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What The Dog Saw And Other Adventures
$12.00 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
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The Artist The Philosopher And The Warrior The Intersecting Lives Of Da Vinci Machiavelli And Borgia And The World
$45.00$15.00 – Hardcover book / Bantam Press
Despite the convoluted title, this latest from award-winning British novelist and historian Strathern ("Napoleon in Italy") is simply a good, straightforward history of Renaissance Italy during the turbulent decade aroun... Buy or find out more →
Organic Gardening
$39.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Hermes House
An essentail reference guide to natural gardening, showing how to apply organic principles to all aspects of garden planning, design and maintenance. An invaluable, easy to use calendar of all the vital garden tasks. Lav... Buy or find out more →
The Times Comprehensive Atlas Of The World
$295.00$99.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
The book we all lust after, but can never justify the cost is now at a third of its original price.
Geographical information published by Bartholomew has a long history, beginning in 1797, when George Bartholomew apprent... Buy or find out more →
Art Of Happiness
$25.00$10.00 – Paperback book / Coronet
A Tibetan spiritual leader's guide to dealing with everyday human problems and achieving happiness. It addresses issues such as: the sources of happiness; desire and greed; marriage and romance; resolving conflict; facin... Buy or find out more →
Semantic Antics: How And Why Words Change Meaning
$22.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
"My favorite popular word book of the year" -William Safire, "NY Times" 6/22/2008 A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know ... Buy or find out more →
Painters Of Provence
$67.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
From as early as the fourteenth century, painting found a home beneath the azure skies of Roman civilization, and prestigious art schools grew up in the prosperous cities of Nice, Aix, and Avignon. Though initially the l... Buy or find out more →
On Chesil Beach
$33.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will ... Buy or find out more →
Englands Mistress The Infamous Life Of Emma Hamilton
$39.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Ballantine Books
In this absorbing, well-crafted biography, British historian, lecturer and TV consultant Williams charts the rise of 18th-century England's most celebrated sex symbol, best known as Admiral Nelson's mistress. Setting the... Buy or find out more →
The Bird
$45.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Crown
- How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
- Why are birds so like mammals- and yet so very different?
- Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?
- How do they court each other and...
State Of Africa
$29.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably b... Buy or find out more →
Reading My Father
$35.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Scribner
The youngest daughter of the late novelist William Styron fashions a conflicted, guarded, ultimately reverential portrait of a deeply troubled artist. Dogged all his life by depressionwhich was not diagnosed properly unt... Buy or find out more →
Nothing To Be Frightened Of
$35.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Two years after the best-selling "Arthur & George, " Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have ... Buy or find out more →
The Tudors
$45.00$15.00 – Hardcover book / Bantam Press
Arguably the most famous rulers in world history, Tudor monarchs Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I were, according to journalist and author Meyer ("A World Undone"), cold and ruthless egotis[ts] whose self-created ... Buy or find out more →
The Importance Of Being Seven: 44 Scotland Street
$34.95$15.00 – Hardcover book / Polygon Press
The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this sixth instalment alongside the familiar cast of favourites - Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others - in their daily pursuit of a little happi... Buy or find out more →
The Siege Of Krishnapur
$13.95 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from gr... Buy or find out more →
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
$12.95 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from gr... Buy or find out more →
Venice: Pure City
$69.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lago... Buy or find out more →
On Architecture: Collected Recollections On A Century Of Change
$49.95$15.00 – Hardcover book / Walker And Company
The architectural revolution of the twentieth century as witnessed by America’s preeminent architecture critic.
Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has capt... Buy or find out more →
The Border Trilogy
$69.00$20.00 – Paperback book / Picador
The three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine American epic. Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McC... Buy or find out more →
On Canaan's Side
$29.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Faber & Faber
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel, spanning one woman Lilly Bere's lifetime, lived between Ireland and America. On Cannaan's side has already made the 2... Buy or find out more →
Chicken With Plums
$25.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Pantheon
The question of what makes a life worth living has rarely been posed with as much poignancy and ambition as it is in Satrapi's dazzling new effort. Satrapi's talent for distilling complex personal histories into richly e... Buy or find out more →
Atheism And Philosophy
$35.00$15.95 – Paperback book / Prometheus Books
The indeterminacy of the modern concept of God has made the distinction between belief and unbelief increasingly problematic. Both the complexity of the religious response and the variety of skeptical philosophies preclu... Buy or find out more →
Kazan On Directing
$45.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Elia Kazan was the mid-twentieth century's most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this book shows us the master at work. Kazan directed virtually back to back the greatest American dramas of the era--by A... Buy or find out more →
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
$42.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
A rich and seductive narrative of the powerful erotic pull the East has always had for the West--a pervasive yet often ignored aspect of their long historical relationship--and a deep exploration of the intimate connecti... Buy or find out more →
Genius For Deception How Cunning Helped The British Win Two World Wars
$45.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel no... Buy or find out more →
Talented Miss Highsmith
$60.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / St Martins
Author and playwright Schenkar ("Truly Wilde") presents a compelling portrait of suspense novelist Patricia Highsmith (19211995), whose own life was often as twisted as that of her antihero Tom Ripley. Dispensing with th... Buy or find out more →
Peter The Great
$45.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / St Martins
There has never been a more remarkable national leader in modern history than Peter the Great (1672-1725). He was a giant in every way. In physical stature, willpower, enthusiasm, energy, libertinism, and refusal to acce... Buy or find out more →
Approaching An Auschwitz Survivor Holcaust Testimony And Its Transformations
$88.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Sch... Buy or find out more →
New Theories Of Everything
$17.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for the theory of everything - a single key that unl... Buy or find out more →
Decoding Reality The Universe As Quantum Information
$32.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
For a physicist, all the world's information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic forms to future generatio... Buy or find out more →
Passion On The Vine
$36.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Broadway Books
At a young age, Esposito and his family move from Naples, Italy, to Albany, N.Y., where he first falls in love with wine in the basement dining room of his uncle's house. Even as he reflects on the poor quality of those ... Buy or find out more →
An Exaltation Of Soups
$23.95$15.95 – Paperback book / Three Rivers Press
Solley's passionate compendium of history, folklore, literary references and recipes collects tidbits about and recipes for soup from all over the world. The author, who runs the SoupSong.com Web site, shares proverbs an... Buy or find out more →
The Vegetarian Option
$39.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Stewart Tabori & Cha
Not so long ago, vegetarian choices were an afterthought on restaurant menus or were relegated to side dishes at home. But times--and eating habits--have changed, and vegetarianism is being touted not just for health rea... Buy or find out more →
How To Slice An Onion
$37.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Thomas Dunne Books
Author Crumpacker (The Sex Life of Food, Old-Time Brand Name Desserts, Old-Time Brand Name Cookbook) provides a running start for those new to the kitchen in this down-to-earth guide to cooking. Beginning with the proper... Buy or find out more →
Karachi: Megacity Of Our Times, Second Edition
$95.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Two hundred years from its founding as the port of Sindh and fifty years from its position as the only port of Pakistan, Karachi has an undisputed place in the economy of the country and in the affections of its citizens... Buy or find out more →
Hitler's Private Library
$39.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler's life--the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking. Hitler's education and worldview were formed largely from ... Buy or find out more →
Climbing The Mango Trees
$37.50$14.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
"The celebrated actress and author of several books on Indian cooking, [Madhur Jaffrey] turns her attention to her own childhood in Delhi and Kampur. Born in 1933 as one of six children of a prosperous businessman, Jaffr... Buy or find out more →
Dictionary Of Modern And Contemporary Art
$120.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
This unique and authoritative reference work contains around 2,000 clear and concise entries on all aspects of modern and contemporary art. Its impressive range of terms includes movements, styles, techniques, artists, c... Buy or find out more →
Seductive Shoe: Four Centuries Of Fashion Footwear
$63.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Stewart Tabori & Cha
We have been intrigued by the form and function of our footwear for centuries, and for many women shoes are the ultimate objects of desire. In The Seductive Shoe fashion historian Jonathan Walford takes a peek into the s... Buy or find out more →
Impressions Of The Sahara
$75.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
Sahara. The name itself evokes a horizon of shifting dunes, a rich palette of reds and browns as diverse as the blues of the ocean. The civilizations scattered in this unforgiving landscape seem huddled against the overw... Buy or find out more →
Antarctica
$59.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
The vast terrain covering the Earth's southernmost continent--extending from the islands off the tip of Argentina to the underbelly of the Australian continent--is home to some of the planet's most awe-inspiring landscap... Buy or find out more →
Surrealist Picasso
$112.50$49.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
Between 1924 and 1934, Picasso's oeuvre developed dramatically. During this decade, the artist maintained a complex relationship with the burgeoning and hugely influential Surrealist movement. Eventually, he diverted fro... Buy or find out more →
Rock Art In Africa:Myth And Legend
$97.50$39.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
African Cave Art is the only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of human... Buy or find out more →
Rene Herbst: Pioneer Of Modernism
$97.50$29.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
Rene Herbst's enduring furniture designs provide fundamental lessons for today's interior designers. A staunch modernist, Herbst was a founding member and later president of the Union des artistes modernes (UAM) in Franc... Buy or find out more →
Face To Face: The Art Of Portrait Photography
$97.50$49.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
Great photographers and celebrities come together in this glittering collection of over 200 iconic portraits. In Face to Face Paul Ardenne sharpens our awareness of what it means to be photographed, to be taken hostage b... Buy or find out more →
Buildings in Wood: The History and Traditions of Architecture's Oldest Building Material
$130.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
From Arts and Crafts-style masterpieces like the Isaac Bell House in Rhode Island and the Gamble House in California to the Temple of Heaven complex in Beijing; from the stave church at Urnes in Norway, almost 900 years ... Buy or find out more →
Baroque Architecture 1600 1750
$145.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
This book, beautifully illustrated and written by two authorities on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art and architecture, leads the reader through the major styles and shifts of baroque architecture throughout Europe... Buy or find out more →
Modernismo: Architecture And Design In Catalonia
$127.50$49.95 – Hardcover book / Monacelli
Catalan "modernismo, " a cultural and artistic style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was the Spanish equivalent of the Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau, the German Werkbund and the Viennese ... Buy or find out more →
Abelardo Morell
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The first monograph to cover the complete career of Abelardo Morell (b.1948) - Morell's photographs transform everyday objects into magical, ominous and mysterious images, through the use of surprising perspectives and a... Buy or find out more →
Jacques Emile Ruhlmann: The Designer's Archives: Interior Design/Furniture, 2 Vols.
$112.50$39.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, one of Europe's most influential Art Deco designers, is being celebrated in North America with a major traveling exhibition. Ruhlmann began designing at a young age and exhibited his first pieces ... Buy or find out more →
Buddha
$23.00$10.00 – Paperback book / Phoenix
Buddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha revolutionized the religious ideas of his time to advocate a new way of living. All that is known about him comes from a collectio... Buy or find out more →
Muhammad
$25.00$10.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
From the bestselling writer of 'The History of God' and the widely acclaimed 'Islam -- A Short History' comes another valuable addition to the 'Eminent Lives' series, Karen Armstrong's 'Muhammad'. Muhammad was born in 57... Buy or find out more →
Walking In The Shade Volume Two Of My Autobiography 1949 1962
$30.00$8.95 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
This is Doris Lessing's follow-up to the first part of her autobiography, "Under My Skin". Here, we move into the heyday of her career, sparked off by the international success of her first novel in 1950. She went on to ... Buy or find out more →
Under My Skin Vol 1
$25.00$10.00 – Paperback book / Flamingo
This, the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in her suitcase. It cha... Buy or find out more →
Why Socrates Died Social Crisis In Ancient Athens
$35.00$15.00 – Hardcover book / Faber
Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilisation. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is th... Buy or find out more →
Lost English Words And Phrases That Have Vanished From Our Language
$25.00$10.00 – Hardcover book / Michael O'mara Books
In the last thirty years, a large number of once commonplace words, phrases and expressions have disappeared without trace from common usage. And with them, too, have gone a number of goods, services and everyday objects... Buy or find out more →
Xanadu
$55.00$15.00 – Hardcover book / Bantam Press
Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. His account of his experiences, known simply as The Travels , uncovered an ... Buy or find out more →
Snowball Warren Buffett And The Business Of Life
$40.00$16.00 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, u... Buy or find out more →
The War That Killed Achilles The True Story Of Homer's Iliadand The Trojan War
$35.00$15.00 – Hardcover book / Viking
A groundbreaking reading of the "Iliad" that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war, by the bestselling author of "The Bounty" Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their commanding officer and the ... Buy or find out more →
Goodbye Again
$19.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Arrow
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are the greatest double act that Great Britain has ever produced. This collection of their works is a comprehensive compilation of the finest sketches that Cook and Moore ever wrote together -... Buy or find out more →
Tarantula
$19.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution - it was written during work on hi... Buy or find out more →
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
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This book takes a thematic and then chronological approach to its subject. The philosophers are first grouped by their school of thought, clearly outlined on the contents page. Within each division, Stokes includes sever... Buy or find out more →
Nocturnes
$40.00$12.00 – Hardcover book / Faber
New from the Booker-Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go.
'It was our third time playing The Godfather theme since lunch ...' In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro e... Buy or find out more →
Decade
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A successor to Phaidon''s award-winning Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Suffering, Regression and Hope, Decade provides a comprehensive visual overview of the last 10 years in world history through 500 enga... Buy or find out more →
The World of the Book
$39.99$14.95 – Paperback book / Miegunyah Press
French poet Stephane Mallarme understood that books hold the world's stories. From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fictions, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers o... Buy or find out more →
Wine and Food
$55.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Univ West Aust Pr
Kate Lamonts stunning new cookbook explores the fine art of wine and food matching. Drawing upon her experience as both a winemaker and chef Kate takes readers through the basics. Unlike any other book on the market, cha... Buy or find out more →
Waddle!
$19.95$10.00 – Hardcover book / Workman
It's Waddle! And it's in color. And boy, is it irresistible. In the same way that kids can't read Gallop! without wanting to gallop around the room, Waddle!, an animals-in-motion Scanimation book, will inspire prancing, ... Buy or find out more →
Saraban: A Chef's Journey Through Persia
$79.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Following on from the success of their award-winning books, Saha and Turquoise, Greg and Lucy Malouf now explore one of the world's earliest and greatest empires: Saraban is an unforgettable journey through the culinary ... Buy or find out more →
Italian Country Cooking: The Secrets Of Cucina Povera
$49.95$39.95 – Trade paperback / Park Street Press
Cucina povera - there's no adequate translation, though "humble food" has something of it - is about the real food of Italy. The cooking techniques are simple, the ingredients seasonal and at their best. Cucina povera, a... Buy or find out more →
Shoes For The Moscow Circus
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
Shoes for the Moscow Circus is an atmospheric, lyrical look behind the scenes of a number of Australian trades and industries, many of which are fast disappearing in the modern world. Arts writer Leta Keens, with photogr... Buy or find out more →
The Pale King
$39.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
David Foster Wallace's last and most ambitious undertaking
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly-arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses h... Buy or find out more →
Great Australian Historic Hotels
$32.99$13.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Barry Stone's fascinating insight into Australia's most noteworthy hotels takes us inside the buildings which have hosted and witnessed the development of our Great Southern Land.
On Christmas Eve in 1882 an impromptu ga... Buy or find out more →
Big Elephants Are Useful
$29.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Do you know why Big Elephants Are Useful To Indians For Unloading Logs? Because it’s a BEAUTIFUL way to get a tricky spelling right. Have you ever lost an arguement? Or was it an argument? If you can just remember “I los... Buy or find out more →
Art Of Australia: Volume One
$125.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
"I have on my desk the printer's proof of Art of Australia. It is quite simply the most beautiful book I've ever been involved with. The text is marvellous - fascinating, compelling and definitive from Australia's pre-em... Buy or find out more →
The 100 Best Australian Albums Of All Time
$59.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Australian music has a proud, colourful and successful history. In 2008, Australian rock & roll turned 50. This book names the best Australian albums of the last 50 years. It places each album in order (from 1 - 100)... Buy or find out more →
Star The Life And Wild Times Of Warren Beatty
$50.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls "and "Down and Dirty Pictures, "writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced bi... Buy or find out more →
Quran A New Translation
$12.95 – Paperback book / Viking
Literally "the recitation," the Qur'an is considered within the Muslim faith to be the infallible word of God. Tarif Khalidi, a leading scholar of Islamic history and faith, provides this 2008 English translation, captur... Buy or find out more →
Sydney Then And Now
$35.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Thunder Bay Press
Most of the historic photos in this book catch Sydney scenes of about a century ago, in the decades just before and after the Federation of the British colonies to form Australia. Sydney's development mirrored Australia'... Buy or find out more →
European Paintings Before 1800 In The National Gallery Of Victoria
$84.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Vic
First published in 1961, this fourth edition has been revised, expanded and updated. A standard reference which provides information about the 231 paintings held, including more recent additions and now incorporates scho... Buy or find out more →
The War That Killed Achilles The True Story Of The Iliad
$50.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
A groundbreaking reading of the Iliad that restores Homer's
vision of the tragedy of war, by the bestselling author of The
Bounty
Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their
commanding officer and the rati... Buy or find out more →
Longitude
$25.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors th... Buy or find out more →
Look At The Birdie Unpublished Short Fiction
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Delacorte Press
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was... Buy or find out more →
Essential Wisdom Of The Bhagavad Gita
$19.95$9.95 – Paperback book / New World Library
Over 5,000 years old, the Bhagavad Gita is written as a tale set on a battlefield, a metaphor for the battles all humans face as they live, grow, age, and die. In "Essential Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, " longtime studen... Buy or find out more →
Cant Remember What I Forgot
$36.00$0.00 – Hardcover book / Harmony Books Ny
An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to general readers.
When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scie... Buy or find out more →
Art Nouveau Architecture Sculpture Painting
$39.95 – Hardcover book / H F Ullmann
Recognized by its organic, nature-inspired forms, the international style eventually christened art nouveau represented an endeavor to make everyday objects—and thus everyday life—beautiful. It arose from aesthetic movem... Buy or find out more →
Islam Art And Architecture
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Konemann
Overflowing with hundreds of color photographs and reproductions, this book follows the historical development of the Islamic regions and their ruling dynasties, and illustrates their varied forms of artistic expression ... Buy or find out more →
Tibetan Art
$39.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Konecky & Konecky
Tibetan Art takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery. Buddhist deities do not exist outside ourselves, but represent aspects of innate human potential-the capacity for compassion, wisdom, mental discipline, and ot... Buy or find out more →
Modernism Designing A New World 1914 1939
$55.00$29.95 – Paperback book / V & A Publications
The first book to explore Modernism in the designed world, across all the arts, is now available in paperback. This acclaimed study offers a reassessment of the idea of Modernism and reveals the fundamental ways in which... Buy or find out more →
Egypt 4000 Years Of Art
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Beginning in the fifth millennium BC, the land that is now Egypt nurtured an extraordinary pioneering civilization whose art and architecture have never lost their power to amaze. This magnificent picture book presents a... Buy or find out more →
Flowers Dragons And Pine Trees Asian Textiles In The Collection Of The Spencer Museum Of Art
$112.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hudson Hills
Written for both specialist and general audiences, this stunning volume places new research within a comprehensive socio-historic context, including information on technique, production, iconography, function, patronage,... Buy or find out more →
Gilbert And George Intimate Conversations With Francois Jonquet
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Gilbert & George, the art world's inseparable "living sculptures," have been making provocative pictures and worrying curators for over 30 years. Their painterly photographic work addresses nature, sex, love, death, ... Buy or find out more →
Lost London 1870 1945
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A fascinating and surprisingly moving book of black and white photographs featuring the houses, factories, churches and streets of London which no longer exist. Endlessly absorbing, it is a great present for any Londoner... Buy or find out more →
Contact Sheet
$59.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Ammo
Photography editor Crist (Zoe Strauss's America) presents images from 44 photographers along with the original, rarely-seen contact sheets from which they originated. Crist makes an engaging case for the contact sheet, a... Buy or find out more →
Frida Kahlo Song Of Herself
$33.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Merrel Publishers
Frida Kahlo's extraordinary life has been well documented, but until now little has been known about the artist's thoughts on her internal and external reality. In Song of Herself, Kahlo expert and child psychiatrist Sal... Buy or find out more →
Beatific Soul Jack Kerouac
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Scala Group
Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road was a touchstone for a generation and the centrepiece of the Beat movement in literature and art. This new book examines Kerouac's life and career, and accompanies a major exhibition at T... Buy or find out more →
Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006
$69.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
Since she sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has won a place as one of the greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities, and surreal imaginings of modern li... Buy or find out more →
Cosmic Jackpot
$39.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
With an articulate blend of science, metaphysics and philosophyand a dash of religionphysicist and cosmologist Davies discusses the implications of the fact that the conditions of our universe are "just right" for life t... Buy or find out more →
Always Been There Roseanne Cashs Search For Legacy And The Spirit Of Southern Muisc
$36.00$15.95 – Paperback book / Da Capo
In 1973, Rosanne Cash's father gave her a list of 100 songs, many from the Southern tradition, that he felt a young musician had to know. "Always Been There" tells the inside story of the album that, more than thirty-fiv... Buy or find out more →
Somehwere Towards The End
$36.95$10.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has m... Buy or find out more →
A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis
$49.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
In 1877, a young Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer and they began a collaboration that would lead to the publication of the classic work, Studies on Hysteria. But by the time it released, Freud was mo... Buy or find out more →
Images Of Muhammad The Evolution Of Portrayals Of The Prophet In Islam Across The Centuries
$39.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Doubleday
From one of today's leading Muslim scholars, this compelling look at how the Prophet Muhammad has been portrayed throughout the centuries offers a fascinating history of the diversity of Islamic cultures and beliefs. The... Buy or find out more →
The Illustrious Dead The Terrifying Story Of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
$39.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Crown
When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, typhus ravaged his army, killing hundreds of thousands and ensuring his defeat, according to this breathless combination of military and medical history. After summarizing the havoc ... Buy or find out more →
The Tranquil Star Unpublished Stories Of Primo Levi
$33.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Holocaust memoirist Levi (19191987) also wrote small fiction sketches, reminiscent of contemporaries Dino Buzzatti and Italo Calvino, for periodicals, collected here and introduced by Goldstein. Of two realistic pieces t... Buy or find out more →
Travelling Heroes In The Epic Age Of Homer
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
The eighth century B.C. was the formative age of the great epics of Homer, a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. In this groundbreaking book, Robin Lane Fox takes us into that time before history to explore questio... Buy or find out more →
Venice Triumphant The Horizons Of A Myth
$83.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Johns Hopkins
Perhaps more than in any other city, Venice has been shaped by its environment. The lagoon on which it was built isolated the city's inhabitants from mainland Europe, forcing them to look seaward for their survival and t... Buy or find out more →
The Adventure Of English
$37.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Arcadia
Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this ground... Buy or find out more →
Manuscript Of Ashes
$37.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
Following Muñoz Molinas acclaimed 18th book, "Sepharad", this translation of his third novel (published in his native Spain in 1986) dives into a bleak corner of Francos waning dictatorship. In 1969, Minaya, a student wh... Buy or find out more →
Bangkok Haunts
$37.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Sonchai Jitpleecheep--the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers "Bangkok 8" and "Bangkok Tattoo"--returns in this blistering new novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on h... Buy or find out more →
The Case Of The Missing Servant
$36.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India's swindlers, cheats, and murderers.
