Across the Wall

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Reducere. This collection of poems reflects upon the years between 2016 and 2021. This time was marked by the election of Donald Trump to the office of Presi...

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Reducere. Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico bord...

A decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartlandA decade ago, Ken Light (born 1951) traveled across the...

Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wal...

Quarantine Reflections across Two Worlds is a captivating memoir about life in two strikingly different worlds, an ardent defense of freedom, and a...

Reducere. A buried secret and a lifetime of guilt born in the dark heart of Nazi GermanyEngland, 2001. Elizabeth has always suspected her mother habours a se...

Heartbreaking and poetic. --The GuardianOne of the Wall Street Journal's 11 best books of the fallNamed a most anticipated book by Literary Hub Ele...

Reducere. A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our o...

Prepare to see the New York Times-bestselling series like you've never seen it before, now with new cover art A standalone prequel to the #1 New Yo...

In 1853, a wagon train camped in the Eastern Oregon desert 130 miles from the Oregon Trail. Uncertain of their whereabouts and in desperate need of...

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The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer like you've never seen it before, now w...

The final book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer like you've never seen it before, now w...

Meet Doug, aspiring young artist. He's having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there acro...

DescriptionI the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Pati o, his secr...

DescriptionIn this fun, interactive game of hide-and-seek, young children learn all about positional prepositions. Bear, Fox and Owl are playing hi...

DescriptionIn 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people spa...

DescriptionThe John Muir Way runs for 134 miles (215 km) coast-to-coast across Scotland's center, from Helensburgh on the Clyde to Dunbar on the No...

Reducere. When author and historian Bob Royalty fulfilled his dream to walk the Roman ruins of Hadrian's Wall, across northern England from the North Sea to ...

Reducere. He was my uncle's friend, and I was too young for him. But in the heat of the moment, against the wall in a darkened hallway of an illicit club, no...

Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature ...

Reducere. Something wretched crawls beneath the skin of this world... Peel back that rotting skin and behold the improbable creatures, nightmarish places, an...

Reducere. A gripping psychological thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Silent Child.Do you ever really know your neighbours?Hannah Abbo...

FROM USA TODAY AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELEVATEWake up. Get inspired. Change the world. Repeat.Global business leader and nati...

Prepare to see the New York Times-bestselling series like you've never seen it before, now with new cover art A collection of stories set in the wo...

Reducere. The John Muir Way is one of Scotland's Great Trails. It runs for 134 miles (215 km) coast-to-coast across central Scotland, from Helensburgh on the...

Two seemingly unconnected murders lead DCI Henry Christie to uncover a terrifying conspiracy in this gritty police procedural. Two murders, apparen...

DescriptionDavid Danelo spent three months traveling the 1, 952 miles that separate the United States and Mexico--a journey that took him across fo...

Reducere. Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, h...

- Includes an insightful essay written by scholar and expert, Dr Riichi Miyake- Features a wide-ranging selection of projects spanning across three...

Reducere. The author of The Hunger delivers a vivid and stunning conclusion to her critically acclaimed Taker trilogy, bringing Lanore McIlvrae to a final en...

Contemporary educational practices and policies across the world are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatization, an...

An authoritative and enthusiastic guide to the Lowland canals, the Antonine Wall including icons such as the Falkirk Wheel and the Kelpies. Feature...

There were thirteen crime-scene pictures. Dead faces set in grimaces and shouts. Faces howling, whistling, moaning, crying, hissing. Hazel pinned t...

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Reducere. For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan....And then cam...

Reducere. The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figur...

DescriptionJohn Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream r...

Reducere. DescriptionA powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berli...

Reducere. An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America"...

Description"Mr. King looks at all our upcoming problems, and imagines a local reaction to each one. The result is often funny, usually sardonic, an...

"Candid, empathetic portraits of silenced men, women, and children." --Kirkus Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new ligh...

Reducere. The first complete collection of the writings of the visionary French conceptual artist Yves Klein (1928 1962) published in English translation."Ab...

Reducere. Beloved American poet Robert Frost's first three books, in one collection This volume presents Frost's first three books, masterful and innovative ...

Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a "new spirit of radicalism is blooming" from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon. In...

Contributor(s): Author: Alison GerberArtists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a caf wall. They are p...

Contributor(s): Author: David WeberFIRST NEW HONOR HARRINGTON NOVEL IN FIVE YEARS New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tina ChoIllustrator: Keum Jin SongRice from Heaven is a true story about compassion and bravery as a young girl and her com...

A ground-breaking study of ceremonial stone landscapes in Northeast America and their relationship to other sites around the world - Features a com...

Robert Westall's gripping Carnegie Medal-winning novel celebrates its 40th anniversary "Some bright kid's got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. A...

Reducere. A Newbery Honor Book * Booklist Editors' Choice * BookPage Best Books * Chicago Public Library Best Fiction * Horn Book Fanfare * Kirkus Reviews Be...

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How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professi...

Reducere. South Dakota fills the landscape with geologic diversity, from the glaciated rolling prairies in the east, across the Missouri River, and west to t...

Who was Emperor Hadrian? Why did he build a massive wall across northern England? This book tells you all you need to know about Hadrian's Wall - w...

From the slaves used to build the Great Wall to the Tiananmen Square protests, the illustrated China - A Dark History takes an expert sweep across ...

Reducere. In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis...

A New York Review Books Original There's a certain street--via Saterna--in the middle of Milan that just doesn't show up on maps of the city. Orfi,...

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DescriptionRome - Urbs Roma city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imp...

Reducere. The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana...

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Reducere. At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two ...

Reducere. The #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller longlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year.'A hopeful book abou...