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Responding to the decline of the monarchy and the church in post-revolutionary France, theorists representing a wide spectrum of leftist ideologies proposed comprehensive blueprints for society that assigned a crucial...

Leaving their dying mother behind, Sean and Annie O'Brien must go in search of their father, to America, the strange land they know only from their father's letters. From famine-torn...

This is the story of a journey into a strange world of apparitions, prophecies, miracles of healing, levitation, holy relics, weeping statues, stigmata and demonic possession. The author follows a...

Black Livingstone is the first book to chronicle the remarkable life of William Henry Sheppard. As a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary in 1890, Sheppard departed for what was then the...

Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners,...

Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and the dominant power of Southeast Asia, was characterised in the early 1960s as a 'chronic economic dropout'. Out of the turbulence of...

Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing...

The book titled China: A Photohistory, 1937-87 by the author W.J.F. Jenner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the sixth edition of the bestselling (over 200,000 copies sold) introduction to archaeology, printed in full colour for the first time, with hundreds of photographs and diagrams. It...

The designs and patterns of the Celts, expressed in their metalwork, stonework and jewellery, and continued in the manuscript illumination of Celtic Christianity, are an art form whose legacy has...

51 working stencils based on authentic Art Deco designs include large and small geometrics, opulent abstract patterns, and stylized women, flowers, and other gorgeous motifs.

""The ground was entirely new; there were no guide-books or guides; the whole was a virgin soil. At one time we stopped to cut away branches and vines which concealed...

The book titled Living in the Future by the author Isaac Asimov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In The Gutenberg Elegies, nationally renowned critic Sven Birkerts powerfully argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace...

Sexual politics is far from being a recent subject of debate. In the 1880s it occupied a position of central importance in certain radical circles in London, where intellectuals such...

Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships,...

The book titled The Inventor by the author Jakov Lind. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee...

The book titled OASIS IN SPACE PA by the author Preston Cloud. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This classic book, available in paperback for the very first time, explores why some people can successfully change their lives and others cannot. Here famed psychologist Paul Watzlawick presents what...

The book titled Out of the Everywhere by the author Isaac Asimov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

More than a century ago, Julia Amalfi escaped -- with an A.I. as her only companion and a tiny cache of unborn humans -- from a mind-devouring plague afflicting her...

The inner game of cooking--a book of essays, exercises, and recipes designed to help experienced cooks and novices alike find joy and fulfillment in the experience of food preparation.

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The book titled Golden Lilies by the author Kwei-li Liu. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new edition updates the study of American literature with the inclusion of poets from Hart Crane and E.E.Cummings to John Ashbery and A.R. Ammons and novelists from William Burroughs...

The book titled Theatre of Sleep: Anthology of Literary Dreams by the author Guido Almansi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, Vitellan set off for the 21st century as Imperial Rome's last human time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover by just letting...

In 1997 James Stephenson arranged to have almost a full year free, a year he wanted to spend among the Hadzabe in East Africa. He had previously visited these people...

A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019 "A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned."-Roberta Smith's "Top Art Books of 2019," The New York Times...

Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites,...

This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It...

Inspired by catastrophe theory (in particular the pattern and effects of earth-crust displacement), as well as ancient maps showing remarkably accurate delineation of land-masses, the corroborative content of myth from...

Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads...

A startling follow-up graphic novel by the author of Ghost World. Discover the adventures of David Boring in this electrifying new graphic novel from the author of Ghost World David...

In a piece of controversial research, the author of this treatise offers compelling evidence that the voice of Mark Twain's most famous literary creation, Huckleberry Finn, was based on that...

Imprint. A thought-provoking, mind-expanding thrill ride through The Matrix, examining the technological challenges, religious symbolism and philosophical dilemmas the film presents.

This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans - and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but...

This book provides an examination of how the wide range of behavioural patterns and social organization has allowed humans to adapt to a wide variety of environments. In a series...

An account of the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egupt to the sea. The book contains an historical narrative which starts in...

The book titled Critical Concepts by the author Brodie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A must-have book for all parents, this illustrated collection of tender, funny, radically honest poems about parenthood, based on a series of popular Instagram posts, is the perfect baby shower...

"A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman's coming-of-age... This is electrifying."- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Is this a ghost story" Meena asked the barber's wife who told the tale....

Perfect for nervous/excited kids about to go to kindergarten (and their parents!). This engaging adaptation of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" convinces parents and children alike that there is no...

"A soaring biography. . . meticulously researched, elegantly organized, fluidly, lucidly written." --Chicago Tribune At the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect...