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The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
מאת Dava Sobel
When Dava Sobel's Longitude was published to universal acclaim in 1995, readers voiced only one regret: that it was not illustrated. Now, William Andrewes, the man who organized and hosted the Longitude Symposium that inspired her book, has joined Dava Sobel to create a richly illustrated version of...
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Slang is evidence that the spoken language is continually changing to meet new needs for verbal expressions, tailored to changing realities and perceptions. Unlike most slang dictionaries that list entries alphabetically, Slang takes on modern American English one topic at a time, f...
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
מאת Tom Standage A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses—the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world’s first “Internet,” which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and t...
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
מאת Dava Sobel On its 10th anniversary, a gift edition of this classic book, with a forward by one of history's greatest explorers, and eight pages of color illustrations.
Anyone alive in the eighteeth centur... |
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There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America’s Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story—about the geoth...
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Almost everyone procrastinates. For most people, procrastination is a frustrating, troublesome habit they know they should be able to overcome. Rita Emmett will inspire them to get started, with advice drawn from her own experience as a "recovering procrastinator" and that of people she has met at...
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Best-selling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea as a tale set against the romantic historical background of the California Gold Rush. The main character, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea, the hero, is a...
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Geometry is one of a group of special sciences - Number, Music and Cosmology are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small volume, Miranda Lundy presents a unique introduction to this most ancient and timeless of universal sciences. Sacred Geometry demonstrates...
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The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses brilliantly charts how foods have transformed human culture through the ages. Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, in...
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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
מאת Michael Meyer A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners c... |
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Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
מאת Gavin Mortimer A dramatic chronicle of a pivotal moment in the history of aviation. By 1910—seven years after the Wright brothers first lifted a plane off the ground at Kitty Hawk—America and the world were transfixed by the danger and challenge of mastering the air. Yet which form...
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The Clutter-Busting Handbook: Clean It Up, Clear It Out, And Keep Your Life Clutter-free
מאת Rita Emmett
streamlined guide to uncluttering your life from the best-selling author of The Procrastinator's Handbook .We are the clutter generation, inundated by a seemingly daily or weekly influx of clothes, accessories, gadgets, catalogs, mail, and e-mail. Clutter crowds our lives, is a chief source of stres...
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
מאת Dava Sobel 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 throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost ...
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From the acclaimed author of the bestsellers Brunelleschis Dome and Michelangelo & the Popes Ceiling.
While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the m... |
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The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two millennia. It has been the foundation of our education, and has defined the way in which we express our thoughts, our faith, and our knowledge of how the world functions. Indeed, the language...
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Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the Twentieth Century and How They Shaped Modern America
מאת Michael A. Cohen Publishing into the teeth of the 2008 election, a selection of the best, most rousing presidential stump speeches, with essential critical context relating the speeches of the past to politics today.
In this collection of twenty-seven of the most influential presiden...
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The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest
מאת Susan Dworkin The gripping story of how Bent Skovmand and others preserved the world’s wheat harvest. In 1999, a terrifying new form of stem rust—spotted in Uganda and dubbed “UG99”—quickly turned robust golden fields into dark, tangled ruins. For decades plant scienti...
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The dazzling story of the Taj Mahal and the empire whose spirit it epitomizes. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal’s flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have or centuries dazzled everyone who has seen it,...
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Journalist Alex O’Meara is one of the more than twenty million Americans enrolled in a clinical trial—three times as many people as a decade ago. Indeed, clinical trials have become a $24 billion industry that is reshaping every aspect of health-care deve...
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Winner of the 2009 Euler Book Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America for an outstanding book about mathematics. The Euler Prize citation reads:
"This book by Siobhan Roberts gives an intimate and engaging portrait of one of the most influential mathematicians of the last cen... |
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An exploration of the construction and meaning of Islamic geometric patterns. Throughout their long history the craft traditions of the Islamic world evolved a multitude of styles applied to a great variety of media but always with unifying factors that make them instantly recognizable....
