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A Book of Middle Eastern Food
$13.58
A guide to Middle Eastern cooking that contains an assortment of recipes for both traditional and modern dishes as well as providing a background on the history and lore of specific foods Author: Roden, Claudia Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394471814 ISBN-..
A Change of Light and Other Stories
$20.50
The masterful Argentinian writer includes nineteen stories penned during the last seven years, tales about a couple's adventurous vacation in Africa, a disturbed man's erotic subway games, and other intriguing activities and situations Author: Julio Cortazar Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardc..
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consum...
$11.09
The three decades after World War II are often heralded as a “Golden Era” of American affluence. But as Lizabeth Cohen makes clear, the pursuit of prosperity defined much more than the nation’s economy; it also became a basic component of American citizenship. Consumers were encouraged to buy not ju..
A history of Israel: From the rise of Zionism to o...
$16.45
Sacher, Howard M., History Of Israel, A: From The Rise Of Zionism To Our Time Author: Sachar, Howard M. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394485645 ISBN-13: 9780394485645..
A History of Warfare
$8.40
The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet be..
A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Princ...
$35.55
An extensive compilation of quotations from western literature arranged chronologically under topic headings and traced to their original sources Author: Mencken, H.L. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394400798 ISBN-13: 9780394400792..
A Very Young Gymnast
$14.72
A year in the life of an aspiring, deeply committed ten-year-old gymnast is chronicled in photographs showing her at practice, in competitions, and at a summer work camp Author: Jill Krementz Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394500806 ISBN-13: 9780394500805..
American Folk Dolls
$16.80
Shows antique dolls made of cloth, corn husks, wood, apples, nuts, and beans, and traces the history of homemade dolls Author: Wendy Lavitt Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0394711327 ISBN-13: 9780394711324..
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
$8.86
For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists w..
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in Ameri...
$10.58
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.The intense relationship between..
An Armful of Warm Girl
$22.51
Hardcover, fiction Author: W. M. Spackman Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394500008 ISBN-13: 9780394500003..
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
$22.36
Richard Hofstadter's famous Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, his tenth book, earned him the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction (1964). He argues that, by the mid-twentieth century, anti-intellectualism was pervasive but not dominant in American culture, claiming that "the greater part of the public..
Baryshnikov at Work: Mikhail Baryshnikov Discusses...
$9.14
The man considered by many to be the world's greatest male dancer discusses all the roles he dances, the technical problems involved, and his stylistic approaches, while action photographs show him in twenty ballets Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: ..
Beard on Pasta
$8.45
A collection of delicious pasta recipes by a respected chef and the author of Beard on Bread includes all the information necessary for a variety of dishes, including tips on saucing, stuffing, and serving. Author: James Beard Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: ..
Blake: A Biography
$9.17
16 pages of black-and-white and 24 pages of full-color illustrations, plus 73 illustrations in text. Author: Ackroyd, Peter Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: hardcover Language: english ISBN-10: 067940967X ISBN-13: 9780679409670..
Bob Dylan: Lyrics, 1962-1985- Includes All of Writ...
$18.33
The complete collection includes all of Dylan's writings and drawings plus 120 new writings. Index of song titles. Author: Dylan, Bob Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394542789 ISBN-13: 9780394542782..
Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and t...
$41.63
A compelling, revealing analysis of the generation of American males who came of draft age during the Vietnam War. The authors were high staff members on President Ford's clemency board. They demonstrate, among many other things, that wealthy, educated, well-connected men had many legal ways of avoi..
Citizens
$15.14
Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.From the Trade Paperback edition. Author: Schama, Simon Pub..
Cogan's Trade
$18.44
Cogan's Trade (Filmed as Killing Them Softly): Author: George V. Higgins Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394490576 ISBN-13: 9780394490571..
Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble Abou...
$11.26
In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselv..
Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Couril...
$8.77
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are four of N..
Diane Arbus: A Biography
$13.86
Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they were already becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in 1971. Arbus herself remained an enigm..
Down These Mean Streets
$22.42
Down These Mean Streets Author: Thomas, Piri Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394421574 ISBN-13: 9780394421575..
Eve Arnold: In China
$10.83
An all-color photographic journal of contemporary life in China captures the vast variety of its landscape and peoples, from Tibetan road-diggers and Mongolian cowboys to the first lady of China Author: Eve Arnold Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394509013 IS..
Flash for Freedom !
$13.90
A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume II of the Flashman Papers When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice ..