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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Hardcover - Michael Lewis

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Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death, Paperback - David G. Marwell

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Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai, Hardcover - James Carter

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It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding...

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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, Paperback - Fuchsia Dunlop

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The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution, Paperback - Susan Hockfield

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A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies that radically reshaped th...

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Traveling Light, Paperback - Linda Pastan

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Reducere. Linda Pastan's thirteenth collection of poetry chronicles her journey through life's pleasures and problems, its unexpected detours. The concerns o...

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Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization, Paperback - Liel Leibovitz

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Reducere. In 1872, China--ravaged by poverty, population growth, and aggressive European armies--sent 120 boys to America to learn the secrets of Western inn...

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The Writer's Voice, Paperback - A. Alvarez

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For a writer, voice is the problem that never lets you go. For a reader, voice is a profound mystery. What is it? How does it develop and why shoul...

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First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity, Paperback - John B. Taylor

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Reducere. Mired in a crippling economic slump and hamstrung by partisan political debates, America faces substantial economic challenges, from widespread une...

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God's Funeral: A Biography of Faith and Doubt in Western Civilization, Paperback - A. N. Wilson

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Reducere. By the end of the nineteenth century, almost all the great writers, artists, and intellectuals had abandoned Christianity, and many abandoned belie...

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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, Paperback - Alice Echols

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The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Hardc

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Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Paperback - Eric Foner

492,99 RON

The Seagull Edition offers the complete text of the Full Edition in full color and a portable trim size with fewer illustrations and maps and an ex...

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Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Paperback - Eric Foner

520,99 RON

The Seagull Edition offers the complete text of the Full Edition in full color and a portable trim size with fewer illustrations and maps and an ex...

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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, Paperback - Richard Munson

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Nikola Tesla invented radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories. In the early 1900s, he des...

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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, Paperback - James Oakes

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Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

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Thoroughbass Method, Paperback - Hermann Keller

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Reducere. It contains excerpts from the theoretical works by Praetorius, Niedy, Telemann, Mattheson, Heinichen, J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, Quantz, Padre Mattei...

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Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control, Paperback - Arthur Freeman

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Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Revised), Paperback - Robert William Fogel

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Reducere. Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he p...

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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, Paperback - Stephen Jay Gould

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Reducere. Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of...

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Kinds of Love, Paperback - May Sarton

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Reducere. May Sarton's Willard is a small town in the rocky hills of New Hampshire, a place that attracts "the untameable, the wild, the gentle." As Sarton t...

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Confession (Revised), Paperback - Leo Tolstoy

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Reducere. In "Confession" Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death?In 1879 the fifty-year-old autho...

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A Coast of Trees: Poems, Paperback - A. R. Ammons

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Reducere. Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyri...

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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914, Paperback - Peter Gay

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Reducere. Exploring the social history of the 19th century, this text is the culmination of Peter Gay's 35 years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and soci...

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1 Henry IV, Paperback - William Shakespeare

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"Contexts and Sources" includes dueling arguments on the play's completeness (one play or one half of a play?) and the naming of a central characte...

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Rides of the Midway, Paperback - Lee Durkee

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Reducere. Meet Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon: ghost-seeing insomniac, endearing dopehead, wanna-be erotic photographer, and possible Baptist faith h...

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The Writer on Her Work, Paperback - Janet Sternburg

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Reducere. Seventeen novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write, and what it means to be a woman and a w...

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Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams, Paperback - Lyle Leverich

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The riveting, revelatory, and sole authorized account of the critical first decades of Tennessee Williams's life. Tennessee Williams, author of suc...

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Country Furniture, Paperback - Aldren A. Watson

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Part how-to, part history, part reference (an excellent visual glossary is included), Country Furniture offers a unique explanation of sought-after...

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Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition, Paperback - Michael Holroyd

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Ho...

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The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Struggle for Freedom, Paperback - Afshin Molavi

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

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Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems, Paperback - Linda Pastan

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Reducere. Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from the poet's earl...

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If You Liked School, You'll Love Work, Paperback - Irvine Welsh

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Reducere. In typically Welshian fashion, the characters and settings are anything but typical. These stories will make you laugh and gasp.

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Turning to Fiction: Poems, Paperback - Donna Masini

79,99 RON

"Think about sex, " this book begins, then moves through the places into which our longings lead us. Here are confessions whispered over the phone ...

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Toys and Reasons: Stages in the Ritualization of Experience, Paperback - Erik H. Erikson

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Reducere. Erickson postulates that a space-time orientation provided by a viable worldview is, complimentary to the inner work of the individual psyche and i...

