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Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Paperback - Euripides

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The Voice Imitator, Paperback - Thomas Bernhard

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The Emperor's Pearl: A Judge Dee Mystery, Paperback - Robert Van Gulik

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Poets and Murder: A Judge Dee Mystery, Paperback - Robert Van Gulik

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The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery, Paperback - Robert Van Gulik

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Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four, Paperback - Vivian Gussin Paley

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Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts, Paperback - Ellen Prager

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Slayground, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Parker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself - and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hipp...

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Plunder Squad, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Parker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself - and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hipp...

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One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko, Paperback - Mike Royko

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The Handle, Paperback - Richard Stark

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The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel, Paperback - Richard Stark

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The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery, Paperback - Robert Van Gulik

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The Black Ice Score, Paperback - Richard Stark

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The Blackbird, Paperback - Richard Stark

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The Sour Lemon Score, Paperback - Richard Stark

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The Dame, Paperback - Richard Stark

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The Damsel, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Walking: A Novella, Paperback - Thomas Bernhard

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The Man with the Getaway Face, Paperback - Richard Stark

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The Jugger, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Permissions, a Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property, Paperback - Susan M. Bielstein

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art histor...

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The Score, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Paperback - Peter De Vries

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The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story, Paperback - Robert Van Gulik

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Undertones of War, Paperback - Edmund Blunden

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Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement, Paperback - Deborah Cameron

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Youth Without Youth, Paperback - Mircea Eliade

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Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Mea...

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Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story, Paperback - Robert Van Gulik

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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, Paperback - Alex Kotlowitz

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Reducere. "Chicago is a tale of two cities, " headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and di...

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How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for Covid-19 and Beyond, Paperback - John Rhodes

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Reducere. Distinguished expert in vaccine development John Rhodes tells the story of the first approved COVID-19 vaccines and offers an essential, up-to-the-...

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The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion, Paperback - Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Reducere. This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries ...

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General Relativity from A to B, Paperback - Robert Geroch

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How Animals Grieve, Paperback - Barbara J. King

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From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned ...

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Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound/Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone/Euripides: Hippolytus, Paperback - Mark Griffi

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Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon, " translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound, " translated by David...

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The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water, Paperback - Gary E. Machlis

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The Pooh Perplex, Paperback - Frederick C. Crews

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Reducere. In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism po...

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Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, Paperback - Robert Pogue Harrison

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Reducere. Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as fa...

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Six Days in Marapore, Paperback - Paul Scott

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Reducere. In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, ...

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Doing Honest Work in College, Third Edition: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success, Paperback - Charles Lipson

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The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa, Paperback - Caitlin O'Connell

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Firebreak, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Reducere. Between Parker s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purc...

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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition, Paperback - Jonathan Rauch

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Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears, Paperback - Gordon H. Orians

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Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no acci...

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You Were Never in Chicago, Paperback - Neil Steinberg

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The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season, Paperback - Henry David Thoreau

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For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko, Paperback - Mike Royko

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Reducere. In 1999, the University of Chicago Press published a collection of Mike Royko's columns, entitled One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko. The respon...

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The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes, Paperback - Jane Austen

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Pictures from an Institution, Paperback - Randall Jarrell

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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech, Paperback - Sally Smith Hughes

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Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque, Paperback - H. C. Robbins Landon

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Old Masters: A Comedy, Paperback - Thomas Bernhard

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Nobody Runs Forever: A Parker Novel, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Simone, Paperback - Eduardo Lalo

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Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, Paperback - David Sloan Wilson

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Breakout: A Parker Novel, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Blue in Green, Paperback - Chiyuma Elliott

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The School and Society and the Child and the Curriculum, Paperback - John Dewey

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This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the pract...

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Deadly Edge, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself-and his woman, Clai...

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The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, Paperback - R. K. Narayan

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The Mourner, Paperback - Richard Stark

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Shakespeare's Freedom, Paperback - Stephen Greenblatt

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Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes--of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over w...

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Staying on, Paperback - Paul Scott

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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, Paperback - F. A. Hayek

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Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, Paperback - Robert Pogue Harrison

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Euripides II: Andromache/Hecuba/The Suppliant Women/Electra, Paperback - Euripides

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Euripides II contains the plays "Andromache, " translated by Deborah Roberts; "Hecuba, " translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Suppliant Women, " ...

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In Search of Lost Roses, Paperback - Thomas Christopher

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The Iliad of Homer, Paperback - Homer

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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya, Paperback - Anna Politkovskaya

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Scorsese by Ebert, Paperback - Roger Ebert

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