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Provence Art Architecture Landscape
$59.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Konemann )
In each chapter of this book there is an overview of the area with a reliable street map, lots of large, color pictures, and texts that describe the history, geography, art, culture, and lifestyle of the area. The reader... More »
Charlie And Lola Ziplock: 3 Absolutely Favourite Stories
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Penguin Books )
Presents Charlie and Lola stories. This title includes such stories as "Say Cheese", "I'm Really Ever So Not Well" and "We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog". More »
Gourmet Cookbook
$69.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin )
For the past six decades, Gourmet magazine has shaped the tastes of America, publishing the best work of the foremost names in the world of food. To create this landmark cookbook, editor in chief and celebrated authority... More »
Warlord Churchill At War 1874 1945
$65.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Carlo D'Este's startlingly fresh biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of this military service as both a soldier and commander. A descendant of the great Duke of Marlborough who, despite ... More »
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings
$45.00$14.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Why is the human imagination to blame for the worst crimes of
the twentieth century?
Why is progress a pernicious myth?
Why is contemporary atheism just a hangover from Christian
faith?
John Gray, author of Straw Dogs ... More »
Borges A Life
$35.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Edwin Williamson's major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borges's life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side ... More »
Chagall: The Dream Of Life
$65.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
'When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.'
Picasso said this in the 1950s, when he and Chagall were eminent neighbours living in splendour on the Cote d'Azur. But be... More »
The Last Mughal The Fall Of A Dynasty Delhi 1857
$69.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
At 4pm on a dark, wet winter's evening in November 1862, a cheap plywood coffin was buried to the eerie sound of silence: no lamentations, no panegyrics, for as the British Commissioner in charge of the funeral insisted,... More »
I Like You Hospitality Under The Influence
$45.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Grand Central Publishing )
Sedaris's sidesplitting guide to throwing parties hopes to return readers to the times when the word "entertainment" was "charmingly old-fashioned, like courtship or back alley abortions." While her tongue is firmly in c... More »
Doctoring The Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good
$59.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Towards the end of the twentieth century, a new approach to treating mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in focusing on madness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the 'Pr... More »
Nature Of Technology What It Is And How It Evolves
$49.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
At a time when we are ever more reliant on technological solutions for the world's problems, it is extraordinary how little we actually understand the processes that lead to innovation and invention. W. Brian Arthur's ma... More »
The Language Of Things
$39.95$11.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
We live in a world drowning in objects. But what do they tell us about ourselves? The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic charts our relationship - both innocent and knowing - with all things designed. From the opulent exce... More »
Other Side Of Desire Four Journeys Into The Far Realms Of Lust And Longing
$39.95$11.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Jacob is a man with an overwhelming attraction to female feet. The Baroness is a clothing designer and evangelical sadist. Roy is a wedding band singer entranced by his step daughter. Ron and Laura are simply in love – o... More »
The Whisperers: Private Life In Stalin's Russia
$65.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
One in eight people in the Soviet Union were victims of Stalin's terror—virtually no family was untouched by purges, the gulag, forced collectivization and resettlement, says Figes in this nuanced, highly textured look a... More »
Alistair Cooke At The Movies
$14.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
On 8 October 1934, long before the wider world knew him from his Letter from America broadcasts, his television series America, or his introductions to Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke sat down at a BBC microphone to ... More »
Scandinavian Modern Home
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Quadrille Pub. )
Scandinavian Modern was the most influential and enduring design movement of the twentieth century, dominating the international scene in the 1950s and continuing to shape the way we live today. Architects and designers ... More »
Provence Cookery School
$69.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley )
Presented as a week in a Provence cookery school, the book takes you to markets and local food producers to see how to select the best regional ingredients. Follow chef-teacher Gui Gedda as he demonstrates traditional te... More »
Reappraisals: Reflections On The Forgotten Twentieth Century
$29.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Historian and political commentator Judt warns against the temptation to look back upon the twentieth century as an age of political extremes, of tragic mistakes and wrongheaded choices; an age of delusion from which we ... More »
Looming Tower The Story Of Al Qaeda 1948 2001
$35.00$10.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of al-Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investig... More »
The Early Years: The Lyrics Of Tom Waits 1971-1983
$45.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Known for his growling vocals and for the distinct poetry of his lyrics, Tom Waits has amassed over the course of three decades a devoted cult following. The Early Years collects the lyrics—formative and classic—from the... More »
At Large And At Small: Confessions Of A Literary Hedonist
$29.95$9.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
With her wonderful combination of wit and erudition, Fadiman draws us into 12 of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb; ... More »
Sex And The Psyche
$65.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / )
Explicit, sometimes shocking, always thought provoking, in Sex and the Psyche the true nature of British sexual fantasies is revealed for the first time.
We may think that our society talks about sex more than ever, yet ... More »
Half Of A Yellow Sun
$54.00$14.95 (Hardcover book / )
Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.
The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during th... More »
World Without End
$32.95$12.95 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
Murder, intrigue, plague and pestilence in the stunning sequel to the international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth.
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Ki... More »
A Freewheelin' Time
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Broadway Books )
Rotolo has written a moving account of the fertile years just before the circus of the 1960s was in full swing with Bob Dylan as the anointed ringmaster. She chronicles the backstory of Greenwich Village in the early day... More »
The Discovery Of France
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
France was a land of marvels, with each region, and each village within each region, culturally and linguistically isolated from the rest of the country but interconnected economically by an ancient network of trails and... More »
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
$59.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
The six notorious and passionately opinionated daughters of the second Baron Redesdale knew many key figures of the 20th century, from Hitler and Churchill to Evelyn Waugh and Lucian Freud. The sisters wrote some 12,000 ... More »
G: A Novel
$24.95$21.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
This novel centres on G, who seems impervious to everything around him. His interests are purely sexual, his crowning ideal fulfilment. Yet, in the end this is enough for the politics of desire to expose the criminal pol... More »
Conspirators
$35.00$14.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire. When one of his family is murdered the Count gives broad p... More »
In The Eye Of The Sun
$29.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Doubleday )
Set amidst the turmoil of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, this vivid and highly-acclaimed novel by an Egyptian journalist is an intimate look into the lives of Arab women today. Here, a woman who grows up among the... More »
Capricornia
$24.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Capricornia will always be one of the greatest of Australian novels a defining work in the search for what it is or was to be Australian. Australian Book Review Spanning three generations Capricornia tells the story of A... More »
The Beginning And The End
$29.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Anchor )
First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II. More »
The Big Sleep: Limited Edition Leather Bound Classic
$59.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Penguin Books )
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast ... More »
Midaq Alley
$29.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
Written in the 1940s, this novel by the Egyptian Nobel laureate Mahfouz deals with the plight of impoverished classes in an old quarter of Cairo. The lives and situations depicted create an atmosphere of sadness and trag... More »
The Painted Veil
$22.95$10.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I've got all the proof necessary."
Kitty Fane is the bea... More »
Flaubert's Parrot
$23.95$10.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Worldly Country New Poems
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Ecco Press )
If Ashbery's last several books have tended to sound the same, it could be because they indicate a restlessness to express something that won't quite come out, "a murky, milky precipitate/ of certain years." In the 58 ly... More »
Ten Days In The Hills
$49.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
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Wonders Of A Godless World (Signed Numbered Limited Edition)
$59.95$32.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
Hardback, with a decorated case with black and white embossing, a ribbon, printed end papers and a translucent tip in page and each edition will be individually hand numbered and signed by Andrew McGahan and special text... More »
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Nancy Cunard Heiress Muse Political Idealist
$59.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Columbia Univ Pr )
British-born heiress to the famous steamship fortune, Nancy Cunard (1896–1965) lived an extraordinary life. A famous beauty who became a flamboyant journalist and humanitarian, and an aspiring poet herself, she had such ... More »
A Writer's Life
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, th... More »
The Year Of Magical Thinking
$49.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / )
'The Year of Magical Thinking' is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks, limited to 2000 c... More »
The March Of Patriots: The Struggle For Modern Australia
$59.99$34.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
The March of Patriots looks at the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991–2007 era of Paul Keating and John Howard.
Keating and Howard were the first two Australian prime ministers of the globalised age. They w... More »
Fatal Shore The Epic Of Australia's Founding
$29.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Alfred A Knopf )
For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters, and original sources, Hughes... More »
Fall Of Mussolini
$39.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
In this powerful history, Philip Morgan tells the dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event.