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The story of the world’s best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time. On a stiflingly hot day in August 30 b.c., the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her...
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times
מאת Susan Quinn A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA?s Federal Theater Project. Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA relief program into a platform for s...
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Latin is alive and well! Latin may be called a dead language, but it is currently experiencing a renaissance. In this spirit, Oxford-trained classicist Lorna Robinson introduces readers to the wonderful, chimeric world of the Latin language—and what better forum for this ... |
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Throughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. A History of the...
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The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
מאת Paul Dickson In this unique book, Paul Dickson celebrates one of the most unusual traditions in all of sports--the baseball scorecard. Within the history of the scorecard are some of baseball’s greatest moments. From the first scorecard introduced in 1845, to the scoring system devised by direct-mark...
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A trio of brilliant mysteries “unlike anything else being written today.”—Chicago Tribune Over the past five years, James Sallis has created three of the most acclaimed mysteries published in America, each of them featuring the complex John T urner—former cop, ...
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A most unusual guide to the solar system, A Little Book of Coincidence suggests that there may be fundamental relationships between space, time, and life that have not yet been fully understood. From the observations of Ptolemy and Kepler to the Harmony of the Spheres and the hidden structure of the...
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Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Uni
מאת Paul Kendrick The influence Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln had on each other and on the nation altered the course of slavery and the outcome of the Civil War. Although Abraham Lincoln deeply opposed the existence of slavery, he saw his mission throughout much of the Civil War as pr...
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An elegant primer on the principles and theories of music. This innovative book presents the elements of music by building upon the long-known fundamentals of acoustics, proportion and relationship—a kind of musical metaphor. In combination with novel graphics and symbols, the ... |
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Manage Your Time to Reduce Your Stress: A Handbook for the Overworked, Overscheduled, and Overwhelmed
מאת Rita Emmett A self-improvement guru’s inspiring and effective tips for gaining control of our Herculean workloads and overbooked personal lives. How often do you think to yourself, So much to do and so little time? I n the sympathetic and insightful style of The Procrastinator’s H...
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The extraordinary genius of Archimedes—scientist, mathematician, engineer, and showman. Many of us know little about Archimedes other than his “Eureka” exclamation upon discovering that he could immerse an object in a full tub of water and measure the spillag...
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The heroic story of the “Hungarian Oscar Schindler” who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, only to be accused of collaboration and assassinated in Israel twelve years after WWII ended. Oscar Schindler’s and Raoul Wallenberg...
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A distinguished scientist reveals how we are losing the world’s songbirds, why this predicts widespread environmental problems, and what we can do to save the birds and their habitats. Wood thrush, bobolinks, the Eastern kingbird—migratory songbirds are disappearing at a ...
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The Mom & Pop Store: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving
מאת Robert Spector A celebration of the history of small, independent retail and the story of how mom & pop stores across the country still thrive on attentive customer service and renewed community support for local businesses. Business journalist Robert Spector grew up working in his family...
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“There is a class split,” writes Rachel Shabi, “that runs on ethnic lines”—specifically, between Jews of European origin and those whose ancestral homes were Arab countries. Middle Eastern Jews from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and other Arab lands make up nearly half of Israe... |
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“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”—E. M. Forster Through seven previous novels, Reggie Nadelson has created one of the more memorable characters in detective fiction: Artie ...
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The first modern biography of the greatest traitor—and one of the most colorful characters—in American history. Patriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the ...
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times
מאת Susan Quinn “Spotlight[s] one of the most compelling periods of American theater…Quinn’s well-written narrative is both fascinating and frightening.”—Library Journal (starred review) In a desperate era, FDR and his advisers had to furiously improvise to get millions...
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
מאת Kate Summerscale The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. T he crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the...