In hot and dusty Delhi, where call cent... Buy or find out more →
The Fruit Hunters
$37.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Scribner
Journalist Gollner's debut is a rollicking account of the world of fruit and fruit fanatics. He's traveled to many countries in search of exotic fruits, and he describes in sensuous detail some of the hundreds of varieti... Buy or find out more →
Gardens Of Europe A Traveller's Guide
$45.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Garden Art Press
European Gardens have flourished for over 2,000 years and provided the greatest single influence upon gardening throughout the world. In this new and authoritative guide to the gardens of Europe, Charles Quest-Ritson has... Buy or find out more →
The Garden Book
$59.95$29.95 – Hardcover book /
The Garden Book presents a widely diverse range of designers responsible for some of the most interesting and iconic gardens and landscapes of all time from around the world. Gardens of Ancient Persia, the Moguls of Indi... Buy or find out more →
Ginseng The Divine Root
$37.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Algonquin Books
In the tradition of "Nathaniel's Nutmeg and "Tulipomania comes the epic story of an ancient, elusive herb with legendary curative powers that have enticed and mystified us for centuries. Prized for centuries by Chinese e... Buy or find out more →
Monet's Passion Ideas Inspiration And Insights From The Painter's Gardens
$60.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Pomegranate
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration & Insights from the Painter's Gardens, this completely revised edition of Elizabeth Murray's best-selling bo... Buy or find out more →
Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own
$48.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Andrews Mcmeel Publ.
In Bread Matters, Andrew Whitley, professional organic baker, founder of Bread Matters, and cofounder of the Real Bread Campaign, exposes the terrible state of modern commercial bread and shares his recipes for making gr... Buy or find out more →
Flavors Of Provence
$45.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
"The Flavors of Provence" envelops you in the charm of this magical land, combining gorgeous paintings that capture the sights with recipes from the most respected Provencal chefs that evoke the tastes and smells of the ... Buy or find out more →
Fantastico Modern Italian Food
$27.95$12.95 – Paperback book /
Gino D'Acampo is passionate about Italian food. He is equally passionate about how to cook, and believes that you don't need hundreds of ingredients and complicated haute-cuisine techniques to achieve fantastic food. If ... Buy or find out more →
Flavors Of Piedmont
$15.95 – Hardcover book / Mcrae Books
More than 60 Piedmontese recipes for both formal and informal occasions. Buy or find out more →
Flavors Of Emilia Romagna
$29.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Mcrae Books
More than 60 fabulous reciipes from Bolgna and the provinces of Emilia Romagna, Buy or find out more →
Funny Folks Drawing Book
$10.95 – Hardcover book / Accord
Young readers won't be able to take their eyes off the updated and new additions to our successful Eyeball Animation Drawing Book series. This drawing book offers little creatives a big artistic outlet.
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Underwater Safari Eyeball Drawing Book
$21.95$10.95 – Hardcover book / Accord Publishing
Young readers won't be able to take their eyes off the updated and new additions to our successful Eyeball Animation Drawing Book series. This drawing book offers little creatives a big artistic outlet.
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Lets Explore A Pirate Ship
$19.95$10.95 – Hardcover book /
Let's Explore a Pirate Ship! Come discover the complex inner-workings of a pirate ship from the roaring raids on a Spanish galleon to the salvage mission of a sunken vessel. From the outer decks to the crew's quarters th... Buy or find out more →
Lets Explore A Castle
$22.95$10.95 – Hardcover book /
Let's Explore a Castle! Come discover the complex inner-workings of a castle from the lavish banquet hall of the lord and lady to the soldiers arming the battlements. From the outer moat to the inner chamber this book re... Buy or find out more →
Madame Butterfly
$22.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Purple Bear Books
Puccini's Madame Butterfly is the heartbreaking story of Cho-Cho-San, a beautiful, fragile Japanese Geisha, whose trust and fidelity are betrayed by her husband, an American Navy Lieutenant. Stationed in Nagasaki, Lieute... Buy or find out more →
Diogenes
$22.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
Most dogs in this world are content with their doggy lives, playing dead and burying bones, but Diogenes was a dog of a different sort - he wanted to become his own master. So he buried his collar and leash, left his coz... Buy or find out more →
Oooh! Matisse
$32.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Ten Speed Press
Niepold and Verdu create a set of visual guessing games around five of Henri Matisse's late cut-and-pasted gouache-on-paper compositions. The book opens with a close-up of blue fleur-de-lys lobes on a goldenrod backgroun... Buy or find out more →
Cars
$29.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Candlewick Press
Crazy about cars? Get in gear -- and get ready for action -- as Robert Crowther's info-packed, interactive pop-up book showcases some very cool wheels. Hop in and take a drive in the smartest, fastest automobiles -- from... Buy or find out more →
Where The Giant Sleeps
$22.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
Complex visual clues may send readers for repeat rounds of Foxs ("Time for Bed") lilting bedtime rhyme, and even then children will not exhaust the mystery with which Radunsky ("The Mighty Asparagus") cloaks his subjects... Buy or find out more →
Such A Silly Baby!
$24.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Chronicle Books
As preschoolers will undoubtedly note with glee, the title of this book should be Such a Silly Mommy! After all, it's Mommy who can't manage to go on an outing without bringing home an animal instead of her offspring. Wh... Buy or find out more →
Dinosaur
$29.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
This cutting-edge, deluxe novelty book offers a thrilling journey back to a time when prehistoric beasts roamed the earth. A weathered and worn paleontologist's journal guides readers through the fascinating lives and ha... Buy or find out more →
Cecily G And The Nine Monkeys
$22.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
“There is originality and a childlike humor in both the amusing antics and engaging pictures.” —Booklist Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys was the first book to feature Curious George, as well as being Hans and Margret Rey’... Buy or find out more →
Louise The Adventures Of A Chicken
$25.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
She longed for adventure.
So she left her home and ventured out into the wide world.
The pleasures and perils she met proved plentiful: marauding pirates on the majestic seas, a ferocious lion under the bright lights of ... Buy or find out more →
Ape
$16.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
An awe-inspiring picture book about the world's great apes.
Orang-utan, Chimp, Bonobo, Gorilla - the great apes are some of the biggest and most extraordinary animals on our planet. Meet all four in this stunningly illus... Buy or find out more →
It's A Secret
$27.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
Join Marie Elaine on a thrilling rooftop journey that takes her to a most unusual party!
One night Marie Elaine finds her cat Malcolm dressed to go to a party. On condition she keep his secret, Malcolm agrees to let her ... Buy or find out more →
Maisy's Bedtime
$10.95$5.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Have fun getting ready for bed with Maisy. From brushing her teeth and putting on pyjamas to saying good night.
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Maisy Makes Lemonade
$10.95$5.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Join Maisy and Eddie in the sunshine having a refreshing drink.
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Maisy Makes Gingerbread
$5.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Join Maisy as she gets busy in her kitchen
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Maisy Dresses Up
$10.95$5.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Join Maisy and friends as they get ready for a fancy dress party. Buy or find out more →
Maisy Goes Shopping
$10.95$5.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Join Maisy and Charley on a colourful shopping trip. Buy or find out more →
Maisys Bathtime
$10.95$5.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
It's bathtime for Maisy! She likes LOTS of bubbles and let's not forget Duck! Just when Maisy is about to hop in, ding-dong! Who's at the door? It's Talullah and she wants to play. What will happen next? Buy or find out more →
Maisy Tidies Up
$10.95$5.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
With Maisy, even tidying up can be fun!
Everything is always fun with Maisy, even tidying up - especially if you have a friend who can come and help. Charley smells something delicious in Maisy's kitchen but has to wait ... Buy or find out more →
White King And Red Queen How The Cold War Was Fought On The Chessboard
$35.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition -- is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess ma... Buy or find out more →
Aztecs
$39.95$17.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
A portrait of a fascinating, complex civilization. Beginning with the story of the Spanish conquest, the text then charts the rise of the Aztecs from humble nomads to empire builders. Within 100 years they established th... Buy or find out more →
Other Colors: Essays And A Story
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers.
Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written,... Buy or find out more →
Illustrated Guide To Tattoo
$9.95 – Hardcover book / Taj
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Customized Body
$59.95$16.95 – Paperback book / Serpents Tail
Weirdest book of the month must be "The Customized Body" crammed with photographs of people whose bodies have been variously tattooed, pierced and otherwise decoratively mutilated. Keep it on your coffee table for when t... Buy or find out more →
Brecht At The Opera
$79.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Univ California Pr
Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he... Buy or find out more →
Cities Of The World A History In Maps
$88.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Univ California Pr
Condensing centuries of history into one volume, Cities of the World traces the historic form and special character of the world's greatest cities through a breathtaking collection of maps and panoramic views. Peter Whit... Buy or find out more →
European Glass In The J.Paul Getty Museum Catalogue Of The Collections
$154.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / J Paul Getty Trust P
This beautifully illustrated volume presents sixty-eight objects from one of the world's finest collections of post-classical glass—including such marvels as glass imitating rock-crystal and other semi-precious stones, g... Buy or find out more →
European Clocks In The J.Paul Getty Museum
$187.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / J Paul Getty Trust P
Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its Decorative Arts collection twenty clocks fr... Buy or find out more →
Mounted Oriental Porcelain In The J.Paul Getty Museum
$75.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / J Paul Getty Trust P
Since the Middle Ages Europeans mounted oriental porcelain in settings of precious or semiprecious metal as a tribute to the value of the pieces. And beginning in the 18th century, it became increasingly fashionable in P... Buy or find out more →
Santiago Calatrava The Bridges
$45.00$19.95 – Paperback book / Universe Inc
Renowned for being a universal designer, Santiago Calatrava has been a singular force in reviving an excitement for construction technology and infrastructure projects. Over the last two decades, Calatrava revolutionized... Buy or find out more →
Timber Construction For Trade Industry Administration Basicsand Projects
$123.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Birkhauser
Timber construction has always been a domain of pre-fabrication, with material specifications, design, statics and production practices playing important roles. Wood materials also have a sympathy bonus, making them emin... Buy or find out more →
Who Married Figaro? A Book Of Opera Characters
$48.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
A unique and authoritative A-Z reference work that will answer all your questions on who's who in opera. Contains over 2,500 lively entries on operatic characters, with information on the creator of the role and notable ... Buy or find out more →
The Star Machine
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
From one of America's leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.
Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely ... Buy or find out more →
The Moon Shines Down
$24.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Nelson Thomson Lrng
The Moon Shines Down
by Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by Linda Bleck
Forgotten for decades in a dusty, tucked-away trunk, The Moon Shines Down brings to life once more the unmistakable voice of Margaret Wise Brown. Thi... Buy or find out more →
Amazons!
$27.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Frances Lincoln Children
Are you an AMAZON? Have you got what it takes? Dare to dream! Listen to your heart! Get physical!
The world needs more heroines, and Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons, Durga the Demon-Slayer and Al-Datma of Egypt are just a... Buy or find out more →
What's That Noise
$10.95$4.95 – Board book / Frederick Warne
This is a beautiful Peter Rabbit book with 5 chunky tabs in the shape of your favourite Beatrix Potter characters. This charming book also contains a gorgeous pop-up at the end which will delight young fans of Peter Rabb... Buy or find out more →
The Way We Work
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in y... Buy or find out more →
Martha No!
$27.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Egmont Books
Meet Martha Felicity Molly-Anne May - let her bring chaos into your day. She's the naughtiest girl you'll ever meet, even Mary Poppins would be knocked off her feet! When Martha spends the day with Miss Harrington-Chive,... Buy or find out more →
The Three Little Witches Storybook
$7.95 – Paperback book / Orion
Zara, Ziggy and Zoe are three little witches who live together in Magic Wood, where anything can happen. Cups and saucers wash themselves up, letters sprout wings, a calendar sings a song, the signpost changes direction,... Buy or find out more →
Treasure Island
$19.95$6.95 – Hardcover book /
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... Buy or find out more →
Tales From Shakespeare
$9.95 – Hardcover book /
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Spots Fun Day Soundbook
$19.95$8.95 – Hard back / Frederick Warne
In this fun pop-up sound book, Spot goes to the fair. Children will love seeing his adventures as he rides on a merry-go-round, whizzes down a slide and plays on a bouncy castle with his friend Tom. Buy or find out more →
Saga Of Darren Shan Boxed Set Books 1-6
$60.00$19.95 – Slipcase / Harper Collins
Stunning box set of the first six novels in The Saga of Darren Shan -- the perfect gift for budding horror fans! Darren Shan is just an ordinary schoolboy -- until he gets an invitation to visit the Cirque Du Freak! unti... Buy or find out more →
Peter Rabbit And The Flopsy Bunnies
$16.95$8.95 – Hard back / Frederick Warne
This charming retelling of the Flopsy Bunnies story is brought to life with new Noisy Noisy technology. A sound is hidden in each page, giving the classic bunnies story a new dimension of interactivity. Read along and fi... Buy or find out more →
Outside Over There
$19.95$7.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox Books
While Ida is busy playing her wonder horn faceless goblins come in through the bedroom window and kidnap her baby sister. So Ida puts on her mother's yellow rain cloak and sets off on a mystical journey into outside over... Buy or find out more →
Odd Owls And Stout Pigs A Book Of Nonsense
$22.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
This collection of nonsense rhymes and poems explodes with fun and frivolity. With the help of an archivist, Arnold Lobel's daughter found undiscovered poems and tiny books with illustrations that her father originally g... Buy or find out more →
My Shadow
$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
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My Ladybird Book Of Ten Bedtime Tales
$12.95$8.95 – Hardcover book / Ladybird
More illustrated children's favourites. Buy or find out more →
My Favourite Fairy Tales
$32.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Andersen Press
This humorous and imaginative collection of classic fairy tales is ideal for reading aloud to young children. The collection consists of seven easy-to-read stories with hilariously detailed accompanying illustrations: Be... Buy or find out more →
Look It's Thomas Frieze Book
$19.95$8.95 – Hardcover book / Egmont Books
A pull-out frieze book with high-contrast pictures designed to stimulate early visual activity. It features bright and bold pictures of Thomas and his friends. Buy or find out more →
A Little Princess Treasury
$32.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Andersen Press
This is an enticing compendium of puzzles and fourteen of the most popular Little Princess classic stories, including I Want My Dummy! , I Want My Mum! , I Want a Friend! , and I Want My Tooth! . Buy or find out more →
Little Golden Book Favorites By Richard Scarry
$17.95$6.95 – Hardcover book / Golden Books
In three separate stories illustrated by Richard Scarry, a bear avoids bedtime, a world involving a chipmunk and friends are introduced using words beginning with each letter of the alphabet, and a baby rabbit's family t... Buy or find out more →
Land Of Counterpane
$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
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Jabberwocky And Other Poems
$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
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Its Raining Pigs And Noodles
$8.95$2.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Over 100 hilarious poems from a poet who has created a world where it rains pigs and noodles, hapless Peter turns into a parking meter, it's awkward being taller than the average giraffe and where you should watch out fo... Buy or find out more →
Hot Air
$34.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
The first "manned" hot-air balloon is about to take off! But what are those noises coming from the basket?
Based on the (POSSIBLY) true report of a day in 1783, this is the story of (PERHAPS) the bravest collection of fl... Buy or find out more →
Guess How Much I Love You Board Game
$39.95$19.95 – Boxed set / Walker Books
Contains a game board, a spinner, 4 character stands and pieces, 30 activity cards and a hardback edition of the picture book, and an animated DVD of the story. Buy or find out more →
Fly Away Peter
$13.95$7.95 – Hardcover book / Pavilion
Jeffrey, the giraffe with a short neck, and Peter, the bird who can't fly, quickly become friends because they are both a little different. When they decide to play together, they are surprised to find that a game of hid... Buy or find out more →
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
$27.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
A special anniversary edition to celebrate a swashbuckling fantasy that remains as contemporary today as it did 70 years ago.
Captain Slaughterboard is the most ferocious and wicked pirate you could ever imagine. He like... Buy or find out more →
Annotated Hunting Of The Snark
$37.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
"It's a Snark!" for whatever else can it be?" Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed th... Buy or find out more →
The Animals Came Two By Two: The Story Of Noah's Ark
$27.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Running Press
The story of Noah's Ark has never been more beautifully presented! Acclaimed writer and illustrator Christopher Wormell keeps his readers on the edge of their seats in this retelling of the beloved biblical tale. Wormell... Buy or find out more →
Daddy Lost His Head
$32.95$10.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
What would you do if your daddy lost his head? Make him a new one of course! All you need is some old newspapers, paint and a potato for his nose. It turns out there are lots of advantages to having a dad with no head: h... Buy or find out more →
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
When the three bears go for a family stroll while their porridge cools, naughty little Goldilocks sees her chance to sneak into their house and play amongst the bears' things. But what will happen when the bears return? ... Buy or find out more →
The Donkey Of Galliopoli
$23.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Candlewick Press
Two unlikely heroes rescue hundreds of men wounded in war in a poignant picture book based on a true tale of World War I.
When Jack Simpson was a boy in England, he loved leading donkeys along the beach for a penny a rid... Buy or find out more →
There's Going To Be A Baby
$29.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Candlewick Press
A young boy imagines what life will be like when his new sibling arrives.
Day by day, month by month, question by question, the baby's arrival comes closer and closer. Buy or find out more →
Say Cheese!
$9.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
Lola has promised her mother that she will stay clean and tidy for school picture day. “It will be easy peasy, lemon squeezy!” says Lola. But staying clean and tidy is not so easy, especially when there is finger paintin... Buy or find out more →
Who Wants To Be A Poodle, I Don't
$33.99$12.95 – Hardcover book / Candlewick Press
Lauren Child takes the lead with this wry and wooly tale of a pampered poodle who just wants to paddle in puddles -- like REAL dogs do.
Trixie Twinkle Toes lives in the lap of luxury, with every creature comfort a manicu... Buy or find out more →
This Is Actually My Party Charlie And Lola
$19.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Puffin
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... Buy or find out more →
Say Hello
$31.99$12.95 – Hardcover book / Candlewick Press
A spare, poignant picture book reminding us that when someone looks lonely and in need of a friend, one little word can help.
A lone dog comes upon a group of kids playing ball and with leaping ease, joins the game. They... Buy or find out more →
Art Attack: Even More Cool Stuff
$24.99$7.95 – Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley
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Great Art Attack Stuff
$24.99$7.95 – Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley
This is an activity book covering model-making, paint techniques, papercraft, cartoons, drawing and printing. Based on the TV series, it is packed with projects to make from everyday items. Turn a piece of clingwrap into... Buy or find out more →
Mr Toad and Other Poems
$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
This delightful new set of poetry books introduces the wonderful world of verse to young readers. An ideal stepping stone from nursery rhymes, these books contain comical limericks, enchanting magical poems and silly non... Buy or find out more →
Calico Pie
$17.99$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
Discover a host of marvellous poems about a sleepy seal,a hard working ant,a rainy day and sleepy rabbit. Buy or find out more →
The Owl And The Pussy Cat
$17.99$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
Discover a host of delightful poems about a naughty fairy,a beautiful rose,singing goblins and a dozing dormouse.This book is brimming with enchanting illustrations and also features best loved rhymes and riddles. Buy or find out more →
The Camel's Hump
$17.99$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
Discover a host of humorous poems about a smelly monkey,a secret bird's nest,a greedy dog and a boy who won't sit still.This book is brimming with enchanting illustrations and also features best loved rhymes and riddles.... Buy or find out more →
The Cats Have Come To Tea
$17.99$5.95 – Paperback book / Miles Kelly Publ.
Discover a host of wonderful poems about a toy soldier,a flying boat,a tap dancing giraffe and a lion that wears pyjamas. Buy or find out more →
Art Attack How To Draw
$7.95 – Hardcover book / Dorling Kindersley
Get ready for another Art Attack! Tips, tricks and ideas guaranteed to turn budding artists into experts in no time. Try your hand at drawing and sketching with great art attacks from the popular TV series. There are 20 ... Buy or find out more →
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl And The British Spy Ring In Wartime Washington
$25.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
During the desperate winter of 1940, as the threat of German invasion hung over England, the British government mounted a massive, secret campaign of propaganda to weaken the isolationist sentiment in America and manipul... Buy or find out more →
Glissando: A Melodrama
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Nocturnes
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One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
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"New York Times" bestselling author China Mieville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined.
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Among The Dead Cities
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When That Rough God Goes Riding Listening To Van Morrison
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Toward The Light Of Liberty The Struggles For Freedom And Rights That Made The Modern Western World
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The epic story of the interlocking struggles to achieve the individual rights and freedoms that characterize Western civilization, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals.
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Language For A New Century Contemporary Poetry From The Middle East Asia And Beyond
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Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East. Bringing together an unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern and Central Asian poe... Buy or find out more →
A Mercy
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Nobel laureate Morrison returns more explicitly to the net of pain cast by slavery, a theme she detailed so memorably in "Beloved". Set at the close of the 17th century, the book details Americas untoward foundation: dom... Buy or find out more →
The Kindly Ones
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The Glass Room
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Enchanted Hunters Power Of Stories In Childhood
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The Power of Stories in Childhood Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read.