Morgan recounts how King Emanuel fi... More »
Historical Atlas Of Judaism
$99.95$59.95 (Hardcover book / )
This is a fascinating account of the four thousand year old history of the Jewish faith, divided into six comprehensive sections surveying in detail the emergence of the Jews in Ancient Palestine right up to the modern I... More »
The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire
$69.95$21.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire'
Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to... More »
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
$49.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / )
'The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly' is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks, limited to 2... More »
Edward S. Curtis: The Great Warriors
$79.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Bullfinch )
The indelible portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis, made at the dawn of the twentieth century, have become among the most avidly collected, published, and sought-after emblems of early encounters with Americ... More »
The Disinherited: Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492-1975
$69.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
A provocative, brilliant, and groundbreaking historical reconsideration of the roots of Spanish culture.We all carry in our heads a seductive picture of what Spain stands for: its music, painting, buildings, and history.... More »
Dancing In The Streets A History Of Collective Joy
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Granta )
Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and ... More »
1776: The Illustrated Edition
$99.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
This handsome new version of McCullough's blockbuster (2.6 million copies of the original edition in print) is a visual feast. The text is abridged, but McCullough illustrates his riveting account of the most important y... More »
Gardens Of Revelation
$59.95$19.95 (Paperback book / )
John Beardsley tells the story of about twenty-five "visionary environments" and the fiercely independent individuals who have created them in the course of the last century. This lively international tour ranges from th... More »
Exact Imagination Late Work
$49.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
Until now, most English-language writing on Adorno has attempted to place him in various contexts and to differentiate him from other thinkers. Such work, while important, masks our failure to imaginatively appropriate A... More »
The Essential Chomsky
$49.95$14.95 (Paperback book / New Press )
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time... More »
Einstein's 1912 Manuscript On The Special Theory Of Relativity
$250.00$99.95 (Hardcover book / )
This magnificent, large-scale volume presents in facsimile form one of the most revolutionary and influential scientific documents of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein's exposition of the theory of relativity. Each ... More »
Einstein His Life And Universe
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
With the help of many witty, candid letters, Mr. Isaacson offers a wonderfully rounded portrait of the ever-surprising Einstein personality. Equally important is the Einstein myth, and the material on this subject is eve... More »
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right: Bob Dylan: The Early Years: The Stories Behind Every Song
$29.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Thunders Mouth Press )
This book provides an insightful companion to Dylan's 1960s recordings, tracing the people, places, and events behind some of his greatest songs and revealing his many early influences, from rock and folk music to philos... More »
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London
$69.95$25.95 (Hardcover book / Walker And Company )
For those brought up on the genteel novels of Jane Austen, Gatrell (The Hanging Tree) has a rude surprise in store. Drawing heavily on Gillray, Cruikshank and Rowlandson's famous satirical prints, Gatrell vividly demonst... More »
Centuries Of Holiness
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Continuum Pub Co )
This book is for those who yearn for a spiritual life that has depth and intellectual challenge. It is a thinking person's guide to the spiritual life written for the smart seeker who wants to be fully attuned to God, fu... More »
Brandscaping: Worlds of Experience in Retail Design
$39.95$14.95 (Paperback book / )
"Brandscaping" - the creation of a three-dimensional microcosm representing the brand is increasingly becoming a characteristic part in the architecture of retail areas, shopping centers, and showrooms. Rising to the cha... More »
Arturo Di Stefano
$99.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Merrell Publishers )
Arturo Di Stefano is an anomaly in the modern art world: a figurative painter when the prevailing orthodoxy favors neo-conceptualism and other non-figurative movements. His work -- drawing on literary sources as diverse ... More »
Amazing Egypt Pop-O-Rama
$29.95$9.95 (Paperback book / Scholastic )
An Egyptian extravaganza of panoramic proportions! These highly detailed pop-up scenes allow readers to explore the building of pyramids, magnificent temples and life on the River Nile. With timeline information. More »
Allen Carrs Easy Way To Stop Smoking
$24.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The revolutionary international bestseller that will stop you smoking – for good.
'If you follow my instructions you will be a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life.' That's a strong claim from Allen Carr, but as ... More »
The Wright Experience: A Master Architect's Vision
$69.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / )
Frank Lloyd Wright defined space as “the invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and through which they must pass.” The genius of a visionary architect unfolds in this spectacular, over-sized volume, which feature... More »
Wouldnt It Be Nice My Own Story
$24.95$10.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Brian Wilson was the creative genius behind The Beach Boys. He turned a suburban California garage into a group that took the world by storm, with the sound of his songs, the sound capturing the laid-back, sunny Southern... More »
Women In Impressionism: From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman
$95.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Skira )
The women in Impressionist painting represent the full spectrum of faces of the 19th-century woman, from elite portraiture to working class scenes. Women and Impressionism examines the avant-garde position of the Impress... More »
Historical Atlas Of The Bible
$100.00$59.95 (Hardcover book / )
In this book, 400 magnificently illustrated pages convey the broad sweep of the most important book in Human History; and over 100 maps and charts detail key bible places. The accompanying text traces the history and jou... More »
Film Posters Exploitation
$59.95$19.95 (Paperback book / Evergreen )
Sex, drugs, delinquency, Black power, alternative culture and, of course, rock and roll: these are just some of the themes, which have attracted the attention of the cinema's bottom-feeders over the past eighty years. A ... More »
Fire In The Blood
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before Wor... More »
Movies Of The 20 S
$90.00$29.95 (Flexi / Taschen )
From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers' 1895 "L'arrive d'un train"), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the... More »
Francescos Kitchen
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Ebury Press )
Francesco da Mosto follows his bestselling books on Venice and Italy with his personal quest for the authentic flavours and food of Venice. In this superbly illustrated book Francesco invites us into his family's kitchen... More »
Mind As Machine
$450.00$159.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
Cognitive science is among the most fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is an ancient one. But modern science has offered new insights and techniques that have revolu... More »
Anecdotes Of Destiny
$29.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Naples At Table
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Naples gave the world pizza and spaghetti with tomato sauce. In Naples at Table, Arthur Schwartz reveals the unexpected breadth and depth of dishes to be enjoyed in Naples and throughout Campania, the rich region where t... More »
Art And Lies
$26.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Future Of Life
$24.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious st... More »
Consilience
$29.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes forOn Human NatureandTh... More »
Drowned And The Saved
$23.95$10.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Levi's last book--he committed suicide earlier this year--and one of resubstantiation, distinctions drawn, and unambiguous sadness bordering on despair. The book begins with an essay on privilege, the special position su... More »
Parallel Lives
$26.95$10.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Life A Natural History Of The First Four Billion Years Of Life On Earth
$29.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--"The New York Times Book Review" "A marvelous museum of the past four billion ye... More »
Delizia The Epic History of the Italians and their Food
$14.95 (Trade paperback / Sceptre )
Includes 24 pages of colour and black and white illustrations. Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards and olive grove... More »
Ripailles: Traditional French Cuisine
$79.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
Acclaimed Parisian chef Stéphane Reynaud writes beautiful recipes that combine his passion for traditional French cooking with his enthusiasm for modern cuisine. His range extends from simple home cooking to more complex... More »
A Late Dinner
$39.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Scribner )
Vivid and richly textured, "A Late Dinner" is a delightful journey through Spain and Spanish cuisine. Paul Richardson is the perfect guide. In lush prose he brings to life the fascinating people who grow and cook and eat... More »
Moleskine: 2010 Weekly Diary Vertical (Black Hard Cover - Large)
$36.95$17.95 (Diary / Moleskine )
The Moleskine 2010 diaries are bound in cardboard, with a moleskine cover with rounded corners and an elastic closure. Available in daily and weekly versions, each include a monthly planner on 12 pages. The paper is acid... More »
Moleskine: Desk Calendar 2010
$29.95$15.95 (Diary / Moleskine )
Moleskine’s first-ever Desk Calendar artfully re-imagines the notebook’s iconic and well-loved details in an entirely new format. The calendar’s hard black cover folds back to turn into a stand and features an elastic st... More »
Moleskine: 2010 Daily Diary/Planner (Black soft cover - Pocket)
$29.95$14.95 (Diary / Moleskine )
The Moleskine 2010 diaries are bound in cardboard, with a moleskine cover with rounded corners and an elastic closure. Available in daily and weekly versions, each include a monthly planner on 12 pages. The paper is acid... More »
Moleskine: 2010 Weekly Planner Horizontal (Pocket)
$26.95$13.95 (Diary / Moleskine )
The Moleskine 2010 Pocket Weekly Planner Horizontal is dated from January 2010 to December 2010. Formatted in a horizontal format to show each week on a two page spread (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday on the left page, T... More »
Moleskine: 2010 Daily Diary/Planner (Black hard cover - Pocket)
$29.95$14.95 (Diary / Moleskine )
The Moleskine 2010 Pocket Daily Planner is dated from January 2010 to December 2010. Formatted to show each day on its own page, this popular planner is now available with soft cover.
Every Moleskine product is thread bo... More »
Hitler's Empire Nazi Rule In Occupied Europe
$69.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
'REMARKABLE . . . PROVOCATIVE . . . AN IMPORTANT NEW BOOK' ADAM TOOZE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'A BRILLIANT ACCOUNT' DAVID CESARANI, INDEPENDENT
Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping ... More »
Everyday Drinking
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
A gift for anyone who loves good liquor and high-proof prose: a collection of hilarious and deeply informed writings about drink from one of the all-time authorities.
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic p... More »
Human The Science Of What Makes Unique
$41.25$17.95 (Hardcover book / Ecco Press )
One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. W... More »
Ruin Of The Roman Empire A New History
$52.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Ecco Press )
The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. It was ... More »
Alexander The Great Jouenry to the End of the Earth
$44.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure."
