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13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next ...
$8.74
Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks-Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan St..
1968 STUDENT GENER/REVO
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This examination of an important year in Western history is published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of 1968. 1968, like 1948, was a year in which the Western world seemed to hover on the brink of revolution, and much of the impetus for change came from the student movement. In Paris, rioting..
20th Century Artists on Art
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20th Century Artists on Art Author: Ashton, Dore Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394522761 ISBN-13: 9780394522760..
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Sin...
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Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays-provocative, funny, and personal-on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinat..
A history of the Swedish people
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Text: English, Swedish (translation) Author: Moberg, Vilhelm Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394481925 ISBN-13: 9780394481920..
A Just Measure of Pain: The penitentiary in the in...
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Subtitled "The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850", "A Just Measure of Pain" describes the moment in 18th century England when the modern penitentiary and its ambiguous legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the gallows - public punishments once meant to cow the ..
A Killing Kindness (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
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Detective Dalziel and his number-two man, Pascoe, are hard-pressed to sort out the suspects and find the macabre killer whose victims proliferate and who leaves clues that attract psychics, Shakespearean scholars, and linguists Author: Hill, Reginald Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Lang..
A Sense Of The Mysterious: Science And The Human S...
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The author of Einstein's Dreams presents a deeply personal and insightful collection of essays exploring the human dimensions of science, furnishing vivid portraits of seminal scientists Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, and Vera Rubin, as well as reflections on science and art, imagi..
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention...
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For the first time ever, discoveries in our under-standing of the brain are changing anthropology, linguistics,philosophy, and psychology--indeed, the brain itself may become a catalyst for transforming the very nature of these inquiries.In A User's Guide to the Brain, Dr. John Ratey, best-selling c..
A View of the Ocean
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The internationally best-selling novelist, playwright Jan de Hartog, author of The Captain and The Peaceable Kingdom, moves and inspires us with this simple, elegant story of his mother and himself.She was a quiet, unassuming woman married to a giant of a man, a famous Protestant theologian and past..
A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That ...
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A practical, innovative step-by-step approach to the writing process from one of the most acclaimed writing coaches in the countryIn A Writer’s Coach, Jack Hart-a managing editor at The Oregonian-shares the wisdom with which he has coached reporters to Pulitzer Prize-winning success. He gives invalu..
Abandonment of the Jews
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Offers a comprehensive account of the failure of American society and government to extend even minimum assistance to the Jews of Nazi-dominated Europe Author: Wyman, David Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394428137 ISBN-13: 9780394428130..
Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrate...
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A "Who's Who" of fairyland, with entries by fairy name and additional legends, songs, and anecdotes within each entry. Author: Katharine Mary Briggs Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394508068 ISBN-13: 9780394508061..
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
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Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about..
African Folktales
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The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages-from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. Th..
African folktales: Traditional stories of the Blac...
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Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and human realms. Author: Abrahams, Roger D Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394502361 ISBN-13: 9780394502366..
All the tea in China: Which tells how Carolus Mort...
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Kyril Bonfiglioli, the groundbreaking satirist whose writing The New Yorker described as "an unholy collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming," was truly a writer ahead of his time. In this hilarious novel, Bonfiglioli takes us back in time to an ironical maritime romp--Master and Comman..
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory Cit...
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Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City Author: Tamara K. Hareven Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394499417 ISBN-13: 9780394499413..
An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, ...
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A complete guide to fairy lore from the Middle Ages to the present. Both an anthology of fairy tales and a reference work with essays about the fairy economy, food, sports, powers and more. Author: Briggs, Katharine Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 039473467X I..
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum,...
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Text: English, Dutch (translation) Author: Hillesum, Etty Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394532171 ISBN-13: 9780394532172..
Angels
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Illustrates hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures from all corners of the world, revealing that angels play an important role not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam Author: Wilson, Peter Lamborn Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: ..
ANTI-SEMITISM
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Provides a country-by-country look at antisemitism, from its pagan beginnings to its recent reemergence in Europe Author: Robert S. Wistrich Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0679409467 ISBN-13: 9780679409465..
Arab Folktales
$25.45
From Library JournalBecause this collection of folktales covers the entire Arab world from Morocco to Iraq, no other contemporary collection fills the niche it does. It is divided into six sections in categories such as animal tales or adventure tales. Sectional introductions provide the cultural ba..
Arab Folktales
$20.77
Out of alleys of Cairo and Bedouin tents, from the Moroccan laborers and Syrian peasants, this collection of 130 tales comes from Arab worlds from North Africa to the Holy Land. Author: Bushnaq, Inea Publisher: Pantheon Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0394751795 ISBN-13: 9780394751795..
Art and politics in the Weimar period: The new sob...
$37.87
The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Pi..