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Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human
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Contrary to the dogmas of raw-foods enthusiasts, cooked cuisine was central to the biological and social evolution of humanity, argues this fascinating study. Harvard biological anthropologist Wrangham ("Demonic Males") ... Buy or find out more →
The Best American Short Stories 2010
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Prague In Danger: The Years Of German Occupation
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A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate. With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of history in the great Central E... Buy or find out more →
Economics 2.0 What The Best Minds In Economics Can Teach Youabout Business And Life
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Economists can help shape monetary policy, global policy and even how much you pay for a new pair of shoes. For example, do you know who benefits the most from globalization? How do fitness studios and providers of Inter... Buy or find out more →
The Collected Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist
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George Sprott (1894-1975)
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Celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist Seth gives us the fictional life of George Sprott. On the surface, George seems a charming, foolish old man--but who is he? And who was he? Told as a patchwork tale, we c... Buy or find out more →
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips
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Ever since Lynn Truss Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation took the 2004 best-seller lists by storm, publishers have been casting about for their next dark-horse language book. Farrar may h... Buy or find out more →
Bastard Tongues A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues To Our Common Humanity In The Worlds Lowliest Langauges
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Gilded Youth Three Lives In France's Belle Epoque
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They were the children of France's most celebrated men of nineteenth-century letters and science, the celebrity heirs and heiresses of their day. Their lives were the subject of scandal, gossip, and fascination. Leon Dau... Buy or find out more →
Rag And Bone A Journey Among The Worlds Holy Relics
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By examining relics - the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditions - Peter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel... Buy or find out more →
Nathanael Greene A Biography Of The American Revolution
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When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer - celebra... Buy or find out more →
Pershing
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This persuasive biography sheds light on the nation's first modern combat commander who set the standard for today's four-star officers. Though the U.S. entered WWI with inadquate forces, in just over a year Pershing had... Buy or find out more →
Samuel Adams Father Of The American Revolution
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Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became ... Buy or find out more →
Pierce The Skin
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Henri Cole has been described as a "fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet" by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generation. Cole's most recent poems have a daring sensitivity and imagistic beauty ... Buy or find out more →
Speak Low
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Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry... Buy or find out more →
Custer - Lessons in Leadership
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Colorful, charismatic, and controversial, George Armstrong Custer became a national hero at the age of 23 when he was promoted to the rank of general - barely two years after graduating at the bottom of his class from th... Buy or find out more →
This Has Happened An Italian Family In Auschwitz
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Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in Italy and never before p... Buy or find out more →
Beaumarchais
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Playwright, politician, publisher, entrepreneur, spy, and rebel: few men of eighteenth-century letters led a more varied or controversial life than Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. From humble beginnings as a watch... Buy or find out more →
Demagogue The Fight To Save Democracy From Its Worst Enemies
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A demagogue is a tyrant who owes his initial rise to the democratic support of the masses. Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, and Moqtada al-Sadr are all clear examples of this dangerous byproduct of democracy. Demagogue takes a lo... Buy or find out more →
Giordano Bruno Philosopher Heretic
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Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's path breaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and ... Buy or find out more →
Samuel Johnson A Personal History
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Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and anecdotes, Hibbert delivers intimate glimpses into Johnson's time... Buy or find out more →
Charles Dickens: The Making Of A Literary Giant
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This is a lively, insightful exploration of Charles Dickens' early years and creative influences. Christopher Hibbert is a prolific writer with an impeccable reputation. Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of "Georgiana: ... Buy or find out more →
In A Heartbeat Sharing The Power Of Cheerful Giving
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For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough-as-nails U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to raise children who would become 'cheerful givers'. Sean, who grew up... Buy or find out more →
Deluge British Society And The First World War
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Almost continuously in print for 40 years, The Deluge is widely recognised as one of the classics of post-1960 British historical writing, and as the book which initiated the systematic study of the social consequences o... Buy or find out more →
Terra Our One Hundred Million Year Old Ecosystem And The Threats That Now Put It At Risk
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The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago, with the appearance of flowering plants and pollinating insects during the age of the dinosaurs. Its tremendous history is now in d... Buy or find out more →
Adams Tongue How Humans Made Language How Language Made Humans
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How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In "Adam's Tongue," Derek Bickerton--long a leading authority in this field--shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen sh... Buy or find out more →
Herbert Hoover
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Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover - an engineer by training - exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s. As president, however, Hoo... Buy or find out more →
Cutty One Rock
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Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of p... Buy or find out more →
Dismantling The Empire Americas Last Best Hope
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Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-... Buy or find out more →
Best Of All Possible Worlds Story Of Philosophers God And Evil
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In this lively and engaging book, Nadler brings to life a debate between three brilliant and resolute philosophers in 1672 Paris that had obsessed its participants, captivated European intellectuals, and continues to inf... Buy or find out more →
On Farting Language And Laughter In The Middle Ages
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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the paternal dungheaps of word... Buy or find out more →
Global Challenges For Identity Policies
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Governments are rapidly developing and transforming national policies for identity management. If done well the rewards are remarkable; if done poorly, policy failure will be slow but nearly certain. Comprehensive identi... Buy or find out more →
Speaking History
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This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped, viewed, and remembered American history. Buy or find out more →
Globalization And Economic Ethics Distributive Justice In The Knowledge Economy
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What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? Globalization and Economic Ethics maintains that far from being rival pr... Buy or find out more →
American Television Industry
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The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. The authors outline how programs are made and marketed, and... Buy or find out more →
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs
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The drug policies of wealthy consuming countries emphasize criminalization, interdiction, and eradication. Such extreme responses to social challenges risk unintended, costly consequences. The evidence presented in this ... Buy or find out more →
Aesthetic Formations - Media Religion and the Senses
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The central theme of this volume is the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings, including Pentecostal-charismatic churches and Islamic movements, and t... Buy or find out more →
Seventies British Cinema
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Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the ind... Buy or find out more →
Deviance In Contemporary Crime Fiction
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Now available in paperback, Christiana Gregoriou's book explores three aspects of deviance manipulated by contemporary crime fiction: linguistic, social, and generic. In detailed case studies of the work of James Patters... Buy or find out more →
Muslim Brotherhood The Organization And Policies Of A Global Islamist Movement
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The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and most important international Islamist group. Aside from strong organizations in Egypt, Jordan, Syria - where it provides the main opposition - and its Palestinian offshoot Hamas w... Buy or find out more →
Theodore Roosevelt Abroad Nature Empire And The Journey Of An American President
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In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has never been given its due place. The great adventure across the Dark Continent fulfilled a long-h... Buy or find out more →
Rethinking Modernity Postcolonialism And The Sociological Imagination
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Rethinking Modernity presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology and social theory. Now available in paperback, it criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its co... Buy or find out more →
Feminist Review Issue 94
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The first issue of the 2010 volume (Issue 94) will feature some of the many high-quality submissions to the Journal, which have been accepted following rigorous peer-review. It brings together new feminist writing that i... Buy or find out more →
Phantoms Of War In Contemporary German Literature Films And Discourse
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Fifteen years after unification contemporary German discourse is witnessing an upsurge of family stories about the long afterlife of the National Socialist era. Exploring this rediscovery of family origins and traditions... Buy or find out more →
Turkish Israeli Relationship
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Turkey and Israel are two of the most important countries in the Middle East, but also are outsiders to the region for political and cultural reasons. Here Bengio examines the historic, geo-strategic and political-cultur... Buy or find out more →
Objects Of Affection
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In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer culture is dissected... Buy or find out more →
The New Film History Sources Methods Approaches
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Now available in paperback, The New Film History is an accessible and wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. Written in an engaging and lively style, the book seeks to... Buy or find out more →
New Waves In Aesthetics
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Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new ... Buy or find out more →
Israeli Exceptionalism The Destabilizing Logic Of Zionism
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This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy.
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Freuds Drive Psychoanalysis Literature And Film
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When Freud revised his view of the drives, he was living under the shadow of death and the threat of biological and cultural genocide. Like the early twentieth century, our times are marked by massive geopolitical trauma... Buy or find out more →
Eighteenth Century Letters And British Culture
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A major study of letter-writing in the eighteenth-century, this book (now available in paperback for the first time) explores epistolary forms and practices in important areas of British culture. Who wrote letters? Who r... Buy or find out more →
Assorted Poems
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"Assorted Poems "is a generous selection from the first four books by one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. In "Bag o' Diamonds "(1993), "Smokes "(1998), "Source Codes "(2001), and "Ledger "(2005), S... Buy or find out more →
Whiteness In Zimbabwe Race Landscape And The Problem Of Belonging
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Here is a look at how our relationship to the land is shaped by historical migration, conquest, and long-term residence. European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement... Buy or find out more →
Religious Transformations In The Early Modern World A Brief History With Documents
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The early modern period witnessed sometimes startling, sometimes subtle transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe. For reasons that varied widely, leaders and thinkers from Mexico... Buy or find out more →
Communism In Russia
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After the Revolution in October 1917, Soviet Russia tried to establish an alternative form of social organization based on the ideology of communism and the practices of Soviet democracy. This system inspired millions an... Buy or find out more →
Autobiography And Performance
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Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitioners, Heddon argues that autobiographical performances act as sites of resistan... Buy or find out more →
Angela Carter A Literary Life
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Angela Carter's life was an eventful and vagrant one, including travels to Japan, Russia, America and Australia, and early success in the sixties that did not last into the seventies. But by the time of her tragically ea... Buy or find out more →
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach And Social Justice In Education
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This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen's, capability approach, and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The capability approach has attracted attention across disci... Buy or find out more →
X Rated The Power Of Mythic Symbolism In Popular Culture
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Many attack pop culture as a crude 'sexual' and 'celebrity-based' culture that is purportedly bringing about the end of moral values. Renowned semiotician Marcel Danesi adds his signature insight to the debate by delving... Buy or find out more →
Oliver Cromwell New Perspectives
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Little integrates the latest research from younger and established scholars to provide a new evaluation and 'biography' of Cromwell. The book challenges received wisdom about Cromwell's rise to power, his political and r... Buy or find out more →
John Maynard Keynes
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Now that every politician is calling for Keynesian remedies isn't it time for you to learn what Keynes's analysis is all about?
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The Military History Of Tsarist Russia
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This is the first overview in English of the rise of the armed forces in Russia, from the Muscovite army of the fifteenth century through the Napoleon in 1812-1815. Essays also highlight the ideological conflict between ... Buy or find out more →
Claiming The Real Documentary Grierson And Beyond
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CLAIMING THE REAL II tells the story of the emergence, development and current state of documentary film emerged and addresses the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that have determined documentary produc... Buy or find out more →
Culture Identity And Islamic Schooling A Philosophical Approach
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In light of the growing phenomenon of Islamic schools in the United States and Europe, this compelling study outlines whether these schools share similar traits with other religious schools, while posing new challenges t... Buy or find out more →
My Elephant
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Both funny and sweet, this intergenerational story trumpets one boy’s boundless imagination — and shows how truly infectious it can be.
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Watteau's Painted Conversations Art Literature And Talk In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century France
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Antoine Watteau painted his engaging and ravishing fetes galantes during a period in which the art of polite conversation flourished in France. In this innovative study, Mary Vidal shows that conversation was central to ... Buy or find out more →
Napoleon And The British
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What did Napoleon Bonaparte mean to the British people? This engaging book reconstructs the role that the French leader played in the British political, cultural, and religious imagination in the early nineteenth century... Buy or find out more →
Radiant Days Haunted Nights
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Translator Neugroschel, who has rendered the works of such eminent writers as Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, and recent Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, arranges this anthology of Yiddish folk tales -some never befor... Buy or find out more →
Freud's Dora A Psychoanalytic Historical And Textual Study
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The case of the patient whom Freud immortalized as Dora is regarded as a landmark in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory and technique, as a graphic demonstration of psychosomatics and the therapeutic significance of ... Buy or find out more →
Light Freedom And Song A Cultural History Of Modern Irish Writing
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In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture, and history have been affected by the colonial encounter be... Buy or find out more →
Literature At War 1914 40 Representing The Time Of Greatnessin Germany
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In this fascinating examination of German texts written about the First World War, Wolfgang Natter offers a new understanding of the relationship between culture and warfare. He focuses not only on the literary voices of... Buy or find out more →
A Question Of Belief
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Set during an oppressive Venetian August, Leon's masterful 19th Commisario Guido Brunetti mystery (after 2009's "About Face") presents Brunetti with two puzzles that impinge on his most intimate beliefs. Close associate ... Buy or find out more →
Judith Sexual Warrior Women And Power In Western Culture
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The Old Testament story of the widow Judith -- the irresistible siren who lured her people's deadly enemy Holofernes to his death, beheading him in his own bed to save Jerusalem -- is an enduring cultural myth in Western... Buy or find out more →
Rules Of Engagement
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Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing ... Buy or find out more →
Manipulating Masculinity War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature
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Manipulating Masculinity uses literature from World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq wars to argue that when a society labels certain human traits "feminine," that society can more easily manipulate men... Buy or find out more →
Due Considerations Essays And Criticism
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Updikes sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes ... Buy or find out more →
The Cider House Rules
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First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch-saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage... Buy or find out more →
The Taste Of Conquest The Rise And Fall Of The Three Great Cities Of Spice
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"The Taste of Conquest "offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisine-in short, the very stuff of which our world is made. In t... Buy or find out more →
Bech A Book
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Updike's most irresistible hero since Rabbit Angstrom is an author famous for his writer's block, a Jew adrift in a world of gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he view life with a blend of wonder and c... Buy or find out more →
American Revolution
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"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we ha... Buy or find out more →
Resident Alien Feminist Cultural Criticism
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In this book Janet Wolff examines the ways in which travel is used as a metaphor in cultural theory, and the use of dance (another form of "mobility") as an image of liberation, particularly in relation to women. The top... Buy or find out more →
What Is Philosophy?
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In this stimulating book, six leading philosophers-Karl-Otto Apel, Robert Brandom, Karsten Harries, Martha Nussbaum, Barry Stroud, and Allen Wood-consider the nature of philosophy. Although each of them has a unique pers... Buy or find out more →
Hans Georg Gadamer A Biography
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Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was one of the greatest philosophers of our era. He was also at the center of some of the century's darkest, most complex historical events, for he chose to remain in his native Germany in ... Buy or find out more →
Touch An Essay
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In this new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes. Drawing on books and films, c... Buy or find out more →
Vision Of Rome In Late Renaissance France
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The extraordinary richness of ancient Rome was a recurring inspiration to writers, artists, scholars, and architects in sixteenth-century France. This engrossing book explores the ways in which the perception of Rome as ... Buy or find out more →
Freud And The Child Woman The Memoirs Of Fritz Wittels
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Fritz Wittels (1880-1950) was a pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst, the first biographer of Freud (1924), and intermittently friend and rival of Freud himself, of Wilhelm Stekel, and of their famous satirical adversary, K... Buy or find out more →
Another Country German Intellectuals Unification And National Identity
$69.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
How did German intellectuals react to unification and how have they conceived the country's national identity and its new international position? This important book not only examines changing notions of nationhood and t... Buy or find out more →
Freud Among The Philosophers The Psychoanalytic Unconscious And Its Philosophical Critics
$65.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Philosophical arguments against Freud's idea of the unconscious, the central concept of psychoanalysis, have existed as long as psychoanalysis itself. In this highly original book, Donald Levy considers the most importan... Buy or find out more →
Whole Green Catalog One Thousand Best Things For You And The Earth
$45.00$16.95 – Paperback book / Rodale Press
As interest in living a sustainable life has exploded, so has the green marketplace. It has become difficult to distinguish companies that provide truly eco-friendly products and services from those that "greenwash." Now... Buy or find out more →
Francesco Albani
$139.95$69.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Admired for his landscapes, respected for his artistic theories, and beloved as a teacher, Italian artist Francesco Albani (1578-1660) was acclaimed as a leading painter of his time. This book is the first full-scale stu... Buy or find out more →
Book Of Exploration
$85.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Before the turn of the 19th century, ventures into uncharted lands required material or spiritual reward to justify the perils of shipwreck and hostile natives, and dangers yet unknown. Until recent times exploration for... Buy or find out more →
New Modern House
$49.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Archit. Pr
Every architect dreams of a perfect client, and every client dreams of a perfect architect. Alas, these relationships don't always work out to everyones expectations. But when they dowhen there are shared ideas and the c... Buy or find out more →
William Hodges First Artist Of Empire
$105.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
William Hodges is well known as the artist who accompanied Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific as official landscape painter. This book--a major reappraisal of his career and reputation--presents him as one of the ... Buy or find out more →
Venice History Art And Architecture Lifestyle
$129.95$69.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
A deliciously familiar yet seemingly untouchable and magical world, Venice has an unparalleled legacy of monuments, traditions, and culture dating back more than 1600 years. From the fogs that haunt its streets to the su... Buy or find out more →
Sexual Personae Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson
$97.50$24.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley.... Buy or find out more →
Seurat And The Avante Garde
$120.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Georges Seurat, one of the most popular and admired of post-Impressionist painters, has been the focus of much attention in recent years. This book by Paul Smith views the artist in a new context and explodes some of the... Buy or find out more →
Art In The Age Of Queen Victoria Treasures From The Royal Academy Of Arts Permanent Collection
$97.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The Victorian age was marked by national self-confidence and stability, as Britain enjoyed peace at home and a rise in its industrial output, population, literacy, and general level of prosperity. These were conditions i... Buy or find out more →
Poussin And France Painting Humanism And The Politics Of Style
$112.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Nicolas Poussin, perhaps the most famous French painter of the seventeenth century, lived and worked for many years in Rome. Yet he remained deeply engaged with cultural and political transformations occurring in France,... Buy or find out more →
Prokofiev A Biography From Russia To The West 1891 1935
$57.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Since 1991--the year that marked both the fall of the Soviet Union and the centenary of Sergey Prokofiev's birth--a new assessment of the renowned composer's life and work has become both possible and necessary. In this ... Buy or find out more →
Freewheelin Time A Memoir Of Greenwich Village In The Sixties
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Broadway Books
A Freewheelin' Time is Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointe... Buy or find out more →
Islam A Short History
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vit... Buy or find out more →
Disappearance Of Childhood
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Vintage
Argues that the intrusion of television into every home introduces children too early to adult concepts and activities and subverts their ability to think abstractly, and the very concept of childhood is being destroyed.... Buy or find out more →
No God But God The Origins Evolution And Future Of Islam
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
Though it is the fastest-growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance and fear for much of the West. In No god but God, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed scholar of religions, explains this f... Buy or find out more →
Seven Plays
$23.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
Buried child / Curse of the starving class / The tooth of crime / La Turista / Tongues / Savage love / True west Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in con... Buy or find out more →
Under The Black Flag
$23.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Go... Buy or find out more →
Making Things Better
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Vintage
Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he's confronted by life's pr... Buy or find out more →
Impostor
$21.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
Damon Galgut is one of South Africa's most exciting new literary voices. In"The Impostor, "his first novel since"The Good Doctor, "Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a lands... Buy or find out more →
Mere Anarchy
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
In his first collection since his three hilarious classics, "Getting Even, Without Feathers," and "Side Effects," Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but... Buy or find out more →
Real World
$21.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Alfred A Knopf
In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the kil... Buy or find out more →
Ragtime
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world a... Buy or find out more →
Half A Life
$19.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Pantheon
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an ... Buy or find out more →
Tale Of Murasaki
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Delta Dell
The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world's first ... Buy or find out more →
God Of Small Things
$22.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel... Buy or find out more →
The Winter Queen
$19.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
Moscow, May 1876. What would cause a talented student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it is presumed. But young sleuth Erast Fandorin is not satisfied with ... Buy or find out more →
Special Assignments
$21.00$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
In this thrilling collection of two novellas, Akunin ("The Winter Queen") pits Erast Fandorin, his brilliant Russian detective who serves as the deputy for special assignments to the governor-general of czarist Moscow, a... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Aging A Doctor's Prescription For Well Being
$24.00$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
In his landmark book "How We Die," Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in "The Art of Aging," Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, striving... Buy or find out more →
March Of Folly
$25.00$12.00 – Paperback book / Ballantine Books
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own int... Buy or find out more →
Kaddish For An Unborn Child
$19.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Vintage
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is "No." It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a ch... Buy or find out more →
House Of The Spirits
$24.00$12.00 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is ... Buy or find out more →
Sister Pelagia And The Red Cockerel
$21.00$10.00 – Paperback book / Random Century
The ship carrying the devout to Jerusalem has run into rough waters. Onboard is Manuila, controversial leader of the "Foundlings," a sect that worships him as the Messiah. But soon the polarizing leader is no longer a pa... Buy or find out more →
Lost Paradise
$21.00$12.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
In "Lost Paradise," Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys. A b... Buy or find out more →
Plato's Republic A Biography
$22.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city - and the perfect mind - laid the foundations for ... Buy or find out more →
Crude Continent The Struggle For Africa's Oil Prize
$89.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Profile
Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa's flaws are not the whole story, when it comes ... Buy or find out more →
Russian Conservatism And Its Critics: A Study In Political Culture
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics provides the first account of Russia’s immemorial commitment to the theory and practice of autocracy, the most formative and powerful idea in Russia’s political history. Richard Pipes... Buy or find out more →
Letters Of Noel Coward
$39.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Methuen
'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that ther... Buy or find out more →
Divisadero
$45.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident... Buy or find out more →
The Wagner Clan The Saga Of Germany's Most Illustrious And Infamous Family
$25.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
An Economist Best Book of 2007, Jonathan Carr's The Wagner Clan was roundly acclaimed upon its publication in hardcover. Hailed as "fiendishly enjoyable" by Salon.com and "masterly" and "enthralling" by The Daily Telegra... Buy or find out more →
Consciousness And Mental Life
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Columbia Univ Pr
In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of philosophical and psychological inquiry have been absorbed into a scientific framework variously identified as "brain science," "cognitive science," and "cognitive n... Buy or find out more →
The Long Parliament Of Charles Ii
$69.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Charles II's first and most important parliament sat for eighteen years without a general election, earning itself the sobriquet "Long." In 1661 this parliament began in eager compliance with the new king. Gradually disi... Buy or find out more →
Empires Of The Sea
$45.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic struggl... Buy or find out more →
Manufacturing Depression
$35.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Author with professional and personal experience: Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg's musings on the intersection of science, politics, and ethics have graced the pages of The New Yorker, Wired, and Mother Jones. A longtime... Buy or find out more →
Through The Children's Gate A Home In New York
$49.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Following Adam Gopnik's best-selling Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city. Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shini... Buy or find out more →
God And Empire Jesus Against Rome Then And Now
$49.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
In this fine study of civilization, culture and transformation, Father Crossan asks important questions: have those who resort to violence as a means of change succeeded in their quest for empire? Or has nonviolence been... Buy or find out more →
Jews Germans And Allies Close Encounters In Occupied Germany
$79.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. "Jews, Germans, and Alli... Buy or find out more →
Venetian Bestiary
$29.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
A Venetian Bestiary is a celebration in words and pictures of a 'mighty menagerie of fact and fantasy': the animals of Venice, from its ubiquitous cats and barge dogs to the Golden Stallions and Winged Lion of St Mark. I... Buy or find out more →
Outlaw India's Bandit Queen And Me
$39.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Rider
In June 1992, author Roy Moxham did a very strange thing: he wrote to a bandit in an Indian jail. Phoolan Devi was the controversial and charismatic 'Bandit Queen' hailed as a modern-day Robin Hood in the villages surrou... Buy or find out more →
Bats Sing Mice Giggle The Secret Lives Of Animals
$41.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Icon Books
Bats Sing, Mice Giggle tracks many years of research by hundreds of scientists that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have inner, secret lives of which until recently - although many animal lovers will have inst... Buy or find out more →
Roger Scruton The Philosopher On Dover Beach
$59.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Continuum Pub Co
This book presents an intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy. Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part... Buy or find out more →
Jealousy
$34.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Grove Press
Catherine Miller's best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book--a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as "eloquent, graphic--and sometimes even poig... Buy or find out more →
Summer He Didn't Die
$19.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Grove Press
Jim Harrison is one of the US' finest writers, whose vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master, in particular as perhaps the finest practitioner of the novella form now writing. H... Buy or find out more →
Dune
$25.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Headline
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner is widely to be considered the most prescient SF novel ever. It tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interst... Buy or find out more →
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Little Brown
From television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of travelling aboard a Caribbean cruise liner, David Foster Wallace brings to non-f... Buy or find out more →
Twilight Of The Superheroes
$19.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human c... Buy or find out more →
Olive Kitteridge
$22.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been certain that she is 100% correct about everything - al... Buy or find out more →
Blood Meridian
$22.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historica... Buy or find out more →
Cities Of The Plain
$22.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Picador
This is Volume Three of the Border Trilogy . In Cities of the Plain , two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures... Buy or find out more →
The Crossing
$22.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Volume Two of the Border Trilogy 'The Crossing, together with its predecessor All the Pretty Horses, towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity' Sunday Times Set on the south-w... Buy or find out more →
All The Pretty Horses
$22.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Picador
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a th... Buy or find out more →
Art Of The Middle Ages
$29.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
This comprehensive and authoritative study of medieval visual arts in Europe covers the period from Early Christian and Byzantine, through 'Barbarian', Carolingian and Ottonian, to Romanesque and Gothic. Architecture, pa... Buy or find out more →
Italian Baroque Sculpture
$29.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
The years between 1520 and 1630 in Italy are among the most crucial periods in the history of architecture, but it is a story that has never been fully told. Conventionally, the classic age of the High Renaissance ends w... Buy or find out more →
French Painting In The Golden Age
$29.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
The 17th century has always been considered the golden age – the grand siècle – of French culture. The reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV witnessed an unprecedented flowering of literature and philosophy, of music, archi... Buy or find out more →
Gainsborough
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William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial comm... Buy or find out more →
Five Centuries Of British Painting From Holbein To Hodgkin
$29.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
A consistent undercurrent has been Britain's preference for the real world (landscape and portraiture) as against high art and abstraction. This is a survey of the personalities of British painting and an assessment of t... Buy or find out more →
Realism In 20 Th Century Painting
$29.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
The author provides the historical, artistic and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist turn, from the Ashcan School to Soviet Social realism, from painting of the Existentialist era to the time of Photo... Buy or find out more →
Red Figure Vases Of South Italy And Sicily
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The red figure vases produced by the Greek colonists in South Italy and Sicily in the later fifth and the fourth centuries BC were at first closely modeled on Athenian prototypes. But they quickly evolved, exhibiting the... Buy or find out more →
The Eternal Sea
$90.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
In the much-anticipated follow-up to his 2002 international triumph The Sea, photographer Philip Plisson figuratively widens his lens to provide a more global focus on the sea and the humans who depend on it for survival... Buy or find out more →
Building Social Business: The New Kind Of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
$35.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Public Affairs
This third book by Professor Yunus, following Banker to the Poor and Creating a World Without Poverty, is dedicated solely towards the concept of social business, its implementation, and its maintenance. Social business ... Buy or find out more →
How I Became A Holy Mother
$21.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Capuchin
Set - of course in India, these stories are concerned not so much with Europeans in India as with Indians themselves. They are about universal human passions - yet interwoven with India itself. The heat, the vastness, th... Buy or find out more →
Cleaver
$29.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Arcade
Through terse, confrontational prose, Parks puts on display the self-absorbed and egotistical mind of notable British journalist and womanizer Harold Cleaver. After sticking it to the unnamed (though unmistakable) curren... Buy or find out more →
Europa
$29.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Arcade
At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus taking him from Milan to Strasbourg. Sitting slightly off-center on the long back seat, he takes stock of the wreckage strewn behind him - a failed marriag... Buy or find out more →
A Life Of Picasso: Volume Three: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932
$59.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Pimlico
The Triumphant Years takes up the artist’ s life in 1917, when Picasso and Cocteau left wartime Paris for Rome to work with Diaghilev’ s Ballets Russes on their revolutionary production of "Parade," Visits to Naples, abo... Buy or find out more →
A Life Of Picasso: Volume 3: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932
$110.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into... Buy or find out more →
I Curse The River Of Time
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, ... Buy or find out more →
Elizabeth Costello
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A humane, moral and uncompromising new novel from J.M. Coetzee, twice winner of the Booker Prize and one of the finest authors writing in the English language.