In this succinct portrai... More »
Animal Vegetable Miracle Our Year of Seasonal Living
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
When Barbara Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally-produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consum... More »
Welcome To Your Brain Why You Lose Your Car Key But Never Forget How To Drive And Other Puzzles Of Everyday Life
$39.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
The popular, myth-busting guide to the neuroscience of everyday life, by two high-profile neuroscientists.
In this lively book, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, ... More »
Terror And Consent The Wars for the 21st Century
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West's struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence of ... More »
Peter Rabbit Library
$39.95 (Boxed set / )
Hardcover slipcase. 10 Volumes. More »
- Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
- Tailor of Gloucester
- Tale of Benjamin Bunny
- Tale of Two Bad Mice
- Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle
- Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
- Tale of Tom Kitten
- Tale of...
Imagining India Ideas For The New Century
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Indian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the
definitive book about modern India.
Nilekani gives us a fascinating new perspective for the
twenty-first century, defying received and imported wisdom, and
sh... More »
Essential Managers Manual
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley )
Improve your management skills and take control of your career with the new edition of this bestselling one-stop-shop for every manager.
Pick up tips and advice on 12 core management skills: from communicating and motiva... More »
Echoes: The Complete History Of Pink Floyd
$69.95$39.95 (Paperback book / )
From gigs in tiny church halls in the mid-sixties to multi-million selling albums and spectacular stadium shows all around the world, the Pink Floyd story in a rock legend. This remarkable book is a celebration of Pink F... More »
Judgement Of Paris The Revoltionary Decade That Gave The World Impressionism
$29.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Walker And Company )
While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first pai... More »
Metro Stop Paris An Underground History of the City of Light
$39.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Walker And Company )
A history of Paris in twelve metro stops. "Metro Stop Paris" recounts the extraordinary and colorful history of the City of Light, by way of twelve Metro stops--a voyage across both space and time. At each stop a Parisia... More »
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
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Twelve year old Robert hates his maths teacher. He sets his class boring problems and won't let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil who brings the subject of mathematics magically... More »
Chinese Fairytales
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At the end of Summer, when the nights begin to cool with the approach of Autumn, look up at the night sky and you will see two bright stars sitting across from each other, one on either side of the Milky Way. There is an... More »
Hang The DJ: An Alternative Book Of Music Lists
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From personal blogs to end-of-year critic polls; from the films of Quentin Tarantino to the books of Nick Hornby; music fans have always loved to compile and to indulge, to collect and to hoard. Mixing anecdote, humour, ... More »
E.O. Hoppe's Australia
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EO Hoppé was once the most famous photographer in the world. He snapped celebrities and royalty in Britain, and chronicled America over two years of travel. In 1930, he travelled around Australia, spending 10 months intr... More »
The Lost Diaries Of Adrian Mole 1999-2001
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Adrian Mole has entered middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus when he died' (33). Father to the gramatically challenged Glenn, and William - who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent c... More »
The Lieutenant and The Secret River Slipcase
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A two volume hardback slipcased edition of Kate Grenville's two acclaimed novels. The slipcase has Kate's signature embossed into it. A unique collector's item or perfect gift. More »
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Lyrics 1964-2008
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The collection features lyrics from each of Simon's ten original studio albums, as well as lyrics from the renowned Simon & Garfunkel records and his Songs from the Capeman. The book will also include a preface by th... More »
Tracey Moffatt Between Dreams And Reality
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Making art is quite therapeutic, Tracey Moffatt once said of herself. This brief statement reveals much of the artist’s personality and above all about her manner of interpreting the artistic experience, a practice that ... More »
Italian Tales An Anthology Of Contemporary Italian Fiction
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This anthology serves as a literary map to guide readers through the varied geography of contemporary Italian fiction. Massimo Riva has gathered English-language translations of short stories and excerpts from novels tha... More »
American Splendor Presents Bob And Harv's Comics
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Gathered here are the collected works of the titans of adults comics — legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb and the "high priest of comic-book naturalism" (Newsweek) Harvey Pekar. The comic collision of these underg... More »
The Tin Roof Blowdown
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n the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana.
This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux dis... More »
Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship
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Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism in Western civilization. Our need for heroes is a timeless phenomenon; from ancient Greece to Septem... More »
Leonard Woolf
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This meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the “dark star” of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his troubled relationship with his wife, his own intellect, and the tumultuous w... More »
American Art Book
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Phaidon Press created quite a sensation in 1994 when they introduced The Art Book, an accessible and wide-ranging look at 500 of history's most talented painters and sculptors. In The American Art Book, they're using the... More »
Titanic Pop-Up
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Unfold a spectacular 3-D model of the TITANIC — and read about her fateful rise and fall — in a gorgeous gift set including several novelty features.
On April 14, 1912, the largest and finest ocean liner of the age s... More »
Versailles Gardens
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The park of the palace of Versailles spreads out from the foot of the château to as far as the eye can see. In designing it, Louis XIV shared the same aim as the Medicis in Florence and Henri IV at the Louvre-to manifest... More »
Among The Dead Cities
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When Nuremberg was scouted in 1945 as a possible site for the Nazi war crime trials, an American damage survey of Germany described it as being among the dead cities of that country, for it was 90% destroyed, its populat... More »
The Seat Of The Soul
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A NOTE FROM THE Author - This hardcover edition of The Seat of the Soul celebrates its tenth anniversary. The Seat of the Soul became a national bestseller when it was first published, but more people are buying it now t... More »
Architecture Architektur
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Collection of constructions, both civil and sacred buildings, ranges from pre-Christian basilicas to buildings dating from the early 19th century, and includes such gems as the cathedrals of St. Peter and Chartres, the P... More »
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World
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What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain to commission the voyage? It would be convenient to believe that Columbus and his men... More »
Freud's Wizard
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The saturation of the English-speaking world with Freudian psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud’s disciple, colleague, biographer, and empire builder, he led the intern... More »
Oxford Encyclopedia Of Economic History
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What were the economic roots of modern industrialism? Were labor unions ever effective in raising workers' living standards? Did high levels of taxation in the past normally lead to economic decline? These and similar q...
Grove Encyclopedia Of Decorative Arts
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Remarkable in its scope, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray... More »
Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual
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In his first novel in nearly twenty years, Alexander Theroux, National Book Award Nominee, returns with a compendious satire, a bold and inquisitorial circuit-breaking examination of love and hate, of rejection and forgi... More »
Atlas Of Contemporary Public Space Un Volumetric Architecture
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Arts Of Africa:Contemporary Collection Of Jean Pigozzi
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Nurtured by historic aesthetic roots, sub-Saharan African artists have continued to absorb and transform external influences in extraordinary ways. The Jean Pigozzi Collection, the best-endowed contemporary African art c... More »
This Is Actually My Party Charlie And Lola
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Today is Charlie's birthday – he is very excited as he is having a special monster party! Lola is excited too and wants to help make it an extremely very happy birthday for Charlie. But Lola's having so much fun, she alm... More »
I'm Really Ever So Not Well Charlie And Lola
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Lola has a cold and is feeling really ever so not well. So her big brother Charlie thinks of all sorts of ideas to try to cheer Lola up. He brings her pink milk and biscuits, sings her a special song, plays her best smil... More »
I've Won No I've Won No I've Won Charlie And Lola
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Charlie and Lola love to play, but Lola says, "I've won! I always win... always, always, always!"
She can run faster than a speedy cheetah, bounce higher than a kangaroo and drink pink milk faster than Charlie. But when ... More »
Say Cheese Charlie And Lola
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Lola is extremely very excited because the school photographer is coming and it is Lola's first ever school photo!
Lola is completely sure that she can stay tidy and clean for one whole day - but she has so much fun play... More »
We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog Charlie And Lola
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Lola loves dogs. So when Charlie takes Lola and her friend Lotta to the park with his friend Marv and Marv's dog Sizzles, Lola is thrilled. Marv lets her and Lotta look after Sizzles on the promise that they don't let hi... More »
This Is Actually My Party Charlie And Lola
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It's Charlie's birthday and he has invited all his friends and Lola to an especially scary, hairy monster party - but Lola has other ideas! Not only does she make PINK fairy cakes for his friends, she opens his cards and... More »
The Power Of Now: A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment synopsis
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To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question an... More »
Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850 to 1950
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An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women adventurers in history. From deserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs, they faced unimaginable dangers as they crossed all five continents, ... More »
Acts of Love: Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite's Garden
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Everything the flower-loving bee you’re named for does,
you do, my Melissa, and I take it to heart.
You drop honey from your lips when you sweetly kiss,
and when you want money, can give a mean sting.
