunch on a Beam: The Making of an American Photograph
$35.00 Read moreThe untold story of the many people behind one of America’s most iconic photographs.
Lunch on a Beam, also known as Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, shows ironworkers eating lunch on a steel beam during the c- Author: Roussel, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: April 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1684583047
- Language: English
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Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers
$19.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the founder of the Shaker movement, whose remarkable life is the subject of a new film, The Testament of Ann Lee.
This acclaimed, accessible, and thoroughly researched biog- Author: Campion, Nardi Reeder
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 1684583381
- Language: English
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Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties
$29.95 Add to cartScholarship and performance combine to show how drag can be a blueprint for critique, care, teaching, and worldmaking.
Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between- Series: The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
- Author: Khubchandani, Kareem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168458289X
- Language: English
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Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of the German exiles–and cultural titans–who settled in Pacific Palisades and influenced American culture.
In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America’s most mo- Author: Blubacher, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582873
- Language: English
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The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life
$35.00 Add to cartHow a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place.… [more below]
- Author: Gennari, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582857
- Language: English
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
$29.95 Add to cartA new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.
Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, an- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582792
- Language: English
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Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes
$19.95 Add to cartStories and photographs of bookstore engagements and weddings that celebrate literature and love.
What is the most romantic place to get engaged? A bookstore, of course. The perfect wedding venue? A- Author: Rosen, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582547
- Language: English
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Jewish Country Houses
$60.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them.
Country houses ar- Series: Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
- Author: Carey, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1684582202
- Language: English
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Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
$35.00 Add to cartA classic work on farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders refreshed with a new introduction.
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn portrays the four essential components of the st- Author: Hubka, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: December 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1684581354
- Language: English
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Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island: Second Edition
$35.00 Read moreA new, updated edition of a beloved guide helps birders spot and identify the hundreds of species that inhabit America’s largest metropolitan area.
Over five hundred species of birds can be seen in N- Author: Rivel, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582784
- Language: English
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The Prelude
$40.00 Add to cartA gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth’s The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate this epic poem. With a new afterword by Helen Vendler.
The Prel- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1684582504
- Language: English
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The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
$50.00 Add to cartA first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce.
We may think of “globalism” as a recent development but its or- Author: Nugent, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 168458244X
- Language: English
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Freshwater Fish of the Northeast
$29.95 Read moreAn award-winning guide, written and illustrated by a father-and-son duo, now available in a new paperback edition, with a new foreword by Sy Montgomery.
Most anglers are well aware of the popular gam- Author: Patterson, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1684582164
- Language: English
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Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future
$24.95 Read moreThere is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future.
“Act as though your house is on fire. Because it is.” Following Greta Thunberg, millions of young c- Author: Neubauer, Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1684581478
- Language: English
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The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present
$35.00 Read moreA heavily illustrated classic on the evolution of the handloom.
The handloom–often no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordage–has been known to almost all cultures for thousands o- Author: Broudy, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 168458082X
- Language: English
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Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide
$29.95 Read moreThe definitive guide to Salem’s architecture, now available in a new edition.
Salem, Massachusetts is home to one of the largest extant collections of historical architecture in the entire nation. In- Author: Tolles Jr, Bryant F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1684581826
- Language: English
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The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes and History of a Cuisine
$35.00 Add to cartThis cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes diffe… [more below]
- Series: HBI Series on Jewish Women
- Author: Gropman, Gabrielle Rossmer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1611688736
- Language: English
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Where the Rivers Flow North
$18.95 Add to cartA new edition of a classic short-story collection.
The stories of Where the Rivers Flow North are “superior work, rich in texture and character,” says the Wall Street Journal, and “the novella is bri- Author: Mosher, Howard Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1684581397
- Language: English
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The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty
$35.00 Add to cartA frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty.
The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from m- Author: Warner, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1684580862
- Language: English