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Gilead
$20.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual b... Buy or find out more →
The Twenty-Seventh City
$22.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Picador Us
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citi... Buy or find out more →
The Castle In The Pyrenees
$29.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Orion
Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wo... Buy or find out more →
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read
$27.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we’re forced to t... Buy or find out more →
The Time Traveler's Wife
$20.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes... Buy or find out more →
Architecture Now 7
$55.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Taschen
TASCHEN's "Architecture Now! "7 features an arching overview of today's architecture, from modern to radically avant-garde. As with previous books in the series, "Architecture Now! 7 "includes a broad variety of projects... Buy or find out more →
Paris To The Moon
$20.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Pantheon
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafes, breathtaking facades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as t... Buy or find out more →
Tools For Living A Sourcebook Of Iconic Designs For The Home
$69.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Fiell
No extra details available for this itTools for Living is a book about excellence in domestic design--from chef knives and pots and pans, to door handles and bathroom taps, to home-office furniture and garden tools. Well... Buy or find out more →
That's What Grandmas Are For
$17.95$7.95 – Hardcover book / Blue Apple Books
"If we want pizza and Grandma would rather have Chinese food, she will eat pizza. That's what grandmas are for."
"If I stop for gas and it's self-serve, my granddaughter will hold the nozzle.
If I'm washing my car, my gr... Buy or find out more →
The Annie Dillard Reader
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: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard has gathered together her favorite passages from past works to create an anthology consisting of her most significant, most passionate, most evocative writings. Selections in... Buy or find out more →
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
$17.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Quirk
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English vil... Buy or find out more →
Blood And Roses One Family's Struggle And Triumph During Thetumultuous Wars Of The Roses
$21.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder. Over the course of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves sudde... Buy or find out more →
Day After Night
$37.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Diamants bestseller, "The Red Tent", explored the lives of biblical women ignored by the male-centric narrative. In her compulsively readable latest, she sketches the intertwined fates of several young women refugees at ... Buy or find out more →
The General Of The Dead Army
$35.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Arcade
This early novel by controversial Albanian author Kadare was originally published in 1963; Coltman's English translation, based on the French edition, first appeared in 1971. (The only other English translation currently... Buy or find out more →
Agamemnon's Daughter A Novella And Stories
$35.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Arcade
Kadare won the Man Booker International Prize last year for his searing documentation, in numerous works, of Albanian history and politics, particularly life under Communism ("The General of the Dead Army, " etc.). This ... Buy or find out more →
Chronicle In Stone
$36.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Arcade
"They're like people, stones are," muses the young narrator of this 1971 novel, first published in the United States in 1987 and appearing now in a new edition based on the definitive text. "They're young or old, hard or... Buy or find out more →
Dolce Italiano: Deserts From The Babbo Kitchen
$49.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
DePalma, pastry chef at upscale Italian restaurant Babbo in New York City (owner Mario Batali contributes a foreword), approaches Italian-American desserts from three directions: traditional Italian (Polenta Cookies from... Buy or find out more →
A New Earth
$34.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Dutton
Building on the astonishing success of "The Power of Now," Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erron... Buy or find out more →
Edward Steichen Lives In Photography
$140.00$59.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
With his prodigious range, versatility and output, Edward Steichen casts a long shadow in 20th-century photography, and this lushly produced book assesses his legacy. Wending through Steichens 70-year career, the book pr... Buy or find out more →
St Exupery Art Writings And Musings
$70.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
One of the greatest masters of the illustrated book, Antoine de Saint Exupery has been well known for his artistic and literary talents ever since the publication of The Little Prince in 1943. It is less well known that ... Buy or find out more →
Light Air And Openness
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The origins of the spectacular geometric forms and sparkling surfaces of modern architecture from 1918 to 1939. In the first half of the twentieth century, a new kind of architecture appeared across Europe and North Amer... Buy or find out more →
The Gertrude Stein Reader The Great American Pioneer Of Avant Garde Letters
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There have been many Anthologies, Chrestomathies, and Readers of Gertrude Stein's work, a multiplicity corresponding to the diversity and development of the writings she produced with such astonishing continuity all her ... Buy or find out more →
Sean Scully Walls Of Aran
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Sean Scully's photographs, with their horizontal and vertical shards of limestone, echo his painted work, revealing a creative process expressed through abstract shapes. Sean Scully is one of today's most esteemed painte... Buy or find out more →
Sappho Poems
$49.95$16.95 – Trade paperback / Shambhala
Sappho is the greatest of the Greek lyric poets-and one of the very few women poets of the ancient world whom we know by name. Her incomparable songs of love, heartache, and desire have enthralled readers for more than t... Buy or find out more →
Yalta The Price of Peace
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A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of ... Buy or find out more →
Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett A Centenary Celebration
$39.95$12.95 – B / Arcade
Knowlson (French, emerita, Univ. of Reading, U.K.) was a friend of Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett and wrote "Damned to Fame", the authorized and still definitive Beckett biography. Here, with his wife, Eliz... Buy or find out more →
Henry Miller The Paris Years
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In 1930 Henry Miller arrived in Paris with no money, no fixed address, and no prospects. He left nine years later as the renowned if notorious author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. As his friend, the great ... Buy or find out more →
Mozart
$27.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy who toured the capitals of Europe as a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills, in his adult... Buy or find out more →
Impressionism In Britain
$91.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
McConkey demonstrates how their persistences moved Victorian painting away from stale classicism and literary anecdote, to a modern British art of colour, light and form, many examples of which are presented in this stud... Buy or find out more →
Canyon of Dreams
$49.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Sterling Internat.
A lavishly illustrated insider’s look at 80 years of music and culture in Laurel Canyon.
Laurel Canyon is a zip code with its own play list: to name just a few, Sonny & Cher, The Doors, The Turtles, Canned Heat, Mo... Buy or find out more →
Native Son
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downwar... Buy or find out more →
The Face On Your Plate: The Truth About Food
$42.95$13.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
Bestselling suthor of When Elephants Weep shows how food affects our moral selves, our health and the enviromnent. A pivotal book about the food revolution, it raises questions to make us conscious of the decisions we ma... Buy or find out more →
The Brother Gardeners Botany Empire And The Birth Of An Obsession
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Wulf, a German-born journalist, wonderfully conveys the allure and cultural importance of the garden. Spanning nearly 100 years and several continents, Wulf begins her cultural investigation with the creation of the firs... Buy or find out more →
The Lives Of The Planets A Natural History Of The Solar System
$38.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
"Lives of the Planets" describes a scientific field in the midst of a revolution. Planetary science has mainly been a descriptive science, but it is becoming increasingly experimental. The space probes that went up betwe... Buy or find out more →
The Typewriter Is Holy Complete Uncensored History Of The Beat Generation
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Free Press
Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation.In this high... Buy or find out more →
The Pop The Genius Of Andy Warhol
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A major reassessment of the most influential and controversial American artist of the second half of the twentieth century
To his critics, he was the cynical magus of a movement that debased high art and reduced it to a ... Buy or find out more →
Power Faith And Fantasy America In The Middle East 1776 To The Present
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Power, Faith and Fantasy is an indispensable work for anyone interested in understanding the roots of america s Middle east involvement today. For over two centuries American statesmen, merchants and missionaries have ha... Buy or find out more →
Trotsky Downfall Of A Revolutionary
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A captivating account of the final years of Leon Trotsky, Lenin's former right-hand man, who was outmaneuvered by Stalin and driven into exile in 1929. Historian Patenaude ("The Big Show in Bololand"), a lecturer at Stan... Buy or find out more →
The Sexual Century
$91.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Over the course of the past century, sexual liberation has transformed the way in which most of us regard our bodies and live our sexual lives. Now a preeminent psychoanalytic theoretician on sex and gender discusses wha... Buy or find out more →
Blind Spots Critical Theory And The History Of Art In Twentieth Century Germany
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This book is the first to focus on the extraordinary symbiosis between Critical Theory and other discourses of the visual in the first half of the twentieth century. In four extended case studies, Frederic J. Schwartz tr... Buy or find out more →
A Woman's Unconscious Use Of Her Body
$84.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The mind-body connection in women is complex and intriguing: women can develop rashes, abdominal pains, or asthma at moments of stress; they may become pregnant or miscarry in response to unconscious conflicts; and they ... Buy or find out more →
Mozart In Revolt Strategies Of Resistance Mischief And Deception
$59.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The complex relationship between Mozart and his father has fascinated music lovers for centuries, and much effort has been spent examining the letters exchanged by the two men. This provocative book offers a new reading ... Buy or find out more →
Handbook Of Early Christianity Social Science Approaches
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The Christian movement emerged amidst complex social tensions, power politics, ethnic diversity, economic stress, and cultural changes. Both biblical scholars and social scientists find that a social scientific study of ... Buy or find out more →
The Jewish Past Revisited Reflections On Modern Jewish Historians
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In this fascinating new collection of essays, contemporary historians examine the ways earlier historians have framed, written, and "made" the Jewish past. Probing the ideology and methodology of their professional prede... Buy or find out more →
Political Paranoia Psychopolitics Of Hatred
$77.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Paranoia is not an obscure mental state afflicting some individuals but a widespread condition of modern societies, say the authors of this engrossing book. Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., experts in politica... Buy or find out more →
Interpreting Interpretation Limits Of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis
$77.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Psychoanalytic interpretation, according to the hermeneutic view, is concerned with meaning rather than facts or causes. In this provocative book, Elyn R. Saks focuses closely on what hermeneutic psychoanalysis is and ho... Buy or find out more →
Japan's Golden Age Momoyama
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The history, culture, and aesthetics of the Momoyama period are explored by analyzing and reproducing masterpieces of artists in many media: paintings (including many superb screen paintings), sculpture, calligraphy, tea... Buy or find out more →
Blue Hour A Life Of Jean Rhys
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Jean Rhys (1890 1979) is best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys s revolutionary work reimagined the story of Bertha Rochester the misunderstood madwoman in the attic who was driven ... Buy or find out more →
Theoretical Inquiry Language Linguistics And Literature
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In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be stra... Buy or find out more →
The Kremlin's Scholar A Memoir Of Soviet Politics Under Stalin And Khrushchev
$59.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Dmitrii Shepilov (1905-1995), a prominent Soviet leader and member of the Communist Party elite, rose to power under Joseph Stalin in the 1940s and 1950s, then fell into political disgrace after being implicated in a cou... Buy or find out more →
Inside Modernism Relativity Theory Cubism Narrative
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In this engaging book, a professor of literature and a physicist offer a broad, new, interdisciplinary account of Modernism. Thomas Vargish and Delo E. Mook encompass physics, the visual arts, and literature in a thought... Buy or find out more →
Transference Neurosis And Psychoanalytic Experience Perspectives On Contemporary Clinical Practice
$84.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This book provides valuable insight into contemporary clinical practice by exploring the problematic and ambiguous concept of the transference neurosis. Gail S. Reed reproduces extensive portions of interviews with twent... Buy or find out more →
French Fascism The Second Wave 1933 1939
$105.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This provocative book demolishes the notion that fascism never took hold in France. Robert Soucy, author of the acclaimed French Fascism: The First Wave, continues his argument that France has had a long-standing fascist... Buy or find out more →
The Popular Culture Of Modern Art Picasso Duchamp And Avant Gardism 1909 17
$105.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This is a fascinating exploration of the deeply ambiguous relationship between modern art and popular culture, focusing on the work of Picasso and Duchamp in France in the first two decades of this century. Analyzing art... Buy or find out more →
Diversity And Direction In Psychoanalytic Technique
$70.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
New diversity in psychoanalytic technique offers analysts and therapists a wide array of treatment options. But many of these techniques, says Dr. Fred Pine, can be viewed as additions to a clinician's approach rather th... Buy or find out more →
Beecher Sisters
$57.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The Beecher sisters--Catharine, Harriet, and Isabell A&M were three of the most prominent women in nineteenth-century America. Daughters of the famous evangelist Lyman Beecher, they could not follow their father and ... Buy or find out more →
Soldier And Strangers An Ethnic History Of The English Civilwar
$70.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The Civil War fought between Charles I and his Parliament is one of the most momentous conflicts in English history. This book provides a wholly new perspective by revealing the extent to which the struggle possessed an ... Buy or find out more →
Family Life In Early Modern Times 1500 1789 V1
$35.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This volume inaugurates a major three-volume history of the family in Europe over the last five hundred years. Family history lies at the heart of the new social history which, since the 1960s, has shifted the historiogr... Buy or find out more →
Thomas Bernhard The Making Of An Austrian
$56.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
When Bernhard, arguably Austria's foremost and most controversial novelist and playwright, died in 1989 at the age of 58, his homeland was shocked to learn of his will's stipulations: his literary corpus could not be "pr... Buy or find out more →
Husbands Wives And Lovers Marriage And Its Discontents In Nineteenth Century France
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In this lively, interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and social history of early nineteenth-century France, art historian Patricia Mainardi focuses on what was considered a major social problem of the time--adul... Buy or find out more →
Wilson
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Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations,... Buy or find out more →
Shortcomings
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Tomines first long-form graphic novel is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late 20s, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl).
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The Fixer And Other Stories
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THE COMPLETE SOFTCOVER COLLECTION OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF "PALESTINE" AND "SAFE AREA GORAZDE
"Using old-fashioned pen and paper, the award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines o... Buy or find out more →
Bottomless Belly Button
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Shaw's stunningly conceived and executed comic opus captures one moment of change in a family. Maggie and David Loony have called their three adult children to their childhood home to announce that, after 40 years of mar... Buy or find out more →
A Life Of Discovery Michael Faraday Giant Of The Scientific Revolution
$49.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
When an art historian writes a biography of the leading scientific figure of 19th-century England, the focus is likely to be broader than science. Hamilton (Turner: A Life), an art curator at the University of Birmingham... Buy or find out more →
Camino Real
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The acclaimed classic in a new edition, now with a new introduction, the author's original foreword and afterword, the one-act play "10 Blocks on the Camino Real," plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Micha... Buy or find out more →
In The American Grain Second Edition
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Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is a fundamental book, essential if one proposes to come to terms with American lite... Buy or find out more →
Stillborn God Religion Politics And The Modern West
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This searching history of western thinking about the relationship between religion and politics was inspired not by 9/11, but by Nazi Germany, where, says University of Chicago professor Lilla ("The Reckless Mind"), poli... Buy or find out more →
The New Directions Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poetry
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A rich compendium of translations, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is the first collection to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. Weinberger begins with Ezra... Buy or find out more →
Eyes To See Otherwise Ojos De Otro Mira Selected Poems
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Eyes to See Otherwise is the first extensive selection of poems by leading Mexican poet Homero Aridjis to appear in English. The scope and quality of the translations, by some of America's finest poets, mark the centrali... Buy or find out more →
The Way Of Chuang Tzu
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Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is thechief authentic historical spokesman for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu(a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu's writings).Indeed it was... Buy or find out more →
Tom Of Finland Xxl
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Bigger is better: The complete life and work of the artist Tom of Finland In 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as ... Buy or find out more →
In The Mountains Of Saint Francis The Geological Events Thatshaped Our Earth
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Walter Alvarez and his team made one of the most astonishing scientific discoveries of the twentieth century--that an asteroid smashed into the Earth 65 million years ago, exterminating the dinosaurs. Alvarez had the fir... Buy or find out more →
Wolf Hall
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power
England in the 1520s is a heartb... Buy or find out more →
Toward The Setting Sun
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The untold story of the rivalries and alliances between Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and John Cabot during the Age of Exploration.When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the long-established tr... Buy or find out more →
Dante The Poet The Political Thinker The Man
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Dante is one of the towering figures of European literature, yet there remain a surprising number of questions about his life and works; Who was the leader that would bring peace to the world, as Virgil and Beatrice prop... Buy or find out more →
All On Fire William Lloyd Garrison And The Abolition Of Slavery
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Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively rese... Buy or find out more →
Darwin's Armada Four Voyages And The Battle For The Theory Of Evolution
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Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of Apri... Buy or find out more →
Mystery Of Lewis Carrol Discovering The Whimsical Thoughtfuland Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice In Wonderland
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In The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. Reveling in double meanings and... Buy or find out more →
Why Socrates Died Dispelling The Myths
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Socrates and Alcibiades were an unlikely couple: an ugly old philosopher and a charming, intelligent, ambitious and arrogant aristocrat. The fallout from this relationship and an unpopular war toppled the world's most si... Buy or find out more →
Heretic Lives Medieval Heresy From Bogomil And The Cathars To Wyclif And Hus
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Michael Frassetto's account of five centuries of social and spiritual turmoil is a vivid and telling mix of events, personality and ideas. His cast of characters includes Bogomil, an obscure priest of the Balkan countrys... Buy or find out more →
French Bishops The Making Of The French Episcopate 1589 1661
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This major work, written by one of the leading historians of France's ancien regime, is the first in-depth study of the French upper clergy during the key period of the Catholic Reformation following the Council of Trent... Buy or find out more →
Visions Of The Modern
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Golding is a brilliant writer: his work is full of art-historical insights and he additionally brings to his writing the eye and sensitivity of a practising artist. His 'Visions of the Modern' will be a very important b...