The ancient poetr... More »
The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2008
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The new, completely revised edition of this popular reference title surveys the major classical recordings issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which have dominated the catalogue because of their sheer... More »
Three Musketeers
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The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
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This will be the first book by the Dalai Lama written to appeal to a general audience and focusing on the practical application of his spiritual values.The Dalai Lama's commentary is amplified and augmented from a contem... More »
Sex Fantasies For Women For Women
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This collection of real women's sexual fantasies provides insight into the desires of contemporary women. Compiled by New York magazine journalist, Lisa Sussman, the book is a provocative collection of erotic fantasies, ... More »
Memories, Dreams And Reflections
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In his later years, C. G. Jung sums up the meaning of his life in the light of his own psychological researches, partly in conversations recorded, amplified and edited by his secretary and partly in chapters written by h... More »
Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
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The saturation of the English-speaking world with Freudian psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud’s disciple, colleague, biographer, and empire builder, he led the intern... More »
Palazzi Of Rome
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Rome the "Eternal City" is blessed by cultural heritage. Visitors to Rome marvel at its palazzo - great houses with grandiose facades and sumptuous interiors. As the leading families sought to outdo each other in the dec... More »
Orient In Western Art
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The Orient and the mystical images it evokes have always been a special source of inspiration in the history of European painting. From the Venetian portrayal of the Renaissance and the first examples of Turkish Fashion ... More »
Portraits A History
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From lavish portraits of kings and queens filled with symbols of wealth and prosperity, to erotically charged portraits of mistresses and lost loves, to searching and poignant artist self-portraits, German art historian ... More »
Ancient Greek Painting And Its Echoes In Later Art
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Lydakis provides a complete history of ancient Greek painting from the earliest examples in Crete, Thera, and Mycenae to those of the classical and Roman epochs. Through a multitude of examples, he shows how these ancien... More »
Unknown Gertrude Jekyll
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A selection of two hundred of the best articles and other writings by Gertrude Jekyll, many of which, until now, have been accessible only to scholars. They cover themes such as gardening and garden ornament, garden plan... More »
Einstein's Miraculous Year
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his is a collection of five of Einstein's most important papers, all written in 1905. They are concerned with special relativity, including the paper which gave us the formula E=mc2. In others, Einstein challenges the wa... More »
Beautiful Boy
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Greer has made a career of the controversial polemic, most explosively in the 1970s with The Female Eunuch, brazenly arguing for women's sexual liberation. Decades later, the Australian-born sensualist seeks to redress a... More »
Orientalism In Art
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Nineteenth-century Europe was fascinated by the Orient. Napoleons Egyptian campaign of 1798 initiated this phenomenon, and its history-the most notable episodes of which include the Greek uprising against the Turks in 18... More »
Mistress Of Modernism
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Peggy Guggenheim emerges in Mistress of Modernism as the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant terrible ... More »
In Search Of Theater
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This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II;... More »
Beastly Tales (Illustrated)
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Because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work, I decided to write a summer story involving mangoes and a river. By the time I had finished writing 'The Crocodile and the Monkey' (in a... More »
My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
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New York Times bestselling author of The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale—inspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery.
"Dysfunctional famil... More »
Natural History Of Human Emotions
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Even though a Chinese audience hearing Electra sing her poignant lamentation song would not understand her words, they would immediately recognize her emotion. And in the universal recognizability of sadness and nine oth... More »
Pioneers Of Modern Design
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This expanded edition of a classic study of the history of modern design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of Moder... More »
Passion By Design
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Tamara de Lempicka captured the whirlwind decade of the 1920s on canvas, painting (and charming) the rich and famous of Europe in Art Deco portraits.
The threat of a second world war sent Tamara packing to America, where... More »
Little Magician's Magic Kit
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Power And Profit:Hidden World Of The Medieval Merchant
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This accessible study charts the so-called "commercial revolution" of the thirteenth century, a period of rapid expansion which created much of the economic landscape we know today: holding companies, corporate shares, i... More »
Book Of Lost Books
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Echo Of The Big Bang
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Making Of Victorian Values Decency And Dissent In Britain 1789 1837
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In this stimulating cultural history, Britain starts out vulgar, drunken, plain-spoken, unruly and sexually relaxed, but ends up prim, abstemious, euphemistic, conformist and sexually repressed—a reversal that was bitter... More »
Einstein Almanac
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Albert Einstein was an exceptional human being. Perhaps nothing reflects the breadth and scope of his brilliance, his interests, and his influence better than his publications -- more than six hundred scientific papers, ... More »
Darwinism And Its Discontents
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Presenting an ardent defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, this book offers a clear and comprehensive exposition of Darwin's thinking. Michael Ruse brings the story up-to-date, examining the origins of life, t... More »
Introducing Melanie Klein
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Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of infantile development. Although... More »
Rubber Fun Fashion Fetish
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Rubber is all of these things and much, much more. Spring into these pages and you’ll find yourself on a virtual safari, witnessing rubber in its wild habitat and exploring its infinite uses, transformations, shapes and ... More »
Virgin Untouched History
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By any material reckoning, virginity does not exist," writes Blank in this informative, funny and provocative analysis of one of the most elusive—and prized—qualities of human sexuality. Blank, an independent scholar, ha... More »
Break Blow Burn
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With her knowledge of both classic and contemporary cultures, Paglia sheds illuminating light on the raw power of a wailing pop lyric as easily as she does on the cryptic wit of a line of Emily Dickinson. Here is the boo... More »
Handbook To Life In Renaissance Europe
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The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminate... More »
Gardens Through History
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With its sumptuous color plates, comprehensive scope, and fascinating text, this ground-breaking international history of the garden as an art form is easily the most ambitious and rewarding work of its kind. Beginning w... More »
Palaces Of Naples
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Through glorious color photography and illuminating text, Palaces of Naples tells the stories behind this fascinating and fabulous homes. Thirty estates and palaces are featured here, each with its own style and its own ... More »
Memories Of John Lennon
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Newcomers to the Lennon legend might find some of the reminiscences and artwork in this compendium interesting and novel, but those alive in Lennon's time will recognize many of the quotes, especially the ones from Lenno... More »
Tracey Emin
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This book's extensive text is based on a long friendship and hundreds of of hours of discussion between Emin and Carl Freedman, himself a renowned gallerist and art publisher. It covers her work in all media: drawing, sc... More »
Rage And The Pride
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With The Rage and the Pride, Oriana Fallaci breaks a silence that has lasted for ten years. She breaks it in the wake of the apocalypse that, on the morning of September 11th 2001, not far from her home in Manhattan, dis... More »
History Of Beauty
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What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of... More »
Force Of Reason
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Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later... More »
Bellissima Feminine Beauty And The Idea Of Italy
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Feminine beauty has been more associated with national cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. From the time of Dante and Petrarch, ideals of beauty have informed artists’ work. This intriguing and glorious... More »
Pegasus Descending
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Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime bes... More »
Shakespeares Wife
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Given the hysterical responses of some British critics to Germaine Greer's new book about Ann Hathaway, one expects wild-eyed surmises about that woman's life. Instead, Greer offers a richly textured account of the lives... More »
The Naked Truth: Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka And Other Scandals
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Vienna at the dawn of the twentieth century was a city like no other—filled with avant-garde artists and bursting with intellectual and sensual energy. But this burgeoning society was constantly at odds with the conserva... More »
Homosexuality In Art
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This book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art history in the prestigious University of Maryland, Baltimore county.
The author attempts to highlight ... More »
Tales From Shakespeare
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In the twenty tales told in this book, Charles & Mary Lamb succeeded in paraphrasing the language of truly adult literature in children’s terms. Let us not underestimate young readers: they love a complex story with ... More »
Nobody Does It Better ... Why French Home Cooking is the Best in the World
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We may hate to admit it (and never would to the French), but the truth is that there is still nowhere in the world where food and cooking are so passionately and intricately woven into lives, hearts and minds than in Fra... More »
The Parliament Of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations
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From one of America's greatest historians, and the bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, comes the first definitive history of the United Nations, from Woodrow Wilson to Kofi Annan. More »
The Oxford History Of The American West
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In The Oxford History of the American West 28 professional historians gather to analyze the West's history; the result of their work is an important reference. More »
Building Renaissance Venice
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This book brings to life the story of the construction of some of the most outstanding early Renaissance buildings in Venice. Through a series of individual case studies, Richard J. Goy explores how and why great buildin... More »
The Oxford Dictionary Of American Art And Artists
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With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume to appear in three de... More »
The Oxford Companion To American Theatre
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First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Critics have hailed its "wealth of authoritative information" (Back Stage), its "f... More »
The Columbia Guide To The Literatures Of Eastern Europe Since 1945
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For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the twentieth century ar... More »
The Great Country Houses Of Central Europe
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Abbeville )
In the heart of Central Europe stand some of the most elegant and grandly conceived country houses ever constructed, from medieval fortresses and Renaissance- era estates to baroque villas and neoclassical palaces. Until... More »
Treasure Island
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A weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins's parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles a... More »
London Lights The Minds That Moved The City That Shook The World
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From the time of Nelson's death at Trafalgar to the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park nearly fifty years later, London spread like a disease across the fields of Middlesex and Surrey. Foul and dangerous though... More »
Mughal World India's Tainted Paradise
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The Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE MUGHAL THRONE, mark one o... More »
Relish The Extraordinary Life Of Alexis Soyer
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Rarely has a man defined the spirit of an age as well as Alexis
Soyer: celebrity chef, best-selling author, entrepreneur, inventor,
philanthropist and Crimean war hero.
Soyer built the world famous kitchens of London's ... More »
Decca The Letters Of Jessica Mitford
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Best known for her classic funeral-industry exposé, The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford (1917– 1996) was fifth of the famous Mitford sisters, but rebelled against her privileged English roots to become a member of... More »
To Lives To Fly The Ballad Of The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
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At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as "Pancho & Lefty" and "If I Needed You." Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas, hounded by alcoholism... More »
Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are
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Dazzling and groundbreaking, the first book to explore something so fundamental that most of us take it for granted.
