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A Just Measure of Pain: The penitentiary in the in...
$17.26
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)
$11.09
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...
$7.73
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..
Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrate...
$96.57
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..
African folktales: Traditional stories of the Blac...
$23.14
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...
$14.75
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..
An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, ...
$133.52
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,...
$15.73
Text: English, Dutch (translation) Author: Hillesum, Etty Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394532171 ISBN-13: 9780394532172..
Angels
$12.79
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: ..
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..
Art in the Third Reich
$25.98
Hardcover. Author: Hinz, Berthold Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394416406 ISBN-13: 9780394416403..
Assassination on Embassy Row
$9.14
BOOK Author: DINGES, John and Landau, Saul Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394508025 ISBN-13: 9780394508023..
Autumn Sonata: A film
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Text: English, Swedish (translation) Author: Bergman, Ingmar Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394500881 ISBN-13: 9780394500881..
Behold the spirit;: A study in the necessity of my...
$33.36
This study of the necessity of mystical religion, also shows how traditional Western doctrine can be reconciled with the intuitive religion of the Orient. Author: Watts, Alan Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394473418 ISBN-13: 9780394473413..
Beyond a boundary
$31.95
Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part celebration of the game of cricket, this self-portrait of a life spent playing, watching and writing about the game, tells us of its psychology and aesthetics, players the author knew, and the issues of class, race and politics surrounding it. Author: James..
Birds
$9.46
Scarlet macaws weave in and out of the rainforest canopy...The elegant silhouette of a Kori bustard appears ont he African savanna...Internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist Robert Bateman has sketched and painted bird life in every corner of the globe. And a lifetime of observing an..
Blaming the Victim
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Blaming the Victim Author: RYAN, WILLIAM Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books Inc Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394417267 ISBN-13: 9780394417264..
Building the dream: A social history of housing in...
$22.57
This book is concerned essentially with the model of domestic environment in this country, as it has evolved from colonial architecture through current urban projects. Author: Gwendolyn Wright Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394503716 ISBN-13: 9780394503714..
Calder: An autobiography with pictures
$40.95
1966: by Alexander Calder- An Autobiography. Author: Calder, Alexander Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394421426 ISBN-13: 9780394421421..
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Dete...
$174.44
Evaluates the American media's coverage of news stories concerning Islam and shows how misconceptions about the Middle East have been promoted Author: Said, Edward W. Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: hardcover Language: english ISBN-10: 0394513193 ISBN-13: 9780394513195..
Critical Psychiatry: The Politics of Mental Health
$36.43
Essays explore the political aspects of mental illness, theories of the causes of mental illness, and current psychoanalytic practices in the U.S. and Europe Author: Ingleby, David Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394426223 ISBN-13: 9780394426228..
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the Fi...
$9.85
A study of America's early labor movement and the 1886 Haymarket bombing at a Chicaco labor rally that killed several police officers discusses the events of the infamous attack, its sensational aftermath, and its devastating repercussions in terms of the growing union movement. 15,000 first printin..
Death of a Unicorn
$10.03
Thirty years after an inexplicable tragedy that destroyed her just-established career and love, Lady Margaret Millett receives a telephone call that shatters her life once again Author: Dickinson, Peter Publisher: Pantheon Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394539478 ISBN-13: 97803..
Einstein for beginners
$14.42
Amusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly accessible, Einstein for Beginners is the perfect introduction to Einstein's life and thought.Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the rev..
Eye-deep in hell: Trench warfare in World War I
$15.91
Millions of men lived in the trenches during World War I. More than six million died there. In Eye-Deep in Hell, the author explores this unique and terrifying worldâthe rituals of battle, the habits of daily life, and the constant struggle of men to find meaning amid excruciating boredom and the sp..