William Wilberforce The Life Of The Great Anti Slave Trade Campaigner
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From William Hague comes a major biography of abolitionist William Wilberforce, the man who fought for twenty years to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. Wilberforce, born to a prosperous family, chose a life of public se... Buy or find out more →
Petrarch's Guide To The Holy Land Itinerary To The Sepulcherof Our Lord Jesus Christ
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In the early spring of 1358 Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli, a leading military and political figure of Visconti Milan, to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pleased at the invitation, Petr... Buy or find out more →
Reforming Liberalism J.S. Mill's Use Of Ancient Religious Liberal And Romantic Moralities
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One of the founders of modern hermeneutics, German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) confronted the question of how modern, postmetaphysical human beings can cope with the ambivalence, contingency, and finitude tha... Buy or find out more →
The World Of The Favourite
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Observers in England, Spain, France, and many other European states in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries grew increasingly alarmed by the growing influence of favourites, or minister-favourites. These individuals a... Buy or find out more →
British Chimney Sweeps Five Centuries Of Chimney Sweeping
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Our picture of a chimney sweep is often Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins." This meticulously researched examination shows a different side to this hazardous trade. The art and science of chimney sweeping are examined in de... Buy or find out more →
Mumford On Modern Art In The 1930 S
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"Superbly crafted little essays, Lewis Mumford's "New Yorker" pieces called 'The Art Galleries' well deserve this handsome republication. They offer supremely tasteful guided tours of the galleries and museums of Manhatt... Buy or find out more →
Modernization And Its Political Consequences Weber Mannheim And Schumpeter
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People's capacity to give meaning and direction to social life is an essential dimension of political freedom. Yet many citizens of Western democracies believe that this freedom has become quite restricted. They feel the... Buy or find out more →
Inquisition The Reign Of Fear
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"A journey across centuries of religious conflict
"Toby Green's incredible new book brings a vast panorama to life by focusing on the untold stories of individuals from all walks of life and every section of society who ... Buy or find out more →
Magic Stones The Secret World Of Ancient Megaliths
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The megalithic monuments of Europe are among the oldest and the most mysterious structures in the world. From the sun-drenched temples of Malta and the great tombs and alignments of Brittany and Britain to the labyrinths... Buy or find out more →
Object Design In The Age Of Enlightenment The History Of Thefree Drawing School In Paris
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The Free Drawing School (Ecole royale gratuite de dessin) fulfilled the Enlightenment ideal of an education open to all--rich and poor, male and female--and of an education founded not on apprenticeship and the teachings... Buy or find out more →
Fashion Show Paris Style
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Paris, the undisputed capital of the fashion world, is rich in talented designers, skilled craftsmen and native chic. It has been a magnet for stylish men and women since the seventeenth century. While fashion and the in... Buy or find out more →
Richard Meier Recent Works
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Beginning with his ascent in the late 1960s, the work of Richard Meier has been identified with a careful but decisive reflection on modernity, its origins, and its potential as a continuing source of innovation. Collect... Buy or find out more →
The Smithsonian Atlas Of World Aviation
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This first-of-its-kind, definitive book offers a fascinating textual and visual tour of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft.
Featuring 100 newly... Buy or find out more →
Three Thousand Years Of Chinese Painting
$119.00$59.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produced today, Chinese painting has always had the power to enthrall. This mag... Buy or find out more →
Spiders The Ultimate Predators
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"Spiders are the most successful of all terrestrial predators."
Humans share the planet with about 40,000 known species of the remarkable creatures called spiders. From mountaintops to seashores and from ponds to deserts... Buy or find out more →
The Story Cloths Of Bali
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For thousands of years, Balinese textile artists have adorned simple cloths with elaborate embroidered depictions of classic folk epics. As one of the many artistic expressions of Balinese culture, these colorful pieces ... Buy or find out more →
God An Itinerary
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God, who has changed the lives - and deaths - of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth three thousand years ago. He may have kept the same name throughout, but God... Buy or find out more →
Punk Pioneers
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The photographs of Jenny Lens--many unseen, and many more well-known but seldom credited--are poignant reminiscences of a rude and rowdy moment in punk rock history. From 1976 to 1980, Lens took early shots of groups tha... Buy or find out more →
Practical Projects For The Handy Man
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David Stiles earned a bachelor degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, and is a designer, builder, architectural renderer, and writer and illustrator. Together with wife Jeanie, collectively known as Americais ... Buy or find out more →
Nobody Move
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Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a few bets at the track, when he gets picked up by a thug named Gambol and hi... Buy or find out more →
Encyclopaedia Of Typefaces
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For over 50 years, "Encyclopaedia of Typeface"shas been the dominant typeface guide and now the internationally celebrated work is published in a new 55thAnniversary edition.With over 2,000 type faces arranged alphabetic... Buy or find out more →
The Ten Cent Plague
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In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created--in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new ... Buy or find out more →
Collected Poems Philip Larkin
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One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. "Collected Poems" brings together not only all his books--"The North... Buy or find out more →
The Vagabond
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Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renee Nere has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his ... Buy or find out more →
Collected Poems 1948 84
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This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Ano... Buy or find out more →
Strong Motion: A Novel
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The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of The Corrections
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings - earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a ... Buy or find out more →
The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
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"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism. "This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it w... Buy or find out more →
From Bauhaus To Our House
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"A search-and-destroy mission against architectural pretensions . . . a funny book."--New York
"Full of insight . . . marvelously right."--People
"Wolfe's delightfully witty, biting history of modern architecture is a sc... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Hunting Eichmann
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When the Allies stormed Berlin in 1945, Adolf Eichmann, the operational manager of the Final Solution, shed his SS uniform and vanished. Bringing him to justice would require a harrowing fifteen-year chase stretching fro... Buy or find out more →
The Pattern In The Carpet A Personal History With Jigsaws
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"The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws" is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others... Buy or find out more →
The German Woman
$20.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Mariner Books
This riveting war story introduces us to the beautiful Kate Zweig, the English widow of a German surgeon, and Claus Murphy, an exiled American with German roots--two lovers with complicated loyalties. In 1918, Kate and h... Buy or find out more →
The Dead Hand A Crime In Calcutta
$36.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
Jerry Delfont leads an aimless life in Calcutta, struggling in vain against his writer's block, or 'dead hand, ' and flitting around the edges of a half-hearted romance. Then he receives a mysterious letter asking for hi... Buy or find out more →
Fair Maiden
$30.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in he... Buy or find out more →
The Toss Of A Lemon
$22.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Mariner Books
Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminat... Buy or find out more →
The Best American Essays 2009
$23.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Houghton Mifflin
Edited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this "rich and thoughtful collection" (Publishers Weekly) offers the finest essays "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago ... Buy or find out more →
Servants' Quarters
$20.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Houghton Mifflin
Haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover on his family's African estate. When Harding pluck... Buy or find out more →
Perfect Rigor
$35.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best min... Buy or find out more →
Lenin's Brother: The Origins Of The October Revolution
$35.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia s tsar. Known as Second First March for the date of their action,... Buy or find out more →
Best American Short Stories 2009
$39.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" ("Chicago Tribune)." The collection boasts grea... Buy or find out more →
The Miracle At Speedy Motors
$32.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best--helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Mma Ramotswe is... Buy or find out more →
Beauty And The Soul The Extraordinary Power Of Everyday Beauty To Heal Your Life
$39.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Tarcher
The bestselling author of "The Power of Kindness" shows how the ability to appreciate beauty-far from being a luxury or an afterthought-is vital to leading a happy, balanced, and satisfying life. Beauty is all around us-... Buy or find out more →
The Lacuna
$37.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. "The Lacuna" is a poig... Buy or find out more →
Rat Girl
$18.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In 1985, Kristin Hersh was just beginning to find her place in the world. After beginning her music career at the age of fourteen, the precocious child of unconventional hippies was enrolled in college while her band, Th... Buy or find out more →
Easy As Pi The Countless Ways We Use Numbers Every Day
$20.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Readers Digest
Have you ever wondered what makes "seventh heaven" and "cloud nine" so blissful and the number 13 so unlucky? Here's the "4-1-1" on the origins of numerical expressions and the importance of numbers in fiction, film, cul... Buy or find out more →
Catherine The Great
$49.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
In 1745 a little-known German princess named Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst married the nephew of Empress Elizabeth of Russia. Seventeen years later she overthrew her husband to become Catherine the Great, one of the most celeb... Buy or find out more →
How To Love
$27.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Da Capo
Dr. Gordon Livingston's books have resonated with readers as universally and deeply as earlier books by M. Scott Peck, Rollo May, and Erich Fromm. Now, Gordon Livingston--a physician of the human heart, a philosopher of ... Buy or find out more →
Japan: Light And Shadows In The Land Of The Rising Sun
$69.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / White Star
Japanese cultural identity is both steeped in tradition and gripped by commerce and technology. With this in mind, Corazza and Ropa deliver a resplendent depiction of the complex Land of the Rising Sun. Engagingly annota... Buy or find out more →
The Little Stranger
$24.00$11.95 – Paperback book / Little Brown
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, ... Buy or find out more →
Complete Stories
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
From the internationally acclaimed Australian writer: a single volume gathering a brilliant new collection of his short fiction, "Every Move You Make, " and all of his previously published stories. In the heretofore unpu... Buy or find out more →
The Night Watch
$24.00$11.95 – Paperback book / Virago
Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century. Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out st... Buy or find out more →
Tom Of Finland The Comic Collection 1
$20.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Taschen
"The Comic Collection" is the most affordable compilation of Tom of Finland's popular panel stories. This volume features 14 stories, including the first completed by Tom in 1946, and the last, done in 1986. Along the wa... Buy or find out more →
Lonelyhearts The Screwball World Of Nathanael West And Eileen Mckenney
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
When their car smashed into another during the waning days of 1940, Nathanael West (né Nathan Weinstein) and his pretty young wife, Eileen McKenney, were largely unknown to the public. At 37, Wests four novels, with thei... Buy or find out more →
Black Ladies
$21.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Taschen
""This is erotica with a subtle flavour, photography that has truly gone back to basics." - "Amateur Photographer," London" Uwe Ommer, a sought-after commercial photographer based in New York and Paris, has made a name f... Buy or find out more →
Modernist Paradise - Niemeyuer House/Boyd Collection
$69.95$24.99 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
Living with good design-modernists have proposed since the beginning of the last century-is a way of improving and enriching life. In this exceptional book, readers are invited to enjoy the experience of living with grea... Buy or find out more →
Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter (Audio CD)
$45.00$19.95 – Compact disc / Hachette Digital
The subtitle of this wonderful memoir declares its contents: this is 'my life with Harold Pinter', not Lady Antonia Fraser's complete life and certainly not his. In essence, it is a love story and as with many love stori... Buy or find out more →
England's Dreaming
$29.95 – Paperback book / Faber
Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Full of anecdote, insight, and exclusive interviews, it tells th... Buy or find out more →
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West 1900-1914
$35.00$15.95 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
Virginia Woolf famously declared that human character changed in the year 1910; this dizzying survey of European history and culture before WWI elaborates. Historian Blom ("Enlightening the World") examines every innovat... Buy or find out more →
The Letters Of Evelyn Waugh
$55.00$19.95 – Trade paperback / Phoenix House
Evelyn Waugh was the last of the great letter-writers, and his witty, elegant correspondence to a wide circle of friends contains more than a touch of malice. In the 1920s Waugh wrote to a schoolfriend about his undergra... Buy or find out more →
The Diaries Of Evelyn Waugh
$55.00$19.95 – Trade paperback / Phoenix House
Evelyn Waugh kept a diary almost continuously from the age of seven until a year before his death in 1966. Extracts from the diaries caused sensation when they were published by the OBSERVER. They are a unique literary d... Buy or find out more →
The Winter Vault
$49.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
In "The Winter Vault, "award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels crafts a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, juxtaposing historic dislocations with the most intimate moments of individual lives. In 196... Buy or find out more →
The Last Mughal: The Fall Of A Dynasty Delhi 1857
$59.95$16.95 – 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,... Buy or find out more →
The Wild Things
$27.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Mcsweeneys
"The Wild Things" -- based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze -- is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control. His father is... Buy or find out more →
The Vertigo Years
$16.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
Europe, 1900–1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of super... Buy or find out more →
Museums
$119.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
Richard Meier, one of America's most influential and widely emulated architects, began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects, whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become ico... Buy or find out more →
Corduroy Mansions
$39.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Polygon Press
Corduroy Mansions – described in a guide to the architecture of the area as "a building of no interest whatsoever" - is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block - no... Buy or find out more →
Lights Out In Wonderland
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
The spectacular third novel from Booker Prize winner, DBC Pierre: a dazzling odyssey and a universal commentary on our times.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thin... Buy or find out more →
Creating A World Without Poverty Social Business And The Future Of Capitalism
$20.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Public Affairs
Economics professor Yunus claims he originally became involved in the poverty issue not as a policy-maker, scholar, or researcher, but because poverty was all around me. With these words he stopped teaching elegant theor... Buy or find out more →
Frances Partridge: A Biography
$33.00$15.95 – Paperback book / Hachette
Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. She became part of the Bloomsbury group encountering Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, the Bells, Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington and... Buy or find out more →
Pegasus Descending
$23.00$12.95 – Paperback book / Orion
Drawing on classical antecedents, bestseller Burke peoples his 15th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2004's Crusader's Cross) with his usual assortment of near mythic characters, demonstrating how our everyday lives are bese... Buy or find out more →
Captain Alatriste
$19.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Phoenix
International bestseller Pérez-Reverte (The Club Dumas) offers a winning swashbuckler set in 17th-century Spain. Hooded figures, apparently acting on the behalf of Fray Emilio Bocanegra, "president of the Holy Tribunal o... Buy or find out more →
Ultimate Good Luck
$19.95$11.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, fro... Buy or find out more →
Get A Life
$22.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially s... Buy or find out more →
Be Near Me
$22.00$12.95 – Paperback book / Faber
Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and
nerves prick, And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels
of, Being slow. - from In Memoriam, A.H.H. Alfred Lord
Tennyson.
When an English priest tak... Buy or find out more →
The Ice Princess
$33.00$12.95 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Returning to her hometown after the death of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of Erica's childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body fro... Buy or find out more →
The Lacuna
$35.00$13.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
The first novel in ten years from Barbara Kingsolver, author of the international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.
'You had better write all this in your notebook, she said, the story of what happened to us in Mexico. S... Buy or find out more →
Road Dogs
$55.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Orion
ROAD DOGS is the story of bank-robber Jack Foley, who got caught by a die-pack on one easy robbery. He's back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Foley has been brought in by Karen Sisco, US ... Buy or find out more →
Sunset Park
$35.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertent... Buy or find out more →
Be Near Me
$49.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to ... Buy or find out more →
The Lacuna
$55.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
The first novel in ten years from Barbara Kingsolver, author of the international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.
'You had better write all this in your notebook, she said, the story of what happened to us in Mexico. S... Buy or find out more →
Letters To Monica
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belf... Buy or find out more →
Qi The Second Book Of General Ignorance
$29.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a gla... Buy or find out more →
Qi The Book Of General Ignorance The Noticeably Stouter Edition
$29.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
This indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, "QI'. The noticeably stouter "QI Book of General Ignorance" sets out to show you that a lot of ... Buy or find out more →
Fugitive Pieces
$23.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.
A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued... Buy or find out more →
The Conservationist
$23.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly i... Buy or find out more →
My Booky Wook 2 This Time Its Personal
$59.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
In the sequel to Russell's best-selling biography 'My Booky Wook' we follow the now sober but still scandalous, sex-fuelled star on his electrifying rise to international fame. A roller coaster ride through tours, films,... Buy or find out more →
Remembering Mr Shawn's New Yorker
$34.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Sinclair Stevenson
In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Mr. Mehta gives us the closest, most careful, and most refined description that has yet been written of Shawn's editorship of the magazine. He portrays in detail the peculiar, nurtu... Buy or find out more →
Incendiary
$29.95$10.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
Chris Cleave wrote Incendiary in an attempt to start a dialogue about the post-September-11 world we live in, where the world has been divided into those who are "with us" and "against us". The narrator is a feisty worki... Buy or find out more →
The House Of The Mosque
$29.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Canongate
Iran, 1969. In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. The house teems with life, played out under the watchful eyes of the storks that nest on the minarets above.
But this family w... Buy or find out more →
Pythagoras His Lives And The Legacy Of A Rational Universe
$39.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Icon Books
This is the story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most incredible thi... Buy or find out more →
The Wire: Truth Be Told
$29.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
The complete HBO official series guide. Introduction by David Simon.
Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire, hailed as ‘the best show on television, period’ by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New ... Buy or find out more →
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets
$26.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for ... Buy or find out more →
The Name Of The Rose
$19.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Bro... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Light
$34.95$12.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
"1907 Edwardian Dublin, " a city of whispers and rumors. At the Abbey Theatre W. B. Yeats is working with the talented John Synge, his resident playwright. It is here that Synge, the author of The Playboy of the Western ... Buy or find out more →
The Clothes On Their Backs
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Virago
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in ... Buy or find out more →
The Last Crusaders
$33.00$13.95 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West - the battles that were foug... Buy or find out more →
Eight Feet In The Andes
$30.00$12.95 – Paperback book / John Murray
The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca cap... Buy or find out more →
Perdita- The Life Of Mary Robinson
$24.95$7.95 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late 18th-century England. One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune.... Buy or find out more →
The Greeks And Greek Love
$14.95 – Trade paperback / Phoenix House
Though the issue of Greek homosexuality has been the subject of extensive research and debate in recent years, Kenneth Dover's 1978 Greek Homosexuality remains the most recent single-volume treatment of the subject as a ... Buy or find out more →
Surface Detail
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Orbit
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body ... Buy or find out more →
Rendezvous With Rama
$23.00$7.95 – Paperback book / Victor Gollancz
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System, A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien... Buy or find out more →
The Stars My Destination
$23.00$7.95 – Paperback book / Victor Gollancz
Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class. EDUCATION: none SKILLS: none MERITS: none RECOMMENDATIONS: none That's the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But right now he is the only survivor on his dr... Buy or find out more →
Talented Mr Ripley
$25.00$8.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success and the good life and... Buy or find out more →
The Naked Lunch
$25.00$19.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The anarchic, phenomenally strong-sellling classic from the godfather of the Beats. Welcome to Interzone! Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Check yourself into the hospital where D... Buy or find out more →
Get Shorty
$23.00$7.95 – Paperback book / Phoenix
Collecting money for the Mob isn't too different from any other job, reckons Miami loan shark Chili Palmer. He soon finds himself ordered to collect on a bad debt from Leo Devoe, a guy who died in a plane crash. But it t... Buy or find out more →
Freaky Deaky
$23.00$7.95 – Paperback book / Phoenix
Way back when revolution was the thing, bombs were Robin Abbott and Skip Gibbs's bag - until they were sent to prison. Now they're out and looking to put their skills to profitable use. Their target: Woody Ricks - who Ro... Buy or find out more →
Out Of Sight
$23.00$7.95 – Paperback book / Phoenix
Jack Foley was busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he ran head-on into Karen Sisco with a shotgun. Suddenly the world-class gentleman felon was sharing a cramped car trunk with a disarmed federal marshal - whose ... Buy or find out more →
Metamorphosis And Other Stories
$22.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
For all his fame, Franz Kafka published only a small number of stories in his lifetime. This new translation of those stories, by Michael Hofmann, one of the most respected German-to-English translators at work today, ma... Buy or find out more →
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
$22.00$8.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of ... Buy or find out more →
Incendiary
$25.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
A massive terrorist attack on Arsenal's new stadium - a woman grieving for her husband and son - a unique, twisted powerhouse of a novel. Angry, funny, heart-rending and subversive, few first novels are as compelling as ... Buy or find out more →
Nocturnes
$24.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Faber
An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past.
'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch...' In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passi... Buy or find out more →
Book Boy
$10.95$7.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Alice is thirty-eight. She has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy. But she isn't. Instead, she feels she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the ... Buy or find out more →
The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, Volume Two
$28.00$8.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
This is the second volume of Doris Lessing's 'Collected African Stories'. A classic work of 20th-century literature from teh Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. 'As for these stories -- when I write one, it is... Buy or find out more →
Shikasta
$28.00$8.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction set in an extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires. The story of the final days of our p... Buy or find out more →
The Sign Of The Cross - Travels in Catholic Europe
$22.00$8.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe, and then set down his impressions in this beautifully written book. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of ... Buy or find out more →
Master And Margarita
$22.00$8.95 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc.
