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In hisNew York Times bestseller, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the...

Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world's foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The...

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration...

The 6 February 1998 marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich air disaster. Twenty three people died as the plane carrying Manchester United home from a Euopean Cup tie crashed...

The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous...

From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie...

"Petrified Life" tells the stories of the fossil discoveries that unlocked the secrets of the past. Told in the order of discovery, the stories take you on an archaeological journey....

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in political biography, Karl...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of American political journalism,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record, edited by Leopold...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed and aged, consistent with a 1928 publication. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact though aged. Stickers/Labels: None...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Good, minor wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: ex-library with usual markings. A gripping work of narrative history, July 1914: Countdown to War reconstructs the five...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Appears intact. No stickers or labels visible. A landmark work of twentieth-century autobiographical...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear, some fading - small tear on back seam of jacket fold. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. This omnibus...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. Originally published in 1922, Disenchantment stands as one of the most searingly honest...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. A richly detailed biographical account, A Voyage in Vain chronicles Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ill-fated...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: paperback - light wear around edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. A richly illustrated social history, Keep Smiling Through: The Home...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Paperback edition - usual wear. Pages appear slightly yellowed/aged, consistent with the book's vintage. No obvious markings, stamps, or inscriptions visible on the title page. A...

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