What is more amazing about the voice: its central importance to human society, or our widespread disreg... More »
Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus
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If collecting is an art form, then a collector - like many a troubled artist -- also may have his demons. Such is the conclusion of Gregory Gibson's account of collector Bob Langmuir's picaresque pursuit of a trove of lo... More »
Perfect Figures
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Since the beginning of civilization, numbers have been more than just a way to keep count. Perfect Figures tells the stories of how each number came to be and what incredible associations and superstitions have been conn... More »
Jacques Derrida A Biography
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At the time of his death in 2004 Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. Deconstruction, the movement that he founded, has received as much critici... More »
Letters To A Young Novelist
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A literary apprenticeship in eleven letters, by the internationally acclaimed master of the novel.
In the tradition of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and tho... More »
Maritime Power And Struggle For Freedom
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In this sequel to his Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind, naval historian Padfield continues to develop his thesis that "the beliefs and present dominance of those beliefs" of the liberal Western nati... More »
Upheavals Of Thought The Intelligence of Emotions
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Emotions shape the landscape of our mental and social lives. Like geological upheavals in a landscape, they mark our lives as uneven, uncertain and prone to reversal. Are they simply, as some have claimed, animal energie... More »
Literature Of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
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Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings to... More »
Beauty Of The Primitive
$88.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual ... More »
At The Same Time Essays And Speeches
$39.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro )
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of t... More »
Florence A Delicate Case
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Readers as well as travelers will enjoy this literary guide to the lives and impressions of the many British and Americans who lived and wrote here. Aside from descriptions of art, light, landscape, and history, Leavitt ... More »
Hitlers Beneficiaries Plunder Racial War And The Nazi Welfare State
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
A “provocative” account of great “intellectual significance,” illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich—and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state (The New York Times Book Review)
In ... More »
Dog In British Poetry
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Chronicle Books )
Originally published in 1893, this utterly charming book collects more than 200 poems from British literature celebrating our faithful canine companions as they hunt, romp, chew, and wait patiently for their master's voi... More »
My Life With Noel Coward
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Applause )
This is the definitive memoir of the private Noel Coward by the only man with the compassionate insight and first-hand experience to write it. Graham Payn, star of many of Coward's shows, shared the Master's professional... More »
Social Graces
$130.00$34.95 (Hardcover book / Powerhouse Books )
Traveling between the vastly different worlds of New York society and his working class neighbors in Martins Creek, Pa., throughout the late 1970s and early 80s, Larry Fink embarked on a project similar to Diane Arbus's,...
Tasmanian Tiger: The Tragic Tale of How the World Lost Its Most Mysterious Predator
$35.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / Johns Hopkins )
Once the world's largest marsupial predator, the doglike Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinuscynocephalus) ranged across Australia and as far north as New Guinea. After humans introduced dingoes to the area 4,000 years ago, the m... More »
Pushing The Limits : New Adventures in Engineering
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
In the ever increasing push for longer bridges, taller buildings, bigger stadiums, and grander projects of all kinds, engineers face new challenges that redefine our sense of both aesthetics and functionality. Pushing th... More »
Rediscovering Homer Inside The Origins Of The Epic
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
Late in this look at Homer's two great epic poems and the context out of which they grew, Dalby presents his audacious thesis: Homer, he would have us believe, was a woman. Some hedging accompanies the assertion, but it ... More »
Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell
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English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perfo... More »
How To Read The Bible
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In How to Read the Bible, Harvard professor James Kugel leads the listener through the "quiet revolution" of recent biblical scholarship, showing how radically the interpretations of today's researchers differ from what ... More »
Label The Story of Columbia Records
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Thundermouth Press )
From Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin and Michael Jackson, Columbia Records has discovered and nurtured a mind-boggling spectrum of talents and temperaments over the past 100-plus years. Now, with unprece... More »
Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / St Martins )
In 1922, Vladimir Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 "undesirable" intellectuals--mostly philosophers, academics, scientists, and journalists--to be deported from the new Soviet State. "We're going to cleanse Ru... More »
In The Shadow Of Wounded Knee
$24.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Walker And Company )
At the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation on January 7, 1891, Lieutenant Edward Casey (the last white soldier to die in the Indian Wars) was assassinated by Lakota warrior Plenty Horses. Four days later peaceful Lakota hunters... More »
Hugo Chavez
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He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting ... More »
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
$180.00$59.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will be pursued in what Niet... More »
Nietzsche Aesthetics And Modernity
$180.00$59.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity analyzes Nietzsche's response to the aesthetic tradition, tracing in particular the complex relationship between the work and thought of Nietzsche, Kant, and Hegel. Focusing in particu... More »
Hegel's Concept Of Action
$120.00$59.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
'Michael Quante focuses on what Hegel has to say about such central concepts as action, person and will, and then brings these views to bear on contemporary debates in analytic philosophy. This book enables professional ... More »
Poet Of The Appetites The Lives and Loves of M. F. K. Fisher
$25.95$14.95 (Paperback book / North Point Press )
In more than thirty books, M.F.K. Fisher forever changed the way Americans understood not only the art of eating but the art of living. Whether considering the oyster or describing how to cook a wolf, she addressed the u... More »
Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti And The Cinematic Nature Of Vision
$79.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Charta )
This book takes its inspiration from a seminal essay by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, the great art historian and critic, on the temporality of the image and the "processing" character of vision, examining cinema, art, danc... More »
Wall Street A Cultural History
$45.00$25.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
Fraser brilliantly traces the imaginative history of Wall Street through novels and plays and political polemics, in the great prose of Twain and Wharton, Melville and James and a host of other writers, but also remember... More »
Innovate Like Edison The Success System Of Americas Greatestinventor
$29.95$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa )
Thomas Edison is the greatest innovator in American history. Edison's focus on practical accomplishment set the stage for America's global leadership in innovation. Now, for the first time ever, Innovate Like Edison tran... More »
American Shogun
$69.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Overlook Press )
In the years and months leading up to Pearl Harbor, Japan was becoming the most industrialized state in Asia, as well as the repository of a martial heritage that fueled imperial ambitions of conquest and hegemony. Acros... More »
Nurse Lugton's Curtain
$31.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / Harcourt )
Frozen in the pattern of a drawing-room curtain, a dreamlike world waits patiently while Nurse Lugton sews. As she dozes in the lamplight, the animals adorning the curtain nod to one another and slowly awaken, making the... More »
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
Barry Feinstein is responsible for some of the most famous images of Dylan, Inspired by a series of his photographs Dylan wrote an extraordinary series of poems that have remained unpublished for decades. Thought-provoki... More »
Bitter Road To Freedom
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American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime ... More »
Long Way Down
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After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go bac... More »
The Best American Essays 2007
$27.95$23.95 (Paperback book / Houghton Mifflin )
The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection — perhaps the most diverse in the entire series — come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase... More »
The Best American Travel Writing 2008
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In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that "spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fear... More »
Lincoln President Elect
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One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important d... More »
White House Ghosts
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
In White House Ghosts, veteran Washington reporter Robert Schlesinger opens a fresh and revealing window on the modern presidency from FDR to George W. Bush. This is the first book to examine a crucial and often hidden r... More »
Petty's Parallel Worlds
$39.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / Scribe Publications )
'Bruce Petty is the closest we've ever come to producing our own Picasso, and I love him.' — Bill Leak, Australian
This beautifully produced full colour hardback features cartoons, illustrations and artwork — much of i... More »
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'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky
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David Henderson's biography of Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age — first published in hardcover in 1978 — was described by Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone as "[t]he strongest and most ambitious b... More »
Taste Of Southern Italy Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / )
“It has always been true for me that to know a place, I must first know how it eats and drinks. Everything unravels at the table.”
–Marlena de Blasi
Marlena de Blasi’s lifelong affair with cooking began at age nine... More »
Morocco The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges
$61.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / )
In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses emerging issues and problems - ... More »
Duveen A Life In Art
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
No one played the high-stakes game of buying and selling Old Masters better than Joseph Duveen, later Lord Duveen of Millbank, who dominated the world art market during the 1920s and '30s. Using the Duveen Brothers' arch... More »
Coming Of Age
$69.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / )
For Coming of Age, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Peabody Award-winning radio host--himself an octogenarian--has interviewed several very different men and women ranging in age from 70 to 99. Some are powerful cel... More »
Three Musketeers
$69.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Dumas's tale of swashbuckling and heroism follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a headstrong country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers - the bodyguard of King Louis XIII. Here he falls in with Athos, Porthos ... More »
Managing Chronic Illness Using The Four Phase Treatment Approach
$125.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Wiley )
A pioneering book to help maximize the quality of life for chronically ill patients
Written by a leading authority on chronic illness treatment and management, Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Appr... More »
Practical Guide To Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
$128.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Springer Verlag )
The contributors of these 14 articles have found Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, said as one word) a useful treatment approach for a wide range of clinical problems. ACT is based on Relational Frame Theory, which... More »
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For The Treatment Of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder And Trauma Related Problems
$99.95 (Hardcover book / New Harbinger )
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems. In this volume, you'll find a comple... More »
Handbook Of Eating Disorders And Obesity
$133.95$59.95 (Hardcover book / Wiley )
Featuring contributors from an international group of experts, the Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity is a broad-based resource that explores the major classifications of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia... More »
Forensic Mental Health Assessment Of Children And Adolescents
$140.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
Most professional forensic literature addresses the assessment of adults yet neglects the necessary differences that arise when working with minors. Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents presents ... More »
Principles Of Therapeutic Change That Work
$120.00$49.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
This book presents the findings of a Joint Presidential Task Force of the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of APA) and of the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research. This task force was charged with... More »
Travels In The Scriptorium
$39.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
A man pieces together clues to his past — and the identity of his captors — in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel.