Disappearances, destruction and death spread throu... Buy or find out more →
Atlantic Ocean Essays On Britain And America
$49.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our ... Buy or find out more →
William Golding The Man Who Wrote Lord Of The Flies
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served int he Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being... Buy or find out more →
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
$49.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the Italian head of state, the darling of Europe's ruling class. The b... Buy or find out more →
Journal
$54.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Maclehose Press
From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With he... Buy or find out more →
A Thousand Days In Tuscany A Bittersweet Romance
$24.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Virago
Continuing from A Thousand Days in Venice, this is the story of Marlena and her Venetian husband, Fernando, as they make a life for themselves in rural Tuscany. Amongst the many people they befriend is Barluzzo, an old s... Buy or find out more →
A Fork In The Road
$45.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innoc... Buy or find out more →
Going Dutch How England Plundered Hollands Glory
$33.00$16.95 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between the Netherlands and England during the 17th century, revealing the ways in which Dutch tolerance, resilience and commercial acumen eff... Buy or find out more →
Young Stalin
$69.95$17.95 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret... Buy or find out more →
Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius
$60.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
John Churchill is, by any reasonable analysis, Britain's greatest ever soldier. He mastered strategy, tactics and logistics. His big four battles, Blenheim (which saved the Holy Roman Empire), Ramilies, Oudenarde and Mal... Buy or find out more →
Life Of Kingsley Amis
$79.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist... Buy or find out more →
The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
A groundbreaking work of Romantic biography; David Crane's book is an astonishingly original examination of Byron, and a radical approach to biography. Crane focuses on the lifelong feud between Augusta -- Byron's half-s... Buy or find out more →
Lidia Cooks From The Heart Of Italy : A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
$55.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which ... Buy or find out more →
Ionian Mission
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocati... Buy or find out more →
Desolation Island
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocati... Buy or find out more →
Surgeon's Mate
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network... Buy or find out more →
Treason's Harbour
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocati... Buy or find out more →
Far Side Of The World
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning n... Buy or find out more →
Mauritius Command
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning n... Buy or find out more →
Nutmeg Of Consolation
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The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the gre... Buy or find out more →
Post Captain
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning n... Buy or find out more →
Planet Venus
$119.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Shrouded by the thick clouds of a hot, dense atmosphere, the planet Venus -- Earth's close neighbor in space -- remained mysterious until recent decades. Today, with new data from sophisticated contemporary observatories... Buy or find out more →
Lunar Men
$30.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: t... Buy or find out more →
Cheever: A Life
$49.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912–1982), a man who spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, t... Buy or find out more →
Every Living Thing Mans Obsessive Quest To Catalog Life
$37.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Biologists and laypeople alike have repeatedly claimed victory over life. A thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything; a hundred years ago, too. But even today, Rob Dunn argues, discoveries we can't yet ima... Buy or find out more →
Book Of Martyrdom And Artifice
$38.50$16.95 – Hardcover book / Da Capo
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. These first journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from Paterson, New Jersey, who would become the major poet and s... Buy or find out more →
Thomas Mann Life As A Work Of Art A Biography
$73.50$16.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
More than any other modernist writer, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) has remained something of a mystery. Biographers have concluded from his writings that he was an anti-Semite, a closet homosexual, a proto-fascist and an auth... Buy or find out more →
Forbidden Faith The Secret History Of Gnosticism
$19.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity - truths that may hav... Buy or find out more →
Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Life
$52.50$19.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave t... Buy or find out more →
World War II Behind Closed Doors
$49.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most cruc... Buy or find out more →
Storm And Conquest The Clash Of Empires In The Eastern Seas 1809
$37.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson s navy and France. At stake was Britain s commercial lifeline to India and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe.In one fatal season, the natural order of mar... Buy or find out more →
Zoli
$29.95$12.95 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out onto the frozen lake and forced them to stay there until t... Buy or find out more →
Hypnotic Brain Hypnotherapy And Social Communication
$77.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Hypnosis has recently experienced a surge of popularity in the scientific community and the general public and is currently being used to deal with a wide range of disorders. In this book, Dr Peter Brown draws on the lat... Buy or find out more →
Stranger From Abroad Hannah Arendt Martin Heidegger Friendship And Forgiveness
$37.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Shaking up the content and method by which generations of students had studied Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger sought to ennoble man's existence in relation to death. Yet in a time of crisis, he sought personal adva... Buy or find out more →
Paul Bowles Reader
$14.95 – Paperback book / Peter Owen
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Political Writings 1953 1993
$39.00$15.95 – Paperback book / Fordham Univ Pr
Maurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century French thought. A lifelong friend of Levinas, he had a major influence on Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, and many others. Both his fiction and his criti... Buy or find out more →
Soul Of The Age A Biography Of The Mind Of William Shakespeare
$49.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
Both an editor and a scholar of Shakespeare, Bate (Univ. of Warwick, UK) has written a brilliant biography of Shakespeare, a treatment that stands out among lives of the Bard. That Shakepeare's life continues to inspire ... Buy or find out more →
Mad Desire To Dance
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Nobel laureate Wiesel ("Night") grapples with questions of madness, sadness and memory in this difficult but powerful novel. Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, survived the occupation in hiding with his father wh... Buy or find out more →
Eiffels Tower
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa
The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced it In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of "Conquering Gotham"-offers an eye... Buy or find out more →
In Quest Of Jinnah Diary Notes And Correspondence Of Hector Bolitho
$27.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
The greatest travail to be undertaken by writers is that of the official biographer. In 1953, Beverly Nichols suggested Hector Bolitho, the New Zealand born biographer of Prince Albert, as the person best suited to write... Buy or find out more →
From Millet To Leger Essays In Social Art History
$70.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
A compilation of Herbert's articles, published between 1960 and the mid-1990s, this book offers a valuable survey of the social inclinations of modernists and their 19th-century forebears. Consciously eschewing postmoder... Buy or find out more →
Red Mutiny Eleven Fateful Days On The Battleship Potemkin
$36.95$10.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
The true story of the deadliest naval mutiny in history In 1905, after being served rancid meat, more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their officers aboard what was then one of the most powerful battl... Buy or find out more →
Gottfried Semper Architect Of The Nineteenth Century
$105.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
During an adventurous life, the German architect, scholar, and political revolutionary Gottfried Semper (1803-79) experienced early fame, political exile from his homeland, international prominence, and the exhilaration ... Buy or find out more →
Roth Time A Dieter Roth Retrospective
$63.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art
Sculptor, poet, diarist, graphic designer, pioneer artist's book maker, performer, publisher, musician, and, most of all, provocateur, Dieter Roth has long been beloved as an artist's artist. Known for his mistrust of al... Buy or find out more →
Printed Stuff Prints Posters And Ephemera By Claes Oldenburga Catalogue Raisonne 1958 1996
$175.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hudson Hills
This magnificent volume documents the printmaking career of leading pop artist, influential creator of public monuments, and bravura draftsman Claes Oldenburg. Includes an important essay on Oldenburg's career and a cata... Buy or find out more →
Neoclassical Architecture In Greece
$105.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / J Paul Getty Trust P
The establishment of the modem Greek state in the late 1820s, after four centuries of Ottoman rule, marks a crucial advance in the long history of the Greek nation. Inspired by their new sense of nationalism, the Greeks ... Buy or find out more →
One Sneaky Sheep: A Touch And Feel Fluffy Tale
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This fun tactile book is based on a true story of a sheep that always avoided getting sheared by sneaking away. This book is beautifully illustrated. This book teaches that beauty isn't skin deep and that trip to the hia... Buy or find out more →
Garbo
$70.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
Famously elusive, Greta Garbo only had her picture taken when a contract required it. She shunned publicity, kept her private life a secret, and rejected the spotlight. Though ambivalent about fame and her public image, ... Buy or find out more →
The Earth Shall Weep
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Now available in paperback, The Earth Shall Weep is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples. Combining traditional historical sources with new insights from ethnography, archaeology,... Buy or find out more →
Love Life Goethe
$42.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success: he wanted (much... Buy or find out more →
Historical Atlas Of Judaism
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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... Buy or find out more →
Lumen Picturae Drawing Art Manual
$71.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Frechmann Kolon Gmbh
Originally published in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1675, Frederick de Wit's Lumen Picturae falls within the tradition of treatises on illustration, an essential element in any artist's education up to the era of the Impr... Buy or find out more →
Subway Art
$56.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Chronicle Books
During the 1970s and 80s, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the environment and the imagination of a generation by documenting the burgeoning New York City graffiti movement. Now 25 years and more t... Buy or find out more →
Type & Typography: Highlights From Matrix
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This is the first of a planned series of anthologies drawing on the archives of Matrix, the respected and renowned journal produced annually for over 20 years by John and Rose Randle at The Whittington Press. This anthol... Buy or find out more →
Name Of The Game
$25.00$9.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
Loosely based on the story of Eisner's wife's family, this epic tale spanning three generations of power and privilege explores wealth, marriage, and jealousy in a sprawling American dynasty. Buy or find out more →
Che A Graphic Biography
$23.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Verso
There are few members of the 1960s underground comics wave whose names inspire more awe and respect than that of Rodriguez ("Zap", "Nightmare Alley"). Unfortunately, relatively little of that class's avant-garde flash or... Buy or find out more →
Dreaming Of Tuscany
$25.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
No country inspires as much fascination as Italy, and no region in Italy inspires as much adoration as Tuscany--for its interior design, art and architecture, fashion, artisans and crafts, food and wine. In "Dreaming of ... Buy or find out more →
Oxford Companion To Classical Literature
$112.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, the first updating... Buy or find out more →
John Cheever Collected Stories
$49.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Library Of America
Published to coincide with editor Blake Baileyas groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheeveras classic stor... Buy or find out more →
This Is Where I Leave You
$21.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Plume
"Often sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking...[Tropper is] a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche." --"USA Today" The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that th... Buy or find out more →
The Super Organism: The Beauty Elegance And Strangeness Of Insect Societies
$77.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants render the extraordinary lives of the social insects in this visually spectacular volume.
The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works publish... Buy or find out more →
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
The Creation is E. O. Wilson's most important work since the publications of Sociobiology and Biophilia. Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, it is a book about the fate of the earth and the survival of our planet. Yet wh... Buy or find out more →
Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
$32.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / St Martins
In a swaggering, sometimes condescending and often contentious introduction to Kafka, Hawes draws on the writer's stories, diaries and letters, as well as contemporary cultural documents as he asks the real Kafka to plea... Buy or find out more →
Naming Nature The Clash Between Instinct And Science
$39.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
In this entertaining and insightful book, "New York Times" science writer Yoon sets out to document the progression of the scientific quest to order and name the entire living worldthe whole squawking, scuttling, bloomin... Buy or find out more →
Simone Weil A Modern Pilgrimage
$9.95 – Paperback book / Skylight Paths
Offers today's spiritual seeker an enjoyable entry into the great classic texts of the world's spiritual traditions. Each classic is presented in an accessible translation, with facing pages of guided commentary from exp... Buy or find out more →
How We Live And Why We Die The Secret Lives Of Cells
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Everything about our existence movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth and, ultimately, death is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from the tiniest bacteria to the mo... Buy or find out more →
Michael Tolliver Lives
$36.00$10.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending ... Buy or find out more →
Galosh And Other Stories
$33.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Overlook Press
Satirist Zoschenko (1896 -1958) began publishing his topical, colloquial short stories to wild popularity in Soviet newspapers beginning in 1923; many appear here in English for the first time, in Hicks's lively, masterf... Buy or find out more →
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
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This translation of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" has captured the true spirit and poetry of the original work. With a historical and philosophical introduction, accessible commentary, notes and a glossary of key terms ... Buy or find out more →
Time Of Their Lives Golden Age Of Great American Book Publishers & Their Editors & Authors
$49.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / St Martins
From upstarts like Barney Rossets Grove Press to stalwarts like Harper (in various incarnations) under the decades-long direction of Cass Canfield, the great houses of what Silverman sees as publishings heyday are nostal... Buy or find out more →
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
$49.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Wiley
Winner of the 2008 US National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematica... Buy or find out more →
To Everything There Is A Season: Pete Seeger And The Power Of Song
$33.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Turn, Turn, Turn," Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the United States. In "To Ev... Buy or find out more →
Literature Of Australia An Anthology
$69.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
The result of a collaboration between Sydney's Macquarie University and International PEN Sydney Centre, and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Research Council, The Literature of Australia g... Buy or find out more →
Partisan's Daughter
$33.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
From the acclaimed author of "Corelli's Mandolin" and "Birds Without Wings" ("de Bernieres has reached heights that few modern novelists ever attempt" --"The Washington Post Book World") comes an intimate new novel, a lo... Buy or find out more →
Leningrad State Of Siege
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
"All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected," wrote Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1941, at the outset of Operation Barbarossa. "In this struggle for survival, we have no interest in keeping even a proportio... Buy or find out more →
Crimes Of Paris A True Story Of Murder Theft And Detection
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
Capacious study of some nefarious Parisians during the years before World War I, incongruously framed by the tale of Mona Lisa's famed disappearance in 1911.
Co-authors Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Seven Paths to Death, 2... Buy or find out more →
The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet
$29.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A boundary-leaping debut tracing a gifted young map maker's attempt to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announc... Buy or find out more →
See What I'm Saying: The Extraordinary Powers Of Our Five Senses
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
In this revealing romp through the mysteries of human perception, University of California psychologist and researcher Lawrence Rosenblum explores the astonishing abilities of the five senses skills of which most of us a... Buy or find out more →
Bob Dylan The Illustrated Biography
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A freewheelin' folk troubador, a music pioneer, a poet, a legend. Bob Dylan is all that, and more, and Bob Dylan: The Illustrated Biography pulls back the curtain on this influential musician's life. Made up of rare and ... Buy or find out more →
From The Hip
$70.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Damiani
Radical British political activist John "Hoppy" Hopkins--who opened the legendary UFO, London's first psychedelic club, and published "The International Times," London's first daily underground paper--arrived in London i... Buy or find out more →
Richard Meier Modern Masters
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Richard Meier founded his office in 1962 and almost immediately established his presence as an architect of international stature. He was awarded a Pritzker Prize in 1984 and Gold Medal from the RIBA in 1989, and has won... Buy or find out more →
Sebastiano Serlio Architect
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Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio (c. 1475-1555), who began to work as an architect only in his maturity and in France, is known and appreciated chiefly as a theorist and author of the highly influential tr... Buy or find out more →
Globalization A Short History
$49.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
"Two German historians have very successfully put the phenomenon of globalization into historical perspective--and they are highly qualified to do so. There is no volume of similar length that brings together the histori... Buy or find out more →
Thucydides The Reinvention Of History
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
A reconsideration of the first modern historian and his methods from a renowned scholar
The grandeur and power of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War have enthralled readers, historians, and statesmen alike for two and a h... Buy or find out more →
Jacques Offenbach And The Paris Of His Time
$56.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Zone Books
Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is aremarkable work of social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937and in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of... Buy or find out more →
Intellectuals And Society
$42.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has... Buy or find out more →
Success Through Failure The Paradox Of Design
$30.95$16.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press
Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-rangi... Buy or find out more →
Messy Morality The Challenge Of Politics
$49.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of morality to politics, especially international politic... Buy or find out more →
Art And Its Histories A Reader
$98.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This volume presents eighty-nine influential texts that have played a significant role in shaping modern judgments and values about art. Emphasizing the debates and ideological assumptions around the Western canon of art... Buy or find out more →
The Western Theory Of Tradition Terms And Paradigms Of The Cultural Sublime
$70.00$20.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This elegantly written book offers a new way to conceive of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures that has been only partially understood: according to this concept, the act ... Buy or find out more →
Deleuze And The Schizoanalysis Of Cinema
$35.00$15.95 – Paperback book / Continuum Pub Co
This is a hugely important collection of essays on Deleuze and Cinema from an international panel of experts. In 1971, Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative work, "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" caused an int... Buy or find out more →
Flight Of The Intellectuals
$43.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / Melville House Publishing
One of our most gifted essayists, a deeply pensive writer with a lyrical talent for imaginative synthesis. - The Boston Globe
One of America's best exponents of recent intellectual history. - The Economist
It created a w... Buy or find out more →
Films Of Peter Weir
$31.00$13.95 – Paperback book / Continuum Pub Co
Peter Weir is, without doubt, one of the most important Australian film directors of all time. His films have had a major impact, both in terms of the Australian film industry ( Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Cars That Ate... Buy or find out more →
Aesthetic Democracy
$57.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
"Aesthetic Democracy" argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it ... Buy or find out more →
H.C. For Life That Is To Say
$85.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / Stanford Univ. Press
"H. C. for Life, That is to Say..." is Derrida's literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Helene Cixous. The main figure that informs Derrida's reading here is that of "taking sides." While Helene C... Buy or find out more →
The Edge Of Reason
$49.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Continuum Pub Co
Confrontation between science and religion has defined much public debate about religion in recent years, most lately in bestsellers portraying a clash between scientists and religious believers, such as Richard Dawkin’s... Buy or find out more →
Unthought Debt
$51.95$16.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
Drawing on Heidegger's corpus, the work of historians and biblical specialists, and contemporary philosophers like Levinas and Derrida, Zarader brings to light the evolution of an impense - or unthought thought - that be... Buy or find out more →
Inheriting The Future Legacies Of Kant Freud And Flaubert
$41.95$16.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
This book explores several canonical works of philosophy, paychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant's moral philosophy, Freud's reflections on obsessional neurosis, and Flaubert's peculiar late... Buy or find out more →
Heideggers Volk Between National Socialism And Philosophy
$45.00$16.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
In 1933 the philosopher Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to Hitler. Ever since, scholars have asked to what extent his work is implicated in Nazism. To address this question properly involves neither conflating N... Buy or find out more →
Conditions
$49.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Continuum Pub Co
This is the first complete English translation of the work that immediately followed Badiou's magnum opus, "Being and Event" in which Badiou provides an overview of what he sees as the four great conditions of philosophy... Buy or find out more →
Adam Cullen Let's Get Lost Exhibition Art Gallery Of New South Wales 15 May 27 July 2008
$39.95$10.95 – Paperback book / Art Gallery Of Nsw
Satirical, offensive, but with an echoing truth in their momentary glimpses of our mundane world, his images and words remind us forcefully of the vapid half-truths that determine so much in modern life. For all that dar... Buy or find out more →
Hawke: The Prime Minister
$59.99$9.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Since its first publication in 1982, Blanche d'Alpuget's Robert J Hawke: A Biography has remained the benchmark by which other political biographies are measured.
Hawke: The Prime Minister begins as Bob Hawke wrestles th... Buy or find out more →
The Tin Drum
$35.00$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A new translation of the landmark novel with a new foreword by the author
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of h... Buy or find out more →
Atlantic And Its Enemies A History Of The Cold War
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
Stone builds on his expertise in the long 19th century in this very successful overview of a cold war whose end, he says, was a complete surprise. Intellectually, Marxism-Leninism in parts of the West was more of a vital... Buy or find out more →
Zero History
$32.95$12.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Former rock singer Hollis Henry has lost a lot of money in the crash, which means she can't turn down the offer of a job from Hubertus Bigend, sinister Belgian proprietor of mysterious ad agency Blue Ant. Milgrim is work... Buy or find out more →
Golden Age The Spanish Empire Of Charles V
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
Focusing on the magisterial and enigmatic Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, this title begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around the world in 1522 and ends with Charles' death i... Buy or find out more →
Globish: How The English Language Became The World's Language
$32.95$10.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
How English conquered the world: a Guns, Germs, and Steel argument based on the power of the word.
It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by mara... Buy or find out more →
The Great Divergence China Europe And The Making Of The Modern World Economy
$42.00$19.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press
"The Great Divergence" brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and Ea... Buy or find out more →
Splendour And Squalor: The Disgrace And Disintegration Of Three Aristocratic Dynasties
$27.00$10.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
From stately homes and prisons to the House of Lords and Edwardian asylums--the stories, spanning the 20th century, of the disintegrating fortunes of three of Britain's most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and the sca... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Mean
$30.00$12.95 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
In a feat of historical imagination The Golden Mean brilliantly imagines the relationship between Aristotle and his pupil, later the virtual psychopath and world conqueror, Alexander the Great.
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Dylan Speaks: The Legendary 1965 Press Conference in San Francisco (2006)
$29.95$12.95 – Digital video disc /
1965 was a pivotal year in Bob Dylan's career. In the early part of the year he released "Bringing It All Back Home", the first album that saw him move distinctly away from his folk music origins. In the summer he follow... Buy or find out more →
Moral Compass Stories For A Life's Journey
$22.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
More than two million readers have used "The Book of Virtues, " the nationwide #1 bestseller by William J. Bennett, to help their families learn the essential traits of good character.
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Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits Of Double Agent Eddiechapman
$35.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Arcade
Traces the career of an MI5 double agent who conducted dangerous assignments throughout three years during World War II, describing his efforts to support England and his familial relationship with a German handler that ... Buy or find out more →
Readings and Writings: Forty Years in Books
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Since opening in 1969, Readings has grown to become one of the most renowned and beloved bookshops in Melbourne and a landmark on the local literary scene. From the first small shop on Lygon Street to its current six loc... Buy or find out more →
Midsummer Nights
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Quercus
Midsummer Nights is an anthology of opera-inspired stories by the best writers of modern fiction, published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera, one of Britain s most extraordinary cul... Buy or find out more →
Marc Chagall And His Times A Documentary Narrative
$22.00$10.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses the 98 years of Chagall’s life (18... Buy or find out more →
Lost In A Good Book
$29.95$10.00 – Hardcover book / Viking
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with "The Eyre Affair" continues with Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. ... Buy or find out more →
Marc Chagall And His Times: A Documentary Narrative
$29.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Stanford Univ. Press
This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses the 98 years of Chagall's life (18... Buy or find out more →
Dirty Blonde
$69.95$7.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
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... Buy or find out more →
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
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Acclaimed behavioral-science writer Gallagher makes the radical argument that the quality of a life largely depends on what and how one chooses to pay attention. "Rapt" yields fresh insights into the nature of reality an... Buy or find out more →
Everything Is Broken A Tale Of Catastrophe In Burma
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
A deeply reported account of life inside Burma in the months following the disastrous Cyclone Nargis and an analysis of the brutal totalitarian regime that clings to power in the devastated nation. On May 2, 2008, an eno... Buy or find out more →
Matterhorn
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Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Wa... Buy or find out more →
The Thief At The End Of The World Rubber Power And The Seedsof Empire
$16.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
The story of one man's journey down the Amazon and how it changed history.