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The Activist: John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the Myth of Judicial Review
מאת Lawrence Goldstone The story of the landmark case that put the “Supreme” in Supreme Court. Among the many momentous decisions rendered by the Supreme Court, none has had a greater impact than that passed down in 1803 by Chief Justice John Marshall in the case of Marbury v. Madison. Wh... |
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The geology, ecology, and cultural history of kettle lakes from Maine to Montana. Lakes are a beloved part of the American landscape, and kettles are the most common type, spanning the northern part of the country from New England to the High Plains. Kettle lakes ar...
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The story of carbon—the building block of life that is, ironically, humanity’s great threat .It could be said that all of us are a little alien—our bodies’ carbon atoms first shot forth from supernovas billions of years ago and far, far away. Carbon has always been the ubiquitous a...
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The rise and fall of the English governess, the domestic heroine who inspired Victorian literature’s greatest authors. Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people’s homes, part and yet not part of th...
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Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers
מאת Ambrose Bierce One of America’s foremost language experts presents an annotated edition of A mbrose Bierce’s classic catalog of correct speech.
Ambrose Bierce is best known for The Devil's Dictionary, but the prolific journalist, satirist, and fabulist was also a usage ma... |
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A journey through some of the most fascinating and effective tricks of the mind. From the earliest times, we have known and applied the ancient adage “It’s all in the mind.” Internationally recognized self-development master Steven Saunders presents a compendium of more than... |
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Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
מאת David Kushner The dark side of the American dream: the true story of the first African-American family to move into the iconic suburb, Levittown, PA . In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. T he...
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For more than 900 years the Bayeux Tapestry has preserved one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Historians have held for centuries that the majestic tapestry trumpets the glory of William the Conqu...
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A Little History of Dragons: The Essential Guide to Fire-Breathing Winged Serpents (Wooden Books)
מאת Joyce Hargreaves A short exploration of the wonderful world of dragons, both malevolent and benign. Why are dragons recognized in almost all cultures on Earth? What is the mysterious geomantic gold they secretly guard? Could dragons be a folk memory of something that once hunted us? In...
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During the nineteenth century, a remarkable scientific instrument known as a harmonograph revealed the beautiful patterns found in music. Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Beautiful...
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The Music of Pythagoras: How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path from Antiquity to Oute
מאת Kitty Ferguson The enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the arts. “Pythagoras’s influence on the ideas, and therefore on the destiny, of the human race was proba...
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Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
מאת Quil Lawrence The American invasion of Iraq has been a success - for the Kurds. Kurdistan is an invisible nation, and the Kurds the largest ethnic group on Earth without a homeland, comprising some 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran... |
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For almost forty years, Chet Raymo has walked a one-mile path from his house to the college where he taught, chronicling the universe he has found through observing every detail of his route with a scientist's curiosity, a historian's respect for the past, and a c... |
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A unique perspective on the American Revolution, seen through the eyes of a redcoat regiment. From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one British regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. ... |
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The smallest book on evolution asks big questions. Anticipating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species throughout 2009, Evolution explores the history of evolutionary theory from Lamarck to Darwin to today’s large questions about life in ... |
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Symmetry underlies almost every aspect of nature and our experience of the world, from the subatomic realms of quantum mechanics to the equations of physics, in art, architecture and our concepts of morality and justice. In this little book Welsh writer and artist David Wade paints ...
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A More Perfect Constitution: Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation
מאת Larry J. Sabato The political book of the year, from the acclaimed founder and director of the Center for politics at the University of Virginia. A More Perfect Constitution presents creative and dynamic proposals from one of the most visionary and fertile political minds of our time to re... |
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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 captivated readers across the country for decades, in the ... |
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The only field guide to stone walls in the Northeast. "Every stone wall is unique and every stone tells a story," says Robert M. Thorson, the author of the first field guide to historic New England stone walls-- one that helps you identify and appreciate those in your yard, neighborhood, and t...
