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God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
$24.95 Read moreWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of … [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315568
- Language: English
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
$28.99 Add to cartFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life–how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dresse… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0393313913
- Language: English
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1787: The Grand Convention
$29.99 Add to cartIn this masterly account of the Philadelphia summer when our Constitution was born, Clinton Rossiter establishes his claim that the year 1787 is preeminent in American history. Bringing to life the se… [more below]
- Author: Rossiter, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393304043
- Language: English
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The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis #0
- Author: Nelson, Richard R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0393091732
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$62.99 Add to cartOvid’s epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present day, when wr… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 597
- Publish Date: October 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393058107
- Language: English
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$76.99 Add to cartRemembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Compl… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0393051447
- Language: English
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English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners
$50.00 Add to cartThe author has analyzed the aesthetic and horticultural elements in ten representative cottage gardens–eight in England and two in the United States. Her spectacular photographs render the look and a… [more below]
- Author: Hensel, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 17 2000
- ISBN10: 039304789X
- Language: English
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
$50.99 Add to cartIn 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only… [more below]
- Author: Salisbury, Gay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0393019624
- Language: English
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The Sherlock Holmes Crossword Puzzle Book II
$18.99 Add to cartAs in the earlier book The Sherlock Holmes Crossword Puzzle Book, each mystery is told in condensed form. It includes the problem, the action, and the clues–but not the solution. That will be found a… [more below]
- Author: Tepper, Ruth Lake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0393009475
- Language: English
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
$21.99 Add to cartA brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this style
- Author: Wittkower, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0393005992
- Language: English
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Structural Functions of Harmony
$21.99 Add to cartThe earlier chapters recapitulate in condensed form the principles laid down in his Theory of Harmony; the later chapters break entirely new ground, for they analyze the system of key relationships wi… [more below]
- Author: Schoenberg, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0393004783
- Language: English
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Dayswork
$17.99 Read moreIn the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville’s impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farm
- Author: Bachelder, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086491
- Language: English
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Exit Opera: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartSet in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and c
- Author: Addonizio, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078936
- Language: English
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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
$18.99 Add to cartDespite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war–and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? U
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078928
- Language: English
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My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method
$35.00 Add to cartThe secret to acclaimed baker Jim Lahey’s bread is slow-rise fermentation. As he revealed in 2009 with the publication of his now-classic cookbook My Bread, the amount of labor you put in totals five
- Author: Lahey, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 132407650X
- Language: English
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Game of Edges: The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports
$17.99 Read moreIn the last two decades, innovation, data analysis, and technology have driven a tectonic shift in the sports business. Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the fiel
- Author: Schoenfeld, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076062
- Language: English
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Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays
$24.99 Add to cartEavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey t
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074280
- Language: English
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
$19.99 Add to cartAll of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanogr
- Author: Czerski, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086343
- Language: English
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The Long Ago
$15.99 Add to cartGrowing up in Montana, siblings Raymond and Barbara Lansdale held their chaotic world together through their shared childhood fantasy of The Long Ago: a distant place where happiness and tranquility r
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076305
- Language: English
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Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
$27.95 Read moreOver his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulate
- Author: Meier, Sid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1324005874
- Language: English