In 1876, a man named Henry Wickham smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian E... Buy or find out 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 ... Buy or find out more →
Bloodless Revolution A Cultural History Of Vegetarianism From 1600 To Modern Times
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How Western Christianity and Eastern philosophy merged to spawn a political movement that had the prohibition of meat at its core. "The Bloodless Revolution" is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, Europe... Buy or find out more →
Masters Of Sex
$38.50$15.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
Critically acclaimed biographer Maier offers an unprecedented look at William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the famous sex research team who dramatically transformed American sexuality yet whose private relationship was ... Buy or find out more →
The Christian World
$35.00$16.95 – Hard back / Random Century
In this cogent volume, renowned Christian historian Martin Marty delivers a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world's largest religion.... Buy or find out more →
Triumph Of Music Composers Musicians And Their Audiences 1700 To The Present
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
From lowly beginnings as fireside entertainers to starstudded performers courted by governments and world leaders, Tim Blanning’s inspired new book looks at the rise and rise of music and musicians.
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Collected Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter
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Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well... Buy or find out more →
Conquest
$55.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword. Henry V's second invasion of Fra... Buy or find out more →
Letters Of Noel Coward
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
A publishing event! The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable Noël Coward, a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and agefrom the Blit... Buy or find out more →
The Beast Of The Camargue
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Commissaire Michel de Palma is confronted by a series of unexplained deaths, all bearing the grisly hallmarks of an ancient myth. But one summer’s night the ceremony is broken by a gruesome discovery: a mutilated body fo... Buy or find out more →
Dubins Lives
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With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon "Dubin's Lives" (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times" as Malamud's "best novel since "The Assistant." Pos... Buy or find out more →
Sloth The Seven Deadly Sins
$14.00$6.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommitt... Buy or find out more →
Novels And Other Narratives 1986-1991
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Library Of America
This fourth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Roth's collected works presents four novels that recount the story of budding American writer Nathan Zuckerman. Includes "The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman U... Buy or find out more →
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures
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Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course on comics creation for college classes or for independent study that centres on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. Buy or find out more →
Mr Puntila And His Man Matti
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Long unavailable in this country, Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti comprises some of the best comedy that Bertolt Brecht wrote for the theater and contains one of his great characters. For his complexity and vitality, Mr. P... Buy or find out more →
Henry Handel Richardson: A Life
$80.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Henry Handel Richardson is celebrated for her classic Australian novels The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, yet her own life-story is still to be fully told. This enthralling book is the first compl... Buy or find out more →
Towards Another Summer
$19.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Sometimes, Grace thought, "no thank you" was the most chilling phrase in the English language. Janet Frame wrote this small and exquisite novel in 1963 whilst taking a break from her longest novel, The Adaptable Man. It'... Buy or find out more →
Sex Machines Photographs and Images
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Through astonishing images and the surprisingly touching words of its subjects, Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviewsexplores the new sex machine underground in America and the homespun inventors and users who propel ... Buy or find out more →
New Zealand: Continent In A Nutshell
$95.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Bucher
High mountains and rolling hills, glaciers, fjords, volacnoes. geysers and sub tropical rainforests. New Zealand is planet earth in a nutshell. Buy or find out more →
Force Of Reason
$29.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
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... Buy or find out more →
Action And Reaction
$50.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Zone Books
What do biologists mean when they say that to live is to react? Why was the term abreaction invented and later abandoned by the first generation of psychoanalysts? What is meant by reactionary politics? These are but a f... Buy or find out more →
Political Ideas In The Romantic Age
$42.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
""Political Ideas in the Romantic Age" makes an intriguing and provocative contribution to the history of ideas, and also to the study of Berlin's own thought. The ideas Berlin examines are intrinsically interesting and ... Buy or find out more →
Declared Enemy
$29.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political cause... Buy or find out more →
Breaking Point The Hemingway Dos Passos And The Murder Of Jose Robles
$40.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Robson Books
Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were friends; writers-in-arms, though they were polar opposites in terms of personality - Dos Passos' calm contrasting with Hemingway's machismo. They arrived in Spain during the civi... Buy or find out more →
A World On Fire: An Epic History Of Two Nations Divided
$35.00$14.95 – Trade paperback / Allen Lane
In A World on Fire Amanda Foreman brings her unique style of epic biography to the American Civil War. During the titanic struggle between North and South, both sides demanded Britain's support. British volunteers fought... Buy or find out more →
Emerald Germs Of Ireland
$46.00$6.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
"...Mr. McCabe presents Pat's exploits not as a series of grim outrages but as...merry escapism....But too much jest does a disservice to the real darkness that haunts this material, and that erupts only suddenly and bit... Buy or find out more →
Stupidity And Tears Teaching And Learning In Troubled Times
$30.00$9.95 – Hardcover book / New Press
National Book Award-winning educator Kohl (36 Children and some 40 other books) offers six essays on "sustaining the joy of teaching while under pressure." How can teachers maintain integrity and creativity when school s... Buy or find out more →
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World
$49.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
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... Buy or find out more →
Worldly Country New Poems
$29.95$9.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual
$47.95$6.95 – Hardcover book / Fantagraphics Books
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... Buy or find out more →
The Bell Ringers
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In Porter's outstanding near-future thriller, David Eyam, the former head of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee, is killed by a bomb in Colombia that was apparently aimed at others. His recently estranged close frien... Buy or find out more →
Lincoln Anthology
$60.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Library Of America
Abraham Lincoln has achieved an unrivaled preeminence in American history, culture, and myth. Here, for the bicentennial of his birth, Lincoln and his enduring legacy are the focus of nearly 100 major authors and importa... Buy or find out more →
Imagining India Ideas For The New Century
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Indian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the
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Christopher's Ghost
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It's a case of tiger chasing tiger as Christopher is pursued by the only man alive who can match his tradecraft or his instincts. Years previously, Christopher witnessed an unspeakable atrocity committed by an S.S. offic... Buy or find out more →
Deceivers
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Mystify. Mislead. Surprise. These have been the basic tenets of deception in warfare throughout human history. In WWII, however, the Allies employed unprecedented measures and practiced the most successful deception ever... Buy or find out more →
Bad Faith
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Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs,” who managed the Vichy government’s dirty work, “con... Buy or find out more →
Lavinia
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In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice In "The Aeneid, "Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lav... Buy or find out more →
Flight From Reality In The Human Sciences
$61.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
Ian Shapiro's work has inspired a generation of both scholars and practitioners of politics--for the simple reason that he meets the standards of the former and the needs of the latter. In this book, he helps rescue the ... Buy or find out more →
Poincare Conjecture In Search Of The Shape Of The Universe
$37.95$10.95 – Hardcover book / Walker And Company
Henri Poincare was one of the greatest mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He revolutionized the field of topology, which studies properties of geometric configurations that are unchanged b... Buy or find out more →
Pop 60 S Magnum
$42.00$21.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
Culled from the archives of Magnum Photos, the world's preeminent photo agency, "Pop 60s" celebrates the visionaries, icons, and memorable moments of the decade that transformed the fabric of American life. From Andy War... Buy or find out more →
Concrete Dragon
$62.50$15.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Archit. Pr
China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom un... Buy or find out more →
Pride Seven Deadly Sins
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Oxford and the New York Public Library bring together seven prominent writers and thinkers to pen book-length meditations that illuminate both sin and sinner. Of the Seven Deadly Sins, pride is the only one with a virtuo... Buy or find out more →
Euripedes Alcestis
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Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripides' play in 1993, almost completing it the... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Force Of Destiny A History Of Italy Since 1796
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The first English language book to cover the full scope of modern Italy, from its official birth to today, "The Force of Destiny" is a brilliant and comprehensive study and a frightening example of how easily nation-buil... Buy or find out more →
Imperial
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An epic study of an emblematic American region by one of our most celebrated writers It sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern California, right across ... Buy or find out more →
The Magical World of Milligan
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The Magical World of Milligan is a sparkly new children's compendium that gathers together a grand selection of Milligan favourites, including such delightful poems and stories as 'On the Ning Nang Nong', 'The Terrible M... Buy or find out more →
An Investigation Of The Laws Of Thought
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A timeless introduction to the field and a landmark in symbolic logic, showing that classical logic can be treated algebraically. Buy or find out more →
The Farmer's Daughter
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In three novellas as dark as they are exuberant, Harrison delivers protagonists who are smart, lusty in that classic Harrison fashion and linked by The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me, a Patsy Cline song that appears through... Buy or find out more →
Lowell Limpet And Two Stories
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In a departure from his two previous novels A Dangerous Friend and Echo House, boasting complexities of plot and large casts Just turns out three concentrated character studies in this slim collection. The title piece, a... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Complete Fiction
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In his more than eighty years, Francis Wyndham has published very little--one novella and two collections of stories--but his is one of the most individual and compelling bodies of work by a contemporary English writer. ... Buy or find out more →
Siena Constructing A Renaissance City
$91.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Siena is one of those small Italian cities near Florence located for centuries on the Grand Tour of Europe for many reasons: e.g., the annual summer ritual of the Palio and the famous 14th-century cityscape frescoes in t... Buy or find out more →
Anglo Files: A Field Guide To The British
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Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century. Sarah Lyall, a reporter for theNew York Times, moved to London in the mid-19... Buy or find out more →
Stravinsky The Second Exile France And America 1934 1971
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In following Igor Stravinsky's journeys from Paris to America and from neoclassicism to serialism, critic and musicologist Walsh concludes his definitive two-volume account of the life of the most acclaimed composer of t... Buy or find out more →
Salvador Dali The Construction Of Image 1925 1930
$89.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
As a very young artist in training at the academy in Madrid, Salvador Dalí worked in two distinct modes—a highly detailed naturalism (under the influence of the “return to order”) and a more avant-garde, cubist-derived s... Buy or find out more →
Echoes: The Complete History Of Pink Floyd
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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... Buy or find out more →
Elemental Art Of The Indonesian Archipelago
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Companion to the exhibition, Elemental Art of the Indonesian Archipelago Selections from the Collection of Mingei International Museum. 2005. 250 pages. 162 color illustrations by Lynton Gardiner with a commentary, Realm... Buy or find out more →
Gardens Of Persia
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Gardens of Persia demonstrates world-renowned author Penelope Hobhouse's rare ability to combine meticulous research and a practical knowledge of gardens and plants with a love of garden history and travel. By telling th... Buy or find out more →
Fruit: Edible Inedible Incredible
$84.00$34.95 – Hardcover book / Firefly Publishing
A collaboration between a visual artist and a biologist explores why fruits exist, how they develop and why they are critical to the natural order. Illustrated with oversized and spectacular electron microscopy images th... Buy or find out more →
Renegade: The Making Of Barack Obama
$34.00$9.95 – Trade paperback / Virgin Publishing
Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving beh... Buy or find out more →
Cox Architects and Planners : 1960 - 2010
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From its origins as a leading proponent of the 'Sydney School of Architecture' in the 1960s, COX Architects & Planners, known more commonly as COX, has grown to become one of Australia's largest and most successful p... Buy or find out more →
History Of The Jews In The Modern World
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The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
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Scenes From Provincial Life
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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and ... Buy or find out more →
Enlightenment
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At the start of Freely's complex, often riveting novel set in contemporary and Cold War Turkey, a journalist known only as Miss M returns to Istanbul in 2005 after a long absence at the request of Jeannie Wakefield, whos... Buy or find out more →
Spain In Light And Shadow
$65.00$9.00 – 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... Buy or find out more →
The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire
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A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower-published on the 60th anniversary of Britain's withdrawal from Palestine "I have not bec... Buy or find out more →
Storm And Conquest
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By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson’s Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe.
In one fatal season, t... Buy or find out more →
Propensity Of Things: Towards A History Of Efficacy In China
$54.60$19.95 – Hardcover book / Zone Books
In this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Francois Julien, a French sinologist whose work has not yet appeared in English uses the Chinese concept of "shi"--meaning disposition ... Buy or find out more →
World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography Of V.S. Naipaul
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The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich d... Buy or find out 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.
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About My Life And The Kept Woman
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John Rechy has always been a path breaker. His first novel, City of Night, is a modern classic and his subsequent body of work has kept him among America's most important writers. Now, for the first time, he writes openl... Buy or find out more →
Carrion Death
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"This impressive debut from Stanley, the South African writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip, introduces overweight assistant superintendent David Bengu of the Botswana Police Department, whose nickname is, f... Buy or find out more →
Sun In A Bottle
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The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy .
When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system-... Buy or find out more →
Vanilla Bright Like Eminem
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Michel Faber is not only a master storyteller but a daring innovator as well. Here are the pitch-perfect prose, indelible characterizations, and deep empathy for which he has been highly acclaimed. Here also is a satiric... Buy or find out more →
The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrun
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún tells in narrative verse the saga of a Norse hero‚ Sigurd‚ prophesied to defend the gods of Valhalla against the Ragnarok‚ the apocalypse‚ and his adventures that see him battle a mighty d... Buy or find out more →
Another Part Of The Wood
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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and ... Buy or find out more →
Expensive Education
$35.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / 841 Broadway New York Ny 10003 Usa
Nick McDonell’s remarkable third novel, An Expensive Education, received rave reviews across the country, drawing comparisons to the works of Graham Greene and John le Carré and earning praise for its careful plotting an... Buy or find out more →
Billy Liar
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and ... Buy or find out more →
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
$33.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
In her previous books, Stiff and a follow-up, Spook, Mary Roach set out to make creepy topics (cadavers, the afterlife) fun. In Bonk…she takes an entertaining topic and showcases its creepier side. And then she makes the... Buy or find out more →
This Blinding Absence Of Light
$45.00$6.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Counterpath Traveling With Jacques Derrida
$19.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
This collaborative work by Catherine Malabou and Jacques Derrida explores the idea of traveling with the philosopher of deconstruction. Malabou's readerly text of quotations and commentary demonstrates how Derrida's work... Buy or find out more →
The Ambassadors
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We think of ambassadors as simply diplomats-but once they were adventurers who dared an uncertain fate in unknown lands, bringing gifts of greyhounds and elephants to powerful and unpredictable leaders. In vivid detail, ... Buy or find out more →
Edward Weston
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Edward Weston (1886–1958) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century photography. An exponent of ‘straight photography’, Weston was committed to making photographs ‘free from technical tricks and incoherent emoti... Buy or find out more →
Gambling Man Charles II And The Restoration
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way ... Buy or find out more →
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern
$35.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Basic Books
In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an o... Buy or find out more →
Novel About My Wife
$23.99$8.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. ... Buy or find out more →
Masters Of Modern Design A Critical Assessment
$70.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Monacelli
The twelve designers featured in "Masters of Modern Design" -- originators of ideas vital to the contemporary world -- have had an immeasurable impact on the buildings, houses, furniture, cars, and basic products we use ... Buy or find out more →
After Raphael
$175.00$29.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Awakening The Heroes Within
$26.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Harper Us
In this brilliant sequel to her bestselling The Hero Within, Carol Pearson traces twelve different archetypal patterns that can aid inner development and the quest for wholeness that is life's journey. She offers a deepe... Buy or find out more →
Katherine Mansfields Black Paper Fan
$38.50 – Hardcover book /
Sylvia Plath stands in violet light, like a Tintoretto magnificent and melancholy. Modernist Mansfield broods on her purple carpet beneath her print of the Maori girl with tattooed lips. A cantankerous Irish- man called ... Buy or find out more →
Japanese Paintings
$84.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Weatherhill
This volume is the first comprehensive look at the Ashmolean Museum's significant works that range in date from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, many of which are illustrated in color. A full sixty of the fine... Buy or find out more →
Vitruvius Britannicus Second Series
$35.00$16.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
The sequel to the Dover edition of "Vitruvius Britannicus" (British Vitruvius), this magnificent volume comprises three folios, originally published between 1739 and 1771. More than 100 plates depict facades, ground plan... Buy or find out more →
Blue And White Chinese Porcelain Around The World
$90.00$49.95 – Hardcover book /
This richly illustrated book traces the history and evolution of blue and white in China, first during the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), when the Mongols ruled all of Asia, creating an environment in which blue and white cou... Buy or find out more →
Astronomy 365 Days
$42.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
Perfect for anyone who's ever felt the allure of the skies, this spectacular collection of photographs of space and sky is drawn from Bonnell and Nemiroff's enormously popular Web site, Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD... Buy or find out more →
Miss O'Dell: My Life With The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, And The Women Who Loved Them
$45.00$9.95 – Hardcover book / Touchstone
Assisted by veteran co-author Ketcham (co-author, with William Cope Moyers: Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, 2006, etc.), O'Dell discusses how her friends and lovers, as the subtitle of her book makes clear,... Buy or find out more →
Culture In Practice Selected Essays
$37.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press
"Culture in Practice" collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, "Culture in Practice" unfolds as an intellectual autobiogra... Buy or find out more →
Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Republic
$37.95$8.95 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company
A "New York Times "bestseller, "Nemesis "is Chalmers Johnson's "fiercest book--and his best" (Andrew J. Bacevich) In his prophetic book "Blowback," Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disas... Buy or find out more →
The Rock: Travelling To Uluru
$29.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Uluru, or Ayre's Rock, is the centre, a sacred place. Why is it such an icon? It is a special place above all to Aborigines and also to explorers, anthropologists, scientists, geologists and tourists from around the worl... Buy or find out more →
Echoes From The Dead
$23.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
Can you ever come to terms with a missing child?
Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found.
Until his shoe arri... Buy or find out more →
Silks For Thrones And Altars
$84.00$39.95 – Paperback book /
SILKS FOR THRONES AND ALTARS presents 77 Chinese textiles from the 14th through the 18th century, divided into three groups. The first group consists of clothing and furnishing fabrics made for and used by the ruling eli... Buy or find out more →
Pop Art Book
$44.00$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Dog Publishing
Pop Art Book is a vibrant celebration of the movement, combining visual excitement with accessible academic commentary. The book includes works by major artists such as Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Roy Lichtenstein and Edua... Buy or find out more →
Architecture For Art
$120.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
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... Buy or find out more →
Repertory Of Dutch And Flemish Paintings In Italian Public Collections
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Stalin Epigram
$39.95$17.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century — and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia... Buy or find out more →
The Ruby In Her Navel
$49.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Delta Dell
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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Manuel
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This book presents the most recent body of work by artists Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, the collaborative team known as MANUAL. Masters of digital media, the artists’ photo-constructions and time-based works play extensive... Buy or find out more →
Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe and the Murder behind one of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Delta Dell
A real-life Amadeus: Set against the backdrop of the Counter-Reformation, this is the story of the stormy collaboration between two revolutionary astronomers, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. That collaboration would mar... Buy or find out more →
Arlington Park
$35.00$8.95 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company
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... Buy or find out more →
The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars
$49.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among the... Buy or find out more →
Early Cultures Of Mainland Southeast Asia
$52.00$29.95 – Paperback book /
The archaeology of the early cultures of mainland Southeast Asia has been transformed in the ten years since Charles Higham published the first major summary of the period from 10000 BC to the fall of the Kingdom of Angk... Buy or find out more →
Saving The Daylight
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Granta
Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it. Every spring, the c... Buy or find out more →
Wacky Stories And Flicker Book The Mr Men Show
$9.95$3.95 – Hardcover book / Ladybird
This book is packed full of comic stories from the Mr Men Show! What happens when Mr Nervous gets a splinter? And how does Little Miss Helpful get on teaching Mr Bump how to ski? See Little Miss Daredevil having a crazy ... Buy or find out more →
Fifth Floor
$29.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Michael Harvey's sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way ("A magnificent debut that should be read by all" — John Grisham; "This book heralds the arrival of a major new voice" — Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in con... Buy or find out more →
War Dances
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Grove Press
“Alexie has a wry, subversive sensibility. . . . The structure [in War Dances] is sophisticated yet playful, a subtle way to bring lightness to heavy topics such as senility, bigotry, cancer, and loneliness. . . . A mix ... Buy or find out more →
Innovations Durables Appropriate Sustainabilities
$50.00$12.95 – Paperback book /
Whilst France's contemporary architecture is highly regarded throughout the world, her architects have hardly been leading protagonists in the debate on ecological building. The developments featured in this book, howeve... Buy or find out more →
A Writer's Life
$49.95$15.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
All The Sad Young Literary Men
$29.95$16.95 – Hard back / Random Century
A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, "All the Sad Young Literary Men" charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink... Buy or find out more →
The Wife's Tale
$30.00$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary reflects on the true nature ... Buy or find out more →
Damascus Gate
$35.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
From its sublime triumphs to its noble failures, Stone's first novel since Outerbridge Reach (1993) is a major work in every aspect, a sprawling, discordant prose symphony. In Jerusalem, which he depicts as a holy Bedlam... Buy or find out more →
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews With Hunter S. Thompson
$29.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S Thompson, as recorded in the pages of Playboy, The Paris Review, Esquire... Buy or find out more →
Notes From The Air
$59.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize
His long-awaited volume, a new selection of his later poems, spans ten major collections by one of America's most visionary and influential poets. Chosen by the au... Buy or find out more →
The Columbia Guide To The Literatures Of Eastern Europe Since 1945
$14.95 – Hardcover book / Columbia Univ Pr
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... Buy or find out more →
Sexual Symbolism A History Of Phallic Worship
$17.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
Comprising two works, this is a pioneering volume on a taboo subject. Characterized by a systematic approach, it has served as a foundation for subsequent studies. Buy or find out more →
Treasury Of Byzantine Ornament: 255 Motifs From St Mark's Andravenna
$8.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
Decorative architectural elements derived from delicate line drawings of 6th- and 7th-century Italian buildings and churches depict a wealth of interior and exterior adornments. Includes images of perforated marble panel... Buy or find out more →
Lautreamont And Sade
$29.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
In "Lautreamont and Sade," originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautreamont a... Buy or find out more →
Glory Of The Silk Road Art From Ancient China
$80.00$29.95 – Paperback book /
For centuries the great Silk Road traversed the massive expanse of China, linking the west and the east. Objects of gold, silver, ceramic, textiles and stone are included among the more than 176 treasures from China, man... Buy or find out more →
Arturo Di Stefano
$99.95$29.95 – 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 ... Buy or find out more →
Agape Agape
$19.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Inherent Vice
$32.95$16.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
The legendary author of V and Gravity's Rainbow is back with a taut, psychedelic yarn, about the sixties, featuring private eye Doc Sportello...