An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has ... More »
Napoleon: The Path To Power 1769-1799
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth. It was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. Napoleon's identity during his formative years was shifting, his character ambiguous, and his inten... More »
Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading (Philosophy of Mind)
$79.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal ps... More »
Fair Trade For All How Trade Can Promote Development
$56.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and c... More »
Jesuit And The Skull
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / Riverhead Books )
In The Jesuit and the Skull, bestselling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts how the discovery of Peking Man by, among others, a young Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin helped to open the eyes of the world... More »
Clumsiest People In Europe Or Mrs. Mortimer's Bad Tempered Guide To The Victorian World
$29.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Mortimer (1802-78) spent most of her 40-year career writing extremely popular children's books, but in the middle of it, she wrote a geographical trilogy that managed to insult just about every nationality in the world. ... More »
Christine Falls
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In the debut crime novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society More »
Primacy Of The Subjective Foundations For A Unified Theory Of Mind And Language
$72.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Mit Press )
In this highly original monograph, Nicholas Georgalis proposes that the concept of minimal content is fundamental both to the philosophy of mind and to the philosophy of language. He argues that to understand mind and la... More »
The Holocaust
$69.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
When The Holocaust first appeared in Israel in 1987, it was hailed as the finest, most authoritative history of Hitler's war on the Jews ever published. Representing twenty years of research and reflection, Leni Yahil's ... More »
Philosophical Myths Of The Fall
$99.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press )
Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and evaluates a surprisin... More »
Spook Country
$29.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Berkley )
Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson's fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented, postmodern world. When a mysterious, not yet actual magazine, Node... More »
Baldwin's Harlem
$48.00$16.95 (Paperback book / Atria )
Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin.
Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). The events th... More »
Essential Fitzgerald CD: Berniece Bobs Her Hair
$25.95$12.95 (Compact disc / Harper Collins )
BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR: When boring Bernice visits her extended family, her glamorous cousin Marjorie desides to make her over, if only to keep her from being a drag on her social life. The transformation is successful an... More »
Essential Doris Lessing (Abridged Audio CD)
$25.95$12.95 (Compact disc / Harper Collins )
A feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explo... More »
Essential Anais Nin
$25.95$12.95 (Compact disc / Caedmon )
For many years the name Anaïs Nin was associated mostly with the avant-garde and the literary underground. During the liberated 1960s she became widely recognized as a daring and innovative artist. Her work, at once fami... More »
Sex Game Book: A Cultural History Of Sexuality
$69.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Assouline )
All you've ever wanted to know about sex, but never dared to ask.
What do we really know about sex? Eroticism is not only a craft or experience in which one is more or less gifted. It's also a culture of its own, which h... More »
Messenger Of Truth
$35.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling series
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a fa... More »
Explorers: The Most Exciting Voyages of Discovery - From the African Expeditions to the Lunar Landing
$99.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Firefly Publishing )
A superbly illustrated reference of great explorers and their expeditions since 1845.
One the most exciting periods of exploration coincided with the invention of photography. As a result, the most important expeditions ... More »
Before The Fallout : From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
$16.95 (Hardcover book / Walker And Company )
On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." A mere 47 years later, "Little Boy"exploded over Hiroshima. Before the Fallout is the ... More »
The Closed Circle
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
The characters of The Rotters' Club - Jonathan Coe's nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in the 1970s - have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in a story that is very much of the momen... More »
Taste Of Dreams An Obsession With Russia And Caviar
$45.00$17.95 (Trade cloth / Headline )
The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author’s dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its hea... More »
Battle For Europe
$46.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Wiley )
A compelling history of the bloody battle that ended Louis XIV''s dream of European domination and changed the course of history
"Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of Fren... More »
Venetian Villas
$79.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Konemann )
A meticulously detailed sruvey of nearly 80 superb villas in the Italian province of the Veneto. 463 illustrations, 438 in color. More »
Satyr Square A Year A Life In Rome
$48.00$24.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
The bewitching story of Rome teaching a lonely scholar how to discover himself
Satyr Square—part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue—is a poignant, hilarious narrative about an America... More »
The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
$48.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / )
What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated when presented with the wine list at a restaurant? In The Accidental Connoisseur, journalist Lawrence Osborne takes ... More »
Antony And Cleopatra
$39.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn Birds.
In this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse, Colleen McCullough turns her attention to the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopa... More »
Collaborator Of Bethlehem
$26.95$23.95 (Paperback book / Houghton Mifflin )
Following the death of her schizophrenic son, Diana refuses to accept the authorities' conclusion that his death was accidental. She begins to send her brother David faxes and e-mails about ancient murders, and David soo... More »
Faust In Copenhagen: A Struggle For The Soul Of Physics
$51.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Segre brings to life the momentous 1932 gathering of 40 of the worlds leading physicists, which ended with a humorous skit based on Goethes Faust--a skit that eerily foreshadowed events that would soon unfold as Europe w... More »
Myth Form Making Of Nearamnew
$39.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
Mythform is the story of how Nearamnew, the massive public artwork integrated into the fabric of Federation Square in Melbourne. was conceived, developed and installed. Opinion
"This handsomely produced book tells the st... More »
Geography Of Wine
$32.00$14.95 (Paperback book / Plume )
Wine is more than taste, smell, and appearance – it is a reflection of a place and its people. Why is Bordeaux a great place for red wines? Why do some places produce Rieslings and others produce Chardonnay? A fun and fa... More »
A History Of Modern Libya
$43.95$19.95 (Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
Libya is coming in from the cold, but for most of the three decades following the 1969 revolution, the country was labelled a pariah state by the West. Dirk Vandewalle, one of only a handful of western scholars to visit ... More »
The Cambridge Companion To Theodore Dreiser
$43.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sist... More »
Stolen Prince
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
In the spring of 1703, a young African boy stepped off a slave ship in Constantinople, the gateway between East and West. Huddling in chains, with other frightened captives, the seven-year-old claimed to be a prince of A... More »
Chronicler Of The Winds
$29.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. Bemused he races to the uppermost gallery and there beneath him on a spot-lit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, the fa... More »
Janissary Tree
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
When Jason Goodwin explored the Ottoman Empire in Lords of the Horizons, the New York Times Book Review hailed it as a work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship...with luminous writing.... More »
The Producer
$52.95$18.95 (Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro )
John Hammond's life is a gripping story of music, money, fame, and racial conflict, played out in the nightclubs and recording studios. A pioneering producer and talent spotter, Hammond discovered Billie Holliday, Count ... More »
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
$52.00$24.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
In this collection of essays on the early years of the American republic, an esteemed historian writes on the combination of idealistic and pragmatic qualities in both Jefferson and Franklin, on the enduring qualities of... More »
Dr Dre: The Biography
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Da Capo )
Born on February 18, 1965 to a sixteen-year-old single mom, Andre Young, AKA Dr. Dre, co-founded the notorious rap group N.W.A. The group was one of the most successful hip-hop groups of the late 1980s and, most importan... More »
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy — a wide-ranging,... More »
Genesis Of Flight The Aeronautical History Collection Of Colonel Richard Gimbel
$150.00$49.95 (Hardcover book / Washington Univ Pr )
The Genesis of Flight illustrates one of the most prestigious aeronautical history collections in existence, covering the history of man's dream of flight from antiquity to the advent of powered flight at the beginning o... More »
The Sea Lady
$48.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Harcourt )
Margaret Drabble returns with a virtuoso novel set in present-day England.
Two distinguished guests are travelling separately toward a ceremony where they will meet for the first time in three decades. Both are apprehens... More »
My Sister's Hand In Mine: The Collected Works Of Jane Bowles
$34.00$16.95 (Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company )
Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the p... More »
Edge Of Empire: Lives, Culture and Conquest In The East 1750-1850
$55.00$24.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
A groundbreaking history of the formative years of the British Empire as seen through the lives of some who shaped it and the objects they chose as memorials to their experiences. A Palladian mansion filled with Western ... More »
The Troubadour's Song: The Capture And Ransom Of Richard The Lionheart
$52.00$24.95 (Hardcover book / Walker And Company )
In the course of his journey home from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart was shipwrecked near Venice, forced to travel in disguise through enemy countries, and eventually captured by Duke Leopold V of Austria, who... More »
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
$54.00$15.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
In an engrossing new work of historical investigation, widely read historian Jonathan Spence describes one of the strangest and most violent events in human history: the rise and fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in t... More »
The Reality Of War: A Memoir Of The Franco-Prussian War
$69.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Cassell )
Although a relatively unknown campaign, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) ultimately had great repercussions during World War I. Patry's firsthand and beautifully written chronicle vividly describes the bloodshed and app... More »
Constructing Australia
$34.95$10.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Constructing a Nation is published to coincide with a three-part miniseries on the ABC on Sunday nights at 7:30pm, beginning on Sunday March 17th.
