The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, Hardback - Maya MacGregor

Publisher: Astra Publishing HouseAuthor(s): Maya MacGregorNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 34Cover type: HardbackR...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on math...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Tom RostonNumber of pages: 272Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 217 x 29Cover type: ...

Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life.

A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris.

A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West's most notorious woman: Calamity Jane

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Greeks, during an historic and triumphant Olympic year, and experience the drama and excitement that swe...

A life-affirming adventure story - three centuries in the making.

This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the...

How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of de...

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a ...

This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and community, who engaged in a multig...

DescriptionMy Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era--an inspiring tale of courage, compas...

Reducere. Fly Out of CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome)Into Order--One BabyStep at a Time With her special blend of housecleaning tips, humor, and musin...

Examines the economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children.Publisher: Oxbow BooksAuthor(s): April NowellIllustration(s): b/wNumber ...

Reducere. DescriptionHeartbreak and grief touch every soul at least once in a lifetime and Ranata Suzuki translates those raw emotions into words. The Longes...

The Many Lives of Andy Warhol is more than a biography: it's a look into Warhol's greatest creation: himself. Warhol was known as the king of pop a...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a new novella collection, including a brand new, never-been-published story.

Published in association with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC).

A delightful new collection of comics from Pusheen the Cat.

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DescriptionIn this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Ha...

Reducere. There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. The Many Lives of Ma...

Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life.Illustrations: 16 Illustrations, black and white

The surprising life of an unassuming everyman: perfect for readers of Stoner and Robert SeethalerPublisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Jean-Paul ...

Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several di...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ferdinand MountNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23Cover type: Paper...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Sonia MurgatroydIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x...

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the ...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Mark EdlitzIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White ...

Reducere. Sigrid Kendall, née Baroness Rüdt von Collenberg, was born in 1930 into the rarefied world of Central European aristocracy with all that title and ...

Reducere. A thriller that will make you question reality from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's hi...

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Reducere. During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob ...

DescriptionHow can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an o...

Reducere. Fife is your typical apprentice blacksmith and he knows one thing for certain. Magic doesn't exist anymore. Sure, there's the Verse, but that's not...

Publisher: Red Comet Press LLCAuthor(s): Harriet ZiefertIllustration(s): Color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2022Dim...

DescriptionWhen Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his persona...

A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris.Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressAuthor(s): James (Author)...

An artist's escape from a stultifying marriage is set against India's fight for independence and a world war, in a sweeping new novel by the Man Bo...

Reducere. Jacob Riis, a police reporter and an immigrant himself, was intimately acquainted with the squalid living conditions in New York's tenements. He pu...

Reducere. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We...