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The Rough Guide to Myanmar, Paperback - Rough Guides

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This in-depth coverage of Myanmar's local attractions, sights, and restaurants takes you to the most rewarding spots--from Yangon to the temples of...

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The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death, Paperback - Lyn H. Lofland

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The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the ...

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What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images, Paperback - W. J. T. Mitchell

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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were...

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Wisdom's Watch upon the Hours, Paperback - Heinrich (Suso) Seuse

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Written by Dominican preacher and mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300-1366), Horologium Sapientiae, or Wisdom's Watch upon the Hours, was one of the mos...

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Legends of the Caucasus, Paperback - David Hunt

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The Caucasus has an extremely rich folk literature, almost unknown among English speakers, which includes myths, legends, magical tales, anecdotes,...

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Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns, Paperback - Keiko Nitanai

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Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishme...

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Frog - Mo Yan

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Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.Gugu is beautiful, charis...

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My Private Property, Paperback - Mary Ruefle

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Reducere. ``Ruefle can seem like a supernally well-read person who has grown bored with what smartness looks like, and has grown attracted to the other side....

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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, Paperback - Zadie Smith

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Reducere. " These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, an...

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The Glory of God, Paperback - Christopher W. Morgan

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Reducere. Few topics are more crucial or central to the doctrine and daily life of a Christian than the glory of God. Despite its importance, however, few ex...

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Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World: Extracts from the Ancient Colloquia, Paperback - Eleanor Dickey

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Reducere. What did Roman children do first when they arrived at school in the morning? What excuse for missing school could be counted on to stave off a whip...

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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, Paperback - Vincent Carretta

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Reducere. With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

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The Rough Guide to China, Paperback - RoughGuides

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This in-depth coverage of China's local attractions, sights, and restaurants takes you to the most rewarding spots--from the Great Wall to the Forb...

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The Rough Guide to Sicily, Paperback - RoughGuides

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This in-depth coverage of Sicily's local attractions, sights, and restaurants takes you to the most rewarding spots--from Mount Etna to cathedrals-...

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The Romare Bearden Reader, Paperback - Robert G. O'Meally

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DescriptionThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, an...

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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Christopher Tyerman

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With flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, cu...

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The Marquise of O and Other Stories, Paperback - Heinrich Von Kleist

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DescriptionThe late stories by an influential writer of singular talent Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Klei...

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Emil and Karl, Paperback - Yankev Glatshteyn

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This is a unique work. It is one of the first books written for young readers describing the early days of the event that has since come to be know...

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Astronuts Mission One: The Plant Planet, Hardcover - Jon Scieszka

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DescriptionThis laugh-out-loud, visually groundbreaking read launches a major new series by children's literature legend Jon Scieszka. Featuring fu...

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Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959, Hardcover - Nannie Helen Burroughs

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Reducere. Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work has been long excluded from the literary canon...

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, Paperback - Herman Melville

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Melville's continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of S...

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Champlain's Dream, Paperback - David Hackett Fischer

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Reducere. Cundill PrizeWinner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaime...

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Sons and Lovers, Paperback - D. H. Lawrence

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Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or...

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Dancing In My Tattered Pink Dress: Grief, Guts & Glory, Paperback - Ruth-Ann J. Thompson

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Reducere. This is a story of adoption, resilience, and redemption designed for all who have had moments when they have felt voiceless, marginalized or abando...

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Six Tragedies, Paperback - Seneca

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Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the...

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Li Po and Tu Fu, Paperback - Li Po

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Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendar...

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Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, Paperback - Leslie Marmon Silko

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Reducere. Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the ...

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Lyrics: Volume 2 (1817-24) - Alexander Pushkin

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The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verseEugene Onegin, his plays, his short sto...

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A Plea for Eros: Essays - Siri Hustvedt

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Reducere. From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and wr...

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Pilgrimage: Pointed Roofs, Paperback - Dorothy Richardson

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Reducere. PilgrimagePointed RoofsBy Dorothy RichardsonIn a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April 1918), May Sinclair first applied the term "stream of co...

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Text Bible-KJV, Paperback - Anonymous

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Reducere. The King James Bible or Authorized Version (1611) comprises the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and the New Testament, from God's creation of the heav...

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Research for Indigenous Survival: Indigenous Research Methodologies in the Behavioral Sciences, Paperback - Lori Lambert

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lori LambertDistributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the Salish Kootenai College Press Lori Lambert (Mi'kmaq/Abe...

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The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright, Hardcover - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

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DescriptionScience has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting a...

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Critical Thinking Skills for Your Nursing Degree, Paperback - Jane Bottomley

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DescriptionIf you are embarking on a university nursing or midwifery degree, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowled...

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Understanding New Media, Paperback - Eugenia Siapera

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DescriptionThe new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, tha...

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Mara Sabina: Selections, Paperback - Maria Sabina

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Diseases of Trees and Shrubs [With CDROM], Hardcover - Wayne Sinclair

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Praise for the First Edition: Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Division Award Winner (Life Sciences)"One of the ten be...

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Monsieur de Bougrelon, Paperback - Jean Lorrain

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Reducere. Fiction. LGBT Studies. French Literature. Translated from the French by Eva Richter. In Jean Lorrain's MONSIEUR DE BOUGRELON, an eccentric, outmode...

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Cicero: Selected Political Speeches, Paperback - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A Social History of Dying, Paperback - Allan Kellehear

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The Aviator, Paperback - Eugene Vodolazkin

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DescriptionFrom award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning twentieth-century Russia A man w...

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Painted Over, Paperback - Sofi Keren

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Heroides, Paperback - Ovid

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Primitive Man as Philosopher - Paul Radin

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Destination Dissertation, Second Edition, Paperback - Foss

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Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide, Paperback - Jonardon Ganeri

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The Witness of Poetry, Paperback - Czeslaw Milosz

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The Motion Demon, Paperback - Stefan Grabinski

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Emotional Development and Families: Socialization Across the Lifespan, Paperback - Julie Hakim-Larson

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The True Colors of Family Coloring Book, Paperback - Mark Loewen

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Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings, Paperback - Thangam Ravindranathan

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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, Hardcover - Vincent Carretta

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Great Expectations - With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton, Hardcover - Charles Dickens

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Little Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition): From John Bunyan's Classic, Hardcover - Helen L. Taylor

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The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox, Hardcover - Milan M. 'cirkovic

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The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death, Hardcover - Brian R. Dirck

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Harley-Davidson Vrsc Series Clymer Manual: 2002-2017: Maintenance * Troubleshooting * Repair, Paperback - Clymer Publications

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The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook, Paperback - Laurence Ginnell

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The Way of the Samurai, Hardcover - Inazo Nitobe

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The Illusion of God's Presence: The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing, Hardcover - John C. Wathey

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Mario Giacomelli: Figure/Ground, Paperback - Virginia Heckert

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