Constructing a Nation will cover the first three episodes featuring the m... More »
Spain In Light And Shadow
$65.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Frances Lincoln )
Spain is a land of infinite contrasts. Within the peninsula the mountain ranges create and enclose a vast range of different landscapes and different cultures. It is a deeply maritime country, yet over half its land mass... More »
Mr Golightly's Holiday
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
The new novel from the best-selling author of Miss Garnet's Angel and Instances of the Number 3. Mr Golightly is much in need of a holiday. As successful as Golightly Enterprises has been, it has also taken up all his ti... More »
Trouble At Willow Gables And Other Fictions
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
The book opens with works written under the pseudonym 'Brunette Coleman', including the two novellas, Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, and the poem sequence Sugar and Spice.The remainder of the... More »
Tearing Down The Wall Of Sound
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Over the course of that day, Spector spoke with extraordinary candour about his life and career; his mercurial rise to become the most successful record producer of the sixties; the genius which had been both a blessing ... More »
The Cambridge History Of Seventeenth Century Philosophy 2 Volume Hardback Set
$499.00$159.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge hi... More »
Beyond Black
$52.00$17.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
Hailed as a "writer of subtlety and depth," (Joyce Carol Oates) Hilary Mantel turns her dark genius on the world of psychics in this smart, unsettling novel.
A paragon of efficiency, Colette took the next natural step af... More »
Conquest Of Nature Water Landscape And The Making Of Modern Germany
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
"A modern-day German magically transported back 250 years would barely recognize his own country, says Blackbourn, a professor of history at Harvard. Where today manicured fields, straight canals and windmills dominate, ... More »
Vittorio The Vampire
$35.00$16.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.
Educated i... More »
Bringing The Plague
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This collection proposes no rigid definition of postmodernism, but rather highlights the persistence of modernist ideas at the heart of postmodern psychoanalytic theories and pratices.. More »
Arlington Park
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Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the... More »
Agape Agape
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The late William Gaddis wrote four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination ... More »
IOU: Story Of Debt And Why We Must Diffuse It
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We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalizati... More »
Shrimp And The Anemone
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There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepo... More »
Leni The Life And Work Of Leni Riefenstahl
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Leni Riefenstahl is one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. Best known as ‘Hitler’s filmmaker’, Riefenstahl made two documentaries, OLYMPIA and TRIUMPH OF THE WILL, acknowled... More »
Dirty Blonde
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Groundbreaking rock musician. Award-winning actress. Perceptive songwriter and author. Mother. Wife of a rock god. Fashionista and trendsetter. Provocateur. In each and every one of these roles Courtney Love has demonstr... More »
Tree Of Smoke
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Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American,...
Crossing The Sierra De Gredos
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In this visionary novel, Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing. Following humankinds ancient quest for love, this book is peopled with memorable chara... More »
Redemption The Last Battle Of The Civil War
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A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the ... More »
Invisible Cure
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In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed firsthand the suffering caused by the epidemic. Now, in her unsparing and illum... More »
Look Both Ways Bisexual Politics
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For the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner, bisexuality has always been more than the "sexual non-preference of the '90s." In Look Both Ways, Baumgardner takes a close look at the growing visibility of ga... More »
Theoretical Models Of Counselling And Psychotherapy
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The understanding of available and viable theories of counselling is one of the most basic and important elements of a mental health professional's training. As students become practitioners, the integration of the knowl... More »
Liver: A Fictional Organ With A Surface Anatomy Of Four Lobes
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Ah! Val Carmichael's nose - a treatise could have been written on it; indeed it looked as if an unseen hand had begun to do exactly that - poking with a steely nib at its sub-surface blood vessels and pricking them into ... More »
A Light History Of Hot Air
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'extraordinary outpourings of a brilliant mind' --Launceston Examiner 'a very entertaining and informative memoir and an intriguing observation of human activity' --Australian Bookseller & Publisher
Now in paperback,... More »
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Against The Machine Being Human In The Era Of The Electronicmob
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Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It's become not only our primary medium for communication and information but also the place we go to sh... More »
Anatomy Of Story 22 Steps To Becoming A Master Storyteller
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John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood’s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and... More »
Knowledge And The Wealth Of Nations: A Story Of Economic Discovery
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Chronicling the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory, this text helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intellectual property, and provides essenti... More »
Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All
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An improbable cross-cultural love story between a Maori man and
an American woman, and the fascinating history that connects
them.
As an American graduate student in Australia, Christina Thompson
travelled on holiday to... More »
Redemption Song The Ballad Of Joe Strummer
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The Clash were — and still are — one of the most important groups of the late 70s and early 80s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and 60's protest, the overtly political band railed against w... More »
Awful End Of Prince William The Silent The Fiesrt Assassination Of A Head Of State With A Handgun
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In this innovative and engaging work of history, distinguished author Lisa Jardine shows how the first killing by handgun of a head of state had a profound effect on the course of history. The shooting of Prince William ... More »
Reference And Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism
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In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in ... More »
Dinner Party From Creation To Preservation
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Judy Chicago’s masterpiece The Dinner Party is a monumental work of art conceived as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization. Strategically countering the traditional erasure of women’s achievements, this epi... More »
Venice Art And Architecture Flexi
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If you approach Venice by way of the lagoon, the city appears to be as homogenous as a single building. But as soon as you step into its shadowy alleys, you will be captivated by the architectural finesse of the palazzi,... More »
History Of Mens Magazines V1
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Welcome to Pornotopia! Everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men's magazines. A twenty-five-year veteran of the genre, former men's magazine editor, Dian Hanson traces its development from 190... More »
The Directors: Take Two
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In this fascinating series, today's most acclaimed film directors reveal intimate details of their most influential work and unique approaches to their art.
Directors interviewed include Terry Gilliam, Garry Marshall, Jo... More »
Biographical Dictionary Of The Australian Senate Volume One And Two
$153.90$39.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Both volumes for only $39.95, normally $76.95 each
Volume 1, 1901-1929
Volume 1
Edited by Ann Millar (Department of the Senate)
The first volume of this readable and authoritative work of reference will provide readers w... More »
Crowdsourcing
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Jeff Howe coined the word 'Crowdsourcing' in a 2006 article for Wired magazine to describe the way in which the Internet has broken down traditional employer/employee relationships to create vibrant new enterprises that ... More »
Albertina: Old Master Drawings from Vienna
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The Albertina in Vienna forms part of the city’s historic Hofburg complex, the heart of which is the former Imperial Palace - seat of the Habsburg dynasty in Central Europe. Albert, Duke of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822), afte... More »
The City Of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing In The History Of China
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The great city of Peking, capital of China from the 9th century, was for a millennium one of the most extraordinary places on earth. For the Chinese people it was not only an administrative centre, but the residence of t... More »
Caffe and Stars Dolce Vita On A Coffee Break
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These well-reproduced, previously unpublished photographs about Dolce Vita the "cafÀ of stars" document coffee's relation to life and style in Rome in the 1950s and 60s. Many of these images were taken by paparazzi, cons... More »
Spaghetti And Stars
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Leonardo DiCaprio loves pasta, and in that, he's not alone. Spaghetti & Stars--the latest volume in the successful series which also includes Caff» & Stars and Airports & Stars--collects many previously unpub... More »
Airports And Stars
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From the publishers of Spaghetti & Stars and CafÀ of Stars comes the retro (and prescient) Airports & Stars, a collection of photographs of Hollywood actors, royalty and other celebrities from the golden age of I... More »
Stealing Water
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When Tim Ecott's family uprooted from Northern Ireland in 1977, they thought they were leaving behind their troubled lives, including the physical threat to Tim's father's life posed by the IRA. They hoped to exchange a ... More »
Best American Series
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Contains Best American Short Stories 2006, Best American Travel Writing 2006, and Best American Spiritual Writing 2006. More »
Made In Italy: 1951-2001
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Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler
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In the 1940s New York was the crucible for post-war American and European art, and at the heart of this was Peggy Guggenheim and her remarkable museum/gallery, made instantly the most sensational venue of the avantgarde ... More »
Good Night And Good Luck Region 1 DVD
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Region 1 DVD - requires multi-region DVD player. More »
The Best American Comics 2006
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The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, ... More »
Diaspora Homeland In Exile
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This oversize, two-volume visual anthology is based on Brenner's travels, 1978-2002, to document the Jewish diaspora. Volume 1 contains b&w photographs of Jews living globally. Among the diverse images is a spiritual... More »
Voices From The Street
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Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he sti... More »
Poincares Prize The Hundred Year Quest To Solve One Of Mathsgreatest Puzzles
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With a reclusive and eccentric hero, dramatic turns, and a million-dollar payoff, Poincare's Prize is the stuff of great fiction. Amazingly, the story unveiled in it is true.
