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In 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once...

The book titled Movies on TV and Videocassette 1992-1993 by the author Steven H. Scheuer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Reith Papers is the best of those diary entries from the heart of a government that changed Australia. Peter Reith was a senior cabinet minister under John Howard from...

This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany....

Praise for THE BIG RIPOFF "Politicians like to say that government is on the side of the little guy. But with impressive documentation and persuasive examples, Tim Carney shows how...

Two respected leaders in the field of job recruitment reveal foolproof techniques for successful job searching. Concentrates on the most important part of any serious job hunt--the interview. Building on...

A former Wall Street manager turned muckraking journalist gets inside how the banks looted the Treasury, stole the bailout, and continued with business as usual We all watched as packs...

A complete how-to from two of the world's top bloggers Thousands of aspiring bloggers launch new blogs every day, hoping to boost their income. Without solid advice from experts, most...

Felix Holt, austere, idealistic, and passionate, is pitted against the self-satisfied local landlord Harold Transome in this story set in a Midland borough at the time of the Great Reform...

The book titled An Introduction to Advocacy by the author Lee Stuesser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend and one of the few performers, and...

"If there was a Fort Knox for the science fiction writers who really matter, we'd have to lock Haldeman up there."-Stephen King 2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages, fought by...

Here at last is a compelling and inspiring presentation of what determines how well we age--the results of the MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging in America, which show how to...

Mrs Brown is now a major feature film from Miramax, in association with Ecosse Films and the BBC, starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer and Antony Sher It is...

The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the "New York Times" bestseller "Spook Country." "Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the...

"Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor."-- Naomi Klein From the leader and spokeswoman of the antinuclear movement comes...

For organizations that care about innovation,individual creativity isn't enough anymore -- peopleneed to be in creative, collaborativerelationships. But without the knowledge and tools forbuilding these relationships, innovation expert MichaelSchrage argues,...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Why impeachment is the only remedy for the dangers posed by President Trump, as explained by celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General...

Let go of parenting expectations and fears to raise courageous, confident children. THE ZEN MAMA philosophy is that mother and child complement each other in adventures and experiences, always putting...

For current dog owners or those thinking about getting a dog, this is the ultimate guidebook covering all of the essentials and answering all of the most commonly asked questions...

1940. Tokyo. Japan is at war with China, and Yuji Takano is clinging to the life he has made for himself as a young poet the company of his friends,...

Jeffery Deaver loves writing short stories. 'All bets are off,' he says. 'Short stories are like a sniper's bullet. Fast and shocking. I can make good bad and bad badder,...

James Carroll only meant to do one deal to get to film school. But it went wrong. Now he owes 30,000 to drug-dealer Roger Oates. Just a year of quiet...

When Andrew - a second-hand-book dealer - comes across a pile of photographs from police archives, he decides to exhibit them. But then the gallery is raided the day before...

The enjoyment of this novel lies in the reader not knowing what's coming next. However, it's not giving away too much to mention some of the stock items employed in...

Inspector Ghote is not a happy man. His wife has just inherited a big house in Calcutta and she is determined that they both move from his beloved Bombay to...

The book titled Mab's Daughters: Shelley's Wives and Lovers: Their Own Story by the author Judith Chernaik. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

They were made to forget. But they'll never forgive. Everything about Anna's life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch, at the helm of its latest project: monitoring...

Learning begins in the first days of life. Scientists are now discovering how young children develop emotionally and intellectually, and are beginning to realize that from birth babies already know...

The book titled Ataturk: The Rebirth of a Nation by the author John Balfour Kinross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This pioneering work, first published in 1972 and revised in 1985, was the first to argue, intelligently and irrefutably, the equal role of women in human evolution. The book's influence...

In recent years, the media have been full of stories about ethical decline. Illegal dealings have been uncovered in the banking and savings and loan industries as well as the...

Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are spent trying to sleep. Most us have disturbed, restless nights and...

For years Rupert Murdoch's newspapers had been hacking, spying, blagging, bribing and destroying the evidence. They thought they were untouchable. They were wrong.This is the book that exposed the shadow...

We all have the sense that the American economy - and its government - tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his powerful new book, People,...

From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of...

"A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond...

When a film is not a document, it is a dream...At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy...

The author has spent the last twelve months in Moscow, interviewing wherever he went, and everywhere finding people eager to exercise their new freedom to speak without fear. From their...

The book titled Catlore by the author Desmond Morris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our...

From water faucets and airplane cockpits to the concept of "real time" and the future of memory, this wide-ranging tour through technology provides a new understanding of how the gadgets...

Since the third edition of The Oxford Companion to the Theatre appeared in 1967, theatre throughout the world, and especially in European and all English-speaking countries, has undergone a series...

Konrad Lorenz, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973, was an important 20th-century pioneer of ethology, the investigation of animal behavior in the wild. Here Am I--Where Are...