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Ethnic bias against Middle Eastern Jews within Israel has far-reaching implications for the whole region. Middle Eastern Jews from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and other Arab or Muslim lands—“Mizrahis”—make up nearly half of Israel’s population. Yet European or “A...
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A scintillating new thriller by one of the masters of the genre, following his Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. “When Geena finally left him and filed for divorce, Fallon put the Encino house up for sale and took the last two weeks of his vacation from Uni... |
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For anyone interested in the tiny building blocks of our universe, Matt Tweed-the illustrator of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae-offers a fascinating introduction to the complex and beautiful world of the elements. Tweed reveals the principal properties and interactions of substances familia...
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An inspiring guide to staying in control of your health care, your life, and your dreams despite having chronic illness, by a popular journalist and award-winning blogger.Twenty-seven-year-old Laurie Edwards is one of 125 million Americans who have a chronic illness, in her case a rare gen...
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For forty years and in nine previous books, scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur has challenged church orthodoxy and guided thousands of readers on subjects as controversial as the true nature of Christ and life after death. Now, in his most radical and groundbreaking work, Harpur digs deep ...
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One of the best mysteries ever set in New York City, the last in an “archipelago trilogy” following 9/11, by the acclaimed author of Disturbed Earth. With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released from the ...
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Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them
מאת Bridget Stutchbury Wood thrush, Kentucky warbler, the Eastern kingbird—migratory songbirds are disappearing at a frightening rate. By some estimates, we may already have lost almost half of the songbirds that filled the skies only forty years ago. Renowned biologist Bridget S... |
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A renowned expert on binge eating, the director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of North Carolina, shares proven techniques for conquering food cravings. Clinical psychologist Cynthia M. Bulik, specially trained in psychiatric genetics, is a leadi...
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AfterShock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You--Or Someone You Love--a Devastating Diagnosis
מאת Jessie Gruman Every year millions of Americans are diagnosed with cancer, stroke, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and other life-threatening or life-altering diseases. When faced with a devastating diagnosis people must quickly understand the diagnosis, prognosis, and choose from several treatment op...
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Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought
מאת James G. Workman The dramatic story of the Bushmen of the Kalahari is a cautionary tale about water in the twenty-first century—and offers unexpected solutions for our time. “We don’t govern water. Water governs us,” writes James G. Workman. I n Heart of Dryness, he chroni...
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The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper’s brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman. Walt Whitman’s work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well kno... |
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Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
מאת Paul Kendrick Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln had only three meetings, but their exchanges profoundly influenced the course of slavery and the outcome of the Civil War. Although Abraham Lincoln deeply opposed the institution of slavery, he saw the Civil War at its onset as being primarily...
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A true story of espionage with a plot worthy of John le Carré. With the declaration of war in 1939, dashing young publisher, Tom Burns, left his business for the Ministry of Information, the propaganda arm of the British secret services, and found himself in Madrid as press ...
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Until recently, little was known about the lives of songbirds during their travels from autumn until spring. Now scientists have documented mass migrations over the Gulf of Mexico, identified the voices of migrants in the night sky, and showed how songbirds navigate using stars, polarized ...
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The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart.Drawing widely on previously unpublished royal letters and diaries, made public for the first time by Queen Elizabeth II , Catrine...
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
מאת Nancy Goldstone The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial—and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle A ges. On March 15, 1348, Joanna I , Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the Pope and his court in Avignon. She was twenty-two years old. ...
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To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of man’s first steps on the moon, a visually striking cornucopia of everything worth knowing about our closest neighbor in space. Can you remember where you were on July 20, 1969, when, in one of the iconic moments of the twentieth...
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The story of carbon—the building block of life that, ironically, is humanity’s great threat. Carbon has always been the ubiquitous architect of life: Indeed, all living things need it to stay alive, and carbon cycles through organisms, ground, water, and atmosph...
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For forty years and in nine previous books, scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur has challenged church orthodoxy and guided thousands of readers on subjects as controversial as the true nature of Christ and life after death. Now, in his most radical and groundbreaking work, Harpur ...