In the world of math, the Poincare Conjecture... More »
Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
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A Pulitzer Prize winner explores the role of the first machine gun in transforming America into a superpower
Although it was little used during the American Civil Warthe time in which it was inventedthe Gatling gun soon ... More »
You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel
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From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random g... More »
Through A Glass Darkly
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Last seen in Blood from a Stone (2005), Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates a murder on Murano, the famed island of glassmakers, in Leon's assured 15th mystery starring the cynical yet diligent Venetian policeman. Ha... More »
The Ruby In Her Navel
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Enticing titles are typical of Unsworth (Sacred Hunger); his gleam, this time out, is dimmed by the setting. Thurstan Beauchamp, royal purveyor of pleasures and shows in the 12th-century Kingdom of Sicily, laboriously na... More »
To The Castle And Back Reflections On My Strange Life As A Fairy Tale Hero
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In this intimate, illuminating memoir, Havel recollects the pivotal experiences and ideas of his remarkable life a writer, dissident, and statesman. He writes with eloquence and candor about his transition from playwrigh... More »
Return Of The Dancing Master
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Mankell's Kurt Wallander series is one of the quintessential new European procedurals, pitting a melancholy Swedish detective against a hate-filled contemporary world. Wallander is absent here, but the unremitting horror... More »
Painted Bed The Poems
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Even as he has suffered from his wife Jane Kenyon's death and the declining powers of age, Hall has continued growing as a poet, and his steady readers may consider this his finest collection. The long, long-lined openin... More »
Get A Life
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The phrase "late work" is usually reserved for masters, and it is appropriate to this 14th novel from Gordimer, whose cruel meditations on mortality and commitment are enacted within two marriages a generation apart. Pau... More »
Light On Life The Yoga Journey To Wholeness Inner Peace And Ultimate Freedom
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The world's leading teacher of yoga shows how we can transform ourselves by bringing yogic principles into all aspects of daily living.
"Anyone and everyone can make the yogic journey and reach the goal of
illumination a... More »
Sacred Causes By Michael Burleigh Enlarge image Sacred Causes The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror
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Beginning with the chaotic post–World War I landscape in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged b... More »
New Zealand: Continent In A Nutshell
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High mountains and rolling hills, glaciers, fjords, volacnoes. geysers and sub tropical rainforests. New Zealand is planet earth in a nutshell. More »
Vixi Memoirs Of A Non Belonger
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Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and Pipes went on to earn a college degree, join the U.S. Air... More »
Crusader Art Holy Land Fall Ac
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This book tells the story of the Architecture and the Figural Art produced for the Crusaders after the battle of Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, during the one hundred years that Acre was the capital of the Lat... More »
Cities From The Sky An Aerial Portrait Of America
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Piloting a single-engine biplane high above Washington D.C. in 1920, the intrepid inventor and aviation pioneer Sherman Fairchild first tested his custom-built sky camera, effectively founding the aerial photography comp... More »
Cinnamon Kiss
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It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than E... More »
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles 2 Volume Boxed Set
$750.00$295.00 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
Textiles have been essential to the everyday lives of all societies. Besides helping provide protection and warmth, they have fulfilled social, cultural, military, legal and symbolic functions, and have been an essential... More »
The Cambridge Companion To Masaccio
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The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio explores the visual, intellectual, and religious culture of Renaissance Florence in the age of Masaccio, 1401–1428. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars and conservat... More »
Birth Of America
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A provocative account of colonial America, exploring the key events, individuals, and themes of this pivotal period. From the fearful crossing of the stormy Atlantic to the growth of the early settlements, to the French ... More »
Authoritarian Dynamic
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What is the basis for intolerance? This book addresses that question by developing a universal theory about what causes intolerance of difference in general, which includes racism, political intolerance (e.g. restriction... More »
Arthur Miller A Life
$39.95$21.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
Arthur Miller's life spans more than four decades and includes three marriages - famously to America's enduring icon, Marilyn Monroe - numerous plays, novels and an autobiography. Martin Gottfried utilizes private letter... More »
Architecture in Transition: Between Deconstruction and New Modernism
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Leading architects present their views on deconstruction and new modernism. More »
Architecture For Art
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This handsome oversize (12x12") volume presents 39 United States art museums in their social and historical context, ranging from the 1938 Museum of Modern Art, to the 2008 expansion of the Corcoran and other works in pr... More »
Arcadian Architecture Bohlin Cywinski Jackson 12 Houses
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The architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson believes that "the sensuality of place, the emotive qualities of materials, and the ability to give pleasure and insight, to comfort and to transport can produce humane and s... More »
After Raphael
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
After Raphael is the first comprehensive overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over 30 years. Reevaluating the paintings of Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Rosso, Bronzino, the Caracci and th... More »
The Last Fish Tale
$34.95$15.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed? Have the number of large fish in the ocean decreased by 90 per cent over the past 50 years, as has been asserted by a respected sci... More »
Grand Experiment
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Two boys travel three continents to follow one monk's dream, in this untold story from Australia's colonial history. In 1848, the Spanish missionary Rosendo Salvado, founder of New Norcia Monastery in Western Australia, ... More »
Gentle Axe
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Porfiry Petrovich, the clever and levelheaded police investigator who apprehended Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, has another case that demands his attention. A man with a bloody axe in his b... More »
The Dream Life
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For a book that doesn't so much drive home an overarching thesis about its subject as unravel particular events that are dense with historical, political and cinematic import, this assessment of the 1960s and its afterma... More »
Voices Of Time
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In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling Memory of... More »
Displeasures Of The Table
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Poet Martha Ronk notes that it is not so much that she finds food displeasurable, but that she finds the sitting at the table unpleasant. Food, moreover, is associated with roles that many woman question. Accordingly, th... More »
Dancing To Almendra
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Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber’s chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover th... More »
Golden Age Poems Of The Spanish Renaissance
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"Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators."—Harold Bloom
Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's greatest poems and offering a new appreciation of Spain's "Golden Age, " Edith G... More »
The Bastard Of Istanbul
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Much like Orhan Pamuk, Turkish author Elif Shafak was charged with "public denigration of Turkishness" for her outspoken books. This novel, an up-close look at the Turkish-Armenian schism, is the story of Asya Kazanci, a... More »
Ocean To Sky India From The Air
$59.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Roli Books )
This one-of-a-kind book, more than seven years in the making, is a dramatic photoexploration of the Indian subcontinent from the air. The breathtaking visuals, many of them photographed from over 30,000 feet from the coc... More »
Yours In Food
$49.95$12.95 (Hardcover book / Princeton Archit. Pr )
American writers and artists tell stories or express opinions about food and eating between illustrations compiled by artist Baldessari. There is no index or bibliography More »
This Blinding Absence Of Light
$45.00$14.95 (Hardcover book / New Press )
"In this deeply moving novel, Tahar Ben Jelloun has chosen imagination as the response toinhumanity - the art of writing as the ultimate liberation." - L’Express
An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in Fran... More »
Kant Lectures On Metaphysics
$130.00$29.95 (Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
The purpose of the Cambridge Edition is to offer translations of the best modern German edition of Kant's work in a uniform format suitable for Kant scholars. When complete (fourteen volumes are currently envisaged) the ... More »
Fear Of The Dark
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Fearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in a high-velocity, larger-than-life thriller about family, betrayal, and revenge.
"I'm in trouble, Paris."
Paris Minton ha... More »
Kants Cosmopolitan Theory Of Law And Peace
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Kant is widely acknowledged for his critique of theoretical reason, his universalistic ethics, and his aesthetics. Scholars, however, often ignore his achievements in the philosophy of law and government. At least four i... More »
Letters To Felician
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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the major writers of the 20th century: a poet who turned away from poetry, and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at the time of her death by fire. Letters to ... More »
O How The Wheel Becomes It
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G. F. H. Shadbold, a lifelong poseur and literary manque lives, for the most part, in fear of discovery. A friend, Cedric Winterwade, whom he evidently seduced in his college days, writes a novel almost as insignificant ... More »
Rome Artistic Centres Of The Italian Renaissance
$350.00$79.95 (Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
In the period under study here, Rome lived up to its epithet 'The Eternal City'. This is a comprehensive history of the art of Rome in the Renaissance studies; the architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts t... More »
Eero Saarinen
$69.95$24.95 (Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press )
Underappreciated second-generation modernist architect Eero Saarinen (son of the celebrated Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen) takes his star turn in this well-illustrated, large format career retrospective, with intellig... More »
Ten Essential Texts In Philososphy Of Religion
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Offering a new approach to teaching the philosophy of religion, this anthology is organized around ten of the most widely read texts in the field. Presented in their entirety, these classics serve as a framework for a va... More »
William L Price
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Architect George Howe thought there were three pioneers of American architecture: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William L. Price. Although history has borne out Howe's observation on Sullivan and Wright, Will P... More »
Wiel Arets
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"Wiel Arets, one of the most influential architects practicing today, is renowned for the transparent clarity and rigid geometry of his work. Austere but humane, his buildings evince a forceful presence yet retain a rema... More »