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon – private eye Doc Spor... Buy or find out more →
Bellissima Feminine Beauty And The Idea Of Italy
$89.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
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... Buy or find out 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
$55.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
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... Buy or find out more →
Terror And Consent The Wars for the 21st Century
$59.95$9.95 – 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 ... Buy or find out more →
Conspirators
$35.00$6.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Life After Death: A Celebration Of The Obituary Art
$29.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
In recent years, the obituary has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in literary prestige and popularity with readers. As David Bowman, a distinguished Australian editor and journalist, says: "In the English-speaking world,... Buy or find out more →
Prisoners Of The Japanese
$39.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This great book, written by one of the most gifted of Australian historians, whose work is known worldwide, has never been published previously in Australia.
Gavan Daws combined ten years of documentary research and hund... Buy or find out more →
The Oxford Dictionary Of American Art and Artists
$69.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
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... Buy or find out more →
Pasta: The Story Of A Universal Food
$49.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Columbia Univ Pr
In the last 50 years, pasta has risen from ethnic oddity to ubiquity. A bowl of well-sauced spaghetti is both dinner and comfort food. Although pasta is virtually synonymous with Italy, modern historians suspect pasta or... Buy or find out more →
The American Boy
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes c... Buy or find out more →
In Milton Lumky Territory
$35.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Tor
A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka ("New York Times"), this work stands out among Dick's early works. "In Milton Lumky Territory" is a compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed in a sticky web of everyday... Buy or find out more →
The Pattern In The Carpet: A Personal History
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
"The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws" is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others... Buy or find out more →
Possibility Of An Island
$45.00$8.95 – Hardcover book / Orion
'Who among you deserves eternal life?' Houellebecq's dazzling new novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarotte, and between the near and far-distant future, is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking, and u... Buy or find out more →
How The Mighty Fall And Why Some Companies Never Give In
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
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Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be det... Buy or find out more →
Pioneers Of Change In Ethopia
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This volume explores the role of intellectuals in the political revolution in early twentieth century Ethiopia. The main part of the text is devoted to the lives of reformers such as pamphleteer Gäbrä-Egziabhér and Taddä... Buy or find out more →
Gentle Axe
$49.95$5.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
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... Buy or find out more →
Innovate Like Edison: The Success System Of Americas Greatest Inventor
$29.95$15.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Edge Of Empire: Lives, Culture and Conquest In The East 1750-1850
$55.00$14.95 – 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 ... Buy or find out more →
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
$52.00$9.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Made In Italy: 1951-2001
$69.95$19.95 – Hardcover book /
A sincere tribute to the world renowned phenomenon of Made in Italy on the occasion of two memorable dates: the fiftieth anniversary of the first Italian fashion show (Florence, 1951) and the fortieth anniversary of the ... Buy or find out more →
Ocean To Sky India From The Air
$59.95$9.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
$33.00$14.95 – Trade paperback / Granta
Startling, savagely funny stories from a highly original new voice.
A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage... Buy or find out more →
The Death Of Sigmund Freud The Legacy Of His Last Days
$35.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
“"The Death of Sigmund Freud" offers a compelling redescription of why the founder of psychoanalysis retains his relevance today…a stirring account of Freud's final months in Vienna…This is the disruptive legacy of Freud... Buy or find out more →
Fear Of The Dark
$39.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
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... Buy or find out more →
Spellbound By Beauty
$59.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Hutchinson
Spellbound by Beauty examines Alfred Hitchcock's well known collaborations with the leading ladies of his day, and in so doing, delves into his creative life and his uniquely curious professional and personal relationshi... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Lives Of Buildings
$59.99$29.95 – Hardcover book / Portobello
The plans are drawn up, a site is chosen, foundations are dug: a building comes into being with the expectation that it will stay put and stay forever. But a building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, a... Buy or find out more →
Begin At The Beginning
$33.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
In this appealing story of a little girl who is selected by her teacher to do the class painting for an art show, Schwartz portrays the frustrations of the creative process and how a lesson in life is learned when that p... Buy or find out more →
Cinnamon Kiss
$49.95$6.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
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... Buy or find out more →
Dancing To Almendra
$49.95$18.95 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company
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... Buy or find out more →
Lucky Kunst: The Story Of YBA
$39.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Aurum Press
These days artists like Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin are big business and major celebrities. But Gregor Muir knew them at the start of their careers - before people even talked about a movement called YBA. His unique memo... Buy or find out more →
Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship
$45.00$9.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
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... Buy or find out more →
Taste Of Dreams: An Obsession With Russia And Caviar
$45.00$12.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Hugo Chavez
$49.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Crossing The Sierra De Gredos
$59.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company
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... Buy or find out more →
Man Gone Down
$22.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
Winner of the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, an... Buy or find out more →
Myth Form Making Of Nearamnew
$39.95$15.95 – 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
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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... Buy or find out more →
Tales Of Hi And Bye: Greeting And Parting Rituals Around The World
$29.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
We do it over and over again, day after day, and never seem to get enough of it. Albanians do it. Zulus do it. Movie stars and plumbers do it. All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and coun... Buy or find out more →
Sweet And Simple Kind
$35.00$9.95 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Set against the backdrop of Ceylon's bumpy evolution into Sri Lanka, the Wijesinha clan struggle to balance their staunch political ambition against the ignominy of an embarrassing family scandal. And when two young fami... Buy or find out more →
Adrian Mole: The Prostate Years
$29.95$5.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Adrian Mole is back – he's older, no wiser and possibly even funnier than before . . .
When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a new life with their baby, Graci... Buy or find out more →
The Lost Diaries Of Adrian Mole 1999-2001
$29.95$7.95 – Paperback book / Michael Joseph
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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Breakdowns: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young %@&*!
$10.00 – Hardcover book / Viking
Breakdowns, the legendary and long out-of-print 1978 collection of comics by Art Speigelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MAUS, presents the seminal works that changed how comics are made and appreciated today. Innov... Buy or find out more →
Grand Design Audio
$29.95$13.95 – Compact disc / Random House Audio
In the last thirty years of his life, Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einst... Buy or find out more →
Beautiful Boy A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
$33.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
Expanding on his New York Times Magazine article, Sheff chronicles his son's downward spiral into addiction and the impact on him and his family. A bright, capable teenager, Nic began trying mind- and mood-altering subst... Buy or find out more →
The Ignorance Of Blood
$35.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Harcourt
In Wilson's insightful fourth and final Javier Falcón novel (after "The Hidden Assassins"), the intrepid Spanish homicide detective finds himself overwhelmed with the pressures of personal and professional entanglements.... Buy or find out more →
Of Love And Shadows
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, this magical novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for the sake of justice and truth: Irene Be... Buy or find out more →
Shakespeare And Modern Culture
$42.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars and author of "Shakespeare After All" comes a magisterial new study that delves into 10 plays to explore the interrelationship between Shakespeare and 20th-century and... Buy or find out more →
Recipes From A Provencal Kitchen
$27.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
"I have always loved good food, just like my father. When my parents were married in Arles, my Grandmother Athalie took up pen and ink and wrote down a collection of her own mother's best recipes in a little blue noteboo... Buy or find out more →
Philosophy Of Sociality The Shared Point Of View
$77.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Philosophers and social scientists constantly advance claims about the beliefs, desires, feelings, and intentions of groups. But these claims are puzzling--they cannot be true literally, as groups have no minds/brains so... Buy or find out more →
Mastering Financial Management
$59.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Prentice Hall
Mastering Financial Management is a comprehensive guide for all those who need to know about financial management. Written both for professionals as well as those seeking qualifications in finance and banking, this step-... Buy or find out more →
Surfers Photographs By Patrick Cariou Essays By Daniel Duane
$35.00$9.95 – Trade paperback / Powerhouse Books
A stunning portrait collection by up-and-coming fashion photographer Patrick Cariou of surfers the world over: the North Shore, Peru, Tahiti, Brittany, Easter Island, Oahu and more. Cariou captures the world's most famou... Buy or find out more →
Harold Robbins The Man Who Invented Sex
$33.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
Harold Robbins, the godfather of the airport novel pulsating with sex and glamour, changed the face of publishing with classics such as The Carpetbaggers, The Dream Merchants and The Lonely Lady. His readers loved his st... Buy or find out more →
Christopher's Ghosts
$33.00$9.95 – Hardcover book / Overlook Press
With ferocious suspense, masterful pacing, and a penetrating insight into the blood-soaked spectacle of 20th century Europe, McCarry delivers a haunting parable of a man confronted with the ghosts of an entire generation... Buy or find out more →
Trickster Travels In Search Of Leo Africanus A Sixteenth Century Muslim Between Worlds
$15.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
The man whom historians know as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa, is a celebrated but hitherto elusive figure. Al-Hasan al-Wazzan was born in Granada, and grew up in Morocco. He was captured by Chri... Buy or find out more →
Gentlemans Blood
$29.95$17.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
A history of the art of dueling describes how the duel evolved from the medieval practice of determining justice through trial by combat into a practice that followed elaborate codes of procedure and tradition. Buy or find out more →
Collected Novels and Plays
$56.00$9.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Like the sea on a sunny day, Merrill's work is scintillatingly alluring, yet its radiant shimmer conceals dark depths of knowledge and feeling. A superb poet, Merrill (1926-95) is at once suave and exacting, conversation... Buy or find out more →
South Africa: Paradise At Continents End
$29.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Bucher
An entire world in one land.
-Breathtaking shots of the landscapes, people and animals of South Africa. -Everything worth knowing about South Africa's past and present, as well as a wealth of practical travel information... Buy or find out more →
Italics Italian Art Between Tradition And Revolution 1968 2008
$79.95$39.95 – Paperback book / Electa
Published by Electa and with graphic design by Christoph Radl, the volume contains 200 colour illustrations and covers more than 150 works by artists who have been – and continue to be – leading figures in Italian art as... Buy or find out more →
Song Before It Is Sung
$54.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
On 20th July, l944 Adolf Hitler escaped death by a miracle in a
failed bomb. He found the main conspirators, had them hung from
meathooks and their executions filmed.
Axel, Count Von Gottberg, is one of those hanged by ... Buy or find out more →
The Curious World Of Carnivorous Plants A Comprehensive Guide To Their Biology And Cultivation
$56.00$24.95 – Hardcover book / Timber Press
Plants that trap and eat animals: an amazing phenomenon that has inspired awe since before the days of Darwin. The victims may be flies and butterflies, small crustaceans, or even vertebrates the size of rats.
Lured into... Buy or find out more →
Vietnam: A Natural History
$63.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This single volume presents the entire geograpy, geology, and natural history of Vietnam in lively, accessible language, making it the perfect companion for any visitor to Vietnam, with excellent and thorough information... Buy or find out more →
Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life
$17.95$7.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
A founder of modern sociology examines animism, naturism, totemism, myth, and ritual in this 1912 classic, which traces the source of religion and morality to a collective consciousness. Buy or find out more →
Dna Promise And Peril
$63.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Univ California Pr
The genetic revolution has provided incredibly valuable information about our DNA, information that can be used to benefit and inform—but also to judge, discriminate, and abuse. An essential reference for living in today... Buy or find out more →
Burkhalter And Sumi
$77.00$13.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Architectl
Like their compatriot Peter Zumthor, the Swiss architects Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi are dedicated to an exploration of the nature of materials and construction. In the last fifteen years, they have built a s... Buy or find out more →
The Wentworths
$35.00$5.95 – Hardcover book / Overlook Press
With a wry touch, Arnoldi draws a mocking portrait of a powerful Southern California family that, while not the worst family on record, is remarkably warped by wealth and power. The Wentworths individual faults play off ... Buy or find out more →
Worm Ouroboros
$23.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction. J. R. R. Tolkien acclaimed its author as "the greatest and most convincing writer of 'invented worlds' that I have read." Written in the best tr... Buy or find out more →
A Theory Of Political Obligation Membership Commitment And The Bonds Of Society
$62.95$29.95 – Paperback book /
Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups... Buy or find out more →
Several Lives Of Joseph Conrad
$16.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation.
Conrad' s impact has been so profound a... Buy or find out more →
Enlightenment
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Overlook Press
At the start of Freelys complex, often riveting novel set in contemporary and Cold War Turkey, a journalist known only as Miss M returns to Istanbul in 2005 after a long absence at the request of Jeannie Wakefield, whose... Buy or find out more →
True Crime
$56.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Library Of America
Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime writing became a dominant genre in American writing. "True Crime: An Ameri... Buy or find out more →
Annals
$17.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
This vital chronicle of Imperial Rome, written by the era's great historian, spans A.D. 14-68 and paints incisive psychological portraits of major figures, from Tiberius to Nero. Buy or find out more →
Deaf Sentence
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalist
Desmond Bates is a recently retired linguistics professor vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life. Witho... Buy or find out more →
Tales From The Torrid Zone Travels In The Deep Tropics
$35.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Alexander Frater was born to a family of Scottish expatriates on the tiny island of Irikiki in the South Seas. Following his dreams of being a writer, Frater left home, but the call of the tropics compelled him to return... Buy or find out more →
Child 44
$35.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Grand Central Publishing
A relentless page-turner. A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted. A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience. CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever... Buy or find out more →
Woman Of Rome A Life Of Elsa Morante
$35.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
"Woman of Rome" represents the first biography of an Italian literary icon who is revered in her native country and admired abroad, by the National Book Award-winning author of "The News from Paraguay." 16-page b&w p... Buy or find out more →
Ethical Writings
$14.95$6.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
Here are the most significant ethical writings of the 12th-century philosopher, physician, and master of rabbinical literature -- translated from the original sources by noted Maimonides scholars. Buy or find out more →
The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals
$23.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
Highly readable 1872 study by the great naturalist examines how people and animals display fear, anger, and pleasure. Abounding in anecdotes and quotations, it continues to inspire contemporary research. 21 figures, 7 pl... Buy or find out more →
By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey In Search Of English
$39.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / Overlook Press
David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of ′latter day Dr Johnson′, a populist linguist who has promoted the study of the English language in an academic and broadcasting car... Buy or find out more →
Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci V1
$32.00$13.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, and music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawi... Buy or find out more →
Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep
$14.95$7.95 – Paperback book / Candlewick Press
Celebrated since childhood for how well she skips rope, 109-year-old Elsie Piddock once again skips in an effort to save her English country town. "A classic tale of tyranny overcome . . . Voake makes this neglected lite... Buy or find out more →
Fundamentalism Sectarianism And Revolution
$70.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
This book is a major comparative analysis of fundamentalist movements in historical and cultural context, spanning revolutionary France, America and Japan, with an emphasis on the contemporary scene. Leading sociologist ... Buy or find out more →
Collision Theory
$55.00$29.95 – Paperback book / Dover Publications
A systematic description of the basic principles of collision theory, this graduate-level text presents a detailed examination of scattering processes and formal scattering theory, the two-body problem with central force... Buy or find out more →
Becoming Judy Chicago
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Harmony Books Ny
Born to Jewish radical parents in Chicago in 1939, Judy Cohen grew up to be Judy Chicago one of the most daring and controversial artists of her generation. Her works, once disparaged and misunderstood by the critics, ha... Buy or find out more →
Greed The Seven Deadly Sins
$14.95$6.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
Grasping. Avarice. Covetousness. Miserliness. Insatiable cupidity. Overreaching ambition. Desire spun out of control. The deadly sin of Greed goes by many names, appears in many guises, and wreaks havoc on individuals an... Buy or find out more →
War For All The Oceans
$50.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
A brutal, action-packed account of the sea battles of the Napoleonic War by the author of the bestselling "Nelson's Trafalgar" Roy Adkins (with his wife Lesley) returns to the Napoleonic War in "The War for All the Ocean... Buy or find out more →
Peter Brook
$35.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / St Martins
Peter Brook is one of the world's legendary theater directors. His productions are a byword for imagination, energy, and innovation. From his ground-breaking production of "Marat/Sade, " to his "white box" "A Midsummer N... Buy or find out more →
Daydream
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Daydream is the latest creation from Keiichi Tanaami, the instantly recognizable master of Japanese psychedelia. Deeply affected by hallucinations associated with an illness he experienced, Keiichi Tanaami’s work contai... Buy or find out more →
Unearthing The Past Archaeology And Aesthetics In The Makingof Renaissance Culture
$39.95$13.92 – Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr
The rediscovery of some of the most famous artworks of all time--statues lying underground beneath Rome--launched a thrilling archaeological adventure in the 15th century. In this remarkable book, Barkan probes the impac... Buy or find out more →
India Modern
$54.00$19.95 – Hardcover book /
Today, Indian design is a fascinating mixture of local styles and modern interpretations. Innovative ideas are being introduced not only by Indians, but by foreign architects and designers who have moved to India. India ... Buy or find out more →
Bringing Home The Birkin
$35.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
If you want an Herm's Birkin bag, be prepared to wait. And wait. And wait. After more than twenty years, the iconic Birkin remains the ultimate status symbol and probably the most coveted accessory of all time. The suppo... Buy or find out more →
Private Life
$33.00$12.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War II.
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early.... Buy or find out more →
Trick Of The Tale A Collection Of Trickster Tales
$26.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Candlewick Press
Celebrate the slyest trickster tales from around the world in a lavish volume that gives a well-loved story tradition its rightful due. Enter (carefully) the world of the tricksters, those wily creatures who lie their wa... Buy or find out more →
Tears Of Autumn
$16.95$6.95 – Paperback book / Overlook Press
A major bestseller upon its first publication in 1975, "The Tears of Autumn" is McCarry's riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs, spun with unsettling plausibility from events surrounding the assassination of J.... Buy or find out more →
Earthly And Heavenly Journey Of Simone Martini
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Recognized as one of the great living poets of Italy, and several times a candidate for the Nobel Prize, Luzi wrote this work in 1994, when he was eighty. In it the poet imagines the last voyage of the great painter from... Buy or find out more →
Shooting The Actor
$5.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A companion volume to BEING AN ACTOR, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the Actor reveals the truth about film acting. The book describes his film work, from Amadeus to Four We... Buy or find out more →
Absolute War: Soviet Russia In The Second World War
$18.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
The battle on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 was arguably the single most decisive factor of World War II, fixing the course of world history over the next half century. Now, drawing on sources newly available s... Buy or find out more →
Van Gogh And The Colors Of The Night
$63.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art
Throughout his career, Vincent van Gogh attempted the paradoxical task of representing night through color and tonality. His procedure followed the trend set by the Impressionists of "translating" visual light effects wi... Buy or find out more →
Reservation Blues
$19.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
Alexie's first novel, a humorous and powerful tale of an Indian rock band, their life on the Spokane reservation and attempts to make it in the music industry (with the help of a magical guitar). The novel follows Alexie... Buy or find out more →
Cake Or Death The Excruciating Choices Of Everyday Life
$39.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
A brilliant new book from one of Canada’s most popular columnists – a no-holds-barred riposte to the mess we’ve made of things.
"Mrs. Tittlemouse is heaven in a sponge mop. I read Beatrix Potter’s books as a child ... Buy or find out more →
The Oxford Companion To American Theatre
$110.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
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... Buy or find out more →
And Keep Your Powder Dry An Anthropologist Looks At America
$29.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Berghahn
Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States -- the first since de Tocqueville -- in 1942 at the beginning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers fr... Buy or find out more →
Aristocrats: Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present
$65.00$12.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a st... Buy or find out more →
Themes In French Culture A Preface To A Study Of French Community
$29.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Berghahn
Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Metraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia U... Buy or find out more →
Origins
$49.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Strauss Girou
In this sensitive if mildly overwritten memoir of long-held secrets, betrayal and denial, Maalouf, who won the 1993 Prix Goncourt for Rock of Tanios, traces his familial history from a tiny mountainside village in Lebano... Buy or find out more →
Event And Its Terrors Ireland Famine Modernity
$29.95$15.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
"This impassioned work shows a particularly impressive mastery of published sources, of the well known primary sources, and extraordinarily creative work in the archives. The book is important for Irish studies, and for ... Buy or find out more →
Methods Of Research On Contemporary Cultures
$29.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Berghahn
Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to cont... Buy or find out more →
Barefoot Emperor An Ethiopian Tragedy
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history, featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun. Towards the end of 1867, Emperor Te... Buy or find out more →
Spain
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A lovely photographic record of this fascinating country. Buy or find out more →
Written Image Japanese Calligraphy And Painting From The Sylvan Barnet And William Burto Collection
$95.00$29.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This unusual book presents some fifty-eight Japanese works, almost all calligraphy, including sublime early sutras; a mandala that is perhaps the finest example of its kind in the West; seminal works by such renowned fig... Buy or find out more →
Bad Ideas
$29.95$14.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed our ability to do so is what separates we humans from the rest of the animal world. The moment man first converted a stone to a useful tool set him on a relentle... Buy or find out more →
Dylan The Bard
$35.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / St Martins
Dylan Thomas was the best lyric poet of his age, who, by his life as well as his work, brought a new mass audience to his craft. In this captivating biography Andrew Sinclair casts new light on the bard, emphasizing the ... Buy or find out more →
Shades Of Grey
$13.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
The New York Times bestseller and "a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness" (The Washington Post)
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception... Buy or find out more →
The Study Of Culture At A Distance
$29.95$15.95 – Paperback book / Berghahn
This remarkable work, long unavailable, presents a rich and complex methodology for the study of cultures through literature, film, informant interviews, focus groups, and protective techniques. The book also provides fa... Buy or find out more →
Decency And Disorder The Age Of Cant 1789 1837
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
We see the Victorians as a respectable, well-mannered and sober people, yet a generation before Queen Victoria ascended the throne, the British were notorious for their boisterous pastimes, plain-speaking and drunkenness... Buy or find out more →
Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet
$7.95 – Trade paperback / Allen Lane
In this book Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's leading economists and author of the bestselling The End of Poverty, analyses and addresses the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. A s... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Maurice Sendak
$99.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
Maurice Sendak is one of most admired artists in children's literature. His uniquely expressive illustrations, which bring to life a world of fantasy and imagination, have won him the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the C... Buy or find out more →
On Plato's "Statesman"
$19.95$16.95 – Paperback book / Stanford Univ. Press
This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned and influential figure in twentieth-century thought. A close reading of Plato's "Statesman," it is an exem... Buy or find out more →