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Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys, Hardcover - Lilian Pizzichini

271,99 RON 291,99 RON

Reducere. Jean Rhys (1890 1979) is best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys's revolutionary work reimagined the story of...

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Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, Paperback - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Reducere. The period here covered reflects all the great experiences of Rilke's early adult life: his difficult beginnings, his relationships with Lou Andrea...

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The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917, Paperback - George H. Nash

148,99 RON

It has been said that Herbert Hoover was responsible for saving more lives than any other person in history. This phenomenal achievement, long obsc...

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Wyoming: A Bicentennial History, Paperback - T. a. Larson

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Reducere. For centuries Wyoming was a land no one wanted--high, dry, and remote--more often a thoroughfare on the way to some place else than a final destina...

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Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson, Paperback - Byron Farwell

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Reducere. The charismatic Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who began his military career in the Mexican War, earned his great fame in the Civil War in ...

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The Origins of Modern Germany, Paperback - Geoffrey Barraclough

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Reducere. "No one is likely to underrate the importance for the rest of Europe--and, indeed, for world history--of the German reaction, beginning in the days...

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Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, Hardcover - Jim Kacian

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Reducere. Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around th...

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The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music, Hardcover - Tom Piazza

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Reducere. These photographs--largely unpublished--show musicians making music with family and friends at home, with fellow worshippers at church, and alongsi...

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The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Transformation of American Politics, Paperback - Stephen Ansolabehere

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Reducere. Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder detail the history of "one person, one vote" in American political theory and politics, and tell the story of...

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Pacific Rift: Why Americans and Japanese Don't Understand Each Other, Paperback - Michael Lewis

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Reducere. Lewis s take is often comic, but his message is serious. He sees Japan as it is and sums up the challenge: How can our capitalism beat their capita...

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Thinking in an Emergency, Paperback - Elaine Scarry

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Reducere. In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical conce...

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First Love and Other Tales, Paperback - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494, Paperback - Raymond De Roover

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Reducere. The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Med...

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Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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World History of the Dance, Paperback - Curt Sachs

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Reducere. This book is the most comprehensive history to appear before the public of the art which has been so fundamental an expression in every period of h...

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The Catalans, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

94,99 RON

Xavier is a tragic figure, damned by what he perceives as a lack of feeling; Madeleine is to be his salvation. Unfortunately she does not return hi...

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The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays, Paperback - Wesley Yang

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Little Yellow Dog, Hardcover - Walter Mosley

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Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Paperback - Saree Makdisi

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George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century, Paperback - Robert Darnton

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George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of fa...

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Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot, Paperback - David Grambs

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We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries a...

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Tales from a Traveling Couch: Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients, Paperback - Robert U. Akeret

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Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business, the Scandal, Paperback - James Beck

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Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World, Paperback - Kanan Makiya

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Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour--the Arab and Kurdish heroes of this book. Their testimony, rev...

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Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, Paperback - B. H. Fairchild

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A Relative Stranger: Stories, Paperback - Charles Baxter

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Reducere. Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writ...

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Vanity Fair, Paperback - William Makepeace Thackeray

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"Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair. William C. Brownell, D...

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Bread & Spirit: Therapy with the New Poor: Diversity of Race, Culture, and Vtherapy with the New Poor: Diversity of Race, Culture, and, Paperback - Ha

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Reducere. Stressing culture, community and choice, this book outlines a therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than...

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Elizabeth I and Her Age, Paperback - Susan M. Felch

80,99 RON

This Norton Critical Edition provides a diverse and extensive selection of authors (including the Queen herself) and carefully annotated works. The...

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The Hapsburg Monarchy, 1867-1914, Paperback - Arthur J. May

148,99 RON

The extraordinary and amorphous Hapsburg Empire--"that ramshackle realm" as Lloyd George called it--extended from cultivated Vienna to the remote h...

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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, Paperback - Duncan J. Watts

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Reducere. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and o...

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The Eisenhower Diaries, Paperback - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Reducere. In his books--the memoir of the Second World War, the two large volumes on the presidency, the incomplete autobiography written near the end of his...

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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, Paperback - Thomas Brothers

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Reducere. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years...

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Young Men in Spats, Paperback - P. G. Wodehouse

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Reducere. These eleven stories describe the misadventures of the delightfully idle "Eggs, " "Beans, " and "Crumpets" that populate the Drones club: young men...

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Family Matter, Paperback - Will Eisner

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Reducere. In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner's pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close t...

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