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An intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of America’s most sacred ground. “Along Eisenhower Drive, as far as the eye could see, the grave markers formed into bone-white brigades, climbed from the flats of the Potomac River, and scattered over the green Virginia hil... |
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Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books)
מאת Jonathan Horning A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures b...
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Family Britain continues David Kynaston’s groundbreaking series, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing ...
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The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family is brought to life, in Robert Roper’s brilliant evocation of the family Whitman. Walt Whitman’s work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less we...
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Seamlessly blending history and reportage, Bill Barich offers a heartfelt homage to the traditional Irish pub, and to the central piece of Irish culture disappearing along with it. After meeting an I rishwoman in London and moving to Dublin, Bill Barich—a “blow-in,” or ...
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“An absorbing, scholarly account of the history of the Latin language, from its origins in antiquity to its afterlife in our own time...Ad Infinitum treats its readers with the dignity of Roman citizens.”—The Wall Street Journal The Latin language has b... |
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Windswept is the story of humankind’s long struggle to understand wind and weather—from the wind gods of ancient times to early discoveries of the dynamics of air movement to high-tech schemes to control hurricanes. Marq de Villiers is equally adept at explaining the scienc...
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Dowsing is an art used for millennia to find water, minerals and metals, and today employed by builders, plumbers, and electricians the world over. Although it remains one of the most widely used paranormal skills, little is understood about it. Dowsing tells the story of this ancient scie...
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The Shaman's Coat tells the story of some of the world's least-known peoples-the indigenous tribes of Siberia. Russia's equivalent to the Native Americans or Australian Aborigines, they divide into two dozen different and ancient nationalities-among them Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, and Chukchi. Though th...
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“A tale of rescue as remarkable as Wallenberg or Schindler…An important piece of forgotten history.”-Kati Marton, author of The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World The heroic story of Rezsö Kasztner, the “Hungarian Oskar Schindler” ...
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From one of the world’s greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms. Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and dispassion and evil we hope never to encounter, and ... |
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A transcendent history/memoir of one family’s always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia. On a midsummer day in 1937, a black car pulled up to a house in Chernigov, in the heart of the Ukraine. Boris Bibikov—Owen Matthews’s grandfather—kissed his wife ... |
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A thinking person’s guide to reality. The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its gradual perfection during the Renaissance was as important an event as any of the other mathematical and scientific de...
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Timbuktu—the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one of mankind’s treasures. Founded in the ear...
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A transcendent history/memoir of one family’s always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia. Owen Matthews, Newsweek’s bureau chief in Moscow, pieces together the tangled threads of his family’s past and present to create an indelible portrait of Russi...
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Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
מאת Quil Lawrence The dramatic story of the Kurds and their quest to create a nation—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the turmoil in Iraq will play out. The American invasion of Iraq has been a success for one group: the Kurds. For centuries they have yearned for offi...
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The dramatic story of the four courageous female swimmers who captivated the world in the summer of 1926. Despite the tensions of a world still recovering from World War I, during the summer of 1926, the story that enthralled the public revolved around four young American swi...
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Within the fabric of every stone building is a wondrous story of geological origins, architectural aesthetics, and cultural history. You probably don’t expect to make geological finds along the sidewalks of a major city, but when natural history writer David B. Williams loo...
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A concise, informative, and fascinating short book that explains the how and why of Buddhism. Buddhism is one of the world’s oldest and most widespread religions, with a history spanning some 2,500 years. It has nearly 400 million adherents and there are Buddhists today in ...
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The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
מאת Alessandro Barbero “A very readable narrative of one of the most significant battles in European history…An excellent resource.”—Booklist On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an...
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A revolutionary scientific explanation of psychic phenomena and the nature of human consciousness. Although much is now known about the brain, relatively little has been determined about where consciousness comes from: What is the source of the “I” in our inter...
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